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What we got here is freshly fallen electroacoustic free improvisation, based on largely original texts, recorded with exceptional attention to a dynamic stereo mix. Wear your headphones.

The first track below (eYeS) was improvised live 23 May 2000, and might be a good place to start. Please also check out the former #1 (and Featured) track, Her Hair A Highway Of Fire, and the previously Featured DAM CDs, Music Is A Problem For Every1 and Uganda. And for what it's worth, we're one of the 10 artists featured on the MP3.com Station 10 Poetry Essentials. But be careful out there....you'll hear what we mean.

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  eYeS    Psychedelic
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Description: Are our bodies 100% ours?
Label: Bull Moon
Credits: The Durians
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  Possibilities    Experimental Classical
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Description: One of the 9 EarthDreams, each of which is a 100-line story about something very familiar, like sleep or laughing or water. The stories are synthetic creation myths.
CD: EarthDreams    Label: Bull Moon
Credits: The Durians
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  Mouthful Of Water    Alternative General
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Description: Sharks, blood, tension....plenty of reverb...
CD: Music Is A Problem For Everyone    Label: Bull Moon
Credits: The Durians
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  Every Leaf Has a Center You Can't See    Ambient
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Description: Birch Mix It's OK to be a poet. It's OK. It's OK. It's OK. "Oh, the sun pushed hard on that rocker that day."
CD: Every Leaf Has a Center You Can't See    Label: Bull Moon
Credits: The Durians
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  Miglior Acque    Game Soundtracks
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Description: The sun goes "out" for a while. "We're all used to living on light that's eight minutes old. Minute number nine, now...we noticed number nine."
CD: Music Is A Problem For Everyone    Label: Bull Moon
Credits: The Durians
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  Chartreuse Laugh Moon    Experimental/Post Rock
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Description: "Imagine a blueberry...now imagine it some more...I never did like you."
CD: Music Is A Problem For Everyone    Label: Bull Moon
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  Periplus    World Fusion
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Description: The loneliest man alive.
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  three guitars    General Jazz
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Description: falling in love
CD: uganda    Label: Bull Moon
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  her skin blue as water    Acid Jazz
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Description: Soules - Her skin was as blue as skin could be before everyone said it was blue.
CD: uganda    Label: Bull Moon
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  it's not rocks fall in love, it's us    Down Tempo
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Description: Love is a difficult thing.
CD: uganda    Label: Bull Moon
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  Rain Delay    Film Music
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Description: Free improv live at Eyedrum in Atlanta.
CD: Music Is A Problem For Everyone    Label: Bull Moon
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  B    Leftfield
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Description: You And Your Neighbors
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  documentary: ghosts    Film Music
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Description: ghosts are funny
CD: uganda    Label: Bull Moon
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  Ozymandias    Poetry
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Description: Sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1818
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  ugandan tragedy i    Spoken Word
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Description: Excerpted from Our Children Are Killing Us, by Elizabeth Rubin, in the March 23, 1998 New Yorker.
CD: uganda    Label: Bull Moon
Credits: The Durians
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  ugandan tragedy ii    Spoken Word
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Description: Excerpted from Our Children Are Killing Us, by Elizabeth Rubin, in the March 23, 1998 New Yorker.
CD: uganda    Label: Bull Moon
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  ugandan tragedy iii    Spoken Word
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Description: Excerpted from Our Children Are Killing Us, by Elizabeth Rubin, in the March 23, 1998 New Yorker.
CD: uganda    Label: BullMoon
Credits: The Durians
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  ugandan tragedy iv    Spoken Word
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Description: ugandan tragedy iv From "Our Africa," by Jefferey Goldberg, in the March 2, 1997 New York Times Sunday Magazine.
CD: uganda    Label: Bull Moon
Credits: The Durians
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  i believe    Poetry
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Description: (Soules)--Life is struggle.--You got that right.
CD: uganda    Label: Bull Moon
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  out of nowhere (reprise)    General Jazz
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Description: Out Of Nowhere (reprise)
CD: uganda    Label: BullMoon
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  Her Hair A Highway Of Fire    Poetry
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Description: Out of horror, salvation. A vision.
CD: Music Is A Problem For Everyone    Label: Bull Moon
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  Stars Aren't Bright Enough    Experimental
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Description: ...to see a rat's teeth by. Boy Meets Rat, finds out we're not so different after all.
CD: Music Is A Problem For Everyone    Label: Bull Moon
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Artist Info
Artist description
The Durians are an Atlanta four-piece whose quest is the sound of the absolutely immediate. Within this quest nests something new: the poem as musical instrument, the evocative values of text neither greater nor less than those asserted by music. Narrative, or the lack thereof, completely informs their improvisations. Or not. The result? A sonic pinwheel of horseplay, utter conviction, and the carefully crafted in advance.
Music style:
free improvisation
Musical influences:
John Cage, Glenn Gould, John Zorn, Roger Nichols, Carl Stone, Merzbow, Richard Wagner
Artist history:
T. Shepard Soules is a poet whose readings in Atlanta have enjoyed a following for some time. In the early 90s Stuart Hoffmann, Steve Powell and later Mark Morse were working on original and increasingly experimental pop music under a variety of monikers. With the suggestion that Soules (whom they had recently met) join them on a live radio show on WRAS in November of 94, the Durians were thrust onto live radio to begin figuring out what they sounded like.
Group members:
Soules, Morse, Hoffmann, Powell
Instruments:
gtrs, ky, b, sax, cpu, sampler, perc
Albums:
Music Is A Problem For Everyone, Uganda
Press reviews:
MP3.com featured group: "Brilliant words and performance by this ensemble," and "powerful commentary by this group." Listen.com: "Strangely mystical instrumental explorations..."
Location:
Atlanta, Georgia
USA
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