About Dave Corwin | Artist Biography

DAVE CORWIN

Dave Corwin is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose music blends art rock, funk, and percussion from around the world. His expressive vocals and theatrical sensibility have drawn comparisons to David Bowie and John Lennon.

Dave Corwin Polcino began playing trumpet at six and later received a scholarship to California State University, Northridge. His musical path grew to encompass songwriting, rock performance, and composing for film and television.

He opened for Billy Preston at the Rebuild LA Benefit Concert and has performed at The Roxy Theatre, Whisky a Go Go, The Troubadour, the Rainbow, and PlaysCool at the San Diego Sports Arena. His recordings bring together layered instrumentation, personal lyrics, and a fascination with rhythm and percussion.

Alongside his music, Dave works in animation, editing, and visual effects. His credits include Family Guy, Mission Hill, and Sacha Baron Cohen’s Brüno. Through his production company, Noise & Vision, he also creates animation, editing, and music for commercials and other screen projects.

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!