Daniel Levin Releases and Tour Dates

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The Transcendent Function, a new duo cd with Mat Maneri, is being released on Clean Feed this month. It was recorded at the conclusion of a week-long tour last February, at VinterJazz in Copenhagen. We’re celebrating the release with a concert/party at 65 Fen, on November 21. We’ll have copies available then.

Divergent Paths, a duo cd with Rob Brown, was just released last month on Cipsela Records. It’s our second duo cd, following Natural Disorder on Not Two Records. We have been playing duo for a long time and have developed a really telepathic way of working together. It’s documented really well on this cd. Click here to get your copy from Cipsela!

November 13 – Daniel Levin Solo @ Home Audio, Brooklyn, NY

After taking a few years off of doing public solo performances, I am now back at it. I’ve been working on developing the solo music to places that were not explored on the solo record that I made in 2011, Inner Landscape (Clean Feed). The way the music was created for Inner Landscape often used the live audience, or at least the idea of the live audience, as a kind of catalyst for moving the improvisations forward. Now, I have gone the other way. It’s sort of a sonic version of what it might be like if you hike by yourself, deep, deep into the woods, camp out for the night, and then wake up the next morning and decide to make little ritual sculptures out of twigs, rocks, and leaves. A new LP/CD of this music is due out on Belgium’s Smeraldina-Rima label in April, 2016.

November 21 – Daniel Levin / Mat Maneri Duo @ 65 Fen, Brooklyn, NY

Mat and I did a week-long EU tour in February of this year, culminating at Copenhagen’s VinterJazz. We were lucky to have that entire performance documented extremely well by Thomas Vang in a recording studio-like performance setting. Mat is an incredibly rewarding, challenging, and exciting duo partner. I have loved and admired his playing for so many years, ever since I heard him in the Joe Maneri Quartet in the 90’s. It’s a thrill to make music with him in this context, and 65 Fen is the perfect, very intimate venue to really appreciate the way the acoustic viola and cello interact.