Shows
2025-04-2401 min
danieldiazmusicFog and Rain (naviarhaiku586)Bowed basses and cellos (harmonics, fx and sustained notes)
Composed and performed by DD in Paris 27/March/2025.
Inspired by this haiku
Fog dissolves to rain
- cool breezes clear the vista,
showing cloud-topped hills
Poem by Raymond Cobley
Photo by Casey Horner
@naviar-records
@ray_cobley
2025-03-2702 min
danieldiazmusicBelfast (long demo version)Demo version for a production music brief, ronroco repetitive with bass accompaniment..
This demo includes some sparse synths, ukulele and Indian Harmonium.
The accepted version is just ronroco and upright bass.
2025-03-2602 min
danieldiazmusicSpike Knot - disquiet0690Challenge: Find a piece of wood, the grain of which captures your imagination.
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0690-knot-bad
Hi, I've been working on percussion tracks, so I took this picture (taken in souther Spain), it is not really "shapes of the grain" but the pikes are so massive and menacing that I couldn’t stop thinking as a good notation for a spicy percussive track. I see short, high transient sound anyway.
So I decided to use my new Oberheim DMX virtual instrument exclusivelly, changing pitch and sound for the toms to represent those spikes.
Anyway, glad to be ba...
2025-03-2002 min
danieldiazmusicFrom Heaven (naviarhaiku584)Acoustic repetitive, all real instruments:
Ronrocos
Ukuleles
Acoustic bass
Bombo legüero
Composed and performed by DD, 2024
For this haiku
heaven and earth:
neither exists apart from
snow fluttering down
by Kajiwara Hashin
@naviar-records
2025-03-1302 min
danieldiazmusicTemple - naviarhauku580Instrumental composed and performed by DD February 2025 using @gforce-software 's Oberheim OB-X, OB-E and DMX exclusively.
for this haiku by Fuhaku
quiescence!
touching not the blossoms,
temple bell's voice
2025-02-1302 min
danieldiazmusicLightness - disquiet0684Composed and performed by DD, early 2025
Ukuleles, charango, ronroco, bass pulse
Photo by Andrew Small
for https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0684-early-bird
2025-02-0601 min
danieldiazmusicAnother Winter Moon - naviarhaiku578Inspired bu this poem:
one by one
praising and withdrawing inside -
winter moon
Haiku by Senjo
Photo by NASA @nasa
@naviar-records
2025-02-0104 min
danieldiazmusicRain Forrest Wet and Dry - disquiet0683Hello, this is a variation of a track I've been working on for a "all percussion" project. I decided to boost the reverb time and amount on all kick and bass drum hits and keep the manual little percussions fully dry, just leaving the ambient sound of my room that's a tad more alive than a small studio room, but still very dry. And no reverb added.
I think this assignment's idea was interesting and worked alright here, all the bamboo drums and little hi pitched manual toys sound in your face and the "Booms!" are extremely wet and it...
2025-01-3102 min
danieldiazmusicLos ArrayanesBombo Legüero and other real percussions from South America (kuntrun, pezuñas, derbouka), instrumental percussion groove.
2025-01-2801 min
danieldiazmusicDrowned Crossing The Rubicon (disquiet0680)I started and abandoned this track consistently during 2024, never finished it, never been sure about it but there's something I do like. The modulations are fun and clever, I think, smooth and yet surprising and effective. I recorded several guitar takes over the year (each time I had a guitar recording session I gave this a fresh tray). I wanted this to be a "guitar" showcase, but eventually made it a full keyboards+bass+guitar+drums track.
The final guitar is an edit from 3 takes I did on a 6 month period, the one with volume pedal is nice.
So the...
2025-01-0904 min
danieldiazmusica corrupt world's blossoms (naviarhaiku571)All acoustic percussions performed by D.D. November-December 2024.
For this haiku:
on New Year's Day
everywhere, a corrupt world's
blossoms.
Poem by one of the four great masters of Japanese haiku, Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828)
Photo by Annie Spratt
@naviar-records
2025-01-0201 min
danieldiazmusicDown Together (naviarhaiku571)Electric guitar, electric bass, soundscapes (some synth washes but mostly a reversed guitar track)
Related to this track https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/tempest (that focuses more on the reverse guitar track from the same session)
This track "Down Together" was finished tweaked and mixed today inspired by this haiku by Miura Chora (1729-1780):
Stillness:
The sound of Petals
Sifting down together"
@naviar-records
2024-12-1603 min
danieldiazmusicOberheim Melodic Drone (disquiet0676)Again, an Oberheim drone. I've been testing and investigating this new synths ; i did 9 tracks in the past 2 weeks using exclusively the black friday purchase of this great plugins.
Very inspiring toys .
This morning, I decided to do a 10th and last one following this junto's prompt.
Recorded a simple 8 bar melody in F#m using the OB-X, then played the same melody without really synching to the first one, just add lib, using an OB-E.
Then I added the drone: a low bass sustained F# on the OB-E and a high pitched F#, both droning for the whole length...
2024-12-1204 min
danieldiazmusicOberheim Drone (disquiet0675)These drone was recorded today Thursday 5th December 2024 in a 3 hours session. I recorded 3 instances of OB-X and 3 of OB-E software synths by Gforce (just bought them 5 days ago) @gforce-software
It starts with an OB-E bass, then one OB-X synth pad and gradually the rest of the synths start joingin the drone party to make things more dense and
Gradually the first "tame" drone is left alone to resume this brief demo.
