The Massachusetts-based folk singer-songwriter is following up his recent single releases with a new window into the unspoken aspects of the human condition.
“Voice in My Head” was inspired by the nagging fears and anxieties which have the ability to plague us. The eerie yet melodic folk tune is led by acoustic guitar and gently descending slide guitar melodies, providing a brightness to the song’s isolation.
Pallotta explains that he wrote the song out of a “desire to shine light on the dark voices that often haunt our daily existence, to bring them out of the shadows.” Co-produced with Ross Peterson, Pallotta made critical production choices which heightened the song’s themes.
“The vocal is very in-your-face in order to convert the suffering of the narrator and the immediacy of the pain,” Pallotta details. “The slide instruments were an obvious choice for the haunting, distant, mood they evoke. We eliminated percussion until the end. The voice doesn’t dance.”
Stream “Voice in My Head” here: https://songs.danpallottamusic.com/voiceinmyhead
This song makes me feel liberated. There’s a zen saying, ‘What you resist persists and what you allow to be disappears.’ The song calls out the demon; it has less power. It thrives on the silence of the object of its abuse. – Dan Pallotta