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I released this EP today, all performed (almost exclusively) on electric basses. https://awal.lnk.to/y9z3e Some multi tracked ambient bass, some unaccompanied bass (fretless track 2, fretted 5 string track 1, real time pedals and treatments track 4) Thanks for listening and any comments/critics are welcome. It is called Hope, Despair & Other Issues: Melodic Experimental Electric […]

Released today, another remixed version of an old junto track (junto 307). Again thanks guys and marc.weidenbaum for the inspiration and for being the spark for this (and several other) creative weekend fire.   https://awal.lnk.to/Auxcompositeursbarbares

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 […]

  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

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. […]

Several fretted and fretless electric basses by d.d, basically harmonics and volume pedal “synth-pad” like harmonies treatments: reverb, tremolos, granulate, volume pedal, phaser. photo: Nightwatch series / copyright (c) Sabine Pigalle http://sabinepigalle.com/ music recorded march 2017 at the pleasure dome. Recorded fro DD’s ongoing series Film Noir/NightWatch: a collection of nightly, mysterious and dark bass […]

An idea for those who want to break with the supporting/rhythm section role of the bass guitar (albeit occasionally) to play alone, or play chordal and melodic songs This is quite easy to learn (particular on a 5 string) “The Old Country” by Nat Adderley and Curtis Lewis. Very easy solo bass rendition. Besides the […]

Romeo & Juliette “Love Theme” originally titled  “What Is a Youth?” (re-titled “A Time For Us” for a later hit-single version by Henri Mancini in 1969) From Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet score, composed by Nino Rota One of the most classic and memorable romantic themes of any film, naive but beautiful. I play just […]

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 […]

Mostly quiet, ambient, solo bass performances, with some additional FX . Reocrded in Paris November 2015.