Raul Barboza Trio

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Raul Barboza Trio:

Raul Barboza: Accordion

Norberto Pedrerria: Acoustic Guitar

Daniel Diaz: Acoustic Bass

New album 12 DE JULIO EN PARIS, recorded “live in the studio” to be released November 15th 2019. Total 10 tracks, 46:30 length.

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Spotify album click here

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Raul Barboza Trio Live, Armenia 2017

This is Raul Barboza “European Trio”. We’ve been actively performing in France and abroad for the past decade, but we never recorded in the studio as a trio before (Raul and I did an album alone as a duo, Ruta 40, Norberto recorded with Raul on some of Barboza’s albums from the late 1990’s and Norberto and I have collaborated on each other’s records for a long time, most notably on Norberto Pedreira Trio).

After some shows in France a couple of years ago, we decided to go to the studio and informally perform our usual set-list, just for fun and to have a recorded souvenir of our more “free” improvised takes on some of Barboza’s standard “chamamés”.

I went back to those shelved sessions this year in order to choose the best takes and mix down the 4-track masters for a listening session with Raul and Norberto.

The relaxed, informal, warm (albeit rough at times), sensitive and fun feel, pleased us. So we decided to release it “as is”.

The cover art is a photo graciously proposed to us by American photographer Paul Hosefros (NY Times).

Thanks for listening,

Regards DD

(C) paul hosefros

You can preview the first track here: Barrio Latino @ SOUNDCLOUD

Recorded July 12th 2017 at Angel Studios (thanks Pajaro Canzani)
Produced by Daniel Diaz
Executive producers Diaz/Barboza/Pedreira

Themes

Themes by DD:

Track list:

1> Melancolia 3:35
piano, up.bass, classical guitar.
feat: Aude Brasseur: cellos

2> Nostalgia 3:14
piano, melodica, classical guitar, delays

3> The Immigrants 3:53
Electric Guitar, up.bass, delays.
feat: Dave Lewis: Flugelhorn

4> The Immigrants (Alt.Vers.) 3:29
piano, up.bass, drums.
feat: Dave Lewis: Flugelhorn

5> Vignette Vininha 2:06
classical guitar, tape delays and filters

6> 4 Bagatelles N°4 3:00
piano, up.bass, treatments.
feat: Damien Jarry: cello

7> Love Theme N°3 2:11
piano, up.bass, accordina, strings, oboe, clarintet.

8> Love Theme N°2 3:34
piano, classical guitar, melodica, , treatments.

9> Virgilio & The Duke 2:34
piano.

10> Bagatelle N° 1.1 2:03
Daniel Diaz: rhodes, up.bass, electronica
featuring David Lewis: flugel horn,

11> Bagatelle N° 1.3 0:56
featuring David Lewis
2 Muted Trumpets, Trombone, French Horn, 2 Flutes, Solo Trumpet

12> Ansioso 1:25
acoustic piano, acoustic guitar, melodica, electric guitar, upright bass, xylophone.

13> Le Temps Perdu 2:26
upright piano, melodica, upright bass, steel string requinto..

14> Dive At Dawn 3:21
Fender Rhodes, Acoustic Bass Guitar, Accordina, Talking Drum, Percussion.

15> El Manzanero 3:12
Inor Sotolongo (Cuba): perussion.
Line Kruse (Danemark): violin.
Pajaro Canzani (Uruguay): Tiple
Daniel Diaz (Argentina): piano, upright bass.

16> El Pasional 3:17
Inor Sotolongo (Cuba): perussion.
Line Kruse (Danemark): violin.
Pajaro Canzani (Uruguay): guitar
Daniel Diaz (Argentina): piano, upright bass.

17> Bagatelle Numero 5.1 2:16
Daniel Diaz: Upright Bass, delays & filters.
Dave Lewis: Flugel Horn.

18> Bagatelle Numero 5.2 2:34
Daniel Diaz: Upright Bass, Piano, delays & filters.
Dave Lewis: Muted trumpet.

19> Bagatelle Numero 5.3 2:44
Daniel Diaz: Bowed upright bass, treated fender rhodes, electronica, delays & filters.
Dave Lewis: Trumpet.

20> Song For Lisa 3:34
acoustic bass.guitar, 12 string acoustic guitar, accordina, percussion.

Themes, album by Daniel Diaz
Themes by DD

Liner notes:

Themes is an album that compiles some music I composed and recorded for different audio-visual projects (theatre, music libraries, documentaries, TV).  20 tracks have been released in 2013.

These compositions are instrumental songs, like old-style themes, with chord changes and melodies.
Some are commissions, some others are compositions I was keeping for an eventual solo record (that I’ve just started recording, more here), but instead of reworking them I decided to recoup all these tracks in this new collection because I really like the actual themes as they are. No focus on development or performance here (solos, introductions, codas, improvisation) like I used to do in my albums, I decided to keep the bare song, in many cases just the melody exposition.

Just plain themes.

Thanks, love

DD, Paris, 2013.

