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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 experimental track created for a junto project in homage to punk: same riff performed with variations and interpolations, on Stratocaster guitars (crunch & overdrive versions, different octaves) 4 tracks Epiphone Casino Guitar (clean and crunch) 2 tracks Bass harmonics Fretless Bass Electric bass 1 (low B) Electric bass 2 ( jazz bass, pick and […]

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

  NO SYNTHESISERS USED. I played the same note (La – A) or a basic power chord (A-E-A)on several instruments: Upright piano Acoustic guitar (nylon string) Ukuleles (2) Charangos (2) Upright bass Electric bass guitar (2) Then I played some harmonic sparks on my bass guitar and some random hi pitch notes on the piano […]

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 […]

  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

A couple of unused cues (demos) for a TV series that required a “sophisticated, old fashioned yet actual groove for a detective scene” (producer’s call) MARSEILLE 1973 Electric bass with nylon strings, Mikrokorg synth , Vox Continental Organ (Arturia Vintage Series)and trap drums. CASE 95 Electric bass with nylon strings, Moog synth , Wurlitzer A200 […]

  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 […]