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Den of Maniacs – Album Cover & Free MP3s

Dan — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:46:21 +0000

The official release date for my new album, DEN OF MANIACS, has been confirmed as March 23, 2010. In the meanwhile, here are two free mp3s and the album cover (left-click to listen, right-click to save):

Look at Me (link no longer available)
(in which I improvise a lot of electric guitar solos as a means of coping with
increasingly colorful existential quandaries)

Go Away (link no longer available)
(a 6/8 response to a famous song by Jacques Brel)

Order DEN OF MANIACS at CDBaby.

Download DEN OF MANIACS at iTunes.

The cover art, featuring me and Jonathan Arron Taylor, was done by Vesna Jovanovic with the assistance of Pawel Mlynarczyk. The drums on the above tracks were performed by George Lawler.

New Version of Fell (free mp3)

Dan — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:22:42 +0000

Here’s a new version I recently did of Fell, for my new album, to be released this summer (left-click to listen, right-click to save):

Fell (Acoustic-Electronica-Shredder Version) (link no longer available)

This is inspired by how I perform it in my live solo set, which includes a few guitars and a laptop. In this version there’s also some violin (performed by Emanuel Ban). Enjoy and, as always, feel free to share.

More updates coming very soon…

Free MP3 Download From My Next Album: “I Want to Be”

Dan — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:33:19 +0000

Here’s a pre-mastering preview track from my as of yet untitled album due out this summer. The song is called “I Want to Be”, and is about my day job. The stream-of-consciousness arrangement is a metaphor for the dazed daydream quality office life induces.

To listen, left-click; to download the MP3, right-click (or use the music player in the right side-bar): I Want to Be (no longer available)

It originally appeared on my 2007 album Culture of Self with a very different arrangement, vibe and singer. The vocalist on that version was an opera singer who used to work in the exact same job I’m at now, at the same desk and everything. This updated version is sung by me, and has a whole new instrumental middle section. Enjoy and share :)