Description
Drawing from 35 years of recordings, Before After offers highlights from Daryl Hall’s five studio albums (Sacred Songs (1980) Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine (1986), Soul Alone (1993), Can’t Stop Dreaming (1996) and Laughing Down Crying (2011).
Sitting alongside the studio recordings on Before After are a significant number of live performances from Hall’s Live From Daryl’s House online music programme, which celebrates its 18th year in 2022. These include exciting collaborations such as ‘Here Comes The Rain Again’ with Dave Stewart and ‘Can We Still Be Friends?’ with Todd Rundgren.
In total, Before After contains 30 tracks and these were selected and sequenced by Daryl Hall. Its 30 songs paint a deeply soulful self-portrait of the artist, exposing the emotional depth at the core of his every musical impulse. Before After draws unexpected and satisfying connections between the esoteric and accessible sides of Daryl Hall’s creativity.
