The video co-directed by Ben O’Brien and Dan Deacon (making his directorial debut) is based on a drawing game popular in the Baltimore art collective Wham City, which is in turn based on the game “telephone.”

Dan Deacon is set to perform two classical oriented shows over the next week in New York City, starting with tonight’s performance at The Kaufman Center’s Merkin Concert Hall as part of the Ecstatic Music Festival, and again on March 26th at Carnegie Hall as part of a Celebration of composer John Cage.

Domino Recording Co. is pleased to announce the world-wide signing of Dan Deacon to the label. Deacon is currently working on his debut release for the label, a full-length album due sometime in 2012.

Dan Deacon has spent the past year performing in more non-traditional settings and arrangement

This week Dan Deacon reissued two albums from his back catalog, announced a run of Fall tour dates, as well as details on the Wham City Comedy Tour 2011. Dan Deacon will be performing solo on his Fall tour, it will be the last opportunity to see his solo set for awhile as his 2012 tour plans will involve the Dan Deacon Ensemble.  For the past year or so, Dan Deacon has been working closely with director Francis Ford Coppola on the score & soundtrack for the new film TWIXT, the trailer for which recently premiered at Comic-Con (the film itself just premiered at the Toronto Film Festival).

This week Deacon dug into the vaults and reissued two of his early LPs, Meetle Miceand Silly Hat Vs. Eagle Hat, on double LP via Carpark Records on Sept. 13.  Also, limited cassette versions of Meetle, Silly as well as Spiderman of the Rings andBromst will be issued and made available at shows and on the Carpark online shop.   In October, Carpark will also reissue Spiderman of the Rings on LP.

Notes on the Reissues by Dan Deacon:

The music contained on these two albums (Meetle Mice & Silly Hat Vs. Eagle Hat) I wrote while in college (and a few while in high school) when I was just discovering computer music. I wrote them for fun, never planning on doing anything with them at that the time or expecting them to be heard outside of my circle of friends. When I was asked to play a show on campus I thought it might be a good idea to burn some CD-Rs and try to sell them at the show.

Going through my files, I found the pieces that I liked the most, grouped them into two different collections and gave them the most appropriate/absurd titles I could think of. The organization of the songs was somewhat thoughtout but mostly chaotic: make sure the granular synth pieces are far from each other; keep the songs with beats spread out; sound collages placed amongst sine wave drone pieces. They were more like compilations of my experiments than albums of compositions.

I made only 8 CD-R copies of each in photocopied sleeves with contact paper on the discs. I sold all but 1 of each for $7 or two for $10. Explosions were going off in my head, dollar signs appearing in my eyes. Making $70 from selling CD-Rs was blowing my mind. I started selling them at every show, even though the music contained on them didn’t represent what I ever performed live, since the music on Meetle Mice andSilly Hat was never meant to be performed live (except for the acoustic ensemble pieces).

The CD-Rs and artwork are riddled with mistakes. There’s digital clipping on many of the tracks; ‘Silly Hat vs. Egale Hat’ was meant to be ‘Silly Hat vs. Eagle Hat’; “copy write” should have been ‘copyright’, etc., but I thought the typos were funny and kept it with each batch of the CD-Rs. Since I was only selling them on campus or a few shows in NYC it didn’t really matter. I hated stuff that took itself too seriously so keeping my spelling mistakes glaring was important to me. And considering the music was made in a vacuum with no intention of it ever seeing the light of day, it made sense to keep all the errors in their original state (true of this reissue as well the artwork for this reissue was scanned from the original run of 8.)

I was a very different musician back then trying to figure out how to interact with sound, what could be done with it, where it could go, learning music software for the first time. Since then my aesthetic has shifted, my absurdist mindset subdued. At times I feel like these albums are skeletons in my musical closet. Many of the song titles are absurd or toy with the idea of what is offensive and what is not, many of them created as a commentary on the super politically correct atmosphere that was Purchase College in the early 2000s.

These albums are like seeds. They sound, look and feel very different from the fruit that they’ve grown but they are still of the same tree.
Dan Deacon “my own face is F word” by Carpark Records
 

WED 9/21        HOBOKEN,NJ    Maxwell’s

SAT 10/29       ASHEVILLE, NC  Moog Fest

SAT 11/05       AUSTIN, TX    Fun Fun Fun Fest

WED 11/30       OAKLAND, CA     New Parish

THU 12/01        LOS ANGELES, CA Echoplex

FRI 12/02        VANCOUVER, BC   Rickshaw

SAT 12/03        PORTLAND, OR    Branx

SUN 12/04        SEATTLE, WA     Neptune

WHAM CITY COMEDY TOUR 2011
10/28/2011    Raleigh, NC    Kings Barcade
10/29/2011    Asheville, NC    Moogfest
10/30/2011    Knoxville, TN    Pilot Light
10/31/2011    Atlanta, GA    Eyedrum
11/01/2011    Athens, GA    40 Watt
11/02/2011    Birmingham, AL    Bottletree
11/03/2011    New Orleans, LA    Zeitgeist
11/04/2011    Houston, TX    Super Happy Fun Land
11/05/2011    Austin, TX    Fun Fun Fun Fest
11/06/2011    Austin, TX    Fun Fun Fun Fest
11/07/2011    Denton, TX    Dan’s Silverleaf
11/08/2011    Norman, OK    Opolis
11/09/2011    Kansas City, KS    Paragraph Gallery
11/10/2011    Iowa City, IA    The Mill
11/11/2011    Chicago, IL    Empty Bottle
11/12/2011    Detroit, MI    TBA
11/13/2011    Pittsburgh, PA    Garfield Artworks
11/14/2011    Annandale-on-Hudson, NY    Bard College
11/15/2011    Troy, NY    51 3rd St.
11/16/2011    Purchase, NY    Purchase College
11/17/2011    Poughkeepsie, NY    Vassar College
11/18/2011    New York, NY    285 Kent St
11/19/2011    Baltimore, MD    Courier Theater

Dan Deacon

Meetle Mice

(Carpark)

Street date: Sept. 13, 2011

Formats: Double LP, limited cassette 

RELATED LINKS:  

Wham City Comedy Tour - http://whamcity.com/comedytour/

MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/dandeacon  

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