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April/May 2010 Things are humming at daisy mayhem headquarters. Our first family CD, Ranky Tanky, earned a Parents Choice Gold Award a few weeks ago and has been generating buzz in the blogosphere and national media (visit our Ranky Tanky page for sample tracks, quotes and reviews). Ranky Tanky is currently available on our web site and at CDBaby. In April, we spent a fun day recording "Here We Go, Zudio" for an upcoming Haiti benefit CD coordinated by Dean Jones. CD artists include Elizabeth Mitchell, Dan Zanes and many others. It's gonna be great, and we'll let you know when it's available. This spring, we brought our kids' show and Scott's Recycled Rhythms workshop to Connecticut public schools, talked about band life with high schoolers in Charlemont, MA and performed our all-ages show in venues around New England. In May, we travel to Chico, CA, to perform and do outreach to public school children, families in transitional housing, and cancer and hospice patients, thanks to the generosity of the University of California at Chico. We'll also play at the newly-minted Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. In June we'll be playing in Florida and near home in CT and MA; and in July we're off for an extended Midwest/Colorado tour. All this and more on our shows page. Hope to see you down the road. Thanks so much your support. RADM Praise for Ranky Tanky "Forget the kids, you'll want this album for yourself. The fact that your children will absolutely love it will be the icing on an already delicious cake." "Flower power meets front porch rock n' roll... proves that kids' music can be simultaneously loose and tight... I fell in love from the first note of the CD." "This is the soundtrack to summer." Click here for more reviews of Ranky Tanky
Listen to a review on NPR's All Things Considered (August 2007) "The theme of affirmation is exuberantly clear on Rani Arbo & daisy
mayhem's impeccable third release. Arbo is a triple threat as fiddler,
songwriter, and possessor of a beautiful, malleable alto. The group's
playing is tight, with stylish, unexpected choices; guitarist Anand
Nayak is a marvel of stylistic versatility, with a rich, resonant tone
and soulful, imaginative fills. Big Old Life is brimming with grace,
however defined." "One of the most
song- and arrangement-oriented bands in a field overgrown with
pyrotechnic, jam- and solo-conscious virtuosos."
"If Rani Arbo
& daisy mayhem offer to cook at your place, you better open up
all the doors, and borrow every table and chair you can because the
whole town should come."
"An ear-to-ear
grin of a record..."
"They even
manage to make Leonard Cohen sound hopeful..."
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