+ Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten)
Announce Summer North American Tour Dates in Support of Upcoming Graphic Diary "We Are Gypsies Now!"
New Danielle de Picciotto Solo Album "Tacoma" Out Now, Upcoming Collaborative LP "Perserverantia" Coming Late 2015
View images and excerpts from "We Are Gypsies Now!" HERE!
Throughout the 80's and into the early-to-mid 2000's, Berlin-via-Tacoma, WA artist, musician and writer Danielle de Picciotto seemed to have it all.
Using her time and talents contributing to (and leading) the burgeoning Berlin underground that was beginning to take shape after the fall of "The Wall," de Picciotto was a key member of groundbreaking bands such as The Space Cowboys, Crime & The City Solution, Gunder Gut and Die Haut (the latter of which featured international guest members Nick Cave, Kid Congo Powers, Kim Gordon and more), co-founded Berlin's longest running and largest electronic music festival The Love Parade (alongside former partner Matthias 'Dr. Motte' Roeingh), and was a best-selling German author, as well as respected documentary film producer.
Yet Danielle, alongside new husband Alexander Hacke (of post-punk industrial legends Einstürzende Neubauten), found herself in an existential crisis of epic proportions, that no amount of binge-watching Breaking Bad could cure.
When the couple renounced the idea of a “home” to become digital age “gypsies,” de Picciotto began to see the clouds of despair parting before her and a better, more fulfilling way of life almost magically beginning to emerge. The result; de Picciotto's newly released debut solo LP "Tacoma" (named for the town from which she was born, yet only lived in for 4-months before moving numerous times throughout the US and world with her military father), and forthcoming graphic diary, We Are Gypsies Now!
We Are Gypsies Now! is the transcendentally Illustrated and emotionally transparent journal of the adventures and internal struggles of Danielle de Picciotto and Alexander Hacke's first year on the road “with no direction home.” Experiencing We Are Gypsies Now! is to embark on Danielle’s deeply personal journey and to possibly heed her call for a more imaginative approach to life in our over-mediated and covertly alienated age.
Switching between diary, autobiography and speculation, We Are Gypsies Now! explores the nomadic option as perhaps the only possible cultural and social response to gentrification and consumerism... Reading this is an inspiration, a wake-up call, and perhaps even a demand to once again embrace the liberating freedom of chance.
Musically, both live and on her new album, de Picciotto employs unusual instruments like the hurdy-gurdy and the autoharp, while accompanying her spoken-word poetry and delicate vocal stylings with multi-layered violin harmonies. "Tacoma" evokes imagery of lonesome desert landscapes, enchanted forests, and otherworldly trance-states while straddling maritime thunderstorms by combining recordings of nature's manifold phenomena with radio interferences, reverberating tribal percussions, electronic treatments, and the soothing and genuinely organic vibrations of acoustically generated drones and internal mantras. Her lyrics focus on the mystical implications of the nomadic life, clairvoyant renderings of female intuition, and tales of dreamlike revelations, while the instrumental pieces of this astonishing album transport the listener into paths never tread, or, like Danielle herself, who only recently returned for the first time to the place of her birth, into a journey to the beginning of time.
In celebration of her forthcoming book, available August 13th via Southern California's long-celebrated publishing company Amok Books, as well as her new album, de Picciotto and Hacke have announced a series of North American tour dates taking place this summer, where the duo will perform tracks from "Tacoma," as well as from their forthcoming collaborative LP, "Perserverantia," due in late 2015. In addition to tracks from the albums, the live shows will feature spoken word texts from We Are Gypsies Now! (set to the duo's patented dark, electronic soundscapes), complete with multimedia visual displays.
The upcoming series of live dates will bring de Picciotto and Hacke to cities along the West Coast (including Seattle, Los Angeles and San Francisco), as well as select stops in Denver, Louisville, Chicago, New York and others. Select dates will aslo feature guest appearances from Qui (featuring David Yow) and more to be announced.
We Are Gypsies Now! showcases the writing and illustration of de Picciotto, with layout design by David Yow.Amok Books is distributed by SCB Distributors.
"Tacoma" was produced by Wharton Tiers and is available now via Moabit Music overseas and Forced Exposure in the US.
Stream Danielle de Picciotto's "Tacoma" LP HERE
"Tacoma" Track List:
01 Tacoma
02 I Have Love
03 Luminous (Video)
04 Es Gibt Kein Zurück
05 In Transit
06 Per Aspera Ad Astra (Video)
07 Home Sweet Home
08 Horchata
09 The Veil
Danielle de Picciotto & Alexander Hacke Live!
August 1st MEAFORD, Ontario Canada - Electric Eclectics Festival
August 14th DETROIT, Michigan - Trinosophes w/ Chatoyant
August 15th LOUISVILLE, Kentucky - Dreamland
August 19th DENVER, Colorado - Mutiny Café
August 21st SEATTLE, Washington - Chop Suey w/ Midday Veil
August 28th EUGENE, Oregon - Tsunami Books
August 30th PORTLAND, Oregon - Star Theater w/ Lost Lockets
September 2nd SAN FRANCISCO, California - The Hemlock Tavern w/ Dark Materials, Yellow Pages
September 5th LOS ANGELES, California - El Cid w/ Qui, Adam Harding, David Yow
September 9th NEW YORK CITY, NY - Trans Pecos w/ Lary 7, Victoria Keddie
October 3rd LONDON, England - Hackney Attic
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