Davids fasta grupper är:
LabField (med Ingar Zach - NO)
Lina Nyberg Band
The New Songs (med Sofia Jernberg, Kim Myhr - NO och Eve Risser - FR),
SEVAL (m bla Fred Lonberg-Holm - US),
Nakatani/Stackenäs duo (m Tatsuya Nakatani - JP)
Les Sons du Nuage (m Xavier Charles - FR, Sofia Jernberg)
David har medverkat på och medskapat en lång rad album. Så här skrev några kritiker om hans solodebut "The guitar":
"Creating something different - not to mention memorable - with the world's most popular instrument, the guitar, often seems as unlikely as winning the national lottery. Yet young Swedish guitarist David Stackenäs has done so on this short, cunningly enigmatic disc.” Ken Waxman, Jazz Weekly
“A beautifully recorded solo-acoustic performance that puts a friendly face on potentially forbidding material.” Bill Meyer, Magnet