The Davis Fountain

The Davis Fountain is new music that flows from the voice and spirit of 28-year-old Davis Fontanes. While describing music is pretty much a worthless pursuit, let’s go with Top 40/Dance featuring a new bag of tricks including elements of New Wave, Goth and Industrial – the music Davis grew up with – from Nine Inch Nails to Duran Duran. Live drums, guitars, bass and killer percussion join with modern and classically written synth sounds on the tracks. While that sounds like a lot of ingredients in the stew, once you hear it you’ll understand that it’s all about well-crafted pop songs performed by a new voice, produced with experience, passion and energy.

To achieve this bold, sexy and always dance-able sound, Davis and management company Astron Productions called upon long-time radio tastemaker and Creative Director Dennis “The Menace” Scheyer (DTM). Scheyer’s role on the project involves every aspect of The Davis Fountain music and brand.

Davis and DTM worked together with new co-songwriters and commissioned original songs. The tracks were recorded at studios in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles, mixed at Trilogy Studios in San Francisco and mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood, CA. (Recent Grammy winner for Black Eyed Peas.)

The record is inspired by all three cities from the grittiness of “MoneyWithYourNameOnIt”, a New York funk anthem to “Hide n’ Seek”, an irresistibly hooky dance tune with an edge and the trippy-hoppy free-form ride of “Chase The Rain”.

Special guests on the tracks include: Matt Fink (Prince’s keyboard player on albums including “Purple Rain”), Michael Urbano (superstar drummer from Smashmouth and tons of others) and percussionist PC Munoz (collaborator with Jackson Browne, Joan Jeanrenaud and more.)

Davis Fontanes

Davis was born 28 years ago in Inglewood, a section of Los Angeles known for Foster’s Freeze, the first soft serve ice cream in the United States, the Ku Klux Klan’s SoCal HQ, and the Forum where the Lakers entertain the most celebrity-filled audience in sports.

His guitar/piano playing/opera singing mom was born in Portugal, his Dad in Italy. His love for music from all over the world is most definitely the result of his international upbringing. The rest of his large family (he likes to be a bit secretive about just how many brothers and sister there are) fed his ears everything from Metal to Hip Hop, Rap with a major dash of Rock and New Wave on the legendary KROQ.

All that music has created a singer/performer who portrays every note of what he’s heard shaken and stirred with a look that is a sexy, attractive, genre-mixed dichotomy of all things dark and light. The Davis Fountain exists to fully experience share those shades with an audience who is craving and waiting for “What’s next?”

While Davis loves the warm climes of L.A. and the energy of NYC (with it’s divine overload to be taken in doses) he resides in San Francisco.

The Davis Fountain is currently managed by Astron Productions, San Francisco, a new firm formed to develop new artists.