A rearrangement and mix of the composition by David Sylvian.
David Sylvian: composer
David Daniels: Performer/Producer: Drum Sample, Drumming, Guitars-Alto Acoustic Guitar,Fender  electric Strat thru thick pedals,  electric 6 string Steinberger Baritone Guitar, Piano/Keyboard-synth things, that an open envelope of effects; and that poor vocal demo.
This was an afternoon more than many years ago.

Cover Me With Flowers (Voc112602) Sylvian; Daniels Cover

David Daniels - composed, performed, recorded, produced and now shared this notion of being   "The Changed" - all DD

Lyric goes like this:
The Changed – David Daniels
I am not dead anymore
The soil is clean
Faith no more

And in the winter
I have changed
My mask is gone
And everything is not so simple anymore
My angel is not the same

If I only I could love
Share passion beyond love

And in this village
All of us have changed
I see Your Face
Can we escape the ravage of our lives?
And the memories are the same

If Only We Could Love
To Move Beyond The Hurt

The Myth of The Rising

The Changed

I wrote this track back in 1992/93, and was political at the time about George.H.W.Bush in the season/election when he lost to Bill Clinton.  Turns out HW was out of office.Here is Paradise, where I wrote and recorded it all on a keyboard, with outboard emu Proteus

Lyric:
Paradise – David Daniels, 1993
David Daniels – All Lyric/Music/Composition/Performance-all instruments/Mix.

Born in Maine 1924
He wanted power and oh, he got more
Sent boys off to fight a war 
That started when he went too far
Meanwhile to him,
Everything’s fine

Tell me now
How is it on
Your Side of Paradise
When I can I come visit (visit)
Your Side of Paradise

He was involved in the brigade
Oversaw the ships that led the way
He was in the company
When he said he knew nothing
And then we gave him 
Our country

Tell me
How is it on
Your Side of Paradise
When I can I come visit (visit)
Your Side of Paradise

{bridge}

So why don’t you just tell us what you know?
How many secrets have you sold?
You were there when Richard fell
And actor Ron told his tale
Could you just tell us what you know?

Tell me now
How is it on
Your Side of Paradise

Come on Tell Me!
How is it on
Your Side of Paradise
When I can I come visit (visit)
Your Side of Paradise

Fragments:Expanded Edition

Paradise

a very old song, a good one?  and it goes like this.

Leave Me Now – Lyrics/Music/Production by David Daniels
All Performance by David Daniels
Written, Recorded, Performed in 1992, in Princeton NJ, Remastered in 2014

In silence there is no understanding
In love there always is
In your cries I hear you pleading
My love what can I do?
If it’s me how I can change me now
You say I never will
If I could, couldyou still love me?
Like you said you always would

If you must leave me now
Well I will still love you
If you must leave me now
Well I will still love you

While you dream, I see you smiling
My love what do you see
To our friends I hear you talking
But to me you have nothing to say
I am reminded, why I love you
Do you even know?
Or I have not ever told you,
The reason why I love you so

If you must leave me now
Well I will still love you
If you must leave me now
Well I will still love you

{Bridge}

If you must leave me now
I will still love you
If you must leave me now (Leave me now)
II will still love you (I still love you)
If you must leave me now (Leave me now)
II will still love you (I still love you)

~fade …

Leave Me Now

There is a good deal happening here, a tune I wrote and performed on a variety of intersuments - recalling my love of that china splash cymbal and playing the reeds (sample) on my keyboard.  that said; a good walking tune? all good, should the harbor _not_ freeze.

Inconsiquental - Splintered Pieces 2.0

The Old Town Line (formerly Life-Part 1)

It is me with an array of delays and effects and that guitar and keyboard, and mixing deck board - and when you hear it the drums and percussion.  Welcome to another song that was so corret for that scene but it got pushed by an editor/producer. So this is that, will find a stage or screen for it. Will recycle the composition.

