Chris Hooson - piano, guitar
David Darling - cello, voice
Quentin Sirjacq - piano

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"On the 20th of November 2009 Johanna and I arrived in Bari. I had agreed to play a one off show with my musical hero from the time I had first really ‘got’ music of real depth. That was when I was about 12 years old. The man, who touched a part of my soul I had before then not thought to have existed, was David Darling. I remember the first time I held his record called ‘Journal October’. What a neat title I thought, it moved me to a point of deep silence, this only intensified with the devastating releases in 1992/93 of ‘Cello’ and ‘Darkwood’. Although I was also listening to KISS and Townes Van Zandt heavily at the time I was broken to pieces by those two records. I never fully recovered.

When I was going through the darkest most self-destructive period of my life for quite a while in 2008 David’s music became an almost daily solemn hymnal to my life, almost a daily meditation against the sense of darkness I was ingesting. I had not played an instrument for over a year as I had found the experience of making my last record (Waiting for the Dawn to Crawl Through and Take Away Your Life) to be utterly damaging to my emotional health.

I began to play the piano just to expunge the pain, knowing that if I did not do so that I would most likely die. All the time I played I had David’s cello serenading me in my head. So when I had stopped to notice where I was and that the darkness had passed, I felt that I wanted to make the record for Johanna, to tell her that it was over and that she had once again saved me, that each step I had taken away from her represented a small death. I emailed David thinking he’d never respond, telling him that I had completed this project and that if he didn’t like the songs enough to play on, that I would never allow any other to play strings to them and that I would never listen to it again. I asked him if
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Twórcą i głównym odpowiedzialnym za projekt Dakota Suite jest pochodzący z Liverpoolu Chris Hooson. Jego muzyczny projekt to przedsięwzięcie bardzo osobiste, a sama muzyka daleka jest od wesołości, pełna melancholii, smutku, z bardzo oszczędnym użyciem instrumentów.
Twórca tak pisze o swojej nowej płycie, stworzonej wraz z Dakota Suite Davidem Darlingiem i Quentinem Sirjacq:

"On the 20th of November 2009 Johanna and I arrived in Bari. I had agreed to play a one off show with my musical hero from the time I had first really ‘got’ music of real depth. That was when I was about 12 years old. The man, who touched a part of my soul I had before then not thought to have existed, was David Darling. I remember the first time I held his record called ‘Journal October’. What a neat title I thought, it moved me to a point of deep silence, this only intensified with the devastating releases in 1992/93 of ‘Cello’ and ‘Darkwood’. Although I was also listening to KISS and Townes Van Zandt heavily at the time I was broken to pieces by those two records. I never fully recovered.

When I was going through the darkest most self-destructive period of my life for quite a while in 2008 David’s music became an almost daily solemn hymnal to my life, almost a daily meditation against the sense of darkness I was ingesting. I had not played an instrument for over a year as I had found the experience of making my last record (Waiting for the Dawn to Crawl Through and Take Away Your Life) to be utterly damaging to my emotional health.

I began to play the piano just to expunge the pain, knowing that if I did not do so that I would most likely die. All the time I played I had David’s cello serenading me in my head. So when I had stopped to notice where I was and that the darkness had passed, I felt that I wanted to make the record for Johanna, to tell her that it was over and that she ha.......
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