Open Road - 2K12 Summer Sessions

Open Road - 2K12 Summer Sessions will be out July 25th 2014. It's the collection of old songs I talked about in my last post.

It'll feature 6 songs recorded in the summer of 2012. At the time I had a fractured leg and a torn ligament, so I wasn't able to move around much and spent the time recovering writing and recording songs. All of the 6 tracks on this release are full band recordings. I did it with the help of my friends and my brother. It's a fun jam. Also, it hasn't been mixed or mastered or anything. I just evened out the volume on the different instruments and vocals 'cause I wanted it to sound like what I heard when we recorded it.

The EP opens with "The Fire Still Burns", a song I've previously put out on the "Songs From A Haze" EP. This one is the rock'n'roll version, I like it a lot. Adds some spice to the soup. It continues with the song "Water", which I wrote in 2009. It's one of the few songs I wrote that tells a story I'm no part of. Well, not really anyway. I did hear that melody sitting at the river, and there was a kid that drowned in it. My brother Patrick does some awesome guitar playing on it. The third song is "Rusted Heart", which I wrote during the session in 2012. If you listen to it, it's pretty much explaining itself and how I felt at that point in time. The next track, "Open Road" is an older one again (2009). A simple 3 chord song with a nice message. Track 5 is called "Forever Free", I wasn't sure if I wanted to include it because I was insecure about my performance, but I think the song itself is a really good song, so I wanted to put it out. If anyone wants to record it in a better way, be my guest. ;-) It's also got a nice guitar solo from my friend Daniel (not me, I'm alright, thanks). The last track is "Summer's Gone" which I think I wrote in 2009 as well. This one is one of m favourites, I've played it live a lot. Well... "a lot" if you look at the small amount of gigs I was willing to play in the last few years. ;-)

Love,

Dani A.