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Posted by: Wallimann Sep 4 2007, 08:12 AM

Hi my friends!
I decided to post some stuff on my first solo album.
It's been out for a few months and thought I'd share some info for you...


Deep inside the Mind is a Christian orientated album that tells the story of a man meeting the Lord.
Spoken lyrics help the listener imerge in the story. The songs are very guitar orientated which is why I think it has its place here..

Reviews

"Looking for a French progressive guitar virtuoso that is sold out to Jesus Christ? Well, if you aren't, you should be. Mostly instrumental with a dramatic mostly spoken word story line, Deep Inside the Mind tells the story of a young man's adventure of discovery, from the exposing of his fallen nature, to the emptiness of self loathing, to the discovery and embracing of a higher power."
www.spiritualprog.com

"Prog rockers will surely dig this! Great metrical riffing, fabulous harmonized (guitar) lead lines, walls of backing vox, and ass-kicking leads!! Instrumental guitar fans should certainly give this picker an earful!"
www.intimateaudio.com

"What we have here is a progressive christian rockalbum which reminds me of the music of Neal Morse, Dream Theater, Spocks beard with guitarwork like Steve Vai and other guitarheroes.
It is a an independent release and that’s what makes it so interesting.
David himself plays guitar, keyboards and does all the voices.
You might think: what! no vocals? Yepp that’s right. The album is a conceptalbum about a man meeting Jesus. Deep inside the mind God whispers to every heart in words of love and truth.
That explains the title. The first part of the album decribes the struggle of a man against that voice. He thinks he’s going insane and tries to forget about God’s call. As the album continues the voice gets more and more clear and finally he understands that Jesus is the only way to get to God.
All he has to do is believe in Him and ask for forgiveness.
The guitarwork of David is great! Everyone who loves the above mentioned bands should try to get a copy from David."
www.melodic.net

Soundclips[b]

 01_Creation.mp3 ( 521.53K ) : 565

 05_Duality.mp3 ( 568.06K ) : 395

 06_Fire_Drops.mp3 ( 498.27K ) : 337

 07_I_want_to_see_the_sun_again.mp3 ( 598.27K ) : 333

 08_Eyes__the_blind_shall_see.mp3 ( 344.39K ) : 303

 09_Child_from_the_sky.mp3 ( 443.17K ) : 303

 10_If_dolphins_could_fly.mp3 ( 572.15K ) : 300

 11_Crossroads.mp3 ( 544.8K ) : 331

 12_Future_is_today.mp3 ( 506.84K ) : 254

 13_Last_day_on_earth.mp3 ( 583.98K ) : 307


You can get the album through my website directly: http://www.davidwallimann.com/store.html

Or on http://cdbaby.com/cd/wallimann

For Europeans you can also get it through http://musea.musearecords.com

You can also get it through ITunes if you want to download it...

Posted by: The Uncreator Sep 4 2007, 08:32 AM

Where the hell did this come from??!?!?!

Man those soundclips sound great! Guess who just bought this?



























ME!!

(Great Stuff By The Way, In Case I Couldnt Make It Clear )

Posted by: Wallimann Sep 4 2007, 08:41 AM

Thanks man!
I should have put this on earlier. :-)

Posted by: The Uncreator Sep 4 2007, 09:16 AM

Yes, im diggin these songs

Posted by: FretDancer69 Sep 4 2007, 11:37 AM

hey walliman thats awesome! Congratulations! ill listen to some tracks!

Posted by: Eat-Sleep-andJam Sep 4 2007, 12:07 PM

omg, teach me your wickedness

that was wicked ! dude when did you learn to play like that
your lessons sound way different



GODLY

Posted by: shredmandan Sep 4 2007, 01:29 PM

nice

Posted by: KRmachine Sep 4 2007, 01:35 PM

Wow, Even though I'm not a big fan of religion/christianity I gotta say your instrumental work is great.

Posted by: bart m Sep 4 2007, 10:24 PM

David, incredible musicianship. And I think it's incredible that you are expressing your faith journey through creative ways. It is amazing to me how the modern Church has done such a horrible job at integrating the arts and creativity in general into it its being. The fallout has been so detrimental. Thanks for the work.
bart

Posted by: Wallimann Sep 5 2007, 03:29 AM

Thanks Bart. :-)
Glad you like the album and great point on today's church and arts...

Posted by: Slammer Sep 5 2007, 03:42 AM

Wow David, this is a Awesome Album.

God Bless You Sir.

Posted by: GroovinMastiff Sep 5 2007, 03:47 AM

Hey David,
Although I'm not the slightest bit religious, I still got your album because I'm a sucker for great music and sheer guitar virtuosity, both of which I heard in the samples.
It's so awesome to have so many talented musicians here on GMC, and I hope to hear more of your music in the future

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Sep 5 2007, 07:41 AM

Hi David, I'm in roughly the same position as a couple of the above posters - the religious aspects don't speak to me, but I have a lot of respect for the fact that you have found your own path

And just as importantly the music sounds awesome so I will be buying a copy for sure!

Posted by: The Uncreator Sep 5 2007, 07:54 AM

I like the religious aspect actually, i think when done right, when using ones religion it explains alot about them, how they feel in a song, or a story, regardless of what religion.

And i think its done right, its a very intersting concept for a story, would make a good book and/or movie.

But before that, comes that mindblowing guitar work!!

