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Robert Drasnin Voodoo III LP, CD, Digital Officially Released!


ROBERT DRASNIN – VOODOO III LP, CD, Digital officially released

Towards the end of Robert Drasnin‘s life – he set out to work on the third, and final, volume of Voodoo which he left unfinished. Drasnin had requested Skip Heller to complete his works and turn them into a releasable album. Skip finished Robert Drasnin Voodoo III which was rushed out as a super limited release, sold only at Tiki Oasis 15 with a few leftovers sold through Dionysus Records Mail Order.

After numerous delays, including an entire pressing of records recalled to due to a manufacturing defect, the official release including remastered audio, extremely detailed liner notes by Skip,  cover art by Claudette Barjoud, and package design by Bob Deck, is now officially released on LP, CD, and digital (available through iTunes, Amazon, and just about all streaming services). The first pressing of 500 LPs is on transparent blue vinyl.

You can order the LP and CD straight from Dionysus at these links. Search your digital provider for downloads and streams.

Robert Drasnin Voodoo III LP
Robert Drasnin Voodoo III CD

These works encompass all the elements that made Voodoo I and Voodoo II legendary entries in the world of exotica music.

August 29, 2017by Dionysus Records
Joshua Tree, Skip Heller

12/10: Skip Heller Trio w Lee Joseph @ Joshua Tree Saloon!

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Joshua Tree Saloon

Dec 10, 2016 – 9- 11 PM
61835 Twentynine Palms Highway
Joshua Tree, CA 92252
www.thejoshuatreesaloon.com

Join Skip Heller, Lee Joseph, and Joshua Tree-based drummer Jeff Boaz for a night of  rockin’ acoustic-based roots and blues at the Joshua Tree Saloon! The show goes from 9-11, and is free. If you’ve not yet been to this authentic, rustic, desert saloon you are in for a treat! The Saloon features a bar and full food menu, indoor stage, plus an outdoor bar and seating area as well.

While Skip’s main focus these days is the Hollywood Blues Destroyers, he is reviving the Trio for this special Hi-Desert show, which also celebrates the release of Skip and Lee’s 78 RPM release, an all-analog, all-tube recording which comes with a digital download code featuring bonus tracks!

Here’s a video of the trio with DJ Bonebrake on drums, at The Redwood a few years back!

December 9, 2016by Dionysus Records
Skip Heller

3/24: Skip Heller 78 RPM Record Release Party at La Luz de Jesus

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Skip Heller 78 RPM Release Party
Thursday, March 24
7-9 PM

La Luz de Jesus Gallery
Soap Plant / Wacko
4633 Hollywood Blvd,
Los Angeles, CA 90027
www.laluzdejesus.com

Join Skip Heller’s Hollywood Blues Destroyers at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in celebration of Skip’s new release, a limited edition three-track 10” 78 RPM record. Heller and group will be performing a full set, featuring a Hot Five performance of the songs on the 78. The event is free, all ages, and takes place in the gallery surrounded by this year’s massive Laluzapalooza group show!

About the release:
Dionysus Records inaugural 78 RPM release does the label proud. Roots/exotica/rockabilly master Skip Heller returns to the imprint with Heller’s Hot 5, including Dionysus Records head honcho Lee Joseph on acoustic bass, delivering three smoking, blues-drenched tunes, recorded and cut live to mono tape by former Big Sandy and the Fly Rite Trio’s bassman, Wally Hersom, on all tube powered analog gear. This platter that matters is a limited edition vinyl microgroove 78, playable on anything that plays 78, including jukeboxes. The release comes with a download card. Purchase online direct from Dionysus Records at this link – or from Amazon, etc – downloads available from iTunes, Amazon, eMusic…

>All analog 78 RPM cut with a Westrex head on a vintage Scully Lathe
>Edition of 300 on Blue Vinyl in plain gold vintage 78 RPM sleeve
>Includes digital download with bonus tracks!