Hope you like the sound of these synths, but the other demos I'm working (rhythmic stuff, with the DMX I also bought) are much better to show the...
2024-12-0502 min
danieldiazmusicForest Liquid Flowers (naviarhaiku568)Music for this Haiku:
Liquid flowers hum
each donning Dali’s moustache -
Narcissus shatters
@naviarrecords 568
Poem by Darren Bourne
Photo by DD
To Salvador Dalí
2024-11-2302 min
2024-11-1503 min
danieldiazmusicRain Forrest (Fast) - disquiet0669I’ve always had plants in my studio, and someone once told me that even if sunlight is limited, the constant presence of music playing every day helps keep the plants healthy.
I don’t know about that, , but they look great and seem to grow steadily.
“Record music to help a forest grow.”
I believe that simply having musicians play acoustic instruments in the forest would only bring good to it.
Here I just played “woody”, natural percussion instruments, bamboo drums, wood sticks and blocks, conch shells, cuica, marimba, bombo legüero, talking drum and some other toys. I recorded 3 ve...
2024-10-2401 min
danieldiazmusicThe Secret Life Of Plants (studio jam)Jamming in the studio with Bobby Rangell, March 2024, here we just improvise around this beautiful song by Stevie Wonder, in a bossa/ballad style.
Only take, it was fun but we were just warming up to record some more stuff.
Bobby Rangell: flute
Daniel Diaz: electric bass guitar
2024-10-1803 min
danieldiazmusicThrough a world of sound (naviarhaiku562)This is a live electric guitar soundscape (recorded October 9th 2024 in Paris, France)
for this haiku by: Jason Richardson
Through a world of sound
the only filter I have
my discerning ear
I used my 1984 Schecter Stratocaster with several pedals by Line6, Gamechanger Audio, Rodemberg and Seymour Duncan and my Boss volume pedal
@naviar-records
2024-10-0905 min
danieldiazmusic666 (disquiet0666)I recorded this late night Thursday October 3rd 2024 and during the morning of today, next day, Friday.
Tempo is 66 bpm
I used 6 instances of Kontakt with creepy sounds and orchestral bursts.
I recorded 6 tracks with toys and little percussions I had around the studio (sticks, crotales, a turtle shell, a "cuica")
I used a photo by Vitaliy Shevchenko for the cover image.
Congratulations @disquiet and all junto fellas for this diabolical milestone.
For this junto project:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0666-beauty-and-the-beast
2024-10-0403 min
danieldiazmusicCut That Click (disquiet0665)Three drum beats, chopped, cut and mutilated with different manual methods and an automated plugin (tweaked in real time) + a synth track, also cut and skidded and finally a glitch I captured and entered on a sampler, played rhythmically with pads.
Created Thursday Sep26th by DD.
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0665-clicks-cuts-music-factory
2024-09-2602 min
danieldiazmusicPhysicalityAn outake from a soundtrack project. Live drums by Steve Argüelles, electric bass and string samples by D.D. Rec 2023/24
Photo by emiliano vittoriosi
2024-09-2401 min
danieldiazmusictwenty nine (disquiet0664)https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0664-mother-beat/
There is just one step to this project: Record a piece of music in 29/16 time.
--
Love this, thanks @bassling and Oscar. Reminds me junto 0529, I went for a 23/8 groove then, now here, as requested a 29/16 pattern, 29 measures of it. Spent the whole Thursday morning on this.
29/16....tried to make that bastard groove, and failed magnificently.
I used 6 tracks:
1 Kick track
1 Subdivine Kick/Bass track
4 Tracks of Oberheim's Matrix vst
Cheers
dd
2024-09-1902 min
danieldiazmusicechoes of light - disquiet0655Soft, soothing repetitive instrumental, all acoustic, real instruments performed by DD in Paris, summer 2024.
Ukuleles
Ronroco
Chanrango
Bass pulse
Analog Synth pad
For this junto:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0655-soothing-sounds-ii/
2024-07-1801 min
danieldiazmusicSteps in the Night (disquiet0653)For this challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0653-break-a-rule/67833
"Break a rule"?
Honestly I don't have any unbreakable rule, after so many years working on different projects with so many different people I learned to go for anything, a good idea can bu hidden behind it) .
But: on my main job for films/TV/etc I am often specifically instructed to 'record with a click track". For many reasons having a steady tempo all over a piece of music makes things easier for engineers mixing the music to the video footage, editing, cut/paste etc
Nowadays sound engineers doesn't work...
2024-07-0401 min
danieldiazmusicnight deepening (naviarhaiku547)Sloaw jam, compsoed and perfroemd by Daniel Díaz (rhodes, synth bass, beats) with Bobby Rangell (flute)
Recorded April 2024, mixed june 2024
For this poem:
night deepening…
following my neighbour, I too
try to cool myself outside
by: Mukai Kyorai
photo by syria cipettini
@naviar-records
2024-06-2904 min
danieldiazmusicrecuerdos encontrados: chamame (studio jam) barboza+arias+diazJam session en el estudio.
Paris, martes 13 de Junio 2023.
Raúl Barboza: acordeón
Santiago Arias: Bandoneon
Daniel Díaz: bajo acústico
Improvisación en torno aun chamame tono y dominante.
2024-06-2503 min
danieldiazmusichanafubuki (naviarhaiku546)The figure of a man
swallowed by the world
hanafubuki
Haiku by Natsume Soseki
Picture by J Lee
@naviar-records
composed and perfromed by Daniel Diaz, june 2024
ronrocos, ulkuleles, bass pulse
2024-06-2401 min
danieldiazmusicpseudo-concerto for ronroco and strings (disquiet0649)Sometimes a junto challenge inspires me and makes me go for something new and unexpected. Rarely (very rarely) is it the other way around.
