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Composed and performed by DD Electric guitar Electric bass guitar Melodica Multiple bowed basses Cello Viola and violins from several sample libraries. Inspired on this haiku: “A quiet garden in the silence a rain drop” Poem by Andō theunsui.org/ Picture by Krista Mcphee @naviar-records

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 […]

My compilation “Landscapes, Consonances and Solitude” is now on Spotify. It seems my Spotify profile it’s finally cleaned up and only my music appears, hope it stays like this.

Inspired by a poem by Kobayashi Issa Image by Benjamin Child Two Ukuleles Multiple bowed upright basses Cellos and Violins from different libraries. Performed by DD in Paris, 2018 “moonlight enters only through the window… paper mosquito net”

Hello. Hybrid Eb minor/major nine minutes meditational soundscape. Drone performed on my Harmonium from New Delhi, using all 3 possible stops and a “drone”.(4 tracks) Live Hang improvisation recorded with two microphones in Paris. Upright bass (bowed ) softly a root note all along. Track dedicated to Ganesh, inspired on this mantra: “Om Gam Ganapataye […]

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 […]

Recording on the road, at 37°09’01.7″S 56°53’06.9″W My laptop and a microphone (AKG 451). As sound source I used what I have with me: the Requinto on the photo (taken on recording location) an instrument I bought in Tegucigalpa 22 years ago that proved to be a nice travel companion and perhaps the worst instrument […]

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

Composed and performed by DD in Paris, France, end of a rainy January 2018. Solo Ukulele, multiple bowed upright basses. photo: patagonia, by christopher burns