Also from Portland, Deelay Ceelay is a collaboration between video artist/musician Chris Lael Larson and percussionist Delaney Kelly, fusing live instrumentation with synched projected visuals. Deelay Ceelay blur the divide between music, experimental film and performance while emphasizing the creation of a two-way exchange with audiences. The duo have performed/screened in over 30 cities across the U.S., With work appearing at the Berkeley Museum of Art, The Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, the Experimental Media and Movement Arts Lab, The Portland Art Museum, The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art and The Northwest Film Center. Deelay Ceelay live in Portland, Oregon.
OTHER PEOPLE’S WORDS
Less performers than components in a multi-platform presentation, the music of Deelay Ceelay is a natural extension of the instrumental gauntlet previously thrown down by early recordings from Hella and Ratatat; a free-form exploration of sounds not hindered by vocal direction or the traditional build and break of most post-rock acts. Equal parts film and music, their live show is a wondrous, percussion-heavy visual assault of dual live drummers, copious samples, and an over-stimulating series of flashing video projections that blanket the band while they perform.
— The Portland Mercury
Two additional great drummers, Delaney Kelly and Chris Larson, drove the Deelay Ceelay experience, manning their kits more than ably while backing tracks sent out ringing guitars, shiny synths and assorted cacophony, a set up compared more than once to something akin to “Ratatat in reverse.” The music of the evening’s set grooved, locked and shook, rinsed washed and repeated, closing with a one-two punch of covers which included a reverent remix of the Beach Boys’ “Sloop John B.” On this night, though, nobody really wanted to go home.
— The Willamette Week
Download their album, "Thank You", here for free!
OTHER PEOPLE’S WORDS
Less performers than components in a multi-platform presentation, the music of Deelay Ceelay is a natural extension of the instrumental gauntlet previously thrown down by early recordings from Hella and Ratatat; a free-form exploration of sounds not hindered by vocal direction or the traditional build and break of most post-rock acts. Equal parts film and music, their live show is a wondrous, percussion-heavy visual assault of dual live drummers, copious samples, and an over-stimulating series of flashing video projections that blanket the band while they perform.
— The Portland Mercury
Two additional great drummers, Delaney Kelly and Chris Larson, drove the Deelay Ceelay experience, manning their kits more than ably while backing tracks sent out ringing guitars, shiny synths and assorted cacophony, a set up compared more than once to something akin to “Ratatat in reverse.” The music of the evening’s set grooved, locked and shook, rinsed washed and repeated, closing with a one-two punch of covers which included a reverent remix of the Beach Boys’ “Sloop John B.” On this night, though, nobody really wanted to go home.
— The Willamette Week
Download their album, "Thank You", here for free!