Presentation 1 [alpothfaitdb]

This is one that came out of "The Reflecting Pool" sessions, a 'castaway', as it did not fit on the follow-up "The Shadow Ensemble - somewhere to the west of here" So this is an orphan composition that may find its way into "The Myth of The Rising" musical or another spot. But for now all of this arrangement, composition, production and performance by me, well - it sits on the bench waiting for a place on an upcoming release.

The Zero Hour - Instrumental (INST112602)

Anytime I sit behind the drums I think "what would Levon Helm do?" This is 'Conflict and Reason' is from that play/musical of mine "The Myth of the Rising" ... this song presents at a pivot time that allows for set change and mind change in a pivotal point in the story.  All we be revelieved in 2018; but for now, enjoy me playing, composing and recording this. #fun I miss you Levon.

conflict and reason (For Levon)

From the demo of the musical. The Myth of The Rising by David Daniels. This that collection of feelings that I wrote about being away overseas, in battle and coming home to find home life is just as disrupted in a different kind of war. This is Homecoming - Parts I-III #TMOTR

homecoming part III - (destination of the distant shore)-PB mix

10 Homecoming - Part I (the Journey Be

homecoming-part II (traveling through the reconstruction)

photo: Cape Cod Sunset over Great Island (2016 - me, no filter).  Here is a new 2018 song --- well the start of one. In the writing phase. This inspired a bit by Chatham Fiddle Clancy people and the chords and passion of late.

The Demos of David Daniels

The Beginning (key of E)

Hi - I wrote this back in 2002, it was meant to be the last track on "The Reflecting Pool" but it didn't fit.  This is the original demo from that time, copied, compressed, optimized, it is lo fi - but if gives you a sense of what it is/was. 10 years later I am working into that musical.  here it is a demo track, w/ me on these things: 
DD: Keyboards – Synths and Piano: Emu Proteus/1, Roland TD-6, Oberheim Matrix 1000; Electric Guitars – Fender Stratocaster; SX Custom Telecaster, Acoustic Guitar – Short Neck Classical 6 string; SynthBass: Casio VZ-10M, Oberheim Matrix 1000; Electric Bass Guitar – Jackson 4 String; Drum Programming – Drum loops; Drumming and Percussion – Roland V-Drums; Vocals   ... I attempted my best Robert Fripp slippery Guitar in places :)

David Daniels: Composition, Performance, Production, Recording, Arrangement
Copyright © 2000~2018 David L Daniels, DD Enterprises, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

The Lyrics
Bound to Light
Daniels (5/6/02, modified 5/14/02)

a ray of light, let it shine
take my hands as the rope unwinds
in the silent pews, we hear all that’s not said
though stained like glass, our hearts lift up again

upon the broken road, my eyes are open wide
the hurt is undone, but i’m still tied to someone
i’m bound to light, bound to light

feel the cold, through the tattered threads
taste the tears, that we can’t soon forget
on the dripping wax, a soiled lilly blooms
the rusted signs, the memories we regret we lived

upon the broken road, my eyes are open wide
the hurt is undone, but i’m still tied to someone
i’m bound to light, bound to light

in the shadows of a mall in a far away land
they find solace in the temple mount when no one else can
bound to light, bound to light
up above us in the heavens where the hope has all gone
the footsteps of violence dance to the flashes of a gun
bound to light, bound to light
from the drowning in the well to the drought across the sea
the cardinals cower with the devil there behind the screen
bound to light, bound to light
for the boys on the ship swells the peace that never came
a wave creates a chasm and a fear we’ve never seen
bound to light, bound to light
in the knowing of subconscious where the autumn storm forms
is a candle and a flame for a person we all know
bound to light, spellbound, bound to light
spellbound, we’re all spellbound, spellbound

20 Bound To Light (optimized) - lofi

This is a Peter Gabriel Composition, from OVO - the thing of the queen, that he did for the millennium in 2000, "The Tower That Ate People" oddly foreshadowing.   So this is my cover of it, with no lead vocal.  Simply the parts of the music, I am playing them all.  Keyboard/Synths - Roland  Fantom and MIDI process array; Drumming and Drum Programming; Guitars - Sampled DR Yes + me on a Fender Stratocaster with bricks that process.   A Demo Version, a rehearsal, not a complete cover - but close musically.
Performance David L Daniels Copyright © 2010 - 2018, DD Enterprises, LLC,
Writer, Peter Gabriel/Real World.