This week's junto seems to be inspired by what I just did (have been doing for the last 2 days).
I mentioned in a previous post my new instrument, the Ronroco built by Argentine luthier S. Vazquez a couple of months ago.
I am recording a mini album (at the request of a producer) and this particular track had the working title “Concerto for Ronroco and Strings”. I wanted to create a little piece of music in whic...
2024-06-0602 min
danieldiazmusicronroco day drone - disquiet0647Hey, I've been recording a commissioned album using my new Ronroco (got it a month ago in Argentina and did my very first recording right [there](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJBdmS7yqtk))
Now it's on my studio along with a fellow, old Ronroco I had and a little brother, my charango.
I have to record 5-6 pieces using mostly that instrument with eventual appearances of other instruments and the other two (ronroco+charango).
This prompt gave me the idea of an ambient track, there's this technique of strumming the instrument, widely used on South American folklore, that produces...
2024-05-2302 min
danieldiazmusicStone Reverberations (flute and bass live duet) naviarhaiku541Unreleased duet, live in the studio, performed by
Bobby Rangell: flute
Daniel Diaz: electric bass
Recorded in Paris, early April 2024.
Edited, mixed, and shared on May 2024 for this haiku:
heat in waves ̶
in the stones
angry reverberations
By Katō Kyōtai
Photo by DD
@naviarrecords
2024-05-1803 min
danieldiazmusicPhantom Orchestra (disquiet0646)The Assignment: Interpret the literal translation of “karaoke.”
Step 1: You may or may not be familiar with the literal meaning of the word “karaoke.” The first two syllables are the Japanese word for “empty.” The final two syllables are an abbreviation of the Japanese word for “orchestra.” Consider how the term “empty orchestra” connects with the idea of karaoke.
Step 2: Think about the term “empty orchestra” on its own, apart from its association with karaoke. Come up with a new meaning for it. What kind of genre or musical form would “empty orchestra” be on its own?
What a concept for Karaoke: Empty Orchestra...
2024-05-1603 min
danieldiazmusicSpinetta (Parte 3)Musica inspirada por y dedicada a Luis Alberto Spinetta.
Publicada como sencillo en 2022:
https://open.spotify.com/intl-fr/track/2dp0mPzGmp9GxjJFowNyg2?si=ed80cb3303674708
Rock instrumental, un tanto progresivo,
Compuesto y tocado por Daniel Diaz (guitarras, fender rhodes, bajo, bateria, synth
Partes 1 & 2 aqui:
https://soundcloud.com/pages/first_fans/daniel-diaz/spinetta-parte-1-parte-2
2024-05-1003 min
danieldiazmusicSpinetta (parte 1 & parte 2)Musica inspirada por y dedicada a Luis Alberto Spinetta.
Publicada como sencillo en 2022:
https://open.spotify.com/track/60fEMyWX882r131Am20Gd4?si=a0e9e16462574c9e
Rock instrumental, un tanto progresivo,
Compuesto y tocado por Daniel Diaz (guitarras, fender rhodes, bajo, bateria, synth)
Parte 3 aqui:
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/spinetta-parte-3
2024-05-1004 min
danieldiazmusicNovember Party Groove (disquiet0644)Soundtrack for my possible birthday party one day...
(I stopped throwing birthday parties for myself decades ago)
This is a weird track, that started with a drum track (performed by Javier Estrella in Paris 20 years ago) for a project I was working that was scrapped and never used.
A couple of years later, when that project was confirmed dead, I removed all the other instruments and vocals and recorded a Hammond Organ and an upright bass part (again in Paris, different studio) just jamming around.
It had the charm of real instruments and real musicians playing but was really pointless.
...
2024-05-0202 min
danieldiazmusicAfter The RainComposed and perforemd by DD
Piano, Upright bass.
From "The Long One"
https://awal.lnk.to/h6X2b
(C)&(P)2020 DedeLand Records
Photo by anant jain
2024-04-2801 min
danieldiazmusicageless stone (disquiet0643)Recorded by DD on the night of April 25th to 26th 2024.
Samples, voices, cello, treatments.
For this junto:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0643-stone-out-of-focus
2024-04-2604 min
danieldiazmusicFalling Into Autumn Streams - naviarhaiku537An old track, released by Indiesonics/Warner Chapell in 2019 titled "Country Ways". This is an unreleased alternate version with slightly different structure and a flute track (never heard before) by the great Bobby Rangell from Denver, Colorado.
Rescued from the vault today.
For the haiku
Deep in the mountains
Falling into my heart
Autumn streams"
Haiku by Shinkei
Picture by Zoe
@naviarrecords
2024-04-1701 min
danieldiazmusicthe grounding of an english lark (with skylark duquensne and alanblip) disquiet0638 trioI dunno, maybe it's springtime in sunny Paris, but I felt the urge for some old disco vibes.
So I went for the duo. Lefty Drone, Right English disquiet0637
https://soundcloud.com/skylarkduquesne/lefty-drone-right-english-disquiet0637
by skylark duquensne (David Totten) and alanblip
I didn’t change the original tracks at all, I behaved this time.
I added a beat, for that 50 years old euro-disco vibe and then jammed on a lead synth that brought this to some sort of proto-disco-floyd.
Four on the floor man, you can’t go wrong…
It was fun.
#DisquietJunto
For this junto challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disq...
