Hello Party People,

This weekend is gearing up to be top notch.

Saturday, November 20th, 2010

I am playing a fundraiser for the Haight Ashbury Community Nursery School at The Skylark on 16th and Valencia in the Mission.
Time: 6:30pm.
Admission: $5.
Age restrictions: No Minors.
Address: 3089 16th Street.
Venue phone: (415) 621-9294.
With Bias Tape: http://www.biastapemusic.com and Comedian Alex Koll: http://www.alexkoll.com. There will be loads of drink specials, good people, and a lucha libra wrestling photobooth – with real pro wrestlers!

Check the evite here: http://bit.ly/cuoIt3

Sunday, November 21, 2010

I am playing a Fundraiser to Benefit Pakistani Flood Victims.
Time: 11:00am – 3:00pm.
Set Time: 2:00pm.
Age restrictions: All Ages.
Address: 610 Old Mason Street.
Join the Purusha community to help raise funds for the Pakistani flood victims. You will receive 10% off ANY purchase in Sports Basement and 10% of that purchase will be donated by Sports Basement to the flood victims. The organization we are working (Khushhaal Pakistan) with has literally no overhead so 100% of your money will go directly to the people in Pakistan. Oh and there will be free food and drinks and merry-making. (some yoga and live music as well!)
Schedule of events: 11:00 am: Yoga 12:01 pm: Kids Yoga 1:00 pm: Kate Kilbane Band (http://katekilbane.com/) 2:00 pm: Daniel Durrett 3:00 pm: Closing
Please feel free to donate directly as well if you are unable to come: http://www.khushaalpakistan.com/contribute.html

Check the Facebook invite here: http://on.fb.me/bVhKmE

This coming Week is the 129th Audio Engineering Society Convention in San Francisco. I am excited to see all my old friends from the Pro Audio world!

And, luckily for me, I have a FREE show on Friday night here in San Francisco. Check the details below and I hope to catch you there!

Related show

• Artist:
  Daniel Durrett
• Date:
  Friday, November 5th 2010
  
• Time:
  7:30pm
• City:
  
  Daniel Durrett in
  San Francisco
• Venue:
  The Red Victorian Hotel
• Address:
  1665 Haight ST
• Country:
  United States
• Admission:
  Free
• Age restrictions:
  All Ages
• Notes:
  Presented By Ronnie Cato.
  With Concrete Marshmallow, Kat Kilbane, Benjamin Francis, Karaj Lost Coast

  Read more: http://www.myspace.com/redvicsessions#ixzz0xGOZBpJP

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This Sunday, October 17th, I will be performing at the Shrader Street Block Party in San Francisco. I will be debuting a new addition to the set! Come on by between 12:00 and 4:00 p.m. for food, music, drinks, games and pure SF fun!

Check out the other bands here: Kitchen Fire | The Bad Moons

This was written by good friend and super talented artist, Ray Swaney. Enjoy!

Chase The Morning Fog; sun is rising and I’m wet with hope, crisp. The playful bloops and electronic blips play in the road like children and over the fields as I’m lifted into the star-filled sky. Break free; open like a bloom headed West to touch a dream.

Followed Into His House; a sinister specter B&E enters into the heartbeat. A singer with serrated teeth narrates zoo keeper surreality, stuck in a loop, ever unraveling as animals turn tables.

Carson City; where cops eyeball for loose mistakes. A call to know and outsmart the law. Don’t show your hand as strings whorl. A Subterranean Homesick Blues rapper fights on with a heavy, greasy guitar twang.

Entrance; womb music to African chants is played by Descartes (in my head). A song of ashes dance in the wind to a simple beat (a beatific filling of the lungs).

Wasting Our Minds; we’re not starting a clap around a bonfire. Tambourine and acoustic guitar at home in a park of golden gates. We cut the dangling carrots down. The pressure builds like a distorted guitar crescendo in absence of inspired existence.

Will Spite You; the devil’s vintage going down like sinister calls of “WAKE UP,” fates preconceived notions of happiness with two voices in sync. A cautionary tale laid across the country. Hold the light inside.

Close Up; ominous tones and jewels flare up with a tang of 80s astral prom. I’m awash in synthesizer bliss, frothing up like a San Francinno (coming to a head like a tea pot crying for cool release).

Sonnenuntergang; the angels play with distorted guitars and woodland creatures play logs. Myriad layers, a fortress of sound is drowning in aural fire (opening a door). I slip out unnoticed to pick flowers. An open plain surfaces like a submariner.

Forward Thinking Politics; now is the time we’re starving. We’re dying on the vine. Pumping loops and the piano gongs; wars over definitions and for money. Tired, where is the healthy human commerce? Driving a car and you can’t see over the steering wheel.

Music, life, work, quitting the mainstream and focusing on music. All of it explained here in this interview on The Sendme Stage: Daniel Durrett Interview

One of the many attractive things that lured me to the San Francisco Bay Area, besides the weather and medicine, is the fact that the talented Artemis also resides in this region. I did a remix of one her songs that is featured on Digital Bliss Volume 2 and on her most recent release Auralei. After moving here, I was introduced to the crowd at RTFM Records through Artemis. This is most loving group of talented people I have met in this life. I was immediately invited into their circle, and they have all been helping me with the release of hello, inner sunset as well.

So, after being asked to join the awesome collective that is RTFM Records along side some amazingly talented artists such as Colfax, Divasonic, Hands Upon Black Earth, Mijo and of course Artemis, I was also asked by Artemis to join her band to help bring her live show to the stage. This is a great thrill and honor to me. I am super pumped about it!

Last night we had our first full on rehearsal here at my place in the Haight. It was magical, funny, fantastic, musical, brilliant and inspiring all at once! We are preparing for a show on the 25th that is a release party hosted by Groovera and WomensRadio for myself, Artemis and Colfax at Harlot here in SF (show info). We also have a gig at Swig hosted by Below Zero Beats on April 1st (show info). Daniel Berkman (Colfax), a super talented multi-instrumentalist, was jamming the guitar parts, I was looping and mixing and bleeping and blooping, and Artemis was of course singing. Here is a nice stereo mix I managed to grab of an improv loopy thing we had going for a second.

Audio: Nice Loops – Artemis

Artemis also posted a nice blog this morning about our time last night. Go give it a read and check out the video clips she recorded!

Related show

• Artist:
  Daniel Durrett
• Date:
  Thursday, March 25th 2010
  
• Time:
  6:00am
• City:
  
  Daniel Durrett in
  San Francisco, CA
• Venue:
  Harlot
• Address:
  46 Minna St
• Venue phone:
  (415) 777-1077
• Country:
  United States
• Notes:
  RTFM Records CD Release party featuring Artemis, Colfax and Daniel Durrett
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Here is the podcast of the Austrain Radio show about San Francisco music, featuring Artemis, Daniel Durrett, Hands Upon Black Earth and many others!

The spotlight on myself features the songs ‘Followed Into His House’ and ‘Carson City’ off the upcoming release hello, inner sunset – available February 20th, 2010.

GroßStadtLieder by Helmut Elsasse