Additional members: Sara Diaz, Jasmine Albuquerque
"Lucky Dragons" means any recorded or performed or installed or packaged or shared or suggested or imagined pieces made by Luke Fischbeck, Sarah Rara, and/or any sometimes collaborators who claim the name.
Fischbeck and Rara have presented interactive performances and installations at MOCA Los Angeles, The Smell, Smithsonian's Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Whitney Museum of American Art (as part of the 2008 Whitney Biennial), The Kitchen and PS1 in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, REDCAT and LACMA in Los Angeles, Frankfurt's Schirn Kunsthalle, ICA London, ICA Philadelphia, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
The name "Lucky Dragons" is borrowed from a Japanese fishing boat caught in the fallout of hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the 1950s. The crew stricken ill, and the boat itself contaminated, the "Lucky Dragon" became a crystalizing symbol for the previously diffuse worldwide anti-nuclear sentiment. Eventually the boat was painted black, renamed the "Dark Falcon", and put into reuse as a fishing vessel, until it was retired and disposed of on the man-made trash island "Dream Island", where it remains today.
Lucky Dragons are about the birthing of new and temporary creatures--equal-power situations in which audience members cooperate amongst themselves, building up fragile networks held together by such light things as skin contact, unfamiliar language, temporary logic, the spirit of celebration, and things that work but you don't know why. There have been hundreds of these simple yet shifting and unpredictable instances--with audiences ranging from the intense intimacy of one person to the public spectacle of thousands of people. At the heart of it all is playing together--building up social collectivities, re-engaging the wonder and impossibility of technological presence. It sounds--and looks--like simple and ancient patterns coming together and falling apart in a sincere attempt to let wires and screens and words become clear and crystal.
Lucky Dragons' sister projects include Sumi Ink Club--a weekly collaborative drawing society, and Glaciers Of Nice--a small press and internet community.
2016
Populist Records
LP, Album
2016
Teenage Teardrops
LP, Album
2015
2014
Life Like
Cass, Ltd, C15
2014
Not On Label
7"
2013
One Mile High
Cass, EP, Ltd, C20
2012
Aagoo Records
7", Pic
2012
Escho
Cass, C20
2012
KDVS Recordings
Cass, Album, Lim
2012
Not On Label
7", Single
2012
Social Harmony
File, WAV
2012
2012
2011
2009
Teenage Teardrops
12", Ltd, Whi
2009
Atelier Ciseaux
7"
2009
Swill Children
7", Cya
2009
Deathbomb Arc
Cass, Ltd, C-2
2009
Gnar Tapes, Gnar Tapes
Cass, Single
2009
Not On Label
7", Yel
2009
Marriage Records
8xFile, MP3, Album
2009
2008
Wildfire Wildfire Records
7", Ltd
2008
2007
Hawks And Sparrows
12", Ltd
2007
Marriage Publishing House, Marriage Publishing House
5", Etch
2007
Caff/Flick
7", Single, Pic
2006
Undereducated
Cass, Album
2006
Marriage Records
CD, Comp
2006
2005
States Rights Records, Slender Means Society
CD, EP, Enh
2005
States Rights Records
CD, Comp
2005
Twenty Bees
Lathe, 7", Single, Ltd, Cle
2004
Ultra Eczema
CDr
2004
555 Recordings
Lathe, 8"
2004
2003
Not On Label
CDr, Album, Ltd
2003
Not On Label
CDr, Ltd
2002
2002
2000
English Muffin Records
7", Ltd, Num
New Other Thing
56xFile, MP3, Mixtape, 128
2012
2011
Kompakt
12"
2010
Gold Robot Records
8xFile, MP3, 160
2010
AMDISCS
2xFile, MP3, Comp, 320
2010
2009
Thrill Jockey
12", Ltd
2009
Promo Only
CD, Comp, Promo
2009
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
Fryk Beat
12", EP, Ltd
Fryk Beat
CDr, Comp, Promo
2016
New Amsterdam Records
CD, Album
2010
2009
2009
2018
FACT Magazine
File, MP3, Mixed, 320
2018
Dublab
12xFile, FLAC, Album
2015
Ashore
File, MP3, Mixed, 320
2014
Transgressive North
2xCD, Comp
2013
Powershovel Audio
2xLP, Comp, Ltd
2013
Secret Thirteen Journal
File, MP3, Mixed, 320
2013
P-Vine Records
CD, Comp
2012
Le Petit Mignon
7", Comp, Ltd, Num, Ora
2012
Tape Room
Cass, Comp
2012
Headphone Commute
File, MP3, Mixed, 320
2012
Words+Dreams
Cass, Comp, C92
2012
2012
2011
Resident Advisor
File, MP3, Mixed, 160
2011
Neon Marshmallow Music Festival
Cass, Comp
2011
KDVS Recordings
10xCass, Comp, Club, Ltd
2011
Alias Frequencies
File, MP3, Comp, 320
2011
2011
2011
2010
Not On Label
CDr, Comp
2010
Korm Plastics, Extrapool
CD, Mini, Comp + CD, Comp + 7"
2010
Not On Label (Bobby Birdman Self-released)
CDr, Comp
2010
XLR8R
File, MP3, Mixed, 192
2010
FACT Magazine
File, MP3, Mixed, 320
2010
Jewish Noise
7"
2010
AT-AT Records
17xFile, MP3, Comp
2010
2009
Anticon
12"
2009
Anticon
File, MP3, Mixed, 192
2009
Free Music Archive
51xFile, MP3, Comp, 320
2009
Dublab
File, MP3, Mixed, 192
2009
Leaving Records
File, MP3, Mixed, 192
2009
Knw-Yr-Own
CDr, Comp
2009
Penny-Ante Editions
CD, Comp
2009
Beat is Murder Records
9xFile, MP3, Album, Comp
2009
KXLU
CD, Comp
2009
2008
Cardboard Records
2xCD, Album, Comp
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