2024-03-2102 min
danieldiazmusicKrautrockish (with LazenbeeIndustries and John Wright) disquiet0638Krautrockish
I promise I was thinking on making this a bit Krautrock when I started, doesn’t sound like that now, I guess...
Based on rightward [disquiet0637] by LazenbeeIndustries and John Wright
https://soundcloud.com/lazenbeeindustries/rightward-feat-john-wright-disquiet0637
I just added a 808 kick and played bass. Most satisfying and less time consuming on the lot, but I don’t think it works, a 4th (soloist) part is needed IMHO.
dedicated to the guy in the photo, god bless him..
#DisquietJunto
For this junto challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0638-center-3-of-3/
@lazenbeeindustries @disquiet @thgirwnhoj
2024-03-2103 min
danieldiazmusicall three sides of the river [with he_nu_ri & mikey_a] disquiet0638I liked this track by he_nu_ri (@user-807707609) & mikey_a (@mikey_a)
https://soundcloud.com/mikey_a/both-sides-of-the-river-disquiet0637
I just jammed on top of it with my accordina but it was too much of the three of us, so I split the stereo original, separated he_nu_ri, mikey_a and myself on 3 tracks (softly panned like the original with mine at centre) and made some very creative use of the delete button, as Eno used to say.
That created some space that I then filled with huge reverbs. I’m afraid I didn’t really honoured the source trac...
2024-03-2104 min
danieldiazmusicWERPLEXUS - disquiet0637 w/tunelightBased on
https://soundcloud.com/tunelight/disquiet0636-1of3-implexus
by @tunelight
My soft R panned synth track (a soloist impro using a mono lead on AAS Ultra Analog) over his L panned original.
I improvised over 6 tracks from last week to see what happened on "first take" , decided to keep 3 for the second week.
Today, while choosing just 2 to share here, I decided to keep this one, even if I didn't develop nor edit my take I thinks it's nice to have a pure 2 synth duet and I like his basic track (reminds me of Penguin Cafe Orchestra's "...Found...
2024-03-1403 min
danieldiazmusicAustralopithecus - disquiet0637 with tristan louth robinsI used Tristan Louth-Robins (@red_robin) guitar track as a basis for this.
https://soundcloud.com/red_robin/disquiet_junto_0636-epochs-left-1-of-3-72-bpm
I added electric bass, playing a quite standard bass line and some harmonics.
This still sounds like a "basic track", hope somebody has an idea to complete this next week.
This collaboration between two austral guys is called Australopithecus.
I did alter the original to suit my taste, I added an intro (copy paste form the original's first bars) 'cause Tristan's track started a bit abruptly. And then added the coda using an Ecophlex tape delay...
2024-03-1402 min
danieldiazmusicLive Bass Soundscape - disquiet0636Hi, today I had a great recording session in duet with the great Bobby Rangell, from Denver, Colorado, my "to-go" flute player. It was an ambient bass & flute gig.
The volume of certain pedals is a bit out of control, I kept tweaking that, but this is the only test recording I did, straight to stereo .I started earlier to set up all my pedals and practice a little bit, and recorded this impro as a test.
Here for you to treat, mistreat, chop, pitch, mutilate, whatever.
Nothing great happened, but it's a nice texture and sound...
E minor.
Cheers...
2024-03-0706 min
danieldiazmusicBaltic Thunder - naviarhaiku531Trailer music with bowed upright basses, string orchestra , percussion and effects.
Composed an performed by Daniel Diaz, February/March 2024
For this haiku:
The first thunder
Is likely to shake
The tiered doll stand.
Haiku by Kawahigashi Hekigoto
Picture by Victor Chartin
@naviarrecords
https://open.spotify.com/intl-fr/track/5Q1x79ESZgws3grqdTcaid
2024-03-0702 min
danieldiazmusicthe unbearable loss of a train passing - disquiet0635Used the source audio + electric bass (base and harmonics), drums+programming+synth pad+bells
Friday March 1st during the morning in Paris.
https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/train-source-1
More on the 635th weekly Disquiet Junto project, ’Round the Bend — The Assignment: You’re in a duo, and your bandmate is a train — at https://disquiet.com/0635/
2024-03-0101 min
danieldiazmusicDark Colors Passing (Trailer) - naviarhaiku527A "trailer" track I've been working on requests this past week.
Synthesizers, orchestral samples, percussion, arpeggiators.
For this haiku:
ore train
bright colors
passing quickly
by: Jerome Berglund
Photo by CHUTTERSNAP
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku527-ore-train/
2024-02-0702 min
danieldiazmusicIt's Only A Saw Waveform (disquiet0631)"Take one held tone and make it dance slowly"
HI, I used a single Saw waveform playing a C note. I made it evolve using the Mod-wheel mapped to filter frequency cutoff and the knobs and faders of my midi controller mapped to tweak filters and LFO in real time.
Recorded two parallel tracks, one tweaking a square waveform LFO1 mapped to "volume" , the second track tweaking a pulse LFO2 mapped to Filter-Cutoff.
For:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0631-in-a-silent-waveform/
2024-02-0202 min
danieldiazmusicOrchestralscapes (Trailer) - disquiet0630trailer miusic using my new "toy", @cinesamples musio libraries.
january 25th 2024
sample libraries by dd
photo by rob simmons
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0630-creative-sufficiency/
2024-01-2502 min
danieldiazmusicVernal (Cuando Los Dioses Hablan) - naviarhaiku525Simple guitar arpeggios and string soundscapes, with felt piano and ukulele overdubs.
