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New recordings
Half Ball Pit Half Blood Bath
Single, variations, & remixes to be released Spring 2024

Vocals, modular synth, guitar, taishogoto by DJF

Backing vocals by Cassandra Hayes

Written, performed, recorded, and mixed

by Fry at his home in Denver, CO.

Remixes by

ALX-106

Atonal Stimulant

Golden Death Honey Pony Boy

MNMDMDMN

Otem Rellik

Plack Blague

Live at the Mohawk in Austin
July 6 2024

Video: BLACK RAINBOW ft. Chris Conde

RETRELLION INSTRUMENTALS

INTERVIEWS

PRESS

Press photo for Devin James Fry album Retrellion. Photo credit: Cassandra Hayes

Out there with his weirdness in the best possible way."

Global Dance Electronic

Devin James Fry forest portrait

"A wandering soul unafraid of the dark."

KUTX 98.9 (Austin, Texas)

Press photo of Devin James Fry with a hearse

"Somewhere between a horror film and an Americana answer to a young Nick Cave."

Los Angeles Times, 2008

Press photo for Devin James Fry album Retrellion

"A musical shape-shifter ...
has moved from
a lighter sound
to something
more psychedelic,
something heavier." 

WBEZ Chicago

Press photo for Devin James Fry. Photo credit: Cassandra Hayes

Like Leonard Cohen on a DMT vision quest."

The Austin Chronicle

Press photo for Devin James Fry album Retrellion

"Delivers a bitches brew of sound ... Fry's deep tenor imbues lyrics with ominous flavors, giving an eerie, radioactive flow."

Tattoo.com

Still from video for Devin James Fry song Purple Glue

"Far from the typical artist ... really, really, taking it there with his creations.

Breaking And Entering

Press photo for Devin James Fry song Purple Glue

"Multi instrumentalist & musical shaman."

OVRLD

Retrellion released April 2023

Retrellion is a departure from Devin James Fry's previous sound, which typically featured him fingerpicking a guitar, either alone or in the context of Name Sayers, the adventurous rock band he fronts from time to time.  The new solo album, which was written, performed, produced, recorded, and mixed by Fry, features punchy, hip hop-influenced songs, otherworldly synths, and glitchy electronics. 

 

Early reviews have noted the shift.  "Is this post-punk hip hop?  We hope so," wrote reviewer Layla Merino of yourEDM.com, noting that with Retrellion, "Fry might even be creating new genres."

Some songs, like lead single Black Rainbow, feature collaborations with rappers like Brooklyn's Chris Conde and Denver-based rapper and modular synth designer Otem Rellik, while others are solo explorations.  All were created on a modular synth bank bolstered by noisemakers like The Jitter Getter, an analog horror SFX generator Fry designed and built.

One song, Ash Ode Variation, is an adaptation of the poem "Ash Ode" by Fry's friend and hero, poet Dean Young.  Fry enlisted the help of another of his mentors, Chicago flutist Lloyd Brodnax King, to create the song and sent it to Young, who replied to say that he was looking forward to listening.  Unbeknownst to Fry, Young lay on his deathbed at the time, and the message of intent to listen was the last he ever heard from the poet.​ Retrellion is dedicated to the memory of Dean Young.

 

The merchandise is offbeat and finely crafted, and includes a 180-gram LP, coloring books, incense, lathecut vinyl singles, soap, and matchbooks.

Portrait of Devin James Fry. Photo credit: Dylan O'Connor

Devin James Fry is a musician and producer in Denver, CO.  He is vocalist and songwriter for the art rock band Name Sayers, and formerly led the psychedelic Americana outfit Salesman

 

Fry is also owner and operator of The Sharpist, a surgical sharpening firm specializing in B/HRT and OB/GYN surgical instruments.

A synth-heavy solo album titled RETRELLION was released in April 2023. 

Previously, in 2020, several years of collaboration with Palestinian oud master Sari Andoni yielded RADICANS, a mingling of Arab and American psychedelic and folk music influences.

New single "Half Ball Pit Half Bloodbath" will be released in October 2024.

The Jitte Getter photo
Devin James Fry and the Jitter Getter

MERCH

Devin James Fry Retrellion LP Merch

RETRELLION LP (180 GRAM)

Devin James Fry Black Rainbow lathecut single

BLACK RAINBOW LATHECUT SINGLE
on RECYCLED ACETATE

PURPLE GLUE INCENSE

BLACK RAINBOW COLORING BOOK

Handmade Black Rainbow (ft. Chris Conde) soap by Beanblossom Soaps

BLACK RAINBOW SOAP
by BEANBLOSSOM SOAPS

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RETRELLION 11" x 17" POSTER

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PURPLE GLUE LATHECUT SINGLE
on RECYCLED ACETATE

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PURPLE GLUE MATCHBOOKS

PHOTOS

Bio

OTHER RECENT DJF RELEASES

WITH PALESTINIAN OUD MASTER SARI ANDONI

WITH NAME SAYERS

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