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I love algorithms, and algorithms love me? Spotify (or, better said, its algorithms) are starting to take me serious (thanks to my fans really) and some days ago it created the “This Is Daniel Diaz” playlist, but more interesting is the new “Daniel Diaz Radio” where they put together a playlist with some of my […]

https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1DZ06evO24WEDw?si=JKHJRVQvSlekY1ywfAYpDw THIS IS DANIEL DIAZ, The essential tracks, all in one playlist. Created by Spotify

New long form acoustic instrumental: THE LONG ONE The Long One by Daniel Diaz Streaming and download also here: https://AWAL.lnk.to/h6X2b The Long One: G major/E minor suite   Instruments (in order of appearance)   Bowed upright bass harmonics Cello Electric Bass Guitar (Drake Diaz Custom5) Electric guitar (semi-hollow body) (Epiphone Sheraton) Bowed upright basses Acoustic […]

Released today / Sorti aujourd’Hui / Nuevo lanzamiento hoy: https://open.spotify.com/album/2giNmK9g6wKciATSyewQAo  

Composed by DD in Zahara De Los Atunes, Cádiz, Andalucía, España. Instruments: Accordina Charango Udu drum Upright bass Indonesian flutes. Performed by DD , Barbate, Spain and Paris , France. Music for this haiku: “a carpet of snow keeping me from going close to the ocean’s edge” Photo by Joel Vodell Poem by Yamaguchi Seishi […]

This is a solo piano performance by DD. This track comes from an unreleased series I created a while ago titled Auto-Counterpoint where a single melody superimposed itself by the use of very long delays w/ infinite decay and Revox tape machines. So I wrote a melody with some variations (melodic changes, permutations, octave shifts, […]

Solo electric guitar by DD Music for this haiku: “a ladder put against an apple tree goes through toward the sky” image by Setuan Ajina poem by Hashimoto Takako (1899-1963)

Bowed upright basses, cello, violin Bowed chamber bowls Cristal Baschet (@soniccouture) Composed and performed by DD in Paris, France, inspired by this haiku: “flowers of morning glory the sky above this street begins to overcast” Poem by Sugita Hisajo Photo by Milos Tonchevski

For this “Larmkunst Theme” I created glitches out of analog and tape delays, set to infinite feedback and saturation. The long coda produced by these distorted delay tails is used in edited form here and there to produce textures and contrast with the simple and pure acoustic theme. The main theme is already online here: […]