Inspired by this haiku:
vernal seas…
all day long swelling, falling
swelling, falling
by: Yosa Buson
I took the picture one springtime on the northern coast of France (Normandy)
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku525-vernal-seas/
2024-01-2402 min
danieldiazmusicAlchemical Academia (disquiet0628)Piano
String quartet (harmonics) by Cinesamples
Orchestral drones by Spitfire
Photo by DD, Oslo Concert Hall.
Today I tested and old sample library and a new one I've got to compare their sounds. I used the junto prompt as inspiration for my tests.
I'm a small time alchemist, so I didn't went too far into the transformation. I just wrote a simple piano piece, I submerged the piano piece into some some string orchestra as a potion (a plugin called Fragile String Evolutions) and you can hear the piano piece already evolving. Then the theme is played one last time...
2024-01-1202 min
danieldiazmusicBall Bouncing in This Empty Room (disquiet0625)Hi, I imagined a ball bouncing on that concrete room (photo).
The room is huge.
the ball is hollow and metallic.
Used:
Hang (treated with a bouncing delay fx)
Synthesized field recording
Filtered and treated field recording.
Recorded on December 22nd 2023 during the morning.
for this junto:https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0625-noise-ceiling
2023-12-2203 min
danieldiazmusicferviente ilusión (studio jam) barboza+arias+diazJam session en el estudio.
Paris, martes 13 de Junio 2023.
Raúl Barboza: acordeón
Santiago Arias: Bandoneon
Daniel Díaz: bajo acústico
Improvisación en torno a Ferviente Ilusión, vals de R. Barboza.
2023-11-2703 min
danieldiazmusicScintillating Heights (Long version demo) disquiet0621I’m taking from the trash bin this complete take on an actual composition that I recorded during last September and decided not to use, and instead make a new, different version. The new , “approved” version, shorter, faster, all acoustic, will be released during the winter, so this one became obsolete and has been lying on the trash for a couple of months now.
I took that photo in Tokyo Oct 2019.
For this junto project:
At the end of the calendar year, people often participate in holidays that result in lots of leftover food. Think about the leftovers — discarded tracks, or MIDI...
2023-11-2304 min
danieldiazmusicSoliloquio Pugliese - naviarhaiku516A simple melody played on acoustic guitar, felt piano and fretless bass.
Some orchestral chords (treated) acn be heard in the background.
Composed on an ukulele sitting alone on a sunny winter day on the beach at Marina di Pescoluse, Puglia, Italia.
Recorded in Paris, November 2023.
For this haiku:
two seahorses
dancing in seagrass
slivers of sunlight
Poem by Corine Timmer
Photo by David Boca
@naviar-records
@corinebicadeideias
2023-11-2302 min
danieldiazmusicFake Beat Accrual - Disquiet0620 w/Fake GeniusHey, I worked on this track by @fake-genius
https://soundcloud.com/fake-genius/disquiet0619-ritm
I like it because it’s the sweet blend between demented and easy to follow.
I spent the whole day recording my upright bass, bowed, for a different project. I did 16 tracks of a repetitive thing, with rhythmic delays, so I am hot with the bow.
Here I did 8 tracks, so 4 stereo pairs (everything double tracked) and added two delays, one in 1/4th and another doing 1/8th notes.
For this junto:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0620-beat-accrual-accrual/
2023-11-1601 min
danieldiazmusicBad Beat (disquiet0619)I seldom work like this: creating a charged “full steam” pattern and placing it at the end of a crescendo, then moving backwards removing stuff till there’s nothing left at the beginning. I did it with drum programs a lot, but also with repetitive stuff (pianos, guitars) à la Reich/Riley. I like to have an idea of my “tutti”, my maximum peak in density and intensity, then going there from zero.
This track, recorded today Friday November 10th 2023, started with a programmed drum beat (using for the first time in decades my good old Alesis D4 module that remained unplugged i...
2023-11-1002 min
danieldiazmusicRotten Ectoplasm (disquiet0617)Hi, lately I’ve been working a lot (for a professional assignment) on orchestral soundscapes, so my previous Soundcloud shares were done using sample libraries, a friend’s cello performance and my own upright basses (using my bow)
This one, recorded yesterday and edited and finished today (Friday the 27th Oct 2023 is just me and my multitracked bowed bass , to achieve a noisy, creepy tone I didn’t use any rosin on the bow, so i could get some nasty tones bowing very hard and all around the strings. It was fun, just improvising one track on top of the previo...
2023-10-2704 min
danieldiazmusicQuiet Versus Silent (disquiet0616)Orchestral soundscape.
I've been "testing" some gorgeous string orchestra libraries I have because next week I have a job to do with it, mostly quiet orchestral pads and soft beds. So This junto comes at the right time to try that, I played some quiet episodes combining different sample libraries and different convolutions reverbs and some Valhalla Supermassive.
The only real instrument I played is the bowed double bass, triple-tracked.
I tried to leave some pure silence a couple of time, filling it with pure reverb and resonances, I'm not sure the silent parts are what I was aiming for...
2023-10-2003 min
danieldiazmusicOrchestral Rainfall - naviarhaiku510Abstract, hypnotic orchestral soundscape.
Created by DD in Paris, france, Thursday 12th October 2023.
For this haiku:
in pre-dawn darkness
the avant-garde soundtrack
of orchestral rainfall
Haiku by Elliot Carson https://www.instagram.com/i.write.haiku/
Picture by Lazarescu Alexandra
2023-10-1203 min
danieldiazmusicAlternate Harmonium (disquiet0614)Harmonium
Fretless bass
Arpeggiators/Synths
String orchestra samples.
