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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: 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 […]

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 […]

Melancholic instrumental “baroque” reflection in two parts 1- gratitude and remembrance (bittersweet pseudo-tango ballad) 2- mourn and sadness (ambient bass live take and audio detritus from the previous part) Dedicated with gratitude and love to PDN, May 1934 – Nov 2017 No synthesiser used on this one. Electric bass guitar (my Drake DiazCustom5) Wurlitzer A200 […]

New mix/New version DEC 2017 Arpeggiators (Korg, AAS) Martin acoustic guitars (x2) Startocaster electric guitars (x2) “Low B” Riverhead bass Rhodes electric piano (x2) Performed by DD october 2017 Paris, France Mixed and edited Marbella, Spain. Photo by Tomasz Frankowski

  An old track I love, uploaded and shared for the first time on Sound Cloud, south-american road music, panoramic soundtrack. Harmonica by Michel Herblin Charango, bombo, guitars(nylon), kuntrun (brushes), acoustic bass guitar by DD Photo by Diego Jimenez Publisher: Cezame-FLE For licenses please visit: CEZAME MUSIC AGENCY www.cezame-fle.com/compositeurs/fr…aniel-Diaz.html @cezamemusicagency Recorded by DD at the […]

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. […]

  A new “film noir” instrumental Two electric basses L-R: Schecter Jazz Bass ’62 Drake Diaz Custom 5 +Synthesizer +Drum beats +Electric guitar (Stratocaster) Performed by DD , Paris , June 2017 Part of my 2016-2017 “Film Noir” production music series. photo by thaddaeus lim

Nightwatch IV: Something’s Broken. Solo electric bass performance by d.d, treatments: reverb, tremolos, chopper, vibrolo, granulator, wah-wah photo: Nightwatch series / copyright (c) Sabine Pigalle www.sabinepigalle.com music recorded Friday 31st march 2017 at the pleasure dome. Recorded fro DD’s ongoing series Film Noir/NightWatch and for Diquiet junto project 0274 Nightwatch is a trilogy performed on […]

  Nightwatch III: Nocturnal Still Life Three electric basses by d.d, Low bass (tuned B-E-A-D) lead bass (Drake Custom with high C string), a third track with volume pedal (soft “synth-pad” like sounds) No synth , no strange FX, only reverb and delay. photo: Nightwatch series / copyright (c) Sabine Pigalle sabinepigalle.com/ music recorded march […]