Soothing the savage breast

[bodega]

Saw New Orleans piano genius Henry Butler last night with Amy DeNaio at the tiny 21 Grand performance space in Oakland (the show was produced by Earthwise, and Butler's appearance is part of a Basin Street Records "invasion" of the bay area also featuring Kermit Ruffins and Jon Cleary at other venues

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was it Amy Denio?

[malium]

Spell check? Sounds like Amy Denio... she used to work at Muzak in Seattle, I saw her in an early band of hers, name escapes me, but circa 1986, prior to that I think she'd also been in a new-wavey band (Fred?). The duo was, aha, the Entropics, both musicians playing a variety of percussion with feet and hands while also playing saxes, keyboards and guitar. Amy used treated guitar with balls of wax on strings - was heavily influenced by Fred Frith and toured with Frith, I think, and also did the euro festival circuit. Saw her band the Tone Dogs in late 80s in SF and have a tape somewheres, and she did some solo tapes around then since on CD, Birthing Chair Blues, I think... Tone Dogs featured Fred Chalenor on bass, and I think drummer who later was in a more famous Seattle group, I the the rhythm section now back Jeff Greinke in Land, and also has connections to Soft Machine's Hugh Hopper in a band with him called Caveman Hughscore. Denio went on to an all women sax quartet, I think called Billy Tipton Sax Quartet, inspired by Tipton

Re: was it Amy Denio?

[malium]

i 'm listening to tone dogs, i've seen once in France, with the great Amy Denaio... and the year after, i saw (in the same concert hall) her group the Billy tipton memorial saxophone quartet (exactly name...)
I 've also heard 1 cd of one of her groups, called "The Nudes"... and now i try to get informations about her activies, but don't find nothing... may be you could help me. i'm french, it's hard to find cd or tapes ...
i hope you'll answer me

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