DANA RIVERS: ... a beautiful mess

Dana Rivers

... a beautiful mess

© 2004 Dana Rivers (790777013920)

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Chamber Pop "Dana Rivers offers a darkly seductive blend of head-space pop and rock on his debut album "... a beautiful mess"

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"...a Beautiful Mess," is the culmination of a prolific eight-month writing period in San Francisco. With several of his original tunes and some friends, he retreated to an old Viking hunting lodge on the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean to distill his music down to a few notable tracks: three days later, he'd recorded 12 songs. His musical cohorts include two bass players, two guitarists, a drummer, a lyric mezzo-soprano, a friend he calls "the synthesist," who composed all the ambient electronic textures, and a couple others who added tablas and accordion during mix_down.

"This CD is really about my coming to terms with the craziness of my life, the workings of my mind, my need for love and acceptance as a person," says Dana. "It's also an expression of my desire to be great at my craft and, most of all, to touch and move people. I thought the best way to do that was to be very open about me. I wrote about the conflicts of trying to deal with our inside and outside worlds, especially when those two things seem so contradictory. What a mess!! But that is what's real."

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  • Listen to THIS...

    This is something...well, REAL. A beautiful, revealing expression acknowledging the realities of life, the struggles...within. It does take you there, but don't be scared, as it is done with a compassionate vulnerability that releases the heart to hope.

  • Dana's music IS the haunting, bittersweet strangeness of life.
    author: Robert Pacini

    Dana does't just sing about the bittersweet, haunting, strangeness of life. His music IS that. He ultimately affirms the possibility that, even through the dizzy falls and soaring flights of life, there is the possibility that it is all, that we are all, beautiful. Amazing harmonies amazing orchestration. A real treat for the mind and heart.

  • a must have...
    author: neelima baird

    for anyone who has ever dared to look into the depths of their being and to face what they find there... this album carries an impact that cannot be denied. The music itself seems to enter you (or perhaps it invites you to enter it), with richly diverse layers that reveal a meaning of their own with repeated listening. The lyrics speak to you in a way that makes you feel directly understood even in your most trying moments, and they are delivered by a voice (love that voice!) that seems to envelop that part of you that wants to see the beauty in your own mess.

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