New Daniel Crommie Releases for 2021

 After a year of limited performance opportunities, with plenty of time to work on new compositions - there will be a plethora of new releases in the coming year, with the first album of 2021 "Noisemaker" scheduled for January 26th. "Noisemaker" sees a shift in sounds and textures with melodic and upbeat tunes featuring a lot of jazz/progressive flute grooves and densely constructed bubbling synths, layered flutes and buzzing electric dulcimers playfully entangled with disembodied voices taken from robo-calls. The first video for "Coconut Radio" is released December 4th and you can watch it here. Here is a review from Sea of Tranquility: "Crommie is a supreme talent and I urge everyone to check him out".

Another new album "A Prelude to the New Normal" will arrive this spring with more videos preceding that release as well.

Daniel Crommie's "Light Occurrences" set for release

 A new ambient/minimalist instrumental album "Light Occurrences" will be released Tuesday, October 27th. This album of seven new compositions features 55 minutes of relaxation/meditation soundscapes. Download-only at Bandcamp, Amazon, Apple Music, etc.

Daniel Crommie's VIA to be released in June

Tuesday, June 16th will see the digital release of "VIA", An electro-Medieval travelogue passage through fantastic imaginary psychoactive Gothic dreamscapes. 7 tracks, 62 minutes - Very much an electronic/acoustic hybrid with other-earthly textures, environments and sounds. Menacing creatures roam ever-changing landscapes in search of peaceful resolve. The limited edition (50) CD will be released July 1st 2020 at Bandcamp.

You can listen/preorder here. You can buy at Bandcamp.

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DC Sound Collective "Darjeeling Wireless" released in April

A new DC Sound Collective (mostly) instrumental album is set for release digitally and limited edition CD on Tuesday April 21st at Apple Music, Amazon and Bandcamp. The signature sounds of the collective: progressive rock, ambient electronic and a bit of jazz are evident on this adventurous project - with contributions from guitarists Colin Henson (Jade Warrior), Bruce Hazen (350's, Iain Matthews, Hi-Fi) along with the stalwart team of multi-instrumentalists Eldon Hardenbrook and Daniel Crommie. An hour of music in a digipak designed by Jamie Haggerty can be yours from Bandcamp or Amazon.

DC Sound Collective single out in March

A new digital single by DC Sound Collective will be released at iTunes/Apple Music et al on Tuesday, March 17th. "Just a Millionaire" features Daniel Crommie on vocals, electric dulcimer, analogue synths and flute with Eldon Hardenbrook playing bass and Bruce Hazen on guitars. Listen and preorder here.

New Archival Releases and Reissues

Two Daniel Crommie albums have been issued in January - a compilation of mostly previously unreleased material featured on "Rarities #2" and a straight reissue of Daniel's 1987 album "Raised By Piranha". "Rarities #2" will only be available at Bandcamp and includes music recorded between 1983-2018 with outtakes, alternate versions and remixes - all rare or never before heard. "Raised By Piranha" was released on Bandcamp several years ago but will now be available for download and streaming from the usual outlets such as Apple Music/iTunes, and includes participation by Jamie Haggerty, Tom Dougherty and Kristi Mergenthaler. An unusual album in that Daniel Crommie plays no flute whatsoever, only electric clarinet in addition to synthesizers, vocals and sequences. Here's a review of "Raised By Piranha".

New Saturnalia Trio album

On Tuesday, November 26th New Weave is set to release "It Was In May" Saturnalia Trio's first album of all-new material since 2015's "Skin, Wood & Steel" - on CD and as a digital download at Apple Music, Amazon and Bandcamp. Take a trip through time and place (filtered through 21st century Portland, Oregon) - two Swedish folk tunes, a French folk tune, a Castilian Medieval tune from Alfonso X "El Sabio", a French Renaissance dance, a trouvere poem set to original music and two Bert Jansch songs - with the remainder composed by Daniel Crommie. 15 pieces will be featured including "Silent Nights", a version of the classic Christmas lullaby. There will be a different version of "Silent Night" exclusively at Bandcamp (download-only) - "Silent Night (Medieval version)". Get the album at Bandcamp.

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Daniel Crommie: vocals, six-string dulcimer, flutes, recorders, mandolin, buche, bul bul tarang, altus cornamuse, miscellaneous percussion, tambourin ’a cordes, tin whistle, psaltery, synthesizer and samples
Leslie Gray: violin, viola, vocal
Eldon Hardenbrook: acoustic bass guitar & nylon string guitar
Dave Thatcher: hand drums 

Listen to a sample here.