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DKO Records
With a musical career spanning fifteen years and with six critically acclaimed CDs released my body of work continues to grow and evolve. As a band leader-guitarist with Nick Strange Band, writing songs for the duo Jess and Dan, and a solo performer creating The Big Blue Cosmic Project I find the thrill of making music more compelling with every day. In 1999 I founded DKO records in order to bring finished musical works to publication. It’s been an honor and privilege to record and perform these songs with a number of incredibly talented musicians over the years and for their contributions I will be forever indebted and grateful. We hope that you may join us soon at a live performance, thanks so much.
Daniel Orcutt
The Big Blue Comsic
Super chill textural music performed on guitar-harp (aka The Garp), electric cello, and guitar. Some songs are instrumental, others with vocal accompaniment, also occasional bass, percussion, and electronics.
Go to The Big Blue Cosmic Website
Jess and Dan
An acoustic duo of vast musical styles, with extraordinary vocals, and custom instruments:
In 2005 as Daniel Orcutt was recording the final touches on a CD for his group The Nick Strange Band, he by chance met Jessica McCummins (Oberholtzer) and she came to the studio to sing some backing vocals. This was the musical equivalent of a lighting strike. Her outstanding abilities as a vocalist and song interpreter inspired an evolutionary process culminating in the performing duo: Jess and Dan. In early 2009 they released “At the Side of the Road” a collection of songs that feature Jessica's singing in a stripped down acoustic musical setting. Ranging from guitar and vocal songs that ease along like slow country side stroll, to a blue grass stomp, to ethereal grooves overlaid with custom instruments designed and built by Daniel Orcutt, an Electric Guitar-Harp and Six String Electric Cello. “At the Side of the Road” takes the listener on 12 song journey through varied landscapes then finding themselves comfortably back home again. As one person put it “It’s like an awesome road trip, without the traffic and gas prices.”
The Nick Strange Band
Singer song writer meets jam band, with the emphasis on song writing:
The Nick Strange Band is a multi-styled jamb-prog rock band led by Daniel Orcutt with as much emphasis on song writing as on jamming. Their body of work starts in 1999 as a power trio with “Happy Accident” followed by “Surrounded by Each Other” 2001, “Ghost of Love” 2004, and “Stray Dog Serenades” 2006. Then in 2007 the group added guest vocalist Jessica McCummins (Oberholtzer) for the acclaimed CD “Yesterday was Better”. They’ve been compared to Jeff Buckley, Dave Matthews, and Fiona Apple, it just depends which songs you catch.
Booking Information at:
danielorcuttmusic@myspace.com
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