Daniel James Burke presents Twilight Furniture: Experiential songs with Ambient motives.
Fusing electronic and acoustic chamber music, cabaret lounge jazz, bedroom pop, minimalist composition, ambient, experimental & simple song structures. Channeling but not necessarily sounding like: Michael Nyman, Robert Wyatt, Mark Hollis, Harold Budd, Eric Satie, Burt Bacharach, and or John Cage. Skirting genre, playing with form, tonality, atonality, tradition, and innovation: opening space for experiential access. Surrender to a warm hypnotic trance with a few emotional detours…
Daniel Burke: Guitar, Keys, synth, field recordings, & devices
Daniel James Burke is an improviser, composer & performer from Chicago using strings, piano, extended techniques, field recordings, synthesizer, & electronics. He has been making music since 1983 as Illusion of Safety & has recorded and performed with Olivia Block, Thomas Dimuzio, Kevin Drumm, Darin Gray, Jon Mueller, Jim O’Rourke, CHEER-ACCIDENT, and has collaborated with Shen Wei Dance Arts. Recently he has started performing original music in singer-songwriter mode, in ambient mode as Twilight Furniture, and as Interim Assassin in an improv trio with Chicago musicians Erik Sowa & Jeb Bishop. Seeing musical tools & traditions as borders to cross and boundaries to play with, his interest in making challenging, exploratory music is now augmented by a desire to create music as spacious, beautiful and enigmatic as possible. Through interaction, environment, intention, & spontaneity, his intention is to connect space, performers & audience, believing sound can be a catalyst in reaching states beyond normal consciousness.
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The name Twilight Furniture was originally used for the rock project I was doing with my dear friend Lorna Donley (R.I.P) during the late 2000’s. We had some good times working toward a body of work that unfortunately was never well documented or brought out to the public arena. The project name was her idea, from a song title by the group This Heat. I think enough time has passed and feel justified to use it for this rather appropriate context. Some original working tracks can be heard here.