Donkey No No

Non-Event Presents
Our June Experimental Coffee House
featuring

DONKEY NO NO
(Jenifer Gelineau, Omeed Goodarzi, and Ted Lee)

Café Fixe
1642 Beacon Street (Washington Square)  
Brookline, MA
7 p.m. /$5

“Comprised of JENIFER GELINEAU on violin & electronics, OMEED GOODARZI on guitar, and EDWARD ‘TED’ LEE on bowed cymbal, DONKEY NO NO create the sort of instrumental hallucinations you’d expect to hear in the background of a film by Jodorowsky or Arrabal. It’s very cool, because they use the very instruments you’d hear in some shitty Ken Burns documentary, in order to play music that would make Ken’s sallow head explode if he tried to wrap his noggin around it. With sometimes scratchy violin as the ostensible lead instrument, theoretical comparisons to old timey music are inevitable. But Donkey No No’s sound is old timey only in as much as its tendrils are as timeless as smoke. Every note they generate heads in such weirdly trippy directions you can immediately suss why these guys are such a favorite of Gary Panter (king of the hippies). Much of their flow is an unstoppable lateral gush, reminiscent of mid-points in long sets by classic-if-lost Bay Area bands like Patrick Kilroy’s New Age trio or Serpent Power. They create an aura that is filled with breath and light in a way that few other bands have ever mustered.”
-Byron Coley

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Brookline Commission for the Arts and the Boston Cultural Council, both local agencies which are funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. The Boston Cultural Council is administrated by the Mayor’s Office of Arts + Culture.