danieldiazmusic

Getting together through music, in times of isolation... Here in France I added upright bass (Center) over the beautiful collaboration between Analoc (Germany) (Left Channel) and halF unusuaL (England) (Right Channel) Original track: https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-placebo-disquiet0473-with-analoc For this late January 2021 junto project: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0474-...

Abstract Counterpoint Improvisation (disquiet0474) Getting together through music, in times of isolation... I recorded here (France)upright bass over the duet by Chris Ledwidge (Ireland): piano and Michael Ash Sharbaugh (USA) synthesizers. I improvised over the original track twice, first take was a disaster, second was slightly better but still I couldn’t figure out what the piano was doing so my...

A minimal little song on a late-autumn/early-winter mood but with some playful energy left from the summer.. Single release re-titled "Idea Minima" here: https://open.spotify.com/album/6stZ2zSDYuM8O7zrHq1Pjj Composed and performed by DD January 2021. Charango Flutes Vibraphone Percussion Upright bass For this Haiku: hidden among the trees – a shrine with mice and red leaves on the ground haiku by...

Unused track form the SEGUNDO CICLO sessions (Buenos Aires circa 1996) https://danieldiaz.bandcamp.com/album/segundo-ciclo https://open.spotify.com/album/3C6ySTvFiWXOoDm9QAHpvO Daniel Diaz; fretless bass, Rhodes electric piano Julian Hojman: Tenor sax Claudio Eidler: Drums Composed and arranged by Daniel Diaz

Collaboration for the juto challenge 0473 https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0473-placebo-effect/ Based on an original piano track by @forcedamage https://soundcloud.com/forcedamage/fifths-just-piano-disquiet0472 I added electric bass guitar and synthesizer Photo: La Fortuna, Costa Rica by DD 2019.

Collaboration for the junto challenge 0473 https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0473-placebo-effect/ Based on an original piano track by @ikjoyce https://soundcloud.com/ikjoyce/disquiet0472-jamtimebacking I added electric guitar improvisation over the original track, edited and augmented by a pitch shifted version of that same track Performed on a borrowed Gibson Les Paul through a Hughes...

EDIT: Updated version JAN 26th 2021. After several nice contributions from other junto participants (see disquiet0473) that showed me that actually something could be done (organ, lead guitar, etc) I decided to "complete" the original take myself just to have something more listenable here. Please refer to the 0473 versions for more interesting take son this original guitar jam.. Originally create...

Piano Upright basses (pizz and bowed) Melodica Charango Cajones Kuntrun Voices A genre blend between Huayno (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huayno) and Milonga (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milonga_(music)) A pure experimental endeavour that ended up as a little soundtrack moment on the series Documentary Now. Composed and recorded by DD around 2007, remixed 2020.

One track of an E minor chord performed on a Fender Telecaster Guitar Six tracks of the same chord performed on the same guitar each string recorded separately , performed with eBow. Composed and performed by DD, January 2021 For this haiku: naviarhaiku366⠀ ⠀ An old carousel⠀ Riding peacocks and dragons⠀ Distant memory⠀ Poem by John Hinks, aka @FlownBlue Photo by DD (Santa Monica CA, 2007, Kodak T...

Lost and found master from 2007, a live in the studio improvisation performed by Nico Arnicho (URU), Percussion Bobby Rangell (USA), Flute Pajaro Canzani (URU), Acoustic guitar Daniel Diaz (ARG), Fretless bass and electric piano remixed and edited for the first time now late 2020 , for this haiku: "Deep in the water, softly moving his fins, a carp, dreaming" haiku by Morikawa Kyoroku picture by Li...

rêverie répetitive en noir et blanc opus 13 marco lucchi : piano I, piano II daniel diaz: piano III, piano IV (mallets), delays, reverse delays, filters 13th December 2020 photo by ricardo gomez based on https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/piano-patterns-n13 @marcolucchi

For https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0467-toolbox-show-tell Thanks to the lockdown and the lack of proper work on these past 2 months I decided to (finally) open and old box of DAT I got from my storage place in Argentina when I was forced to close it and decide what to keep (bring it home on the plane), what to sell, what to discard. These DAT (my go-to recording/archival media in the...

Performed by Daniel Diaz: upright bass, acoustic piano, treatments Miguel Ballumbrosio: Cajon For this haiku: slanting rain, gentle breeze, no need to return home haiku by Zhang Zhihe music composed by DD photo by Jan Kopriva @naviar-records

Again, the Friday junto time prompts me to jump back in the past to recoup lost and found stuff. (this one's for Disquiet Junto Project 0466: [ ] Sound Machine) This track has been mixed and edited today Friday 4th December 2020 in Paris, France. But the source audio comes from the last 30 years and from both Buenos Aires and Paris, my main two home towns. You'll hear in this track what I remember...

