From ricjoly%noether.UUCP@Lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU Tue Apr 18 13:03:39 1995 Received: from Lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU (root@Lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU [132.206.4.25]) by emf.emf.net (EMF-K/K) with ESMTP id NAA08947 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 13:03:33 -0700 Received: from Chart.McRCIM.McGill.EDU by Lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU (8.6.10) with ESMTP id <199504182002.QAA10772@Lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 16:02:52 -0400 Received: from noether.UUCP by Chart.McRCIM.McGill.EDU with UUCP (8.6.10//ident-1.0) id QAA13505; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 16:02:54 -0400 Received: by nyongwa.montreal.qc.ca (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m0s1IsH-0000SNC; Tue, 18 Apr 95 15:23 EDT Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 15:23:47 -0400 (EDT) From: richard joly To: mal@emf.net Subject: d-cuckoo addition to Eno pages Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO Hi there, I hope the markup is ok. It looked good to me on Netscape. Richard D'CUCKOO

D'CUCKOO: multimedia artists and Brian Eno

In the early 90s Brian Eno went on speaking tour of the United States, visiting colleges, art schools and assorted cultural institutions. As he later mentioned it in interviews, the tour also provided him with the opportunity to record with different outfits and test new ideas in different towns and different studios situations.

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Eno's concept was simple. To break the monotony of touring, he'd hire a different set of musicians and accolytes, one to every town on his agenda, and they'd get to testing his jujuspacejazz/BROKEN AFRICAN INDUSTRIAL ROBOT DANCE MUSIC theories of music making, in a context of urgency conductive to a great level of immediate feedback . One such session was conducted with a California band with a decidedly strange monicker : D'CUCKOO

So far the West Coast band has made little waves outside of its immediate coterie but keep in mind : the last time Eno got involved with a multimedia band with a weird name and cognoscenti-only credentials, the band was DEVO.

1994 saw the release of D'CUCKOO first cd titled Umoja. Here's how the band describes itself in the liner notes to this interesting disk :

D'CUCKOO :An all women multimedia techno arts ensemble that blends musical styles from around the globe, defining the groove of the future.

D'CUCKOO has been developping their unique synthesis of music and technology since 1985. They design and build their own instruments , inventing unusual electronic marimbas and drum controllers thatt trigger a vast array of custom digital sounds. Extremely varied musical influences - African, Asian, pop, funk, instrumental - converge in a style that has beeen described as "neo-classical , post-industrial, cybertribal world funk.

D'CUCKOO's high-energy live performances are multimedia events, accentuated by live video and computer graphics, vivid slide projections, and interactionwith the audience with the help of such inteactive show-toys as the infamous D'CUCKOO' MIDIBALL

"We call this disc "Umoja", (Swahilil for 'unity') because it reflects our global perspective and interest in people and issues beyond our own geographical borders. UMOJA represents the union of musical ideas and stules that characterize and inspire our music. UMOJA also refers to all the wonderful talent and resources that many people brought to us, allowing us to share this music with you."

More information about the band is avaiblable from the D'CUCKOO User's Group. For a free newsletter and information about their other recordings on cassette, write to :

          
               D'CUCKOO,  
               2440 16th Street, #304
               San Francisco, CA  94103.  
               USA
               email to : dcucKOO@well.sf.ca.us

D'CUCKOO have also recorded with Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead. Although Eno has stated in the recent interview run by WIRED Magazine that some of the material of the jujuspacejazz tour had been included into NERVE NET, as far as I know none of the recordings from the Eno-D'CUCKOO collaborations have been released.

D'CUcKOO have been featured in MONDO 2000 magazine and assorted cutting edge cyberculture mags. The band also maintains a D'CUCKOO home page and, according to spokeperson Linda Blain, plans for increased WEB presence for D'CUCKOO are now being developped .

Richard Joly (ricjoly@telegraph.com)
Revised April, 16, 1995

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