50 snapshots by DD is just a showcase of the different instruments and sound I use both live and in the studio. This collection is intended as a catalogue of my multi-instrumentalists palette.

These are the instruments I play.  
Recorded on my own studio in Paris, France, or on the road (mostly hotel rooms, with my Exile Studio).

Full 50 track playlist here:


Snapshots by DD : selection

Excerpts from Daniel Diaz's "Swan Song" released October 15 /2015.
Buy CD & Download:
https://danieldiaz.bandcamp.com/album/swan-song
Free listen (album+bonus tracks):
https://open.spotify.com/album/4q5sDbhA2trACjLmEhBTcI
Full streaming here: 
https://danieldiaz.bandcamp.com/album/swan-song

Info:
http://dedeland.com/swan-song/

Swan Song Bandcamp

Swan Song (preview)

Composed by:
Daniel Diaz & Edgardo Fernandez Grau (music)
Edgardo Fernandez Grau (lyrics)

Recorded in Buenos Aires 1996 by:
Daniel Diaz: Acoustic piano, electric bass, percussion, vibes, synthesizer.
Daniel Fernandez: drums
Miguel Angel Amaral: Vocals(@tom-williams-162)

Published by DedeLand Music Co./BMI

Al Mirarte

CD RELEASE OCT 15 - 2015 
https://danieldiaz.bandcamp.com/album/swan-song  
http://dedeland.com/swan-song/
D.D. : Piano, Upright Bass, Acoustic Guitar.
String section:
D.D. :  bowed basses.
Line Kruse : violins
Damien Jarry : cellos

Composed in Buenos Aires, 1997, recorded in Paris 2009-2014
http://dedeland.com/swan-song/

Swan Song

Otoño y Martes (Love Theme Number1)

A very simple instrumental samba-song.
Acoustic bass guitar, drums, percussion, rhodes, vibes.
Featuring Bobby Rangell (Flutes)
Composed by D.D. @ Paris 2005

Recorded at The Pleasure Dome, Paris 2005 and 2014

Full streaming here: 
https://danieldiaz.bandcamp.com/album/swan-song
Info:
http://dedeland.com/swan-song/

Os Historicos (excerpt)

Zamba instrumental. Composed by Daniel Diaz.
Leandro Guffanti : Soprano Sax
Line Kruse : Violin
Daniel Miguez : Drums
Norberto Pedreira : Guitar
D.D. : upright bass, piano, charango, bombo, accordina, acoustic bass guitar.
Recorded in Buenos Aires and Paris, 2013-2014
Full streaming here: 
https://danieldiaz.bandcamp.com/album/swan-song
Info:
http://dedeland.com/swan-song/

Romantica Cromatica (excerpt)

Last track recorded for Swan Song, December 2015.

Featuring Luis Rigou: quena, sikus
D.D.: harmonium; hang (hand pan), fretless bass, percussion.

Full streaming here: 
https://danieldiaz.bandcamp.com/album/swan-song

Info:
http://dedeland.com/swan-song/

Gandolfini Etc (bonus track)

I started and abandoned this track consistently during 2024, never finished it, never been sure about it but there's something I do like. The modulations are fun and clever, I think,  smooth and yet surprising and effective. I recorded several guitar takes over the year (each time I had a guitar recording session I gave this a fresh tray). I wanted this to be a "guitar" showcase, but eventually made it a full keyboards+bass+guitar+drums track.
The final guitar is an edit from 3 takes I did on a 6 month period, the one with volume pedal is nice.
So the title and the melodic motif (nicked from "Summer of '42") have been on my "to do" list for a couple of years, the actual performance comes  from 2024.
I took that photo in Costa Rica on February 2020.



Drowned Crossing The Rubicon (disquiet0680)

Simple instrumental ronroco track with Indian Harmonium, synthesisers, ukuleles and bass

Belfast Belfast (Long Version)

2x Ronroco tracks, 
Pizz upright bass
Infra bass
3x Ukulele tracks
2x Martin acoustic guitars

Repetitive acoustic, neoclassical world.

By DD, Paris, May 1st and 2nd 2025.

