Ever wondered what the love child of 80's indie also-rans Mousefolk and the Candy Darlings would sound like? Well, wonder no longer.

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.

One step forwards. Two steps back.
Another step forwards and you're back at the start.
One more step and you're as far you've ever been.
That's your fifth step, and nothing is holding you.
Now it gets interesting. . . (Step5)

Hi All,

It's mainly electronic for me, generally around the chill out, lounge & ambient styles. But it can, and will flow about the place.

I'm always on the hunt for collaboration work as I find this pushes me in to new areas and produces far more new ideas for my own sounds.
I would love some of you out there to write and perform lyrics for any of my tunes if they resonate with you, have a listen and let me know.   :)

About me:
I'm an English composer who watched his brother learn the keyboard and picked bits up. I then found myself borrowing time on his Amiga500 to write tunes in OctaMED. I learnt to play the drums for a year and then had a go at the guitar... One day it'll do more with me than just hurt my fingers! ;) I've always loved the piano and find synthesizers fascinating!

Influences include: Chicane, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Air, Rhian Sheehan, Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Above&Beyond, Dirty Vegas, Groove Armada, Lemon Jelly, Ulrch Schnauss, etc. etc. . . 

These days I find myself within FL Studio, it's been great for me over the past 10 years or so, but I'm definitely still just a beginner. Trying to adventure out into new sounds and styles... slowly! ;)
I love writing Ambient Chill Out and sounds with a Progressive Electro nature to them, and the percussion is important to me.
I love to collaborate, so please let me know if this could interest you.

Cheers for reading all!

A couple of sounds hovering out there on Bandcamp:
https://step5.bandcamp.com/


Step.

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