Mistletone

DAN DEACON ENSEMBLE: Thu 12th January @ Woodland w/- John Maus and Toy Balloon. Tickets on sale now from Oztix.

NOISY Baltimore electro-shock artist and dance-party authority Dan Deacon is renowned as one of the world’s funnest and most epic live performers. Crazy and inspirational, participatory and energetic, his intense live show breaks down audience inhibitions to enable mass mayhem and fun. This is the first ever tour by the Dan Deacon Ensemble, with a Baltimore all-star lineup featuring Denny Bowen (Double Dagger) on drums, Dave Jacober (Dope Body) on drums/mallets, Chester Gwazda (Nuclear Power Pants, producer of Bromst & Dan’s forthcoming album) on synths/computers and Jordan Casey (Zomes) on synths.

Dan Deacon had already gained notoriety on the American DIY music circuit for his spastic and bizarre solo-electronic performances by the time his album Spiderman of the Rings (Mistletone, 2007) established him as a noise-pop songsmith. Dan followed Spiderman with the dense, sprawling Bromst in 2009. Bromst’s heavy use of live instruments prompted the composer to form the 17-piece Dan Deacon Ensemble, which toured in support of the album. Even as his live shows became larger-scale and less intimate, Dan has never lessened his emphasis on audience participation.

He has since delved back into art music through collaborations with premiere percussion ensemble So Percussion, as well as soundtracks for the films Hilvarenbeek and, most recently, Francis Ford Coppola’s upcoming Gothic Horror feature, Twixt. Dan is currently building out a studio to record his next album.