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danieldiazmusic
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…
Episodes
danieldiazmusicFragile Memories (naviarhaiku670)
FRAGILE MEMORIES Music for this poem, for Naviar Haiku #670: *memories as fragile as cicada husks...* Kineo Fukuda (1927–2005) I recently inherited an…
danieldiazmusicManiac Dracula - disquiet0774
MANIC DRACULA A re-score of the trailer for the 1931 Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi. Dark, textured ambient layers meet energetic orchestral strings, following…
danieldiazmusicWithered World (naviarhaiku668)
Guitar strums played through a small, dirty valve amp, surrounded by floating synthesizer textures. Dark, mysterious, and slow. Composed and recorded by DD in…
danieldiazmusicGrowing an E chord - disquiet0772
Fifteen notes from an E major scale, played on my Martin guitar, left to grow into something unexpected. Brian Eno once compared making art to gardening…
danieldiazmusicMinimal Phases on a High Plateau (disquiet0771)
MINIMAL PHASES ON A HIGH PLATEAU Two interlocking ronroco motifs gradually overlap, fade in and out, shift and modulate, moving between melody and rhythm. An…
danieldiazmusicSpeak of the Devil (naviarhaiku666)
Music for this haiku by Kobayashi Issa: Speak of the devil! a snipe takes flight... evening cool In the original Japanese expression, "speak of the devil"…
danieldiazmusicReverberance (disquiet0770)
REVERBERANCE A reverb-drenched instrumental built from strummed Telecaster, electronic drums and four different arpeggiators — all deliberately buried in…
danieldiazmusicPoetic License (disquiet0769)
Poetic License Layered acoustic piano — two tracks — over an improvised electric bass guitar take processed through “ambient” live pedals. Recorded in Paris…
danieldiazmusicChansonnette (disquiet0768)
A solo felt piano piece with a melodic, neoclassical character, surrounded by a very subtle treated soundscape. A reworking of my earlier electric bass…
danieldiazmusicChanson 15072026
An electric bass improvisation recorded on July 15th 2026, listened to after a couple of months and decided to keep it "as is" and double the melody with a…
danieldiazmusicDe negras noches y de blancos días (disquiet0767)
Ambient piece inspired by the king of board games — and the only one I’ve ever really played: chess. Inspired by J.L. Borges’ poems Ajedrez I & II, where the…
danieldiazmusicIt Has Opened (naviarhaiku661)
IT HAS OPENED An electric bass guitar improvisation, doubled with Fender Rhodes and processed in real time through several pedals. One take, unedited. Inspired…
danieldiazmusicI Repeat Myself (disquiet0766)
I Repeat Myself Instrumental Math Rock built around interlocking repetitive patterns. Tuned percussion and electric guitars take turns before coming together…
danieldiazmusicOff-White Soundscape (naviarhaiku660)
A floating ambient guitar piece built from first-take performances. Live electric guitar and pedals, with a few bass notes underneath and a second guitar…
danieldiazmusicA Sea of Fog (naviarhaiku653)
A Sea of Fog Ambient guitar piece inspired by the haiku by Akito Arima. A live electric guitar improvisation, with an overdubbed bass providing a slow…
danieldiazmusicDiaphanous Guitar (disquiet0757)
A melodic electric guitar improvisation gradually viewed through a veil. The original performance is first presented clearly, then revisited with layers of…
danieldiazmusicSomething Left Undone (naviarhaiku651)
A solo electric guitar improvisation recorded live while testing a new pedalboard. After the session, I listened back and felt there were a few interesting…
danieldiazmusicwhich way? (disquiet0755)
A spontaneous experiment blending live guitar improv and synth arpeggiators. Recorded June 2026, capturing the contrast between a floating guitar track and…
danieldiazmusicsoundscape and circumstance
live electric guitar improvisation. first pass recorded on a 1985 schecter stratocaster while testing a new pedalboard. a second improvised layer was…
danieldiazmusicInterruptus (disquiet0754)
This track began as a work-in-progress session: an improvised bass line built from simple, repetitive figures evolving through a tempo-synced delay, locked to…
