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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 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      

New mini album released by 20×20 Project (UK) net label. Full playback and download here: https://20x20project.bandcamp.com/album/twenty-fragments Twenty Fragments by Daniel Diaz   Instruments used (in order of appearance) all real instruments unless indicated. Picked piano Bowed upright basses Violins and violas (from sample libraries) Acoustic piano Muted piano Ronrocos Fretless bass Synthesizers (arpegiators) Micro Korg, […]

New instrumental EP released today “Five Dubious Aphorisms” https://awal.lnk.to/yMf7c   Composed and performed by DD , Paris France, between March and June 2019. Upright bass Fretless bass guitar Acoustic piano Ukuleles Celesta Glockenspiel Acoustic guitars Electric guitars Rhodes electric piano Percussion and drums (brushes) Accordina Harmonica Harmonium Bamboo flutes Cover photo by DD: Code Of […]

Une étérnité, voir plus Streaming/downloads, choose your service:  https://awal.lnk.to/wotOw 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 […]

Just a killer bass groove, performed on a 5 string electric bass with E A D G C tuning over a drum beat (mostly loops, some tom fills actually played). Add lead synth and Rhodes. DD, March 2019 Performed by DD, 2014-2015 Electric bass guitar, percussion (talking drums and cymbals), electric guitar, ebow gutar, wurlitzer, […]

The Black Rain (dark melodic ambient) https://awal.lnk.to/theblackrain Performed by DD in Paris, January 22nd 2018 (ukulele, bowed upright basses) No Synthesizers used, nor samples. Photo by Colin Rex  

New digital EP released April 17th 2019 Solo instrumental performance of a simple melody and some variations (time expansion and compression, permutations and octave transpositions). All passed through long delay and echo effects to produce melodic lines that superpose upon each other creating a counterpoint, in part random and in part planned (variations have been […]

I released this EP today, all performed (almost exclusively) on electric basses. https://awal.lnk.to/y9z3e Some multi tracked ambient bass, some unaccompanied bass (fretless track 2, fretted 5 string track 1, real time pedals and treatments track 4) Thanks for listening and any comments/critics are welcome. It is called Hope, Despair & Other Issues: Melodic Experimental Electric […]

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