Dozens of talented musicians have migrated to these lower reaches of
the Monashee Mountains for the calm of it and for the benefits of nature
in the raw. These men and women live a difficult life; logging,
trucking, mining by day and creating their music in every spare
moment. Music that reflects their lives and hopes, tough, but
softened by the sheer beauty of the wilderness that surrounds them.
David Bayer is certainly the most versatile of them all. Composer,
lyricist, multi-instrument musician, group leader, studio owner and
producer. His studio, "Quarter Moon" is appropriately
located, barely visible to passers-by, sheltered among towering coniferous
trees a few yards from the burbling Shuswap River. Dave has been
instrumental (pardon the pun!) in essentially directing and producing the
entire content of Kettle Valley Publishing's newest release, Bindlestiff's
Skiffle.
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