Label: Prolific Records (US), CO 80248
Style: Avant-Rock, Experimental
Country: U.S. (born 1963)
Time: 37:04
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 186 Mb
Dave
Willey (born 1963) is an American experimental musician and composer,
best known as the co-founder and member of the Boulder, Colorado-based
avant-rock group Hamster Theatre. He is also a member of Thinking Plague
and 3 Mice. He has released two solo albums and has performed with
Hamster Theatre and Thinking Plague in the United States and Europe.
In
a biography at AllMusic, Dave Lynch described Willey's music as
"uncompromising, challenging, and adventurous but also engaging and
tuneful".
Dave Willey was born in 1963 and grew up in Oregon. He
moved to Colorado where he played in several bands, including The Denver
Gentlemen and Big Foot Torso. Willey's early influences were
twentieth-century classical music, and bands and musicians like Henry
Cow, Fred Frith and Thinking Plague. In the early 1990s, Willey lived in
Europe for a few years where he exposed himself to Rock in Opposition
and related music. There he was particularly drawn to the music of
Swedish accordionist Lars Hollmer from Samla Mammas Manna. Willey said
that initially he "didn't play anything but improvised music", and
"wouldn't play anything that was composed or in a time signature or with
a melody". But after listening to European music, he found himself
liking melodic music, and realized that "there's nothing wrong with
being accessible. You can be accessible and interesting and challenging
all at the same time, hopefully." While in Europe, Willey began
composing his own music and recording it on tape. When he returned to
the United States, Willey settled near Boulder and set to work on his
recordings. He added keyboards, accordion, guitar, bass guitar and
percussion, and created a cassette tape entitled Songs from the Hamster
Theatre. Willey had intended giving the cassette to friends for
Christmas, but Prolific Records in Denver expressed interest in
releasing it on CD. Dave Lynch at AllMusic called the album, released in
1995, a blend of "rock, European folk, avant-garde experimentation, and
modern composition".
full version: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Willey
01. Nursery Rhyme (00:32)
02. At The Pencil Factory (03:36)
03. Pookypoo (00:59)
04. Bean Dance (04:13)
05. Litost (04:11)
06. Home (03:48)
07. Love Theme From Wackerhaus (04:16)
08. Hamster Dance (03:37)
09. The Cricetus Lilt (02:03)
10. Out Of Harm's Way (02:06)
11. Ships Of Skin (02:09)
12. Ester (05:28)
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