Dave Alley is a highly regarded New Zealand guitarist, singer, songwriter and percussionist. His strongly rhythmic music is a blend of home grown New Zealand styles along with the blues, west african, eastern, celtic and american folk genres.
Delving into songs from three solo albums and unreleased tracks from new albums in the pipeline, shows are an enlightening trip through the world of an original musician and songwriter.
The one man show features three well worn Maton guitars played in standard and lapsteel slide styles with an array of odd tunings and some celtic and middle eastern percussion instruments thrown in for good measure. There's a kick drum-like stomp box thumping low down accentuating the solid groove. Lyrically the songs tell of places travelled, people met and ponderings, abstract or otherwise, on humanity, life and the fine art of living it.
