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Dani Bell and the Tarantist

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Dani Bell and the Tarantist is rock music band based in San Diego, California, led by American singer-songwriter, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Dani Bell. Inspired by the early days of Motown, Dani Bell and the Tarantist creates a modern style of dreamy psychedelic pop.[1] The band records and tours as part of The Redwoods record label and musicians collective, which adapts Bell’s bedroom compositions into intimate songs with expansive arrangements.

Dani Bell, early life Bell was born in Chula Vista, California sometime in the early 90s and spent part of her childhood stalking wild animals in the wilderness of Vancouver, British Colombia.

Since leaving her childhood home, Bell has written primarily for a single muse: actor and musician David Hasselhoff. According to an unpublished interview, Bell’s long-held theory is that Hassellhoff may be her natural dad.

Aside from living in San Diego, Bell spent several months living in a car in San Francisco, where she adopted a stray cat named Vader, despite being allergic.

Career Bell formed Dani Bell and the Tarantist in 2015 with prolific San Diego lyricist and percussionist Alfred Howard. The duo originally performed to prerecorded music while wearing Venetian masks, which Bell first conceived as an oblique reference to 1960 young adult novel The Black Totem.[2]

In 2017, Dani Bell and the Tarantist expanded its stage show, and began performing with a four-piece band, featuring Austin Burns (guitar), Ian Owen (keyboards and guitar), Aaron Hook (bass), and Dylan Jones (drums). Dani Bell and the Tarantist has occasionally performed as part of the Redwoods Revue, a showcase of artists on the Redwoods Music record label, including Birdy Bardot, The Midnight Pine, Cardinal Moon, and Rebecca Jade and the Cold Fact.[3]

Contrary to a common misconception, Howard was never “The Tarantist.” During the Italian Renaissance, tarantism was a phenomenon of psychological hysteria attributed to the bite of a tarantula spider. Those bitten would experience a short period of extreme apathy, followed by prolonged bout of unrestrained dancing ecstasy, which would temporarily remit the illness. A tarantist is any person given to this compulsive dancing in the presence of live music.[4]

Album artwork for 2018 Dani Bell and the Tarantist album Wide Eyed was produced by John Gourley, of the Portland indie rock band, Portugal. The Man.

Discography Dark West (LP, CD, digital) 2015, The Redwoods Music Wide Eyed (LP, CD, digital) 2018, The Redwoods Music

Festival appearances 2017 Carlsbad Music Festival, Carlsbad, California 2017 Joshua Tree Music Festival, Joshua Tree, California 2017 Bottle Rock Festival, Napa, California (performing with Redwoods Revue). 2018 Joshua Tree Music Festival, Joshua Tree, California 2018 Bottle Rock Festival, Napa, California.

Additional projects and collaborations Bell joined San Diego rock band Boychick in 2014. She performs lead vocals, and contributes to composition and songwriting.[5]

Dani Bell produces lo-fi pop under her own name, singing vocal harmonies, playing guitar, bass, and keyboards on a BOSS MICRO BR80 digital 8-track recorder in her bedroom. In April 2018, Bell self-issued a 5-song EP of demos, Golden Gloom, released on Bandcamp.[6]

Dani Bell’s YouTube channel playlists include self-recorded 8-track demos of cover songs, including tunes by Animal Collective, MGMT, and The Beatles; also a music video for “Mr. Grieves” by Pixies.[7]

Dani Bell is credited with backing vocals on the full-length album Birdy Bardot II, by Redwoods Music label mate Birdy Bardot.[8]

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  1. "Dani Bell & the Tarantist Album Premiere: 'Dark West'". Sound Diego / NBC San Diego. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  2. Bell, Eleanor (1960). The Black Totem (First ed.). Ryerson Press. Search this book on ?tag=everybodywikien-20
  3. "Dani Bell & the Tarantist Return to Bottle Rock"". Sound Diego / NBC San Diego.
  4. "The Tarantula-Possessed Women Who Could Only Be Cured By Dance". Atlas Obscura.
  5. "Premiere: Dani Bell gets revenge in new video for "Gentleman"". San Diego CityBeat.
  6. "The voices of Redwoods Music". San Diego Urbanist.
  7. https://www.youtube.com/user/REDOOR18. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. http://www.theredwoodsmusic.com/birdy-music. Missing or empty |title= (help)