With the release of The Transition, David Allred takes his place among the classic American songwriting tradition whilst revealing a peculiarity to his storytelling.
I picked up a job working in a retirement home, surrounded by those who are at the very end of their lives, and they’ve kept saying the same thing: that they had no idea life would happen that fast. So I decided to make an album inspired by my recent experiences and stories I heard through working with them,” he explains. “At 26 years old, I found myself back in the town where I grew up, feeling a bit like a failure for not “making it” out there in the years I spent living and working on my own. He quickly found himself touring Europe with Peter, culminating in a Royal Festival Hall performance, and contributing the arresting voice and double bass piece Ahoy to the Erased Tapes 10th anniversary box set 1+1=X only to return to where he started, Loomis, and finally write and record The Transition as his first full-length statement in just one month. Hailing from Loomis, a small town outside of Sacramento, via Portland, Oregon – David worked as a sound engineer and session musician, featuring on multiple recordings by the likes of Birger Olsen, Brigid Mae Power, Brumes, The Beacon Sound Choir, Chantal Acda, Heather Woods Broderick, Jung Body, Masayoshi Fujita, and many more. We live in a time where technology assertively taps into our biological need to feel human connection, and it is in our best interest to adaptĪs well as possible to this ideological paradigm, in spite of all the illusions we encounter along the way.”– David Allredįollowing on from last year’s collaborative release Find The Ways with Peter Broderick, the Californian singer and multi-instrumentalist David Allred returns with a first solo album on Erased Tapes out November 2nd, titled The Transition. The process of accepting and contributing to the way that we are expected to represent ourselves online is inherently at odds with our ability to connect and understandĮach other on a personal level. “The Garden represents my mental health as I strive to develop a better relationship with the way we live, learn, and communicate through the internet. Poet TreeĪd anticipare “The Transition”, il brano “The Garden”: In uscita il 2 novembre per Erased Tapes Records/Audioglobe
Il multi-strumentista e produttore californiano presenta il suo primo disco solista, Nel cui video di “ The Ways” girato da Robert Raths, compaiono, tra i tanti, anche Rick Rubin, Olafur Arnalds e Nils Frahm – Dopo le sue numerose collaborazioni – l’ultima con Peter Broderick per “Find the Ways”,
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