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	Here's a new release from dadala featuring Billy Shaw on alto sax! Now available through CDBaby.com! "Avant-garde free jazz meets experimental electronica and digital manipulation in this unique and mind-bending kaleidoscopic sax-centered collection of unconventional instrumentals that pay no mind to the boundaries of genre." - RDunlap In 1992 when Death Jazz pioneer Billy Shaw was recording his solo project "Summertime Buzz", and RDunlap was recycling some of his earlier recordings in the epic tape collage "Shoveling Dogs Blowing Up the Bed", neither weirdo had any clue that 13 years later their eccentric paths would cross in the cyber realm and their very different projects would be intermingled. Billy Shaw (whose album credits include the avant-garde solo album !Sassy! and 2 albums with the death jazz trio Shovin Sunshine) recorded a number of improvised tracks for his unreleased Summertime Buzz project featuring his distinctive style and tone on sax, nicely mutated with effects and accompanied by digital percussion. In 2005, after becoming acquainted with RDunlap online and collaborating on one of RDs projects, Shaw made these recordings available to Dunlap for use in his visionary and unconventional collage/remix project dadala.
	Billy Shaw's anticipated re-issue of his 1993 avant garde release !Sassy! is now available through CDBaby.com! Full length samples are available now, right here on this web page! May 26, 2005 - Washington Post local music website editor lists !Sassy! as Editor's Pick! Click here to see a permanent copy of the page frozen in time forever.

The Music - What it's all about.
Click on the horn at the left to hear !Sassy!
(Title track - radio version 5 minutes; album version runs 12 minutes.)

From the !Sassy! CD reissue, available through CDBaby.com!
To hear more tracks from !Sassy! click on Billy's picture below!

From the avant garde of free jazz to the evolution of Death Jazz, this is the home of the Noise of Billy Shaw. You've just come to a website spanning two decades of recorded noise! Not just any noise; we have all kindza noise here! Our noise runs a wide spectrum, and it's all here for you to enjoy and download.

Our newest project is the !Sassy! re-issue available now!. Click the pic to read about Things Modern. Like it or hate it (or somewhere in between), you'll join a growing crowd of listeners who can all agree on one thing:

Billy Shaw does make alot of noise.

Shovin' Sunshine was born "the day that avant garde became Death Jazz." This art trio featured Wade Summerlin on bass, Jeremy Slotin on drums, and Billy Shaw on tenor sax. There are currently two official websites for this band, one here and one hosted by Atlanta's Genterine Records. Shovin' Sunshine has two releases currently available, with a third release, Live At the Liquid Bean presently in post-production.

Just click on the photo on the right to get to Billy's Shovin' Sunshine page. Links on that page will take you to Genterine Records.

Click here to visit Genterine Records's official Shovin' Sunshine site.

The underground novel The Resurrected is still available, and as always, free of charge. It's been a big hit for five years now, and people are still reading it! It's available in eBook format as well. It harkens back to the days in Summit County Colorado where Billy was a ski and snowboard instructor at Arapahoe Basin. Penned in the Spring and Summer of '99, this odd romance novel is a fun and easy read.

Reissue Now Available!
Available through Genterine Records.

Fire-A-GoGo was the "influential" release that defined Shovin' Sunshine and its genre. This deceptively simple production is fun and approachable, even ten years later.

Reissue Now Available!
Available through Genterine Records.

Death Jazz was the first release; edgier and somewhat more experimental than its followup Fire-A-GoGo, it gave the band a good nom de genre and garnered some interest, just because it was Death Jazz.

Reissue Now Available!
Available through CDBaby.com!

!Sassy! was Billy Shaw's first avant garde release (1993) reissued in 2005 with additional material from 1996. The new material contains Billy on tenor, soprano, and clarinet in addition to the alto sax performances on the original. If you're into Shovin' Sunshine then you'll want this one, too.

Hear tracks from !Sassy!

Jazz Review gave Billy a real nice spread when !Sassy! came out. Click on their logo to see the piece.

eJazz News was one of the first jazz publications to embrace the rebirth of this kind of music (and us). We support them, and they support us!

For some of the most interesting and contemporary progressive music available, be sure to check out Genterine Records, the official label for Shovin' Sunshine and Cobweb Strange.

Visit the Billy Shaw Washington Post local music scene webpage. !Sassy! was the Editor's Pick for a time in May. This is also a fun place to check out DC (and surrounding area) - based musicians!

Hey here's the rest of Shovin Sunshine today! Check them out at their new website!

Comments? I'd love to hear from you!
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