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Edgyometry released!

Hi All. This is Dan. I just released my EP Edgyometry – five songs, four produced by Scott Mathews, and one I produced featuring my son Ian on piano.

Click here to access a page from where you can preview the songs and link to where you can buy or stream them. The page also has FOLLOW and SHARE buttons. If you like Edgyometry, I’d so appreciate it if you could press the FOLLOW button to follow my music on Spotify, and the SHARE button to share Edgyometry with your soclal media friends. 

Click here for more about Edgyometry.

 

 

 

 

 

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Single “Refuge of Eternal Silence”

Introducing Refuge of Eternal Silence, the first single from Dan’s upcoming EP. (Click to watch the video). Written by Dan. Produced by Scott Mathews. Engineered by Tom Luekens. Recorded at Tiki Town Studio in Mill Valley CA. Dan plays all the guitars and trumpets, and sings all the vocals. Scott plays drums, bass, mellotron, organ, and piano. That’s Ringo Starr’s snare and Mick Fleetwood’s bass drum you’re hearing – part of Scott’s collection. Bass lovers may detect the sweet sound of Scott’s 1962 Hohner bass guitar (the same model and year that Paul McCartney played in the Beatles). See the tags for this post that present the musical influences on this song.

Watch the video directly on Youtube

Download the song from CD Baby

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Spotify Playlist – TRICKLE DOWN MUSIC

Listen to Dan’s new Spotify playlist, TRICKLE DOWN MUSIC, which includes Refuge of Eternal Silence and also a whole bunch of inspirations for it. This is how Dan explains the selections.

“Lyrically, the song is kind of dark, so I put on the playlist a bunch of dark songs like The End by the Doors, Bella Lugosi’s Dead by Bauhaus, Sue (Season of the Crime) by David Bowie, and Karma Police by Radiohead.

Musically, Refuge of Eternal Silence is a mix of epic prog rock and psychedelic. So, I put some pretty crazy sounding psychedelic songs on the playlist such as Collideascope by XTC (under their other name Dukes of the Stratosphere) Born Cross-Eyed by the Grateful Dead and Cabin Essence by the Beach Boys. On the epic Prog Rock epic side, the playlist has some of my favorite songs by Pink Floyd, Genesis, Procol Harum, King Crimson, Opeth, and Steven Wilson.

Refuge has a mellotron part on it, a tape-based psychedelic keyboard used a lot in 60’s and 70’s. So you’ll hear a lot of mellotron on the playlist. The mellotron sound that my producer Scott used on Refuge was given to him by Mike Pinder, from the Moody Blues. That’s Pinder going nuts on his mellotron in my Moody Blues playlist selection, Higher and Higher.

In honor of the lush Beatles-ish melodic groove in the song, I put one of my favorite songs by Squeeze on the playlist, called There’s No Tomorrow. In honor of the long vamp I put in Refuge at the end, the playlist starts with one of the greatest dark and epic vamps of all time, the Beatles’ I Want You (She’s So Heavy).”

PLEASE — IF YOU LIKE TRICKLED DOWN MUSIC, CLICK THE “FOLLOW” BUTTON. THE MORE FOLLOWERS, THE MORE SPOTIFY MAKES DAN’S MUSIC ACCESSIBLE FROM SEARCHES, AND THE MORE ACCESSIBLE IT IS, THE MORE PEOPLE GET TO ENJOY IT!

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Refuge of Eternal Silence Lyrics

Words and Music by Dan Zalles. Copyright 2017.

Verse 1

Light beams filling emptiness, grayness stirring night.

Twisted joy of solitude, blurring wrong from right

Crazy embers of my love, crying in my sleep

Come into my mirror now, and plunge into my deep

 

Chorus 1

Walls of glass, dripping ceilings.

Golden blankets hide the needing.

Murmured echoes dance in triumph.

Refuge of eternal silence.

 

Bridge

Take me away, for just one day.

 

Verse 2

Boredom turns to madness, madness turns to strife.

Pausing all the emptiness and sorrow in my life.

Multiplexing tyrannies swallow up my soul.

Breathing life into my fears too fickle to control.

 

Chorus

Caving arms of endless hallways.

Dusty statues block the doorway.

Shattered dreams betray the highlands.

Refuge of eternal silence.

Walls of glass, dripping ceilings.

Golden blankets hide the needing.

Murmured echoes dance in triumph.

Refuge of eternal silence.