The third and final Extended Play of 2025 from Daniel Crommie "EP3" will be released on Tuesday, December 2nd. Four pieces: two songs and two instrumentals are included, with one featuring Colin Henson (ex-Jade Warrior) on electric guitars and bass. EP3 will be available to stream and/or download at all platforms such as Spotify, Amazon Music and Apple Music. Listen and download at BandCamp.
A new Daniel Crommie with Leslie Gray album "Harbinger" to be released Tuesday, November 4th. The third installment of their collaborations featuring winds (concert flute, alto flute, tin whistle), strings (electric violin, viola and cello) and electronics has 11 tracks of ambient instrumentals in a dark trance/chill mode. Colin Henson (ex-Jade Warrior and current DC Sound Collective contributor) plays on one track. Listen and download from BandCamp.
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Coming Tuesday, September 2nd:
Radius is the eighth album from Direct Current Sound Collective (DC Sound Collective). A mix of progressive electronics with jazz inflections including stalwart members Eldon Hardenbrook (bass, guitars, keyboards) and Daniel Crommie playing flutes, keyboards and other instruments - and featuring contributions from Colin Henson on guitars (ex-Jade Warrior), Leslie Gray played cello and electric violin (Saturnalia Trio and collaborist with Daniel Crommie), Jon Davis Miller on acoustic guitars, Dave Thatcher on percussion and Stephen Lindberg on electric guitar. Founded in 2010 stemming from the pairing of Daniel Crommie and Glyn Havard (ex-Jade Warrior) on the album “Direct Current”, the collective has grown to include other instrumentalists from diverse backgrounds, creating a unique and colorful soundscape. 11 tracks / 62+ minutes / download & streaming from the usual platforms only. Download from BandCamp.
This 1984 album was a significant turning point for Daniel Crommie - transitioning from esoteric folk troubadour to eccentric experimental electronic artist. Recorded at Retching Jackal Studio from January 1983 to March 1984 in Portland and engineered by Richard Paige, this was the first project Daniel committed to eight-track tape. Originally released in the summer of 1984 and available on cassette - this is the first time "Polarity" has been in print since 1984. Transferred from the original analogue stereo master at 24/48 resolution by Dave Fulton with audio restoration and mastering by Jamie Haggerty in May 2025. Listen and download at BandCamp.
Following the instrumental album "Deciphering the Language of Bells" and the recently released 5-song EP "Extended Play" comes a dynamic new collection "Lost City of Sirens" on Tuesday, March 25th. Ten pieces with Daniel's flutes in tow - concert flute and alto flute, bamboo flute, electric dulcimer, synthesizers, sequences, theremini, stylophone, various percussion, drum & percussion sequences, garkleinfloten, Irish whistle, radio, devices - plus an array of exotic sounds, textures and rhythms that speak of previously unexplored lands. This download-only album is available at BandCamp and all of the usual streaming and download platforms.
Track list
01 Eyeteeth02 Broken Entropy Clock03 The Slow Way04 Medallion05 Bitter Lemon06 Stately Parade of Planets07 Last Nights in August08 Altocumulus09 Vista Avenues10 The Age of Unreasoned Certainty
On Tuesday, January 28th a 5-song EP will be released on all streaming platforms as well as BandCamp, and will feature the previously released single "Live & Breathe".
On Tuesday, August 27th New Weave released "Deciphering the Language of Bells" - a new album of instrumental music from Daniel Crommie. This 67 minute eleven track collection features the addition of sundry bells, electronics and alto flute along with his concert flute, plus other new sounds and textures in ambient and hypnotic beat settings. This is a download/streaming release and will be available at all of the usual download/streaming platforms and at BandCamp. Also, a new reggae-tinged single "Live & Breathe" was released and is available for download at BandCamp - and you can stream it everywhere!
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The peal of bells: funeral bells, wedding bells, warning bells, alarm bells, celebration bells, bells that soothe, church bells, school bells, bells that alert, signal bells, bells that summon spirits, bells that drive away demons, bells that announce arrivals, symbolic bells, ceremonial bells, bells to rouse.
