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maybe we can try
to stick together

cus everything besides you
doesn’t mean too much 

oh baby i don’t mind
that you barely try

oh baby i wont lie
you’re my favorite type

we don’t say much
yet i’m staring at your face
like i’m in love with you

the things i write about
make me wonder if i’ll
ever get to be with you

i’d play some duster
sitting next to her
and whisper in her ear
“i love you, dear”

i love you, dear

'Flight', from my upcoming fourth collection out February 10th - oliverbrouwer.bandcamp.com/album/return.

Written in March 2021, and recorded over a day in July that year in my family’s home.

Written, performed and artwork by Oliver Brouwer
Recorded and mixed by Joe Ramsden
Mastered by Zac Barfoot

Flight

The Re-Turn

Piano: me
Cello: Lee Caspi
Bass: Hana Ito

© Riverse (Ha Thi Hoang), 19 December 2016.

Berlin Train Station (Piano Day 2017) - Acoustic

From my new album "Sanctuary Sessions." Full album available on.....
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Sanctuary Sessions

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Taken from the solo album 'The Transition' out November 2nd on Erased Tapes.
Pre-order the LP/CD/DL: https://www.erasedtapes.com/release/eratp114-david-allred-the-transition

"The Garden represents my mental health as I strive to develop a better relationship with the way we live, learn, and communicate through the internet. The process of accepting and contributing to the way that we are expected to represent ourselves online is inherently at odds with our ability to connect and understand each other on a personal level. We live in a time where technology assertively taps into our biological need to feel human connection, and it is in our best interest to adapt as well as possible to this ideological paradigm, in spite of all the illusions we encounter along the way." — David Allred

Following on from last year's collaborative release Find The Ways with Peter Broderick, the Californian singer and multi-instrumentalist David Allred returns with a first solo album on Erased Tapes out November 2nd, titled The Transition.

Hailing from Loomis, a small town outside of Sacramento, via Portland, Oregon – David worked as a sound engineer and session musician, featuring on multiple recordings by the likes of Birger Olsen, Brigid Mae Power, Brumes, The Beacon Sound Choir, Chantal Acda, Heather Woods Broderick, Jung Body, Masayoshi Fujita, and many more. He quickly found himself touring Europe with Peter, culminating in a Royal Festival Hall performance, and contributing the arresting voice and double bass piece Ahoy to the Erased Tapes 10th anniversary box set 1+1=X; only to return to where he started, Loomis, and finally write and record The Transition as his first full-length statement in just one month.

With the release of The Transition, David Allred takes his place among the classic American songwriting tradition whilst revealing a peculiarity to his storytelling.

Isolated and cut off from the outside world, David began unravelling his life and putting it on record. With a double bass in his bedroom and a piano in a church across the street, the stories started to unfold until a set of ten songs came to life. Vignettes and feelings from his own experiences, as well as characters he met along the way, inspired a rich tapestry of stories and melodies.

The Transition

The Garden

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David Allred - The Garden

Scale

To Learn and Grow

Philip G Anderson & Laura Masotto - To Learn And Grow

A couple of months ago I had the pleasure of hosting a delicate, slightly melancholy, and a splendidly pure solo piano piece from a Dutch composer Mink Steekelenburg, who released a single, titled Clearing on Waterway Records as Winterdagen. It seems that he is back with another four-track EP, this time for 1631 Recordings, featuring additional collaborators, including Maarten Vos on the modular synth to add further textures to his sound. The title track, "Phase In" is a serene meditation on sound and space, gently capturing the quiet noises of the piano, allowing the melody to bathe in the warm tones of the analogue machine. Side note: if you've seen some of my personal updates on Instagram and FB, you know that I have recently plunged into the world of modular myself. A perfect time to learn it, right? The point I want to make is that this is precisely the type of sound that I am striving for in my explorations, which is why I'm happy to premiere yet another piece from Winterdagen.

Phase In

TRACK PREMIERE : Winterdagen - Phase In

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Flight

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