Amy Denio

Any synopsis of Amy Denio’s music career risks understatement. She is a vocalist with a four-octave vocal range and a multi-instrumentalist adept on alto sax, clarinet, accordion, guitar and bass. She’s a prolific composer, with credits spanning modern dance, film, theater and TV. She’s also a recording artist with more than 500 works to her name, a producer of over 60 recordings and the operator of a record label and publishing company, Spoot Music. She’s a member of Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame, and a collaborator with more artists than we can list. Her music is as broad as that summary suggests, innovative and original while also warm and soulful.

We’re thrilled to welcome Amy to Right Brain Records with a unique album called Chapel Sessions. Recorded live at Seattle’s celebrated Good Shepherd Chapel with just her voice and her trusty Line 6 effects box, this album features Amy’s astonishing vocal and spontaneous composition talents. Nine of the 10 tracks were improvised on the spot. The tenth is a reworking of a classic original song, “C.I.A.”, from the 1980s.

Experience Amy Denio’s remarkable artistry in pure form with this album, which builds on a career of defying expectations.

“Amy is a force of nature!... A wonderfully captured performance.”
— Steve Kirk, Bandcamp

In Amy’s world travels, often on tour with bands like Kultur Shock and The Tiptons, she is known to have impromptu meetups with other musicians. One such session resulted in an album by Gli Autopiloti, an experimental trio with electronicist Roberto Fega and guitarist Adriano Lanzi, Their album Avanti! emerged from a live set in Rome in December of 2022. See bios of Adriano and Roberto here—and listen to the trio below.

Explore Gli Autopiloti - Avanti! on Bandcamp.





 
“Five sections escape us, as beautiful as many moons (Eastern folk, free, blues, drones and electroacoustic diversions), which never disperse, often congealing on rhythmic stumbles that smell of lands, outside the zones of comfort... Instinctively and with style, into the night.”
— Marco Carcasi, Kathodik on Avanti! by Gli Autopiloti

Another project, Church & State originated in two live concerts, rare joint performances of Amy with fellow Seattle luminary Bill Horist in iconic structures built in 1906: the Good Shepherd Chapel and the Georgetown Steam Plant. The latter was a mind-blowing, real-time improvised soundtrack for a screening of the classic silent sci-fi movie Metropolis.