Polished and perfect- You are clearly a professional!

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ABOUT:
A record of big pop moments and globe trotting arrangements in technicolor, these songs focus on a five year period of struggle, self discovery, growth and renewal in the life of songwriter/record-maker David Karsten Daniels. During this time DKD got married, had a kid and experienced a crisis of self-identity. Losing himself in self-help books and the Enneagram, many of these songs appear as mantras for a new husband and father trying to trade control and ego for connection and meaning. While a few of the songs flash back to easygoing youthful times, most deal very directly with the day to day of trying to survive and thrive in a new reality (with a handful of the songs following DKD into alternate realities as Larry Ellison, a Ghanaian treasure hunter and a rabbit). End the end, the album is a sort of letting go - shedding a pervasively melancholic youth, discarding a fabricated self in order to participate in an ever-evolving and interdependent family unit. 

Along the way David fell deep in love with the sounds of Fela Kuti, Congolese and Indonesian music, fun. and Kanye West. Roughly half of these songs feature extensive collaboration with songwriter/producer/filmmaker Chris Walker (Driver Friendly/Hopeless Records/Danger Films) whose focus on rhythm, faster tempos and relentless hooks helps gives the record a feeling of urgency and buoyancy rarely found on David's previous albums.  

A handful of the other songs feature the inspired performances of friends and family - among them David’s wife and son, his brother and sister-in-law Dane and Abbey Daniels and friends Kyle Henson and Ben Jousan. In at surprising turn of events, Austin, TX singer Lex Land (NBC’s ‘The Voice’) and Dallas rapper -topic briefly appear... 

CREDITS:
David Karsten Daniels - vocals, guitar, bass, percussion, drums, keys, programming, violin
Chris Walker - drums, percussion, guitar, drums, keys, programming, violin, vocals

Dane Daniels - drums, percussion, vocals
Abbey Daniels - vocals, bass
Kyle Henson - drums, percussion,vocals
Ben Jousan - guitar, vocals
Lex Land - vocals
-topic - vocals
K8 - vocals
K. - vocals
Dashon Moore-Guidry - additional percussion
Juan Lopez - handclaps, vocals
Aaron Carpenter - handclaps

*written, recorded by DKD and CDW
^written, recorded by DKD
produced by Chris Walker and DKD
mixed and mastered by DKD

additional engineering/mixing by Aaron Carpenter for Fifty50Studios
additional engineering by Juan Lopez

THIS RECORD HAS NOT YET BEEN RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC. PLEASE USE DISCRETION.

all songs are either:
(c) 2013 david karsten daniels, all songs published by smll thngs (ascap)
(p) 2013 TBD

OR

(c) 2013 david karsten daniels / christopher daniel walker, 
all songs published by smll thngs (ascap) / classic cwalk (ascap)
(p) 2013 TBD

www.davidkarstendaniels.com

Whistle While You Work (feat. The Many Hands)

Annie Higgins: piano/vocals
Jason Toth: drums
Joshua Dumas: electronics
James Falzone: clarinet

Engineered by Alex Inglizian at Experimental Sound Studios
Mastered by Peter Andreadis at All City Mastering

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Weatherman

Wild Geese

tiny deaths is claire de lune and grant cutler
executive produced, recorded, and engineered by lance conrad at humans win studios in minneapolis,mn
mixed by grant cutler in new york, ny
mastered by huntley miller at hm mastering studios in minneapolis, mn
single art by zoe prinds-flash
© tiny deaths 2015, all rights reserved.

ever

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There You Are was recorded live, in a room, with friends and family.  Loud Forest seeks to bring together a community of artists and musicians through their art project space in Pasadena, CA and to use their recordings to inspire grass roots joy and celebration.  Full album coming out May 27th.

There You Are

Written by Tom Paulus and Max Belz

Recorded and Produced by Bernard Chadwick at Legge Alley Projects in Pasadena, CA. 

Tom Paulus: Guitar, Vocals, Bass
Max Belz: Piano, Vocals
Chris Gioielli: Drums
Bernard Chadwick: Acoustic Guitar, Tamborine
Colin Beverage: (Intended) Bass Player

Caller Id

One of our first tracks ever written, "Set You Free" is written in homage to our taxidermy deer head that hangs in our kitchen named Sir Henry.  Nature, confession, capture, release, redemption, death, life.

Set You Free

VILLA NAH: LOVE CHANCE - From the upcoming album "Ultima"
ISRC: FISR61600024

Villa Nah is back after a five-year hiatus as the critically acclaimed synth duo returns to live form with their new material, of which earlier on Spring 2016 released ‘Stranger‘ gives us a sneak peek. Love Chance is the second single from the upcoming second album “Ultima”. Duo’s distinctive sound is filled with ageless synth pop doused in dreamy synthesizers and Juho Paalosmaa’s even more forlorn vocals.

