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Released today, another remixed version of an old junto track (junto 307). Again thanks guys and marc.weidenbaum for the inspiration and for being the spark for this (and several other) creative weekend fire.   https://awal.lnk.to/Auxcompositeursbarbares

I love algorithms, and algorithms love me? Spotify (or, better said, its algorithms) are starting to take me serious (thanks to my fans really) and some days ago it created the “This Is Daniel Diaz” playlist, but more interesting is the new “Daniel Diaz Radio” where they put together a playlist with some of my […]

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

Disquiet Junto Project 0367: Trio Initiate The Assignment: Record the first third of an eventual trio. Solo accordina recording by myself:   Disquiet Junto Project 0368: Engage Duo The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio, adding to a pre-existing track. DD: electric bass Ian Joyce: all the rest @ikjoyce.     Disquiet Junto […]

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 […]

For this “Larmkunst Theme” I created glitches out of analog and tape delays, set to infinite feedback and saturation. The long coda produced by these distorted delay tails is used in edited form here and there to produce textures and contrast with the simple and pure acoustic theme. The main theme is already online here: […]

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 […]