The image is my photo of a fantastic sculpture by Alexandra Athanassiades (on a great exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros 2022)

Cabalgata

I worked on Krakenkraft's track from disquiet0697 (@winterer)
As I mentioned last week, I’m hot on the ronroco these days — been playing it a lot and really feeling in shape. So I added two ronroco tracks: one with strummed chords (double-tracked), and another with little repetitive lines. I only spent about an hour on this one, but it turned out to be the most satisfying collab for me this week.
Not sure if there’s room for a third voice — hope so! I wasn’t totally sure what Krakenkraft meant by “CRUX,” but since I’m from the south, I went with the astronomical reference: the Southern Cross.
Original: https://soundcloud.com/winterer/disquiet0697-crux-fmin70-6-4

Acrux (with Krakenkraft)

Based on a piano performance by @leonclowes, I played an OB-E (thanks, Tom Oberheim & @gforce-software) over Leon’s piano. I was going for a streamlined version of something quiet by Ravel — a kind of synthetic tone poem. Both the piano and strings are fake, but hopefully there’s still room to build.

Original:  https://soundcloud.com/leonclowes/hole-third-disquiet0697

for this challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0698-second-third/

Maurice in a Hole (with leon clowes) - disquiet0698

A solo acoustic charango performed by me looking through the windows on my studio.
Two microphones, a great sounding room, some convolution reverb added.

Photo: the view through my windows this morning 29/May/2025

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0700-view-frame/

through my window - disquiet0700

A standard jazz ballad chord progression treated as an abstract ambient soundscape with three tracks of electric bass and 3 tracks of synthesisers.

Created June 12th 2025 For this haiku:

orchids by night –
within their fragrance looms
their blossoms’ white!

One of the four great haiku masters, Yosa Buson studied both Japanese and Chinese poetry. He was also an accomplished painter, and most of his poems were accompanied by paintings, resulting in a more diverse and individual set of works than the one by his main historical influence, Basho.

Haiku by Yosa Buson
Picture by Nataliia Davydenko

Orchids by Night -  naviarhaiku597

Step 1: Choose a favorite book, or simply choose one at random.
Step 2: Read — preferably aloud — the first sentence in the book’s text.
Step 3: Make music that somehow reflects the line you read in Step 2.

Nice challenge!
I picked a book at random from a cardboard box filled with souvenirs from my years in Argentina. When I moved to Europe, I brought most of my belongings with me — but some heavier items (mostly old books, cassettes, and vinyl records) stayed behind. I'm gradually bringing those things — and memories — back.

The first book from that pile:
*Cuentos de dos orillas* (1971 edition)
I remember most of the short stories in it — I read them decades ago (at least 35 years). The one I truly love is the story by Borges.

For the music, I used an unused 2023 recording with Santiago Arias on bandoneon (I play bowed upright bass and Fender Rhodes). I added some synths to create an abstract soundscape.

This is the passage I read:

Funes, el memorioso
by Jorge Luis Borges
Lo recuerdo (yo no tengo derecho a pronunciar ese verbo sagrado, sólo un hombre
en la tierra tuvo derecho y ese hombre ha muerto) con una oscura pasionaria en la
mano, viéndola como nadie la ha visto, aunque la mirara desde el crepúsculo del
día hasta el de la noche, toda una vida entera. Lo recuerdo, la cara taciturna y
aindiada y singularmente remota, detrás del cigarrillo. Recuerdo (creo) sus manos
afiladas de trenzado. Recuerdo cerca de esas manos un mate, con las armas de la
Banda Oriental; recuerdo en la ventana de la casa una estera amarilla, con un vago
paisaje lacustre.

 @disquiet

Funes el memorioso (disquiet0705)

Hybrid orchestral soundscape, a simple E minor chord progression played on both electronic and acoustic instruments:  5 synthesisers alternating with 4 bowed basses, 2 cellos and a violin.

For this haiku:

scent of plum
in a flash of rising sun!
the mountain path

by: Matsuo Bashō

Created by DD in Paris  July  2025

Photo by Damian Denis.

naviarhaiku602  by @naviar-records

The Mountain - naviarhaiku602

Electric bass
Real drums
Drum program.
Organ
Synthesisers


Slow mysterious groove, going in any direction between abstract, bass and drums slow jam, trip hop, etc.


