DOGMAN-DAVID-SANDS: alternative UK folk

Saturday, 1 June 2013

DOGMAN NEW ALBUM - HE CHOSE THE ROAD - RELEASED INTO SUNSHINE JUNE 2013

DOGMAN RELEASES THE THIRD ALBUM

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HE CHOSE THE ROAD - DIGIPAK -
UK LIMITED EDITION CD

HE CHOSE THE ROAD dogman unplugged + remixed

SUITE 1 ‘The Extrovert’ - ‘The Introvert’ (he chose the road reprise)

1 avalanche

2 spitfire

3 the trouble i’m in

4 retina red (looking for mark hollis remix)

5 ray of love

6 bright and beautiful

SUITE 2 ‘The Pessimist’ - ‘The Optimist’

7 galileo 2013

8 newton’s delight

9 poverty at the gates

10 heart-melt seashore

11 song without words

SUITE 3 ‘The Laughing - The Tears’

12 la la lollipop (i-phone girl)

13 don’t let it bring you down

14 floodtide

15 life’s what you make it

16 he chose the road

1-3 dogman ‘alive @ the house of teaspoon’ recorded by anthony brown (matt pawson - second guitar and banjo), avalanche (lois osbourne - harp) spitfire (matt baker – mikans - treatments) and the trouble i’m in (roy taylor - harmonica)

4, 5, 12-16 (the crossbreed, dogman + mikans)

7 & 9 dogman remixed by oorlab 6 & 11 dogman 10 dogman + middleschoolfrown

All songs © 2013 dogman songs - written by david sands unless stated

Track 16 mixed by and all tracks mastered by smallfishrecordings

Fresh and original acoustic music with a new twist, Dogman has received praise from all corners of the world.

"Some cool sounds and arrangements. It’s a pretty good album".

Phill Brown (who has spend a lifetime recording, mastering co-producing major artists from The Rolling Stones, Harry Nilsson, Bob Marley, Stevie Winwood, Jeff Beck, John Martyn, Robert Plant, Talk Talk and right up to Bombay Bicycle Club)

"I love you man!" Ryan Adams (check out the recording from Bridgewater Hall, Manchester)

"All you have to do is listen to it" Mark Hollis

"Very Talented! "Tom Robinson, BBC6 Music

"Fork in the road" Neil Young

"Tinsel Town is in the rain" The Blue Nile

Friday, 15 July 2011

SMALL ACTS OF KINDNESS - THE DARKER SECRET BEHIND THE SONG

Small acts of kindness

Dogman explains how this song from his new album was inspired by real life sad stories

The photograph, taken by Dogman in the beautiful hill countryside close to his home, was not posed. The couple were simply enjoying the sunshine and the incredible view and were not aware a picture was being taken.

‘Small acts of kindness’, as an expression, was the inspiration behind an idea - not to use people’s names - but to use a phrase that would say everything about them. The song was first a simple Dogman poem that, when it was first read out loud, brought tears to his wife. She even insisted that it should remain as a poem and not become a song but Dogman could not resist suing it as a lyric. The song melody came quickly to him, in part inspired by the music of Neil Young, and was the subject of an emotion about bullying.
Dogman was saddened by the story of East Lancashire teenager Sophie Lancaster who was so brutally killed and her partner seriously injured when drunken youths attacked them in a park. All, can anyone really believe, because they were dressed in Goth-style clothes. That bullying can go on in school, in work, in relationships upsets Dogman because, like many children that experience a dysfunctional childhood, he was once bullied.
Small acts of Kindness which first appeared on the Dogman ‘The Whisperer’ album is loved at Dogman live concerts. It is often quoted as a favourite track on his new album when its theme is explained. Incidentally, the brief guitar lead is played by Dogman’s son, Jonathan Sands, a Liverpool based musician who was visiting the studio during a recording session. It’s played on Dogman’s favourite Guild acoustic. Friends, family and fans who bought his new album, ‘The cat that solved The String Theory’, have sent in photographs, many with dogs, cats and pets, with the album and these have been used in the Expat Records video which can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNuMZaDkBxw