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Created for a disquiet junto challenge “Compose and record a piece of music that is 10 bpm and in 3/4 time”. Took my favourite ¾ piece, F. Chopin’s Op64 number 2 in C# minor (1847). Played the most fast moving part of it so it won’t be that boring slowed down to the insane 10bpm […]

Instrumental, melodic fretless bass (my good old Sekine custom, circa 1985). Solo fretless bass take, doubled with a moog synth and sparse synth pad on the background. Delay, panner and reverbs as only FX here. Simple “recitativo” melody, no solos, no big development other that the repeated coda/cadenza. Performed by DD, Paris, France, July 2017. […]

“Une étérnité, voir plus” Composed and performed by DD, recorded in Paris, france, September 4th and 5th 2017. All the “pad” sound come from several reverb units and plugins: infinite decay reverb, freeze reverb particle reverb, granular reverb, etc. instruments used, in order of appearance : Electric guitar (distorted power chord) bowed upright bass section […]

Out Of The Cave (El Tala) I played two charangos, two flutes (bamboo from bali and plastic flutophone from the USA), I sang four part harmonies, I played some percussion: bombo and kuntrun (from Argentina), plastic tubes, derbouka (from Turkey) and a hi pitched filtered percussion loop (that served me as metronome). The convolution reverb […]

Composed and performed by DD, Paris, France, July/August 2017 Synthesisers (Korg, Emu, z3Ta, Pentagon, Analogue Lab) String orchestra (samples) Dedicated to Angelo Badalamenti  

A simple and sensitive track taken back from the dark of my vault…. An old track from 2009, publisher’s commission for a “Childhood” themed project. Never released, just got the rights back, Performed in Buenos Aires, Villa Gessel (Argentina) and Paris (France) by DD: upright pianos, requinto (steel string) upright bass, melodica Miguel Yanover (recorder/flauta […]