David Karsten Daniels and Fight The Big Bull - I Mean To Live Here Still

Gorgeous third full length from San Francisco’s David Karsten Daniels, written in collaboration with nine-piece jazz ensemble Fight The Big Bull.

The first collaboration between David Karsten Daniels and Fight The Big Bull, ‘I Mean To Live Here Still’ is the product of two decidedly individual, but musically (and geographically) distant sets of musicians.

David Karsten Daniels is an immensely talented, formally-trained composer/musician with a background in hymn singing and four-track experimentation, and a release history of gentle, acoustic, plaintive folk music embellished with touches of orchestration and jazz.

Following on from Daniels’ ‘Sharp Teeth’ and ‘Fear Of Flying’ albums, this record is a lush contribution to a stunning personal canon and an album that transcends influence, tradition and climate.

Fight The Big Bull are a nonet led by composer / arranger / guitarist Matthew White, exist loosely in the Duke Ellington / Charles Mingus / Ornette Coleman plane of jazz, yet are fiercely, often unpredictably, unique.

Already an accomplished live performer, both solo and with a band, David Karsten Daniels is planning 2010 live dates in the US with Fight the Big Bull, with Europe / UK dates to follow.
Internet phenomenon Gregory And The Hawk covered the track ‘The Funeral Bell’ as a part of the YouTube competition, and ‘Smoke’ has been chosen as the track to become available as part of a Fatcat Remix Comp.

“A sublime musical mind." - 9/10 Drowned in Sound, “...a kind of junior Jim O’Rourke, a musical polymath whose records have the potential to spiral off in any or every direction” - The Wire.
The release of ‘I Mean To Live Here Still’ will be preceded by digital only single ‘Though All The Fates’.

Tracklisting:

All Things Are Current Found * The Funeral Bell * Die And Be Buried * October Airs * On Fields * Though All The Fates * Salmon Brook * Smoke * Each Summer Sound * Epitaph On The World

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