DAVID KARSTEN DANIELS - THE DREAM BEFORE THE RING THAT WOKE ME

Artist / Band: DAVID KARSTEN DANIELS
Song (MP3): THE DREAM BEFORE THE RING THAT WOKE ME
Album: Sharp Teeth
File Under: Folk / Other
Label: fat-cat.co.uk

Info: After three albums recorded piecemeal on fourtracks and computers in three states and on two continents, DKD finally sat still in an old farmhouse and spent two years recording his fourth record. The result is the new album, Sharp Teeth, a potent discovery of moral ambiguity and unavoidable human disconnect that suggests some sort of modern American folk music in the Southern tradition - deathly slow like life in the South, haunted by religion but unable to find answers in its Bible. The sounds of the South are there as well - nods to Dixieland jazz, Nashville's slide guitars, molasses choirs of drums, horns, and voices, and massive whirring string orchestras that recall swarms of chittering insects. The recording is 19 persons strong and was mixed by Alex Lazara (the Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers); Daniel Hart (the Physics of Meaning, the Polyphonic Spree) created giant string orchestras, one track at a time. DKD is traveling North America this spring with good friends John Ribo and Sara Morris. Look for them in Europe early summertime.

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