tag:danielland.co.uk,2005:/blogs/blog-for-news-onlyDaniel Land News Blog2024-02-26T14:30:36+00:00Daniel Landfalsetag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/73573862024-02-26T14:30:36+00:002024-03-03T12:54:38+00:002024 UK Tour — Part 1<p>Hello everyone</p><p>I'm happy to announce that tickets for our Spring 2024 UK tour are now on sale. </p><p>We're playing in the South West (Tiverton), the South East (London), the East (Norfolk), and the North West (Manchester). </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/158064/53202c1440ef15e90145de826e28c495fb988987/original/tour-poster-all-3d.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="2480" width="3508" /><p>At these shows I will be joined by my live band, including our new drummer:</p><ul>
<li>Gary Bruce: guitars</li>
<li>Rob Sykes: bass</li>
<li>Brin Coleman: keyboards and vocals</li>
<li>Chris Thorpe: drums</li>
</ul><p>And of course, me, playing guitar and singing. Our full-band set will be bookended by some quiet solo numbers where I'll take requests, dip into old favourites, and road-test some new songs from my almost-completed next album.</p><p>Tickets for all shows* available <a class="no-pjax" href="https://danielland.co.uk/shows" data-link-type="url"><strong>here at my website</strong></a>. </p><p>*The show at Holt Vinyl Vault in Norfolk is a special in-store performance for Record Store Day. This will be a full-band performance of around 45 minutes, with an early start time of 4pm, followed by a signing session and refreshments. The event is un-ticketed. </p><p>Hope to see you there! And stay tuned for news of Part 2 of our tour, later in the year — hopefully visiting points further north including Newcastle, Edinburgh, and Aberdeen…</p><p>Daniel <br> </p>Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/73559852024-02-23T14:37:01+00:002024-03-03T12:54:38+00:00The Inspiration of Derek Jarman<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/158064/49cfd9af1801b9f6a82ce4829ae44926125d9b07/original/final-dj-1.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="600" width="675" /><p>Derek Jarman, visionary filmmaker, artist, writer, activist, my hero, died 30 years ago this week.</p><p>I first heard about Derek Jarman through the work of Brian Eno. One of the first albums I bought when I started listening to Eno in the mid-1990s was his soundtrack for Jarman's last film, which was subsequently reworked by Jah Wobble and released as the underwhelming <i>Spinner</i>. That last film of Jarman's was <i>Glitterbug </i><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);">— </span>a great, <span>mischievous</span> title <span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);">— and was </span>a compilation of his Super-8 films from the 1970s and 1980s. He never saw it finished. </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/158064/b701e95edc39e36ba82f78ccc2d8d408a04053e4/original/image.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="438" width="645" /><p>Jarman is primarily known as a film-maker, but if I'm honest I'm not <i>that </i>big a fan of his films. </p><p><i>Blue </i>is, of course, a defining work, and his Super-8 film work had an obvious influence on the promotional videos I've made for <i>Out of Season. </i></p><p>His film <i>Wittgenstein, </i>shot against a black backdrop, within which the actors and key props are placed (theatre-style) is an example of budgetary constraints working to artistic advantage <span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);">— proof of </span>Brian Eno's dictum that “If you want to get unusual results, work fast and work cheap, because there's more of a chance that you'll get somewhere that nobody else did. Nearly always, the effect of spending a lot of money is to make things more normal”. </p><p>You could never accuse <i>Wittgenstein </i>of looking “normal”:</p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/158064/3af58aee95c848a8ebfb10bc4c49667af0abbaec/original/image.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="553" width="919" /><p>But it's his writing that speaks to me the most. Anyone reading him must feel the same incredible sense of intimacy with the voice speaking there. You want to reach out to him; he’s so vulnerable, and courageous, so unfairly vilified. You want to call him Derek.</p><p>In 1986, shortly after his HIV diagnosis, he bought Prospect Cottage, a fisherman’s shack in the shadow of Dungeness nuclear power station. In <i>Modern Nature,</i> my favourite book of his <span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);">— </span>the only book I’ve read ten times<span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);">—</span> he intertwines reflections on his creation of a garden at the cottage, with musings on health, creativity, and mortality. </p><img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/04/18/arts/17jarman2/merlin_171663492_0cec7a95-517b-47fc-b15c-8ab3e6f409bb-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale" class="size_orig justify_center border_" height="404" width="600" /><p>Dungeness <span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);">—</span> Britain's sole desert <span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);">— </span>is about as unlikely a habitat for a botanist as you can imagine. It is a microclimate of extremes, marked by drought, fierce winds, and corrosive sea-salt, which frequently damaged his plants. </p><p>But amidst this rocky expanse, overshadowed by the looming nuclear facility, Jarman dug deep into the shingle and crafted an unlikely sculptural garden out of hardy flaura and various bits of repurposed flotsam that he found washed up on the Ness’s shoreline.</p><p> </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/158064/6249787f9d32585dd51536712946f65997073bea/original/final-dj-6.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="567" width="592" /><p><i>Modern Nature </i>invites you to look closer at the landscape, the same way that Derek <span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);">— </span>who had initially dismissed the area as barren <span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);">— had only started to notice the unexpected abundance of flora and fauna that Dungeness supported after he had moved in. </span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);">The language he uses in <i>Modern Nature </i>guides you into this closer inspection — a</span>nd seems, somehow, to breathe life into the landscape, transforming what might appear desolate or inhospitable into a kind of paradise teeming with life.</p><p>Derek's descriptions are not merely factual, but are imbued with a poetic resonance, dancing with the rhythm of the seasons, and capturing the ephemeral beauty of blooming flowers, the delicate flutter of butterflies, and the ever-changing hues of the sky. </p><p>The book brimms with lists of flora: purple iris, borage, houseleeks, sedums, horned poppy, sea kale, dianthus, saxifrage, forget-me-nots, sempervivum, clove-scented gillyflowers, bluebells, calendula, santolina, mullein, viper’s bugloss... </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/158064/e3d1a99214fa542ec4ce70972321c6ac47d7a55c/original/image.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="801" width="685" /><p>I barely know what half of these things are, if I'm honest, and I don't care; the litany of beautiful names is enough. <i>Modern Nature </i>is a kind of ambient book (back to Eno again, as always); you don't read it for horizonal movement, for plot, or development <span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);">—</span> you read it for the mood it creates; you read it to immerse yourself in that world, for a while. </p><p><i>Tuesday 7</i><br><i> The rain and fine warm weather have quickened the landscape — brought the saturated spring colours early. The dead of winter is passed. Today Dungeness glowed under a pewter sky — shimmering emeralds, arsenic, sap, sage and verdigris greens washed bright, moss in little islands set off against pink pebbles, glowing yellow banks of gorse, the deep russet of dead bracken, and pale ochre of reeds in clumps set against the willow spinney; a deep burgundy, with silvery catkins and fans of ochre yellow stamens fringed with the slightest hint of lime green of newly burst leaves. </i><br><i> This symphony of colour I have seen in no other landscape. Dungeness is a premonition of the far North, a landscape Southerners might think dreary and monotonous, which sings like the birch woods in Sibelius' music…</i></p><p><i>Monday 28</i><br><i> Eno's “On Land” is the music of my view: a crescent moon under a dog star, clouds scudding in the grey dawn.