Product Description David Gurland's debuto solo recording is an eclectic mix of music with songs by everyone from Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer to Sting and Billy Joel with fresh new interpretations of classic and contemporary pop music. The album was recorded with a seven piece band at Signature Sounds recording studio in Western Massachusetts. It was produced by David along with Jonathan Smith (Musical director of the Broadway show Swing), and engineered by Mark Thayer Review "A young singer of dramatic power and puckish charm...honey voiced, pocket sized, sweetly demeanered, and incredibly sure handed at interpreting standards'" -- Eric Meyer's/Brian Scott Lipton,"Time Out NY""It's said that Cabaret is less about vocal excellence than quality of interpretation--but look out when someone offers both. In other words look out for David Gurland, a tenor with an arresting sound and a provocative way with a lyric...he's as thrilling as any singer in town" -- Barbara and Scott Siegel, "In Theatre""Short and compact as a beer can, he comes at a song from such an oblique angle that the Police's 'Every Breath You Take' sounds like a stalker's confession. A performer with that much edge bears very close watching" -- David Finkle, "The Village Voice" From the Artist In the two years since I started working on this, my first album, never once did I delve into the world of a theme. I merely sought to create a world for the listener where "thinking" about the music was not necessary. I wanted to make a simple album. I wanted to record simple pieces that stood on their own. I'm basically a vocalist, I learned my "trade" in the nightclubs of Manhattan. However, if I had any "vision" with this recording, it was to record both myself and the other musicians as if I was making a "pop" record. People love to categorize in this world. And it pleases me greatly that the album is virtually "uncategorical." That is purely by chance. Yet, there is a story behind every song that was chosen for this project. And each one has a personal significance to it. I have been singing some of these songs for as long as four years. They are a part of me, like any other vital organ I may have. All of them come from a truthful place. That's what this album is about in way. It is why I chose to record a piece like "Anyone Who Had a Heart" and use the "him" pronoun as written, thus "outing" myself. Many feared that it was a pour choice. I know in my heart that it was the right choice. Life is too short not to be ingenuous.. It is for that reason that the album is self titled In the end all of the music represents me--where I am as a musician, and as an artist... right now About the Artist David Gurland is an award winning singer from New York City. For his nightclub and cabaret performances, David has won the Manhattan Association of Cabaret's 1995 Hanson Award and the 1994 Back Stage Bistro Award for Outstanding Vocalist. Most recently he was named one of "the Best male solo acts of 1998," by In-Theatre magazine. Critics have raved about his performances. Wayman Wong of the Daily News writes "David Gurland soars with a tenor that's sweeter than honey...he sings with a passion, personality and a puckish sense of humor that's all his own." Roy Sander of Back Stage says "David Gurland displayed the qualities that have earned him praise from the cabaret community at large, the press in general and me in particular: A beautiful tenor voice, emotional sensitivity and an antic sense of humor. It's been about five years to the day that I first saw (him) ..and I've been a fan ever since. He gave everything he did his own personal stamp. He sang his songs not only beautifully, but with full conviction. David Gurland is one of the best male cabaret performers around." David has performed in such first class venues as Town Hall (for the Mabel Mercer Foundation's Cabaret Convention), The Russian Tea Room, The Ballroom, both the Dark Star and The Triad, and Eighty-Eights. Theatre credits include regional productions of Girl Crazy, On the Twentieth Century, and Big Bill at the Berkshire Theatre Festival. He toured England and Scotland with the first Great Britain production of You're A Good Man Charlie Brown as Linus. He has appeared in musical reviews featuring the music of Cole Porter(in England), Johnny Mercer (Fire Island), and Rodgers and Hart (NY's Don't Tell Mama). Recently, he received critical acclaim for his starring role, in the world premiere of record producer Brook's Arthur's semi-autobiographical musical Crooners. And this summer he portrayed the leading role in a staged concert reading of Livingston and Evans' musical Let it Ride, at the Lambs Theatre (opposite Footloose's Robin Baxter); a performance that won him raves from many New York reviewers, including the New York Times on-line. David recently completed work on his first CD, "David Gurland" (LML Music). Self titled, and produced with musical director Jonathan Smith, it contains many of the songs of from his live performances recorded in the studio with a 7 piece band. See more