The good people over at UBLF Chilldown Period just featured the track Fabrique on the latest installment of their podcast.
If you haven’t had a listen to their cast, I highly recommend you do. It’s a great source of finding new, great music, and makes for a great background for working.
There’s been some good buzz and reviews of the Fabric of Life album over the past week.
Create Digital Music posted a great article on the album, the release strategy I used for it, and other related, and pertinent points, you can view the article here:
Scott, founder of Glitch.fm sent me an awesome quick review of the album too:
“Brilliantly beautiful textures and melodies filled with delicious granular details and good rhythms when only absolutely appropriate. Think BT’s “This Binary Universe” meets Guy Sigsworth’s compositions (and a little Enigma here and there)! If anyone involved in the film industry is reading this – AC deserves a job scoring films with work like this. Top favorites are Spring Rain, Fabrique, and Chrysalis though it’s all good. ” – Great Scott (Muti Music // Glitch.FM // Scarcity Records).
If you haven’t checked out glitch.fm yet I highly recommend you do, some pretty cool audio treats from many different DJs and artists. http://glitch.fm
Thanks to everyone for their time and effort on the articles and reviews, I sincerely appreciate it.
The new album is finally released. You can grab a copy of the limited edition (300) CD, normal CD, or digital download here: http://auditorycanvas.net/store
All CD orders include an immediate download of the album, so you have a copy to listen to while you wait for the mail.
Huge thanks to everyone who supported this project, and my music.
Have a blissful weekend everyone.
David.
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To celebrate the release of Fabric of Life later this week, I’m giving away a track from the album, along with several older unreleased tracks. Get them here:
My amazing roomate Georgette (@gcrush), just posted an awesome blog post about my album, shows, and music over at bohocrush.com, that had tears welling up in my eyes…..
With much excitement, I can finally officially announce that the Fabric of Life CD release date is April 17th. There’ll be 300 strictly limited edition copies with awesome custom packaging + extras for $20, the rest will be standard packaging, but also include a little surprise coolness in the packaging artwork.
New store on my website coming soon, which will cover digital and physical sales, with worldwide shipping.
Digital release on iTunes, and hundreds of other 3rd party stores will be approx 3-4 weeks after.
There’ll be a CD release party on the 17th to celebrate the release, which is a fundraiser for Summer Rain Recordings and Controlled Burn (the fire spinning collective). Cover is $10 which includes a free copy of the CD, personally signed if you wish. Release party details and flier below.
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Founder of Summer Rain Recordings, David grew up in the seventies, surrounded by music (at least until he took his mother’s record player apart at the age of 6 to see how it worked). His favourite toys were those that made or recorded sound. One of his most loved being the Stylaphone, which he was given at the age of 4.
David began Djing at the age of 18, playing local events and clubs whenever the opportunity arose, often for free, solely for the enjoyment and satisfaction it gave him.
Whilst at University in Manchester, UK, David co formed and ran a successful club night for 3 years, playing to a loyal, continuously growing crowd every fortnight. Success in this arena lead to David securing many bookings at local clubs and events around the North West of England.
Through his love for Djing, David felt an increasing desire to create his own music, and explore the soundscapes that were building up in his mind.
The day that profoundly changed David’s life occurred by chance. A friend took him into the University music studio, briefly showed him how to turn the keyboards and equipment on, gave a ten minute lesson in the music production software on the computer, and left the room. 6 hours flew by, completely hooked, he had found the path he had been searching for since he was a child.
Ever since, every penny he shouldn’t have spent, every spare moment he has, goes on letting emotions flow through sound.
Through the last 10 years David has been busy spending all his time exploring all the musical avenues that intrigue him, as well as concentrating on his own tracks, he has worked on numerous remixes, written, scored, and performed many contemporary theatre underscores and soundtracks, music for hair shows, and music for various websites.
David’s records and releases under the Auditory Canvas alias and David Leeson alias on Summer Rain Recordings, the label that David founded and setup to help artists get what they deserve, and also give something back via charity donations. David donates 25% of all royalties received from the sales of his EPs to the charity NextAid, Summer Rain Recordings also donate 25% of all profits from the EPs.
Discography: Portraits EP - 2006, Destinations EP 2007, Earth EP 2008, Elements EP 2009, Album TBC – July 2009, Always There - Caitlyn Hessell (Auditory Canvas Remix) - 2008, Imogen Heap - The Song That Never Was (Auditory Canvas Remix) - 2009, Truth - January (Auditory Canvas Remix)- 2007, Mask Dance - Ingo Vogelmann (Auditory Canvas Remix) – 2006 + Several unreleased tracks, collaborations, and remixes.
Recent Gig History:
Played recent Live and DJ sets supporting Random Rab, David Starfire, Bassnectar, Freq Nasty, Kaskade, and several other prominent artists across the US and UK, held residence at Bliss Nightclub in Reno, Nevada, also played several camps at the last 2 years of Burning Man, as well as a number of events and clubs in Nevada and California. Full list available on request.