About this album:
David Keye's debut solo album - 'Works from Home' successfully denies categorisation by any specific genre, has been written, performed and produced by David Keye (featuring three very special guest musicians) and took a staggering 12 years to make. It will be available for a limited time only as a super high quality download, includes cover art and three pieces of original artwork and has been compiled and prepared for your optimum listening pleasure at The Convent, San Fortunato di Compignano, Perugia in Italy.
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Artist Bio:
David Keye was born in the city of Dublin where he was promptly exported to the musical metropolis known as Nottingham in the UK. There he studied classical piano, some flute, percussion and vocals soon after becoming a multi instrumentalist playing just about any musical instrument he could get his eager hands on. He has been writing, recording and producing music of all colours and flavours for the past 25 years, has played hundreds of gigs in the UK alone and performed publicly worldwide in many places that include The Leicester Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, Project 101, Paris, numerous churches, private residences and one villa in Italy, a restaurant in South Africa, The Czech Museum of Music in Prague and recently a back street theatre in Catania, Sicily.
His first commercial appearance was that of singing and playing acoustic guitar, ukulele and bowed cymbal as guest musician on 'Infant - Pony Gear' the second official release by Andrew Fearn (a.k.a Infant, ExtndDNtwrK) released on Musiik Experience Recordings, Paris. This is what Brian from Norman Records (
www.normanrecords.com/records/71039-infant-pony-gear) has to say about this rather strange and beautiful lo-fi recording..
4 out of 5 stars - 8/10 "Check out this rather magnificent CD by Infant a.k.a. Andrew Fearn from Nottingham. 'Pony Gear' is a strange lolloping record. Quirky & slow, organic to the max & rather splendidly skewiff, it harnesses some very subtle electronics to sublime wonky guitar coming across to these ears like a latter day bedroom 'Tom Waits' in parts or mogadonned 'Talk Talk' (once again, latter day!) Really hard to pigeonhole."
Other curious and experimental projects that occurred over the years between David and Andrew Fearn notably include 'Died on E', (lo-fi-hi) 'Johnn on the Phone' and 'Stenway' that saw David playing a wide range of instruments from synths, dirgey guitar, plastic tubing to live digital piano improvised alongside quirky electronic music.
For one year he played improvised electric guitar and loop pedal ambience alongside Andrew Fearn (vocals and drums) and Mat Allsebrook (a.k.a iNTeRFeRoN) (bass guitar) with the now infamous band 'Ultralame' building up a stupendous collection of eclectic improvised live recorded music that features multiple guest appearances by a variety of 'visiting' musicians.
Before 'Ultralame', the three core members worked on a number of different musical projects including 'Low Quality Ambience', 'Dave Stewart and his Army of Beef', 'Bird in a Wheelchair' and 'Memories of Music in the Middle of the Mound', each daring to push the fragile musical boundaries about as far as they could possibly go, confusing and bewildering critics and musicians alike.
A one-off recording with multi instrumentalists Mat Allsebrook and Adam Farrah (Bosco, Emmett Brown) resulted in the 5 track recording of 'Threak' that was recorded live in Nottingham's legendary Baselab studios and is now available for official download.
David continued to play and record with many wonderfully talented musicians in Nottingham including the mighty Chris Mcdonald in two extremely well received bands (Foncheros and Emmett Brown) where he worked alongside Natalie Duncan (Universal Music) for a number of very enjoyable and productive years. He also features on Chris's forthcoming debut album that is due for release this year.
David also continues to work both live and in the studio with Nottingham's massive Funk/Hip Hop outfit '1st Blood' (1st Blood Records) where he co-wrote and recorded with Liam 'Bahinyon' Bailey (Polydor Records) for Tricky's own music label 'Brown Punk' and now is featured on the legendary Death Row label.
