Recorded live yesterday on Jamkazam with Yoshiki and Richard in New York, DP in Virginia.

Passion Dance

I was bold enough to play out a little on this one.

OGADE Track 10

Matt and Dave improvising, Summer of 1999. Matt did the guitar loop, and then we jammed.

Immersions 3

Things I wrote in college but never heard performed until I transcribed them to Finale. It's been a long time.

Hello for Winds

Written in 1986 and revised and recorded live in 1990, this pastiche includes Caballo Viejo, Vem dançar mambolê, Collita, Für Elise, and En el Borde.

Apocalipsis en Santa Cruz

By Kind Permission Of

It was just a rehearsal, a couple of mikes. I added some vocals; you can hear two voices at times. It was interesting to perform this in April.

Exposure

Jam W Brian

The Genesis song, drums and basic keys recorded live. Some keyboard overdubs, including piano opening.

Brian & Dave's Cinema Show

Lord Allan (with apologies to Alan Pasqua). A tribute to the great Allan Holdsworth with Brian Burton on drums and me on keyboards and bass. Allan was, for me, one of the people who kept alive what John Covach might call the "hippy aesthetic." His music seemed to aim for an expression of something transcendent and evocative, whether it was sadness, ecstasy, wonder, or playfulness, the aesthetic having a goal, I think, that listeners might find in the music an accompaniment for the roaming of their imaginations, like going on a trip. He at once made great innovations in his art and humbly acknowledged great musicians who had gone before him, notably John Coltrane. Here is a great tune by Alan Pasqua originally titled, Lady Jane. I read that, at one point, Allan said that his favorite keyboardist to work with was the other Alan. I am sad to see Lord Holdsworth go.

Lord Allan

A short, rhapsodic burst of drumming by Brian Burton, tune by John McLaughlin, DP on keys. I've always admired McLaughlin for putting such an important word as the title for this dramatic piece.

Hope

A quick version by Brian Burton and DP of Alan Pasqua's tune for Tony Williams' Lifetime. Lord Allan was on the original.

Proto-Cosmos

My band, Aria, playing at Mayfest 2018. Dave Rickard, lead vocal; Kyle Donaghy, backing voice.

I'm the Slime

The second movement in the True Vision suite. The original recordings were only heard by a handful of friends and family in the mid-90s.

Paranoia

The last of four movements in a suite. The third movement is to be released on the 2020 album, Mythologies.

True Vision II

The concluding track to my 2013 album, Connections.

Connections

Prolonging the Last Drop of Wine

Multi-instrumentalist, composer, I perform as keyboardist with several bands. I have 19 albums of original recordings available on BandCamp, iTunes, and CDBaby.

David J. Palmer

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