Total Time 52:00

Composed, Arranged and Produced by DD

Recorded in many places, during 2010-11-12


Available HiRes Download:
Bandcamp/Themes

Listen: Spotify

More DD albums here

Maquina Blanda

Maquina Blanda

Songs from the past, 1995-2010. Unused masters, jams, covers.

Track List :

01> KARMA 3 (Daniel Diaz) 6:05
Manuel Miranda: Flute.
Daniel Diaz: Acoustic Bass Guitar.
Rikhi Hambra : Tabla, Percussion.

02> DOS AÑOS (Daniel Díaz) 6:00
Manuel Miranda: Flute.
Daniel Diaz: Fretless Bass.
Gabriel Kirschenbaum: Acoustic Guitar.
Daniel Miguez: Drums.
Santiago Vazquez Tabla.

03> PATAGONIA 1 (Daniel Díaz) 2:24
Manuel Miranda: Quenacho.
Daniel Díaz: Acoustic Bass Guitar, Percussion.

04> PATAGONIA 2 (Daniel Díaz) 2:36
Manuel Miranda: Quenacho.
Daniel Díaz: Acoustic Bass Guitar, Percussion.

05> ANGEL (Jimi Hendrix) 7:56
Daniel Miguez: Drums.
Daniel Díaz: Acoustic Bass Guitar, Percussion.
Gabriel Kirschenbaum: Acoustic Guitar.
Julian Hojman: Tenor Sax.

06> VIEJO PALERMO VIEJO (Daniel Díaz) 3:19
Manuel Miranda: Flute.
Daniel Díaz: Acoustic Bass Guitar, Percussion.

07>DOS OCEANOS (Daniel Díaz) 6:42
Daniel Díaz: Solo Acoustic Bass Guitar. Field recording: the sea @ Villa Gesell circa 1995.
07> Part 1: Gaviotas 3:22
08> Part 2 : Océanos 3:20

08> WINTER CODA (ZAMBITA) (Daniel Díaz) 7:28
Bobby Rangell: Alto Sax.
Daniel Díaz: Acoustic Bass Guitar.
Nico Arnicho: Percussion.

09> UMBRAL ( Luis Alberto Spinetta) 6:28
Manuel Miranda: Flutes.
Daniel Díaz: Acoustic Bass Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Percussion

10> TOO LATE CANDOMBE (Daniel Díaz) 5:21
Daniel Díaz: Fretless Bass, Acoustic Guitar, Rhodes.
Bobby Rangell: Flute.
Javier Estrella : Drums.

11> SAMBA DE ORLY (Chico Buarque & Toquinho) 5:21
Daniel Díaz: Acoustic Bass Guitar.
Gabriel Kirschenbaum: Acoustic Guitar.
Facundo Guevara : Percussion.

12> EXPRESO NOVA (Daniel Díaz) 3:14
Daniel Díaz: Acoustic Bass Guitar, Percussion
Osvaldo Burucua: Acoustic Guitar.
Rikhi Hambra : Tabla.
Manuel Miranda: Quena.

Maquina Blanda CD

Performed by:

Daniel Diaz:
Acoustic Bass Guitar, Fretless Bass, Acoustic Guitar, Percussion, Rhodes.

With:

Manuel Miranda: Flute, Quena.
Rik Hambra: Tabla, Percussion.
Gabriel Kirschenbaum: Acoustic Guitar.
Daniel Miguez: Drums.
Facundo Guevara: Percussion.
Osvaldo Burucua: Acoustic Guitar.
Santiago Vazquez: Tabla.
Julian Hojman: Tenor Sax.
Bobby Rangell: Flute, Alto Sax.
Javier Estrella: Drums.
Nico Arnicho: Percussion.

Produced and Arranged by Daniel Díaz
(C)&(P) 2012 DedeLand Music Co, BMI

Recorded in:

Buenos Aires, Argentina between May, 1995 and August, 1997

Paris, France between March, 2005 and December, 2010

Lima, Peru between November, 2010 and March, 2011.

Available CD and Download:
Bandcamp/Maquina Blanda

Listen: Spotify

More DD albums here

Maquina Blanda: liner notes

This is another batch of “un-used” songs, jams, covers and leftovers, a companion of my CD “Maquina Dura” released in 2000. After 15 years of recording in my home studio, by 2000, two official albums have been released: 1993 The Years Alone and 1997 Segundo Ciclo.
But so many recordings have been made in my Pleasure Dome Studios during those creative and formative “Years Alone” in Buenos Aires that I decided to put together two collections of leftovers: one electric (Maquina Dura) the other mostly acoustic. Both include leftovers, studio jams and cover versions.

