Coming Out To Play

The title track of Dan Whitehouse's 6th album release.
Buy the album: https://danwhitehouse.bandcamp.com/album/the-glass-age

What is 'The Glass Age?' 

Dan says: The term was coined by Chris Difford during an online songwriting workshop. It's a reference to the way that we’ve adopted screens and devices as part of the family. I am examining that thin layer between digital and emotional life.

Lyrically I'm expressing how communicating exclusively via a screen you can’t hug someone, and body language is altered. But I’ve noticed this can be a catalyst for more direct proclamations of love and other feelings.

Fatea Magazine says: "Maybe one day social historians will document the cultural impacts of screens and instant communication. When they do [The Glass Age] should be mentioned as it sums up this Zeitgeist better than anything I've heard."

The Glass Age - Dan’s sixth album - was co-written over the internet with Swedish composer/producer Gustaf Ljunggren. In this collection of new songs, Whitehouse uses his exceptional story-telling to look at how our human experience and ways of connecting have changed through the ‘glass’, the screens, of virtual meetings and communication. 

The songs lean into minimal electronica - whilst originally written on acoustic guitar, all instrumental parts on the album (apart from on the final track) were played & programmed by Gustaf on the Teenage Engineering OP-1 synthesiser.

The Glass Age

Nathan Judah and Liam Keen bring you their 300th episode LIVE from Molineux in front of a sold-out crowd in the Sir Jack Hayward suite.
The boys get down and dirty with an action-packed show full of twists, turns and plenty of exclusives.
What is Wolves' budget and will Julen Lopetegui stay at the club. Can the board match the ambition of the manager and what are the realistic signings they can make in the off season?
Games galore, prizes and all your usual favourite segments together with a live Q&A and a lot of cracking laughs!

Episode 300 - LIVE (and half-cut) from Molineux

Taken from 'Night Fires EP'
5 Track EP released 12/1/2015

'Night Fires' Produced/mixed by Todd Roache
Written by Paul Cook

Artwork by Jonna Björnstjerna 
www.jonnabjornstjerna.com 

Night Fires -
Falling over, getting tired of this fight 
Rewinding 
But they're all not out to get you 
Are your friends not at your side? 

And if you open your eyes let the light in 
You'll see it all then 
If you open your eyes let the light in 
We'll set the night on fire 

Learn the lesson, get the power in your hands 
Break silence 
When the world's all excitement 
Find a way not to rewind 

And if you open your eyes let the light in 
You'll see it all then 
If you open your eyes let the light in 
We'll set the night on fire 
We'll set the night on fire ...

Night Fires EP

Night Fires

Spotify

Track 4 Call It An Affection

Verdant

Divide and conquer are used to control the people around the world.

People Are Divided

Ode to Greta Thunberg and an homage to the children of Generation X who grew up with the threat of Nuclear War.

I Protest EP

Little Green Girl

A piece to take you back to that safe, nostalgic, other-worldly place that is always there within, where we can be who are really are. 

Written, composed, recorded and produced in collaboration remotely with Joe Murphy, and inspired by the book "Where The Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak (that happened to be in the background during early Zoom sessions)

Vocals and guitar by Ch'Lu (FKA Camilla Mathias), all other instrumentation by Joe Murphy. 

Artwork from a painting by Ch'Lu (as Camilla Mathias).

Lyrics:

Oh pillow, take me where I long to be,
The place I can be me.
Where I don’t need to blend
And there is nothing to defend.

Where I’m never stuck,
And I can always try my luck.
Where surprises keep coming
And I love the person I’m becoming.

It’s not far to
Where the wild things are.

Within these walls I’m off on that journey,
To the place that is so familiar to me.
No-one is the same and no-one is alone;
Everyone is welcome and everyone is known.

But does anyone ever speak of this mysterious/magical place?
Is this something/Is there a reality I need to face?
But if think too much, more doubts arrive,
And that’s just another reason to keep you alive.

It’s not far to
Where the wild things are.

Where The Wild Things Are

Six albums in and award-winning singer-songwriter Dan Whitehouse continues to renew, reinvent and reimagine - touching listeners with his observations and moving them with his sensitivity and impeccable songwriting.

Bookings and media katie@fromthewhitehouse.com www.fromthewhitehouse.com

2022 sees Dan continue to develop and evolve his offering whilst showing how he carefully nurtured his creativity during an imposed stay in Japan from January 2020 to June 2021. This year’s releases include The Glass Age - a collaboration with Swedish producer Gustaf Ljunggren, which looks at how our human experience and ways of connecting have changed through the ‘glass’ of virtual communication.  Another, his Arts Council funded song-cycle Voices From The Cones, draws stories of community and social and industrial history from the oral archive of workers from the Stourbridge Glassworks,  comes out this autumn. Alongside this, Dan’s blossoming collaboration with New York hammered dulcimer player Max ZT will bear fruit in 2023 with their  album Ten Steps. 

2022 is the International Year of Glass, and at this show Dan will preview songs from his new album and forthcoming release springing from opposite ends of the ‘glass’ spectrum.

“Nothing short of beautiful – **** ” RnR Magazine 

“Wonderful production and writing”  Tom Robinson BBC 6 Music  

“Perhaps Mr Whitehouse's greatest gift is his knack for writing seemingly simple songs that most listeners will be able to relate to.” MAVERICK  
 
“Subtle and delicate melodies” The Sunday Times

The Glass Age

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