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During the pandemic Covid19 (march/april/may 2020) we have to stay home and avoid contact with people. I’ve found a great hobby without leaving home: collaborating through the internet with fellow musicians who are also locked up at home. They perform on their instruments, record and film themselves, and afterwards, I put it all together, along […]

New experimental-instrumental single released today: In The Fundamental Mood (electro-melancholic-naive) Choose your service (download or streaming): https://ffm.to/bj9pj2p Synthesisers and electric piano. Dedicated to Rick Wright and Simone Veil. Paris 2017. (remixed 2020) Photo by Elena Nicolai  

New experimental-instrumental single released today: Spring is Coming, Somewhere, Somehow. (orchestral soundscape) Choose your service (download or streaming): https://ffm.to/koaz99b DD, Paris, Summer 2017 Cello, Upright basses, samples: strings and brass feat. Gustavo Bulgach (clarinet)   Music for this Haiku by Takarai Kikaku: Springtime in Edo, Not a day passes without A temple bell sold. 鐘ひとつ賣れぬ日はなし江戸の春 […]

Repetitive acoustic, proto-naive. Composed and performed by DD some years ago, reworkesd and remixed March 20th 2020. All real acoustic instruments. Acoustic guitars Bombo legüero Melodica Accordina Glockenspiel Charango Upright Bass Music for this haiku: “sleeping, waking the emptiness of my mosquito net” poem by Fukuda Chiyo-ni photo by Helen Ngoc      

Some tracks , experimentations and essays I contributed to the weekly junto challenges during January, February and March 2020:   let’s call this a mess, a collage or an impromtu montage. It was fun. Members of the choir, in order of appearance: @zeromeaning Analog @analoc @vonna-wolf @bassling-1 @Northwoods @Howthenightcame @ikjoyce @michel-banabila @paulchristophrose Myself I added […]

New experimental-instrumental single released today: Copernicus’ Bad Idea (experimental fusion)     Choose your service (download or streaming): https://awal.lnk.to/G9WQ9V43   -The beat is 7/4 with a weird “drum kit” consisted of Argentina’s Bombo Leguero ad finger snaps. -There’s no clear melody but instead some melodic fragments that never quite repeat and develop but make a […]

New EP Naïf-Naïve https://awal.lnk.to/OsHp8uxC Weird times, simple music: quite optimistic and understated instrumentals on this one, electro-acoustic, simple, sensitive…   ———————————————————————————– Instruments used piano upright basses cello Acoustic piano accordina electric  bass fretless bass synthesizers  (Micro Korg, Z3Ta, AAS, Vintage Keys). crystal bowls voices electric piano      

  Composed and performed by DD in Paris , France. Electric pianos (Rhodes) , Upright acoustic piano, synthesizers. Published by Sonoton Gmbh (contact Sonoton for any license/sync) For this haiku: The rain begins to fall, sounding like my heartbeat of the nigh Poem by Sumitaku Kenshin Photo by Nick Nice

New charango track featuring Miguel Yanover (recorder/flauta dulce)   Choose your service (download or streaming): https://awal.lnk.to/NkjaxMmV   Instruments I played, in order of appearance:   Charango Acoustic bass guitar Synthesizer Bombo legüero Pezuñas Marimba/Tongue Drum   Composed and performed by DD, Paris, October 2019   Photo by DD, Asturias, Spain, 2016  

New experimental-instrumental single released today: Errante Sedentario (orchestral soundscape) Choose your service (download or streaming): https://awal.lnk.to/eodcvsd8 Orchestral soundscape, using real cello performances from various sources including Pierre Fournier, Damien Jarry and Mr Rostropovich, Violin samples from my vinyl collection including Yehudi Menuhin’s Bach sonatas , and electronica, synths and samples performed by myself @ the […]