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REALLYMUSICRADIO presents
Darden Smith
Where the careers of so many Texas singer-songwriters follow a straight path, the artistic progression of Darden Smith fills an ever-widening circle--as the release of his most musically adventurous and ambitiously crafted album to date attests. On this successor to 2002's Sunflower, which earned the Austin-based artist his strongest critical response in more than a decade, Smith continues to explore the creative synergy of tradition and technology, acoustic and electric, East and West, roots and branches, body and spirit. The result is a song cycle that is as rhythmically insistent as it is disarmingly intimate.
"To me, Circo is the latest progression in the direction I've been going for a few years," explains Smith. "I think it began when I started listening to Gilberto Gil and some other Brazilian music. Now, I can't play Brazilian music, and I wouldn't try, but I love the way it combines a traditional sound with a modern sound. Even when the music is quiet, there's a groove that moves."
Originally intending to call the album Hands on the Wheel, after a song he wrote for his daughter, Smith changed the title when a photographer friend sent him a shot of a Mexican circus trailer with "Circo" written on it. "I thought, wow, that's an even better title," Smith remembers. "There's that sense of the circus of life in it, and a lot of these songs have circular themes, like 'Turning to You,' 'All Around You' and 'Hands on the Wheel.'
"What I want out of being a musician now is totally different from what I wanted in my mid-20s," says Smith. "I'd always envisioned making music for a long time, but I didn't know that I'd enjoy it more and more as I got older. Over the last 10 years, it's the surreal quality of life in general, and life as a musician in particular, that keeps me going."
Darden's website
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