I often work with arpeggiators, and I like to combine their kinetic, steady pulse with ambient parts, rubatto and floating.I particularly like to add acoustic "real" instrument to and icy electronic arpeggiator synth. I do like all those contrasts : rhythmic vs floating, acoustic vs electro, tense vs relaxing cold vs warm etc
Here I had an old , unused acoustic Indian Harmonium improvisation, played rubatto, no tempo, no click.
I tried to add more floating tracks, a fretless bass melodic impro, some string samples, etc but still didn't quite go nowhere..A...
2023-10-0604 min
danieldiazmusicA Rainbow (naviarhaiku509)Instrumental neoclassical electric-acoustic.
Shared on October 5th 2023 inspired by this poem:
"Disappearing
snow on mountain peak
unfurls a rainbow"
Music composed and performed by DD
Electric guitars
Electric bass
Acoustic guitar
Analog Synth
Haiku by Sôen Nakagawa
Picture by Mateus Campos Felipe
@naviar-records
2023-10-0503 min
danieldiazmusicContrebasse Soliloque (disquiet0611)An upright bass improvisation with echoes and delays...
For Disquiet Junto Project 0611: Music That Listens to Itself
2023-09-1502 min
danieldiazmusicIn search of a name - naviarhaiku505drums
electric bass
wah lead bass guitar
wah electric guitar
organ
synth
for this haiku:
in search of a name
the torrent of rainwater
down the canyon wall
@naviar-records
Shared September 2023
Haiku by Mark Miller
Picture by Dan Meyers
2023-09-0703 min
danieldiazmusicAl MirarteComposed by:
Daniel Diaz & Edgardo Fernandez Grau (music)
Edgardo Fernandez Grau (lyrics)
Recorded in Buenos Aires 1996 by:
Daniel Diaz: Acoustic piano, electric bass, percussion, vibes, synthesizer.
Daniel Fernandez: drums
Miguel Angel Amaral: Vocals(@tom-williams-162)
Published by DedeLand Music Co./BMI
2023-09-0603 mindanieldiazmusicNo Lo Imagino (version 2006)Composed by:
Edgar Fernández Grau(music)
Daniel Fernandez (lyrics)
Recorded in Buenos Aires 1996 and 2006 by:
Daniel Diaz: Electric piano, upright bass, percussion, melodica.
Daniel Fernandez: drums
Edgar Fernandez Grau (@edgar-grau-1): guitars
Miguel Angel Amaral: Vocals(@tom-williams-162)
Published by DedeLand Music Co./BMI
2023-09-0603 mindanieldiazmusicNo Hables De Mi (mix 2010)Composed by:
Daniel Diaz (music)
Daniel Fernandez (lyrics)
Recorded in Buenos Aires and Paris, 1998 by:
Daniel Diaz: Electric piano, fretless bass, percussion, programming
Miguel Angel Amaral: Vocals(@tom-williams-162)
Published by DedeLand Music Co./BMI
2023-09-0203 mindanieldiazmusicMi Corazon Se EngañaComposed by:
Daniel Diaz (music)
Daniel Fernandez (lyrics)
Recorded in Buenos Aires, 1996 by:
Daniel Diaz: Acoustic piano, upright bass, melodica, drums, vibes.
Miguel Angel Amaral: Vocals (@tom-williams-162)
Minino Garay: timbales (coda)
Pajaro Canzani: solo electric guitar (coda) (@carlospajarocanzani)
Published by DedeLand Music Co./BMI
www.dedeland.com
2023-09-0205 mindanieldiazmusicCambio De Luces (mix 2006)Composed by:
Daniel Diaz (music)
Daniel Fernandez (lyrics)
Recorded in Buenos Aires, 1996 by:
Daniel Diaz: Electric piano, fretless bass, hammond organ
Daniel Fernandez: Drums
Miguel Angel Amaral: Vocals, electric guitar (@tom-williams-162)
Published by DedeLand Music Co./BMI
www.dedeland.com
2023-09-0204 mindanieldiazmusicCuando Me Dejes (mix 2006)Composed by:
Daniel Diaz (music)
Daniel Fernandez (lyrics)
Recorded in Buenos Aires, 1996 by:
Daniel Diaz: acoustic piano, upright bass
Daniel Fernandez:: Drums
Julian Hojman: Tenor sax
Miguel Angel Amaral: Vocals (@tom-williams-162)
Published by DedeLand Music Co./BMI
www.dedeland.com
2023-09-0204 min
danieldiazmusicPause - Cancion de cuna (disquiet0602)The word I use is PAUSE. I wrote a simple and beautiful melody inspired by a 1960's Argentinian lullaby/children song.Recorded it on piano forcing myself to pause between phrases and sometime sin unexpected places. The late great Ryuichi Sakamoto once said, when asked about his use of silence on composition, that he didn't use "silence" he did use pauses to create space for resonance. He said something like: silence is nothing, it is not music. Resonance , on the other hand is alive. Silence is not interesting, spaces and resonance are.
With that, he did influence me once again.
...
2023-07-1403 min
danieldiazmusicSo Long Vangelis (disquiet0600)Very nice samples to work with.
I unmuted the first 3 (or the last 3?) the more "synth" ones, didn't use the glitchy/noise tracks. Those 3 tracks played back with no added fx or mix sounded full Vangelis for me.
I miss and I know I will miss Vangelis Papathanassíou for the rest of my life.
