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Shadowgraph

by Daniel Crommie

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Small World 07:16
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Moon Circle 04:44
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The May Day 06:01
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Hall of Fame 04:45
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“Techno” and “ethno” are what I label the two main elements of Daniel Crommie’s latest album. The line-up of instruments range from modern synthesizers, percussion programs and electric dulcimers to traditional reed pipes, clay flutes, wood flutes and penny whistles. With this combination, Crommie becomes a one-man-neo-Devo band with a twist on getting back to our musical origins. As the album progresses, Crommie reaches the extremes of both elements by stretching his songs from ultra-synth to oriental new age.

In “Small World” there is quite a competition between the “techno” and “ethno”. Crommie plays the flute as Eddie Van Halen plays the guitar. Wind instruments transform “Moon Circle” into a space-age oriental love song. “Reconstruction” is a jump in the “ethno” direction and reveals the diversity of Crommie’s talent. The furthest removed from electronics, it is a soothing, well-crafted instrumental piece. To contrast his two styles, Crommie follows “Reconstruction” with its “techno” antithesis, “Touching Tongues”. “Hall of Fame” expands on this style but sounds like nothing more than a synthesized experiment.

Crommie consistently states rather than sings his songs, which adds to the impersonality of the “techno” side of his music. Generally, the album is dominated by pulsing synthesizers which overshadow the contrast of the wind instruments to such a broad range that the album is left hanging without a definitive style.

Jacqueline Koch / Wire (KCMU program) June/July 1991

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released April 15, 1991

Recorded at The Living Room from Spring into Summer 1990 on a Fostex Model 80 (open reel eight tracks) via a Fostex 812 mixer and digitally mastered on the Sony PCM 701es. Layout & design by Paul Parker & Daniel Crommie. Cover art from a woodcut by Albrecht Durer. "The Night is Black" lyrics: Susan Burmeister. "New Moon Silhouette" recorded in Autumn 1990.

Daniel Crommie: vocals, synthesizers, drum & percussion programs, flute, penny whistles, wood flutes, clay flutes, electric dulcimers, reed pipe, tambourin a' cordes and tenor recorder.

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Daniel Crommie Portland, Oregon

Daniel Crommie is a progressive directed songwriter, multi-instrumentalist (mandolins, dulcimer, balalaika, recorders, flutes, synthesizers, etc.) and producer (Janie Mitchell, Kaitlyn ni Donovan, Lew Jones, Karen Searcy) who has released over three dozen solo albums, numerous albums with Group Du Jour, Echo System, Saturnalia Trio & DC Sound Collective over the last 35 years on New Weave. ... more

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