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"Crossing" was written up by the illustrious Stereophile Magazine as an "Exceptional Recording". Recorded as a series of live studio sessions at Slipperworld in La Honda, Calif., it shows off the super-talents of many fine backing musicians and award-winning songwriting. An HD recording in both stereo and 5.1 Surround!

"Crossing" was a final nominee in the Surround Music Awards for "Listener's Choice" and "Best Surroud Mix". You can play it on any CD player in stereo as well. It is HD and the quality comes through on any media.

Here's what one audiophile said on AcousticSounds.com:

"This 5.1/stereo hybrid SACD is an essential recording for anyone interested in contemporary folk music. The recording quality is excellent. The music and lyrics are quite beautiful. And as the big commercial record companies implode all around us, David Elias proves that much of the best contemporary music is coming from private labels today. He also proves that quality recordings can be made inexpensively and that the SACD format just may survive!"

The large band that has been playing so religiously in their favorite venue, the 100+ year old General Store off Hwy 1 south of San Francisco, finally capture the evening of music and mayhem with these 10 tracks, feature 8 brand new songs. Released in Feb. 2009.

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The band features these ne'er do wells:
David Elias: acoustic, vocals, harmonica
Johnny Havard: electric guitar
Charlie Natzke: semi-electric guitar, vox
Scott Beynon: bass, vox
Ken Owen: drums
Reid Dennis: percussion
Gary McArthur: tenor sax/flute

Special Guests:
Roger Powell (Utopia): keyboards
David Phillips: pedal steel

New Acoustic - Lots of fun - turn it up!

Pure acoustic trio folk (2 guitars and a standup bass) in a Neil Young or Iron & Wine or Tom Waits or Pizza tapes style, recorded in a single day at Slipperworld Studios in La Honda, California. Capturing intelligent poetic lyrics and harmonies, this session was featured by Apple iTunes as "Tracks To Watch".

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Have you been wondering what happened to folk music? Well, if you listen to this disc, you can discover that it is alive and well among the redwoods in California and being recorded in a contemporary format that has high regard for the quality of the words being sung, the notes being played, and the art of recording itself in a studio-live no-bull realistic fashion.

"I am a guitar instructor in Kelowna, BC Canada and I am trying to teach my students that not all guitar is wailing, distorted shred lines. That you can take an acoustic, put away your pick, and make some music that is more "musical" than most of what you hear on radio, MTV etc...So I was searching Google for acoustic guitar music and eventually hit your webcast. I clicked to have a quick listen and sat through it in its entirety and enjoyed every minute of it. Thanks." Alan Wagner, Kelowna, BC

"For those of you who haven't heard David Elias, i can assure you who he is in my opinion one of the best songwriters working today....thoughtful beautiful lyrics meshed with the most beautiful acoustic guitars. soft, gentle and warm this song has everything and more that you'd look for in this genre...it's just about perfect. His vocal performance is stunning and again the soft almost whispering style is perfect for the genre. simply beautiful." - Solipsism

"Man I know that my review of this wonderful song [Changing Down] and performance by David, is not even going to come close to how superb this song is.

Ok but I'll try...

When you hear those guitars at the beginning.. the way they sound sonically, the way they are being played, the notes they are playing, (can we say brilliant articulation and prhasing.. have you read Pablo Casals book?) the mood that is instantaneously created, you have to know that something amazing is happening.

Then when Davic starts to sing with that beautiful and passionate voice that creates images and pictures and feels like a friend like you've never known, starts to sing a simple elegy that can radically change your world and make you feel good at the same time.

It is a rare thing when a artist of David Elias' caliber comes your way. He is an artist a voice that needs to be heard. The change is coming...

The fact that David isn't on the cover of every musical trade journal( yet that is) is indicative to me of an industry that has lost its soul with no direction home or anywhere else. The change is coming...

There will be a new morning for music someday, and one of the bright stars on that horizon is David Elias and his music. I was right, I haven't even come close to writing a good review.
Just listen to the music. Listen. Listen.. listen...The change is coming..." - Guy Michetti

Ultra acoustic recording with guitar, flute and mandolin. You will be transported to another time when you sit back with this one. Lyrical with a celtic feel as well as signature honest introspective poetry.

