The Man Who Painted Caves

Review Backroads Music

Brand new from White Cloud; this is the fourth release from David Antony Clark, who resides in New Zealand. He collaborated on "The Leaving of Ireland" with Jon Mark, and breaks new ground here on his latest endeavour.

Using ancient instruments, birdcalls and environmental ambience, David approaches his music like a painter of caves, revisiting a time when our ancestors engaged in exactly that. Intriguing organic sounds are used in a vibrant impressionistic mould, finding and exploring several musical canvasses through tribal rhythms, ritualistic gatherings, trance-like visions and prayers to invoke the return of the light.

The music is very evocative, gentle, and with a depth of beauty that really penetrates the listening space. Clark employs lyrical melodies and intriguing ambient sounds in the building of his beguiling mosaics of sound artistry, and his music will appeal to fans of Richard Burmer, David Arkenstone and others of a visionary nature