David Taro spends most of his life in a box room in South London either doing his day job in publishing (boo!) or writing and producing music (yay!).

Genres: #indie #pop #rock & #blues

Influences: the Beatles, Randy Newman, Tom Waits, Elton John, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Fleetwood Mac, The Band, Aimee Mann, that kind of thing.

Over the years, I've come to the realisation that all I really want to make is something that sounds like it was done in the 1970s. The impossible dream continues... 😅

Boring technical bit

For anyone who’s interested, here’s a rundown of the current contents of the aforementioned box room in South London:

Interface: UAD Apollo Twin X

DAW: Logic Pro

Mics: Warm Audio WA-47; Shure SM7B, SM57 and SM58

Instruments: An ancient Roland digital piano; PRS Silver Sky; Gibson SG ’61 reissue and J45; Fender Japan Tele ’62 reissue and American Pro II P-bass; Gretsch electromatic lap steel; Cordoba C7 classical; Strymon Iridium amp sim and a load of other fun pedals

VSTs and plugins: Mainly UAD stuff; Ozone for mastering; Toontrack Superior Drummer 3*. But genuinely too many to mention (I have a problem)

*This is the only part of my recordings that I don’t technically ‘play’, everything else is 100% me.