danieldiazmusicButterflies (naviarhaiku647)
For almost a year this track existed as a very simple two-track piece: clean Stratocaster guitar over an arpeggiated chord progression. Inspired by this haiku…
danieldiazmusicAchilles and the Slug (disquiet0751)
Composed for a challenge: Music for an imagined nature documentary about slugs, specifically for one of the film's slowest scenes. A technical exercise in…
danieldiazmusicThe Heart of the Lake (naviarhaiku646)
Floating soundscape built entirely from layered eBow guitars, with occasional deep bass single note anchoring the drift. Slowly unfolding textures, melodic…
danieldiazmusicEsper Ascent (disquiet0750)
Epic electronic score built entirely with Oberheim synth emulations by @gforce-software. Warm melodic bass, layered analog textures, slow harmonic movement…
danieldiazmusicKinetik Trio - w/Dawn Falls and John Wright (disquiet0749)
Based on this duo https://soundcloud.com/dawn-falls-654459054/second-of-a-few-2-disquiet0748 by @dawn-falls-654459054 and John Wright Out of all the excellent…
danieldiazmusicDeux tiers de certitude (w/RabMusicLab) - disquiet0748
I wanted to build a proper groove out of it. I tried the chord changes @rabmusiclab kindly and precisely noted in his post, but I thought it might be more…
danieldiazmusicthe flicker of lights (naviarhaiku643)
Electronic, lyrical synth piece in a cinematic / soundtrack style. All sounds performed on Oberheim emulations by GForce Software: DMX, OB-E and OB-X. Warm…
danieldiazmusicCordyceps Dub - disquiet0748 w BennDeMole
This is just a jam on my Höfner bass over the glitchy groove from last week: https://soundcloud.com/benn-demole/cordyceps-disquiet0747 I initially wanted to…
danieldiazmusicMake of this what you will (disquiet0747)
Solo unacompanied electric guitar (Fender Telecaster) with tremolo and tube amplifier. Recorded live thursday 23rd april 2026. Performed by DD, photo Malaysia…
danieldiazmusicIt's Always Sunny Up There (disquiet0746)
Ambient piece built entirely from four electric bass parts, mostly harmonics, creating a light and floating texture. Sunny, positive, and slowly evolving, with…
danieldiazmusicLatent Form - disquiet0745
Starting point: something I do too often. I tend to begin with a bass improvisation — familiar voicings, something that immediately feels “me” — and then…
danieldiazmusicDark Matters
Electro-acoustic quietly epic trailer music, electric bass strumming chords, floating soundscape with orchestral rises an blasts, real bowed bass section…
danieldiazmusicHofner Groove (disquiet0743)
Groove-led jam built on Höfner bass and drums. Hammond organ and guitar (Telecaster) layered on top — mostly one take, lightly edited. This is my first…
danieldiazmusicBass & DMX: Elastic Math (disquiet0742)
Bass & DMX: Elastic Math A groove-driven instrumental built on electric bass and DMX drum machine. The pulse keeps shifting — time signatures stretch and…
danieldiazmusicBells & Drones (disquiet 0741)
BELLS & DRONES Electronic ambient / abstract experiment. One track of real bells from my collection layered with Oberheim synth emulations: two bell-like synth…
danieldiazmusicGlacier Phases (Naviarhaiku636)
Slowly shifting ronroco patterns — both melodic and percussive — create a panoramic acoustic texture inspired by phasing techniques. Small variations and…
danieldiazmusicWhen You Return - naviarhaiku633
A floating ambient guitar piece built around melody and shifting harmony. Recorded without a click — just following the phrasing and the state of mind in the…
danieldiazmusicShut Up - disquiet0738
SHUT UP! Urban instrumental groove driven by Fender bass and brushed drums by Steve Argüelles. Acoustic guitar strums add an organic, smoother edge, while…
danieldiazmusicfollow the clouds - naviarhaiku632
Follow The Clouds A slow-burning electronic instrumental built entirely on Oberheim synths (GForce DMX, OB-E, OB-X). A steady pulse anchors a repetitive bass…
danieldiazmusicThe Jungle (disquiet0737)
The Jungle Acoustic cinematic percussion piece. The pulse shifts from 6/8 into straight 4/4 while maintaining the same underlying tempo — the groove transforms…
danieldiazmusicScrolling Cells & Heartbeat - disquiet0736
An instrumental electronic piece driven by pulse, texture, and gradual transformation. Using only Oberheim synth emulations, a new sound and musical idea…
danieldiazmusicCosmic Cobalt (disquiet0735)
A free guitar improvisation, recorded ad lib with no click. Electric guitar leads the performance, later joined by an ARP Odyssey in overdub—soft pads and…
danieldiazmusicOne Leaf Then Another (naviarhaiku630)
Fragile, warm, major chords are spread in a slow arc, like an string carillon. — a fully acoustic piece built without a click, letting time breathe. The first…
danieldiazmusicDeckard's Odyssey (disquiet0734)
A cinematic, ambient instrumental composed and performed yesterday and today, inspired by the sound world of Vangelis and his score for Blade Runner. Built…
danieldiazmusicPunta Alta
A solo electric guitar performance, recorded live in real time on an Epiphone Sheraton, using pedals only—no overdubs, no click, no edits. Slowly unfolding…
danieldiazmusicIn The Dark Beyond (naviarhaiku628)
An ambient instrumental built from layered electric guitars—Stratocasters and Telecasters—combining five evolving atmospheric volume pedal parts with a…
danieldiazmusicLost Among The Pines (naviarhaiku624)
A quietly epic, all-acoustic instrumental in 7/4, built around some simple melodic ideas voiced across ukuleles, acoustic guitars, and acoustic bass—exploring…
danieldiazmusicLegato Ebow Redux (disquiet0728)
A minimal Ebow-and-bass drone in E minor, built around a 12-note melody that dissolves one note per repetition. Recorded during a lyrical Ebow session, using…
danieldiazmusicCandombecito Improvisado (disquiet0727)
Synthesisers, electric bass, instrumental jam. A quick experiment built from a pair of Oblique Strategies cards: “Honour thy error as a hidden intention” /…
danieldiazmusicEquinae
Equinae A world-repetitive, cinematic instrumental built entirely from acoustic strings: three ronrocos, one ukulele, and two Martin guitars, wrapped in subtle…
danieldiazmusicOddity Deep in the Night - naviarhaiku621
Oddity Deep in the Night All sounds come exclusively from the GForce @gforce-software ODDITY3 — a beautiful emulation of the classic ARP Odyssey. This piece…
danieldiazmusicSome Starlight - naviarhaiku620
This one started as a simple electric-guitar-and-bass progression, just a rough idea that wasn’t really going anywhere. This week I expanded it with several…
danieldiazmusicUn Gaucho (disquiet0724)
UN GAUCHO – solo bass A simple, heartfelt solo bass piece — part of a series of intimate instrumental moments I play live or record at home for fun…
danieldiazmusicUndercover Player - naviarhaiku618
All synths, Blade Runner–inspired, cinematic electronic, melodic ambient synth music. Composed and performed by Daniel Diaz – early November 2025 Photo by…
danieldiazmusicSpooky Spy - disquiet0722
This comes from a groovy, slow-funk spy-thriller track— Fender telecaster and jazz bass, tenor sax, drums, synths, and percussion — originally written for a…
danieldiazmusicskeleton by the sea - naviarhaiku617
Abstract ambient instrumental with a gentle pulse — playfully shifting between major and minor moods. Layered synthesizers (10 tracks across 6 synths), all…
danieldiazmusicStormy Thursday (Electric Bass & Thunder) - disquiet0721
Today, October 23, 2025, a storm rumbled through France, and I recorded an improvisation that captures its raw energy. This track is a dark, mysterious duet…
danieldiazmusicGolpe de Suerte - disquiet0720
A slow, laid-back funk groove with jazzy sax, clavinet, deep fender jazz bass, and abstract synth textures. Smooth, atmospheric, and slightly cinematic — the…
danieldiazmusicThe coming of autumn - naviarhaiku614
A four-minute ambient journey built from four evolving one-minute drones — each exploring a distinct emotional landscape. Major to minor, light to dark…
danieldiazmusicalien says: (disquiet0718)
Full synth pastiche built around real NASA mission recordings. Recorded and finished in one day (Thu, Oct 2). Retro-futuristic, spacey, and playful — first…