Debut Trace Recordings...'Black Flowers' ltd edition cd album of 4 track tape recordings recorded between 1997-1998.

silence and darkness

Taken from the album 'Black Flowers - four track instrumental recordings 97-98'
Released on Trace Recordings 2010.

Who Can Hear Us

From the unreleased 'Patron Saint of Missing' album (2012) 
David Hurn : Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Stylophone, Tapes, Programming.
James O'Sullivan : Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboards.
Dario Bernal Villegas : Drums and Percussion.


Land's End Light

Taken from the new instrumental album 'Nervous Animal' released May 1st 2024.
Written and Performed by David Hurn

THE RED CAGE

Taken from the album 'Nervous Animal' released May 1st 2024.
Written, produced and performed by David Hurn.

TERMINAL ISLAND

Taken from the forthcoming album 'Private Ruins (Vol 1)'

DH : vocals, guitars, keyboards, programming, computer.
Gordon Davies : bass guitar.

If heaven was real and was here, it was in a store that only sold paper,
and dreams to rest our hopes on. 
Alone, but slowly mending. No waiting for the storm, only the love we were sending into each others home.
And there we were inside your building, in the shadow of the Vooruit and nothing else. 
A reflection of the last two standing so tall and golden...and then through the mall to spires ascending, and then we were home.
Home....where I know in my heart I should be.
Give my love to the catbears and please say I'm sorry.

If Heaven

Take from the EP 'Museum of You' (2014)

David Hurn : All instruments.

Coins and Medals

Taken from the album 'Private Ruins (Vol 1)' © 2017

Friendly faces all over town, they do their best for you before you let them down, gently with sound.
It's so lonely in the DJ booth tonight, all your friends stay at home, don't come out in daylight.
Dark voices urging you on, to keep the party going, you're their number one, and they'll love this one.
It's so lonely in the DJ booth tonight, call your friends, call anyone, they never see daylight.

David Hurn : vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass, computer.
Walter Eaves : saxophone
Dario Bernal Villegas : percussion

Written, arranged, and produced by David Hurn © 2017

The Party

diary entry

Debut single 'Sick Of Hate' was released in 1999 on Day Release records, swiftly followed by live performances across London and Berlin. Signed to Fire Records in 2001 and opened shows for, amongst others, Mark Eitzel and British Sea Power.

Debut album 'He Was A Woman' was released in 2002, followed by the critically acclaimed 'No Love' E.P.

In 2004 David performed at SXSW festival in Texas, recorded a number of sessions for BBC Radio, and composed music for a series of short experimental films.

A ltd edition CD single 'I'm Spending Christmas With Jesus This Year' was released at the close of 2005 and was described by the Western Mail as 'Probably the most tragic christmas song ever produced.'

After a myriad of singles, ep's and collaborations, including a contribution to 'Chamber Music', a tribute album to James Joyce (featuring Sonic Youth, Ed Harcourt, Magnetic Fields, Mercury Rev, &amp; many others)

David's second full length vocal album, 'The Beautiful Trustful Future' was released in March 2008 on Fire Records, and features the 7" single 'The Man Who Stayed In Bed Forever'. 

A special ltd edition CD album titled 'Black Flowers' (four track instrumental recordings '97-98) was released in February 2010 on Trace Recordings.

Summer and winter tours of Poland were undertaken in 2010, along with a 3 week trip to New Hampshire to continue writing and recording with Ingrid Chavez.

A third album of songs, 'Patron Saint of Missing', featuring Yazz Ahmed, Chris Prosser and Dario Bernal-Villegas, was completed in in 2012, but remains unreleased.

A founder member of free improvisation group Four Seasons Television, who released their debut album 'Skip All' in 2013.

A new instrumental E.P. titled 'The Glaze' was made available as a download on Bandcamp in 2013.

A ltd edition CD was released in 2014 titled 'Museum of You', followed by an appearance at the Opole Songwriters Festival in Poland.

Collaborated with Abigail Hopkins on a piece for a project setting the James Joyce book 'Finnegans Wake' to music. This was released by Waywords and Meansigns on May 4th 2017.

A new vocal album 'Private Ruins (Vol 1)' was released on June 5th 2017.

In October 2017 a new single, 'Into the Dawn' was recorded in New Hampshire USA with DJ, musician, producer and Ingrid Chavez collaborator Marco Valentin. This was released in December 2017, accompanied by the song 'Sat on a Table'.
After returning to London, collaborated with Chavez and Valentin for what would become 'Driving to the End of a Dream' a song that appears on Ingrid's 2019 album 'Memories of Flying'.
In Summer of 2019 performs live in London with Ingrid Chavez and her band in promotion of her recent album 'Memories of Flying'.

In 2020 an unmastered instrumental recording 'The Dead House' was made available on Bandcamp, followed by the 24 minute meditative piece 'All Our Sundays' in 2021.

On May 1st 2024 a new instrumental album was released. 
'Nervous Animal' was recorded at home in London and features David Comidi, Gordon Davies and Ryder Sharkey.

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