fave listenings of this month

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in the pic: Franco Battiato

"musica assoluta" (maggio 2025)

All submissions are here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku595-under-the-twilight-sky/

To participate in the Haiku Music challenge:

- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)
- When choosing a title for your piece also include the assignment number, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku382)”

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haiku #595: Under the twilight sky / light shimmering on the pond - / swallows in autumn

A hopefully peaceful track composed for the 591st Naviar Haiku challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku591-steady-spring-rains/

Haiku:
steady spring rains...
both dream and reality
Mount Yoshino!
— Ōshima Ryōta

Photo by: Soubhagya Ranjan (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-tree-with-green-leaves-YqFqYd_WQHU)

The rain field recording felt inevitable as a starting point—once in place, the chimes followed naturally. Two measures of gentle drones and a few understated piano notes later, and the piece settled into a safe haven. Nothing more felt necessary.

Steady spring rains (naviarhaiku591)

Su Gurdoni - The Seven Sisters (A sardinian night sky)

a kind word costs nothing

I definitely believe Joy Division is the greatest band of all time. Are they on the gold record in the Voyager spacecraft? If not, humanity has made a mistake. Probably just a launch date that was too early!

Freedom from something

2025-05-03 08_52_05

Under the twilight sky
light shimmering on the pond -
swallows in autumn

Dakotsu Iida trained under Takahama Kyoshi, and was chief editor of the poetry journal Unmo until his death. His son Ryuta Iida, a famous haiku poet himself, took over as the editor of Unmo after his father’s death.

Haiku by Ida Dakotsu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakotsu_Iida

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

more halF unusuaL

halF swallowS [naviarhaiku595]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
595
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku595-under-the-twilight-sky/

2025-05-29

Under the twilight sky (Naviarhaiku 595)

Ronrocos (x4), orchestral soundscapes.
for this haiku:

Under the twilight sky
light shimmering on the pond —
swallows in autumn

by Dakotsu Iida
Photo by Aron Gestsson

naviarhaiku595

Under the twilight sky (naviarhaiku595)

A textured drone sequence, sounds created using Pure Data.

Shimmering Twilight (naviarhaiku595)

This is my response to this week's @naviar-records haiku challenge. Here's the details about that: 

"Under the twilight sky
light shimmering on the pond -
swallows in autumn"

Dakotsu Iida trained under Takahama Kyoshi, and was chief editor of the poetry journal Unmo until his death. His son Ryuta Iida, a famous haiku poet himself, took over as the editor of Unmo after his father’s death.

Haiku by Ida Dakotsu

Extract taken from a picture by tommao wang
 

Submission deadline: 4th June 2025
 
To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

autumn (naviarhaiku595)

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.

Under the twilight sky (naviarhaiku595)

Daniel Diaz