This one's for him.
3 tracks from Marcus Fischer's sample set, tweaked and slightly edited
3 tracks performed by myself on Friday June the 30th during the morning: one electric piano, 2 synthesisers: Ultra Analog VA2 and Micro Korg
More on this 600th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Reaching O...
2023-06-3002 min
danieldiazmusicSpring Meadow - naviarhaiku495Toy Piano
Slide guitars (Epiphone Sheraton)
Electric bass guitar
Synthesizer
For this haiku
bird polyphony
– treble, alto, tenor, bass,
Spring meadow concert
Music composed and performed by Daniel Diaz
Haiku by Raymond Cobley
Photo by Suzanne D. Williams
@naviar-records
@ray_cobley
different version of the same tune here:
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/early-morning-star
2023-06-2802 min
danieldiazmusicEarly Morning Star (naviarhaiku492)Early morning,
One star remaining,
It’s a good day too.
Electric guitars and bass by DD, recorded 2010, reworked and mixed June 2023.
Haiku by Santoka Taneda
Picture by Diego PH
@naviar-records
different version here:
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/spring-meadow
2023-06-0802 min
danieldiazmusicPhylogeny (Jazz at the Achilleion Palace) - disquiet0596A work in progress / abandonded track from early 2023, finished and remixed June 1st 2023.
This track, I created earlier this year for the same proto-jazz proyect that generated my track for [junto0584](https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/nocturnal-studio-jam-number-2) this was intended to be a jazz-lounge jam, I recorded the electric piano part over a jazz drum loop and a walking upright bass, then decided that I wanted a more lounge/funky beta and grabbed a different loop. I clicked on the wrong loop-file an dI got this weird electro-beat that completely destroyed the track's jazz feel. I tried to re record the...
2023-06-0103 min
danieldiazmusicThree Possibilities (with ray cobley & undermulden) - disquiet0593https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0593-the-charm/
Used https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley/one-possibilitydisquiet0592 by https://soundcloud.com/ray_cobley based on a first track by @undermulden
Added a lead synth and sparse electric bass notes. (and some chords on a synth pad on the second half)
@/ray_cobley
2023-05-1102 min
danieldiazmusicTres Flores Viejas (with morgulbee & Le Nom Des Fleurs) - disquiet0593I took this track by morgulbee
https://soundcloud.com/morgulbee/dos-flores-disquiet0592?in=disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0592
who worked on "Le Nom Des Fleurs" 's track from the previous week.
As suggested by morgulbee I added a funky bass line using a little old pedal from Electro Harmonix called Bass Balls that I bought 15 years ago and used once and then forgot about. It stills sounds pretty weird for an autowah IMHO.
@morgulbee
@user-869326849
2023-05-1102 min
danieldiazmusicTwo Days a Week - disquiet0592 with LazenbeeIndustriesSecond try (I think the first one is too "full")
Used @lazenbeeindustries track https://soundcloud.com/lazenbeeindustries/five-days-a-week-disquiet0591
Added a 808 kick-bass and played around with some filters and distortion
Photo by Vince Gx
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0592-better-than-one/
@lazenbeeindustries
2023-05-0703 min
danieldiazmusicHalf Duet - disquiet0592 with HalF UnusuaLHi, took Stream halF numbereD [disquiet0591] 85bpM by halF unusuaL | Listen online for free on SoundCloud
by @half-unusual added a synth jam with a bass preset on Z3Ta, and a second track of the same preset using the arpeggiator.
Then added some textures with an instrument that was offered to me called “Aperture - Cassette Symphony” and never used, tried it here just for testing purposes.
Hope there’s still room for a 3rd performer.
Cheers
dd
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0592-better-than-one/
2023-05-0602 min
danieldiazmusicTomorrow Is A Long TimeBob Dylan impromtu cover. Instrumental, simple version.
Recorded April 19th 2023 by DD
Ukulele
Acoustic bass guitar
Harmonica
Accordina
2023-04-2602 min
danieldiazmusicFeedback And Thunder (disquiet0590)Thunder field recordings by Mike Koening
Wind field recordings by Chris Watson
Epiphone Sheraton electric guitar strums by me
I copied the guitar feedbacks and manipulated it a little bit.
Recorded today, Friday 21st April 2023 during the early morning, in paris , france.
Photo by David Moum
for this junto challenge:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0590-concrete-roots
2023-04-2103 min
danieldiazmusicVikings - naviarhaiku484VIKINGS (march groove)
Production music, old unused groove cue, reworked march 2023
Electric guitars
Electric bass
Drum beat
Hand percussion
For this poem:
naviarhaiku484 – misty daydream
misty daydream
Vikings land on the shore
of my childhood
haiku by Michael Dudley
Photo by Robin Mikalsen
2023-04-1403 min
danieldiazmusicRajasthan Groove (part 2)Part II (coda) for this track:
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/rajasthan-moon-thief
Composed and performed by DD (bass, drum programs, synths, samples)
photo by Peyman Farmani
A rework of an old, abandoned track...
2023-04-1104 min
danieldiazmusicThe Art Of BoredomPiano
Fretless bass
Synthesizer
Orchestral samples, treated
DD, winter 2023
2023-03-2407 min
danieldiazmusicNocturnal Studio Jam Number 2 (disquiet0584)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
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0584...
2023-03-1003 min
danieldiazmusicCrepuscular Horizons (naviarhaiku477)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
2023-02-2402 min
danieldiazmusicTechno Bossa (disquiet0582)An old master rediscovered and reworked today:
Synths, drum beat , vocoder.
