Biography of this songwriter/keyboard player

  • Ex Indian Summer keyboard player
  • Composes music with synths and a computer since 1995
  • Jams with musicians occasionally
  • Makes albums that are mainly instrumental rock/jazz
  • Likes Star Trek and Sci-Fi, motorbikes and cars
  • Fond of pizzas, toast, pasta bla bla...

    David Parry was born in Wallasey, Merseyside, and learnt how to play the keyboard at the age of 7. Self-taught, he learnt songs by listening to records, tapes and radio and reproducing them bit by bit, finding each chord by playing parts of the song over and over. Of particular importance was a show called "The Organist Entertains" that played every Tuesday night on BBC Radio 2, where a whole new realm of electronic organ music inspired David to jam along and try and emulate those amazing sounds.

    In October 1994 David joined the Liverpool band "Indian Summer". Having completed an electronics course at Birkenhead Tech College in 1992, he was also assigned to the role of "Band Technician".

    Having left Indian Summer after 7 months, he acquired a Korg M1 synth and a 4 track recorder. Adverts were put up on music shop noticeboards for getting a band together, and although the band never materialised, just meeting with musicians and recording the sessions provided much inspiration to write new songs, in a student house shared with two friends. In 1996, David was introduced to singer songwriter Stephen Wilson, who just happened to have composed many songs with computers, guitars and synths. This led to many house jams and gigs at local clubs. Doing a sound engineering course was a good primer for recording music.

    October 1996 saw David join up with ex Indian Summer drummer Tony Davis, to complete a trio of keyboards, bass and drums, doing experimental Pink Floyd-like jams. Enter Colin kirby, blues singer and guitarist, and then Bass player Owen Clayton, to form the group "The Red Chicken Blues Band", which never made it to doing gigs, but many great jams came out of it. This lasted for 5 months, after which David moved over to the Wirral to focus on recording solo songs with the help of an Atari computer. To categorise the music quickly, it would be a combination of jazz, chillout, instrumental rock and ambient.

    He got his music online at mp3.com in September 2001, joining a worldwide group of musicians getting their music out over the internet. At last in June 2004 the first album to go on sale to the public was the "Livin' For Today" album, composed in 2002. Since then, David has produced compilation albums and a new album "Spaces" available at ebay.co.uk.

    Influential records: Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club - The Beatles, Rubycon - Tangerine Dream, In A Silent Way - Miles Davis, Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd.