  DinowalrusDinowalrus is a three-person drum n' drone band out of Brooklyn, NY. Its current live incarnation began 2006, when Pete and Kyle met while simultaneously attempting to stalk Andrew WK at a To Live and Shave in LA show. As an experimental noise/glam recording project, it goes back to 2003. Josh fell off the boat from Belgium and onto the drum throne in late 2007
In an attempt to capture some of the spontaneity of their improvisational instincts, retain the complex spatiality of their recorded experiments, and transcend the limited sonic palette that plagues most three-piece bands, Dinowalrus re-invents their instrumentation with every song. Some tunes feature dueling Lee n' Thurston guitar interplay between Pete and Kyle, some feature Kyle frantically playing the bass, sampler and synthesizer simultaneously, and others revolve around Josh drumming toe-to-toe with a booty-licious electronic beat. The band relies heavily on the use of self-sustaining electronic devices to push its sound into cosmic brain-melting freakouts, lush atmospheric haze, and/or juvenile twee-skronk. These devices include an optical theremin, a sampler, and a 1983 Roland analogue synth named Marc Bolan.
Their recordings are didactic experiments in infinite reverb, uber- and anti- "dance-ability", delay-treated xylophones, dime-store voice changers, deep-fried drum machines, pop-neo-orientalism, layered fuzz, and layered haircuts.
In 2008, Dinowalrus tirelessly played nearly fifty shows around New York City at venues ranging from well-loved underground art lofts such as Death By Audio and Silent Barn to esteemed clubs including the Knitting Factory, Cake Shop and the Music Hall of Williamsburg. They have shared the stage with notable noise-punk luminaries including Health, Titus Andronicus, These Are Powers, The Mae Shi, and Parts & Labor. They also had a chance to play the Halleluwah Festival at the Knitting Factory with their late-60s dance-drone idols, The Silver Apples.
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