Drunk With Joy

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I'm On Fire

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Released: Jan 1, 2006

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I'm On Fire
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Woman
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Our Friends the Actors
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The Beginning
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Travelling Light
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General Info

Genre: Alternative / Industrial / New Wave
Location E-X-E-T-E-R!, UK
Profile Views: 26239
Last Login: 4/26/2011
Member Since 11/10/2005
Website www.drunkwithjoy.com
Record Label Unsigned / A Maze Records (own label)
Bio
.. .... ..Visit our I-tunes store ....HERE...... .. .. .. ..Press Quotes:.... ....“If some major label doesn’t pick up this electric dynamo, ..the world has fallen of its axis” ....Smother Magazine.. (USA) .. ..“Harrowing and peerless” .. ..247 Magazine.. (UK) .. .. “Stunning” .. ..BBC Online.. (UK) .. ..“...awesomely atmospheric... .. - the start of a new musical era” .. ..Music Deluxe.. (Germany) .. ..“Hypnotic” ....Russian GP.. (Russia) .. .. “Chillingly beautiful” .... Benzine Magazine.. (France) .. .. “An understated masterpiece” .. ..Aesthetica Magazine.. (UK) .. .."Look out music labels and distribution! This is IT! .. The next greatest duo to rise out of the UK is Drunk with Joy" ....In Music We Trust.. (USA) .. .. .. .. .... .. ..Drunk With Joy...... .. .. Drunk With Joy has just returned from a 2009 sell-out tour with Joy Collective – their live collaboration with seven visual artists, five dance artists/choreographers and three filmmakers/digital media artists, funded by Arts Council England. Top of the list in 2010 is to record and release the long awaited second Drunk With Joy album. Watch this space for progress updates. .... THE STORY SO FAR .... Mila Oshin and Kris Jager formed Drunk With Joy after being introduced by producer David Kosten (Bat For Lashes, Faultline) in his North London studio. Philosophy student Oshin had been involved in several ensembles as a singer, songwriter and lyricist, composed music for contemporary dance and live art productions, worked as a clown/mime artist and performance poet and set-up a number of successful art, music and poetry projects for emerging artists. PhD student Jager was involved in numerous performance art, music and sound projects as a songwriter, musician, programmer and DJ, including an experimental electronic ensemble and the legendary Halloween Society film club at London's ICA. .... Soon after forming Drunk With Joy, which was initially intended to be a writing and recording project only, Oshin and Jager set up A Maze Records and self-released debut single I Say Goodbye. Promoted solely on the internet, I Say Goodbye was picked up by independent radio stations in the UK, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Russia, Japan, Canada and the USA's student broadcast network. .... Debut album ‘Sound Living’ followed suit, with its first edition - of which only two thousand copies were pressed - becoming a collector’s item on the internet within months of its release. To date the album has sold in fourteen countries over five continents. .... After releasing another single, ‘The Beginning’, and receiving an increasing number of requests and invitations for live appearances, Oshin and Jager felt it was time to move Drunk With Joy to another level. By then they had relocated to Exeter and had become heavily involved in the South West’s independent art scene. They founded Joy Collective and started working on what was to become a massively successful multi-artform collaboration in the form of a spectacular live showcase, featuring contemporary dance, digital media, film and visual art with Drunk With Joy’s very own dark live music set. .... .. .. .. .. ...... .. Drunk With Joy at Dartington, 23 October 2009 © Kevin Clifford .... .... .. .. Drunk With Joy at Dartington, 23 October 2009 © Kevin Clifford .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
Members
....Mila Oshin and Kris Jager..
Influences
.. David Bowie, Matt Elliott, Will Oldham, Yoshitomo Nara, Prince, Elliott Smith, The Pixies, Epitonic.com, Owen O’Neill, Thomas Vinterberg, Jacques Brel, Sebadoh, Antony and the Johnsons, The Prodigy, Nina Simone, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Kate Bush, Herman van Veen, Tori Amos, Red Snapper, Suede, Late Junction, Leonard Cohen, Vivienne Westwood, WH Auden, TV on the Radio, Laurie Anderson, Bob Geldof, Martha Wainwright, Kim Hiorthoy, Butoh Dance, The Smashing Pumpkins, Willem Wilmink, Lucian Freud, The Beastie Boys, Björk, The Cocteau Twins, Stina Norderstam, Arvo Pärt, DJ Shadow, Mariele Neudecker, Ted Hughes, Eminem, Stevie Nicks, Pink Floyd, Salman Rushdie, Anne Clark, Dead Can Dance, Nils Petter Molvaer, Nick Cave, Paula Rego, James Hall, London, The The, Joni Mitchell, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Doe Maar, Roger Lewis.
Sounds Like
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..Drunk With Joy..: I'm On Fire.. With the .. ..Joy Collective.. .. ..(..Drunk With Joy.. and StuM) ...... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..Drunk With Joy..: Lullaby (live).. With the .. ..Joy Collective.. .. ..(..Drunk With Joy.., Beth Carter and StuM) ...... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..Drunk With Joy..: Travelling Light.. With the ....Joy Collective.. .. ..(..Drunk With Joy.., Alice Leach and StuM) ....