Dirtwire is an American band consisting of David Satori, and Evan Fraser, who both play a variety of uncommon

musical instrument A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument—it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument. A person who pl ...

s. They perform a form of swamptronic

experimental music Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions. Experimental compositional practice is defined broadly by exploratory sensibilities radically opposed to, and questioning of, ...

that incorporates

electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroac ...

and instruments from around the world. The group, which is based in the

San Francisco Bay Area The San Francisco Bay Area, often referred to as simply the Bay Area, is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun Bay estuaries in Northern California. The Bay Area is defined by the Association of Bay Area Go ...

California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...

, began as a duo.A dozen questions with Evan Fraser of Dirtwire
bozemandailychronicle.com, 2018 They met at the California Institute of the Arts.Grateful Web Interview with David Satori of Dirtwire , Grateful Web
2014 Dirtwire has released nine albums.

Instruments

Dirtwire is known for incorporating a wide range of

s from around the world. Their website says, "At a Dirtwire show you can be guaranteed to hear and see a wide range of instruments being played and woven into an electronic music context, including melodicas, guitarjo, electric space fiddle,

drum The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a she ...

s, jaw harps, vocals,

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica inclu ...

, ... overtone flutes, kamale ngoni, kalimba, toy megaphone,

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

whamola The Whamola is a bass instrument used in funk-jazz styles of music. The name is a portmanteau of whammy bar and viola. The Whamola is a direct descendant of the washtub bass, an American folk instrument popular with skiffle and jug bands, and f ...

, resonator guitar, fujara, ukulele, and Siberian ghost catcher

mouthbow The musical bow (bowstring or string bow, a subset of bar zithers) is a simple string instrument used by a number of South African peoples, which is also found in the Americas via slave trade. It consists of a flexible, usually wooden, stick 1. ...

."Dirtwire – Bio
/ref> They also play the

Bolo Bolo may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities * Bolo, a fictional tribe in ''bolo'bolo'' by P.M. * Bolo, a character in the ''Shantae'' series * ''Bolo'' universe, a science fiction universe created by Keith Laumer * Prin ...

Dobro Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitars, currently owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar. The Dobro was originally ...

-style guitar, and the mbira, a Zimbabwean thumb piano. Their website previously listed the ilimba,

slide guitar Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object (a slide) against the strings, creating the opportunity for glissando effects and deep vibratos tha ...

, slide banjo, jimbush, kone, guimbri,

kaen The ''khene'' (; spelled "Can" in English; Lao: ແຄນ; th, แคน, , ; km, គែន - ''Ken''; Vietnamese: ''khèn'') is a Lao mouth organ whose pipes, which are usually made of bamboo, are connected with a small, hollowed-out har ...

, berimbau, pandeiro, zabumba, and calabash.

Genre

Dirtwire lists possible genres for their music as "future revival, swamptronica, spaghetti-step, ndelectro-twang". In an interview, member Evan Fraser additionally offered, "

blues Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...

n’

bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in the bass range: ** Bass (instrument), including: ** Acoustic bass gui ...

, electro acoustic fusion, ndglobo electro."

References

External links

Official site
bozemandailychronicle.com, 2018
Dirtwire mixes electronica, world in Bend – Supergroup to perform at Volcanic Theatre Pub
bendbulletin.com, 2017
Artist Interview: Dirtwire Talk Latest Release, 'The Carrier', Environmental Issues, and What Makes Colorado Special – Compose Yourself Magazine
2014
Evan Fraser of Dirtwire on developing compassion and authenticity through music
trialanderrorcollective.com, 2016 {{Authority control 2012 establishments in the United States American surrealist artists Surrealist groups American musical duos American musical trios Musical groups established in 2012 Musical groups from the San Francisco Bay Area

Instruments

Genre

See also

References

External links