Dave Graham
Composer and multi-mentalist
Another project to watch out for
Even more new material
There is a lot to watch out for in Daveland just now. Not only an as yet unspecified album or two from Regolith. But also a "sophisticated and nuanced" remix - not my words! - of the Posthumn ep. And...a full length solo album. The solo album will be a reworking of my "Soundtrack to a ghost story" piece that has finally been picked up on by a very wise label-meister and will see a cd release in a heavily extended form - with a bit of luck!
New album on the way
My new album, Orion is available from Earth Monkey, the huge and wonderful mother of all netlabels.
The idea for the album came to me when leaving my old flat one evening, when I suddenly noticed the constellation Orion hanging low in the clear night sky, right in front of me. Not only was the evening stunningly beautiful, but it trigger memories of a family member pointing out the constellation to me as a child in my parents back garden. I realised that these stars have been burning there in space for the 25 years in between - a blink of an eye in a stars life, and my entire youth - and had a vision of these calm stars watching over us humans scurrying around.
This is a romantic notion of course, but it did inspire a musical metaphor of different timescales, the fizzing, speeding little lives, and the long, transcendant stateliness of the universe itself.
Regolith News
I am currently working on a new batch of Regolith material, which is coming along very nicely. We have finished "Cadre Turf" which was an interesting exercise in unusual means of composition and production.
The Cadre Turf sessions:
To start with, I recorded some guitar ideas, which I gave to G. He chopped them up and created a strange, angular scaffolding out of them and gave them back to me. I transcribed these diced guitarworks, and added more guitar as well as some extra instruments to emphasise particular moments.
The result is strange but alluring - lost moments and unexpected peaks, there is a logic at work but the overall feeling is of something unmoored and drifting. I'm very pleased with it, and hopefully it will be seeing a release shortly.
PS I am looking for musicians for a very special project. I need classical musos, preferably string players for a recording project. Get in touch via dave@musiclikeplanets.co.uk if you are interested.
Quiesence
Due to my wife Denise being very poorly, I'm not keeping up with musical events for the time being - things are ok now, but were looking rather hopeless for a while. Thank you to everyone who has sent best wishes, it is always appreciated.
There will be some more parts to this website appearing soon, with luck as I'm hoping to expand things a little. I would like to make some scores and arrangements available, as well as some musical samples.
Interdum
There is a bit of a lull just now, but with the promise of a frenzy slightly later on. On the Regolith front, we are working on some very exciting material - which shall be kept under wraps for now so as not to spoil the surprise. However, if I were to mention orchestral sonorities, harsh noise and electric guitar you would be getting a decent idea of what's to come.