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Autobiographie

by Dave Newhouse

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Dragonjazz
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Dragonjazz This album belongs to the 'Canterbury Scene' but with something more: there is new excitement here and lots of different ingredients that transcend existing styles. Favorite track: Close The Sky.
todd osborn
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todd osborn Love the album, Dave! Wonderful, dynamic playing throughout. The compositions are interesting, compelling, first rate. I really liked that you experimented with the process on Close The Sky - to absolute success! So glad I grabbed a CD early.
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Storm Gaza An oustanding end to the Manna/Mirage project. Dave Newhouse and his musicians show amazing chemistry and skill in what is one of the most unusual rock albums released this year. Favorite track: Close The Sky.
Steve Feigenbaum
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Steve Feigenbaum Dave is the best 'non' guitarist guitarist ever and it was fun to hear him 'non guitaring' again!! Favorite track: Section W.
rdansby
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rdansby Amazing writing and interplay. Beautiful work and amazing musicians in the damn pocket. Hard to pick a fave track, but I love Hope for maybe obvious reasons and it's outright beauty. It's a knockout Dave. Favorite track: Hope.
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    This is the 5th and final album in Dave Newhouse's Manna/Mirage series. It features the same great musicians as before as well as former early Muffins musicians Michael Bass (drums) and Michael Zentner (electric violin). This one is a little longer than previous albums clocking in at 46+ minutes.
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    This is the 5th album in the Manna/Mirage series. AmeriCanterbury / Jazz / RIO / Chamber...
    Single CD in a wallet format. Cover drawing by Neil Doherty (Random Radar artist). Mixing and Mastering by Mike Potter. Cover graphics by Eric Kearns.

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This is the 5th (and final) album in the Manna/Mirage series. Longer than the first 4 (about 46 minutes). AmeriCanterbury / RIO / Muffins / Chamber...

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released February 3, 2023

1) Phantosmia (Newhouse) 6:28
Sean Rickman - drums
Guy Segers - bass
Michael Zentner - electric violin
Jerry King - trombone
Dave Newhouse - guitars, keys, reeds
Phantosmia are olfactory hallucinations, smells that you detect that aren't really there. This actually started out as a Moon Men track, but then the band imploded and I shelved it for a while. It was structured differently at that time, with that low piano strike section as the beginning, but I switched it around.
2) Rounded By Sleep (Newhouse) 8:34
Sean Rickman - drums
Jerry King - bass, trombone
Mark Stanley - guitar
Dave Newhouse - keys, reeds, kalimba
Rounded by sleep is a quote from Shakespeare. This began life as a collaboration piece that I recorded for Greg Segal for his album "Visible" (you can hear it and download it from his Bandcamp site). It's very different here than on his album; I added a lot of tracks / instruments and extended it. The sounds at the end are vari-speed kalimbas.
3) Practicing Tonglin In A Time Of War (Newhouse) 4:10
Michael Bass - drums
Jerry King - bass, trombone
Forrest Fang - violin
Dave Newhouse - accordion, piano, reeds
Tonglin is a healing practice where as many Buddhists as possible perform a massive prayer / chant / meditation after a tragic ordeal has taken place. I told everyone who contributed to this to play it like they're in a small band in a seedy club in Berlin in 1933.
4) Section W (Newhouse) 4:53
Dave Newhouse - guitars, shortwave, keys, alto flutes
This originated as a track from a compilation album that was put together by Gonzalo Fuentes titled "Frets of Yore". I always liked it and thought that it ended too quickly, so I expanded it here and added a few tracks to it.
5) There Was A Time (Newhouse) 2:19
Sean Rickman - drums
Dave Newhouse - keys, reeds
This was a film soundtrack that I worked on for a friend. Just the piano and organ were recorded at the time. I like the chord structure and decided I'd add some tracks to it to fill it out. The title refers to a time when I was a young adult and it seemed as though the world was changing for the better, that we were evolving, that peace and love and an intense creative force (especially regarding music) was coming into being.
6) Close The Sky (Newhouse / Segers / Rickman) 5:49
Sean Rickman - drums
Guy Segers - bass
Rich O'Meara - marimba
Mark Stanley - guitar
Dave - keys, reeds, harmonica
I thought I'd try a different approach to composing utilizing the studio like another instrument, so I asked Sean Rickman to send me a 5 minute or so file of just his drums. He sent along something he called "Three". I listened to it over many days and recorded some keyboard bass tracks which divided the drum track into 4 distinct sections and time signatures. Then I sent them to Guy Segers and asked him to both duplicate the keyboard basses with his bass but also add his own bass structures / solos. Once we had the rhthym tracks down, I went back over it and added some extra keys, reeds, mallets from Rich O'Meara and guitar from Mark Stanley. For Rich's marimba parts, I asked him to duplicate Guy's bass solo in that second part. In order to do that, Rich notated the solo and then read from that! Astounding! Mark, as always, brings home the beauty and intensity. I really liked how this new way of writing turned out; because Sean was not reacting to what the rest of us were playing, his fills and phrases came out being very different, very unpredictable. I like that. BTW, the 'Close' here is read like close the door.
7) Instant Cloud Effect (Newhouse) 3:15
Dave Newhouse - keys, flutes and alto flutes, bass clarinets, single drums and percussion
Back when we were in the throes of the COVID pandemic and pretty much locked down everywhere, I posted on Facebook a few 'At Home Concerts', where I played along live to prerecorded tracks in my studio. This was one of them, but without all the extra keyboard and percussion tracks. The title comes from a dear friend of ours, Andrea Gotskind Hamad, whose family owns and runs a clothing store outside of Chicago. One day she waited on a family who had a young son on the autism spectrum. When she found a pair of shoes that he seemed to like and she asked him what he thought, he said, "Instant cloud effect!"
8) Love Song For A Country (Newhouse) 5:25
Sean Rickman - drums
Dereck Higgins - bass
Mark Stanley - guitar
Rich O'Meara - mallets, bells, percussion
Dave Newhouse - piano, reeds
This was going to be a song with vocals / lyrics. I even had Nick Prol lined up to sing it, but I ultimately didn't like the lyrics (my own), so I relegated it to an instrumental, or an unvoiced song, a song with an implied story. I may yet re-record this someday with those vocals and lyrics. The song was a breakup story, a woman saying goodbye to her lover and leaving him behind in his mansion. Thus the melancholy. But it was also one of those lyrics that could be perceived to be a people saying goodbye to their country as it changed from something they knew and loved to something alien and unknown. I love how delicate and beautiful everyone's playing on this is.
9) Hope (Margorani / Newhouse) 4:58
Luciano Margorani - guitar
Dave Newhouse - baritone sax
This was a Luciano Margorani project. He sent me his guitar part and asked me to add a track to it. It seemed to scream baritone sax - the baritone can be so delicate and emotionally charged, especially in the upper register (see Gerry Mulligan!). I love how the nature of the track gestures to a kind of hope for better things to come, especially politically. I asked Mike Potter to mix it like it was coming out of a dream. He did that.

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Keys, woodwinds, drums.
Founding member of The Muffins.
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Author of "Stars That Turn" (Amazon).

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