</i></p><p>It’s a beautiful read; buy it now, if you haven’t read it <span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);">—</span> you’ll thank me later.</p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/158064/b97bae19fc3ae91ddf8179ee4aad3fa2f5acb89f/original/image.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="725" width="987" /><p>Of course, beyond his contributions to the arts, Derek was an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and HIV/AIDS awareness, and <i>Modern Nature, </i>as well as being beautifully written, also fizzes with anger. </p><p>Derek was enraged by the discrimination surrounding HIV, the suppression of information about the epidemic, and the inadequate research and funding that went into tackling the spread of the virus. He used his platform both to raise awareness about the AIDS crisis and to combat homophobia; his advocacy helped to destigmatize the virus and played a crucial role in shaping public perception and policy responses to the epidemic. </p><img src="https://www.apollo-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/1992-To-Have-and-to-Hold-Oil-and-photocopy-on-canvas-with-black-metal-foil-251.5-x-179-cm-WG-DJAR00500.jpg?resize=730%2C1013" class="size_orig justify_center border_" height="1013" width="730" /><p>Mixed in with all of this is a sense of frustration with England, and a yearning to return to a more expansive, more diverse, less jingoistic idea of what England — then in the throes of the Thatcher Revolution — could be. Like many, Jarman abhored the New Right's combination of ultra-liberal economics, with extremely restrictive morality, and felt that the emergence of AIDS had normalized levels of homophobia not witnessed since the 1950s. </p><p>And yet despite this (or perhaps because of it) he retained a deep, unwavering, almost idealistic love for England — albeit a kind of love clouded with disappointment and criticism.</p><p>His mixed feelings about England come across in <i>Modern Nature, </i>and the films he was making around this time <i>(The Last of England </i>and <i>The Garden) — </i>the same strand of thinking in Derek's work that I was drawing from when I was making my recent album, <i>Out of Season</i>.</p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/158064/07a4f832b095d3f73f6112269b895074f52d8946/original/image.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="668" width="967" /><p>As one of the first genuinely famous people to come out as HIV positive, he was a regular target for tabloid ire, grimly noted in <i>Modern Nature,</i> and reflected in his later paintings <span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);">— but</span> throughout, he remained charismatic, humorous, and brimming with mischief. Here he is, dealing with a photographer from <i>The Sun</i>, in 1989:</p><p><i>A letter from the Folkestone Herald alerted me: the Sun wanted to buy their photos of me. </i><br><i> Meanwhile the lawyers' letter to the People and the Mirror have produced an apology and a correct reporting of my HIV status under the headline 'Del's Not Dying'…</i><br><i> A motorbike draws up and a hapless reporter from the Sun clambers off. This is his third trip down here from London. </i><br><i> "Do you mind if I photo you?"</i><br><i> "Yes, but since one way or another you're going to, we might as well do a good job of it" […]</i><br><i> I fix him with a basilisk stare as he clicks away.</i><br><i> "You look uncomfortable", he remarks.</i><br><i> "Not as much as you should".</i><br><i> "Oh?"</i><br><i> "I'm writing a diary, which I'm publishing. You're today's entry. When all is said and done what I choose to write will, I expect, be the only trace of your life. Your memory is in my hands".</i><br><i> Long silence.</i><br><i> “The Sun's not kept by the British Museum; the paper destroys itself, it's so acid. When you get back, tell your editor to read the retraction in the People. Because the next time I'm going a million...”</i></p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/158064/7615378af058dc3b78f17afe569fa61a6d91fc93/original/final-dj-3.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="502" width="500" /><p>In his later years, he said he had two aims: to outlive the Thatcher government, and to survive AIDS. He achieved only one of those, of course; effective treatments for AIDS came along two years after he died. </p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/158064/c9117874e1fc9a440ca4120103e4a5c8d72c1d3f/original/image.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" height="538" width="692" /><p>I can only imagine what he would have created, had he survived, or what he would have thought of the last 30 years; what he would have thought of gay marriage; whether he would have thought it remarkable that HIV was survivable; what he would have thought of things like Brexit. He was a complicated man, with counterintuitive feelings about things; his opinions may well have surprised us.</p><p>Filmmaker; writer; poet; designer; gardener; painter; sculptor... he transcends the boundaries of medium, and reminds me that it's not dexterity nor technical skill that makes an artist, it's the sensibility.</p>Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/73404502024-01-26T14:20:27+00:002024-01-28T11:19:09+00:00UK Shows + New Videos + "Out of Season" Vinyl Release<p>Hello everybody — and happy new year to you!</p><p>Today marks the official release date of the vinyl version of <i>Out of Season</i>. </p><p>I’m incredibly happy with how the campaign has gone — the album has gone into distribution in the UK, China, and possibly (soon) the USA. It's outsold any other record I've made, and is actually in danger of selling out of it's physical edition. That's so crazy to me! </p><p>A million thanks to anyone who bought the album, streamed it, joined my mailing list, or contacted me with kind words over the last few months.</p><p>Right now, there are around 60 copies of <i>Out of Season </i>in each format at <a class="no-pjax" href="https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-season" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://u648841.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn%3DThHID0TQ0HXniDUCsbBBgxAcczLucg47vZ-2FgIEAx3wXCuvVqb7u3D3p58c1cRs0TRj1huGNmSxd7ZvjGwDF-2BhQo-2FesyBtnUFCo9Q7GQyC-2BX9lA4Be9fEZy-2BsXgi1mvDpwHsf6kt2MRBSTGJgxQ6GBFMmDXTAdvfukytI109Hq4o-3DxFa__uAGIKxVHnzoGVmPcnUwHmR-2BBS9JIHyCLmuWUWRYYkrr0j4g4yL1PUzQYUNZcp5crYASagtRU5SiWofVIKxp0ayeKguHUwHEcrH-2BxogAJul-2Fwx-2BFDb5gmmjqpC2YyzgQ7NO8dds3U78DGpOXQY-2BQ79X758gf6dJQNgRM3sTBV7d2zwbK-2BFCpwzqZeCJ3ww-2FWaiyvF5hqHAMOLeEOM-2F7LugnkLPpbccCyGT-2BxaxA-2FDa3GohD4NA-2FsH5C8ncNeCclpbMxsDG9PNh78GTwkvLIiLitnZHgJiyV1Ys-2Bx5OZnvdoPcIMLvxy-2Bn0BwT0XL1SL653WTwMDcenJvK6qqoP3-2FyXKMSDCqOaL9CplXmjEqn1MM-3D&source=gmail&ust=1706365008641000&usg=AOvVaw3qa1COoxVft0lxnBVzlvNr"><strong><u>my Bandcamp page</u></strong></a> — but if you want one, especially one of the Deluxe packages, I wouldn't hesitate. At the time of writing, there are only <strong>4 Deluxe LP </strong>versions of the album, and <strong>9 Deluxe CDs</strong> left. </p><p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);"><strong>► </strong></span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-season" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://u648841.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn%3DThHID0TQ0HXniDUCsbBBgxAcczLucg47vZ-2FgIEAx3wXCuvVqb7u3D3p58c1cRs0TRj1huGNmSxd7ZvjGwDF-2BhQo-2FesyBtnUFCo9Q7GQyC-2BX9lA4Be9fEZy-2BsXgi1mvDpwHsf6kt2MRBSTGJgxQ6GBFMmDXTAdvfukytI109Hq4o-3DrIx__uAGIKxVHnzoGVmPcnUwHmR-2BBS9JIHyCLmuWUWRYYkrr0j4g4yL1PUzQYUNZcp5crYASagtRU5SiWofVIKxp0ayeKguHUwHEcrH-2BxogAJul-2Fwx-2BFDb5gmmjqpC2YyzgQ7NO8dds3U78DGpOXQY-2BQ79X758gf6dJQNgRM3sTBV7d2zwbK-2BFCpwzqZeCJ3ww-2FWaiyvF5hqHAMOLeEOM-2F7Luguo2vcx-2Fjjfh9SxFghhN5ItTmQqwq9Nir-2FyNGTWe5k3zNTjwQCEIuDZ7jZy8CdjEdsKtrqUhP-2BhhxguC1rGoJ-2FqVN94MIojHynePZVbopB-2BstnwY69hnKdZu6gjWM7kFiztrKv2ID0jxcE8e7ZJpMeg-3D&source=gmail&ust=1706365008641000&usg=AOvVaw1lPJZ43ynQEHV8SD2P70yj"><strong><u>Purchase Here</u></strong></a></p><p><img src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NZAh4mFqaATzfAFKAB3li02UeJ8QbBAo-ljxfk3gYM4BRdWx7wGnBC1E3Bn7qcMxOECO-Y84V4S4a6IY9tUQVlYOgutUNyC5NcaZq-zn3E3fV0ultt21pTY6FwpIBDRHITHJ6BFC96BtX4A-RybAINezrUf2I3zPgoIiynWs4EHWfsED6WUSG5FVi1beltzCR1AiJmvkVbOsUr-HhvhC1mHJoU43I3JAbpNdsGUKnmKAJUe45vpP1DftwG16BCmbZn2f7I4=s0-d-e1-ft#https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/158064/5f9d327822edce20471731b3b261513d4cc3d51d/original/bandcamp-one-pic.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p><p>I’ve also got a few live shows planned for next year. I’m bringing my full band to Manchester and London for shows on 21 April and 22 April respectively — you can buy tickets for <a class="no-pjax" href="/shows" target="_blank" data-link-type="page" data-link-label="Shows" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://u648841.