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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 […]

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 […]

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

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 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 […]