NYC-based songwriter’s 22-track cycle “The Long Lost
Story” finally comes to light as two album releases in 2013.
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David
Bronson as photographed by Joshua Sandler
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“The Long
Lost Story” isn’t just an imaginative
title for NYC-based songwriter David
Bronson’s two-album, Cat Stevens
and Harry Chapin evoking, 22-song
cycle that has unfolded over the course of 2013. It’s actually the only way to describe a
wealth of material so painful for Bronson
to release that he hid the recordings for nearly a decade.
“It’s the most definitive meaning of the name,” says Bronson. “The other parts being a description of a
person who’s quintessentially ‘lost,’ and it also alludes to a lost
relationship, as well.” Bronson found catharsis in writing and
recording the material at the time that he cut the tracks some 10 years ago,
but explains “it was just too painful to face, which is why it took so long to
make public.”
The material finally saw the light of day this year
with the release of the louder tunes as Story in early 2013 and then its
quieter, acoustic-based prequel The Long Lost last month. The albums, produced by Bronson and mixed by Godfrey
Diamond (Lou Reed, Sparks, Glen Campbell), have earned the attention of music discovery
websites in the US such as Under
The Radar, Baeblemusic,
American
Songwriter, and My Old Kentucky Blog
among others, and Bronson has also
found welcoming ears in the UK where his work is currently being heralded.
As for revisiting all of these feelings up nearly a
decade after the fact, Bronson
explains, “I suppose it’s unusual to release a record so long after its making,
but being so far away from where I was during the writing and recording really
emphasizes the documentary aspect of the whole thing for me. I’m very happy
that this period of my young life was recorded, and very excited to let it out
into the world at long last.”
When Bronson
isn’t writing and recording his solo material, he can be found working as a
contributing composer and editor on filmmaker Jennifer Elster’s “The Being Experience.” The project is an unflinching look at
existence, featuring a cast of actors, thinkers, and musicians including Dave Matthews, Moby, Questlove, Rufus Wainwright, and Yoko Ono among many others.
David
Bronson’s “The Long Lost Story” (comprised of the albums Story and The
Long Lost) is out now. Bronson is available for
interviews. Contact Josh
Bloom at Fanatic for
more information.
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David Bronson
The
Long Lost
(S/R – Out Now)
Track Listing:
01. The Lost
02. October
03. Animals
04. Crooked Trails
06. Idols
08. In a Cave
09. Once when I was god
10. One Simple Myth
11. Stay in Touch
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David Bronson
Story
(S/R – Out Now)
Track Listing:
02. Times (STREAM | MP3
| VIDEO | REMIX
| REMIX VIDEO)
03. If
04. Easier (VIDEO)
05. The Ones
06. Us (VIDEO)
08. Adrift
09. Watch the Sun (October Reprise) (VIDEO)
10. Outside (VIDEO)
11. Unending (Underture)
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David Bronson Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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