Prayer for Compassion,
released January 20, 2009,
represents one of the deepest and most creative expericences of my life.
My long-time producer and colleague, Mickey Houlihan, and I
have patiently worked with this music for ten years.
Each title represents a journey into a way of being that, for us, holds the world together.
We have used the studio as an impressionist painter might use a palette.
Mickey and his wonderful friends at Wind Over The Earth and Immersive Studios have used technologies and techniques both old and new to help each composition find its way into being.
Eight String Religion,
released in 1993,
is one of the all-time
favorite creations of my collaborations with Mickey.
Like Prayer for Compassion, this project also took many years to create.
It also reveals the process of deep listening that has become central to our work together.
This past season has also produced the inspirational duo CD with the gifted Eve Kodiak,
The Return of Desire: Improvisations.
This freely improvised acoustic music for Cello and Piano was created in a few short sessions
of intense listening.
This album nods toward both our classical roots, and our love for extending
these into various styles.
Finally, for those of you who love Poetry as I do, please check out
The Tao of Poetry with my long time colleague
Chungliang Al Hung.
The ancient and modern poetry from China spoken both in English and Chinese is a deep and
philosophical tribute to the great legacy that can guide us in these modern times.
Thank you for your support and love for all these many years!
For more than a decade, Chungliang Al Huang and David Darling have been exploring the development of a series of Chinese poetry recordings. The first in this series of CDs is finally completed with poetry by eleven Chinese poets.
Music and Video
Please enjoy the music samplers that are on many pages on my site.
Here are some tracks from various recording projects.
For all my recordings, visit the Recordings Page.
