moraine
Moraine is an electrifying instrumental band that’s gained an international audience with its unique blend of art rock, forward-thinking jazz, Asian-inspired music, and more.
Balancing inventive composition with exploratory improvisation, the Seattle-based sextet has performed in major U.S. cities on both coasts and in Mexico and Siberia, including Tuva. Moraine's three releases on MoonJune Records (two co-produced by Pacific Northwest sonic mage Steve Fisk) have garnered hundreds of enthusiastic reviews worldwide. The band has been honored to open for Soft Machine and other legendary progressive artists and has collaborated with such globally significant musicians as trombone virtuoso Stuart Dempster, Mexican avant-folk phenomenon Cabezas de Cera, traditional Korean master musician Young Sub Lee, protean Russian bassist Wadim Dicke, Swiss vocal duo Eclecta Forever, ECM artists Lionel Friedli and Nicolas Stocker, and composer Tim Root.
Dennis Rea (guitar) • Alicia DeJoie (violin) • James DeJoie (woodwinds) • Ruth Davidson (cello) • Dave Pascal (bass) • Brian Oppel (drums)
Management: MoonJune Music International
THE BAND
band photos by Danette Davis; Dave Pascal by MLNadenPhotography
DENNIS REA
Dennis Rea's distinctive guitar playing and composing blends rock, jazz, experimental, and world music in a personal vocabulary marked by lyricism, agile improvisation, enigmatic textures, and the raw dynamism of rock.
Active since the mid-1970s, hehas led or contributed to dozens of adventurous groups and projects including Moraine and Reaven Trio. Over the years he's partnered with sonic trailblazers Hector Zazou, Stuart Dempster, Cui Jian, Albert Kuvezin, Klaus Schulze, Steve Fisk, Jeff Greinke, Nik Turner and Michael Moorcock (Hawkwind), Han Bennink, and members of King Crimson, R.E.M., Soundgarden, Ministry, Santana, the Sun Ra Arkestra, and Heilung. He has performed widely in the U.S., China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Russia, Germany, the UK, Mexico, and Bosnia and has appeared on over 60 releases to date.
ALICIA DEJOIE
Born in Nashville, East Coast native Alicia DeJoie moved to Seattle in 1994 and soon began playing electric guitar and violin in local bands Big Sister and X-tra Virgin. She has recorded and toured the country with Jeremy Enigk, performing works from his solo album, Return of the Frog Queen.
In addition to Moraine, she often plays violin with singer-songwriter Eric Apoe, and is a member of the Mahavishnu Orchestra tribute band Being John McLaughlin. In 2013, Alicia had the honor of participating with Seattle’s legendary trombonist Stuart Dempster in a performance for Doug Aitken's art exhibition opening, MIRROR, at the Seattle Art Museum, which included an outdoor performance of Steve Reich’s “Clapping Music,” as well as performing in Terry Riley’s minimalist piece “In C.” In 2015, Alicia performed at Seattle’s esteemed Seaprog festival with Nik Turner, original saxophonist and vocalist of British space-rock band Hawkwind.