Dalius Naujo

Dalius Naujokaitis began his musical career in the late eighties and was an avant-garde feature of the Vilnius jazz scene performing with Juozas Milašius, Vladimir Chekasin, Petras Vyšniauskas, Skirmantas Sasnauskas and others. He moved to New York in 1995 and made an impressive entry to the NYC scene with a series of original solo performances at Jonas Mekas’ Anthology Film Archives. Shortly he found Free Music on Second Street group, and partaking in the Now We Are Here Orchestra’ projects with Jonas Mekas (vocal). At the same time Dalius collaborated with famous master of avant-garde film Ken Jacobs in “Lumiere/Naujokaitis/Jacobs: Nervous System Concerts, also with modern dance group “Limbic Six” and Tiny Mythic Theatre. His music and drumming is featured in films by Jonas Mekas “Happy Birthday To John Lennon,” “On My Way To Fujijama I Saw,” “This Side of Paradise” and in film by Moira Tierney “Circus.” He has played and recorded with a variety of New York bands such as Kenny Wolleson’s Himalayas and Wollesonics, Art Baron, Butch Morris, Joey Barron, Briggan Krauss, Jeff Ballard, Brazilian Girls, Tim Keiper, Jonathon Haffner, Otomo Yoshihide, Rocco John Group, and On Davis’ Cartoon Satellite. Dalius leads and drums for New York based avant-garde music group Untyte, which performs ancient Lithuanian folk tunes with a downtown NY edge.

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