TRULY INDEPENDENT MUSIC Latest Release: Daniel Gannaway: HEADING FOR COUNTRY [2007]   Tracklist: 01 - Move Along Now 02 - Sorry To Say 03 - Talk Yourself Up 04 - Tiny Lights 05 - Lazy Sundays 06 - Sadly Don’t Think So >> Hear it @ CD Baby       LISTEN & BUY: >> @ CD Baby >> @ Amplifier [NZ/Aus] LISTEN & DOWNLOAD: >> @ All Apple iTunes Music Stores ALSO NOW AVAILABLE! Latest release by ELECPHONIC! ELECPHONIC: SOPHOMOREPHONIC [2007]   Tracklist: 01. Mile High Club 02. Suntan Lotion 03. Coca Sek 04. Dirt Is Country 05. Starbuck 06. Cake For You 07. Praise The Lord 08. The River Is High >> Hear it @ CD Baby       Daniel's Most Recent Release: Daniel Gannaway OP-ED: Environmental / Social / Political [2006]   Tracklist: 01 - A Flower Down The Barrel Of A Gun 02 - Selling Off The Country 03 - Dividing You 04 - A Just Senator 05 - Save The Waves 06 - Inner City Temples 07 - Under The Thumb 08 - No Mall At Sharks Cove 09 - Student Debt Sucks 10 - Kiwis Against Seabed Mining 11 - It's Amazing Grace 12 - Saving Africa [Letter to Tony Blair] 13 - Waterfall Wahine [Waimea Valley] >> Hear it @ CD Baby       more truly independent news: SNOCAP Mystore now on each artist page. Full catalogue available soon. kidameln's sophomore effort is coming along in the fine global fashion they're used to with all four members are on different sides of the earth. Daniel's most recent release OP-ED has been garnering some nice reviews along with 'No Mall At Sharks Cove' & 'Waterfall Wahine [Waimea Bay]' being played in radio documentaries on over development in Hawaii. thankyou for supporting truly independent music. Daniel supports Save The Waves Coalition with 'Save The Waves'       >> Read more... San Diego, California, USA. 'Sediment Flow [Save Trestles]', a new song by independent folk/singer/songwriter & Surfrider Foundation Member Daniel Gannaway [now based out of San Francisco, California], seeks to help raise awareness of the work of The Surfrider Foundation in conjunction with The Donna O'Neill Land Conservancy, The Surf Industry Manufacturers Association (SIMA), South Orange County Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, Friends of the Foothills, & Wildcoast, in opposing the Transportation Corridor Agency, a privately held company, seeking to build an extension to the existing 241 Toll Road. >> Read more @ savetrestles.org   >> FREE Download of 'Sediment Flow [Save Trestles]' @ Daniel's [My]Space. Share it with your friends, sing along, and figure out how you too can help preserve one of the remaining jewels of the Southern California Coast. Find out more at the links block down below the lyrics to Sediment Flow. kidameln support Island Aid Organization kidameln will donate 50% of the net proceeds from paid downloads @ iTunes of the song Hey Ho, to the ongoing aid & reconstruction work of Island Aid Organization. Hey Ho is on kidameln's 2004 debut album the kidameln lo-fi, and was previously used on a NZ Red Cross Tsunami Benefit album, Reconstruction.  >> Download Hey Ho & help kidameln support Island Aid Our [Island Aid] organization started with 2 people on the day of the quake and gained volunteers at the rate of one every day since. The key mechanism was the use of the www. A simple web page and e-mails to all our friends and family triggered an amazing response. Within 5 days we had 2 charter boats loaded and funded by Aus Aid with a brief to head to the Banyak Islands. Within 2 weeks we had secured the Batavia and pledges of funding for over $100,000. During the first 3 months of operations we often carried over 25 volunteers aboard Batavia and on our last mission to Nias & Simeulue we departed Banda Aceh with 42 volunteers on board. >> Read more @ island-aid.org 'Selling Off The Country' on 'The Last Resort'     Selling Off The Country - from Daniel's 2006 release OP-ED: Environmental / Social / Political - will feature in the soundtrack to 'The Last Resort', a New Zealand documentary by Abi King-Jones and Errol Wright, showing at The 2006 New Zealand International Film Festival. >> Read more... kidameln & Daniel Gannaways' music @ Surf2Surf.com Check out a range of surf clips at New Zealand's premiere surf reporting site Surf2Surf.com. You'll find kidameln's music playing to world champion longboarder Joel Tudor at Raglan & more, or Daniel Gannaway's along to heavy Pipeline or pumping EC sand barrels. http://www.surf2surf.com kidameln in the new issue of AllAboutSurf Check out an interview with kidameln and a review of the kidameln lo-fi. Also check out two more clips from the Quiksilver Eddie Aikau Big Wave Contest at Waimea Bay. One features Shane Dorian to kidameln's 'i'm in' and the other Kelly Slater to Daniel Gannaway's 'Achilles' from Bound and Suburban. Not only that there is an interview by Daniel with Californian singer/songwriter Ted Lennon.      http://www.allaboutsurf.com kidameln on reconstruction Reconstruction is a compilation of some of the best of New Zealand's unsigned artists, who have got to together to release a 75 minute album to raise money for the Red Cross South Asia Tsunami Appeal (www.redcross.org.nz). The album features a wide range of genres and styles with one common theme.... all the music is great. From the haunting vocals of Karen Clarke to the powerful rock songs of Redmore and Ruptus Jack, Reconstruction has something for everyone. All the profits from the sale of the album will be donated to charity and you'll be doing your bit to support kiwi music. Click below to order reconstruction http://www.ceedeez.co.nz kidameln in isurf DV-zine Issue #5! Issue 5 is out 16th March 05 & has 3 tracks from the kidameln lo-fi on board: hysteria, loudmouth & circles. Click here to get the scoops on what this new issue contains, or go