Hidden Angels

NonDisquiet For Peaches (disquiet0569) by Daniel Burke.
Was reading a piece in a magazine at the end of a long trip up the Oregon River in 1997 about gratitude. The punchline was “the key to contentment is an attitude of gratitude”. Still working that 25 years later but grateful to have come across it, as it was needed and I have found it works. I continue to try to recognize and acknowledge as much as possible. This piece is dedicated to my wonderful wife Laurie who was delivered to my doorstep (literally) by some guardian angels (almost literally) just in the nick of time. Its a great story I won’t bore you with but suffice to say she is the best thing that has happened for me this lifetime and I express that as often as I can.
I started out thinking to make a piece as gentle and kind as she is, with a nod to the magical & beautiful music of the 1988 album Plux Quba by Nuno Canavarro, which we both love. Music that inspired Oval, Microstoria the rest of the A-Music crew in Germany.
https://nunocanavarro.bandcamp.com/album/plux-quba
The piece quickly moved towards the Eno/Budd/Frippery I am increasingly falling into... Started with the Roland Jupiter-6 lovely marimba like patch and developed a theme which was played around with and replicated/altered with another track of digital piano. Added in an Arturia Analog IV Synclavier patch for a few slight synth/stringish swells, finally added 2 guitar overdubs and a few very distant field recordings made in Mexico and Spain.

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Nondisquiet For Peaches (disquiet0569)

Nummi 01

New version/mix 12/2023
Neoclassical acoustic, with ambient undertones (soundscape)
Felt Piano
Cello
Electro acoustic soundscape


For this haiku:

far distance beckons
– hazy blue peaks loom over
calm sea horizons


@naviar-records

haiku by Raymond Cobley @ray_cobley

picture by Vlad D

Crepuscular Horizons (naviarhaiku477)

Instrumental cue, hybrid jazz-rock

Recorded February 2023, mixed Friday 10th march 2023.


Live studio  improvisation with Miguel Yanover on sax (@yanomito), I played a nylon-string electric bass.
We jammed over a pre recorded (by me) drum track and later I overdubbed a Hammond Organ trying to save this one from the trash lid.

Still, even if I love the live sax and bass interplay, this is a great candidate to be a  "forever unused" track. So I'm glad to mix it this morning and share it here.

Cheers
dd


photo by Reynier Carl


shared for this junto 
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Nocturnal Studio Jam Number 2 (disquiet0584)

a theme by Marco Lucchi re-imagined by Mean Flow

marzo 2023

Mean Flow - Acqua di Marzo

Bamboo

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
485
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/04/19/naviarhaiku485-the-rain-is-over/

2023-04-20

The Rain Is Over  (Naviarhaiku 485 )

Halley’s Comet 155 bpm

Marco Lucchi = piano
Jeff Gburek = voice, text
Rain = collected by JG

Splintered Voice One Hand Piano
Text by Jeff Gburek, a re-working of 
The Way of All Cacti, from my album The Perfect Storm
https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/track/the-way-of-all-cacti

My world never moved on from there
What should I dare become?
Ready drifter, astro-naught,
multi-hyphenate creative?
Beginning on the margin again
Beginner, constantly "un-"
Constantly blown by solar winds
My follicles untether
Rods skip cones, my focus
pan-galactic smithereens
What flakes of sound can write this SNOW?
in which now loses as "S"
and then an "O"
What next?

I've never advanced a single step
Equilibrium, homeostasis
Tight fit, clinging fabric of pulsar
Entropy, everything so near,
no city, no center.
Just a fan blowing a breeze
for no face. Just a poem
spoken for, broken from
a gathering of the nations of words!
Who-hoa. Heart-beat caldera
Glowing blind, thumped
in hunch-back gloom

Must mist sybilline whispers

The poem really starts to come to life
when it being read for the first time
as if it were being written in the mind of the reader
who does a double-take, trying to figure
where it all comes from, where it's going
where the poem is coming from
inside itself, siphoned outward

Vociferous shift

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Splintered Voice One Hand

Disquiet Junto Project 0611: Music That Listens to Itself
The Assignment: Record a piece of music that repurposes itself as it proceeds.

I started very late and struggled a bit. Music that listens to itself gave me the idea of two synths playing the same sequences as an echo. I settled on for the preset "harmonic wind" on Aalto plugin by Madrona Labs. It didn't quite turn out right in my opinion. It would probably be quiet hard to meditate to it...Anyway, that's what I did this week.

Echo/ Wind (disquiet 0611)

multi-instrumentalist & composer.
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.

Nocturnal Studio Jam Number 2 (disquiet0584)

Daniel Diaz

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