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn%3DThHID0TQ0HXniDUCsbBBgxAcczLucg47vZ-2FgIEAx3wXCuvVqb7u3D3p58c1cRs0TRj1huGNmSxd7ZvjGwDF-2BhQo-2FesyBtnUFCo9Q7GQyC-2BX9lA4Be9fEZy-2BsXgi1mvDpbZQBtmOxaxR4za5v6VgoFA-3D-3DmNE1_uAGIKxVHnzoGVmPcnUwHmR-2BBS9JIHyCLmuWUWRYYkrr0j4g4yL1PUzQYUNZcp5crYASagtRU5SiWofVIKxp0ayeKguHUwHEcrH-2BxogAJul-2Fwx-2BFDb5gmmjqpC2YyzgQ7NO8dds3U78DGpOXQY-2BQ79X758gf6dJQNgRM3sTBV7d2zwbK-2BFCpwzqZeCJ3ww-2FWaiyvF5hqHAMOLeEOM-2F7LugvaWBRaY0vHZt1PW5Qk-2FMT4BDsFv7ECLv8lS-2BLdkhe3rwKRJ0SRkl8zJbSt5RuYeY6STvdU80qUmH8Xh44AjlIgkqr9VBZHWsuI0B6ZfIR92nBMr86AjX3eODo6C-2F5jdzHBXfJtF1L6H-2FN7nDnhcIL8-3D&source=gmail&ust=1706365008641000&usg=AOvVaw2rPr1j-145AOTmRd-MxABH"><strong><u>either of those shows here</u></strong></a>.</p><p>There will be other shows announced soon!</p><p><img src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_Nb9VJoTRz4OYdiWu351Im2S8LiFuY6-ymrTiEeLnaNHrfKoRQBPCitogiGaTbkyBq0MlNslxsM5vWshp4ktsHx_QjbxwmtE-7SeoiV03IaGZ-YqQ_J1O-eJ0sx6JLYpFgA9LhngQk4Z8LtY-I6nlhYqmc9DZXqBq4Lzc58IQcKhcVwJ8MHSH_x_E1se=s0-d-e1-ft#https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/158064/fea7cb6e6feb73f2a736e8b1f6307a89db11b254/original/image.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p><p>Also, this morning, I've released a new music video for the single (and album track) “Alison”, which you can view at <a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.youtube.com/@DanielLand/featured" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://u648841.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn%3DThHID0TQ0HXniDUCsbBBgxAcczLucg47vZ-2FgIEAx3wXCuvVqb7u3D3p58c1cRs0TRj1huGNmSxd7ZvjGwDF-2BhQo-2FesyBtnUFCo9Q7GQyC-2BXYPK4dqfb70AaEu4Cal-2Bkua20anTaet4eeZPRXdIUDt7f5yVUmWnkzKtwLOC6tdG1QpQQZ6xIJ7dNeWxfXcjjvsnIE_uAGIKxVHnzoGVmPcnUwHmR-2BBS9JIHyCLmuWUWRYYkrr0j4g4yL1PUzQYUNZcp5crYASagtRU5SiWofVIKxp0ayeKguHUwHEcrH-2BxogAJul-2Fwx-2BFDb5gmmjqpC2YyzgQ7NO8dds3U78DGpOXQY-2BQ79X758gf6dJQNgRM3sTBV7d2zwbK-2BFCpwzqZeCJ3ww-2FWaiyvF5hqHAMOLeEOM-2F7LuglAuNV21RgJjXWinzEh0472DDP37AS2uizWgqFXyrwgzizGXJiqLlrsKs1mChnAWFa3BloFagj75B1Ghl3RNmR-2BJMVpvMYg3HTJRtkiQZSn1c4W5vmfoLsn6EaCS28Kud2KePlu1-2Bu3xEL5hLl4z3F8-3D&source=gmail&ust=1706365008641000&usg=AOvVaw2p4bERZNwS5Uje0V01PhlU"><strong><u>my YouTube channel</u></strong></a>. </p><p>I’d recommend following me there, as in the next few months I’ll be releasing a bunch of new things. Just today, for example, I’ve also released the first of a series of track-by-track explainer videos, talking about the background to <i>Out of Season </i>tracks, and the rest will be available soon. </p><p><img src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NaTtw60SMV5amCHtHWB1dtzWqDLMLyxhniz6UoSaeVN9JkoIPsMnP7oBDwDMDCqs4f2pr4YdCQhsijyulQNECGwXUKVfNOMfyYWveNyaUud59085d1Eziz32LIaSYFDHcR5XBZcr26ygOx4-EifDwDtpQJnjWvnALXQ0lgicWGH98wWa1lhpBsFp7_a=s0-d-e1-ft#https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/158064/c4eb830af20ec6b54e2dd6f8a8f636ab247008f1/original/image.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p><p>And in the coming weeks I'll be releasing three more music videos, a bunch of in-studio/making of clips, and a handful of visualiser videos accompanying some of the Alan Lidden “Deep Drone” ambient remixes of the album’s tracks!</p><p>Thanks to anyone who reads this; hope to see some of you at our gigs in 2024.</p><p>All the best </p><p>Daniel</p>Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/73121072023-12-01T11:01:28+00:002023-12-14T11:48:40+00:00"Another Year Older" Music Video + Bandcamp Friday<p>Hello everyone!</p><p>Just this morning I've released the second music video from <i>Out of Season. </i>The video is for the track "Another Year Older", which you can view here: </p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://youtu.be/dd5WgINWUe4?si=eSQkNYYrcuLmZy7G" target="_blank" data-link-type="url"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/158064/89b0ebea16fb07540feb7b1a2dacc408827cffc6/original/screenshot-2023-12-01-094726.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p><p>In line with the themes of the track, there are various embarrassing photos of me through the ages, which might raise a smile. The blonde Mohican look, circa 2003, has to be seen to be believed...</p><p>There's been some nice coverage of the album including <a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.famemagazine.co.uk/fm-premiere-daniel-land-another-year-older/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url"><strong>this from Fame Magazine</strong></a> who call <i>Out of Season</i> a <i><strong>"Magnum Opus"</strong></i> and say that I'm a <i><strong>"Pioneer, utilizing shoegaze’s sonic palette to embark on an outward-looking exploration of memory, identity, and desire"</strong></i> (wow!)</p><p>Today is Bandcamp Friday, so time to hawk my wares again. If you still want to pick up a copy of the album, it's the best day, as Bandcamp waive all of their selling fees.</p><p>I've added some merch bundles <a class="no-pjax" href="https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-season" data-link-type="url"><strong>to my shop</strong></a>, where you can purchase <i>Out of Season </i>along with its predecessor album <i>The Dream of the Red Sails </i>for a discounted price (which might be up to £10 savings for people who have to pay for overseas postage).</p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-season" data-link-type="url"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/158064/4fff3732f9c8ed5fa690bddf4f45ec3a24e32366/original/marketing-out-of-season-dream-of-sails.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p><p>Plus, I've also added some limited items including one of the <i>Out of Season </i>test pressings, and souvenirs from the creation of the album — the track-sheets I use to keep a record of what instruments have been recorded. Everything is available for immediate dispatch.</p><p>Wishing you all the best for the festive season.</p><p>Love,</p><p>Daniel<br> </p>Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/72980532023-11-03T08:43:49+00:002023-12-14T11:48:40+00:00"Out of Season" released today on CD and download!<p><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);">Hello everyone</span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);">I'm delighted to announce that my new album, <i>Out of Season, </i>has been released this morning on CD and download!</span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);">It is available to purchase on those formats, or on limited edition Deep Sea Green vinyl*, at </span><a class="no-pjax" href="danielland.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-season" data-link-type="url"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);"><strong>my Bandcamp store</strong></span></a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);">.</span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);">Deluxe editions of the album feature an album-length bonus CD, <i>Island of Ghosts</i>, featuring eight beautiful ambient remixes of <i>Out of Season </i>tracks.</span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);">At the time of writing there are only 15 of these left (of the initial run of 100) in each format, so don't hang around if you want one!</span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);">Thank you so much to everyone who purchased a copy of the album already, or who have sent me messages of support in the past few weeks. It means the world.</span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);">All the best</span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);">Daniel</span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);"><i>*The official vinyl release date is 26 January, 2024, but I will be dispatching any pre-orders from December 1st.</i></span><br> </p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-season" data-link-type="url"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/158064/5f9d327822edce20471731b3b261513d4cc3d51d/original/bandcamp-one-pic.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></a><br> </p>Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/72765202023-09-21T09:33:09+01:002023-10-28T10:31:49+01:00'Out of Season' — My New Album<p>Hello everyone!</p><p>The long wait is over! My new album, <i>Out of Season, </i>is finally available to pre-order on CD, or limited Deep Sea Green LP, with bonus items including album-length ambient remix EP. </p><p>You can pre-order it <a class="no-pjax" href="https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-season" target="_blank" data-link-type="url"><strong>at the following link</strong>,</a> ahead of the release date of 3 November.