DAVID CIERI | Collaborations

 

SUPER PROUD TO BE A PART OF MAKING THIS RECORD WITH SOME PIANO AND UNA CORDA PLAYING - HERE IS THE 1ST TRACK FROM THE LATEST RECORDING - I DON’T KNOW WHO NEEDS TO HEAR THIS - FROM THE INCOMPARABLE TOMBERLIN - RELEASED MAY 2022.

Paris Review Podcast: Season 3
with original scoring by David Cieri & Reverend John Delore

Paris Review Podcast: Seasons 1 & 2 (2018 & 2019)
with original scoring by David Cieri & Reverend John Delore

The celebrated podcast from the legendary literary magazine returns! Join us for new audio adventures through The Paris Review's fiction, poetry, interviews, archival recordings, and sonic imaginings with the likes of Simone de Beauvoir, Tennessee Williams, and today's leading writers.

An audio odyssey through the life and times of The Paris Review, featuring a seamless blend of classic stories & poems; interviews with the likes of James Baldwin, Jack Kerouac & Dorothy Parker; & new work read by cutting-edge writers of our time. Original scoring by David Cieri & Reverend John Delore, surprising literary ephemera & gorgeous sound design create an immersive experience akin to reading the magazine itself.

Dark Furniture (Ropeadope Records, 2018)
Yusef Komunyakaa, David Cieri & Mike Brown

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While David Cieri was writing the music (along with Trent Reznor and Yo-Yo Ma) for Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War, he kept close Yusef Komunyakaa’s poetry book Dien Cai Dau as a source of insight and inspiration. As good fortune would have it, The Gavagai Music and Reading series run by Danielle Blau, brought Komunyakaa, Cieri, and Mike Brown together for the first time on St. Patrick’s Day 2016 to perform in NYC. From the downbeat, a deep relationship and understanding immediately caught fire and they have been playing with matches ever since as they fuse Komunyakaa’s poems with the sounds and music of Cieri and Brown.

Yusef Komunyakaa (Poet & Reader), David Cieri (Keyboards, Piano, Vocal, Waterphone & Dan Nguyet), Mike Brown (Contrabass & Looping), Shahzad Ismaily (Percussion & Moog), Sam Ospovat (Percussion)

Recorded & mixed by Eli Crews at Figure 8 Studios in Brooklyn, NY. Mastered by Kevin Blackler at Blackler Mastering.

Iceland Addendum (Unarmed Media, 2018)
Unarmed Media & David Cieri

 

A collaboration between David Cieri & Francesco Saviano & Marika Hacking of Unarmed Media. Filmed & recorded on location in Iceland.

White Dust (Ropeadope Records, 2017)
Yusef Komunyakaa, David Cieri & Mike Brown

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Yusef Komunyakaa (Poet & Reader), David Cieri (Keyboards, Piano, Vocal & Waterphone)
Mike Brown (Contrabass & Looping), Shahzad Ismaily: Percussion & Moog), Sam Ospovat (Percussion)

Recorded & mixed by Eli Crews at Figure 8 Studios in Brooklyn, NY. Mastered by Kevin Blackler at Blackler Mastering

White Dust EPK

Graves of Light: A Tone Poem For Carillon Bell (small e records, 2017)
Written by David Cieri & Performed by Paige Breen

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Music written for the world’s largest instrument the Carillon Bells. Recorded high atop Yale University's Harkness Tower in November 2016 and performed by bellringer Paige Breen. The release also includes Tam Tam Drum, small choir, waterphone, small string section, electronics, and field recordings captured in Vietnam.

Mixed & mastered by Bryan Pugh.

Graves of Light: A Tone Poem For Carillon Bell EPK