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New release January 31st 2019 World’s End Serenade https://awal.lnk.to/i5pVo      

New long form acoustic instrumental: THE LONG ONE The Long One by Daniel Diaz Streaming and download also here: https://AWAL.lnk.to/h6X2b The Long One: G major/E minor suite   Instruments (in order of appearance)   Bowed upright bass harmonics Cello Electric Bass Guitar (Drake Diaz Custom5) Electric guitar (semi-hollow body) (Epiphone Sheraton) Bowed upright basses Acoustic […]

Synthesizers by D.D. Friday October 5th 2018 Photo courtesy of N.A.S.A. FREE DOWNLOAD More on this 353rd weekly Disquiet Junto project (Warp & Weft / The Assignment: Read loom-woven fabric as a musical composition) at: disquiet.com/0353/ Instrumental created using samples by Nathan Moody as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0354: Rituals & Canticles The Assignment: […]

Old fashioned instrumental, for my film noir soundtrack playlist. el. bass fender rhodes trap drums loops strings moog photo by brandon wong

Genetically modified clarinet by Gustavo Bulgach Image by Casey Horner Poem by Taneda Santoka Nylon string electric bass, stratocaster guitar, samples and synths by DD This haiku inspired the music: “the milky-way at midnight a drunkard dances” April 2018, Paris and Los Angeles. . . . Clarinet performance inspired by Yusef Lateef and performed by […]

A very personal farewell track. Charangos Upright basses (multiple bowed bass section) Acoustic bass guitar Upright bass (pizz) Vibraphone Acoustic piano Accordina. String orchestra (samples) Composed and performed by DD, Paris, December 2017-February 2018. Photo by Ethan Weil

Created for junto0324: ….Think about music that isn’t distracting and suggests momentum. March 2018. Original version here: Daniel-diaz – Travelling-in-situ For this one I decided to rework a personal project from last year, a track I composed while unable to move from a certain place, but looking at the open sea through the window, music […]

Created for: 322nd weekly Disquiet Junto project (The Wanderer: Make a short piece of music that encourages the the mind’s tendency to wander) Here my take on this, a divagating fusion piece, with no clear tonal focus, many melody glimpses that never establish completely, and to make it “worst”, something I use sometimes to create […]

Created by DD in Fuengirola, Spain in response to Ambient Online’s challenge “Image Inspired Dare 23”, 30th December 2017. Bowed upright basses Piano Field Recordings (Wind) Treated orchestra samples I wanted to represent in sound the immensely big and the infinitely small miracles in nature, with little simple sounds and the hugeness of Upright basses […]

Ending 2017 with new releases, Two new albums available for download: Nightwatch EP (music for electric basses) Nightwatch (EP) by Daniel Diaz album cover © sabine pigalle   and Landscapes, Consonance and Solitude landscapes, consonance & solitude by Daniel Diaz 18 track compilation, 2006-2015 soundtrack and production music by daniel diaz Includes digital booklet. album […]