Biography
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Subversive electronic music duo Drunk With Joy has just finished their 2009 Autumn tour with Joy Collective – a live collaboration with seven visual artists, five dance artists/choreographers and three filmmakers/digital media artists, for which they were awarded a grant by Arts Council England. Top of the priority list for 2010 however, is to record and release a long awaited second Drunk With Joy album. Artists Mila Oshin and Kris Jager formed Drunk With Joy after being introduced by producer David Kosten (Bat For Lashes, Faultline) in his London studio. Philosophy student Oshin had been involved in several ensembles as a singer, songwriter and lyricist, composed music for contemporary dance and live art productions, worked as a clown/mime artist and performance poet and set-up a number of successful art, music and poetry projects in London. PhD student Jager was involved in numerous performance art, music and sound projects as a songwriter, musician, programmer and DJ, including an experimental electronic ensemble and the legendary Halloween Society film club at the ICA. Soon after forming Drunk With Joy - initially intended to be a writing and recording project only - Oshin and Jager set up A Maze Records and self-released debut single I Say Goodbye. Promoted solely on the internet, I Say Goodbye was picked up by independent radio stations in the UK, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Russia, Japan, Canada and the USA's student broadcast network. Debut album ‘Sound Living’ followed suit, with its first edition - of which only 2000 copies were pressed - becoming a collector’s item on the internet within months of its release. To date the album has sold in fourteen countries over five continents. After releasing another single, and receiving an increasing number of live requests and invitations, Oshin and Jager felt it was time to move Drunk With Joy to another level. By then they had relocated to Exeter and had become heavily involved in the South West’s independent art scene. They founded Joy Collective in 2008 and started working on what was to become a massively successful multi-artform collaboration, with at the heart of it a spectacular live showcase featuring contemporary dance, digital media, film and visual art on Drunk With Joy’s very own brooding live soundtrack. |
