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Deantoni Parks is a Actor, Original Music Composer and Compositors American born on 2 november 1977 at Newnan (USA)
Deantoni Parks (born novembre 2, 1977) is an American new wave/avant-garde/experimental drummer, songwriter, film director, actor and record producer. He is the founder, producer and drummer of the New York band KUDU, and one-half of the writing duo Dark Angels with producer and keyboardist Nick Kasper, also a member of KUDU. He was a member of progressive rock band The Mars Volta, and is currently a member (together with Kasper) of the alternative rock band Bosnian Rainbows.
Based in Brooklyn, New York City, he is a vested partner in a developing audio/visual communications agency. In between writing and performances he has been participating as part-time faculty at Stanford Jazz Workshop, Berklee College of Music and NYC’s Drummers Collective.
He later explored jazz as a teen with Delbert Felix and chose to enroll at Berklee College of Music, where study with Lenny Nelson and exposure to Photek, Squarepusher, and Hidden Agenda turned his focus to the mechanistic beats of electronic music.
KUDU
In 1998 while living in Boston Deantoni drafted the Now Wave Manifesto. It was these beliefs that provided the foundation for the core song structures that ultimately led to the recording of the KUDU demo. He founded KUDU with his then girlfriend Sylvia Gordon, Nick Kasper.
KUDU was performing Photek, Roni Size and Cujo covers at venues (name specific venues or shows with select acts) around Boston. Due to Deantoni’s ability to play these hyper/punk/virtuosic rhythms live, KUDU inspired and influenced many American drummers and live drum and bass acts from 2000 forward. Bill Laswell, Vernon Reid (Living Colour) and Jojo Mayer, were all seen at early KUDU shows after the band relocated to New York City in 2000.
Kudu released their self-titled debut on Velour Recordings, a New York-based label, in 2001. The band eventually agreed to terms with Nublu Records and in 2006 the label released their Death of the Party album. NuBlu also released Back for More: A Remix Collection. The album featured a cherry-picked selection of unreleased tracks, B-sides, rare recordings and remixes by Armand Van Helden, Tommie Sunshine, Sinden, Drop the Lime, King Britt, Curtis Vodka, Hess Is More, LingLing and others.
Between summer 2006 and the fall of 2007 they performed at the Roskilde Festival held south of Roskilde in Denmark, Delta Tejo Festival in Portugal and Transmusicales held annually in Rennes, Brittany, France.
Their last public performance was opening for Me'shell Ndegeocello at the Highline Ballroom in the fall of 2009.
Despite KUDU’s early success the group has not released an album since 2008’s Back for More. Nick Kasper, Sylvia Gordon and Deantoni have all continued to write and produce tracks for other artists including John Cale and Me'shell Ndegeocello. In early 2009 Deantoni and Nick Kasper began collaborating as the writing duo, Dark Angels. They are currently shopping their debut record for a publishing deal.
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group/The Mars Volta/Bosnian Rainbows
Parks briefly joined The Mars Volta in September 2006, following the departure of Blake Fleming. Touring with the band for two months, Parks was subsequently replaced by Thomas Pridgen. Regarding his exit from the band, Parks stated, "I was already working heavily with John Cale at the time, and also KUDU. And, to be honest, at the time, I was just more loyal to them, obviously. And, you know, [The Mars Volta] were looking for drummers too. I was just there to fill-in, or whatever. I mean I clicked really, really well with Omar and I always remember that so I never blocked out the idea of working with them again. It was just that time, it was a weird time for me to join then so that’s why it didn’t happen."
Deantoni joined the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group on their autumn 2010 tour across Japan, the US and Russia. He has also recorded on a handful of Omar's albums since 2008's release Old Money, his contribution recorded when Deantoni first joined The Mars Volta in 2006. He rejoined The Mars Volta in late 2010 and stayed until their dissolution after 2012's Noctourniquet.
Together with Rodriguez-Lopez, singer Teri Gender Bender of Le Butcherettes and his KUDU/Dark Angels bandmate Kasper, Parks formed a new band called Bosnian Rainbows in 2012. Their first full-length, self-titled album was released on June 25, 2013.
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Based in Brooklyn, New York City, he is a vested partner in a developing audio/visual communications agency. In between writing and performances he has been participating as part-time faculty at Stanford Jazz Workshop, Berklee College of Music and NYC’s Drummers Collective.
Biography
Deantoni was born and raised in Newnan, Georgia. His family’s musical preferences leaned towards funk, Southern soul and gospel and with their full support he began playing drums when he was two years old. He was put in the national spotlight before the age of five as a result of his practice and performance with the Newnan High School band. Xernona Clayton from The Xernona Clayton Show broadcast on WAGA-TV in Atlanta interviewed him for a national broadcast segment that aired in 1982.He later explored jazz as a teen with Delbert Felix and chose to enroll at Berklee College of Music, where study with Lenny Nelson and exposure to Photek, Squarepusher, and Hidden Agenda turned his focus to the mechanistic beats of electronic music.
