The inner voice

Man is a man driven, seeking in life constantly for the perfect counterpart to himself, in love, in friendship, in art.
And, for every man a matching color or a sound corresponding to its essence.
My coat of arms colors are gray and blue, and on my walks and long-distance races, I love the rain.
My inner voices are baroque oboe, viola da gamba, plucked bass, the African kora, and ... the cello.
All instruments which produce a strange voltage whose enigmatic and difficult to cross sound structure full of melancholy, but also full of restrained energy.
When David Darlings "Cello" is a dark abyss opens up, and the small little man disappears into the sonorous resonance and organic vibrations of his instrument.

Solo recordings for cello are very rare, and impossible to find something that is beyond by listed classical music (Kodály, Reger, Schumann).
Darling fills this gap in modern improvisation.
The typical ECM-style, which is always under suspicion of esoterically tinged should not interfere with it.
One knows the brand, and they may give (or not).
Michael Naura once wrote a few years ago in the TIME about Jan Garbarek saxophone: "The rain that falls in the soul."
Darling is even gloomier.
His music is a gliding through the deep sea, far down below, where no light shines.
Such types usually come from the extended Arctic Circle, and most amazingly of Darling, perhaps, that he is not Norwegian, but Americans (one egg with corners and edges).

On this occasion, a further CD-Tip:
Who can do with this music something that probably also like (the less stodgy) "Pendulum" by Eberhard Weber, the man with the singing bass - really great !.