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During the pandemic Covid19 (march/april/may 2020) we have to stay home and avoid contact with people. I’ve found a great hobby without leaving home: collaborating through the internet with fellow musicians who are also locked up at home. They perform on their instruments, record and film themselves, and afterwards, I put it all together, along […]

New experimental-instrumental single released today: Transience (Letting Go) (experimental electro-acoustic)   Choose your service (download or streaming): https://ffm.to/14qq6qv   Ukuleles Synth bass Treated orchestral smaples Electric piano Analog synthesizers Marimba Electronica Voices  

New experimental-instrumental single released today: Fretless Wake Up Call (experimental fretless bass)   Choose your service (download or streaming): https://ffm.to/d6moddp This is your fretless bass alarm clock. Best way in town for a happy, glorious wake up. 8 tracks of fretless bass guitar recorded on Friday 24th 2017 between 15h and 17h. Alarm clocks and […]

New experimental-instrumental single released today: Copernicus’ Bad Idea (experimental fusion)     Choose your service (download or streaming): https://awal.lnk.to/G9WQ9V43   -The beat is 7/4 with a weird “drum kit” consisted of Argentina’s Bombo Leguero ad finger snaps. -There’s no clear melody but instead some melodic fragments that never quite repeat and develop but make a […]

New single, experimental acoustic instrumental: composed and performed by DD ukuleles (two takes, L/R) reverse ukulele muted upright piano treated piano (pick and bow) sine wave monophonic synthesizer khim (samples) brass section (albion I) photo by ricardo gomez angel poem by iliyana stoyanova

The Black Rain (dark melodic ambient) https://awal.lnk.to/theblackrain Performed by DD in Paris, January 22nd 2018 (ukulele, bowed upright basses) No Synthesizers used, nor samples. Photo by Colin Rex  

New release today: Ukuleles Etc (5 track EP ) – Daniel Diaz (ukuleles, basses, piano, string orchestra) https://awal.lnk.to/ukulelesetc          

  Composed and performed by DD, February 2019. Ukuleles bowed upright basses orchestral soundscape muted piano, voices synthesizer celesta slight percussion groove ( tongue drums and thunder drum). Music for this poem: “Transience Petal by petal We let go” haiku by Debbie Strange debbiemstrange.blogspot.com picture by Annie Spratt unsplash.com/@anniespratt

Challenge: Compose a work of music for sentient beings elsewhere in the universe. “Science is Copernican, but society remains Ptolemaic.” This is on more step in a research I’ve been into lately: creating music that have that “pop” catchiness and charm that stick with you, but avoiding some of the “pop” song formulas: typical pop […]

New single released today April 1st 2019 Acoustic instrumental experimental using changing odd time signatures. Ukuleles (two takes left-right) Upright bass Marimbas Harmonium Drums Caxixis Analogue synth (à la Rick Wright) Composed and performed by DD, December 2018 Photo by Vivek Kumar https://awal.lnk.to/OHJPm