</p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/158064/46e8da93a8c4ebc67b97a622841d92bb5813c937/original/83-carrag-a-pilaz-higher-res-remini-enhanced-colour-adjusted.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /></p><p><i>Out of Season </i>is an album about history, memory, and nostalgia.</p><p>I started writing it in late 2018, and put it together over the next two or three years — both in London, and in a makeshift studio in a caravan on the West Somerset coast. During this time, UK was tearing itself apart over its relationship to Europe.</p><p>This is not a political album — I have a kind of horror of overtly political music. But like anyone in the UK, I couldn't escape the atmosphere of that time. In particular, the exaggerated and distorted idea of “Englishness”, deep in the national psyche (what the <i>Guardian </i>writer John Harris calls “a set of terms and contradictions about our past”), seemed to illustrate the dangers of nostalgia, or rather the dangers of taking seductive — and possibly false — memories at face value.</p><p><i>Out of Season</i> is about lots of things — my classic “themes” are memory and desire, and there's still plenty of that here. But the album is also a series of attempts to reclaim an older, more peculiar, and more diverse idea of England, which seemed to have been lost recently — the island of misfits and outsiders exemplified by the writings of Derek Jarman, for example, who I was re-reading when I was working on the album.</p><p>Derek Jarman had a deep, abiding love for England, but it was a very complicated, critical and queer kind of love — this was very much my mood, when making of this album.</p><p><i>Out of Season </i>is also a love letter to the west coast of Somerset, a place of rugged, strange beauty that I had adored when I was growing up, but hadn't visited for around twenty years.</p><p>Starting in 2019, I've been spending increasing amounts of time there, and much of the work of taking <i>Out of Season </i>over the finishing line happened there too, including the shooting of three upcoming videos for “Idlewild”, "White Chalk", and “Southern Soul”.</p><p>I wanted artwork that reflected the look of this area, and I found it in the most fitting of places — in the paintings of my high school art teacher, <a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.instagram.com/katy.barrell/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url"><strong>Katy Barrell</strong></a>.</p><p>I'd wanted to collaborate with Katy since I was a student of hers in mid-1990s, and with this album I was finally able to do so. <a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.katybarrell.com/" target="_blank" data-link-type="url"><strong>Katy's beautiful, semi-abstract landscapes</strong></a> grace the covers of both <i>Out of Season</i>, and the bonus EP, <i>Island of Ghosts</i>.</p><p>I've put a lot of care and attention into this release, and I'm delighted (and, I admit, a little nervous) to share it with the world! I hope you like it too.</p><p>Daniel</p><p style="text-align:center;">__________________________________________________</p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Out of Season — 3 November 2023</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">1. Alison<br>2. White Chalk<br>3. Lemon Boy<br>4. Island of Ghosts<br>5. Another Year Older<br>6. Southern Soul<br>7. Out of Season<br>8. Idlewild<br>9. Put Your Broken Arrows Down<br>10. Summerhome by the Sea<br>11. Wolf Moon<br> </p>Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/72737432023-09-15T09:18:49+01:002023-09-15T09:18:50+01:00New Album - More Studio Footage!<div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="eox6WgOnFRY" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eox6WgOnFRY?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p>Hello everyone!</p><p><span style="color:rgb(19,19,19);">I'm delighted to share a preview of another track from my upcoming album. </span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(19,19,19);">This is an instrumental snippet of what will be the title track. It's another of the more upbeat tracks on the album, but with a much darker feel than some of the other tracks — and one of the most unusual chord sequences I've come up with. </span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(19,19,19);">Sign up to my mailing list at </span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbkxZZ1d4bE9qTTNheTM1ZU5yUmlJY3dmeEU2d3xBQ3Jtc0trQk9HU0pja3JfcV83X2Q0YU42M3JlQ2FFYldFV3hPSndkOWpYWlBtRllBamJnMWtpNDFqRFY0RVkzeXlQeG5EMEJMNFlSelkxNlZKQTE0Q0hMb2h5SGNReE4tTzNSZXYyQk1DMXBkdUQxMTVVZG8tQQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fdanielland.co.uk%2F&v=eox6WgOnFRY" target="_blank" tabindex="0" rel="nofollow" force-new-state="true"><span style="color:rgb(6,95,212);">https://danielland.co.uk/</span></a><span style="color:rgb(19,19,19);"> to be among the first to hear when the album is available to order. </span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(19,19,19);">People on my list will have early bird access to album pre-orders, including a discounted price, and first refusal on some bonus items that may not available elsewhere. </span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(19,19,19);">You'll receive a free download of my recent single "Wolf Moon", and you can leave the mailing list at any time with one click.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(19,19,19);">Thanks as always to anyone who sees this..</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(19,19,19);">Daniel x</span></p>Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/72589302023-08-18T13:18:50+01:002023-08-18T13:19:18+01:00Another Studio Clip<p>Hello, lovely people!</p><p>Here's a preview of another track from my upcoming album. Like the last one, it's of the more upbeat tracks on the album, perhaps to counteract the impression given by the two singles I've released so far (<a class="no-pjax" href="https://danielland.bandcamp.com/track/white-chalk" data-link-type="url"><strong>'White Chalk'</strong></a> and <a class="no-pjax" href="https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/wolf-moon" data-link-type="url"><strong>‘Wolf Moon’</strong></a>), which were verrrry slow!</p><p>Also just to say that anyone on my mailing list will have early bird access to album pre-orders, including a discounted price, and some bonus items not available elsewhere. So, <a class="no-pjax" href="https://danielland.co.uk/mailing-list" data-link-type="url"><strong>sign up to my mailing list here</strong></a> to be among the first to hear when the album is available to order.</p><p>All the best</p><p>Daniel</p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="7syF8MrwVHE" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7syF8MrwVHE?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div>Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/72566982023-08-14T12:35:33+01:002023-08-14T12:35:33+01:00New Album of Songs - Studio Clips<p>Hello everyone</p><p>As I gear up for the release of a new album of songs, I'm sharing various clips from the creation of the record on my <a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.youtube.com/danielland" data-link-type="url"><strong>YouTube channel</strong></a>, and my <a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.facebook.com/daniellandmusic" data-link-type="url"><strong>Facebook</strong></a> and <a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.instagram.com/daniellandmusic/" data-link-type="url"><strong>Instagram</strong></a> profiles.</p><p>First up is this studio clip from the recording of the bass line of the album's opening songs. It's one of the more upbeat tracks on the album.</p><p>People on my mailing list will have early bird access to album pre-orders including a discounted price and some bonus items not available elsewhere. So, make sure to <a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.danielland.co.uk/email-opt-in" data-link-type="url"><strong>sign up to my mailing list here</strong></a> to be among the first to hear when the album is available to order.</p><p>Looking forward!</p><p>Daniel</p><p> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="Cqq1y-Pg_TM" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cqq1y-Pg_TM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div>Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/72498832023-07-31T16:29:17+01:002023-07-31T16:30:21+01:00Live shows playing guitar in Darkher<p>Hello everyone</p><p>There'll be news on my next album very, very soon, but in the meantime, just a quick update to say that after a decade-long gap I'm working with <a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.darkher.net/" data-link-type="url"><strong>Darkher</strong></a> again, playing guitar in various upcoming shows!