Arrington De Dionyso

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Arrington de Dionyso (b. January 4th 1975) makes trans-utopian world music for a world that exists in fever dreams and hallucinations. Using performance and visual art, he traverses the nameless territories held between surrealist automatism, shamanic seance, and the folk imagery of rock and roll. Ecstasy vs. Madness. De Dionyso’s most recent project, Malaikat dan Singa, is a trance-punk outfit featuring bass clarinet, guitars, multiple drummers and his trademark wild vocals (multi-spectral harmonic throatsinging combined with grunts, yelps, and barks) -this time, all sung in Indonesian. Malaikat dan Singa translates as “Angels and Lions,” and de Dionyso’s Indonesian lyrics combine mythology and fantasy with haphazard translations of poet William Blake on the debut Malaikat album. The project, however, ultimately defies a clean translation. Malaikat dan Singa gains power by crossing boundaries — both linguistic and psychic. On the one hand, the Indonesian language allows Dionyso to communicate on levels more deeply subliminal than those accessible in his native English. On the other, reaches his growing Indonesian audience with his eccentric brew of ecstatic lunacy and prophetic madness, clarified to perfection during his 15 year tour-of-duty with Olympia’s Old Time Relijun. Arrington tours constantly, and has also presented workshops on improvising with the voice throughout North America, Europe, Israel and Japan. His visual art has been featured in exhibitions in Italy, N

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Malaikat dan Singa

I See Beyond The Black Sun

Breath of Fire

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The Wire Tapper 22

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Suara Naga

Varieties of Religious Experience

Slow Dancin' Under the Moon Tonight

The True Folk Sounds of Arrington de Dionyso

Orga Ar

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Honey and Poison

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Tired Minds Improvised

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Malaikat Dan Singa Live on WFMU / Talk's Cheap May 18th, 2010

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