Dan Whitehouse & Max ZT - TEN STEPS - recorded live at Silk Mill Studios

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A collaboration between singer-songwriter, composer and spoken word artist Dan Whitehouse and Brooklyn's celebrated hammered dulcimer player Max ZT (of House of Waters).
The title track of their forthcoming (2023) album 'Ten Steps'
Introduced via the international Global Music Match project in May 2021, the pair struck up a fruitful remote relationship. With Max in Brooklyn and Dan finding himself in lockdown in Japan, they fed off each other’s unique creativity to create a compelling and innovative sound, interweaving poetry and song with a flow of improvised music that fused their multi-cultural roots and traditions. The pair toured together in the UK in November 2021, and are back touring the UK again in October 2023.
Dan says: "I love writing story songs and 'Ten Steps' is inspired by the journeys of the many characters I have written about in the past, and my own experiences of a family torn between lands. Writing TEN STEPS together has been a wonderful opportunity for our two different perspectives to coalesce - Max brings such a wide spectrum of harmony and for me it is exciting to be exploring spoken word and songwriting outside of the conventional structures of popular music. The day we recorded this video felt very special. We'd just played 5 shows straight back to back on our UK tour and we felt strong, like we'd traversed all weathers and reached a creative mountain peak together... we were blessed to be able to be there together in that moment."
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"Force of nature”, Brooklyn’s Max ZT, is a groundbreaking musician whose unorthodox playing and bold experimental style have led him to be described as the “Jimi Hendrix of hammered dulcimer” (NPR) and recognised as a true innovator of his instrument, and his band House of Waters have been called “One of the most original bands on the planet,” by NY Music Daily.
www.maxzt.com
Award-winning Black Country singer-songwriter Dan Whitehouse has, across five solo albums, gained a reputation as “a fine songwriter, a unique vocal talent and a talented multi-instrumentalist/ performer” (Maverick) whose wondrous lyrics invite you to “avert your gaze to the sky” (BBC Radio 6).
www.dan-whiteh...