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David Modica: layers of lush acoustic guitar
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Acoustic Earth - Electric Sky
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Amazing Grace
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Native Intuition
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Near Distant Future
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Seraphim
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Stillness and Movement
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The Water is Wide
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Timeless
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David's haunting music on acoustic and electric 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, eventually meeting and forming a band with Master Hammond B3 organist Ike Stubblefield.

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In the late-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 who lived in Las Vegas, NV. 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 of self-realization and continues to write and perform music that expresses the beauty and wonder of a heart opening itself to the universe.

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David's music has been used in films by independent film director Ray Nomoto Robison, including The Bag and also 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 - from acoustic guitar to electric guitar, native american flute, keyboards, percussion and more. David's compositions continue to push the limits on style, sound and originality.

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See David performing Amazing Grace from his album of the same title.

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