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David Kraus, composer & guitarist

Between Silence album cover


Released in October 2010. Recording: 
Bob DeMarco/Otter Creek Productions
Mastering: Peter Bruce Wilder/ERGO
Original artwork by Karen Brooks
"What is clear from the outset is Kraus' magnificent playing. It has the technique one expects but with real warmth and character as well. Influenced by jazz and classical styles certainly explains the uninhibited freedom of his playing and the stylistic invention of his works...emphasizing the sense of solitude and intimacy this album encourages."
Barnaby Rayfield - Fanfare Magazine


"David Kraus has created a new album that is as rich in sonic beauty as it is in ideas. An inventive harmonic language and subtle rhythmic changes make this musical storytelling. And it's beautiful."
Jim Lowe - Times-Argus

"I am happy to have the music float between genres. It reminds me in this respect of Keith Jarrett or John Taylor at their least jazz-like, and if the album that most readily comes to mind is Pat Metheny’s "One Quiet Night", also a solo guitar recital, it has to be said that the quality of Kraus’s compositions is several orders of magnitude greater than Metheny chose to offer on that occasion."
Jeremy Marchant - Fanfare Magazine




All music composed and performed 
by David Kraus
Some Sort of Angel album cover



Released in January 1994 
Composed by David Kraus 
Recorded and mastered by Chuck Eller
Charles Eller Studios; Charlotte VT



"David Kraus is a guitarist with an expressive sense of melodic line. The playing is refreshingly lyrical and makes one thirst for a live performance by this ensemble." 
Jim Lowe -Times/Argus 

"Kraus's work features a mysterious and gorgeous sonic ambience that transcends genre." 
Chip Wilson - The Montpelier Bridge

"With a creamy yet energetic mixture of jazz and world culture influences and melodies that caress like vines around a cypress, David Kraus' latest creative offering shows his uniqueness as an artist and is a truly fine listening experience for anyone desiring to hear something real."
Susan Kelly - Burlington Free Press 




                      

                                                                        
                                Works in Progress
All music composed by David Kraus
David Kraus - nylon/steel string guitars 
Gary Gordon - soprano/alto saxes, flute 
Mark vanGulden - vibraphone, percussion 
Jamie Masefield - mandolin, tenor banjo 
Clyde Stats - acoustic bass

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