Search - Daau :: We Need New Animals

Not to be listened to by lovers of shopping music

Lennart Huizing (foucault@xs4all.nl | Amsterdam, the Netherlands | 04/13/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"OK. Imagine this: four guys enter the stage, pick up their instruments and start to play. What are they playing? Hard to say. It might be jazz, except that it's not. But then, it certainly isn't classical, pop or rock. All I can say is that it tends to be loud and fast. What are they playing on? Hold tight: violin, cello, clarinet and accordion (!). I know. I always thought the accordion was a pretty stupid instrument myself. But adding some guitar peddle effects to the accordion greatly improves its sound. Same for violin, cello (which in fact can be played as one would play a guitar) and clarinet.Oh. And you should hear them play their cover of Eleanor Rigby (Beatles).Although most of DAAU's music is instrumental, this is no shopping music version. Definitely too interruptive ;-)"

Gentle, lovely (with violence)

A. Pai | 09/11/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"daau ("the anarchistic evening entertainment") have described themselves as "clasically derailed with a rock intention". what a wonderful phrase, no? it could be said all day. daau mixes accordion, cello, strummed guitars, and torch song vocals into a beautiful variegated stew. some songs are fast like polka; others are eerie and restrained. my recommendation is that you purchase this excellent album, play it at a reasonable volume in the company of your lover, dance to the fast songs then screw to the slow ones. then repeat, but in reverse order."

Absolutely Genius

J. Reynolds | Los Angeles, CA USA | 11/15/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"There are very few, if any in the modern era, who have captured and reinvented music in an unbelievable new fashion as to progress the listening experience beyond all forms previously understood. DAAU has achieved this supremity through wise virtuosity and an unmatched experimental flair. To say I recommend this is an insult to the art of controlling sound. I demand any music lover get this immediately!"