Yahoo Music Premieres Former Chester French Frontman D.A. Wallach's Soft Rock-leaning "Long Way Down" Hang Gliding Adventure (Harvest Records)
"That image just came to me as a bit of a non [sequitur]. I was imagining being camping with a girl who had underestimated the amount of kerosene to bring. Just a sliver of the sort of forgiveness and empathy one must have in a relationship," prolific singer-songwriter
D.A. Wallach
recently explained during an emailed interview for this
on the eve of his proper debut record,
Time Machine
; with the specific song fragment in question being
"Long Way Down'"
s poetically-worded non sequitur, "girl, if we run outta kerosene, don't say I never told ya... might be embarrassing, but I'm still here to hold ya."
Time Machine
is, quite frankly, without a shadow of doubt, amongst the most note-worthy albums released throughout 2015, alongside a rather unlikely cast of characters including
Detroit
-bred emcee
, Action Bronson,
Run The Jewels
, Mark Ronson, and
Stones Throw
's premier
Reggae
act,
The Lions
. Nearly three years in-the-making,
"Long Way Down"
serves as the first
Harvest Records
-sanctioned single lifted from
Time Machine
; although, having been preceded by
Tyler, The Creator
-directed and anonymously-released power ballad
as well as
Live from Capitol Studio B
-filmed renditions of album deep cuts
"Feel"
and
"Every Time You Walk Away."
D.A. Wallach
's tender brand of
Soft Rock
, or dare I say,
"Adult Contemporary,"
delivered throughout
Time Machine
's 11-track runtime evokes dynamic undertones of forefathers
James Taylor
, Billy Joel,
Paul Simon
, Randy Newman, and even Wallach's own past work with
Indie-Pop
twosome,
Chester French
.
Time Machine
was painstakingly written, composed, and recorded along with a wide array of music industry luminaries including the likes of
Pharrell
, Diane Warren,
James Fauntleroy
, and former bandmate
Max Drummey
.
D.A.
's
"Long Way Down"
music video however, is a fairly simplistic clip, which was "shot in
Big Sur, California
" and features the golden-piped crooner and a lady friend serendipitously trekking through the the barren green-blotted countryside, enthusiastically hang gliding above sun-drenched
California
coast, and walking the beach hand-in-hand at sunset. Wallach candidly alluded, during the final phases of our interview, that his
Reggae
-tinged pre-
Time Machine
side project
will in fact release their seemingly shelved album in the not too distant future and he promised that
Time Machine
will likely spawn "a bunch more live performances and a couple proper music videos!"