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Free Willy 08:10
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Egna Ot Waog 12:12
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Big Butt 07:18
Andrew D’Angelo – Compositions, Arrangements, Alto Saxophone, Bass Clarinet, Voice Bill McHenry – Tenor Saxophone Jeremy Udden – Alto Saxophone Joshua Sinton – Baritone Saxophone Ryan Snow – Trombone (soloist) Bryan Drye – Trombone Josh Roseman – Trombone John Carlson – Trumpet Jacob Wick – Trumpet Kirk Knuffke – Cornet Nicole Federici – Viola Trevor Dunn – Bass Dan Weiss – Drums Sasha Brown – Guitar Eric Biondo – Beat Box (featured artist)
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FELICIA 07:02
Love Felicia
5.
Gay Disco 03:48
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7.
I Love You 03:53
f I leave this place, I love you, You know I do, I love you so, You know I do. (2nd verse) If I’m gone from here, I love you, You know I do, I love you so, You know I do it’s true you know. (3rd verse) And I’m not gone from here, I love you…………. (hold note) I love you…………. (chorus) I’m not gone, I’m still around, My life is, Sound and abounds!
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Norman 03:38
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Meg Nem Sa 12:47

about

DNA Orchestra is indeed an orchestra, Andrew D'Angelo's volcanic energy as a saxophone player is present, but the music of DNA Orchestra is about a lot more than raucousness. The unabashed nature of the music represents D'Angelo's renewed sense of purpose, thanks to his recent brush with death. In 2008, he had a seizure while driving. Doctors found the cause to be a tennis-ball-sized brain tumor. D'Angelo puts it this way, "After having two brain surgeries, I embarked on a new existence: one of healing."

The DNA Orchestra isn't merely a musical outlet for a performer who dealt with severe illness. The ensemble, and the music itself, is integrally linked to the entire medical event. It is a response to D'Angelo's cancer, and it ultimately played a role in cancer's annihilation.

The band is a community that supported D'Angelo while he healed. The weaving, angular lines of the music are as tenacious as the tendrils of the disease itself. The elusion of emotion carries weight and energy as integral as any cure. "After understanding why cancer had come into my life, I learned how to use my art and music as healing."

The power of this music may be brute, but it is extremely intentionally composed and performed. It lies within the boundaries of narrative. D'Angelo's composition "Meg Nam Sa," one of the pieces written after his bout with cancer, traces his path through wild pre-healed times, bitterly overwhelming confusion, darkness, and the tireless fight for survival. "I designed this set of music to tell a story," he says. "There is healing, love, darkness, anger, disco dancing, sex, and even more in between the lines."

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released June 30, 2020

Andrew D’Angelo – Compositions, Arrangements, Alto Saxophone, Bass Clarinet, Voice, Director

Bill McHenry – Tenor Saxophone
Jeremy Udden – Alto Saxophone
Joshua Sinton – Baritone Saxophone

Ryan Snow – Trombone
Bryan Drye – Trombone
Josh Roseman – Trombone

John Carlson – Trumpet
Jacob Wick – Trumpet
Kirk Knuffke – Cornet

Nicole Federici – Viola

Trevor Dunn – Bass
Dan Weiss – Drums
Sasha Brown – Guitar

Eric Biondo – Beat Box

Photography and cover design by Johannes Berg – Norway
Mastering by Peter Karl Studios – Brooklyn
Human Use Records

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Andrew D'Angelo Brooklyn, New York

Andrew D’Angelo with an expressionistic, unbridled sound and imagination on alto saxophone, the iconoclastic D'Angelo has been a distinctive voice in the New York avant gaurde scene for nearly three decades. Andrew has shared the stage performing with Kurt Rosenwinkel, Paul Motian, Myra Melford, Bill Frisell, Dave Douglas, Aaron Parks, Trevor Dunn, Cuong Vu, Reid Anderson, Ted Poor, and many more. ... more

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