my tracks for the diquiet junto group/project.

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Multiple electric basses.
Repetitive, hypnotic counterpoint.
Dedicated to Steve Reich.

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Included as part of:
Disquiet Junto Project 0249: 80 Phases
Wish the minimalist composer Steve Reich a happy birthday.
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Electric Bass Phases - disquiet0249

Disquiet 0244
This is a remix proposed @ Disquiet Junto Project 0244: Euro Mixin
The Assignment: Combine tracks from three different European netlabels (Portugal, Spain, Switzerland) into one sonic union.
Source tracks (20 first seconds each)
 “The Station and the Underclass,” performed by the Phonetic Orchestra, released on the Insub. netlabel based in Geneva:
“Cloud Scissors” composed by Lo Wei; performed by Cristián Alvear, Santiago Astaburuaga, Gudinni Cortina, and Rolando Hernández, released on the Impulsive Habitat netlabel based in Portugal:
“Zraerza,” performed by Geeksha Beka and Berio Molina, released on the Alg-a netlabel based in Galicia

hard-disquiet0244 by DD
September 2nd 2016; Paris, France.

00:00 zraerza + ebow Strato solo
00:24 zraerza + ebow Strato solo + vox continental (organ) drone
01:04 cloud scissors, + gradually zraerza + ebow Strato solo
01:47 The Station and the Underclass + vox continental (organ) drone 
02:07 zraerza + ebow start solo
02:20 zraerza + ebow start solo + cloud scissors
03:20 I’m done
 
FX used : delay, reverb, filter, comrpession

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Hard - disquiet0244

disquiet 0245
Disquiet Junto Project 0245: Practical Music
Write a piece of music for getting things done, suitable for playing on repeat.

Clean up, routine, tiding up....that leads me to repetitive stuff.
I played a simple riff on my “diaz custom5”  drake bass guitar, very repetitive and yet variations going from A to D to D/E with no real structure.
Added a synth bass drone, and a Wurlitzer A200 electric piano improvising a bit.
Then some repetitive voices (tah-tah-tah-tah...) in four part harmony/
My usual rhythmic delays played a big role, here in 1/8th and 1/4th notes.
You can loop this, there’s no lead in or lead off.
Love
DD
Recorded in Paris, France September 9th  2016.

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clean it and loop it - disquiet0245

Disquiet Junto Project 0246: Double, Quadruple, Sextuple
Compose a piece of music that increases speed in stages as it proceeds.

Steve Reich meet Western Spaghetti !
Mostly repetitive and simple guitar parts, nod to Electric Counterpoint perhaps?
Martin J15 acoustic and Schecter 1985 Stratocaster
I added an organ (Arturia’s Vox Continental) to glue everything, perhaps not a good idea?
Time (and you fellas) will tell.

I didn’t quite follow the increase speed in terms of overall tempo but in terms beat subdivision. Both in performance and delay rhythms:

70BPM throughout, always the same little motif: Ab-C-G-Ab-F 
So you have 70 motif notes per minute at the beginning and we reach 420 per minute in the finale.

1st part  is plain 1/4th   notes melody with a large 4 beats delay.
2nd melody enters with delay in 1/8th notes
3rd 4th and 5th parts switches progressively to 1/16th notes delays over the same basic motif performed in quarter and eight notes simultaneously.
6th is performed in 8th notes but delays become triplets (1/8th notes triplets)
7th part is the melody performed in 1/8th notes with delays in 1/8th note triplets.
8th part  is the melody performed in 1/8th note triplets with  delays in 1/16th note triplets (thus multiplying tempo by 6, ie 420BPM on those staccato notes)
9th is the “grand finale” with every delay in 1/16th notes triplets and one Martin and 3 Strats playing simultaneously different versions of the 5 note motif + 2 Matin guitars playing simple chords.

Instrumentation:
00:00 Martin 1 + Strat washes.
00:42 Martin 2 & Martin 3 (left-right) + Strat melody
01:13 Martin 1 + Martin 2 & Martin 3 chords (left-right) + Strat 1 melody + Start 2 staccato.
01:40 Martin 1  + Strat 1 staccato + Start 2 staccato.
02:08 Martin 1 + Martin 2 & Martin 3 (left-right) + Strat 1 melody + Start 2 staccato + Strat 3 staccato
02:35 Triplets: Martin 1 + Strat 1 chords + Start 2 staccato 
03:03 Martin 2 & Martin 3 (left-right) + Strat 1 staccato
03:27 Finale (tutti)

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Western Multipliers - disquiet0246

Waltz Definitely (La Boite A Musique) disquiet 0247

This one was so obvious to me, the illustration reminds me of a silly game we do with my kids, (game that they still love really) where I paint faces on our fingertips with a Sharpie, weird faces, happy faces, angry, surprised faces, etc) and we play roles and fake stories with our finger-tip-marionettes.
That’s the illustration alright, no doubt for me.

