NEW ALBUM - d.c. anderson - sharing the night with darkness

Find a quiet corner of your home.
Make a nest.
Listen through this album.
Experience Love - anticipated, renewed, rejected, aligned, denied, discovered, abandoned, feared. trusted. accepted.

D.C. Anderson's voice possesses it's usual tender exuberance. Nature has added a touch of maturity. Willing, it seems, to go wherever the story takes it.

David Robison is at the piano. If you've seen him play, he appears to become the piano's playful and necessary appendage. He is masterful here.

D.C.'s musical collaborator in years past, Lem Jay Ignacio, returns (along with son, Lemy) for Cole Porter's 'You Do Something to Me.' In the context of 'sharing the night with darkness,' it might be considered the musical equivalent of a 'dream sequence.'

Luke Wygodny (of the tremendous folk group THE HEARTSTRINGS PROJECT) composed two, and adds acoustic guitar to three, tracks. Audrey Q. Snyder adds her delicious cello to a few songs as well.

Songwriters collaborating with or covered by D.C. are veteran tunesmiths Robert Sprayberry, Michele Brourman, Bryce Kulak, Steven Landau, Harry Chapin, Teresa Tudury, Luke Wygodny, Andrew Ratshin, Dick Gibbons and Bob Dylan.

Spend an afternoon with 'sharing the night with darkness' and discover why Stephen Mosher, of Broadway World described D.C.'s voice (reviewing his 2022 LML MUSIC release HOUSE CONCERT) as 'lovely, emotionally invested, articulate' and D.C. in performance as 'tender, theatrical and visceral' with a fine focus on the art of storytelling!'

Album Review: D.C. Anderson - Sharing the Night with Darkness

D.C. Anderson is an accomplished stage and screen actor and recording artist.... if you like sincere, well-crafted singer-songwriter music - then D.C.'s albums of intimately sung, theatrically-styled offerings are likely to be right up your alley.

Sharing the Night with Darkness is a collection of songs many of which touch upon ....aging and mortality. It's an incredibly moving collection...

D.C. is joined by David Robison on piano for some songs, Luke Wygodny on guitar for others, and vocals-only with no accompaniment for still others. Other musicians chip in during one or two songs each: Audrey Q. Snyder (cello) on "Mail Order Annie" and "Such Fine Things" and Lem Jay Ignacio (piano) and Lemy Ignacio (guitar) on "You Do Something To Me."

D.C. opens his heart in the album's opening song, "Again," about falling love with his husband over and over again....

"Market Girl" is a song I enjoy for a very different reason. It's plucky and playful. As is D.C.'s rendition of Cole Porter's "You Do Something to Me."

D.C.'s voice soars on songs like "A Tree" and Harry Chapin's "Mail Order Annie."

D.C. serves up ...powerful vocals on tracks like "I Am Anger" and "I Am the Dream."

"Twenty Twenty Three" is... a folk song, though D.C.'s vocals assert his position as an emphatically emotional troubadour....

Then there are other songs, like his ominous cover of Bob Dylan's "Dark Eyes," styled like a sad pub drinking song. Similarly styled, from a pub dirge perspective, is "Sully's Pail," an enthralling vocals-only cover of the Dick Gibbons-penned lyric that was put to music by Tom Paxton several decades ago.

D.C. touches upon some heavy topics that can make for some rugged listening. "When I Get Quiet" is thoughtful and pensive. "I've Come Looking For You" is heart wrenching, as is "Night, June 1988," a song with an interesting arrangement that's split between interspersed spoken-word and musical delivery. "I Must Know You" is intensely delivered from the point of view of someone suffering memory loss. And "Epilogue," ... is an Andrew Ratshin-penned song about a man looking back on his life from his funeral...

The penultimate song on Sharing the Night with Darkness is D.C.'s exquisitely voiced cover of "I'll Never Find Another You." D.C. notes [that] it's his tribute to The Seekers' Judith Durham...

The album closes with [Teresa Tudury's] "Such Fine Things," with vocals about as close as you can find to crooning in this collection.

In all, with so many dark and/or heavy songs on this exceptionally crafted album, a particular frame of mind is required to choose to listen to Sharing the Night with Darkness. When that sort of introspection and depth of thought and emotion are what you seek, though, this album offers a well-designed vehicle for that experience.'