His first ever solo live set was at The Maze in Nottingham where he was joined on stage by the futuristic guitarist Tommy Jones (1st Blood, Foncheros, Bosco, Emmett Brown). He played an almost entirely improvised set using vocals, keyboard, loop pedal, Buddha box, cowbells and an old transistor radio to a stunned and wholly appreciative audience who quite honestly didn't know what hit them at the time.
Recently he has recorded keyboards for the new EP by David Blazye (DB Records/Top Cat Music) entitled 'All This Rain' playing alongside singer Leanne Narewski (Red Shoe Diaries) and produced by Andy Wright (We Show up on RadaR, Swimming).
Other musicians and bands David has either played or recorded with include Tim Mcdonald, Thomas Dempsey III, Nina Smith, Danny 'The Incredible' Hughes, Old Basford, Haiki Loki, Lester Troughton and jazzmen Ben Martin, Laszlo Sebestyen, Hugh Pascall and Toby Kennedy.
He is currently waiting patiently for the imminent release of the debut album by 'Injured Birds', soon to be released on Denizen Records where he worked with the eternally creative and hugely inspirational Pete Fletcher, Samuel Kirk, Ian Kingsbury and Jack 'Honey' Benjamin to create an album of sublime beauty and originality.
Other projects in the pipeline include an ambient jazz noise album collaboration with The Zygmont Jazz Trio Quartet Ensemble, inclusion on a While Dolemite soundtrack album and a soon to be released original album of modern day lullabies.
What people have said about David Keye's music..
'Wonderful, mysterious and enchanting' - Phantom Dog Beneath the Moon (Rusted Rail) UK
'Après le live de INFANT au project 101, after show avec son comparse David Keye improvisation d'une heure au piano au BAR le Gobe Lune PARIS 20 Keith Jarett n'est pas loin... St Omer à la main !!!' - Alexandre Crepin (MusiikExperience Recordings) Paris
'Rich soundscapes, textures and atmospheres that bring out reflective and deep thoughts' - Facel Vega (Italie 13) California
'I like your electronic and experimental, I had on mind the film "The Sky Above Berlin" (Wings of Desire) of Wim Wenders many times' - Windmill (Time is Wild, Be Wild) Bilbao
'I feel a cool wave washing over me! Thanks!' - Susan Gardener (Beachmusic) UK
'Short long made me really want to write and say honestly, I really like your music' - John Guertler Scores, Berlin
'Beautiful and mysterious sound' - Monooka, London
'This is some really wicked music, I closed the lights and totally freaked out' - Jack Dani, Toronto
The entire list of David Keye's commercial and collaborative releases up to and including 2019:
(2019) Benjamin Luhis - Social Music [Super Music Collider]
supermusiccollider.bandcamp.com/album/social-music
acoustic and electric piano on 'NG - An Interlude'
(2019) MOuFO - Pumping Ions [Bandcamp]
keyed.bandcamp.com/album/moufo-pumping-ions
sunpan, recording, post production & mastering
(2019) David Keye - Pastures Present [Bandcamp]
keyed.bandcamp.com/album/pastures-present
acoustic piano, recording, post production & mastering
(2019) Louis Cypher - Cypher Sore Eyes [Boombap]
boombappro.com/album/cypher-sore-eyes-bbp63
nord strings arranged and recorded on 'Actualize (feat.Liam Bailey)'
(2018) Esther Van Leuven [Independent]
esthervanleuven.bandcamp.com/releases
piano on 'Stone'
(2018) Nina Smith - White Feather [First Light]
