This album represents the songs she would perform live at her solo concerts. She began touring Europe with her band Tone Dogs in 1988, and discovered that she had a good capacity to learn languages other than English. With the discovery that each language has its own musicality, she began to write songs in foreign tongues, often using phrase books to construct the lyrics. The Russian song is about a man whose wife has disappeared, and asks for someone to show where she is on a map; the Czech song asks the waiter to put more appetizers in the train station baggage room, the Greek song is about eating slugs for breakfast (slugs meaning both the slimy creatures, and also bullet casings, since the song was written during the war in ex-Jugoslavia).

These songs were recorded on her TASCAM MIDI Studio, attached to an Atari computer, creating a unique blend of cassette culture with digital media. Denio sings, and plays guitars, bass, accordion, alto saxophone, and does all the programming. Guest artists are Charley Rowan (accordion on Slugs), and Marjorie de Muynck (saxophone on Jig). This recording was originally released in 1993 by Steve Rubin (R.I.P.) on his label FOT Records in Normal Illinois. Artwork by the inimitable Dennis Palmer, of the Shaking Ray Levi Society.

1. Salvatore
2. Further Sadness
3. Waltzing Tongues
4. Czechered Pyjamas
5. Da (Gdye Damskaya Parikmakirskya)
6. Slugs (Gymnosalyagi)
7. Buka Mouth Clusters
8. Six
9. Industry
10. Valentine's Tango
11. Monk Tongue
12. Jazzm
13. Jig
14. Rhymes with Ohio
15. Exiles
16. Lousy Wanker
17. Epiglottis
18. Deduo Denim

Listen to: the entire album.

Release date: 8/31/2016
Amy Denio lives in Washington USA

Tagged as: World, Vocal, Accordion, Bass, Electric Guitar, Keyboard, Saxophone, World Influenced

1. Cirque Montage by Kavanah: Eclectic Intense, Industrial Ethnic, Classical phrasing, Soundtrack, Cirque
2. A Better Picture by Kat Webb: Smooth, sultry Rhythm and Blues from a Southern songstress
3. Another Day by Claire Fitch: ambient cellist
4. Lucid Dreams by Jasmine Brunch: a secret garden of lucid musical dreams
5. Play Loud by Lilly Wolf: Catchy dance pop with insightful lyrics
6. Happenstance by Jay Kishor: Music without preservatives
7. Vito Paternoster Plays Cello - The Music from the Lockdown by Vito Paternoster: cellist extraordinaire
8. First Impressions by Emma Wallace: angst-free modern ragtime
9. Edvard Grieg by Daniel Estrem: colorful classical guitar
10. Whisper by Suzanne Teng: world flute with a serene energy
11. This Painted Life by Lilly Wolf: Catchy dance pop with insightful lyrics
12. Toccata - Touched by Alex McCartney: Reflective, historically-informed performance on the lute
13. Reconnection by Ammonite: delicate, stylish indie electronic
14. Rondeau Melancolique by Alex McCartney: Reflective, historically-informed performance on the lute
15. Gravity by Artemis: Alternative / Downtempo / Electro-pop
16. Legacy by Ken Bonfield: Calling Bonfield a guitarist is like calling Michelangelo a painter
17. CD1 - Bach - The Six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin by Lara St John: Bach violin concertos
18. When Droplets Coalesce Into A Puddle by EuchMad: Hypnotic and touching, Euchmad immerses us in a fantasy world
19. Beautiful Earth by Bella Gaia: an iridescent landscape of gossamer melodies and labyrinthine rhythms, with a sense of celestial wonder

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