Fresh Squeezed: David Karsten Daniels

I don't think I could have imagined a more perfect album for the Orange Alert audience then 7th album for San Francisco's David Karsten Daniels. The album is a collaboration with the nine piece avant-big band from Richmond, VA Fight The Big Bull, and is filled with swinging rhythms. However, what I love about this album are the lyrics. Daniels has borrowed all of his lyrics from Henry David Thoreau. It really is a perfect match with the organic nature of Thoreau's poetry and the style and delivery of Daniels. I don't think I fully appreciated the lyrical nature of Thoreau's poetry until I heard this album.

The album is called I Mean To Live Here Still and will be released by FatCat Records on June 22nd.

ALL things are current found
On earthly ground,
Spirits and elements
Have their descents.

Night and day, year on year,
High and low, far and near,
These are our own aspects,
These are our own regrets.

Ye gods of the shore,
Who abide evermore,
I see you far headland,
Stretching on either hand;

I hear the sweet evening sounds
From your undecaying grounds;
Cheat me no more with time,
Take me to your clime.

'I Mean To Live Here Still' (6/22 FatCat Records)
1. All Things Are Current Found
2. The Funeral Bell (mp3)
3. Die And Be Buried
4. October Airs
5. On Fields
6. Though All The Fates (mp3)
7. Salmon Brook
8. Smoke
9. Each Summer Sound
10. Epitaph On The World

I've included links to the poems that Daniels used.

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