visit your nearest stockist of this fine aussi surf mag. >> http://www.isurfdvzine.com/ kidameln music in Kelly Slater & Bruce Irons surf clips @ AllAboutSurf Clip 1 - kidameln's '[you're] just a loudmouth' to Bruce Iron's winning wave at             the Quiksilver Eddie Aikau Big Wave Contest at Waimea Bay. Clip 2 - kidameln band member Phonoss's 'trip to the moon' to 10 pt rides at the Pipe by Kelly & Bruce. >> click thumbnails to link        Daniel Gannaway HEADING FOR COUNTRY Daniel's first release for 2007, HEADING FOR COUNTRY is the musician's ninth solo release and part of a growing discography that includes work with band kidameln and contributions to two intrepid, imaginative releases by ELECPHONIC. Fresh from immersing himself in these various projects, Daniel has returned to his independent singer/songwriter roots with HEADING FOR COUNTRY. Following on from BOOTLEGGED AT THE 12 BAR CLUB, Daniel's second release for 2006 after the trenchant OP-ED: Environmental / Social / Political, HEADING FOR COUNTRY delves quietly into the musical geography of 'alt-country' as a genre without - thankfully - falling victim to cliché or revere. HEADING FOR COUNTRY is more personal than the incisive, politically inspired OP-ED. Daniel traverses the more subtle nuances of love and loss in tracks such as 'Sorry To Say', 'Lazy Sundays' and 'Sadly Don't Think So', while touching on death in 'Tiny Lights'. Conversely, 'Move Along Now' and 'Talk Yourself Up' provide some upbeat counterpoints, particularly via a galloping harmonica throughout the latter track. Overall, HEADING FOR COUNTRYis more lyrically melancholic and, in some ways, regretful than former albums, but this suits the overt 'country-fication' of the melodies. Though venturing into an often-vapid musical style, Daniel manages to retain his innate sincerity and truth through lyrical inflection, which breaths life into the riffs and bridges. A previous reviewer comment (associated with an earlier album) noted, "...each song's arrangement maintains a minimalist nature, which shows a discipline and a depth of understanding on Gannaway's part". Perhaps unsurprisingly, this observation remains true in the context of HEADING FOR COUNTRY. Daniel has reinforced his musical adventurousness with this latest album and, in the process, shown his ability to turn his hand masterfully to a wide array of genres. - Daniel Gannaway Since the release of FINE BY ME in 1998, Daniel has been a strident proponent of independent music. As time and albums have passed, Daniel's music has stylistically ebbed and flowed - at one point pared back and raw, at another full-bodied and polished, but at all times potent and inspired. Bound and Suburban in 2001, for example, was a composition of stories and recollections that provided a beautiful counterpoint to the poignant simplicity of Bootlegged at the Temple, recorded the previous year. Daniel's 2004 release - darling one year - was perhaps his most musically confident effort, traversing a broad range of personal experiences and heart-felt issues, wrapped in some truly quixotic melodies. 2005's SUMMER STORM | a collection of ukulele ditties, on the other hand, was a wonderfully light composition which often belied the intensity of the lyrical content. Daniel's most recent album, HEADING FOR COUNTRY, continues this tradition and marks another waypoint on what has become a musical odyssey spanning more than a decade. - Previous quotes: "... Perhaps politics might actually catch on if Gannaway were doing the singing [OP-ED], instead of John Ashcroft's barbershop quartet. It's a thought. But until the Republican or Democratic National Convention is converted into a Broadway musical, we'll have to make do with Daniel. And that's going to be just fine for fans of indie folk pop with a message." - Indie-Music "...The great aspect of the album [SUMMER STORM] is that each song's arrangement maintains a minimalistic nature, which shows a discipline and a depth of understanding on Gannaway's part. Underneath the ukulele, the cruising drums and harmonic supporting bass grooves provide an all around easy and easily recommendable listen..." - NZ Musician Magazine "...Down to earth and laid back, it has none of the musical tension of trying too hard or the injection of false emotions. Suburban folky and bohemian chic, it [darling one year] ties up agreeably layered and distorted vocals into an angst-ridden, quirky pop as catchy as The Strokes but easily as mysteriously engaging as James Keenan Maynard..." - Indie-Music "...like [Bound and Suburban] walking alone on the beach at night and seeing Jim Morrison and Jeff Buckley strumming and singing at the water’s edge..." - Indie-Music "...Herein lies the essence of Bootlegged at the Temple: simply an audience, a musician, and a quiet venue... - no hype... In context with Daniel's previous two albums - FINE BY ME and flashback* - and subsequent release 'Bound and Suburban', 'Bootlegged' is a departure, which provides the listener a greater perspective on all of his work. Bootlegged is a great live album, which, over time, becomes as much a voyage of discovery and inspiration for the listener as for the musician himself." - Justin Walsh   Artist Sites: >> ELECPHONIC >> kidameln >> Stan Leboy >> Daniel Gannaway @ CD Baby: >> truly independent @ Apple iTunes: >> ELECPHONIC >> kidameln >> Daniel Gannaway @ CafePress: >> kidameln >> Daniel Gannaway >> truly independent @ VIRB: >> ELECPHONIC >> kidameln >> Daniel Gannaway @ MySpace: >> ELECPHONIC >> kidameln >> Stan Leboy >> Daniel Gannaway >> truly independent Friends: >> More Core Audio >> Phonoss >> the Stung >> Basserk Contact: >> trulyindependent at gmail.com thankyou for supporting truly independent music >> top