Villa Nah´s Juho & Tomi: “For the summer of '16, we wanted to serve a sunny slice of romance, the sweet kiss of a Love Chance. With ripples of synths and sheer optimism, this is our soundtrack for those July afternoons.”

Villa Nah is a Finnish pop duo consisting of Juho Paalosmaa and Tomi Hyyppä. Villa Nah's sound is heavily influenced by 1980's synthpop. Producer/DJ Jori Hulkkonen co-produced the band's debut album Origin and it was released in Finland in March 2010 by Sähkö Recordings's sub label Keys of Life. The album reached number seven on the Official Finnish Album List. 

The East Helsinki pairing of Juho Paalosmaa and Tomi Hyyppä consolidated their position by supporting OMD on their UK Autumn tour. However, the two childhood friends went quiet afterwards and Juho Paalosmaa formed SIN COS TAN with ‘Origin’  co-producer Jori Hulkkonen;

SIN COS TAN’s three acclaimed albums to date, ‘Sin Cos Tan’ , ‘Afterlife’  and ‘Blown Away’ , plus their most recent EP ‘Smile Tomorrow Will Be Worse’ , filled the void left by VILLA NAH. But the Finnish duo are now back!

Live dates are planned for this summer, for example next one at Flow Festival, Helsinki on Sunday 14.8.2016 while the new “Ultima” album is set to feature songs such as ‘Love Chance’ and ‘Stranger’.
 


Ultima

Love Chance

VILLA NAH: Love Chance

A randynewman-esque ramble through the high desert...

Man From Nowhere

Winning Team

Diddy Bop (ft. Raury & Cam O'bi)

surfin with ray davies on the way to big sur with the beach boys

Music and Lyrics by Max Belz and Tom Paulus
Tom on guitar.
Max on piano and organ. 
Bernard Chadwick on bass, drums, etc.

Recorded and mixed by Bernard Chadwick at Legge Alley Projects in Pasadena, CA. Mastered by Daniel Brouns in Pasadena. Shoutout to Chris Gioielli for helping shape the song. Thanks to Rachel Paulus, Emily Belz, and Adam Belz for the support.

Driving north by the waves and the pine,
I hear her haunting call.
I see the rock at Morro Bay,
As she casts her velvet pall.

Is this the life you promised?
All you did was leave me low.
All I have is this carpeted mansion,
No taste, no norms, and no names in my phone.

Is this the life you promised?
All you did was leave me low.
You wished me well at our last parting.
And now I'm counting money all alone"

I sit at night alone in the cabana
Counting money stack on stack
I would be rich, but the currency's changed
I want the other diagnosis back.

Time to generate some content.
I need to something to say
I spoke to the main consultant 
he'll get back to me by END OF DAY.

The lines are jammed and the sink is dirty
Time to clear the jazz cookies from my cache.

Morro Bay

Music and Lyrics by Tom Paulus and Max Belz.
Tom on guitar.
Max on piano. 
Bernard Chadwick on bass, drums, synth, shaker, etc.

Recorded and mixed by Bernard Chadwick at Legge Alley Projects in Pasadena, CA. Mastered by Daniel Brouns in Pasadena.  Shoutout to Chris Gioielli for helping shape the song.  Thanks to Rachel Paulus, Emily Belz, and Adam Belz for the support.

words:

things got pretty primitive at the twin palms motel
thought you were authentic 
when you couldn’t assume good will
left me feeling defensive…
you said death to the false self
insisting on the truth 
but there's no love
It's heaven
And  hell

nothin sadder than two people
lonely together 
and I can’t stop dreaming of a tender love to hold me

Nothing grows in the Yucca Valley
got survival on the brain
damn I wish I could blame you baby and defend this false name
death to the false self
don’t remember when I built this wall…
but here we are again
at the twin palms inn

Twin Palms

Captivity

LOUD FOREST: BIO

The Los Angeles based band Loud Forest is fronted by married couple Bernard and Rachel Chadwick.  Equally matched as singers and performers, they craft an eclectic mix of songs that can both swirl and drive, loud minimal rock drums and ruckus melodic singing is supported by electric guitars, textures and noises that create a sonic landscape while infusing classic folk and gospel elements.  Songs on the forth-coming album range from moody shoe-gaze to grass-roots communal rock n’ roll. All the while giving a nod to personal influences such as Spoon, The Pixies, Arcade Fire and Sonic Youth.


Album Bio:
Bernard and Rachel have two completely different styles of song writing, Rachel is abstract and experimental, and Bernard is direct, minimal and angular. It is in the studio collaborating with other talented musicians, Alex Strahle, Carlen Walth, and Steve Wilmot that the pieces come together in a way that is a mix of rock, minimal art and elements of gospel.  Their studio is a creative project space in historic Pasadena where art events and music collaborations coexist, this makes for a studio that is always changing and influencing the forthcoming album in different ways. 

There You Are

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