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Old fashioned instrumental, for my film noir soundtrack playlist. el. bass fender rhodes trap drums loops strings moog photo by brandon wong

Composed and performed by DD, Paris France, last days of January 2018. Epiphone Sheraton electric guitar Upright Bass Accordina Vibraphone Synthesizer. Field Recordings

Music for this haiku: Under a winter moon with shallow water a river flows Electric guitar (Epiphone semi-hollow body) Geosonic sample Field recordings by Chris Watson (ice and water) Treatments (delay, filter, saturation, paulstrech) Poem by Seishi Yamaguchi allpoetry.com/Seishi-Yamaguch Picture by Teddy Kelley teddykelley”>unsplash.com/@teddykelley Performed by DD, Paris, France, January 24th and 25th 2018 www.naviarrecords.com/2018/01/24/nav…a-winter-moon/

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 […]

  Jazz ballad, waltz time. Fully acoustic performance: Drums (brushed) Upright Bass Acoustic guitar (Martin J15 steel string) Accordina (Marcel Dreux custom) Acoustic piano. + String orchestra (11 violins, 4 violas, 4 cello) (from EWQL libraries) Recorded in Lanus, Argentina (2015) and Paris France (2016-2017) Photo by Eutah Mizushima

  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 […]

“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 […]

ECLIPSE MUSIC AUG 21st 2017 Created by DD on August 4th 2017 for: Disquiet Junto Project 0292: Eclipse Music In coordination with St. Louis Art Hack Day, make some solar-inspired tunes Synths and pulses, stratocaster guitars, ebow guitar improv. samples First eclipse is from 1:00 to 1:15 Second eclipse goes from 1:45 to 2:15

Some tracks composed by DD for music libraries in the “film noir” mood.

This year 2016 I created a “catalogue” of my instruments and sonic possibilities as a multi-instrumentalist. For that purpose I recorded  several short snippets with each and every instrument I own and play, performed solo or accompanied by other instruments, but one instrument at the time clearly in the spotlight. The full set is available […]