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ARTIST: Heller’s Hot Five
Title: “I Hate You” 78 RPM
Label: Dionysus Records
Catalogue Number: D7801
Format 10” 78 RPM
Genre : Rhythm and Blues – Acoustic
SRLP: $16.95
UPC: None
Track List:
“Our Old Street”
“I Hate You”
“Sweet Sue, Just You”
Bonus digital track
“Have Love, Will Travel”
Distributed by ILD

March 24, 2016by Dionysus Records
Skip Heller, Vinyl Records

78 RPM Cutting Session Part 2: Eccentric Shut Off Groove

Here’s the process of putting the final touch on a 78 RPM record; adding an eccentric run-out groove just to make this all-analog mastering that much more authentic! Skip Heller’s Hot Five Dionysus Records D7801 A/B

May 1, 2014by Dionysus Records
Skip Heller, Vinyl Records

Watch a 78 RPM Record Cutting Session Part 1

Cutting the B side of a 78 RPM release for Dionysus Records; Skip Heller’s Hot Five (Cat # D7801 A/B) “I Hate You” (written by Skip Heller) and “Sweet Sue” (Will Harris, Victor Young) at HRS Studios 4/17/2014 with cutting engineer Len Horowitz. The source is an all acoustic group recorded live to full track mono 15″ IPS tape on all analog, all tube gear at Wallyphonic Studio. The lathe is a 1940s Scully – no computer – with Westrex cutting head. This record is truly a hand made piece of art. The record will be out by Fall 2014.

May 1, 2014by Dionysus Records
Dick and Jane, Joshua Tree, Skip Heller

3/15: Skip Heller + Dick and Jane Family Orchestra Joshua Tree!

On Saturday, 3/15 at 9 PM, The Dick and Jane Family Orchestra with special guest Billy Shire on harp and The Skip Heller Trio will fill the desert night with song! No cover charge but donations will be accepted for the performers gas tanks and there will be snacks and refreshments available from the Joshua Tree Listening Lounge – 61597 Twenty-Nine Palms Hwy, Joshua Tree, California 92252 (760) 475-4860

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March 14, 2014by Dionysus Records
DJ Lee, Fundraiser, LuxuriaMusic.com, Skip Heller

2/20: OUSD w/ Skip Heller LuxuriaMusic Listener Sponsorship Drive!

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Tune in to LuxuriaMusic.com on Feb 20 from 3-5 PM Pacific for Over Under Sideways Down during the first week of the LuxuriaMusic Listener Sponsorship Drive. Guest Skip Heller will perform a few songs (all acoustic) LIVE with his quartet, featuring OUSD host Lee Joseph on bass! Sponsor LuxuriaMusic for special premiums including lots of items donated by Dionysus Mail Order and for this show some signed Skip Heller CDs! Join us in the chatroom too!

 

February 18, 2013by Dionysus Records
Dionysus bands, Dionysus Records, exotica, Lounge Music, Over Under Sideways Down, Skip Heller, Uncategorized

Over Under Sideways Down LuxuriaMusic.com – Robert Drasnin

On July 4, exotica and TV/film music legend Robert Drasnin appeared on Over Under Sideways Down episode III on LuxuriaMusic.com  for an in-depth interview about his incredible musical history. Robert brought in numerous samples of music he played on, composed and arranged and told some great stories including one about The Grateful Dead’s involvement in the re-vamped Twilight Zone series.

Here is a link for the show podcast – listen online or download!

Robert Drasnin and Lee Joseph at LuxuriaMusic.com, July 2, 2012

July 5, 2012by Dionysus Records
Echo Park, Events, Los Angeles area events, Silver Lake, Skip Heller

5/5: Cinco de Mayo w/ the Skip Heller Trio and Madame Pamita at Taix

This Thursday – Cinco de May – appearing live at TAIX restaurant, the Skip Heller Trio and Madame Pamita – FREE show – starts at 9:30 PM!

