A dusty wind blows through the yard and tears the pages out of your notebook. You run around the neighborhood to catch them, and as you do, you find yourself in the middle of a circle of people who are about to square off in some kind of battle. Or perhaps it's a ceremony. They are dressed in denim and handkerchiefs, and they are adorned with symbols from all over. Your poetic wanderings have led you into the middle of something strange and possibly dangerous.

Sedona, AZ based songwriter Brandon Decker (aka decker.) presents his 8th studio album, Ouroboros, a fusion of poetry and chaos. There is a blistering energy running through it all, like a transformer has been left on in the basement and no one can figure out how to shut it off. 

Ouroboros is a concept album relating to life, death and transcendence. Decker, who Glide Magazine calls, “one of the country’s most criminally underrated songwriters,” has never written an album that wasn't a whole thematic unit. This latest offering arose out of the grief and bewilderment of watching his father die from cancer while Brandon was left to deal with the very real remnants of familial trauma. At the same crossroads came a painful end to a relationship with a woman he had planned to marry. 

And so, to transcend, to build a community, to create ceremony: a pathway to the other side through music. 

To the hallowed grounds of EastWest Studios in Los Angeles, a studio big enough to sustain Decker's vision of recording a robust album, live with no overdubs, in a mere two days. While others tried to convince him to pare down and record piece-by-piece, Decker insisted everyone would record only through directly connecting with each other and with the music; in the same moment, in the same space.  Decker brought his ensemble of 16 musicians, complete with horns, strings and choir to the studio and room where everyone from Frank Sinatra to Kendrick Lamar have made legendary records. Laughing, crying, breathing it all in together, there was no time to lie on couches and check phones.

That vibrancy of the moment bleeds through every song on the record. The brass feels like they were blown into town by a hurricane nursing one bottle of rum between them. The strings play like they believe they can still get off the sinking ship. Decker's voice sounds like someone who has had to rescue many pages of poetry from the clutches of bullies. 

For a band known for music dubbed “soulful desert psychedelia,” the song "Supernovae" somewhat surprisingly pushes through the choppy waters of this storm at sea; the horn section trying to get its footing while Decker alternately sings, "I'm alright, I'm alright, I'm alright  / I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive."  The track feels thrillingly unstable, what rock and roll should be.  The Strokes get lost in the desert in the driving "Mojave," as Decker emotes, "I hope a rattlesnake don't get bit by you." No matter how furtive and searching a decker. song gets, there is always a burst of brightness and escape, bringing the sky close to the desert floor. Like a "Long Long Long" following a "Helter Skelter," the song "Sea Change" dries out our storm-soaked clothes with a gentle, circular melody. A torrent of words comes instead of electric guitars and horns as Decker sings, "Do you remember twilight?" A string section and a chorus of singers provide a gorgeous backdrop for the surprising turn of gentleness from this gate-crashing band.
"Spirit is your strength/ not a myth, not a weakness," Decker sings on "Limbs," the center point of the album. All of us living through this era have been asked to forgo the urges of the spirit in favor of technology and money and now we realize it might be up to us to create our own ceremonies and rituals. On "Mourning Dove," he sings, "My sweet dove, my sweet lamb/ Held it so tight it slipped right through our hands." That paradox drives the music on this record, trying to grasp the sweet things with scarred hands.

After two days of recording, even before the album was mixed, Brandon felt the totality of grief rise up to finally be witnessed and celebrated, all to be let go into the air. A true grief ceremony, but one captured on tape. "I lived through this, I loved through this, I transformed, and now it is done," he said.

PopMatters states, “It doesn't take too long to recognize that the swirling psychedelic soundscapes that Brandon Decker paints with his music pull inspiration from his Sedona home.” Ouroboros, the latest collection of all that mystical wild energy and delicate poetry, is there for anyone's rituals, battles, and moments of tenderly letting go.  The album releases June 9 through Kingston, NY’s esteemed Royal Potato Family.

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Music producer and collector Billy Caso has spent the last 12 years in Berlin building his path as an eclectic and open-genre artist through fields of electronica, psychedelic jazz, hip hop, modular synths and collage style mixes & beat-tapes.

Billy founded Pastiche, what started as a listening event in Berlin, and now turned hi-fi listening venue, record shop and café in Berlin. 

Billy has performed live tours worldwide, hosted various shows on NTS Radio, Worldwide FM, Dublab and Rinse FM. Also known for his two cult-followed mix series 'The Barefoot Adventures' and 'Home Comforts'. Through his explorative blend of genre-mashing productions, mind-bending collage-style sets, beat-tapes and musical features with the likes of Miguel Atwood Ferguson, Brandon Coleman, Fly Anakin and Nailah Hunter to name a few. After a four year wait, Billy's long awaited debut album ‘Planet Earth’ is complete and will be released soon.

