Daniel Jorgensen (musician)

Daniel Paul Jorgensen (born April 13, 1985) is an Austrian-American musician, who is a touring member of the electronic music project Owl City.

Early Years
Daniel Paul Jorgensen grew up in Wolfsberg, Carinthia, Austria, where he spent his childhood amongst the vast expanse of valleys and hills. With Austria being a very musical culture, Jorgensen picked up the drums at a young age, and later moved onto learning how to play the guitar, bass, and piano. His father had a major influence in his beginnings as a musician, and encouraged him to be more musical as he grew up.

In 2005, at the age of nineteen, Jorgensen met Owl City front man, Adam Young whilst he was touring during the summer with his metal band in the Midwest. They immediately hit it off, becoming quite close, later giving Jorgensen the opportunity in 2009 to be a part of the live touring crew where he started off selling merchandise for Young's project. "Daniel Jorgensen sells merch, drives the van like a machine and is a better friend than anyone could ask for" A quote by Adam young on his Myspace Blog. Young later invited him to play guitar, bass, vibraphone, keys, synth, purcussion and drums as a part of the live band. He has been a major contributor in Young's projects, and appeared on Owl City's album All Things Bright and Beautiful, where in he can be heard playing the vibraphone on the tracks "Dreams Don't Turn to Dust" and "January 28, 1986."

Jorgensen has also joined Young on a long list of different tours, one in 2009, a Winter tour in 2010, a Spring tour in 2010, a tour with Maroon 5 in 2010, a tour with John Mayer in 2010, the All Things Bright and Beautiful for his Acoustic performances and TV performances.There's also a video on the Owl City Galaxy website called "Meet Daniel Jorgensen"

Jorgensen majored in music and percussion at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he met Peter Miller, who is a part of his project Luna Coates.

While on the road and during his time off from touring with Owl City, he works on his own solo projects called Carinthia, and Luna Coates. He has also as created a piano album under his own name, and done various covers of notable musicians such as Enya, which can be found on his Soundcloud page to hear.

Carinthia
Daniel Jorgensen named one of his solo projects "Carinthia" after the southern province in Austria, which he lived in during his childhood. Carinthia fans have adopted the name "Caretakers," after the song "Caretaker's Cottage in the Forest of Compiegne" and the knowledge of Jorgensen previously working as a caretaker himself.

His first full-length release, "All My Fountains Are In You" was released 16 July 2010 on iTunes. And it was mastered by Keith Kenniff (aka Helios).

On 10 May 2012 Jorgensen released a live video of "Come Now, Let Us Leave" that was filmed at one of his shows with Windsor Airlift.

On 17 July 2012 released a demo for a new song called Red Wing. Jorgensen is currently working on a new Carinthia Album, which, via his Twitter page, has said to be released in 2013.

On 15 January 2013, Jorgensen announced via Twitter that he was finishing up the final mixes for his new album, and the release date would be announced soon. All My Fountains Are In You Tracklist

Luna Coates
Luna Coates, formerly known as 'Lions Tigers and Bears' back in 2005, is a project that Jorgensen created with friends Peter Michael Miller and Alexandra Strelow while he was attending Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota.

The Luna Coates album "Being" was released 13 September 2011 on Amazon and iTunes.

Being Tracklist

Daniel Jorgensen
On 22 November 2011, Jorgensen released an album entitled "A Search For Somewhere Else", entirely preformed on the piano. The album was released on iTunes and through his Big Cartel store. He released only 100 hard copies of the album, encouraging fans to buy it by writing a special personalized note directly to them.

Hardcopies are currently sold out, though it has been heard that Jorgensen may release further hardcopies for fans to buy.

A Search For Somewhere Else Tracklist

Other
On 10 August 2006, a Myspace page was created for a single song project called 'Good Luck, If It's Possible', a rap project Jorgensen was a part of with friends Raquel, Toni, and Jõao. The single song "Portugal meets Austria" features Jorgensen rapping, the only word distinguishable being "grapefruit."

Jorgensen has described his friend Young, while at work hard on the All Things Bright and Beautiful album during the winter of 2010, as "a total hermit, with [a] beard and everything" after he visited Young at his house for tour rehearsals.

Daniel volunteered with Owl City and Salvation Army USA in the US throughout September and October in cities along the way of their Rock the Red Kettle concert.The concert was also aired live on the internet,on the Salvation Army Facebook Page.

Performances
"Come Now,Let Us Leave" live

"Shooting Star" Acoustic on DropoutUK

"Good Time" Acoustic on LastFM

"Shooting Star" Acoustic on LastFM

"Fireflies" Acoustic live on Last FM

"Fireflies" Acoustic live on 104.3MYFM

"Good Time" Acoustic live at 104.3MYFM

"Fireflies" Acoustic live on KDWB

"Good Time" Acoustic live on KDWB

"Shooting Star" Acoustic live on KDWB

"Good Time" The X Factor Australia 2012

"Shooting Star" at TV show in Tokyo, Japan