Love your music - Oh it makes me so happy - so much life & passion - Thank you.
-Marina E.
Soothing and relaxing yet intriguing as well. Very nice! "Butterflies" is my favorite so far.
-Doug R.
As I was listening to your musical poetry I could feel myself drifting off to another place.....you certainly have a gift of awakening ones senses and transcending them to another place and time.....I love it and can't wait to hear more. Please let me know when you are playing next. I'm actually looking forward to my commute home tonight.....
-Karen L.
Your music soothes the soul!
-Juliana & Alan B.
It's quite good, very nice tone poems if I can say that, blending well varied techniques and color and figures ... I think you'd have enjoyed hanging around the piano with Debussy too! going over ideas.
-Rocky N.
I have enjoyed listening to your pieces, and especially like your neo-impressionist leanings. There is a reassuring calmness about your music.
-Durwynne H.
We put it on Sunday morning, and it was so pleasant to wake up to... gentle, cascading...
-Dick K.
Thanks for the link to pineshadow. I liked the site and spend some time listening to Dave's samples. I ordered his first album and have been listening to it when driving home from work. The Steinway on this recording has a bright, brilliant tone which really has a penetrating quality that carries a bell like clarity. My favorite is the 3rd piece, Field of Flowers, it has an emotional tone and overall structure I can best relate to. The description on the album back cover says it all: Evocative contemporary classical music, vivid and thoughtful, romantic with impressionistic textures. Evocative and impressionistic are the descriptions I would certainly use. Please communicate my kudos to David for sharing his vision.
-Michael K.
As I sit here working away I'm absorbed into your wonderful music. What a magnificent talent you have. Your CD photos really captured your essence.
- Ileana D.
Perfect to listen to and feel inspired by, while working.
-Mercy G.
I can't begin to tell you how much we enjoyed your very beautiful compositions as well as the very beautiful piano playing. Playing a musical instrument at such a high level is quite a gift. To be able to compose such beautiful music in addition is quite awesome.
-Marlene & Ike B.
The music is beautiful.
-Mary T.
I think this CD is absolutely fabulous. What a talent!
-- Susan Hall, pianist
Reviews of Sierra Passage (Just released 2008 on CD, initially 1986 on tape cassette)
(Available July 2008 at CDbaby.com)
"This dramatic music evokes a lot of imagery in the listener. Some of the best original music I have heard in quite a while. I will be playing it often on the show. The composition and instrumentation are excellent and the mixing and production also are top quality. Great program guide, very impressive."
--Ben Kettlewell, WOMR radio producer
"Pianist Erskine really works the keyboard, calling on nearly every note lurking there for his portrait of the mountains he loves. His impressive technique raises this tape miles above the pretty city-piano of Windham Hill, scaling the heights with rope and pitons and no safety net. This is athletic edge-of-endurance music for solo grand piano from someone who obviously loves challenges."
--Electronic Musician magazine March 1987
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Oakland, California
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For some reason, and I can't explain why, I was randomly searching iTunes. Then I found you. I decided to click on your name, and listen to Expressions. I was suddenly intrigued with the beauty of it, and purchased your album a couple of weeks ago. I sit here now listening to it, like I do every night before I go to sleep, staring into space with some sort of wonderment. I love Field Of Flowers, the true beauty of this piece, and others is quite astounding.
I hope you keep making music like this, it is dazzling.
-Tom B., Age 16, Sufflolk, England