Bio - Dave Corwin

DAVE CORWIN

Dave Corwin is a multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter. He opened for Billy Preston, played The Roxy Theatre, Rainbow, The Troubadour, Whisky A Go-Go, and PlaysCool at the San Diego Sports Arena. He's been likened to a Bowie-Lennon hybrid.

Multi-instrumentalist, Dave Corwin Polcino, started playing trumpet when he was six years old. He received a scholarship to California State University Northridge. From there he began his career as a rock musician and doing soundtracks for film and television. As a musician, he opened for Billy Preston at the Rebuild LA Benefit Concert. Other live performance highlights include The Roxy Theatre, Whisky A Go-Go, The Troubadour, Rainbow Room, and PlaysCool at the San Diego Sports Arena.

His soundtrack work has appeared on NBC, Fox, HBO and many film festivals throughout the country. He worked on Fox Television’s The Family Guy, The WB’s Mission Hill and did special effects work on Sasha Baron Cohen’s Bruno movie. He also does television commercials (animation, editing and music) through his company, Noise And Vision.

Dave lives in Hollywood, California.

Reviews

Dave Corwin's music fuses art prog-rock and tribal funk rock styles with heavy use of exotic percussion that is a staple of his live shows. Many Hands is filled with intricate instrumentation by Corwin with help from Daniel Seballos James (percussion and drums) and Russ Allen (guitars), along with a few others. Corwin's lyrics delve into a personal psyche with cathartic revelations throughout. His vocals often carry an early Bowie influence with strong flourishes. This is a complex album that will have you quickly immersed in Corwin's world of sound.

There are plenty of references to Corwin sounding a little like Bowie, and they're not wrong. On many of his songs, the ghost of Ziggy and moods from the earlier, quirkier Space Oddity can be found all over the shop. I was particularly surprised at the actual quality of the production and overall completeness of the album. Corwin's passion is his almost limitless collection of percussive instruments from around the planet. Actually, I was quite surprised that his use of these often odd instruments doesn't predominate.

Many Hands is a pleasant and easy going album from a musician with undoubted talent who has produced an album that really defies categorization, but then is that a bad thing!

So called World music gets a bad press through the heavy handedness of the likes of Peter Gabriel, but this CD goes way above and beyond that.
It's rare to find a sound that is unique to its creator nowadays, but this mélange comes close. Best tracks: Kicking The Rain and Shaolin Master. Highly recommended!