Danny Vitali

An exploration of inner and outer space: Danny Vitali creates music that conjures a vast spectrum of earthly shimmering with a precise amount of cosmic dust. Vitali’s music is more of a journey than a genre, placing you in the architecture of songs that feel like colors in motion. A virtuosic musician, instrumentalist, and band member of countless projects, including Luke Temple, Kelly McFarling, Alex Bleeker, Skyway Man, and the West Marin Grateful Dead Appreciation Society, Vitali has access to an unlimited palette, though he builds his classic song-craft with timeless melodies, inviting chord structures, and lyrics that observe time, space, and beauty. Based in the blooming metropolis of Point Reyes Station, California, Vitali channels his cultivation and contemplation of the natural world into every song.


Following his iridescent 2016 EP Invernesia, Vitali continues unfolding his lush soundscape with the much-anticipated 2021 release of Fronds. Mysterious, friendly, gorgeous, gentle, and sometimes gigantic, Fronds features the talents of Rob Shelton (production, synthesizers, keyboards), Luke Temple (co-production, guitar, synthesizer, vocals) Dylan Squires (guitars, vocals, co-writing), Michael Pinkham (Drums), Andrew Maguire (percussion), Paul Spring (vocals), and Carly Bond (vocals). Recorded to tape in the Bay Area’s acclaimed Tiny Telephone Studios, Fronds captures the warmth and depth of these players on acoustic and electric guitars, piano, synthesizers, stacked vocal harmonies, deeply satisfying grooves, and the occasional soaring jam. Throughout Fronds, we are treated to a thread of field recordings, taken on a Nagra portable reel-to-reel device from the 70’s that Vitali acquired from a neighbor. Slowed-down local streams, wind shuffling leaves, and Swainson's thrush are featured as glorious little palette cleansers and introductions between songs, giving Fronds the continuity of a story; fairy-tale forest themed with a touch of science fiction. Spanning sounds from David Crosby to David Gilmour, early Radiohead to psyched-out Ethiopian Jazz, Fronds pays homage to a deep bench of greats, all the while remaining true to Vitali’s singular songwriting and sense of place.