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Touring Scotland with the Peninsula Scottish Fiddlers (www.thefiddlers.com), David got the inspiration for producing the Half and Hour Away CD. It will inspire you to pay more attention to what is actually being said in some of the popular music today, as well as take you back to memories of some of those special tunes that made think and grow as a person, sometime way back when...

Listen to this or any of the other independent discs from David Elias. As a FAME reviewer says: "So, don't ask ten years from now, when everyone else has discovered Elias, why you didn't read about him before, because here he is: we should all be listening to Elias..."

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Lyrical and sparse high quality coffeehouse style recording played on radio stations worldwide. Often compared to John Prine, early Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, this music has been described as "Brilliant. Essential".

Created at home in 1994 and released in Jan. 1995, before "indie" was even a word and 2 years before MP3.com or CDBaby even came online. Radio DJ's all over the globe were surprised to get an e-mail from an artist who self-produced his own CD and were largely interested and supportive of the whole new idea. Now in it's third printing.

"The Blue Planet CD EP unfolds as a kind of prayer for our planet Earth, featuring two vocal tracks and several quiet meditative instrumental piano/keyboards tracks. The title track notes the beauty of Earth while questioning our relentless quest to destroy it with pollution, war, etc: "And you took the bluest of them all and put it on a path where water falls. And you took the greenest of the green and put it under one canopy. And you put the globe that burns on high, put it far enough to warm my eyes ..." Extraordinary!" - Riff Gibson, Raging Smolder

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"An ironic piece - mellow in style, but a strong indictment against those who would ravage the earth." - Eco-Music

"Wonderful melody. One of your best David. And the lyrics are as always the most purest of poetry!! And you used all of my favorite instruments on this track [The Blue Planet]. Lovely arrangment, harmonies I mean come on... you're killing me here!!!! I don't know how it is possible but every song you write it is as if God has kept your muse to himself for a time, and then allows you to release your muse to the rest of of us mortals. This goes on my radio station as of right now!!!" - Guy Michetti, Mix Review Crew

Title track also included on Musicians United to Sustain the Environment (M.U.S.E.) online at http://www.musemusic.org

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Very limited quantities for purchase of this award winning out-of-print SA-CD. Search Amazon for used copies (they are expensive!)

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Take a deep breath......Let it go......."The Window" is a recording for anyone looking to rediscover the folk tradition in a contemporary format. It has the songs and the musicians performing that are capable of recreating what many consider to be a lost or at least an endangered art. Already selling thousands of copies and winning various awards, "The Window" is something of a landmark achievement in allowing an old style of songwriting and live studio recording to be captured in today's most advanced digital format (Direct Stream Digital). The results are an astonishingly realistic presentation of an articulate writer (voted 2005 'Best Songwriter' IOMA) communicating through a highly articulate band of acoustic musicians.

"The debut SACD by David Elias, titled The Window, has become a surprise hit in the Acoustic Sounds catalog. Surprise, that is, because it was an independent release by an independent artist on an independent label. There was no major label promotion machine in effect here. But word spread quickly, grass-roots style, that this was a disc of serious sonic and musical merit." - Highly Recommended by Chad at AcousticSounds.com

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High image lyrics with great folk style acoustic productions. Has been played on radio station folk shows all over the globe for many years now.Enjoy one of the first and most honest indie recordings out there.

"Ohio transplant David Elias currently resides in San Francisco. His post-retro Folk is somewhat of an anomaly -- the flower in the sidewalk -- that places freight-hopping hobos in the city's Financial District and hosts ongoing, intimate coffeehouse hootenannies that take up most of Pacific Heights. Elias' warm vocal tones are rich like the notes blown from a broken-in Lee Oscar harmonica. His classic songs are as timeless as his influences. The acoustic guitar resonates a warm, wooden tone that soothingly blends with his naturally textured voice. It's Elias' soaring romantic melodies and heartfelt laments that make him one of the best kept secrets of the Barbary Coast." -- Eric Shea - Listen.com


TIME FORGETS CD IS OUT OF PRINT ~ But you can now buy the MP3 album at CDBaby for $5.99