As many know very well by now, my album "Heaven Knows" has yet to be released. The issue comes from several areas. But despite that, the album will be released and could be released now- however...- the opportunity to really open my list of connections, expand my fan base and promote even greater sales has arrived at my door step. American Idol is holding it's California auditions on the 17th of July, 2008... and I will be auditioning then. Because of this, "Heaven Knows" will be put on hold- but in the mean time- IF I indeed make it through the three audition stages and get to Paula, Simon and Randy, my face and voice will be in the publics view... which is good enough for me- though I will be readying myself for more than that should I make it through to the T.V. show and eventually stardom. FOR THOSE WHO WERE INTERESTED in the album being held back until after A.I., you can send me a message @ www.myspace.com/darynalsup and I will speak with you about a free FULL CD of the album when it's released. Thank you and forgive any inconvieniances I have caused you.


Vote for me if I make it!!!

- Daryn

On June 1st 2008, My entire album- "Heaven Knows"- will be released on MP3.com. Every track will be available for download FREE for two weeks. Following that, they can be bought at the link I will provide next week. If you would like the actual album art with booklet and lyrics (© Daryn Alsup 2008 ) you'll be able to download it as well for free.

1: I Just Needed One Night
2: No One Knows
3: Tell Me Why
4: Whispers in the Rain
5: Catch My Heart
6: Oh Danny Boy
7: When You Let Me In
8: Heaven Knows
9: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
10: Never Let Go of Love
11: After All
12: Maybe
13: I'll Remember You
*14: The Waves (Dedicated to Annie Suter and those in sevice)
*Bonus track. Only Available for 14 days.

-Daryn Alsup

I thought about talking about this album and it's creation a while ago but now I am more apt. to actually do it.

"Heaven Knows" was and is the most unique album I've ever written. It came after a point in my life that lead to some sort of a master revalation. I was just out of high school (okay 2 years) and my high school sweet heart had been unfaithful all our years together. I spent two years following my graduation single. Then one day and purely by luck, we bumped into each other at starbucks. I went home that night and thought about that accurance until I literaly said allowed "heaven knows." The song soon followed.

Other musicians who've composed for a long part of their live(s) will tell you, any melodie that spins and sticks in your head is a hit. It doesn't have to be lyriclly valid, or rythmically symbolic, it just has to be able to sit in your head until you're damn near sick of it. The intro for "Heaven Knows" just came to me one day, on a day I wasn't even thinking about writing it. Then BOOM! like a tsunamis it hit me. The intro into the verses were easy to place. And the verses themselves were primarily the intro just a lil' bit tweaked. The trick was the chorus(es.)

So the verses we complete melodically, and some of the other instruments' parts had been written at this point. But something was missing. I had to remember some of the feelings we've all had or will have when some one hurts us in such a manner that time after time we see the past we shared with them, in some one else you; I; we love today. That was how I came up with the transitions. ("Seasons change...") But I still was stuck on the chorus(s.) How could I come up with something the listener would want to hear story-wise and reflect a melody that would come across pleasing to the listener's ear.

Remarkably, it came after meeting some one new. My partner and I had a discussion one night about our pasts, looking forward to the future. Then I had what I needed. I remembered one of my first songs I wrote in my childhood and tweaked it to fit melodically and rhythemically and ta-da: "Heaven Knows" was written and finalized that night!

From that I learned how to write all the songs on the album. And this album is unfinished... so keep looking and listening for more-

-Daryn