"A master tunesmith." – San Diego Troubadour

 

Darius has released six albums as a singer-songwriter and performed widely, at such venues as L.A.'s Troubadour and N.Y.C.'s Speakeasy. He and his bands have played on bills with Don McLean, Lucinda Williams, Guy Clark, and many others. 

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Years ago the San Diego Union Tribune wrote, “Darius – songwriter or poet?” While it’s true that songs and poems have a lot of history in common, they're also very different artforms. Today, after years of study and publication, it's safe to say Darius is both a songwriter and a poet. As such, he’s somewhat unique as a songwriter, writing songs that might be called “song-poems.” 

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In the late 80s Darius broke up his psychedelic rock band Darius and the Magnets and reinvented himself as a folksinger, albeit an eclectic one. His first solo album, Cardboard Confessional (Gold Castle/Capitol Records) helped make him a fixture of the Los Angeles acoustic music scene of the late 80s and early 90s. The CD received critical acclaim and national radio airplay. The video for the song "White Boy Raving" aired on MTV and made Billboard Magazine's Top Twenty Video List.  

 

In 1997, Darius released Garage Sale of the Soul, just before moving to Sweden for a dozen years. After returning to California, his 2012 album The Coyote Cantos was nominated for a San Diego Music Award. In 2015 he released the album Eleven Story Strum. Open Question to the Sky was released in 2024, and Rhyme in the Wreckage is due out in 2025.
 

Links to albums and videos are below. 

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Open Question to the Sky is "a masterpiece, loaded with searing metaphors on par with the brilliance of the early Bob Dylan recordings.” – Wayne Riker, San Diego Troubadour​

                   

”Every once in a while an album comes along with lyrics so wondrous, so vital, that they should be scripted on parchment, bound in fine leather and handed out . . . Darius -- songwriter or poet?” -- Robert J. Hawkins, San Diego Union Tribune 

                   

”Darius was a postmodern eclectic long before it was cool.” -- Jay Allen Sanford, San Diego Reader” 

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