Emotional Rescue Records in London, England just released this compilation EP on 12" black vinyl - three tracks: Motion of Waves (LP version), Motion of Waves (cassette version) and We Travel Dark Waters. Both versions of Motion of Waves were recorded for the "Wonderful Vision" LP in 1987, of which there are still original virgin vinyl copies available - and We Travel Dark Waters, which appeared on the "Hinterland" instrumental compilation released on cassette in 1989. A few copies of the EP are available at BandCamp, and overseas orders can be filled at Emotional Rescue. You can download the tracks as they appear on vinyl at BandCamp too.
On Tuesday, November 7th New Weave will release a new collaborative album from Daniel Crommie & Leslie Gray titled "As the Raven Flies" - the follow-up to 2022's "Two of a Kind". Once again incorporating the organic/electronic sound, but more focused on the strings from Leslie Gray - including her new cello in addition to her usual violin and viola. There are a couple of pieces that hark back to their Saturnalia Trio repertoire including a redux of "Gemshorn Pipe" - "Gemshorn Revisited". More experimental moments ensue, especially the download-only bonus track "Scatterbrain". The CD artwork and mastering was once again created by our dear friend Jamie Haggerty - and a duo photo inside by longtime photographer Michael Renfrow. Available on deluxe digipak CD package or download at BandCamp.
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Several New Weave music videos have been issued via The Orchard, two brand new videos for Daniel Crommie's "A Factor of One" album - and several reissued videos from the past 15 years. Jamie Haggerty created a wonderful video for "Plastic Pop (Eat it Again)" that has been getting some play, and the latest video for "This is My Rhythm" was created by Grammy Award winner Jim Blashfield. Jim Blashfield has directed videos for such heavyweights as Michael Jackson, Joni Mitchell, Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads, Tears for Fears, Heart, Paul Simon and many others - and his brilliant video is sure to stir up some interest. Other reissued videos are for "Living in the Dark Ages", "Reverser in Neutral" and "Coconut Radio" by Daniel Crommie, "Number Factory" by Group Du Jour, "No Room to Dream" by DC Sound Collective and "Toys and Treasures" by Daniel Crommie with Leslie Gray. Watch for more videos soon. You can view these and other videos at Vimeo.
The first solo vocal/song album since 1995's "The Feast of Saturnalia" is set for release on Tuesday, August 1st at BandCamp on both deluxe six-panel digipak CD with one exclusive track unavailable anywhere else, as well as digital download (with a different "hidden" track), which will include all lyrics and credits in PDF form. This six-panel digipak has beautiful artwork courtesy of longtime collaborator Jamie Haggerty and features the recent digital single "Plastic Pop (Eat it Again)". Since "The Feast of Saturnalia" in 1995, Daniel has written songs for Saturnalia Trio, Group Du Jour and DC Sound Collective, but this is a unique project started in October 2022 with the challenge of coming up with 10+ new songs in the studio with no one else involved in the writing or playing - so all of the instruments were played by Daniel Crommie. Watch the video for "Plastic Pop (eat it again)" here.
Here is the track listing:
01 Lazy Sun
02 This is My Rhythm
03 Jackrabbit Hwy.
04 Anyone Listening?
05 Repeat Offender
06 Your Secret
07 A Prisoner of Paradise
08 Lost in Thought
09 Plastic Pop (Eat it Again)
10 Automatic Transmission
11 Brave New Day
CD Bonus track
12 Fever Pitch
New Weave has released a new Daniel Crommie single "Plastic Pop (eat it again)" from the forthcoming Daniel Crommie album set for release in late July "A Factor of One" at BandCamp - and the song will be available for streaming everywhere starting Tuesday, June 6th. A tongue-in-cheek homage to 80's radio synth pop, as with the coming album all of the instruments and vocals are performed by Daniel. "A Factor of One" is the first solo vocal album since "The Feast of Saturnalia" (1995), although Daniel has written vocal songs for DC Sound Collective, Group Du Jour and Saturnalia Trio since then. The cover art was created by Jamie Haggerty, who also mastered the single and the album. Listen at Soundcloud.
