RECENT LISTENING #11
The Daoui, XV, C. Cirocco, Russ Waterhouse, Bons, Mythical Creatures, Cory Hanson, Hot Tuna
THE DAOUI Message From The Daoui (OUIENNUI.BANDCAMP.COM) Serious sci-fi quarantine jams by a Chicago duo called The Daoui. This record got on my radar when one-half of the Daoui, Angel Bat Dawid, started posting excerpts of their amazing festival set at Tusk Virtual 2020 on Instagram. Imagine if you will some dude somewhere, could be anywhere in the world (but he’s in Chicago and his name is Oui Ennui), chilling in the lab making sick dreamtone beats, and then imagine Angel Bat Dawid herself floating in above on a magic telecommunal carpet, meaning that she’s with him inside your computer screen jamming sick clarinet solos and vocals from home, somewhere else in Chicago, but they’re both in a different dimension anyway where they form The Daoui (which I just realized is a portmanteau). Anyway the Tusk performance was less than a month ago, in early October 2020, and it coincided with the release of a digital album called Message From the Daoui with pretty much the same track listing a…