Dan Krikorian - Featured Artist - 02 | October | 2020
Dan Krikorian’s musical style is defined by a cinematic blend of poetry, melody, and storytelling providing listeners a cathartic and energizing listening experience.
His ever-growing reputation for crafting organic and reflective folk/pop has propelled to his career to new heights. In the summer of 2018 he had a stunning performance at the Pageant of the Masters, a week-long OC Fair residency coupled with the release of his new single “Need Me Bad” and a forthcoming 5th studio album, Grandeur, has garnered Krikorian a passionate Southern California following.
Reviews such as “This deserves to find a larger audience… Dan
Krikorian really has everything you need for greater success”, as
well as… “Beautiful melodies, beautiful lyrics, beautiful
harmonies, stunning arrangements, twists and turns…
Bloom is a masterpiece an absolute must.” (Moore’s
Magazine) accurately describe both Krikorian’s live
shows and recent recordings.
Alive in Costa Mesa was recorded live on a hot summer
night at the OC Fair, just a stone's throw from the house I
grew up in. We were not perfect from a technical
standpoint, but as a band we were together, we had energy, we
had fun, we were lost in the moment of the night. When I listen back through the album I can't help but feel that the moments the album captured WERE perfect. And that's what music, especially live music, is all about. A chance to get lost, to share an experience, to feel alive.
As this album is released today I pause to think back over the last 12 years since that first CD Release show at the Ugly Mug Cafe. I have been so fortunate. The members of the DKB have opened up doors and taken me down paths I would never have dreamt possible. They are great men, fathers, husbands, and friends.
Listening to this album in the midst of a global pandemic brings forth a mixture of emotions. Nostalgia, sadness, happiness, and hope for when we will again able to hold these types of shows.
In closing, an idea I keep coming back to in my songwriting, is the concept of time. How it escapes us, how we try to hold onto it, how time speeds up, slows down, takes us forward, and takes us back. Live records allow us a unique opportunity to capture a
moment and revisit it. They allow us to bask in a shared
human experience. And for us, the DKB, it allows us
to reflect on a moment in time when we were
together, perfect and imperfect, when
we were, without a doubt,
Alive in Costa Mesa.