daviddaniell

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"With his slow-moving, understated music, DAVID DANIELL makes a fine spokesman for the notion that anything worth doing is worth doing for a long, long time. Whether he's contributing moody strums and sculpted E-Bow drones to the guitar trio San Agustin or stringing computer-generated pings and bumps across gulfs of silence on Sem, his solo debut on his own Antiopic label, he develops his material patiently, the better to let you observe the sounds from every angle."
--Bill Meyer in the Chicago Reader, 30 June 2006

DANIELL, DAVID - COASTAL - Xeric
One could consider this 2006 album a ambient, electronic masterpiece. Layers of sound create a feeling of texture, the sounds of light bells could be heard in headphones softly panning left & right, & acoustic guitar or stringed instrumentation swirl in repititious glory. DAVID DANIELL has worked with quite a few present & past avant garde-ist types (i.e. THURSTON MOORE, RHYS CHATHAM, or TIM BARNES) with out really being picked up by a large audience. For fans of the KRANKY catalog, MONOLAKE, or MONO.
--Reckless Records, December 2006

"I've come across David performing in a handful of varying situations, all bearing his mark but varied and unpredictable. The common thread would have to be David's guitar playing, which builds on itself, one part determining the next, following its own logic and gradually adding and subtracting elements. The guitar becomes an orchestra, an electric organ, or the siren of a passing barge. [...] The peak era of deconstruction may have come and gone; this music is all construction, like watching an architect build a model."
--Graham Stephenson in Mule Magazine 6, July 2009

Members:

Solo as well as a member of San Agustin, David Daniell / Douglas McCombs duo, Rhys Chatham's guitar ensembles, and other collaborations including Loren Connors and Suzanne Langille, Tim Barnes, Ateleia, Jeph Jerman, Sean Meehan, Greg Kelley, David Grubbs, Alan Licht, Michael Rodgers, Paul Duncan, Greg Davis, Tomas Korber, and Thurston Moore.

Sounds Like:

Discography

David Daniell and Douglas McCombs
Sycamore
Thrill Jockey thrill 216 CD/LP/MP3, August 2009

Musique Pour Statues Menhirs
David Daniell: "Pillar"
Arbouse Recordings ARBOU026 2xCD compilation, April 2009

David Daniell
I IV V I
Table of the Elements TOE-LP-99 etched 12", November 2008

David Daniell
The Hideout
Antiopic AN011/LS005 CDR/MP3, October 2008

David Daniell
Los Jacintos
Antiopic AN010/LS004 CDR/MP3, October 2008

Tramas
original film soundtrack
David Daniell: "Sombras do Itinerário" / "Tramas"
Cineparallax / Cineparalleli Hobo Shibumi DVD, October 2007

Deconstructive Music
David Daniell: "Drunken Boat"
More Mars MM03 3xCDr compilation, October 2007

The Great Koonaklaster Speaks: A John Fahey Celebration
David Daniell: "Crossing the Susquehanna River Bridge"
Table of the Elements TOE-CD-91 CD compilation, June 2007

David Daniell
Coastal
Table of the Elements / Xeric XER-CD-109 CD, December 2006

Best of Framework 2003
(excerpts from sem)
Resonance 104.4 FM CD compilation, November 2003

David Daniell
sem
Antiopic AN002 CD, December 2002

with San Agustin

A Field Guide to Table of the Elements (Southeast Edition)
San Agustin: "Embers"
also including Jonathan Kane, Arnold Dreyblatt, Zeena Parkins, Tony Conrad, Tony Conrad with Faust, Rhys Chatham, Leif Inge
Table of the Elements TOE-CD-90 2xCD, June 2006

San Agustin
Triangulation (Hoof and Mouth Blues)
Table of the Elements TOE-LP-58 12", 2003

San Agustin
The Expanding Sea
Table of the Elements SWC-CD-83 3xCD, June 2003

San Agustin with Suzanne Langille
Passing Song
Family Vineyard FV9 CDEP, 2002

San Agustin
Amokhali
Family Vineyard FV3 CD, 1999

Suzanne Langille, Andrew Burnes, David Daniell & Loren Mazzacane Connors
Let the Darkness Fall
Secretly Canadian SC26 CD, 1999