Waltz maybe? The idea was to perform a silly waltz with this mechanical toy piano I bought for my kids (but ended up squatted in my studio and finding its way to some major productions, little bastard!)
The piano is the one on the photo I took for this post. Who can resist a red piano?


So I went for a bunch of tracks I recorded with that piano previously and found that 90% where actually waltzes. I choose this one, so I am cheating (am I?) cause this is an existing recording, but couldn’t resist. Sorry.

The music it’s a proper composer’s composition, with chords, melodies, and all that old school stuff I like. 
Structure is A (major)-A (major)-A (major)-B (Major/Minor) - A (major)

But it is performed as if it was a Music Box. 

Now: trying to reproduce the issues, pranks and casualties you find in music boxes with an actual performance was a threat! And a whole lot of fun honestly. Those ridiculous tempo shifts and weird phrasing, took me hours lol.
One toy piano, a microphone and a drunken tempo, this is the antidote for any click based techno music overdose.

Hope you dig it. Love DD


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Waltz Definitely (La Boite A Musique) disquiet0247

disquiet 0248
Celebrate the new celestial holiday in music.

Here’s my angry chaotic interstellar trip to this birthday party far out there. A one minute and-a-half journey.

I took some of NASA’s free downloadable files I’ve got( from their Soundcloud account most probably) and that I use a lot.

Here, 16 first seconds of the track is full NASA sounds, including the low stabs in F that set the tonal centre and the amazing 5/8 groove that plays throughout. And astronaut’s (and Houston's) voices and a Saturn noise pad that glues everything, that's all NASA shares..

Then added some synths, played a F minor sequence , translated the 5/8 NASA groove to a distorted to hell midi drum track, and that’s it.

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Vortex Me, Please - disquiet0248

Disquiet Junto Project 0250: Soothing Sounds for Junto
Make some peaceful music for an infant child.

This project finds me re-editing and mixing tracks I composed and recorded last year for a film that needed some “clear”, “transparent” and “crystalline” music according to director.
So I went for a sample instrument called Glass Works from Soniccouture that I ended up using quite a lot, samples from “translucent” glass instruments such as Chamber Bowls, Cristal Baschet and Glass Harmonica. 
https://soundcloud.com/soniccouture

I kept the same template yesterday night and build this Welcome! sound to Karin and Bruce’s sweetheart, wishing them all a lot of happiness.

Basic tracks are:
-Cristal Baschet (arpeggio)
-Bowls (w/mallets) 
-Glass Harmonica
-Bowed bowls pad

So the basic track is full midi.

Then I added my beloved Accordina (start @ 0:34) and (bassist me) a pizzicato upright bass section (6 overdubs of the same basic bass part to make it sound like a bass orchestra).
I thought this was a bad idea, (removing the aerial mood and giving some rhythmic root) but today it seems good.
Still, at 3AM I added some “Vangelis” noises and cutoff falls ‘cause something in the sound reminds me the Love Theme from Blade Runner, so I tried to imitate those unique “ffffsshhhh” sound Vangelis masters.
I also thought this was a bad idea and now, the morning after I can confirm. It’s actually number 37 in my list “50 worst ideas of 2016”
But can’s get to the studio to remove it now, so here it goes, lets support some bad ideas from time to time, shall we?

A magic moment is at 01:05 when the glass harmonica takes the lead playing the melody the Accordina just played (and accordina starts improvising) , both timbre sound so alike that it’s amazing, such disparate instruments.


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Welcome Little One - disquiet0250

Disquiet Junto Project 0253: Doorbell Rehab/Record some welcome music.

Not really “welcome” music, cause a bit creepy, but listening to other excellent shares to this project inspired me to reload this old piece I never quite finished.
Mostly based on “clock” bells it was a demo for a "Time” themed collection.

I recorded some bells, wind chimes, analogue alarm clocks and on top of that my old German upright piano, open lid, and picked with my finger nails.

This is a full-acoustic recording. No FX, no treatments.
No midi, no processing, just one delay,  2 convolution reverbs and the sound of the rooms.


