Daniel Victor - November/December 2004
Who: Daniel Victor
What: a death-defying collaboration
Where: Windsor, ON, and assorted locales
To Contact: Coalition Entertainment, (905) 508-0025, www.coalitionent.com, www.nwlmusic.com.
This is an extraordinary undertaking, an ambitious project that began as a wish-list of vocalists and met every expectation. To explain, Daniel Victor, a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter composed all the songs and then basically cold-called or mailed the track to his chosen singer to lay down the vocals. Among those who said yes are Our Lady Peace’s Raine Maida, Finger Eleven’s Scott Anderson, Switchfoot’s Jonathan Foreman, Ours’ Jimmy Gnecco, Mogwai, Todd Kerns, Bif Naked, 311’s Nick Hexum, and SuperGarage’s Marco Defelice. Entitled “Never Ending White Lights: Act 1 - Goodbye Friends Of The Heavenly Bodies”, the low-key melancholic music has a death theme. Produced and recorded by Victor at his studio, The Wave, he sings, plays piano, Rhodes, electric and acoustic guitars, e-bow, bells, synths, mellotron, organ, strings, bass, drums, percussion, as well as coins, a vacuum cleaner, and other effects. Along the way, he scored management with Coalition (OLP, F-11, Simple Plan) and is now seeking a label brave enough to put it out.