Daniel Land
Daniel Land shares his b/w visuals captured along with Elijah-Casper Blake where they combined their film footage of New York City shot between September 2014 and May 2015 that provides real time views from city & subway scenes to perfectly compliment the sentimental & sleepy rising beauty of “New York Boogie-Woogie”. Featured off of his upcoming solo album In Love With A Ghost available November 25, Land emerges after a three absence & follows up his work with the now disbanded Modern Painters (Love Songs For The Chemical Generation and The Space Between Us) where Daniel displays a more intimate & reflective side. Having nearly given up on his musical dreams, his solo returns brings about some of the most thoughtful & inward searching sounds you will might hear all weekend. Daniel Land provided us with the following insights about his new beginnings, overcoming a nasty inner-ear infection & creating an album about cities & starting over again:
This is an album about cities. It is an album about reinvention, and starting your life over. It is an album about growing up, finding love, and settling down. And to a lesser degree, it is about the damage that can be done to a person, or a family, by falling in love with the wrong person. With In Love With A Ghost, I came full circle for a while by incorporating a whole bunch of influences that pre-date my love of dream-pop and shoegaze. I really wanted to make a colorful, widescreen, detailed record. When I started the album, I didn’t have a live band, and most of the tracks were written on the piano, for my own amusement, rather than for a group with three guitarists.
Unable to make music, and living in a new city made me feel, at times, powerfully depressed. This became a crisis of confidence that went very deep and it did seem, for a while, that I would never find my way back to making music again. Finishing the album was a process that involved re-evaluating my life and overhauling my relationship to music, and coming out of the other side more healthy, more humble, and more grateful. It’s good to be back again.