</p><p>I've contributed a little bit of guitar and some backing vocals to all the Darkher records, but this is the first time in a decade since I've done any real shows with Jayn, since my time in her previous band, The Steals.</p><p>Folks in the Manchester area might be interested in our next show, at Todmorden Unitarian Church on Saturday 26 August. <a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.wegottickets.com/darkher" data-link-type="url"><strong>Tickets here if anyone fancies it</strong></a>. <br><br>FYI Todmorden is an easy journey from Manchester Victoria, and the venue is 5 mins walk from the station. I'll post details of other shows as and when I know what they are!</p><p>All the best</p><p>Daniel</p><p> </p><p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/158064/87f51ce9da1727ef4032a64d96f761d88652cac0/original/5a13c683-6494-41cb-924d-4afc28d14af9.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/71324492023-01-06T07:13:41+00:002023-05-22T07:55:13+01:00My New Single - "Wolf Moon"<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158064/4446ad36625c90c9aaaad1ac5417dc55591383ca/original/wolf-moon-promo-fb-cover-photo.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.png" class="size_xl justify_center border_thin" alt="" /><br>Hello everyone,</p>
<p>Today is the first full moon of the new year – the Wolf Moon, to be precise – and also the birthday of my bandmate, Gary, so this seemed like an auspicious day to drop an album teaser called, appropriately enough, "Wolf Moon". </p>
<p>Anybody on my mailing list will have received a free download of the track this morning. If you want a free download, either:</p>
<ul> <li>Sign-up to <strong><a contents="my mailing list here" data-link-label="Email opt-in" data-link-type="page" href="/email-opt-in" target="_blank">my mailing list here</a></strong>, or </li> <li>Go to the <a contents="Wolf Moon page at my Bandcamp" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/wolf-moon" target="_blank"><strong>Wolf Moon page at my Bandcamp</strong></a> and enter £0.00 in the "Name Your Price" section (you will be prompted to provide an email address). </li>
</ul>
<p>"Wolf Moon" is the somewhat-proggy closing track to what will be my upcoming album of songs. Like the previous single, "White Chalk", it's a little on the slow side – perhaps not fully representative of an album which, while it has its fair share of sad-gaze, also has plenty of light, upbeat and jangly moments. </p>
<p>But more details on all of that shortly. For now, at the beginning of what will be a busy few years of releases, I just want to thank my small but dedicated band of listeners for waiting patiently while I got my shizzle sorted out, and to wish you a happy new year, and a peaceful and prosperous 2023. </p>
<p>Love, </p>
<p>Daniel </p>Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/71323642023-01-04T12:10:07+00:002023-01-04T15:37:25+00:00Watch this space...<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158064/4313f8f8d086062159758040c0adc25e344f5664/original/purple-moon-01.png/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.png" class="size_xl justify_center border_thin" alt="" /></p>
<p>Happy new year, everybody!</p>
<p>Make sure to check back here on Friday, 6 January 2023 for the announcement of some new music. Alternatively, you can sign up to my mailing list <a contents="at this page" data-link-label="Email opt-in" data-link-type="page" href="/email-opt-in"><strong>at this page</strong></a> to receive an email update on the day. </p>
<p>Looking forward...</p>
<p>Daniel</p>Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/68895642022-02-05T17:51:27+00:002023-12-10T16:52:20+00:00"Crow Covert": A new riverrun album<p>Hello everybody, </p>
<p>I'm delighted to announce a new album by my ambient side-project <strong><a contents="riverrun" data-link-label="riverrun" data-link-type="page" href="/riverrun" style="" target="_blank">riverrun</a>, </strong>which is available to purchase now at the riverrun <a contents="Bandcamp page" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://riverrun.bandcamp.com/album/crow-covert" target="_blank"><strong>Bandcamp page</strong></a>.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158064/2e88a5de37344b25503075a48376beef710b87aa/original/temp01.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_thin" alt="" /></p>
<p>The album is called <em>Crow Covert, </em>and it is the second album in a trilogy of works focused on the landscapes of Somerset. It was recorded at a temporary studio I set up in a holiday home on the Somerset coast, where I've visited every autumn since 2019. </p>
<p>The album is available to stream, download, or purchase on CD <a contents="at my Bandcamp page" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://riverrun.bandcamp.com/album/crow-covert"><strong>at my Bandcamp page</strong></a>. The CD version is presented in digipak format and contains liner notes made out of diaries I kept during my stays in the West Somerset area. <br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158064/39cc929deeeee7d5d5043132fdb9b3bb1f6c8b04/original/temp-02.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_thin" alt="" /></p>
<p>This is the last thing I will release before turning my attention to the 2x albums worth of songs I'm hoping to release through 2022 and 2023. </p>
<p>More on that shortly, I hope :)</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158064/126aa44150c5ba2c6e3ce825939b5e9755462bd6/original/temp02.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_thin" alt="" /></p>Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/66758982021-07-01T12:49:29+01:002023-01-05T17:31:49+00:00New song premier on Eardrum Buzz radio<p>Hello everybody, </p>
<p>A new song of mine, called 'Idlewild', will premier on Marcus Mayes' radio show on Eardrum Buzz radio this weekend. </p>
<p>'Idlewild' is from my forthcoming album of songs, details of which I hope to be able to share with you soon. </p>
<p>The shows airs online at <a contents="www.eardrumbuzz.net" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.eardrumbuzz.net" target="_blank"><strong>www.eardrumbuzz.net</strong></a> at the following times: </p>
<p>UK: <br>- Friday 2 July (13:00 and 20:00) <br>- Sunday 4 July (11:00) </p>
<p>PDT: <br>- Friday 2 July (05:00 and 12:00) <br>- Sunday 4 July (03:00) </p>
<p>The show is repeated a couple of times across the weekend, but if you're not able to catch it, don't worry - I'm hoping to release the song as a single in the next few months.<br><br>Thanks to Marcus for playing the song. Marcus, some of you may remember, was the first drummer in Daniel Land & The Modern Painters!<br><br>Thanks as always to anyone who reads this...<br><br>Daniel Land<br><em>Harringay, London</em></p>Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/65656232021-03-05T11:57:34+00:002022-03-11T18:36:59+00:00Avalon Marsh - a new riverrun album<p>Hello everybody, </p>
<p>This morning, I have released a new album by my ambient side-project <a contents="riverrun" data-link-label="riverrun" data-link-type="page" href="/riverrun" target="_blank"><strong>riverrun</strong></a>. </p>
<p>The album is called <em>Avalon Marsh</em>, and comprises two longform tracks, inspired by the landscapes of West Somerset, where the album was recorded in the autumns of 2019 and 2020. </p>
<p>The album is available to stream, download, or purchase on CD, <a contents="at the following link" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://riverrun.bandcamp.com/album/avalon-marsh" target="_blank"><strong>at the following link</strong></a>. </p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158064/5d1569f8e3678d41a24ad50fe25fcd88ec25d220/original/attempt11.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.png" class="size_l justify_center border_thin" alt="" /></p>
<p>The music is nostalgic, contemplative, and meditative, with a slightly spooky edge - like the landscapes that inspired it. </p>
<p>The CD version is presented in digipak format - a first for me - and contains a mini-essay about the album's creation.</p>
<p>Thank you - all the best, and here's hoping 2021 is much better for everyone. </p>
<p>Daniel Land</p>Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/62055312020-02-06T10:42:27+00:002023-01-05T17:30:51+00:00White Chalk - a new single<p>I've recently released a single called 'White Chalk'. This is one of the tracks that will be on my next album of songs. </p>