@naviar-records

naviarhaiku 608:
for this haiku:

young grasses -
not yet bent
in any direction

poem: by Kaga no Chiyo
artwork: my photo of a work by Mathias Cherqui

in any direction (naviarhaiku608)

Slow instrumental jam, electric bass, bass synth, drum beat, clavinet, synths with Gustavo Bulgach (saxophones)
@gustavo-bulgach

de parte de quien? (featuring g.bulgach) instrumental groove

A second sax take from this tracks served to create this new one:
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/golpe-de-suerte
https://ffm.to/outlaststhefall

Inspired by this haiku

dropped glass -
its ring
outlasts the fall

A duo jam (electric bass and tenor saxophone) I've been tweaking for a couple of months, ading textures and more subtle rhythmic elements.
Performed by Miguel Yanover (tenor sax)
and Daniel Diaz (bass guitar, synths, drum beats)
Summer 2025.

Poem by Darren Bourne
Photo by DD

@naviar-records
@half-unusual

@miguel-yanover

It Outlasts the Fall (feat. miguel yanover) naviarhaiku610

I’ve been exploring the drone possibilities of the ronroco. Although it’s a high-pitched instrument with picked strings that produce short, percussive transients, it can be layered and softly strummed to create a surprisingly sustained sound.

In this piece, I combine those textures with my own bowed upright bass and generous layers of long reverbs,trying to create an all acoustic, atmospheric soundscape.

photo by 67street. art

Created and shared for
Disquiet Junto Project 0716: Dense Fog Advisory
@disquiet

Dense Fog Night Drone - disquiet0716

“Glissando” – an abstract orchestral–ambient soundscape with a cinematic edge.  
Blending real instruments and string samples, it evokes the mood of a modern trailer soundtrack: immersive, expansive, and atmospheric.


For this haiku:
naviarhaiku613

Star above the peak -
a silk worm-breeding village
silently asleep

Poem by Mizuhara Shuoshi
Photo by Fabrizio Conti

Above The Peak, Glissando - naviarhaiku613

Full synth pastiche built around real NASA mission recordings.
Recorded and finished in one day (Thu, Oct 2).
Retro-futuristic, spacey, and playful — first contact imagined through electronics.

Cover photo: Venice, CA, ~20 years ago.


for this challenge:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0718-planet-jam-it/

alien says: (disquiet0718)

A four-minute ambient journey built from four evolving one-minute drones — each exploring a distinct emotional landscape.
Major to minor, light to dark, tension to abstraction:

00:00 – 01:00 → Luminous, joyful
01:00 – 02:00 → Dark, melancholic
02:00 – 03:00 → Anxious, tense
03:00 – 04:00 → Abstract, strange

Synthesizers and acoustic instruments blend seamlessly to create a warm, organic soundscape — bowed upright bass, harmonica, harmonium, and Tibetan bowls intertwine in a meditative yet cinematic flow.
Perfect for moments of reflection, atmosphere, and deep listening.

naviarhaiku614: The coming of autumn

for this haiku 

he coming of autumn
determined
by a red dragonfly

by Kaya Shirao
Photo by  Adam Bixby 

The coming of autumn - naviarhaiku614

A slow, laid-back funk groove with jazzy sax, clavinet, deep fender jazz bass, and abstract synth textures.
Smooth, atmospheric, and slightly cinematic — the kind of track that lives between a modal jam and a chill-out or lounge beat.

Performed by DD - clavinet, electric bass, abstract synth, drum program.
With Miguel Yanover - Tenor saxophone

For this @disquiet challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0720-one-from-two/

Golpe de Suerte - disquiet0720

Today, October 23, 2025, a storm rumbled through France, and I recorded an improvisation that captures its raw energy.

This track is a dark, mysterious duet between electric bass and thunder — attitude, rumble, and grit.

Photo by Artur Stanulevich

Gear used: electric bass with Seymour Duncan pedal tremolo, Lexicon reverb, and Valhalla Supermassive echo. Thunder and storm sounds sourced from my vault and online.

