Superb depth! Sounds wonderful, captures hope and fear musically so well...

right here: the hiss and undertones of the synth barely hovering on the edge feels like reminder of the cell

Nice use of Beethoven, mixed in with the synths. Gives it a slightly Hans Zimmer-feel, great work!

Beethoven's 9th is my absolute favourite musical work, bar none, so I was a bit worried what you would do with it. I needn't have been - this is a really clever use of it, a wonderful and very fitting track.

Bon travail sur cette 7ème symphonie, bravo !

Luego de la conmovedora intro, LVB entra a apaciguar. Me gustó mucho, es como un recorrido solar.

Recorded by DD Friday 10th March 2017 in Paris.
Vinyl samples (Beethoven's 9th Symphony) synthesisers, electronica, bowed upright bass.

Disquiet Junto Project 0271: Prison Sky
Mark the 5th anniversary of open-source software engineer Bassel Khartabil’s detention.
Create a short piece of music in response to that image, that scenario, that mix of hope amid hopelessness.

I wasn’t familiar with his story so it’s good to be informed.
The bitter-sweet feelings of Bassel contemplating that square blue sky through his jail window is expressed by the contrast between sweet classical music and dissonant electronica and sytnhs. I also performed some noisy bowed upright bass here.
I took Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, the proto-joyful classical piece par excellence (here it’s 3rd moment thought, not the happy, almost maniac 4th with it’s  Ode To Joy) and inserted that in a Bb dissonant chord that goes from cluster abstraction to Beethovens BbMaj7 and back to the dissonance. I followed Beethoven’s harmonies in the middle section with my synthesisers.
Love
DD

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Bassel's Square Sky - disquiet0271

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.

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