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Biography of Dennis Milone
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Dennis Milone is a self-taught keyboardist who is openly gay. His ethereal instrumental music can whisk a listener's thoughts away to new places on a sojourn of the heart and soul. Sometimes joyful, sometimes sad, always powerful, the music that Mr. Milone creates seems to uniquely invoke emotion in the listeners that flock to the rare performances he gives. A quiet and intent audience at each performance is a testament to how he can capture and keep hold of their complete attention with his music, until each artful composition has ended.

Mr. Milone's debut CD release of Digital Realms in June 2000 was a major milestone for him. Being a culmination of ten year's worth of work, Mr. Milone felt a great sense of accomplishment and pride with the results of the project. Outlook magazine described Digital Realms as "a stunning work of intensity and depth". Almost two years after Digital Realms' initial release, the CD caught the attention of coveted new age reviewer Richard Fuller. Fuller claimed that the work was "one of the most joyous collections you've ever heard. Here is ambient music that…involves the listener on a musical voyage to a better place."

Over the years Mr. Milone has done several performances including the Gay and Lesbian Switchboard's annual Coffee House cafés, the Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in 2001, featured on WPKN in Bridgeport, CT, he has provided music for a computer animated video fly-thru, appeared on two Something-Fishy projects, and will be providing the ambient music for an upcoming fetish art exhibit in Chicago in May 2003. Being a member of the leather community, Mr. Milone is confident that the exhibit will help promote the future release of his new CD, Propinquity - a project of "leather sex music" planned for early-mid 2003.

Mr. Milone's first memory of playing the piano was as a child during an extremely long and boring visit to an uncle's home upstate NY. With no games or toys, the unused and ignored piano in the corner of his uncle's house became Mr. Milone's only outlet for entertainment. Years later, Mr. Milone's mother purchased a small 5-Octave portable piano at a used furniture outlet and it was on this that young Dennis began to teach himself how to play and compose music.

Sometime during the 1980's New Romantic era, Mr. Milone began to gravitate toward using a synthesizer, after hearing music by artists like Yaz and Depeche Mode. After a few years of being in a high school band and playing at local clubs, Mr. Milone felt that something was missing. He met a singer at a church band and they started a musical project called Alter Ego. Soon, with a unique sound of synth-pop music, Alter Ego was the main attraction at several performances within the gay and lesbian community.

As Alter Ego's success began to fade, a close friend of Mr. Milone started SF Records (Something Fishy Music and Publishing). Mr. Milone co-wrote a song on Something Fishy's first release and performed on multiple tracks for their second release. Mr. Milone's debut release of Digital Realms was with SF Records and he plans on another collaboration with the folks at Something Fishy Music and Publishing in 2003.

Mr. Milone donates $1 from the sale of each Digital Realms CD back to the community's non-profit HIV/AIDS organizations.
 



 
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