Our Gaia (Double Live Concert Album + Bonus), by Dangerous Odds

Our Gaia (Double Live Concert Album + Bonus)

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1.	The Other Side 05:34	info	buy track
2.	Edward the Teller 03:12	info	buy track
3.	The Diver (Larry Giles) 02:07	info	buy track
4.	Canto 19: By the Light 04:14	info	buy track
5.	Ancient Girl 03:18	info	buy track
6.	Canto 14: Can't Keep This Space Clear 04:41	info	buy track
7.	Firefly Time 03:25	info	buy track
8.	BONUS: Repetition 01:47	info
9.	Time Past (Larry Giles) 02:07	info	buy track
10.	BONUS: Lollapaloozy (group improvisation) 04:30	info
11.	When I Can't Sleep 04:05	info	buy track
12.	Gene Splicer 02:41	info	buy track
13.	The Dead End Kid 04:29	info	buy track
14.	Bone Flute 03:37	info	buy track
15.	Nobody Knows 03:08	info	buy track
16.	A Piece of the Rock 01:34	info	buy track
17.	The Rose (Larry Giles) 02:58	info	buy track
18.	Anything 03:02	info	buy track
19.	Fossil Fuel Man 04:25	info	buy track
20.	The Hedgerows (Larry Giles) 06:47	info	buy track
21.	Nirvana 04:43	info	buy track
22.	Make a New Face 03:06	info	buy track
23.	The Sneeze 02:01	info	buy track
24.	Our Gaia 04:25	info	buy track
25.	BONUS: In the Dark (group improvisation) 06:56	info

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Dangerous Odds: Our Gaia

Live in concert
December 1, 1994
McGraw Auditorium, UW-Whitewater, Whitewater, WI
sponsored by the Student Environmental Action Committee at UWW

the Best of Dangerous Odds series

This live concert double album contains almost 90 minutes of music & poetry.

Dangerous Odds does a benefit concert on this album for environmental activism. We circle around the darker topics of environmental degradation, warfare, violence to the Earth Our Mother to to each other. We also consider beauty, mortality, and the consequences of choices in our lives.

Dangerous Odds was our band consisting of a core group of two poets—Ron Ellis and Larry Giles—who performed their poems accompanied by spontaneously improvised music. The core group of musicians would as often just start making sounds evoked by the mood and words of the poem as we would have any structured plan—more often, in fact. This was the band where 95 percent of all the music was fully improvised, in all styles, with most members of the band playing multiple instruments. We became so practiced at pure improvisation that the band sometimes seemed telepathic.

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released April 8, 2023

Dangerous Odds are:

Ron Ellis: poetry performance
Larry Giles: poetry performance
Al Jewer: flute, bass flute, bass, wind synthesizer, sax, vocal EFX
Art Durkee: Chapman Stick with Infinite Sustain, bass, banjo
Tom Hamer: drums, percussion, electronics
Ross Nielsen: bass, banjo

Everybody contributed electronics, synths, and effects into the mix with such subtle dedication that sometimes it's hard to say who played what.

recorded live in concert, December 1, 1994, Whitewater, WI

AD: additional sound design, Moog, effects on “Ancient Girl” and “Repetition," March 2023, Dragonsweyr Studio

Written & Produced by Dangerous Odds
© 1994 Dangerous Odds
Recorded & Engineered by The Men In Black from Laughing Cat Remote

Remastered at Dragonsweyr by Arthur Durkee Arts
© 2023 Arthur Durkee Arts. All Rights Reserved.

Album Artwork & Design © 2023 Arthur Durkee. All Rights Reserved.

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Arthur Durkee Ann Arbor, Michigan

Arthur Durkee is a composer & songwriter who records & performs on Chapman Stick, bass, analog modular synths, bamboo & wood flutes, keys, frame drums, and voice. He has won awards for composed, notated music as well as for his recordings, & is a published poet, & designer & illustrator. ... more

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