Dan Reed Confessions
Released Tuesday 14th September 2017
The new album will coincide with Dan’s intimate solo tour in beautiful settings which kicks off at London’s St. Pancras Old Church in on Thursday 14th September. Tickets for Dan’s solo tour can be booked from www.ticketsource.co.uk/dan-reed-confessions.
A limited edition run of 100 signed copies of the single Smile on 7” cream coloured vinyl is now available for pre-order before it is officially released on Friday September 1st. The single includes a second track Lift You Up on the B-Side. Pre-order the single from the Dan Reed Store.
The album features special guest appearances by guitarists Rob Daiker, Geoff Tyson and Martin Tidmarsh performing a few solos on the tracks Smile and The Great Divide, while Daiker added some additional drum programming on and mixed the album.
For Confessions, Dan wanted to create a genuine ‘solo’ album to push his own comfort zone as a keyboardist and guitarist’, creating something entirely from self-expression.
There is a reason for this direction both thematically and musically. Since the reformation of the Dan Reed Network, and with their current album Fight Another Day (released to rave reviews in 2016), Reed is guiding his solo work more in the pop/soul direction and leaving the harder edged rock/funk material he enjoys writing for future DRN releases.
Confessions leaves politics and social commentary behind and these subjects are replaced by songs about the journey to, and from, love… and then back again.
Says Dan, “I felt in a time when we as a human race are more and more divided over political, economic, environmental and social issues it was important to try and write new songs that are calming in complicated times, songs about that which unites us, inspires us, and brings us comfort in this world. That element always seems to come down to communication, compassion, empathy, warmth of family, friends. ‘Love’ is, more than anything, the air that our soul needs to retain the passion for life.”
The first single Smile is about tuning out the noise of the day, the chaos, and finding solace in the simple smile of someone we share this road called life with. However, don’t be fooled by the title and theme. There’s no sugar coated, ‘silly love songs’ on Confessions.
Confessions was recorded primarily in Prague at Reed’s ‘Zero One’ Recording studio, and some over dubbing and extra production work was tracked in his home town of Portland, Oregon at ‘The Commune’ studio with Artist and Producer Rob Daiker co-producing and mixing.
Label - Zero One Entertainment
Distributed by - Townsend Records
Album Artwork by - Graeme Bell at ‘Planet Twig’
Mastered by Henrik Alser at ‘Ultimate Sound’
Distributed by - Townsend Records
Album Artwork by - Graeme Bell at ‘Planet Twig’
Mastered by Henrik Alser at ‘Ultimate Sound’
Thursday September 14 - London, England - ‘St. Pancras Old Church’
‘Confessions UK Tour’ - Filming and Recording for DVD
‘Confessions UK Tour’ - Filming and Recording for DVD
Friday September 15 - Manchester, England - ‘Sacred Trinity Church Salford’ -
‘Confessions UK Tour’ - Filming and Recording for DVD
‘Confessions UK Tour’ - Filming and Recording for DVD
Saturday September 16 Newcastle, England - ‘ Cluny 2’
‘Confessions UK Tour’ - Filming and Recording for DVD
‘Confessions UK Tour’ - Filming and Recording for DVD
Sunday September 17 - Nottinghamshire, England - ‘Greyhound Beeston’
End of ‘Confessions UK Tour’ Party
End of ‘Confessions UK Tour’ Party
Friday September 22 - Helsingborg, Sweden - ‘The Tivoli’ - Dan Reed Trio
Saturday September 23 - Trollhattan, Sweden - ‘Backstage Rock Bar’
Dan Reed Trio
Dan Reed Trio
Friday October 6 - Bath, England - ‘Chapel Arts Centre’
Saturday October 7 - Ebbw Vale, Wales UK - ‘EVI’
Friday October 13 - Falun, Sweden - ‘Kopparhatten’
Sunday October 14 - Alingsas, Sweden - ‘MX Rock Bar’
Friday October 20 - Dublin, Ireland - ‘Whelan’s’
Saturday October 21 - Ahoghill/Belfast - ‘Diamond Rock Club’
Saturday November 11 - Trubbach, Switzerland - ‘Jonny’s Lion Cave’