www.ninasmithmusic.com
acoustic piano on 'Time - live' (feat.The Kanneh-Masons)
(2018) Ty Healy - Bury [Independent]
tyhealy.bandcamp.com
acoustic piano on 'Moon & Earth' & 'Quiet'
(2018) Thinkthomas - Bury Instrumentals [Bandcamp]
patchworkers.bandcamp.com/album/bury-instrumentals
acoustic piano on 'Moon & Earth' & 'Full Circle'
(2018) Patchworkers - Patchworks [Bandcamp]
patchworkers.bandcamp.com/album/patchworks
acoustic piano, nord rhodes, pads, programming, production
(2018) 1st Blood - Creativity Crisis [1st Blood Empire Ltd]
1stbloodrecords.bandcamp.com/music
keyboards on 'Back 4 This', 'Saint Shit', 'Compact Dis', 'Native', 'Time Is About That Journey', 'Rhythms Of Whiskey', 'Optdalini', 'Across The Pond' & 'Fire Fire'
nord strings on 'King Shit' & 'Across The Pond'
sunpan on 'Saint Shit' & 'Compact Dis'
(2018) David Keye - Days solo piano EP [Bandcamp]
keyed.bandcamp.com/album/days-solo-piano-ep
acoustic piano, production & mastering
(2017) Adam Peter Smith - Songs for Dreamers [Independent]
adampetersmith.bandcamp.com
acoustic piano on 'Summer Rain', 'L'Heure de L'Amour' & 'Lost in Your Eyes'
keyboards on 'Preacher' & 'My Lonely Heart'
(2017) David Keye - Piano Music [Bandcamp]
keyed.bandcamp.com/album/days-solo-piano-ep
acoustic piano, post production & mastering
(2016) David Keye - Experiments in Generative Music Parts 1-4 (432hz) [Bandcamp]
keyed.bandcamp.com/…/experiments-in-generative-musi…
all instruments, programming, production & mastering
(2016) David Keye - A Short Letter to my Father EP [Bandcamp]
keyed.bandcamp.com/a…/a-short-letter-to-my-father-ep
acoustic piano, field recordings, post production & mastering
(2015) David Keye - Foofaraw [Bandcamp]
keyed.bandcamp.com/album/foofaraw
all instruments (except where stated), programming, production & mastering
(2015) Kount Masloff - Pop<Culture [1st Blood Empire Ltd]
1stbloodrecords.bandcamp.com/…/kount-masloff-pop-cu…
additional keyboards
(2015) Compound Junkies - Intaskillaktic [1st Blood Empire Ltd]
1stbloodrecords.bandcamp.com/music
piano intro on 'Hot Like A Burner'
(2014) Terri Walker - Untitled to Entitled [Tru Thoughts]
soundcloud.com/…/joe-buhdha-presents-terri-walker-untitled-…
additional keyboards on 'Caught Up', 'Feel Right', 'Never Will Be The Same', 'Tired Out' & 'He's Coming'
(2014) Kundalini - EP 1 [Independent]
soundcloud.com/kundalini-music/albums
all keyboards, additional post production
(2014) 1st Blood - Live Like Legends [1st Blood Empire Ltd]
1stbloodrecords.bandcamp.com/music
acoustic piano & bass on 'Welcome To Britain (Intro)'
harmonium on 'Vaporising Vocals'
keyboards on 'Live Like Legends', Live Life Love', 'Keeponya', 'Escape the Hangmans Noose', Didn't Expect it', 'Vaporising Vocals' & Dont You Follow me Home'
(2014) David Keye - Weird Blue Room [Bandcamp]
keyed.bandcamp.com/album/weird-blue-room
all instruments, programming, production & mastering
(2013) Harleighblu - Forget me Not [Tru Thoughts]
harleighblu.bandcamp.com/album/forget-me-not
acoustic piano on 'Enough Now', 'Let Me Be', 'I Believe', 'This Way', 'Sittin By The Window' & 'Love Like This' &
organ on 'Sittin By The Window'
(2013) David Keye - Wealth and Hell-Being [Bandcamp]
keyed.bandcamp.com/album/wealth-and-hell-being
all instruments, programming, production & mastering
(2012) 1st Blood - Aquarrel Over Sutin [1st Blood Empire Ltd]
