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Music for this haiku: shrapnel brings from the grove of trees a circle of birds Performed and composed by DD, Paris, France, December 6th 2017. Bamboo flute Synthesizers Samples Electric Pianos. Ondes Martenot. Percussion. Photo by Samuel Seller Poem by Georges Sabiron    

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

  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 […]

Created for a disquiet junto challenge “Compose and record a piece of music that is 10 bpm and in 3/4 time”. Took my favourite ¾ piece, F. Chopin’s Op64 number 2 in C# minor (1847). Played the most fast moving part of it so it won’t be that boring slowed down to the insane 10bpm […]

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 […]