KUDU
In 1998 while living in Boston Deantoni drafted the Now Wave Manifesto. It was these beliefs that provided the foundation for the core song structures that ultimately led to the recording of the KUDU demo. He founded KUDU with his then girlfriend Sylvia Gordon, Nick Kasper.
KUDU was performing Photek, Roni Size and Cujo covers at venues (name specific venues or shows with select acts) around Boston. Due to Deantoni’s ability to play these hyper/punk/virtuosic rhythms live, KUDU inspired and influenced many American drummers and live drum and bass acts from 2000 forward. Bill Laswell, Vernon Reid (Living Colour) and Jojo Mayer, were all seen at early KUDU shows after the band relocated to New York City in 2000.
Kudu released their self-titled debut on Velour Recordings, a New York-based label, in 2001. The band eventually agreed to terms with Nublu Records and in 2006 the label released their Death of the Party album. NuBlu also released Back for More: A Remix Collection. The album featured a cherry-picked selection of unreleased tracks, B-sides, rare recordings and remixes by Armand Van Helden, Tommie Sunshine, Sinden, Drop the Lime, King Britt, Curtis Vodka, Hess Is More, LingLing and others.
Between summer 2006 and the fall of 2007 they performed at the Roskilde Festival held south of Roskilde in Denmark, Delta Tejo Festival in Portugal and Transmusicales held annually in Rennes, Brittany, France.
Their last public performance was opening for Me'shell Ndegeocello at the Highline Ballroom in the fall of 2009.
Despite KUDU’s early success the group has not released an album since 2008’s Back for More. Nick Kasper, Sylvia Gordon and Deantoni have all continued to write and produce tracks for other artists including John Cale and Me'shell Ndegeocello. In early 2009 Deantoni and Nick Kasper began collaborating as the writing duo, Dark Angels. They are currently shopping their debut record for a publishing deal.
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group/The Mars Volta/Bosnian Rainbows
Parks briefly joined The Mars Volta in September 2006, following the departure of Blake Fleming. Touring with the band for two months, Parks was subsequently replaced by Thomas Pridgen. Regarding his exit from the band, Parks stated, "I was already working heavily with John Cale at the time, and also KUDU. And, to be honest, at the time, I was just more loyal to them, obviously. And, you know, [The Mars Volta] were looking for drummers too. I was just there to fill-in, or whatever. I mean I clicked really, really well with Omar and I always remember that so I never blocked out the idea of working with them again. It was just that time, it was a weird time for me to join then so that’s why it didn’t happen."
Deantoni joined the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group on their autumn 2010 tour across Japan, the US and Russia. He has also recorded on a handful of Omar's albums since 2008's release Old Money, his contribution recorded when Deantoni first joined The Mars Volta in 2006. He rejoined The Mars Volta in late 2010 and stayed until their dissolution after 2012's Noctourniquet.
Together with Rodriguez-Lopez, singer Teri Gender Bender of Le Butcherettes and his KUDU/Dark Angels bandmate Kasper, Parks formed a new band called Bosnian Rainbows in 2012. Their first full-length, self-titled album was released on June 25, 2013.
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Sympathy for Delicious (2011)
, 1h36Directed by Mark Ruffalo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about disabilities
Actors Juliette Lewis, Laura Linney, Orlando Bloom, Mark Ruffalo, Noah Emmerich, John Carroll Lynch
Roles Chuck
Rating56%
A newly paralyzed DJ (Thornton) gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing.
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Dog Eat Dog (2016)
, 1h39Directed by Paul Schrader
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe, Omar Dorsey, Louisa Krause, Paul Schrader, Nicky Whelan
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating48%
Trois ex-détenus fauchés se voient offrir un job par un chef mafieu mexicain. Bien qu'ils sachent qu’ils devraient mieux décliner la proposition, ils cèdent à l’appât du gain. Ils doivent kidnapper l’enfant de l'homme voulant mettre le chef de la mafia sur la touche. Mais cela tourne mal lorsque qu'ils tuent quelqu'un. Ils deviennent alors les fugitifs les plus recherchés. Ils sont par ailleurs déterminés à ne jamais retourner en prison...
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Dog Eat Dog (2016)
, 1h39Directed by Paul Schrader
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe, Omar Dorsey, Louisa Krause, Paul Schrader, Nicky Whelan
Roles Compositors
Rating48%
Trois ex-détenus fauchés se voient offrir un job par un chef mafieu mexicain. Bien qu'ils sachent qu’ils devraient mieux décliner la proposition, ils cèdent à l’appât du gain. Ils doivent kidnapper l’enfant de l'homme voulant mettre le chef de la mafia sur la touche. Mais cela tourne mal lorsque qu'ils tuent quelqu'un. Ils deviennent alors les fugitifs les plus recherchés. Ils sont par ailleurs déterminés à ne jamais retourner en prison...
Sympathy for Delicious (2011)
, 1h36Directed by Mark Ruffalo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about disabilities
Actors Juliette Lewis, Laura Linney, Orlando Bloom, Mark Ruffalo, Noah Emmerich, John Carroll Lynch
Roles Additional Music
Rating56%
A newly paralyzed DJ (Thornton) gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing.