Heartsong was my first band that enjoyed any real success.
The band was myself on acoustic guitar, mandolin and vocals. Chris Halpin on 12 string acoustic and harmony vocals and Alex Halpin on acoustic guitar and harmony vocals.
We started out doing covers of songs by artists such as Harvey Andrews, Ralph McTell, James Taylor and Arlo Guthrie to name a few and got a residency at the Roebuck folk club in Erdington, Birmingham. It was a popular club and Dave Samson, the promoter, booked all the great artists of the time.
We broke up when I left Birmingham in 1979 and I played as a solo artist for quite few years around the Manchester folk scene.
The 1990’s saw me experimenting with producing music on the Atari ST using Cubase and a Yamaha MT4x 4 track cassette recorder. Fast forward 20 years and I started using ProTools and taking my music seriously. I built a studio at home and started releasing my music to the wider world on the various DSPs. 2020 I enrolled at Futureworks to do a BA (hons) degree in music production. The ffusion project is my major project
David Cummins is an progressive pock singer-songwriter 40 years in the making. Inspired by iconic musical storytellers like James Taylor and rock giants such as Pink Floyd, David started performing music way back in the late 70’s and early 80’s.
Today, David produces music that has a unique presence of balance and composure that touches on equal parts originality and familiarity; giving the listener nostalgic callbacks to previous progressive and ambient rock eras, but at the same time, offering up something fresh and new that stands out on its own with a signature sound that has innovative multi-layers.
A creative in every sense of the word, David is also a designer and photographer, and has worked in these industries for over 30 years. His passion for music started at the age of 11, when he got his very first guitar.