A collection of songs recorded during 2021.
Some notes from this release:
“Over the past nine months of songs, I’ve been working on an album of songs. I’m now sharing it with you. It’s finished and partial. It’s bouncy and melodic.
I like it, most of the time. Have a listen!
Link in bio + acityofdreams.bandcamp.com/releases.
I played, recorded and mixed it at my Dream Bureau studio at Open School East in Margate, with additional voice and violin (the brilliant Claire Orme) recording at Prah Foundation (thank you Stephen), and Aram Zarikian’s wonderful drums recorded at his studio in Hastings.
I’ve been working with song a lot in my other work over the past year or so, and this collection was a necessary dive into songcraft. It’s pretty trad. It’s nothing clever. Guitar, bass, drums, and organ. Tape delay and the occasional mellotron.
I play and write everyday, but not so much in public in recent years. That’s shifting. Maybe it was the pandemic, but these songs were partly about safety. They are often earnest. I was writing about men, spirit, the town where I live and the power of the non-productive. My voice is upfront. And it’s all dressed up in the guitar bands of my youth.
I’m making new songs that experiment more and expand in more collaborative and strange directions. That’s next, stay tuned. But for now, it’s this.
So, thank you to Aram for his rhythm and Claire for her strings. We were all octopus for moments when playing. Brains in our limbs.”
danny scott 