Tiger Poems

Arrington de Dionyso’s art is a howl from the gut of the cosmos—a sound that bypasses the rational mind to vibrate directly in the marrow. His work isn’t simply poetry or music; it’s revelation, a raw transmission from the fringes of human experience where language frays into glossolalia and the self dissolves into the primal soup of existence. To engage with his work is to stand at the edge of the abyss and realize the abyss is singing back.

An uncompromising voice in contemporary music, Arrington de Dionyso integrates ancient soundmaking techniques with trans-modernist inquiries into the nature of consciousness. His propulsive improvisations utilize voice and reeds (primarily bass clarinets and his invention the Bromiophone) as multiphonic tools blazing through the liminal spaces between shamanic seance and rock and roll ecstasy.

While deeply rooted in the punk inclination to tear down musical standards in an effort for liberation, Arrington's music weds no-wave iconoclasm with the spiritual searching of Albert Ayler-era free jazz to unveil primordially potent universalities. He embraces sounds as colors, emphasizing complimentary spectrums- from circular overtones whispered through bamboo flutes to the penetrating and deeply guttural howls of amplified throatsinging- with athletic precision and mythic virtuosity.

Whether as a band leader or a solo performer Arrington's music evokes an "Ancient Future", sometimes shocking and hallucinatory, always aiming to channel Spirit.

www.arrington.bandcamp.com

BIOGRAPHY
Born in Chicago in 1975, this son of Methodist ministers later attended theater school in Arkansas and taught himself seven languages. After moving to the Pacific Northwest, as a youth Arrington supported himself as a traveling busker selling handmade cassette tapes until he arrived in Olympia to study ethnomusicology and Butoh Dance at the Evergreen State College. In 1995 he founded the genre destroying No Wave Gospel band Old Time Relijun which garnered critical praise and a loyal fanbase over the course of endless tours of North America and Europe, releasing dozens of albums on K Records. In 2009 he created Malaikat dan Singa ("Angels and Lions"), a powerful new project integrating aggressive dancehall rhythms with gamelan scales, using the Indonesian language to interpret the mystic poetry of William Blake.

In 2011 Arrington was invited to do an artist residency in Indonesia leading to the first of many collaborations with the groundbreaking indigenous metal-art-noise band SENYAWA. It was during these travels that Arrington learned of the Javanese Horse Trance ritual known as "Jathilan" and began to participate in ceremonies with traditional village musicians throughout Southeast Asia. Journeys such as these deepened Arrington’s understanding of music as a means of altering ordinary awareness and inducing spiritual experiences. He participates not only in concert but also in ceremony around the world with such diverse artists as Reak Juarta Putra in Bandung, West Java and the Master Musicians of Jajouka in Morocco. His early obsession with Tuvan throatsinging led him to become a serious student of Siberian Shamanism, and it is precisely through that connection with the spirits of the natural world that he draws the strength of his music.

Whether as a band leader or a solo performer, Arrington’s music evokes an "Ancient Future", sometimes shocking and hallucinatory, always aiming to channel spirit.

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