Bobby Rangell: alto sax Nico Arnicho: percussion Daniel Diaz: acoustic bass guitar & live synth sparkles Live in the studio recording, circa 2007 in Paris, reworked and remixed Friday November 27th 2020. Again, from the masters I got back some weeks ago and I am rediscovering and reworking some music for there. This is part of a one day session with these extraordinary musicians this is the only s...

Piano, Synths, Bowed upright basses, filters. Ambient electro-acoustic soundscape for this haiku: ⠀ Magnolia in full bloom…⠀ But waking I find⠀ a chill November morning⠀ ⠀ Poem by John Hinks Photo by DD (Paris, November 2020) Composed and performed by Daniel Diaz @naviar-records @flownblue https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku⠀ Dedicated to Diego Maradona (Oct 30th 1960-Nov 25th 2020) R...

https://youtu.be/qJ_B2XbNKa8 This is my song for all Scorpio fellas (like me) many friends and relatives but all any Scorpio reading this really. Composed and recorded under Scorpio skies (early November 2020) by DD in Paris, France. Piano Electric bass Organ Drum kit Celeste Electric guitars Moog synth Voices Photo by DD, a Paris Sky. For Junto Project 0464: Blanket Song Ok, this is not a usual j...

Daniel Díaz: bombo leguero, rain stick, small percussion, acoustic bass guitar. Miguel Ballumbrosio: Cajon peruano Manuel Miranda: Flutes This one (as some tracks I posted recently) is part of a series of documentary music from 2006-2007 that I got the rights back. Now I'm in the process of re-thinking, remixing and recycling, giving a new life to these forgotten instrumentals. The first part of t...

1st Section: Bb Major synthesizers performed by DD 2nd Section: A major/minor. Performed by Flute (Bobby Rangell, Denver USA) Percussion (Nico Arnicho, Montevideo Uruguay) Fretless Bass, bowed basses drone (Daniel Diaz, Buenos Aires, Argentina) Recorded circa 2007 in Paris, reworked and remixed Friday November 13th 2020. Photo by Louis Maniquet For this challenge: Step 1: Think about how a gradien...

Daniel Diaz: Acoustic bass guitar, harmonica and synth overdub. Pajaro Canzani; Guitars Nico Arnicho: Percussion. An old studio live jam, recovered from my vaults, mixed and reworked for this haiku: I close my eyes and in the void a black horse prances Photo by Lindsey Bidwell Poem by Kakio Tomizawa @naviar-records

Composed and performed by DD in Paris, France Friday 7th November 2020 Two pianos Upright bass (pizz and bowed cadenza) Muted piano basses (mallets) Treated soundscape Photo by Ricardo Gomez For this challenge: Disquiet Junto Project 0462: Vade in Pace Step 1: Consider the way pace (tempo, speed) is experienced, represented, and accomplished in music. Step 2: Consider the way stasis is experienced...

Composed and performed by DD (Friday 30th October 2020) and Luis Rigou (circa 2015) for this junto challenge "Record a piece of music that moves back and forth between two inhospitable zones before finding one, à la Goldilocks and the Three Bears, that is just right." I made a parallel accompaniment for a discarded quena (south-american indian flute) performed years ago by my friend the great Luis...

Composed and performed by DD Bamboo flutes, Indonesian whistle Bowed upright basses For this haiku: "Devi temple . . . along with the ants I enter barefoot" photo by DD (Koyasan, Japan, Oct 2019) haiku by Kala Ramesh @naviar-records

Created by DD on Friday October 23rd 2020 Synthesizers (8 tracks, mostly arpeggiators) for this challenge: Creative Destruction The Assignment: Show how you got to a tortured sound. Step 1: Through some multi-step process, arrive at a complicated, tortured sound. Keep track of how you got there. Step 2: Record a piece beginning with the end result: that complicated, tortured sound. Then transition...

Rejected orchestral piece for a music score (publisher's call), quite naive and straight forward. Piano, upright bass and flute, full orchestra (string, brass and woodwind experimenting with several orchestral libraries). Composed and performed by Daniel Diaz 2020. Reworked and remixed on Thursday October 22nd 2020 inspired by this haiku: wind tunnel . . . a hummingbird fans the morning glory poem...