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Expanded Time - disquiet0253

What does the banjo music of the fabled criminal sound like?

I don’t play banjo, I don’t have one. But I do have a QinQin, (sort of  “Chinese banjo”) I bought in Beijing 15 years ago, so I picked it up and made a little recording this morning.
The actual un-treated un-pitch-shifted instrument sounds like this 
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/snapshot-50-qinqin-china

Now how to link Al Capone to China? Well I let you guys make that connexion, but let’s face it:  everything seems to come from China nowadays, or at least have a “budget counterpart” made in China, like guitars that have an expensive US version and a cheap-almost-identical-in-looks-no-so-identical-in-quality Chinese version, let’s say that wherever he is, Al needed a new banjo and all he could get was a Chinese budget replica, a QinQin. This is exactly how Capone’s ghost playing a Chinese Banjo sounds, believe me!
I recorded 2 tracks of the instrument, one melody and another strumming a single chord, and what you hear is just that source material, chopped down, pitch shifted and passed through a couple of convulsion reverbs.

Performed DD in the morning of November 18th, 2016 @ Paris, france.



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What does the banjo music of the fabled criminal sound like?
Ghost stories are prevalent throughout cultures. When they involve music, they manifest in ways that find parallels between two intangibles: ethereal presences, and a cultural form that you can, generally speaking, neither see nor touch. Now consider the case of Al Capone, who played banjo during his time on the famed prison island of Alcatraz in the San Francisco Bay — a banjo that is said to be heard long after his death.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0255: Capone’s Ghost

Al Capone's Ghost Banjo - disquiet0255

Created on November26th 2016 for
Disquiet Junto Project 0256: Music in Place
Record a short piece of music using the sounds around you.

I live and work very close to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. My studio and area is quite silent and uninteresting sound wise but boy, when the cathedral’s bells start to ring it is something that resonates in the tiny streets. Particularly on special catholic days where there’s a lot of bell-calling. That particular day earlier this year, can’t tell what was going on but it really sounded as Quasimodo went nuts. And it was a warm afternoon, many people and kids playing around the square by the cathedral and the river. Kids provided some light to that day, but when I first opened the window and hear those bells going crazy I could imagine people living here on the dark years (middle age) and the sound and intensity was really sinister to me.
I took my lap top and made some recordings with a cheap stereo microphone. This is the first use for those tracks.
Field recording comes and goes mixed with some bells from my collection (real bells but pitch-shifted and compressed like hell) and a couple of synth tracks to make it more musical and more sinister.
This is a messy track really; hope it’s not too loaded.
Happy thanksgiving everybody, and Thank you!
dd


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Notre Dame's Dark Moment - disquiet0256

"If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience."       John Cage (1912 - 1992)  

Six yeas ago I was commissioned to compose music for a modern theatre play. Director asked me to use noise more than music. After some frustration in the first meeting it was a very inspiring experience. I ended up releasing a CD called “lärmkunst” (art of noise) including many outakes and the more “musical” bits from that score. 
That director really wanted noise, but I was obsessed by the more musical use of it, so I created a lot of the noise using musical sources and made some tracks out of pure noise (field recordings, etc). 

On this opening sequence you can her mostly the noises I used (vinyl LP noise, insects, treated percussion, radio interference) and some sparse piano and guitar notes (from musical motifs I used throughout the 38 minutes score) and a heavily filtered bowed upright bass section that proved to be the main gimmick throughout the finale. 
The last few seconds you hear some bowed bass noises that ended up being an important part of that project and other further music I made since.
This is not a noise track or glitch&noise experiment but one of the tracks from that soundtrack that, IMO, wouldn’t make sense without the noise.

Besides its inclusion on a bonus CD on a boxset back in 2010 I never shared thsi one online before, here for you to listen and comment, I appreciate.
Other tracks I did share from this album here:
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/sets/l-rmkunst

Love
DD

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Soudain Opening Sequence - disquiet0257

These last few days, beginning of December, almost winter in Paris, we had a beautiful sunny weather that lasted for a whole week (and going). Sunny and cold (for Paris standards, as Marc points in his introduction, this could be considered an indian summer in Detroit or Moscow). Some get a kick of summertime and heat, but for me nothing compares to winter days, with cold air and blue sky, mild sun shining. That’s my own personal adrenaline shot.

The low side here: we have a pollution crisis; cars are restricted, public transport free. You’re supposed to feel the intoxicating affect of the small particles in your nose and eyes and throat. But I can’t help it; I go maniac, ridiculously happy. 

