Dan Tuffy, musician, producer.

  • new song just out

    I have just released the 1st track from our upcoming album. Recorded by myself & Madelief van Vlijmen at Studio M15 in Hoorn, The Netherlands, engineered by Jeroen Tenty. We tracked a live-take of me singing it on my Kalamazoo archtop with Madelief on an old pump organ. That felt right for the song. We had tried a few takes the day before in other constellations but the harmonium sound that MF created delivered the vibe I needed to really live inside it. We then added, bass, piano and the riffs – there were some old ukes and a dobro-mandolin laying about so we used them. Steve Heather later added a drum overdub from his Jazz pad in Berlin. Editing, mixing and mastering by Zlaya Loud. We are really stoked with how this one turned and. It meant a lot to me to get it right. Zlaya nailed it! The song was inspired by conversations I had with my recently passed father and his older brother. I want to keep the stories they handed down alive and the best way I know how to do that is via song

  • 1, 2, 3, 4….count us in

  • LAYING LOW

    I am quietly working away on another record. Have had a few sessions in the fabulous M15 Studio in Hoorn with engineer Jeroen Tenty in the past 12 months. Multi-instrumentalist Madelief van Vlijmen has been my constant collaborator in all of this and I feel lucky to have someone so great to work with. Working alone is ok for a while but geez what a relief to be capturing musical interaction & connection. Where it’s at. I have also been working a bit with producer and percussionist Gino Bombrini in the Flow Like Water studio that we are building up together in an old farmhouse just outside of Deventer. Zlaya Loud is back in the saddle mixing and mastering what Ive been sending to him in the meantime. So on the collaboration front all is well and the wheels are rolling. Live performances have been on the back-burner as I consolidate and collate what has gone to tape so far. But…new music is coming soon and I’m happy with both the process and the result. On the live front I am both curating and performing at the up coming OVER YONDER Subterranean Music Festival in Wageningen in October. 2025. I will also be returning to Australia for a show or 2 in December and have just been invited to the Orkney Island Folk Festival, which is happening in May 2026. That’s without even trying too hard. Back to the studio!