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David Franklin

A lifelong musician and a licensed psychotherapist, David Franklin has spent more than 45 years exploring musical genres and experimenting in sound, evolving as a musician though rock, folk-pop, avant-garde and ultimately to new age and instrumental music. 

Franklin believes that music is one of humanity’s most powerful tools for healing. "The world is really loud right now, and I’m not trying to compete with the noise: I’m creating music for self-connection and healing in these uncertain times."

His newest album - his 10th to date - is titled Passings; it is a collection of 15 new instrumental songs, written and recorded during the pandemic.  It reflects a number of endings - or passings - which have occurred in his life and within our society, such as his children leaving home, the death both his parents, and changes related to the new-normal of our current world. 

Passings

By David Franklin

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: I’ll Never Hear My Father’s Stories Again; The Meeting Tree; We All Become Ancestors; Sweet Dreams and Travel Well; Carousel; Laughing in Whispers; Changes; Another Perspective; Ghost Tree; When Shadows Were Analog; Perspectives; The Zebra Song; Back in A Different Place; Dancing in Memory; A Musical Essay.

David Franklin: Passings

by Robin B James
August 30, 2022

Deep and wonderful instrumental music, mostly acoustic guitar, sometimes with fretless bass, and sometimes just a piano with no guitar, always flowing and gently weighty. “Passing" can mean a play that involves one player throwing the ball, or a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something, and it can refer ...

Endemic Ensemble: Tangled

by Jack Bowers
April 25, 2017

Notwithstanding a name that sounds like it could be contagious, the Endemic Ensemble is actually a commendable Seattle-based post-bop quintet whose second recording, Tangled, is packed to the brim with luminous melodies, splendid charts and engaging solos by all hands. While nominally a co-op group, the ensemble was founded in 2010 by bassist Steve Messick who ...