David Karsten Daniels - Falling Down
You know that feeling where you stumble and time seems to expand before you hit the ground? In those long seconds it takes until impact you enter a momentarily surreal state waiting for the inevitable – a tiny taste of the dreamlike clarity often mentioned by those who have near death experiences. No? oh well …
David Karsten Daniels pretty much nails those few seconds of limbo in this serene but slightly stomach-churning account of a car spilling off an icy mountain road. If you listen to the lyrics you will be lost in thoughts of mortality and tragedy as Daniels unfolds his brief tale ‘Maybe I’m invincible - I just don’t think I can die’ – but in the seconds - seeming like hours - I came to see I might …’ he says in his half-spoken Jonathan Richman-like delivery.
The metronomic beat from a stabbing piano adds to the human drama, accenting those last few second as the runaway car hurtles through the trees, eventually building to an apolcalyptic crescendo as a burning fireball of a guitar solo over an increasingly crashing limb-twisting drum pattern.
Daniels is a Seattle-based songwriter schooled in composition and free improv, originally piecing together lo-fi albums with found sounds and creating lyrics from newspaper stories. His more recent efforts have become more focused and orchestrated, although still have his voice and guitar at their heart. Falling Down is released today and taken from his Fear Of Flying album on Fat Cat Records. It is also the ‘five day favourite’ on Samanthi’s QPM show on Q Radio and you can hear it each evening this week.
[You can hear Falling Down by David Karsten Daniels]
And you can see a live performance here:
11:51 AM | 28/07/2008
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