<p>If you'd like to listen, stream or download the track, you can do so <a contents="from my Bandcamp page at the following location" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://danielland.bandcamp.com/track/white-chalk" target="_blank"><strong>from my Bandcamp page at the following location</strong></a>. It should also be available on the major streaming sites, such as Spotify, from 21 February or thereabouts. </p>
<p>In terms of the actual album release, much depends on whether I can interest a label or not. I'll be in touch as soon as I know anything concrete... </p>
<p>I've had some amazing feedback on this song, I hope you like it too! </p>
<p><br>Daniel Land<br>London, February 2020<br><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://danielland.bandcamp.com/track/white-chalk" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158064/b2399a34d5ee694cd63b098a747a7bbe07381b0f/original/a2378526166-10.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_thin" alt="" /></a></p>Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/61363812020-01-20T18:54:04+00:002021-12-12T17:07:14+00:00New riverrun album - 'The Same Silent Hill'<p>I'm very happy to announce a new <a contents="riverrun" data-link-label="riverrun" data-link-type="page" href="/riverrun" target="_blank"><strong>riverrun</strong></a> album called <em>The Same Silent Hill,</em> the first album of shorter riverrun pieces I have released since 2016's <em>Romer Shoal.</em></p>
<p>These works were put together in fits and starts during the past half-decade, mainly at my home studio in London but also on location in the Poole Harbour area. Poole Harbour is a vast, wonderful, but relatively unknown area of natural beauty that I visited and loved as a child, and which I have had the fortune to rediscover again, as an adult, in the past few years. The album is, in many ways, a tribute to the area.</p>
<p><em>The Same Silent Hill</em> is available to order now as a limited edition CD, or digital download, <a contents="from the following link" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://riverrun.bandcamp.com/album/the-same-silent-hill" target="_blank"><strong>from the following link</strong></a>. The CD version is presented in a jewel case with a 4-page booklet and full colour art throughout, and will be shipped the first week of February. All orders come with an immediate digital download of the full album.</p>
<p>Daniel Land<br>January 2020<br><br><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://riverrun.bandcamp.com/album/the-same-silent-hill" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158064/c502b6e15a4230f174d1b9c488def5725d6a371b/original/final-trimmed.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_thin" alt="" /></a></p>Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/57429082019-05-04T19:50:02+01:002022-05-18T14:10:21+01:00New riverrun album - 'Southernmost' - CD/Download available<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158064/5c5dde60ead9ba7c3d040003843aa16fdefdab48/original/header.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_xl justify_center border_thin" alt="" /></p>
<p>Hello everyone, </p>
<p>I'm happy to announce a new album by my ambient side-project <a contents="riverrun" data-link-label="riverrun" data-link-type="page" href="/riverrun" target="_blank"><strong>riverrun</strong></a>, called 'Southernmost'. This album is a collaboration between myself and the Californian ambient musician <a contents="William Delano" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://williamdelano.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank"><strong>William Delano</strong></a> - but I think you'll find it's very much in the <strong>riverrun</strong> style. </p>
<p>The album is available now as a digital download, or as a limited edition CD. </p>
<p><strong><a contents="Click here to buy a CD, stream, or download from Bandcamp" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://riverrun.bandcamp.com/album/southernmost">Click here to buy a CD, stream, or download from Bandcamp</a> <br><a contents="Click here to read more about riverrun" data-link-label="riverrun" data-link-type="page" href="/riverrun" target="_blank">Click here to read more about riverrun</a> <br><a contents="Click here for some other music by William Delano" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://williamdelano.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Click here for some other music by William Delano</a></strong></p>
<p>You may notice that this new album has been released from a <strong><a contents="dedicated riverrun Bandcamp page" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://riverrun.bandcamp.com" target="_blank">dedicated riverrun Bandcamp page</a></strong>. I've done this to help separate out the various strands of my work - so, my <strong><a contents="songs" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://danielland.bandcamp.com" target="_blank">songs</a></strong>, my <strong>riverrun</strong> material, and other projects will all have their own Bandcamp pages (more on some of those other projects shortly!) </p>
<p>In the coming weeks I'll upload the other <strong>riverrun</strong> albums, plus a few rarities and curiosities - including some live recordings, and a ten-hour long version of the <em>Lilliput </em>generative composition I released last year!</p>
<p>Thanks as always for your interest!</p>
<p>Daniel</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/55821862019-01-05T14:35:57+00:002020-08-28T07:53:51+01:00My new album 'The Dream Of The Red Sails' - Out Now!<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158064/a0680b673bff9443f7ad2f53f90fb8164e6dfd77/original/small.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_thin" alt="" /></p>
<p>Happy New Year to you all! :) </p>
<p>And happy album release date to me! I'm pleased to announce that my new album, <em>The Dream Of The Red Sails</em>, is out now! </p>
<p>If you're still wanting a copy, you can get one <u><a contents="from my Bandcamp page" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/the-dream-of-the-red-sails" target="_blank"><strong>from my Bandcamp page</strong></a></u>. The album is presented in a sturdy Super Jewel Case format, with a 12-page booklet and full colour artwork throughout - and any CD orders will be sent the next working day. </p>
<p>From that link, you can buy the album on its own, or as a limited edition bundle with the bonus mini-album <em>A Certain Kind of Light</em>. But do hurry, there are only ten copies that bundle left. <br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158064/c1c7dc16f40b1d987c4634817f66a091fffc4fdd/original/cds.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_thin" alt="" /></p>
<p>If you prefer to 'try before you buy', the full album is also available to stream <strong><a contents="available to stream&nbsp;here" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/the-dream-of-the-red-sails" target="_blank">here</a></strong>. It is also live on Spotify, Amazon Music, iTunes, and all major digital platforms. </p>
<p>I've attached a free mp3 download of the album track 'Long Before The Weather' to this post as well. I hope you enjoy it! </p>
<p>Warmest regards </p>
<p>Daniel Land <br>London</p>
<p> </p>6:08Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/54204632018-09-11T11:15:00+01:002022-01-29T15:12:02+00:00My new album 'The Dream Of The Red Sails' - Get your name in the credits!<p>Hello everyone, <br><a contents="" data-link-label="The Dream Of The Red Sails" data-link-type="page" href="/the-dream-of-the-red-sails"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158064/c4cfd0258497ae906131c680fb2f96a760b6cc3a/original/cover-low-res.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_right border_thin" alt="" /></a></p>
<p>I'm exceptionally happy to announce that my new album of songs, <em>The Dream Of The Red Sails</em>, is available to pre-order now! </p>
<p><em>The Dream Of The Red Sails</em> is an album of summery, wide screen Dream-Pop which, for me at least, is the most satisfying and complete album I've ever made. </p>
<p>But don't just take my word for it! I've attached a free download of 'Skindivers', from the album, to this post. And you can pre-order, or find out more about the album, from the links below. </p>
<p>The album will be officially released on January 7th. However, anyone who pre-orders the album from this website will receive the album by December, in plenty of time for Christmas. </p>
