Turning Demos into Dreams: David Darling's Other Worlds on Echoes
On the next Echoes, music off the second posthumous release by cellist David Darling, Other Worlds. One of 35 Icons of Echoes, Darling left a lot of unfinished recordings before his death in 2021. His producer and friend, Mickey Houlihan got producer Michael Verdick to take these demo and scratch recordings and arranged other musicians and electronic rhythms around them to get them into shape. Usually I hate these posthumous releases that row in musicians who may have never had any association with the artist. It’s, something that’s been ingrained in me since the first posthumous releases of Jimi Hendrix’s music on albums like Crash Landing. But David Darling’s Other Worlds works and is totally different from the Hans Christian’s ambient interpretations of Darling’s demos on Ocean Dreaming Ocean. We’re always in an other worlds on Echoes from PRX.