Taix French Country Cuisine
1911 West Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90026
(213) 484-1265
www.taixfrench.com

May 3, 2011by Dionysus Records
Burbank, Country Music, Dionysus bands, Events, Free Event, Garage Music, Los Angeles area events, News, Rockabilly, Skip Heller, Stuff We Like

3/20: After the Eastside show come Messaround in Burbank!

Jonny Whiteside Presents The Messaround’s Lucky 13 Edition with wah-wah overlord Del Casher, punk legend Dave Drive & The Zoomies, roots alchemists The Skip Heller Trio, destructo-rock sensations The Ingrates! Dick Deluxe fronts the houseband! All Ages! No Cover! No Prisoners!

Jonny Whiteside’s Messaround at Viva Cantina
Sun., March 20, 5-9 p.m.

900 West Riverside Drive,
Burbank, CA 91506
all ages; no cover.
FREE PARKING across the street at Pickwick Bowl (same owners)
www.vivacantina.com

Strap on Yer Dribble Cups To Suck Up This Highly Spiced Burgoo of Outright Slash & Burn Chaos Versus Cool, Controlled Old School Perfection

Messaround Witch Doctor Jonny Whiteside ecstatically yields to popular demand and welcomes back the incomparable guitar stylist Del Casher. The first visionary to adapt the wah-wah peddle unto a guitar (and the first to record with it), Casher is intimately conversant with the full spectrum of American music, from pure communicative jazz to frosty cocktail blues to rabble-rousing rockabilly. This is the cat who truly did the 1960’s Hollywood music business “A-Z”–as lead guitarist for Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch by day and as hired hand for Frank Zappa at the Whisky by night; an in-demand session player, who has cut with everyone from Frank Sinatra to supplying the twang for TV’s Bonanza theme and backing up Elvis Presley onscreen in Roustabout, Casher’s dazzling, wah-wah laced mastery is nothing less than mesmerizing.

The Thrill-O-Meter is sure to bust with Big Beat Mayhem Supergroup The Zoomies. Fronted by punk rock icon Dave Drive (Gears, D.I.’s) on guitar and vocals (!!!) with the equally esteemed veterano Dig Pig on guitar, plus Marty Perez, Ralph Lopez and (maybe even) Mike Manifold–the Zoomies will throw down thunderous, sublime trash rock for what is certain to be an auspicious Messaround debut, and we’re proud as hell to be hosting these gnarsome artistes.

Get-around singer-musician Skip Heller, the formidable, Les Baxter-mentored stylist who has collaborated with the likes of Sun Goddess Yma Sumac and Pachuco Boogie Godfather Lalo Guerrero, brings his crack trio, eccentric repertoire, decades of far-ranging experience and rare insider insight. The prolific and passionate Heller ranks as one of the West Coast’s most discriminating and broad minded talents, a man whose innate hep quotient and well-chilled instincts guarantees a performance loaded with sizzle and sensitivity.

Making another wild-hair Messaround debut tonight is the Ingrates, who’ll fire a high-calibre barrage of Iggy-Motorhead-Ramones bunker-busters directly into your soul. Fronted by untamed rock doll Paige Darling (whose 20th century incarnation the Darlings were good enough to make the Bomp Records roster) and featuring tenured Hollywood hellraisers Chris “Poobah” Bailey, Tommy Wright (late of 80’s-era Raji’s miscreants the Little Kings), along with Chris Schwartz and Jill Guido, this frantic combo is certain to live up to their name via a distinctive wall-to-wall-FTW-with-a-backbeat disregard for every known form of societal normalcy.

With an opening benediction from our brand spankin’ new houseband frontman Dick Deluxe and beloved ‘Mess stalwarts Paul Marshall and David Raven–the righteous rockers upon which we build this tabernacle–plus the inevitable surprise guest performers and the singular culture of lurid flat-git-it balling which the Messaround has created, it’s yet another blow-top schizo-phonic session of the highest order.

March 18, 2011by Dionysus Records
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