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09Jan/26

Daniel Land

January 9, 2026

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 11, Episode 02: Daniel Land!

Daniel Land returns to share his concept single: Pearl Daddy. He wrote two singles that compliment each other and tell a love story with each track from one lover’s perspective. We also discuss the North African influences that ghost into the music.

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Daniel Land has become both a scholar and a practitioner of the kind of music he creates, studying towards a PhD on artists like the Cocteau Twins and Slowdive at the London College of Music, whilst collaborating with artists as varied as Darkher, Swoone, and the electronica auteur Ulrich Schnauss. Meanwhile, Daniel’s music has found a wider audience by gracing campaigns by brands such as Expedia and appearing in films including Only You and The Art of My Scars.

He is currently working on the third draft of a memoir covering the period from 1997 to 2000, focusing on his late teens in rural Devon, UK, and the experience of coming out in the shadow of Section 28. It explores how homophobia shaped his early relationships, the depressive fallout that followed, and the activism that emerged from his recovery: working with a charity to support isolated queer young people, campaigning for legislative change, contributing to police diversity strategies, and helping to develop national guidelines for schools on tackling homophobic bullying.

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May 5, 2023

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 8, Episode 19: Daniel Land + Our Review of Alex Borstein: Corsets & Clown Suits!

Daniel Land joins us to share his upcoming album, Out of Season. He leads us into a discussion about identity and memory, then we review Alex Borstein’s Corsets & Clown Suits, followed by what won our weeks!

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Daniel Land has become both a scholar and a practitioner of the kind of music he creates, studying towards a PhD on artists like the Cocteau Twins and Slowdive at the London College of Music, whilst collaborating with artists as varied as Darkher, Swoone, and the electronica auteur Ulrich Schnauss.

Daniel will release his new album, Out of Season, in 2023. He is currently writing a concept album about the AIDS crisis, and is working on the second draft of a memoir about homophobia.

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09Sep/16

Ryan Amador

September 9, 2016

It gives us great pleasure to announce Ryan Amador as the guest on episode 074: Empowering the Individual!

This week singer, songwriter, theater-maker Ryan Amador joins us to talk about letting the truth of the individual unfold through the writing of music and song.

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Ryan Amador is a singer, songwriter, and theater-maker from Los Angeles. Ryan has released two full length albums: the self-titled “Ryan Amador” (2013) & (In)Body’s “Becoming” (2016), and three EP’s: “Symptoms of a Wide Eyed Being” (2011), “Palos Verdes: A Teenage Retrospective” (2012), and “4S” (2014).

His music video “Define Me” garnered over 470,000 views on YouTube and led to live performances at Pride Events in New York, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Brisbane, Australia. Following the release of his video “Spectrum”, Ryan was honored to give a TEDx Talk in Santa Cruz, CA on the topic of diversified sexuality. In April 2016, Mather Dance Company in California used Ryan’s song “Instead” in a competitive dance competition which was then featured by DancingWithYT on Youtube.

His latest project (In)Body is a collaboration with LA-based producer/instrumentalist Daniel Weidlein. Their song “Safe In Your Heart” earned Ryan the 2013 ASCAP Robert Allen Award for Songwriting.

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