<p>The album is available on CD, and you can throw in a bit of extra cash to get an exclusive bonus mini-album called <em>A Certain Kind of Light</em> (which features six new unreleased tracks on it), plus access to exclusive bonus material (including instrumental versions, an audio commentary, and an exclusive unreleased track) – AND, as thanks for your extra support, you will get "thank you" in the album credits! <br><br><u><strong><a contents="Click here to pre-order the album&nbsp;" data-link-label="Preorder" data-link-type="page" href="/preorder">Click here to pre-order the album </a></strong></u><br><br>Best wishes, as always<br> </p>
<p><strong>Daniel Land </strong><br><em>London, September 2018</em></p>4:17Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/53405872018-07-11T08:06:01+01:002023-05-22T07:55:13+01:00New Single - 'Skindivers' - Fourth album coming soon<p>I'm delighted to present my new track 'Skindivers', the first slice from my forthcoming album of summery Dream Pop.</p>
<p>The track is available to stream from the media player at the bottom of my website, where you can also <em>download the song for free </em>in exchange for joining my mailing list! Just click on the word <strong>FREE</strong> in the bottom right-hand corner of the page.</p>
<p>Anyone on my list will have access to unique album pre-order options, once the release is announced. </p>
<p>'Skindivers' is also available to purchase at <a contents="Bandcamp" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://danielland.bandcamp.com/track/skindivers" target="_blank"><strong>Bandcamp</strong></a>, stream at <a contents="Soundcloud" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://soundcloud.com/danielland/skindivers-single" target="_blank"><strong>Soundcloud</strong></a>, and will shortly be available from iTunes, Spotify, Deezer, Amazon, and other mainstream streaming/downloading platforms. </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Daniel</p>
<p> </p>Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/50892742018-02-20T18:23:12+00:002018-07-11T07:55:18+01:00'Lilliput' CDs now sold out; standard download version still available<p>Hello everyone,</p>
<p>The CD copies of the new <strong>riverrun </strong>album <em>Lilliput </em>sold out within three weeks, which is a record for a <strong>riverrun</strong> release. Wow! I cannot thank you all for coming along with me, on this unique little experiment!</p>
<p>I hope that those of you who bought the CDs enjoy them as much as I have enjoyed this whole process. </p>
<p>For those that missed out on the limited run of CDs, you can still download a 'standard' version of the album from my Bandcamp page <a contents="here" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/lilliput" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a>, or you can read more about the album and its compositional process <a contents="here" data-link-label="Lilliput" data-link-type="page" href="/lilliput" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a>.</p>
<p>I may compile some of the nicer, unexpected and unplanned moments from the larger composition into another release; please let me know if this is something you might be interested in. Either way, some selections from the longer composition will feature on a forthcoming non-narrative <strong>riverrun </strong>film - and it's also highly likely that I'll conduct a similar experiment for a future release. </p>
<p>Thank you for your continued interest in my music!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Daniel Land<br>Hampshire, February 2018</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/50190872018-01-14T18:00:00+00:002020-09-23T11:25:33+01:00New riverrun album available - fifty unique CD versions<p>Hello everyone, and a Happy New Year to you all!</p>
<p>I'm very excited to announce a special new album by my ambient side-project <strong>riverrun</strong>, which is available to order now. </p>
<p>The album is a long, evolving piece of music that runs to over 50 hours in length – and each CD copy of the album contains a unique 60-minute “slice” of the composition, subtly different from every other copy in existence!</p>
<p>The album is available in a strictly limited run of 50 hand-numbered copies, from this website, where you can also listen to some samples of the piece. Alternatively, a standard (i.e. non-unique) download version will be available from my Bandcamp page in early February, once the CD copies have shipped. </p>
<p>To buy the album, or listen to samples, <u><strong><a contents="head to this link" data-link-label="Lilliput" data-link-type="page" href="/lilliput" target="_blank">head to this link</a></strong></u>, or check out <a contents="www.danielland.co.uk/lilliput" data-link-label="Lilliput" data-link-type="page" href="/lilliput"><u><strong>www.danielland.co.uk/lilliput</strong></u></a></p>
<p><u><strong><a contents="" data-link-label="Lilliput" data-link-type="page" href="/lilliput"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/158064/f5d6aa789cd27eba79661c8bc529882c52db44b5/large/modernlandscapes-mix.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_thin" alt="" /></a></strong></u></p>Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/48192572017-08-19T09:32:58+01:002022-03-16T09:16:14+00:00'A Single Man' album available again / Free download of Red House Painters cover<p>Just a quick one to note that my 2013 solo album <em>A Single Man</em> is available to purchase again, as a CD or a download, <strong><u><a contents="from my Bandcamp page" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/a-single-man" target="_blank">from my Bandcamp page</a></u></strong>. </p>
<p>I made <em>A Single Man</em> to document the kind of things I was doing in my solo shows at the time - these shows were similar to acoustic performances, but with an electric guitar, and some nice guitar effects. I came to call them my "ambient solo" sets. </p>
<p>If you want to hear an example, this post contains an mp3 download of my cover of the Red House Painters song 'Mistress' from around this time, which should give you a good idea of what I mean.</p>
<p><em>A Single Man</em> is a full-length album, and contains hushed, stripped-down versions of Modern Painters songs such as 'Echo & Narcissus', as well as a handful of tracks unique to this release such as 'Amsterdam', 'Cinderella City', and 'Limerick'. It also contains the solo version of 'The Sweetest Lover', later released (in a full band version) on <em>In Love With A Ghost. </em></p>
<p>This album was released privately and quietly, and I had planned to let it drift into obscurity forever - but then I found a box of CDs that I forgot I had. So now seems as good a time as any to make it available again - if only for a while. </p>
<p>There are around 25 CDs and I have no plans to make any more after they're gone. If anyone wants one, you can get one <strong><u><a contents="from my&nbsp;Bandcamp" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/a-single-man" target="_blank">from my Bandcamp</a></u></strong> where the album is also available to stream or download. </p>
<p>Enjoy :)</p>
<p> </p>Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/47985312017-08-01T09:13:44+01:002021-08-29T13:23:35+01:00The World In Tune - Expedia Commission<p>So, here's a thing that I've been involved with over the last couple of months, but not really spoken about until now. </p>
<p>I was commissioned by Expedia to create a generative ambient music composition, featuring musicians from all around the world. It turned out rather well - and seems to be getting some excellent press from Forbes and the like. </p>
<p>The composition is split across 16 videos, with musicians on six continents, each of whom are playing simple musical parts that are designed to work with the others, wherever they are set going. Each musician's contribution is a slightly different length, so in true Eno-style, it should never exactly repeat itself, and each viewer makes their own subtly different version of the piece from everyone else. </p>
<p>I've included the link below in case anyone wants to have a play with it, themselves.</p>
<p>I'm rather happy with how this turned out! </p>
