BABY DEE - "SAFE INSIDE THE DAY" [CD - Drag City] I was born in Cleveland Ohio. This album is very much about the street I grew up on. Where The Earlie King ruled without mercy. And Bobby Slot and Freddy Weiss invented the Dance of Diminishing Possibilities. I left for New York in 1972 and eventually became a musician. I was good at the sacred and I was good at the profane but I could never get the hang of anything in between and I went from the street to the church to the street again and then I stopped. I found myself back in Cleveland and began to write songs. And then I stopped writing songs. I thought I had said everything I had to say and there was nothing left to say so I simply stopped. And then I remembered Bobby Slot and Freddy Weiss and my own father and all the little ghosts that lived with us and I realized that there was something left to say after all. The inside is bigger than the outside, more important, and less destructible. "Many mansions" and all that. Kingdom of god. I love everybody. Dee >> READ ON		BABY DEE Baby Dee is also a member of the Current 93 live band and she has ongoing collaborations with the experimental band Larsen as well as Marc Almond. Dee met Antony of "Antony and the Johnsons" and did shows and recorded the harp parts on that wonderful first album --Baby Dee will performing at David Tibet's special long-day event, Sunday, April 20th, alongside Current 93, OM & Ęthenor amongst others. Words | Dee Baby Dee was born in Cleveland Ohio. Her father was a fire chief. She started out as a bear in Central Park playing the harp. At that time she did not know how to play a harp but people tend to be less critical of bears than they are of other people so the bear did OK. The bear went to Paris because that is what a young american bear must do if she wants to become a princess and be cultured and have strange and exotic men and women lavish money and affection on her. There she met the wonderful people who called themselves "The Shanghai Bureau" and played the harp with them in very beautiful places. She came back to New York [The bear stayed in Paris -- proof positive that bears are smarter than people] and began the dark descent into the ignominious and shameful world of serious music. Having recovered her senses some fifteen years later she became an accordion playing cat [some would say a very sexy accordion playing cat] and commissioned a very talented man named George Bliss to create for her a high rise tricycle so she could ride in style with her concert harp and rule the streets of lower Manhattan. [No humble bear ever had it so good]. She worked at the Coney Island Sideshow and toured with the Bindlestif Circus. She met Antony of "Antony and the Johnsons" and did shows and recorded the harp parts on that wonderful first album. Then she went back to Europe and traveled to Scotland where she met John Kamikaze -- The Prince of Pain and benevolent despot of The Kamikaze Freak Show. Then something mysterious happened and she left everything [lots of very heavy and expensive things] in Ghent and came back to Cleveland Ohio where she became a tree climber. While in Cleveland she wrote songs and recorded two albums "Little Window" and "Loves Small Song." David Tibet befriended her and released them on his Durtro label. Her latest full-length studio work "A Book of Songs for Anne Marie" has been presented not as an album but as a book which comes with a CD. Also available an official live album on PREcordings of her piano and vocals performance recorded in Torino, Italy on november 2004. Baby Dee is also a member of the Current 93 live band and she has ongoing collaborations with the experimental band Larsen as well as Marc Almond. Her latest album, Safe Inside the Day, released January 22, 2008 on Drag City was produced by Matt Sweeney and Will Oldham. and features Andrew WK, William Breeze, John Contreras, Maxim Moston, Robbie Lee & James Lo. BABY DEE - BRAINWASHED.COM: THE EYE BACK TO TOP