'Mason Daring, like so many American musicians, started playing in a garage with some friends (witnesses still palpitate at the memory of the Squires’ live renditions of“Telstar” and “Surfin' Bird”) and was then sprung upon the wider world during the Great Folk Scare of 1968. Since then he has been a kind of nexus in the New England region, performing, writing, producing, composing for films, and, in an earlier incarnation as a lawyer, writing contracts and networking for his fellow worthy but underemployed musicians. This album is a distillation of that experience, most of the songs written for the movies (sometimes for a distinctly background role) and some written for that best of reasons, just for the hell of it. I’ve heard him sing snatches of some of them, though never in his own key, during recording sessions as he explains the plan of attack to the gathered players. Many of those players are featured here, people I’ve had the pleasure of working with, and one of the things I’ve always appreciated about Mason as a scorer of films is the way he leaves room for the musicians to bring their own unique contribution to the piece at hand. It’s a fairly eclectic mix here, what you usually hear when players just kick back and play what they want to instead of worrying about which section of the store their CD is going to land in, and that’s a lot of the fun of the album. The garage has a mixing board now, and a lot of other equipment that becomes obsolete within a couple years, but it’s still where the best of our music is born.'

-John Sayles, June 2009

MASON DARING
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VETERAN FILM COMPOSER MASON DARING RETURNS TO HIS RECORDING AND PERFORMING ROOTS WITH AN ECLECTIC SELF TITLED ALBUM FEATURING
MANY OF HIS NOTABLE MOVIE SONGS