David Karsten Daniels

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That Knot Unties? 00:00 Tools
The Dream Before the Ring That Woke Me 00:00 Tools
Martha Ann 00:00 Tools
American Pastime 00:00 Tools
Falling Down 00:00 Tools
Wheelchairs 00:00 Tools
Joy 00:00 Tools
Jesus and the Devil 00:00 Tools
A Myoclonic Jerk 00:00 Tools
Reaching 00:00 Tools
Scripts 00:00 Tools
Sharp Teeth I 00:00 Tools
Oh, Heaven Isn't Real 00:00 Tools
The Caretaker 00:00 Tools
Every Time a Baby Is Born 00:00 Tools
A New Garment 00:00 Tools
Minnows 00:00 Tools
Universe of No Parts 00:00 Tools
We Go Right On 00:00 Tools
Beast 00:00 Tools
In My Child Mind You Were a Lion 00:00 Tools
Sharp Teeth II 00:00 Tools
Evensong 00:00 Tools
The Woods Are on Fire 00:00 Tools
Though All The Fates 00:00 Tools
Siamese Hearts 00:00 Tools
The Funeral Bell 00:00 Tools
Alcohol 00:00 Tools
All Things Are Current Found 00:00 Tools
Goodbye 00:00 Tools
Die And Be Buried 00:00 Tools
October Airs 00:00 Tools
Smoke 00:00 Tools
On Fields 00:00 Tools
Best of 2008 Rebroadcast: David Karsten Daniels - Martha Ann 00:00 Tools
Salmon Brook 00:00 Tools
Epilogue 00:00 Tools
Note To Self 00:00 Tools
David Karsten Daniels - Martha Ann (from the vault) 00:00 Tools
Each Summer Sound 00:00 Tools
Marriage Proposal 00:00 Tools
Sharks 00:00 Tools
Epitaph on the World 00:00 Tools
How To Turn To Stone 00:00 Tools
I'll Just Play Guitar 00:00 Tools
Holding Pattern 00:00 Tools
Scribble Your Name Down In The Dark 00:00 Tools
To Tire 00:00 Tools
In the Bleak Midwinter 00:00 Tools
Love 00:00 Tools
Give Up... And You Are Changed 00:00 Tools
Postpartum Blues 00:00 Tools
The Secret Thoughts of Housewives 00:00 Tools
Equanimity 00:00 Tools
When You Were Out on the Lake 00:00 Tools
Baby Teeth 00:00 Tools
the leaves in our mouths 00:00 Tools
You Somehow 00:00 Tools
When I Sleep, I Dream of My Father 00:00 Tools
Whistle While You Work 00:00 Tools
When I Was an Island 00:00 Tools
Compassion 00:00 Tools
Anna Whistler's Windchimes 00:00 Tools
Rising Son 00:00 Tools
The Kingdom 00:00 Tools
David Karsten Daniels - Martha Ann 00:00 Tools
I Take What I See With My Eyes 00:00 Tools
We Go Out Into the Ocean 00:00 Tools
Smoke - A Lily Remix 00:00 Tools
Om Family/The Death of Self 00:00 Tools
Jesus & the Devil 00:00 Tools
Smoke [Bonus Track] - Mice Parade Remix 00:00 Tools
Rules for Rulers 00:00 Tools
Come Up 00:00 Tools
I. Love 00:00 Tools
Sharp Teeth 2 00:00 Tools
Sharp Teeth, Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
Oldertoo 00:00 Tools
Honda '85 00:00 Tools
l'evolution rien 00:00 Tools
Reach 00:00 Tools
II. Equanimity 00:00 Tools
The Poet's Delay 00:00 Tools
Dream Before the Ring That Woke Me 00:00 Tools
Smoke - Our Brother the Native Remix 00:00 Tools
Borrowed Time 00:00 Tools
Caretaker 00:00 Tools
FatCat Podcast #14 - David Karsten Daniels 00:00 Tools
III. Joy 00:00 Tools
Smoke - Andreas Lust Remix 00:00 Tools
IV. Compassion 00:00 Tools
Tankfed 00:00 Tools
Myoclonic Jerk 00:00 Tools
Smoke - Ski Sunday Remix 00:00 Tools
New Garment 00:00 Tools
Headwest 00:00 Tools
Across The Sea 00:00 Tools
Joking 00:00 Tools
Bag Of Seeds 00:00 Tools
Travelin' On 00:00 Tools
Sharp Teeth 1 00:00 Tools
Medicine 00:00 Tools
Friendly Bob Escapes From the Hospital 00:00 Tools
Falter 00:00 Tools
March Into The Sun 00:00 Tools
Smoke - Liam Grepus Remix 00:00 Tools
Nod 00:00 Tools
Words 00:00 Tools
American Past Time 00:00 Tools
Smoke - Snow Panda Remix 00:00 Tools
Smoke (Mice Parade Remix) [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
Smoke - Short Stories Remix 00:00 Tools
Sharp Teeth I / Minnows 00:00 Tools
Seen 00:00 Tools
The Knot Unties 00:00 Tools
What the Bleep Do We Know 00:00 Tools
**** 00:00 Tools
Slot Song 00:00 Tools
The Secret Thoughts of Housewives (feat. Tara Toms) 00:00 Tools
Reaching (feat. Chris Walker) 00:00 Tools
Espionage 00:00 Tools
On Top 00:00 Tools
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David Karsten Daniels is a Dallas-based songwriter by way of Alabama, North Carolina, Oregon, and San Francisco whose music relays a personal history of diverse musical experiences - among them, a childhood of hymn singing, membership of a high school jazz band, and a formal university training in composition, theory, free improvisation, and performance art. For several years, David travelled throughout Texas and France recording quietly in small rooms, where his formal training began to give way to four-track experimentation, juxtaposing the phase pieces and improvisation of his academic life with lo-fi acoustic compositions. This itinerant approach to recording produced his first two albums ('The Mayflower' 2000; 'Out From Under Ligne 4', 2001) , which employ the use of whatever (non)instruments were at hand, such as dropped coins and pencil scratches in place of drum kits, or lyrics composed by rearranging the contents of the daily newspaper. David finished his studies and spent the subsequent year in Portland, Oregon, briefly experimenting with a laptop before moving to North Carolina with Daniel Hart and Alex Lazara to found the Bu_Hanan Collective. There, while giving his first two albums a wider release, he wrote and recorded the self-released album, 'Angles' (2004), as well as contributing to the records of the collective’s other bands. Since then, David’s work has come increasingly into focus. With his debut, the beautifully ambitious 'Sharp Teeth' (released by FatCat January 2007), gone are the noise freakouts, drum programming, and obsessions with Steve Reich and John Cage. In their places are richly orchestrated songs in which his guitar and voice are the foundational elements fleshed out by up to nineteen musicians and at least as many instruments. Following his debut, David kept himself busy playing live (largely in the USA, with a smattering of European shows), writing and recording - the fruits of which can be heard on his 'Fear Of Flying' LP, released in April 2008. ‘Fear of Flying’ is a somewhat different proposition to 'Sharp Teeth', spreading itself over a more diverse sonic terrain, traversing a wealth of styles and ideas, presenting a more disparate yet immediate record, with David as ever managing to pull the reigns in tight enough to give the album coherence, context and meaning. David also scored additional music for Frightened Rabbit’s Christmas single, a re-issue of ‘It’s Christmas So We Will Stop’, released in December 2008. June 2010 saw the release of the gorgeous 'I Mean To Live Here Still' album, a full-length written and recorded with Richmond, VA's 9-piece jazz ensemble Fight the Big Bull. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.