07 The Tower That Ate People

Some Last Thing - from the 2012 Reckoning Sessions
David Daniels - composition, performance, production, recording - DEMO
DD: Roland Fantom: keyboard electric piano, keyboard bass; Steinberger Guitar short neck; Drumming- VDrums and acoustics
Copyright © 2012~2013 David L Daniels, DD Enterprises, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Somethinglastthing11-but new piano.restored2

Hole - Demo - from the 2012 Sessions, originally written 7/7/11
David Daniels - Composition, Performance, Production, Recording
DD: Acoustic Guitar (Takamine Jumbo 6 String Acoustic/Electric);  Touch Baritone Guitar (Steinberger Baritone 6 String); Electric Guitars (Steinberger Baritone 6 String, Takamine Jumbo 6 String Acoustic/Electric); Processing; Keyboards-Electric Pianos, Synths (Roland Fantom Xa); Drum Programming - (Roland TD-6, Fantom Xa); Drumming - V-Drums & Live Kit; Vocal DEMO
Copyright © 2011~2015  David L Daniels, DD Enterprises, LLC. All Rights Reserved

Hole-built up 071711.restored2 this one best mix 030312 best mix

This music from The Gray Voice -  https://www.facebook.com/thegrayvoice  "SPOKE"

Composed by Steve Peckman and David Daniels https://www.facebook.com/steve.peckman  and David Daniels, this a RUFF mix of this voice.  
SP -  Soprano Saxophones, iPad-KAOS synth & drum pattern.  
DD - Roland Fantom Keyboard-synthesizers, effected piano, sonics and mix.  

This song, The Red Book is based on a conversation between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.   This whole project is based around 1913 happenings and the things that went on in the last 100 years.  

Wait for release ... this is just a taste.

Copyright © 2013 DD Enterprises, LLC & SP Django Publishing.  All Rights Reserved

The Red Book (Demo-Preview)by The Gray Voice (Steve Peckman+David Daniels)

This is me - DD playing, composing, performing, recording all.   Vocals, Guitars, Takamine jumbo acoustic, Fender electric Strat, Berger Electric Baritone, Keyboards, Synths, Piano, Drumming.This is from the 2010 "After The Fall" sessions that began years before.
This is a scratch writing demo, lots to do still.

Copyright © 2006~2013  David L Daniels, DD Enterprises, LLC. All Rights Reserved

Miracle In Wait

What was meant to be the last fade credits for "Garden State"
This is a  Frou Frou composition and a David Daniels remix-additional performance 11/26/02
Frou Frou are:Imogen Heap and Guy Sigsworth. With DD on Production, Recording, Mix and including performance on Guitar, Keyboards, Keyboard Bass, Drumming, Effects - all recorded in SLH New Jersey - The final Garden State Mix ~ but alas at the end some said no to this mix production and as replaced by what they thought would be their next "single."  watch the end credits of this movie and you will hear that song in place of this.

Copyright © 2000~2016  David L Daniels, DD Enterprises, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

08 Breathe In (Breathless Mix) 1

It might sound strange, but this a DEMO piece of The Homecoming (AKA Part III)  - and yes I am playing it all.  This will be a scene and heard in that musical when it is staged. - ACT II  pivot.

Copyright © 2005 - 2014 DD Enterprises  LLC. All Rights Reserved.

11 Homecoming-Part III (PB Mix)

writer, musician, producer, studio owner.  David does many things and since the 1980's has produced many albums, solo and his bands and otherwise.   David has a tremendous passion for different approaches to his music, from synth pop, to musicals, to rock, to instrumental and progressive jazz and rock.  A session multi-instrumentalist, David has recorded with David Baerwald and the band Frou Fou, his latest album can be heard exclusively on bandcamp.

https://daviddanielstheshadowensemble.bandcamp.com/album/circle-of-tears?

David Daniels

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