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27.07.2024 - FUSION FESTIVAL - GERMANY
31.08.2024 - GARBICZ FESTIVAL - POLAND
10.09.2022 - BERLIN, GERMANY
17.09.2022 - OSLO, NORWAY
24.09.2022 - TUNIS, TUNISIA
02.10.2022 - DUBLAB RADIO - LOS ANGELES
09.11.2022 - GOLDFISH - LOS ANGELES
12.11.2022 - REVIVE - LOS ANGELES
20.01.2023 - MONTEZUMA - PARIS
21.01.2023 - KIOSK RADIO - BRUSSELS
21.01.2023 - FUNKE - GHENT
02.03.2023 - PASTICHE - BERLIN
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22.02.20 - bucht / berlin
15.02.20 - karlsruhe / germany
08.02.20 - supra / mexico city
07.02.20 - tierra bomba fundraiser / mexico city
27.12.20 - parola negra porto / portugal
14.12.20 - wonderfruit festival / thailand
06.12.20 - i never talk to mirrors / berlin
02.12.20 - nomade / tulum / mexico
01.12.20 - be tulum / tulum / mexico
​30.11.19 - supra mexico city
21.09.19 - paris - france
02.09.19 - scorpios - mykonos
16.08.19 - ms dockville - hamburg
28.07.19 - detect classic festival - de
27.07.19 - habitat festival - de
21.07.19 - melt festival! - de
20.07.19 - ketonien - cologne
20.07.19 - am bach - luzern - switzerland
18.07.19 - budapest - hungary
14.07.19 - sonido tropico - berlin
31.12.18 - london - england
22.12.18 - ritter butzke - berlin
14.12.18 - wonderfruit festival - thailand
28.11.18 - athens - greece
23.11.18 - munich - de
16.11.18 - paris - france
26.08.18 - istanbul - turkey
24.08.18 - moyn moyn festival
23.08.18 - cesme - turkey
19.08.18 - bucht der traumer festival
16.08.18 - ibiza - spain
15.08.18 - wao festival - italy
10.08.18 - kantine am berghain
26.07.18 - ibiza - spain
22.07.18 - kater blau - berlin
20.07.18 - paris - france
27.06.18 - fusion festival
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15.06.18 - stereo kitchen - beirut
07.06.18 - raices - ibiza
02.06.18 - castello festival - poland
12.05.18 - vienna - austria
01.05.18 - sisyphos - berlin
30.04.18 - so&so - leipzig
10.03.18 - ramschakl 3 year anniversary - berlin
09.03.18 - bern - switzerland
03.03.18 - frankfurt - germany
09.02.18 - tal der verwirrung
03.02.18 - kaschemme - basel
27.01.18 - bahnwarter thiel - munich
19.01.18 - istanbul - turkey
11.01.18 - voodoo bar - tel aviv - israel
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01.01.18 - so&so - leipzig
31.12.17 - kater blau - berlin
08.12.17 - copenhagen - denmark
04.11.17 - kauz - switzerland
03.11.17 - sisyphos
30.10.17 - tal der verwirrung - kater blau
18.10.17 - minimuzikhol - istanbul - turkey
13.10.17 - moloch - hamburg
12-16.17 - goulash disko festival - croatia
09.09.17 - ramschakl - mensch meier
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18.08.17 - mykonos - greece
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15.07.17 - midsummer nights dream - russia
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30.06.17 - noname festival - belgium
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17.02.17 - pucon - chile
13.02.17 - osorno - chile
08.02.17 - festival nomade - chile
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27.01.17 - cesta acida - brazil
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Brooklyn indie label embracing the sounds of Marco Benevento, JFJO, Superhuman Happiness, Yellowbirds, Robert Walter, Mike Dillon, Grayson Capps, Sexmob, Allison Miller, Neal Casal, Willie Sugarcapps & more.

Danger Village is an artist development company. We publicize artists we love.

HOW WE LIKE TO HEAR YOUR MUSIC:
We are always open to considering 
new artists for our roster. Please send us a properly labeled stream of your music (no downloads) to 
therearenostupidquestions@dangervillage.com
We can't work with everyone but we can listen. Hugs.

BRYANT EUGENE VAZQUEZ
UPCOMING ALBUMS IN 2018:

NEW EP "(W)RETCH".

NEW LP "SKUZZ".

Video for "S.A.D." :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp2XFemZboM


Available for purchase/download  exclusively at: 
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All other albums are now available for purchase on my bandcamp site.

Based out of Phoenix, Arizona. Mouse Powell creates multi genre music with a focus on maintaining a Hip Hop aesthetic. Following his 2018 release, "First Love" Powell has toured extensively throughout the U.S. and Canada. Crafted with pointed honesty and humor the album is set to a soundscape that draws from Powell's love for soul and blues music. With a top tier live show, and new music on the horizon Mouse is showing no sign of slowing.

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