Dan Ficken
BIOGRAPHY![]("/images/bands/thumb_Dan's Face 3.jpg" width="150" style="float: right;)
Diverse instrumental guitar, occasionally dipping back into the vocal world. Dubbed as "Post Folk Fusion", the melodies are highly complex, but sweet sounding at times producing songs that are advanced but fun to listen to at the same time. Introspective yet sometimes head bopping good times.
BAND MEMBERS
Dan Ficken - 12 and 6 String Guitars, vocals;
Lori Heath, Emily Kenny, Hannah Epstein - Backup vocal ensemble on title track
YEARS COMPLETED
2009
GENRES
Instrumental
OTHER BAND SITES
http://cretos.blogspot.com
Completed Albums
From Tanks to Tractors RPM(2009)
New "Post Folk Fusion" from Dan Ficken.
From Tanks to Tractors RPM is a diverse instrumental guitar album that crosses into the vocal realm from time to time. The vocals were inspired by songs written for local fund/awareness-raising benefits with themes ranging form poverty, to farming, to food security, to sustainable energy. Hence the pop-culturey hippie-esque title for the album. The drunk girls I randomly grabbed from a bar one day making up the background vocal ensemble on the title track is the icing on the cake!
I am known for my unique fingerpicking style, however I also wanted to experiment with flatpicking, and so this album covers several guitar styles for six and twelve string guitars, for the guitar enthusiasts out there ;)
The song St. John's in the Summer was written by myself and Rozalind MacPhail. She wrote the lyrics, and a flute accompaniment, however we didn't get the flute on this song this time, or her vocals ;)
Keep an ear out for an updated version in the future.
These recordings also sound great burned on to a cd, and I think I'm going to redesign it with better versions of some of the songs on it and package it nicely to sell in the near future as a promo. So keep an eye out for that as well.
Enjoy!