My name is Dave Painchaud and I am a composer, producer and trumpet/flugelhorn player specializing in mashing electronic, ambient, orchestral and jazz music in unusual ways. One of my missions is to entice listeners with a style they already like and then turn them on to genres they would never have otherwise checked out.

When people invariably ask what that sounds like I say that Miles Davis, Brian Eno and Daft Punk held a conspiratorial meeting aboard my time machine/trans-dimensional spacecraft while I furiously took notes. My album, "Tales Told And Journeys Imagined" is an attempt to realize what I think would have been discussed.

Who I Am

My name is Dave Painchaud and I am a composer, producer and trumpet/flugelhorn player specializing in mashing electronic, ambient, orchestral and jazz music in unusual ways. One of my missions is to entice listeners with a style they already like and then turn them on to genres they would never have otherwise checked out.

When people invariably ask what that sounds like I say that Miles Davis, Brian Eno and Daft Punk held a conspiratorial meeting aboard my time machine/trans-dimensional spacecraft while I furiously took notes. My album, "Tales Told And Journeys Imagined" is an attempt to realize what I think would have been discussed.

Why go in this direction? Because the magic can be anywhere, and we're at a point culturally where we're tired and dismissive of genre. Passion - the ability to distract and transport - that's all we really need and we're perfectly capable of jumping around a bit stylistically. In fact, I think it keeps our interest up.

As a trumpet player who grew up on the coast of Maine, spent my youth obsessed with jazz and classical music, and cut my teeth at Berklee before finally moving to New York to play every kind of gig imaginable, ending up fixated on electronica and the studio, is, perhaps, an atypical destination. But after years of jazz in the village, horn sections, drum corps, pop, rock, funk, street music, high end stuff and gigs to keep your chops up, a deep impression was formed that the contemporary listener could travel to these varied musical locales and dig the diversity while also appreciating their interconnectedness just as I had. The result is a recording that leans heavily on jazz and retro-fusion, tilts into minimal and ambient pieces and plays a bit with avant-garde and orchestral moments yet still sounds like one album. Come take a genre-spin!