So I got a request to make an instrumental track reflecting that contradiction: beautiful weather spoiled by pollution. The track accepted had a nice soft sytnh sound with glitches and noises breaking the beauty.
But I prefer this, my first option. Perhaps due to an overdose of noise with last week’s junto, I couldn’t quite go for noises to spoil this one. All I could do is adding some synth sparkles. But it was refused: there’s not pollution! Too nice! too naive!!

So here’s for you, my innocent take on the sunny side of Paris. I know that “Sonic Climate” calls for a more ambient approach, but I couldn’t’ help it, I’m too maniac for ambient, let’s go naive while we can..

Take a deep breath, feel the cold air needles in your lungs, face the blue sky and go jogging by the river!

Quoting Miles: “It’s sweet...like candy”

Recipe:
Wurlitzer 200
Cello (thank the wonderful Damien Jarry)
Assorted synthesisers, arpeggiators and string samples


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Blame It On The Sunlight - disquiet0258

Disquiet Junto 0259: Lost Signals. 


“....the radio halted its roll at the very far end of the electronic dial. After a brief silence, the weak signal transmitted indistinct sounds, like whispers, intermingled with an odd chanting that faded in and out like a spectral dirge”

Love this week’s challenge.
When I was a kid in down in Buenos Aires, I remember being in my bedroom in the middle of the night with an old radio my parents gave to me. It had FM, AM and...SW. Man, that was magic, those sounds so fragile, coming from so far away, a weak, ghostly signal, faint and vacillating, once you got the dial on that sweet spot where that voice was finally clear and louder than the static  (was it Chinese? Some African dialect?) suddenly it faded out as taken by some stratospheric wind.
Boy, did I love that...

Here you’ll hear:
FM radio (recorded in Paris) FM and AM radio (recorded in Greece) AM radio (rec. In Marrakesh) and worldwide Shortwave radio recorded at home by night like in those happy days. 
All that radio feast spiced with a couple of synthesiser tracks (Microkorg and AAS Ultra Analog Session); plus  orchestral samples including a vinyl rip from Sibelius Symphony N°2 (2nd movement).
Also a public domain recording Churchill's first radio address as Prime Minister, 1940, treated a little bit...

Love,
DD, December 16th 2016.


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The text that inspired this is from the book Lost Signals, from by Perpetual Publishing out of San Antonio, Texas. More details on the book at:
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On The Radio - disquiet0259

Track created on January 6th 2017for the Disquiet Junto 0262 project: Ice Music. Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something of it.

This is not an inspiring theme/challenge for me, that’s why I decided to go for it.
I recorded some ice cubes on a big wine glass, after playing back that raw recording the challenge was even less inspiring, if possible.
After listening to the early birds AudioObscura Noimspartacus and Bassling I’ve found their efforts much inspiring (thanks guys) so here’s mine (first ice cube audio experience for me)

My wife bought some plastic ice cubes. Yes she did. Guess most of you know they exists, but I was surprised.
She has a point, you know, when you add ice cubes to a not-fairly-cool drink you need some time for the ice to operate it’s magic and by then you have water in your drink. I don’t like that, so these little plastic friends are ice cold with no pollution on your beloved drink.
But they sound awful.
You’ll hear a track of the plastic (in the photo BTW) rattled inside the glass, another track of the same coloured cubes dropping on a glass of water, and then the same procedures with normal ice cubes.
I wanted this to sound like some classy dandy stirring his ice-cube drenched cocktail but it sounds like some space rain drops on a rusty railroad..
Recipe: I pitched down the rattling tracks, pasted the ice-cube-drops to NI FM8 synth and used a plastic-rattling-cubes track as a carrier for an instance of Waves Morphoder plugin, Played back the whole thing through convolution reverbs. And that’s it. You can add a zest of lemon and enjoy. On the rocks.

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Plastic Ice Cubes - disquiet0262

Music for Time Travelers (Disquiet Junto Project 0264)
Record a piece of music that plays with the perception of time.

I’m not sure if this arpegiator synth meets acoustic string section does deliver in this week’s junto idea: time travel, but I went  for a musical time lapse idea, fast hysteric synths and soft expressive  strings that seems to come from a different “time” ie a much slower paced tune, so there’s this feeling of being in a place a bit beyond our normal space-time. Harmonic shifts also seem to be a little away from normal/logical tonal flow.
Hope you like it, 
cheers
dd/Paris/21st january 2017



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Fragmented Time Lapse - disquiet0264

Track created for february 2017 junto project "Vocal Cuts" properly capture in detail your singing — more specifically, you holding a single vowel for an extended period of time.