Posted by: muris Sep 5 2007, 01:46 PM

Awesome piece of art David!!
Tho I'll wait for my copy and write more about it for sure

Posted by: Wallimann Sep 5 2007, 09:51 PM

Thanks Muris,
your copoy was sent last week. Should get there soon!

Posted by: SDMF75 Sep 5 2007, 10:03 PM

If anyone hasn't decided whether or not to buy this album please DO get it. It's a great one and I'm pretty picky when it comes to instrumental albums.

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Sep 5 2007, 10:33 PM

Just ordered mine

Posted by: The Uncreator Sep 6 2007, 03:32 AM

As did i

Posted by: muris Sep 6 2007, 07:14 AM

Great David,thanks

Posted by: The Uncreator Sep 6 2007, 07:50 AM

Hey Muris when will your CD Be back in stock at CDbaby?

Posted by: muris Sep 6 2007, 08:03 AM

Quite soon I hope...
Now lets get back to topic again

Posted by: crabman Sep 6 2007, 04:55 PM

Hey David, sounds great! Cant wait to get my copy. I really enjoy your music and I totaly appreciate your statment of faith. Its good to see so much support from everyone regardless of religous or non-religous beliefs.

Posted by: The Uncreator Sep 6 2007, 07:08 PM

Its because regardless of religion, we all love and apprciate music that comes from the soul, and is just Great!!

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Sep 6 2007, 08:29 PM

+1

Posted by: Wallimann Sep 6 2007, 09:55 PM

Really appreciate all the comments and support.
Thanks so much!
I just ran out of stock at CDBaby. Andrew just bought the last copy. :-)
But the stock will be replenished soon!
In the meantime, you can still get it on http://www.davidwallimann.com/store.html.

Posted by: Hemlok Sep 6 2007, 10:08 PM

Bugger me!! How did I miss this post. Anyway sounds great, I have ordered it off your website.

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Sep 6 2007, 10:22 PM

:smug:

Posted by: The Uncreator Sep 7 2007, 06:11 AM

Hey David, where does it ship from if you bought it off your website like i did?

Posted by: Wallimann Sep 7 2007, 08:23 AM

Ships from Chattanooga TN.
Just shipped yours this morning. :-)

Posted by: The Uncreator Sep 7 2007, 06:45 PM

Ooooohhh!!!

Im all Giddy now!!!

Posted by: leedbreak Sep 13 2007, 01:37 PM

Well sir, I am glad to hear about the beliefs you and I share, since we only live 100 miles apart maybe we can get together and play sometime. Even as an older man I do feel God has a plan for my years of playing. My faith tells me He will be sending me somewhere when I am ready.

Posted by: Wallimann Sep 13 2007, 08:12 PM

Cool man!
I can relate EXACTLY to what you say...
That's how I felt for the longest time and that's why I moved to the States 3 year ago...

Posted by: muris Sep 14 2007, 10:54 PM

I got my copy this morning and listened to it in one breath!!
What to say...amazing compositions,chops,licks..MUST HAVE for every guitar lover!!!
But what impresses me here the most is David's way of talking to God and his commitment to religion!!
I'm a muslim and I understand every single word David says here
cause this language is common to all of us.
You're are a Good Man David,God bless you and keep it up this way!!

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Sep 15 2007, 02:05 AM

Thats a great point Muris - What David has shown us is that for people who follow different religions or even no religion, music is common to all of us, and there is much more that we have in common than we have differences over - I have been saving David's album for my flight to the UK tomorrow - really looking forward to sitting back in the plane with no distractions and immersing myself in it. Then Muris, I'll listen to your album again, then repeat until I land

Thanks to both of you for making amazing music, we are all the richer for knowing you both, long may it continue!

Posted by: Wallimann Sep 15 2007, 06:07 AM

Thanks so much for the comments!
It's great to be able to share my beliefs and who I am through the gift of music.
Andrew, have a great trip! I wish I could go to Europe!
:-)

Posted by: The Uncreator Sep 15 2007, 07:02 AM

Music is the ultimate tool for connecting people of different race or religion. A good concert, for me is a Metal show, is the one place where i see people who are christians, atheists, muslims, black, white, asian, male, female no matter who they are come together to celebrate one common thing they love, Music.

Thank God For Music Is What I Say

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Sep 17 2007, 03:25 AM

Listened to it - loved it I love the quirky "I'm not going to take myself too seriously" attitude, mixed with some seriously cool guitar playing. I also loved the quieter clean potrions, were you using your Piezo pickup on the Parker for that?

Posted by: Wallimann Sep 17 2007, 04:37 AM

Glad you liked it!
The quietter pieces were just my Parker "regular" pickups played directly into the mixing board.

Posted by: The Uncreator Sep 17 2007, 09:28 AM

"I Want To See The Sun Again" is one of the most beaitiful pieces of music ive heard in a LONG time.

Posted by: crabman Sep 17 2007, 12:32 PM

Agreed!!!!

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Oct 12 2007, 09:20 PM

Finally I have listened through the whole album and I must say I am really impressed.

David definately holds quality and concept throroughout the whole album. In some ways I get Vai vibrations from the album, allthough David definately has his own thing going!

Boy I am honoured to have you teaching at our site!

Posted by: Wallimann Oct 14 2007, 12:10 AM

Thanks so much for the kind words Kris!
It's an honor to be part of GMC :-)

Posted by: Toni Suominen Dec 8 2007, 10:39 PM

Cool soundclips David, nice job!!!!