For @disquiet junto project https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0721-well-weathered

Stormy Thursday (Electric Bass & Thunder) - disquiet0721

Abstract ambient instrumental with a gentle pulse — playfully shifting between major and minor moods.
Layered synthesizers (10 tracks across 6 synths), all performed in real time — no sequencing, just hands-on, old-school playing.

Inspired by this haiku:

an autumn nightfall
the skeleton of a huge fish
drawn back by the sea.

— Saitō Sanki (1900–1962)

Photo by DD (Iceland, 2024)

@naviar-records

skeleton by the sea - naviarhaiku617

This comes from a groovy, slow-funk spy-thriller track— Fender telecaster and jazz bass, tenor sax, drums, synths, and percussion — originally written for a producer’s call that never made it through.

For this week’s challenge, I decided to destroy it.I kept just a few fragments — scattered guitar and bass phrases, some sax phrases— and rebuilt the track with ambient layers and unsettling textures from soft-synths fittingly called Thrill and Spooky Keys.And some distorted arpeggaitors barely heard.

What took a couple of days to construct only took two hours to tear down.I like the result: a dark, cinematic mood somewhere between spy funk and ambient noir.

Sax by Miguel Yanover
Photo by Stefano Pollio
The rest by me.

Project:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0722-spook-street/

@disquiet

Spooky Spy - disquiet0722

All synths, Blade Runner–inspired, cinematic electronic, melodic ambient synth music.
Composed and performed by Daniel Diaz – early November 2025
Photo by Yasin Arıbuğa
Synths by DD (from Geforce amazing oberheim synths  and from AAS collections)

Inspired by the haiku by kjmunro:
the harp player
moves under cover
market day


@Naviar-records @appliedacousticssystems @gforce-software

Undercover Player - naviarhaiku618

UN GAUCHO – solo bass

A simple, heartfelt solo bass piece — part of a series of intimate instrumental moments I play live or record at home for fun.
Five-string bass (high C), light effect pedals — just melody, warmth, and a great instrument.

Thanks for listening!
— dd

Photo (C) Elena Nicolai


For this @disquiet junto meeting
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0724-work-it

Un Gaucho (disquiet0724)

This one started as a simple electric-guitar-and-bass progression, just a rough idea that wasn’t really going anywhere. This week I expanded it with several synth layers and some floating eBow lines.
Funny enough, the little gimmick in the middle section ended up giving the track its shape — a kind of slow, climatic crescendo that finally brought it to life.

I re-recorded that line as an intro today. The whole track is still a floating, meandering, blurry ambient groove, but there’s a certain beauty in that haze.

Inspired by this naviarhaiku620 poem:

some starlight
spared from being scooped up
four-handed net


Haiku by Kinsha
Picture by NASA


Some Starlight - naviarhaiku620

Oddity Deep in the Night
All sounds come exclusively from the GForce @gforce-software ODDITY3 — a beautiful emulation of the classic ARP Odyssey.
This piece leans toward reflective, melodic ambient, with that vintage cinematic/synth soundtrack vibe of the early electronic pioneers (Vangelis, Tomita, Wendy Carlos…).


Instrumental track inspired by this haiku:

Deutzia in full white –
deep in the night,
the Milky Way.
— Ikenishi Gonsui (1650–1722)


Created for the @Naviar-Records Haiku Challenge.
Photo by Ronaldo Lu
Hope you enjoy the journey.

Oddity Deep in the Night - naviarhaiku621

Equinae
A world-repetitive, cinematic instrumental built entirely from acoustic strings: three ronrocos, one ukulele, and two Martin guitars, wrapped in subtle orchestral textures and infra-bass  pulse.


By DD, Paris, May 1st and 2nd 2025.

The image is my photo of a fantastic sculpture by Alexandra Athanassiades (on a great exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros 2022)



Equinae

Tenor Ukulele.
Upright Bass.
Voices.
Acoustic Soundscapes.

Paris, France, November 2015.

50 snapshots by DD  is just a showcase of the different instruments and sound I use both live and in the studio. It serves as a catalogue/show-room of my multi-instrumentalist palette.


Snapshot 03 UkuleleTenor

Recorded in Paris with my Bolivian Ronroco.
Two microphones and a nice sounding 16th century room. True stereo recording.