I started singing couple tracks of  “O” but I realized that, during decay I was closing my O vowel with a nasal sound, like an M, then on following tracks I went straight to the cosmic-mystic Om. So I plead guilty of using a syllable instead of a vowel. Here I am to be convicted by a jury of my peers…
Recorded Saturday morning on the road somewhere in Argentina, with my laptop and a AKG 451 microphone locked in my room while outside an apocalyptic tempest raised. Tall trees fell, along with electric and telephone posts. So a full blackout followed, here I am online again..

8 tracks recorded,, one used octave down pitch shift, the other 7 are “natural” albeit with some melodyne to tale pitch wobbles during sustained notes.
One dense convolution reverb used (10 seconds)
No eq, no compression.

I sang C major notes randomly over a click track, so the harmonies are really hazardous.
Love

DD


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OM - disquiet0266

from D.D.'s LARMKUNST CD.
Uploaded for Disquiet Junto Project 0267: The Metronomic Society.

clockworks 01 analog/metronomikas 2:20
sound sources: maezel metronome, 2 different clocks, alarm clock, bell.
treatments: filters & distorted delays

Step 1: There’s a fascinating book from 1988 titled The Metronomic Society. Written by the Michael Young, it is an academic study of the rhythms of human existence, with an emphasis on organization and societal systems. It’s not necessary to read it. It’s just helpful to know where we’re borrowing the term from.

more on LARMKUNST here: http://dedeland.com/larmkunst.htm

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Clockwork I Metronomikas (disquiet0267)

"Record half of a live duet."
I love this idea. I went for an ukulele solo, I was going to record this idea next week, but wanted to add upright basses (pizz) and some kind of abstract soundscapes and perhaps more development, solo etc, but as this is something I had right there on the stove, let’s see if it can serve this week’s challenge .

Recorded by DD in Paris, February 24th 2017 between 14h00 and 15h00 

It’s my new Ukulele (the first really good one I’ve got) recorded with two microphones and performed live. Couldn't make a video but took picture of the instrument(attached to the SC post) the binding is beautiful, isn’t it?
Added some huge convolution reverb (a minute long impulse named Taj-Mahal) and that’s about it.
Would love to hear someone else’s take on this, I feel that particularly some abstract sounds and soudnscapes would fit  mixed with the more organic feel of the melody.
Anyway, if you want to download, edit, expand, reduce, chop-down, transform, mutilate or  destroy this take, be my guest.

Love DD
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Lonely Duet (Uke)- disquiet0269

Disquiet Junto Project 0270: Just Duet
Record the second half of a duet.
@Plusch: piano
DD: melodica

Sorry I didn’t follow the suggested lottery method, when checking out the many wonderful contributions to 0269 I just downloaded the ones that inspired/tempted me and started working on some during my free time this past week, before the actual project was posted.
I already finished 2 and have 2 more recorded, needing editing.
As the first duet (Ya Wha? ‘s  Bare Metal duet https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/bare-metal-dressed) has already been posted I go for this one for the actual playlist (it’s just one per capita one each project, right Marc?)

I duet with plusch here, he’s on piano (https://soundcloud.com/plusch/up-in-the-air-disquiet0269) I added a melodica part, then tried  a second take to have the choice, and inspired by one of those creative mistakes that often happen, decided to keep both takes (in the A/B process of choosing take1 vs. take2 I un-soloed both and liked the results, the low register take1 coexists with the hi register take2 on the second half)

Delay and reverb and a pitch shift to double take 1 one octave lower is all the processing here.

Thanks @PLUSCH for the inspiring Erik-Satiesque piano.

Disquiet Junto Project 0270: Just Duet
Step 1: This week’s project builds on last week’s. Last week 40 musicians each recorded one half of a duet live. This week you will record (again, live) the other half of the duet for one of those pre-existing tracks. It’s preferable that you come upon the selection by random. You can generate a random number any way you choose, from 1 to 40. This link will give you a random integer within that range
More on this 270th weekly Disquiet Junto project, “Just Duet: Record the second half of a duet live” at:
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Upper In The Air - disquiet0270

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

More on this 271st weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Prison Sky: Mark the 5th anniversary of open-source software engineer Bassel Khartabil’s detention” — at:
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Bassel's Square Sky - disquiet0271

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.

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Daniel Diaz