- Acoustic Earth - Electric Sky

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- Timeless

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David Modica's haunting music on acoustic guitar touches the listener's heart with the anticipation and ultimate fulfillment of the journey home. His delicate melodies, continually reinventing themselves, and the rich colors he gently coaxes from his instrument, reflect his experience both as a musician, and as an individual who has spent the major portion of his life seeking inner understanding. His albums are lyrical, complex, and invite the listener to join in the exploration of all the beauty to be found within and without one's own being.

David's style is all his own, developed over many years as a performer and composer. His work involves various techniques, including finger style, flat-picking, jazz chording, spontaneous improvisation, classical, rock, blues, and folk. David pulls these various elements together in a unique mix that creates a timeless space in sound.

Originally self-taught, having picked up an acoustic guitar at the age of 15, David's early influences were Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and The Eagles, as well as jazz and rock guitarists such as George Benson, Pat Metheny and Carlos Santana. He moved on to electric guitar, forming a band with famed organist Ike Stubblefield that was managed by Les Plessur (who also managed the Ozark Mountain Dare Devils). During this time David discovered his ability to write music and perform, and he and his band began opening shows for the likes of Prince, Santana, Sheila E, The Manhattan Transfer and more.

In the mid-80s, David's musical direction reached a significant turning point leading to a whole new level of David's personal understanding of life and his musical career as he met inner-life teacher Vernon Howard and moved to Las Vegas to study at Mr. Howard's school in nearby Boulder City, Nevada. Through his studies of inner transformation, David returned to the naturalness and simplicity of his original love, the acoustic guitar. These double threads of David's life - the inner search and its expression in his music - continue to weave themselves together, as David pursues his inner studies with self-realization teacher Guy Finley at Life of Learning Foundation in Merlin, Oregon, and writes and performs music that expresses the beauty and wonder of a heart opening itself to the universe.

David's music has been used in films by independent film director Ray Nomoto Robison, including Sixes and the One Eyed King, which won the Audience Choice Award at festivals in Miami and Louisville as well as the Best Feature Award at the Rogue Independent Film Festival in Oregon. David's music has also been used to open author Guy Finley's numerous radio programs and multiple audio albums. Actor Desi Arnaz Jr. uses David's music to welcome the audience to shows he produces at his historic Boulder City Theatre in Boulder City, Nevada. Mr. Arnaz says, David's music "has a wonderful calming effect on people waiting for the show to begin."

David's style continues to evolve. His latest release "Acoustic Earth, Electric Sky" includes full band and orchestra instrumentation that takes the listener to yet another place inwardly where one finds their own journey home, where - for David, writing music has always about.

"David Modica and I have been good friends for over 20 years. I own the Historic Boulder Theatre in Boulder City NV and always use David's music before our shows and at intermission to give the audience something quality to listen to while they wait for the show to start.

David's talent is writing beautiful, melodic music that is perfect to listen to at home, while traveling or for hundreds of people in a theatre audience. His composition's have that special quality that seems to touch the listener's heart - as if it is calling them back home.

I love David's musical style and I'm sure you'll enjoy it as much as I do."

--Desi Arnaz Jr.

David Modica's Home Page: www.davidmodicamusic.com