A newly-remastered set of singles, EP tracks, etc. spanning 2013-2022 is set for release on CD and digital download on May 30th. This digipak includes 17 tracks - several of which are previously unreleased and many are remixed specially for this package. Colin Henson, Bruce Hazen, Eldon Hardenbrook and Daniel Crommie are featured. Available at BandCamp, Amazon, etc - also streamable at the usual outlets. Here's the track list:
*previously unreleased
Released digitally (and CD at Bandcamp) on Tuesday, October 4th - this eclectic double-disc collection of new material recorded between November 2021 and June 2022 will be available as two individual download albums or as a single package containing two CDs from Bandcamp. Back in the peak vinyl LP days this would constitute a triple LP. This double CD includes over 124 minutes of new music ranging from psychedelic electro-jazz to ambient folk tunes, organic synthesis and noisy progressive rock with acid jazz overtones. Dave Thatcher contributed congas and bongos and Eldon Hardenbrook played fretless bass on one track. Lots of flutes (often processed via various vintage electronics), synthesizers (both analogue and digital), fourth-world percussion and rhythms, electric dulcimer and even a purring cat! The download albums each include one exclusive bonus track only available at Bandcamp. In addition to the double CD there is a NEW Daniel Crommie digital single "This Little Piggy" - also available as a bonus track on the download version of "Perihelion Chronicle" at Bandcamp - out September 6th at all the usual streaming services. Here's a link to download the album(s) at Amazon.
Read a review from Bob Mulvey at The Progressive Aspect here.
Perihelion intro
The Bird of Paranoid
Round and Around
East of Deimos
Undercat
Lapis Lazuli
Chalk Drawings
Xanthos Variations
Cave Entrance
This Little Piggy (single version) (Bandcamp download-only bonus track)
Glass Diamond Metropolis
Trashland
La Paz
Seven of Eleven
Day 74
Requiem for Mariupol
Cities Within Hidden Cities
A Forgotten Future
Almost Never Until Tomorrow
Hot on the heels of the recent release of "Creature Machines" comes a non-album digital single "Be My Monkey" - a song about manipulators and those who fall prey - released on Tuesday, July 19th. All instruments and vocals are by Daniel Crommie and Eldon Hardenbrook. The song will appear this coming fall on a CD compilation of DC Sound Collective digital singles & EP tracks.
To mark the 30th anniversary of its release, Group Du Jour's 1992 epic album "The Mystery Plays" has been newly remastered by Jamie Haggerty and is now available as a digital download from Bandcamp - with the CD bonus track "Animosity Killed the Cat" included. Sounding better than ever, the album features the classic GDJ songs "All the Time in the World", "Our Secret Life", "Mercenary Man", "The Hedgerow" and others with some fine vocal performances from Bo Parker. The original CDs and cassettes are available for purchase from Bandcamp as well.
The new DC Sound Collective album "Creature Machines"- a 9-track album of progressive underground electronic rock will be released digitally everywhere and as a limited edition digipak CD at Bandcamp on Tuesday, July 5th. As usual the stalwart team of Hardenbrook and Crommie lead the proceedings with contributions from Colin Henson, Bruce Hazen and Stephen Lindberg on guitars. The deluxe CD has wonderful cover art by Jamie Haggerty, who also mastered the album. There will be a new single from the Collective this summer as well, so stay tuned!
2022 will be another bumper-crop year with several new releases:
On January 25th a new DC Sound Collective digital single "Don't Wanna Be Here" will be released. Pre-order here.
On February 15th a Daniel Crommie/Leslie Gray collaboration "Two of a Kind" will be released both digitally and as a limited edition CD. You can watch a pre-release video here. Pre-order from Amazon. Buy at Bandcamp.
On March 22nd a new Daniel Crommie digital album "Twenty Twenty 2" will be released. Pre-order at Amazon.
The albums will be released on Bandcamp, Amazon and all of the usual streaming services.
Inner World, recorded concurrently with Noisemaker and A Prelude to the New Normal, features challenging long-form compositions for flutes and electronics with an emphasis on light and shade, tone and texture - with ethnic, orchestral and mallet percussion. Modern production meets concert flute, processed through vintage electronic devices - in addition to exotic acoustic instruments, analogue and digital synthesizers and electric dulcimer - which alternately express inner calm and existential angst in slowly evolving soundscapes. Highly recommended to fans of Brian Eno, Steve Reich and Jon Hassell. Preorder from Amazon here. Buy from Band Camp here. Here is a review from Sea of Tranquility. Here is an excellent review from DPRP.
