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Artist Biography For Dark Day
Dark Day Is The Minimal Electronics Brainchild Of Robin Crutchfield Following His Separation With No Wave Band DNA. Growing Up In Rural Pennsylvania Crutchfield Was Fascinated With Both Performance Art And The Most Esoteric Edge Of Pop Music. After Making His Escape To New York City In The Mid-Seventies He Presented Several Noteworthy Performance Pieces At The New York Avant Garde Festival Stefan Eins' 3 Mercer Street Store And Artists' Space. Inspired By Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono Band And Lydia Lunch's Teenage Jesus & The Jerks He Made The Transition Into The New Music Of Downtown Manhattan And Formed The "no Wave" Band DNA With Arto Lindsay And Ikue Mori In 1977. This Lineup Recorded A Single And 4 Tracks With Brian Eno For The Seminal "No New York" Album. In 1979 Crutchfield Left DNA To Pursue A Series Of Musical Projects Under The Name Dark Day. The First Dark Day Single "Hands In The Dark/Invisible Man" On The Lust/Unlust Label Featured Robin's Singing And Modified Electric Piano Backed By Nina Canal Of The Gynecologists And More Recently UT And Nancy Arlen Of Mars . By The Time Of Dark Day's First Album "Exterminating Angel" Lust/Unlust 1980 The Group Consisted Of Robin Phil Kline Barry Friar And A Revolving Lineup Of Artists Which Included Steven Brown And Peter Principle Of Tuxedomoon Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch Nina Canal And David Rosenbloom. During This Period Dark Day Performed At The Mudd Club CGBG's And Max's Kansas City. After A Tour Of Europe Robin Re-Formed Dark Day In 1981 As A Synthesizer Duo With Bill Sack And Released The Album "Window" Plexus 1982 . Over The Next Few Years Robin Resumed His Work As A Performance Artist At Such Venues As Club 57 And Joseph Papp's Public Theatre. In 1985 He Recreated Dark Day As An Acoustic Chamber Ensemble Performing Atmospheric Music In A Medieval Vein And Released His "Darkest Before Dawn" Disc In 1989. For Most Of The 1990's Robin Concentrated On His Work In Graphic Design And Performance Art While Editing The Music Newsletter "Quirky". In 1999 Robin Utilized The New Technology Available To Musicians And Returned To The Ambient And Techno Genres That He Helped Pioneer On His Disc "Strange Clockwork". In August Of 2000 Dark Day Releases Its 5th Album Of Orignial Music -- "Loon" 'the Mental Health Project' Featuring 7 Short Instrumental Works To Exorcise The Demons Of The Mind.
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Dark Day Is The Minimal Electronics Brainchild Of Robin Crutchfield Following His Separation With No Wave Band DNA. Growing Up In Rural Pennsylvania Crutchfield Was Fascinated With Both Performance Art And The Most Esoteric Edge Of Pop Music. After Making His Escape To New York City In The Mid-Seventies He Presented Several Noteworthy Performance Pieces At The New York Avant Garde Festival Stefan Eins' 3 Mercer Street Store And Artists' Space. Inspired By Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono Band And Lydia Lunch's Teenage Jesus & The Jerks He Made The Transition Into The New Music Of Downtown Manhattan And Formed The "no Wave" Band DNA With Arto Lindsay And Ikue Mori In 1977. This Lineup Recorded A Single And 4 Tracks With Brian Eno For The Seminal "No New York" Album. In 1979 Crutchfield Left DNA To Pursue A Series Of Musical Projects Under The Name Dark Day. The First Dark Day Single "Hands In The Dark/Invisible Man" On The Lust/Unlust Label Featured Robin's Singing And Modified Electric Piano Backed By Nina Canal Of The Gynecologists And More Recently UT And Nancy Arlen Of Mars . By The Time Of Dark Day's First Album "Exterminating Angel" Lust/Unlust 1980 The Group Consisted Of Robin Phil Kline Barry Friar And A Revolving Lineup Of Artists Which Included Steven Brown And Peter Principle Of Tuxedomoon Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch Nina Canal And David Rosenbloom. During This Period Dark Day Performed At The Mudd Club CGBG's And Max's Kansas City. After A Tour Of Europe Robin Re-Formed Dark Day In 1981 As A Synthesizer Duo With Bill Sack And Released The Album "Window" Plexus 1982 . Over The Next Few Years Robin Resumed His Work As A Performance Artist At Such Venues As Club 57 And Joseph Papp's Public Theatre. In 1985 He Recreated Dark Day As An Acoustic Chamber Ensemble Performing Atmospheric Music In A Medieval Vein And Released His "Darkest Before Dawn" Disc In 1989. For Most Of The 1990's Robin Concentrated On His Work In Graphic Design And Performance Art While Editing The Music Newsletter "Quirky". In 1999 Robin Utilized The New Technology Available To Musicians And Returned To The Ambient And Techno Genres That He Helped Pioneer On His Disc "Strange Clockwork". In August Of 2000 Dark Day Releases Its 5th Album Of Orignial Music -- "Loon" 'the Mental Health Project' Featuring 7 Short Instrumental Works To Exorcise The Demons Of The Mind.
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