1stbloodrecords.bandcamp.com/music
additional keyboards
additional vocals
(2012) 1st Blood - The Ventus Window [1st Blood Empire Ltd]
1stbloodrecords.bandcamp.com/music
additional keyboards on all tracks except 'Spirally Spindle'
(2012) Tim McDonald & the Leisure Class - The Bandit, the Rebel and the Man in the Crowd [Independent]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3vt-hV3sNU
keyboards on 'Chinese Waltz', 'Strangers At Your Door' & 'Tooth & Claw'
(2012) Chris McDonald - There's a Fire [Chris McDonald]
chris-mcdonald.bandcamp.com/releases
additional programming & production on 'You and Me'
(2012) Injured Birds - Silver Birches [Denizen Recordings]
injuredbirds.bandcamp.com
nord rhodes, acoustic piano & xylophone on 'In the Doldrums'
nord rhodes on 'Wood is Dead'
harmonium on 'Seaside Towns' & 'Song For Bailey'
acoustic piano on 'The Forest' & 'This Wont Last'
(2012) Lo Fi Hi - Extempure [Bandcamp]
extempure.bandcamp.com/album/lo-fi-hi
extra guitar on 'Good Nuyt' by Died on E
(2012) Extnddntwrk - EXTNDDNTWRK [Bandcamp]
extnddntwrk.bandcamp.com/album/extnddntwrk
extra electric guitar on 'Amazedd'
extra electric guitar on 'Colege'
(2012) Extnddntwrk - Low Quality Ambience [Bandcamp]
extnddntwrk.bandcamp.com/album/low-quality-ambience
extra keyboards on 'An Intense Ambient Feeling'
extra keyboards on 'Ethnic Motorways'
extra vocals and keyboards on 'Amways'
extra vocals and keyboards on 'Lunch for the Aged'
(2012) Extnddntwrk - Tapeheck [Bandcamp]
extnddntwrk.bandcamp.com/album/tapeheck
'OIOIddO126fked less' sample on 'Canadian Rain'
(2011) David Keye - Works From Home [Bandcamp]
keyed.bandcamp.com/album/works-from-home
all instruments (except where stated), programming, production & mastering
(2011) David Keye - Grace of States (solo piano) [Bandcamp]
keyed.bandcamp.com/al…/grace-of-states-solo-piano-ep
acoustic piano, post production & mastering
(2011) 1st Blood - The Blood Drop Agenda [1st Blood Empire Ltd]
1stbloodrecords.bandcamp.com/music
piano on 'Anybody Here Alive' & 'Keye2thecity'
(2010) David Keye & Mat Allsebrook - Scrapping the Barrel EP [Bandcamp]
keyed.bandcamp.com/album/scrapping-the-barrel-ep
keyboards, samples, programming, production & mastering
(2009) David Keye & Mat Allsebrook - 123 EP [Bandcamp]
keyed.bandcamp.com/album/123-ep
keyboards, samples, programming, production & mastering
(2009) David Keye & Mat Allsebrook - Window Blemish EP [Bandcamp]
keyed.bandcamp.com/album/window-blemish-ep
keyboards, vocals, samples, programming, production & mastering
(2008) Threak (with Mat Allsebrook & Adam Farrah) - Live EP [Bandcamp]
keyed.bandcamp.com/album/threak-ep
electric guitar, keyboards, production & mastering
(2006) David Keye - Moving Science [Bandcamp]
keyed.bandcamp.com/…/moving-science-science-and-dan…
all instruments, programming, production & mastering
(2004) Infant - Pony Gear [Musikexperience Recordings]
www.discogs.com/Infant-Pony-Gear/release/348905
additional acoustic guitar on 'Vioskin', 'Jesus Paul', 'Hip Hop', '2 LittlePony', 'Rusty Almond', 'Pony Tennis', 'Small Guitar', 'Small Dave', 'Folk Pony Harmony' & 'Rock Yeh'
ukulele on 'Acoustic Night'
bowed cymbal on 'Cymb'
additional vocals on '2 LittlePony' & 'Small Dave'
(2001) Infant - Growing Up [Neo Ouija]
boomkat.com/…/growing-up-32dee128-a27f-43c9-9067-9dc84134f5…
additional artwork & credit listing
