Hillulah could be considered Gang Gang Dance’s lost recordings. Between their debut recorded in 2001, the
Revival Of The Shittest 12” being assembled out of old practice tapes, and God’s Money being written &
recorded in the later half of 2004; there is a sizable gap of innovative music that has remained unheard by
anyone who missed them live.

The period of late 2003 through early 2004 was extremely fruitful for Gang Gang Dance. Every show was
different as the band constantly experimented and pushed the limitations of their equipment to create new
music. In the days approaching an event the band would disappear and practice non-stop, workshopping
material to create a unique live set for the performance. The results were at their most basic the epoch of
practiced improvisation and at their heights the music equivalent of spiritual Hillulah.

Originally cut together as a CDR in November of 2004 for a tour with Animal Collective, Hillulah was
compiled from live recordings of such performances. The material was sewn together by GGD drummer Tim
Dewitt over a marathon seventy-two hour session at Junkyard Audio Salvage; the fruit of this work comes
together in a way that defies the conventions of most ‘live’ albums. In the resulting forty minute montage
creates a listening experience very much akin to a GGD performance: an audible onslaught which grabs the
listener within the first few moments and removes them from the experiential world for the breadth of the set
returning them to the natural world in an altered state, exhausted and overwhelmed.

Gang Gang Dance

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ILLULAH

to be released august 9th

format: enhanced cdep || upc: 656605701820

audio track listing: 1. stanton street/knitting factory [10.24.03]

2. north sixth [05.01.04] 3. passeryby [01.06.2004-01.07.2004]

4. the cooler [09.11.03]

enhanced video trackling listing: 1. knitting factory [10.24.03]

2. the cooler [09.11.03]

publicity contacts:

rich zerbo at the social registry

[e-mail] | 718.349.6447

downloadable press kit at ww.thesocialregistry com

radio contact:

amanda colbenson at chouette radio promotion

[e-mail] | 718.349.6447

booking contact:

christian bernhartd at kork agency

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“gang gang dance are a bird as rare and special as a phoenix – they’re an

avant-garde band that isn’t boring, over-thought, or ugly. “ - vice magazine

“there are those who make “noise,” and then there are elegant, shadowy troupes cobbling ghost

languages and fractured dub into undulating biospheres” – pitchfork media

“ggd is a groove band dissolving in a hallucinatory haze.” -ny times