50 snapshots by Daniel Diaz is just a showcase of the different instruments and sound I use both live and in the studio. It's  a catalogue/show-room of my multi-instrumentalist palette.

Snapshot 01 Ronroco

Recorded in Paris with my Krauss custom classical/Spanish guitar (build circa 1975)
Solo live take.

50 snapshots by DD is just a showcase of the different instruments and sound I use both live and in the studio. It's supposed to work as a catalogue/show-room of my multi-instrumentalist palette.
Daniel Diaz, 2016

Snapshot 12 Spanish Guitar

Performed on my Cm Spacedrum.
Recorded in Paris 2016.

50 snapshots by DD is just a showcase of the different instruments and sound I use both live and in the studio. This collection is intended as a catalogue of my multi-instrumentalists palette.

http://dedeland.com/snapshots.htm


Snapshot 06 Spacedrum

My Accordina (custom build by Marcel Dreux), accompanied by Spanish guitar.
Recorded in Paris, March 15th 2016.
Beware: the ghosts of Elvis Presley and Cole Porter can materialise right in front of you if you listen to this snapshot under certain conditions.

50 snapshots by DD is just a showcase of the different instruments and sound I use both live and in the studio. This collection is intended as a catalogue of my multi-instrumentalists palette.


Snapshot 18 Accordina

Daniel Diaz: upright bass
Bernard Crabb: drums
photo by karaflazz

That Case

Trapped Into Dreams, main theme for a film, aborted as most films.
Piano
Upright Bass
Three Flutes
Woodwind section
Brass section
Special phantom guest Bobby Rangell: lead flute
Composed and performed by Daniel Diaz, Paris, France 2015-2017.

Trapped Into Dreams

Two electric basses L-R:
Schecter Jazz Bass '62
Drake Diaz Custom 5
+Synthesizer
+Drum beats
+Electric guitar (Stratocaster)

Performed by DD , Paris , June 2017

Part of my 2016-2017 "Film Noir" production music series.

photo by thaddaeus lim

A Two Bass Nocturnal Affaire

From my last CD, SWAN SONG (2015)
Featuring Miguel Yanover on tenor sax @yanomito
Composed and performed by DD


From Daniel Diaz's "Swan Song" released October 15 /2015.
Buy CD & Download:
https://danieldiaz.bandcamp.com/album/swan-song
Free listen (album+bonus tracks):
https://open.spotify.com/album/4q5sDbhA2trACjLmEhBTcI
Info:
http://dedeland.com/swan-song/

Same Old Song

Instrumental ballad.
Previously unreleased, part of my outakes collection "maquina dura"
Performed live to ADAT on Madre Selva Studios, Madrid, Spain on July 2000 by

Daniel Diaz: Stratocaster guitar
Edgar Grau: Alembic bass
Rik Hambra: Percussion


@edgar-grau-1
@ethnicfusionsound

Calle Londres (outake)

multi-instrumentalist & composer.
Genre fluid music for images / instrumental / contemporary post-fusion / experimental jazz / electro acoustic ambient / melodic noise / neoclassical / naive hard core / cosmopolitan world music.

bio here:
http://dedeland.com/daniel-diaz-bio/


In some words:
Composer, arranger, producer, multi-instrumentalist. Born in Argentina,
I studied music in Buenos Aires, New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Paris.

For 20 years, I developed an important career as a session and backing musician in Argentina and Europe, playing, among other instruments, the bass, touring and recording with many jazz, rock, fusion, world, Latin and tango bands.

At the same time, I worked as an arranger, producer and musical director with many projects and artists in the USA, Argentina and Europe.

From 1992 to 1997, I performed my compositions live with my own band in Buenos Aires and began a solo recording career with the worldwide release of my first album "The Years Alone" on the North American label Green Linnet/Xenophile. On this album I arranged and performed 11 of my songs written between 1986 and 1993. I played most of the instruments, but included guest appearances by some great South American players.

My recording career continued with "Segundo Ciclo" (1997), released worldwide by Timeless Records, and 12 more albums released between 2000 and 2016.

Currently, I work as an on-demand film/TV composer while continuing to play live and produce.

Daniel Diaz

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