Dave Golden
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Dave Golden, born January 23, 1979, is a musician and a Fulbright Scholar, originally from New York, who currently resides in New Orleans. His career playing stringed instruments, composing and producing music has spanned from jazz to classical to folk and includes work as a music supervisor and music editor for film.
. They gained recognition from Downbeat Magazine and were launched on a European tour, at the behest of the organizers of the 1997 Montreux Jazz Festival, where they played five performances. The group mixed Golden and Looker's avant garde compositions alongside standards and lesser-known elements of the jazz canon.
Golden left the music world in 1997 and worked a job at a Finnish paper mill before returning to the US. He earned a degree from Williams College and while there he joined the National Ski Patrol
and started a jazz trio with Leehom Wang.
awarded him with back-to-back Fellowships and a review from Entertainment Today led to a meeting with Dylan/Cash producer, Bob Johnston
. Johnston, having just left a decades-long tenure at Columbia Records, lauded Golden's songwriting and invited him to record for his new label, JAM.
Golden's career got another boost after Nuvo Newsweekly chose his improvisational encore performance as the highlight of the 2004 Midwest Music Summit. His collaborators at that performance, Chicago's Shelley Miller and New York's Jeremiah Birnbaum, toured with him on and off in 2005 alongside Chicago's Kara Kulpa and Samantha Twigg Johnson. The group called themselves Mercy Driver. Although Mercy Driver only lasted for less than a year, Golden continued to tour through 2005 with individual members of Mercy Driver, while taking breaks to record his debut album in New Orleans. Golden also played a shows with Summer (singer)
at the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC and The Underground in Philadelphia, PA.
What was to be his debut album as a singer-songwriter, Wake To These Satellites, was never released. A studio error brought the backups to New Orleans in late August 2005 and the album was lost during the floods that followed Katrina. In its place, the dark folk album How To Breathe, was self-released in early 2006 and propelled a more modest tour, but one that saw Golden as a headliner at that summer's Cutting Edge (New Orleans) and Dewey Beach (Delaware) Americana Festivals.
In the Fall of 2006, Golden ended his 2-year tour and returned to the studio. Throughout 2008, Golden has turned up with several different bands supporting him, playing under pseudonyms like Greyeye and The Diesel Blues.
In 2004 and 2005, he was awarded a Future of Music Scholarship.
. The following year, Golden was music supervisor on Ten Years Later and Night Catches Us.
Jazz Years, 1996-97
Golden's first noteworthy work was in 1996, playing upright bass in a New York City-based jazz sextet with Charlie Looker and Max BernsteinMax Bernstein (pop-punk musician)
-Life and career:Bernstein is the younger son of author-screenwriter-director Nora Ephron and journalist Carl Bernstein. He grew up in New York. He was the lead singer and guitarist for the Los Angeles, pop punk band The Actual and is now in political post-punk band Max and the Marginalized. In...
. They gained recognition from Downbeat Magazine and were launched on a European tour, at the behest of the organizers of the 1997 Montreux Jazz Festival, where they played five performances. The group mixed Golden and Looker's avant garde compositions alongside standards and lesser-known elements of the jazz canon.
Golden left the music world in 1997 and worked a job at a Finnish paper mill before returning to the US. He earned a degree from Williams College and while there he joined the National Ski Patrol
National ski patrol
The National Ski Patrol is the largest winter rescue organization in the world. It was founded in 1938 by Charles Minot Dole, at the urging of Roger Langley...
and started a jazz trio with Leehom Wang.
Country, Folk and Rock Years, 2004-present
Golden resurfaced on the music scene during the Summer of 2004, where he toured the festival circuit playing a guitar and mandolin-based repertoire of folk and blues-inspired pieces. In 2004 and 2005, the Future of Music CoalitionFuture of Music Coalition
Future of Music Coalition is a U.S. 501 national non-profit organization specializing in education, research and advocacy for musicians with a focus on issues at the intersection of music technology, policy and law.- Background :...
awarded him with back-to-back Fellowships and a review from Entertainment Today led to a meeting with Dylan/Cash producer, Bob Johnston
Bob Johnston
Donald William Robert 'Bob' Johnston is a noted American record producer, best known for his work with Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Willie Nelson and many Nashville recording artists, as well as Simon and Garfunkel.-Early days:Johnston was born into a professional musical family...
. Johnston, having just left a decades-long tenure at Columbia Records, lauded Golden's songwriting and invited him to record for his new label, JAM.
Golden's career got another boost after Nuvo Newsweekly chose his improvisational encore performance as the highlight of the 2004 Midwest Music Summit. His collaborators at that performance, Chicago's Shelley Miller and New York's Jeremiah Birnbaum, toured with him on and off in 2005 alongside Chicago's Kara Kulpa and Samantha Twigg Johnson. The group called themselves Mercy Driver. Although Mercy Driver only lasted for less than a year, Golden continued to tour through 2005 with individual members of Mercy Driver, while taking breaks to record his debut album in New Orleans. Golden also played a shows with Summer (singer)
Summer (singer)
Summer is an American singer-songwriter and visual artist, best known for the singles, “Have to Leave,” “Not a Love Song,” and "Pink Elephants." Her first full-length album, Timing and Lighting, was released in September 2008...
at the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC and The Underground in Philadelphia, PA.
What was to be his debut album as a singer-songwriter, Wake To These Satellites, was never released. A studio error brought the backups to New Orleans in late August 2005 and the album was lost during the floods that followed Katrina. In its place, the dark folk album How To Breathe, was self-released in early 2006 and propelled a more modest tour, but one that saw Golden as a headliner at that summer's Cutting Edge (New Orleans) and Dewey Beach (Delaware) Americana Festivals.
In the Fall of 2006, Golden ended his 2-year tour and returned to the studio. Throughout 2008, Golden has turned up with several different bands supporting him, playing under pseudonyms like Greyeye and The Diesel Blues.
Awards
In 2001, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship.In 2004 and 2005, he was awarded a Future of Music Scholarship.
Film Work, 2003-Present
In 2003, Dave Golden began a professional association with director, Adam Salky. Dave's music was used in 2003's Freddy Anxiety and he scored 2004's Sometimes the Neighbor for piano and cello. In 2006, Golden penned "Pillbox," as a closing song for Jenise Treuting's Japanese film, Invitations and Ultimatums. In 2008, he returned to working with Salky, this time as music supervisor for DareDare (2009 film)
Dare is a 2009 indie drama film directed by Adam Salky. It is written by David Brind. The movie is based on Salky's 2005 short film which was met with acclaim at film festivals...
. The following year, Golden was music supervisor on Ten Years Later and Night Catches Us.
Sources
- Cincinnati City Beat (OH), 9.20.06
- Entertainment Today (CA), May 2004
- Stevens Point Journal (WI), Arts Section Cover Story, 10.19.05
- WOXY-FM/Randomville.com, Midpoint Music Festival coverage, http://randomville.com/article.html?article=445
- Americana Tonight (TN), November 2004
- Nuvo Newsweekly (IN), 6.8.05, http://www.nuvo.net/archive/2005/06/08/emotiondriven_music.html
- Nuvo Newsweekly (IN), 8.18.04, Midwest Music Summit Coverage, http://www.nuvo.net/archive/2004/08/18/mms_04_in_review.html