Dan Leigh's career began when multi-platinum producer/musican Scott Mathews offered to produce his first album. Dan jumped at the chance and soon after recorded his debut album "The Shortest Life" which was released in 2004. Equal parts textured and melodic, the album has gradually found many fans, including indie filmmakers and music supervisors. Dan's songs tend to follow conventional song structure, but tend to have unconventional instrumentation. It's not unusual to find an african thumb piano or a squeezebox on one of Dan's tracks. Although, Dan makes use of conventional instruments also and you'll often hear Hammond organs and synthesizers as well as various electric and acoustic guitars. Dan has branched out somewhat since then, and has been recording production music in addition to his singer/songwriter material. A multi-instrumentalist and trained sound engineer, Dan is able to record and mix high-quality production music himself but he prefers to collaborate on his singer/songwriter albums. That's why he recorded his "Meaningful Nonsense EP" in 2007 with Scott Mathews and Tom Luekens. That EP has the same textured nuance as "The Shortest Life" but with a more epic feel.
Dan's music can be heard in the following films and TV shows:
"Access Hollywood"
National TV Show
"Killing Holly"
Feature Film by Good Luck Pictures
"Pack a Lunch!"
Short film diercted by Vince Foster
"Hamptons Cabby"
Documentary TV Pilot by Taxi Cab Productions
Meaningful Nonsense EP is available on iTunes. Here's the link:
Dan giving a little info about his upcoming "4 Prayers EP."
Just wanted to let you know, played your You Tube video all the way through and stayed awake ! Loved your humorous captions and honesty throughout and am sure your prayers will be answered, well some of them maybe...will be listening out for the new material. Good weekend, Steve and Peter
So pleased to hear your news of new material, surely you cannot beat 'From The Breeze' but do hope you will. Good Luck for November. Creativeness rules, Steve
Wishing you a good weekend, we keep trying with the new tracks, but fear we are a lost cause, so hard to get noticed. Hope all is well in Texas. Best wishes, Steve and Peter
hello Dan! Thanks for accepting me as a friend! glad that Steve told me about you! you got some great music on here! will come back to listen more soon! good luck to you! Mary :)
Hope this finds you well, 'Away' is on the weekly playlist on my personal profile this week. Whilst some people have 10 tracks, I only seem to have 4. However, its better than just the one. Crimson Embers due to be replaced in 2 weeks by the way. Take care, Steve.
Finally got the myspace player but with limited scope of 4 tracks for now, naturally From The Breeze is one of the first of my favourite tracks to feature. Wishing you every success for the year, Steve
Appreciate the comment on the profile, keep trying different things. Hope life is alright with you despite the doom and gloom of global finance problems. Let us know if at any time there is a track you would like to add your splendid vocals too. Take care, Steve and Peter
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