TRACK THREE from the album Ten Steps 

Album tour UK October 2023 all details here: dan-whitehouse.com/live
Weds 18th October - Arc Theatre, Winchester
Thurs 19th October - Music At The Unicorn, Abingdon
Sun 22nd October - Stables 2, Milton Keynes
Tue 24th October - The Pheasantry, Pizza Express, London
Wed 25th October - Ropetackle Arts, Shoreham
Thur 26th October - The Old Stables, Cricklade
Fri 27th October - Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Sat 28th October - The Stoller Hall, Manchester 

Brooklyn’s celebrated hammered dulcimer player Max ZT (House of Waters), and Black Country/Tokyo’s dark, sophisticated gem - singer/songwriter/poet Dan Whitehouse - bring interwoven spoken word with music and song, drawing on a shared belief in the healing power of music, and from multi-cultural roots and the magic of the present moment. 

Ten Steps was recorded between New York and Tokyo. Max’s meditative dulcimer and Dan’s soothing vocal and spoken-word poetry meld together in a unique masterpiece of tear-stained impressionism.

Tackling wide-ranging subjects from fatherhood to mother nature, Max and Dan’s songs shimmer with restless inventiveness and draw you in with their irresistible intimacy.

REVIEWS
“Intriguing" "Gorgeous" The Guardian 
"Meditative.. haunting… great musicianship" Maverick 
"A quite extraordinary record” folking.com
“Ten Steps: folk meets Indian classical in a transatlantic fusion” Folk London Mag
"A compelling and innovative sound" Arts Culture Magazine
"Exciting and exceptional… also deeply intuitive poetic and rewarding" Folk Radio UK 

SHIZUKA

Dan: Shizuka means quiet in Japanese (it can also be a name), it’s about the gentle, soft glow of the low hanging sun here, and how this matches the restrained, polite culture of their everyday exchanges and behaviour.
  
Due to an ear injury I was landlocked in Japan for 18 months and found myself on a journey into Japanese culture. Out walking at Tokyo Bay I encountered a group of people that would congregate at sunrise, face the sun and sing to it as it rose, no words but a distinctive sounding scale – I was on a zoom call to Max at the time who immediately identified this as the Insen scale 

Written and Produced by Max ZT (ASCAP) & Dan Whitehouse (PRS / MCPS)
Lyrics by Dan Whitehouse
Mixed by Max ZT
Mastered by Mark Freegard

Dan Whitehouse - Vocals, Guitars, recorded in Yokohama, Japan
Max ZT - Hammered Dulcimer, Percussion, Synthesizers, recorded in New York, USA
Art & Design – Martin Hyde

www.maxzt.com
www.dan-whitehouse.com

P+C Max ZT & Dan Whitehouse 2023
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Shizuka (Ten Steps) Max ZT and Dan Whitehouse

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