San Agustin
Non-titled
Road Cone ROCO020 12" LP, 1998

San Agustin
Non-titled
Old Gold / Samizdat SMZ-1-OG-00 7", 1997

San Agustin
January 1997
Old Gold cassette, January 1997

other collaborations and appearances

Felicia Atkinson
La La La
(David Daniell: guitar on "Lonesome As The Sun")
Spekk KK018 CD, November 2008

Rhys Chatham & His Guitar Trio All-Stars
Guitar Trio Is My Life
Three CD collection of live recordings from Chatham's 2007 Guitar Trio tour. Featuring members of Sonic Youth, Swans, Tortoise, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Moodern Lovers, Silver Mt. Zion, Town and Country, Die Kreutzen, 90-Day Men, Collections of Colonies of Bees, and many more.
Radium/Table of the Elements TOE-CD-815 3xCD, March 2008

Sylvain Chauveau & Ensemble Nocturne
Down to the Bone: An Acoustic Tribute to Depeche Mode (Japanese Edition)
(David Daniell: guitar on "Shake the Disease")
Japanese reissue of the album including a bonus track ("Shake the disease") and the video for "Never let me down again" by Vincent Moon.
Nature Bliss DQC-19 CD, December 2007

Paul Duncan
Above The Trees
(David Daniell: guitar, Hammond organ, bass guitar, piano innards)
Hometapes 017 CD/LP, May 2007

SC100
Suzanne Langille & David Daniell: "Structure: Necessity"
Secretly Canadian SC100 CD, April 2007

Ateleia
Formal Sleep
(David Daniell: cymbals on "A Doubtful Shore")
Table of the Elements / Xeric XER-CD-110, January 2007

Jonathan Kane
I Looked At The Sun
(David Daniell: guitar, pedal steel guitar)
Table of the Elements / Radium TOE-CD-803 CD-EP, May 2006

Paul Duncan
Be Careful What You Call Home
(David Daniell: computer on "Manhattan Shuffle")
Hometapes 011, 2005

The Wire Tapper 12
Ateleia and David Daniell: "FTP"
Compilation with December 2004 issue of The Wire magazine

Ateleia
Swimming Against The Moments
(David Daniell: guitars, synth, additional production on "Production And Poverty", co-composer on "F.T.P.")
Antiopic AN007, November 2004

Ateleia and David Daniell
"Fuck The Polis"
Antiopic ANMP051 MP3, December 2003

Tim Barnes and David Daniell
"Low Power"
Antiopic ANMP022 MP3, August 2003

Project Qua Project
"For Rachel Corrie"
Antiopic ANMP009 MP3, July 2003

Presocratics
Works and Days
(David Daniell: guitar on "Moon River")
Table of the Elements TOE-CD-72, 2000

Savath & Savalas
Folk Songs For Trains, Trees And Honey
(David Daniell: "assisted digital destruction")
Hefty Records 016, 2000

William Carlos Williams
Collection Plate
(guest: David Daniell - guitar)
ShoeString Records SHO 0003-2, 1998

Ones Twos and Threes
David Daniell + Stewart Voegtlin duo
David Daniell + Rob Mallard duo
Old Gold CD compilation, 1997

A Compatibility of Dissonance
two tracks from Barrel:
"My Sundays Are Filled With Confusion"
"Carbon/Lake Missoula"
Lakeside Records CD Compilation, 1997

Barrel
Pine And Cotton, Sand
self-released 12" LP, 1996

What April Showers Bring
Barrel: "Dinero (For a Few Dollars More)"
Ape Records No. 1 7" compilation, 1996

Bright Lights Cassettezine No. 1
Barrel: "State Fair (or Fireworks on Sunday)"
Colossal Records / Tell-A-Vision MicroPublishery, Summer 1995

An Atlanta Compilation
Barrel: "Sick"
Innovation Records IN001 7" compilation, 1994