<p>World In Tune at Expedia: <a contents="http://www.expedia.co.uk/vc/the-world-in-tune/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.expedia.co.uk/vc/the-world-in-tune/" target="_blank">http://www.expedia.co.uk/vc/the-world-in-tune/</a> <br>Forbes Article: <a contents="https://www.forbes.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/melissamdaniels/2017/07/21/new-interactive-project-brings-together-musicians-from-around-the-world/#4f63d14da37d" target="_blank">Forbes.com</a></p>Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/46936062017-05-02T18:01:10+01:002022-03-11T18:42:57+00:00James G Anderson's film "Tuktoyaktuk"<p>Happy to share an online stream of James G Anderson's film "Tuktoyaktuk", which features my riverrun track "Conover Beacon" as the soundtrack :) <br><br>This excellent short film is currently showing at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto, as part of Johan Hallberg Campbell's 'Coastal' project exhibition, which is well worth checking it for anyone in the area. It was shot with drones in sub-zero temperatures (apparently sometimes as low as -30c!) in Tuktoyaktuk, in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.<br><br>Well done James and Johan - looks great! <br><br><strong>To stream the film: </strong><a contents="https://vimeo.com/201731002" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://vimeo.com/201731002" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/201731002</a><br><strong>To stream the original track:</strong> <a contents="https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/romer-shoal" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/romer-shoal">https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/romer-shoal</a></p>Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/44932292016-11-25T09:55:00+00:002018-07-11T07:55:32+01:00You wait four years for a new Daniel Land album, and then...<p>Hello everyone, </p>
<p>Happy release day to me! I'm pleased to announce that my new album of songs, <em>In Love With A Ghost </em>is now available to purchase worldwide via all the usual platforms - including Amazon, iTunes, and selected independent record stores - and of course, <a contents="from my own store!" data-link-label="Store" data-link-type="page" href="/store"><strong>from my own store!</strong></a></p>
<p>Some exceptionally kind words and reviews coming in, including this one from Primal Music, who said: <br><br><em>"Land demands some kind of greater perspective or respect with this album... this is a dreamy, original and somewhat experimental piece of pop music, built on the genius of performance, production, song writing and sound". </em><br><br>But don't take my word for it! The full album is available to listen, stream or buy at the following locations, and there are plenty of CDs available at either of these links as well: </p>
<p>From my website: <strong><a contents="http://danielland.co.uk/store " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://danielland.co.uk/store" target="_blank">http://danielland.co.uk/store </a></strong><br>From my Bandcamp: <a contents="https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/in-love-with-a-ghost " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/in-love-with-a-ghost"><strong>https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/in-love-with-a-ghost </strong></a></p>
<p>Thanks so much to everyone who bought one so far! All previous outstanding CD copies of the album were shipped on the 1st, 17th and 23rd of this month depending on when they were ordered, and I've also released the digital pre-orders as well. <br><br> </p>
<p><u><strong>BUT THAT'S NOT ALL - THERE'S MORE! </strong></u></p>
<p>SURPRISE! I'm also releasing a second album today. </p>
<p>Disclaimer: this is not a song album. It is the new album my ambient side project<a contents=" riverrun" data-link-label="riverrun" data-link-type="page" href="/riverrun"><strong> riverrun</strong></a>. The new record, <em>Romer Shoal </em>is the fourth <strong>riverrun </strong>album and may be of interest for any fans of ambient music, particularly those of Harold Budd or Brian Eno (particularly his <em>On Land </em>era). </p>
<p>Like<em> In Love With A Ghost</em>, the album was largely inspired by the time that my partner and I spent in and around the New York area in 2014 and 2015, but this time more focused on the coastal or harbour areas.... I see it as a companion piece to the new song album - alternative sides of the same coin - and for a while I considered releasing the two as a double album. </p>
<p>Having lived with this album for some time now, I think it's possibly the best<strong> riverrun </strong>album, and definitely my favourite one. In fact, this is one of the few records that I've made that I actually enjoy going back to listen to. </p>
<p>I'm very aware that this kind of music doesn't have as broad an audience as my song work, so for anyone that wants to take a chance on it, you can download the album free of charge for a limited period at <a contents="my Bandcamp page" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.danielland.bandcamp.com"><strong>my Bandcamp page</strong></a>. There is, of course, also a limited run of 50 CDs for the discerning few of you who still prefer to have physical copies of things ;-) </p>
<p>To buy the CD, click here: <a contents="http://danielland.co.uk/store " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://danielland.co.uk/store"><strong>http://danielland.co.uk/store </strong></a><br>To claim a free download, click here: <a contents="https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/romer-shoal " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/romer-shoal"><strong>https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/romer-shoal </strong></a></p>
<p>You can also watch a video for an edit of the long last track "Dubos Point", which I shot on Coney Island in 2014, <a contents="by clicking here" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp4IgWkq54I" target="_blank"><strong>by clicking here</strong></a>. Or you can read more general information about my <strong>riverrun</strong> project <a contents="by clicking here" data-link-label="riverrun" data-link-type="page" href="/riverrun"><strong>by clicking here</strong></a>. Please feel free to share this email with any friends you might think would enjoy this kind of music or appreciate the free download!</p>
<p>Thanks everyone, </p>
<p><br>Daniel Land <br>London, November 2016 </p>
<p><br>Email: DanielLandMusic@gmail.com <br>Website: www.danielland.co.uk</p>Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/44431432016-10-29T11:22:52+01:002018-06-09T10:55:03+01:00"New York Boogie-Woogie" gets top billing on BBC Fresh On The Net<p>My new song "New York Boogie-Woogie" gets top billing in BBC Tom Robinson's <a contents="Fresh On The Net" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://freshonthenet.co.uk/2016/10/faves215/" target="_blank"><strong>Fresh On The Net</strong></a> this week. Thanks so much to Tom, the readers, and Sharon Pearce for picking the track and the kind words :) </p>
<p>There's so many reviews and kind words coming in that I'm finding it hard to keep up - thanks so much to everyone for the kind words on the new music, it's nice to be back!<br><br>If you want to order pre-order my album <em>In Love With A Ghost</em>, you can do so now from my own store <a contents="by clicking here" data-link-label="Store" data-link-type="page" href="/store" target="_blank"><strong>by clicking here</strong></a>. Any purchases come with an <em>immediate </em>download of the new album, and I'll be sending the CDs way in advance of the official November 25th release date.<br> </p>Daniel Landtag:danielland.co.uk,2005:Post/44204712016-10-25T11:10:00+01:002018-06-09T10:56:07+01:00My new album "In Love With A Ghost"<p>Hello everyone!<br><br>Things have been very quiet for the last few years - but I'm happy to finally announce the release of my new album of songs, <em>In Love With a Ghost</em>, on November 25th :) <a contents="You can order the album now at my Bandcamp" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/in-love-with-a-ghost" target="_blank">You can order the album now <strong>at my Bandcamp</strong></a><strong> page</strong>. Thank you to everyone for bearing with me over the last few years while I got my stuff together! <br><br><a contents='Heres a link to the video for&nbsp;"New York Boogie-Woogie"' data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.theskinny.co.uk/videos/music/daniel-land-new-york-boogie-woogie-video-premiere" target="_blank"><strong>Here's a link to the video</strong> for the track "New York Boogie-Woogie"</a> that I shot in New York in 2014/15 with the assistance of my lovely boyfriend and friends. Thanks to the website The Skinny for premiering this, and for the kind words. Onwards and upwards!<br><br>Daniel <br><br><strong>Order the album</strong>: <a contents="https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/in-love-with-a-ghost" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/in-love-with-a-ghost">https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/in-love-with-a-ghost</a><br><strong>Watch the video</strong>: <a contents="http://www.theskinny.co.uk/videos/music/daniel-land-new-york-boogie-woogie-video-premiere" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.theskinny.co.uk/videos/music/daniel-land-new-york-boogie-woogie-video-premiere">http://www.theskinny.co.uk/videos/music/daniel-land-new-york-boogie-woogie-video-premiere</a></p>Daniel Land