Photo by Cerqueira
for: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0582-x-techno
2023-02-2302 min
danieldiazmusicButterfly Backwards(disquiet0580)I had some fun with this one, a wrong take on Butterflies' life cycle. They are supposed to arrive to the prettier stage in the end but my track moves backwards, from a gentle and nice pastoral in the first section to a cheesy jazz ballad, then chaotic and quite ugly electro-acoustic free-jazz third section.
It's always the same "theme" with variations, that was my actual "exercise" here.
I used
Celesta
Vibraphone
Fretless bass
Drums
Piano
Synthesizers
Orchestral samples
DD, Friday 10 and Saturday 11 February 2023
Photo by Fleur
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0580-evo-evol-evolve
2023-02-1103 min
danieldiazmusicSilencio (version 2) disquiet0579This is a recent rework of a previously shared track,
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/silencio-first-demo-version
I reduced and simplified the arrangement and instrumentation, and I feel that this one's the good version for proper release (but I might be wrong), so it is my first 2023 single.
Shared on Feb/2nd/2023 for https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0579-memory-serves
This is the version I finally released,
https://open.spotify.com/track/0RG0q9pSfrl725mBlcLqjf?si=42df3429ed664047
2023-02-0202 min
danieldiazmusicFebruary Rabbit's Groove (disquiet0578)electric bass
fender rhodes
wahwah guitar
clavinet
drum program
2023-01-2702 min
danieldiazmusicFloating In The Dark Night Sky - Naviarhaiku472Vocoder
Orchestral samples
Treatments
Synthesizer
by DD January 2023
For this haiku:
Paper lantern bright,
Floating in the dark night sky,
Guiding spirits home.
Photo
Joel & Jasmin Førestbird
Poem
Stan Magendanz @boson_spin
2023-01-2102 min
danieldiazmusicPaper Unicorn (disquiet0576)Electric bass
Fender rhodes
Drums
Synths
5x4 time signature groove
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0576-casual-resolution
@disquiet
2023-01-1302 min
danieldiazmusicGroove January (the storm and the raging fire) naviarhaiku0470Lost and found acoustic groove performed by DD (upright bass, drums, wahwah guitar) and Pajaro Canzani (acoustic guitar, percussion)
Mixed January 4th 2023 for this haiku
Music’s everywhere:
the sea, the wind, the rain, the
storm, the raging fire.
by Isabel del Rio
@naviar-records
Photo by DD, Carilo , Argentina.
2023-01-0402 min
danieldiazmusic2022WCgroove (disquiet0572)acoustic dums, electric bass, organ
74BPM
E minor
Unfinished little groove.
edit: updated with some add tracks.
2022-12-1502 min
danieldiazmusicBerceuse d'été (disquiet0571)* Charango
* Bombo legüero
* Synth pad
* Glockenspiel
* Upright bass
All real instruments
Composed and performed by DD
Part of the album Landscapes Consonance & Solitude
https://danieldiaz.bandcamp.com/album/landscapes-consonance-solitude
Shared on @soundcloud for the first time Friday December 9th 2022 for this weekly joint:
Disquiet Junto Project 0571: Child’s Play
The Assignment: Make music inspired by a nursery rhyme.
Photo: Villa Gesel by DD
2022-12-0903 min
danieldiazmusicSilencio (first demo version) - disquiet0570" Record a piece of music that does change keys"
This one I'm sharing is a track I've been working on since July 2022, eventually a week ago I decided to drop this take and start all over with a solo piano version. It has some key changes, not really sections but there's a permanent "unstable key" feel throughout.
Piano
Classical guitar
Drums (brushes)
Acoustic bass guitar
Wine glasses (background sequence)
Celesta (from sample library)
Synth pad
Key changes go like this:
1st bar E minor
4th bar A minor
5th bar F# minor
8th bar B minor
9th bar G major
...
2022-12-0202 min
danieldiazmusicFrom The Mist (naviarhaiku464)Acoustic piano, classical guitar, bowed bass, infra-bass, electro-acoustic soundscape.
For this poem;
from the mist
a boat for cutting reeds in the morning
has begun to emerge
haiku by Mizuhara Shūōshi
picture by Ricardo Gomez Angel
2022-11-2505 min
danieldiazmusicAn Undertow Of Resilience (disquiet0569)Composed and performed by DD (june/july/september 2022)
Upright piano, synthesizers, upright bass, orchestral (strings) samples, acoustic drums
Photo by Karim MANJRA
This particular track is a pure experiment, I was recording my acoustic piano, using some mechanical rubber mutes for a different project, and did this take just for me as a test.
I didn't know what to do with it, and abandoned.
Then, I overdubbed many different instruments over the past few months, an upright bass+acoustic drums rhythm section, an unexpected old-schools synth. Later I added an orchestral section.
There's a lot of work on this track...
2022-11-2404 min
danieldiazmusicA Cure For Nightmares (disquiet0568)Hello, I created this one today morning (Friday 18th Nov 2022) using a felt piano library sound and synthesisers along with a descending shepard tone for the bad dream's part. (I have that as a recurring dream: me falling for ever)
There's a "nightmare" chord (some sort of C minor "alt") and then the "sweet dreams" chord (C6/9)
Around 1 minute into the piece the "sweet dreams" chords tries to get in but fails, to be eventually fully heard at the end, before the *rallentando* at 1:42 and back to a nice sleep.
photo by Greg Rosenke
For a junto challenge about dreams...
2022-11-1802 min