The electric side was easy to put together. It featured tracks that, for artistic and “quality” issues, didn’t make it to the official CD’s track list. But the acoustic CD featured some tracks that couldn’t be considered leftovers. Tracks that were actually in the song list for Segundo Ciclo, recorded during those sessions, but dropped at the last moment because I decided to make a whole acoustic CD immediately after Segundo Ciclo.
“Maquina Blanda” was my live act and it was all-acoustic (acoustic guitar and basses, tabla and small percussion, flutes). The idea was to drop the “Maquina Blanda” songs form Segundo Ciclo and expand them to form a full length CD for a release by 1997-1998. Then I moved to France and that release never happened, so those tracks remained in the vault for 15 years. I was enamoured with those recordings (my very last full analogue-open-reel masters) and decided not to mix them with some “light weight” jams and demos, and save them for an eventual formal release.

In 2005 I reloaded that project, its concept, sound and repertoire for my trio with Javier Estrella and Bobby Rangell. We went to the studio to complete Maquina Blanda (the album) but eventually we made a full length CD with new recordings (including a couple of revamped tracks from The Maquina Blanda project) and that was it.
That’s how some of my favourite recorded songs remained inexplicably unreleased.

Then in 2010 a commission for acoustic recordings got me to work again with Manuel Miranda (full member of the original Maquina Blanda) and the idea of completing that collection was again in my head. I asked him to record two tracks I had written for Maquina Blanda back in 1995 (Patagonia 1 and 2) and a new track in the same style that was an ode to the old neighbourhood where we both used to live, play and hang out in Buenos Aires on during those years: “Viejo Palermo Viejo”. With these three tracks recorded with Manuel in Lima, now the whole project came full circle.

From the original 1996 track list including “Jams, Covers and Leftovers” just one studio jam and two covers remains, all tracks that we had been playing live and considering for release by then. The rest of the informal, spontaneous jams are replaced by formal recordings of acoustic, spare originals.

Now here it is to you (and to me) Maquina Blanda, almost as I intended to be 15 years ago.

dd, Paris, March 2012

Musique Mécanique

Musique Mécanique:

“electronic” sounding music (and music inspired by electronica) performed using instruments and objects that produce sounds by mechanical means.

Absolutely no synthesizers nor samplers used.

Released December 10, 2010.

Two editions, both eco-friendly (no plastic) available:

Standard Edition:

  • 14 tracks, Musique Mécanique “Vinyl Style” CD, Cardboard wallet, 4 page booklet.
  • 320 kbps Download

Limited Edition:

Triple Vinyl style CD + bonus content.
(packed on a beautiful signed and numbered box created by sergio pittaluga and d.d).
Box Set content:

  • Musique Mécanique 14 track CD
  • Musique Mécanique Bonus Tracks CD (13 tracks)
  • Lärmkunst 20 track CD (music&noise) (more lärmkunst info here)
  • Poster by Sergio Pittaluga, with full information and liner notes. 372×248 mm
  • Poster “Musique Mécanique architectonics” by Arq. Gustav O. Zepol.372x248mm
  • Musique Mécanique’s useless trinkets: 4 stickers, 2 badges, 2 postcards
  • Musique Mécanique’s useful trinkets: 2 guitar picks.

Credits:

performed & recorded by daniel diaz in paris, villa gessel and buenos aires during 2008-2009. mixed and edited in paris 2009-2010.

performed and composed by daniel diaz.

Produced by Daniel Díaz

Cover art by Sergio Pittaluga.

Release made possible thanks of Cezame Music Agency’s support.

Available CD and Download:
Bandcamp/Musique Mecaniquen

Listen: Spotify

More DD albums here

Daniel Diaz Trio Lugar Comun
Daniel Diaz / Musique Mecanique

Track list:

1.Solo Piano Uno 03:48
2.Metallic Drone 03:36
3.Duo 1 03:07
4.Drone Mécanique 06:03
5.Bamboo 03:19
6.Jesse al Arco 02:50
7.Duo 2 03:28
8.Tappin Guitars 04:05
9.Solo Piano Dos 04:55
10.Tension 02:08
11.Frantic Prelude 01:53
12.Frantic Techno 03:03
13.Fierros 03:58
14.Solstice 04:16

Total Time 50:35

instruments & objects used:

  • acoustic piano,
  • upright bass (bowed and pizz),
  • acoustic and electric guitars and basses,
  • hand percussion,
  • bamboo flutes,
  • harmonica,
  • knives,
  • bamboo drums,
  • metal trash lid, stainless steel thermos,
  • wine glasses
  • and other objects.

fx, processing & treatments:

  • digital and analogue delays
  • echo
  • filters
  • reverb
  • wah-wah pedal
  • distortion pedal.

Musique Mécanique: liner notes

Musique Mécanique is the result of two types of research I have been pursuing during the last few years.

First , while working on some “drone” based tracks for another project, I got tired of the usual synth sustained low note as a drone, and all the tweaking, processing and morphing required to give some life to those dull plastic twangs. Being a bassist, it was a natural alternative to pick up my upright bass and try some bowed sustained notes. How much easier was now to add life to that! Not just by means of dynamics and playing techniques, but also manipulating and processing that acoustic “live” sound.  So I started building some basic tracks that I called “organic drones”, they were just drones performed in acoustic instruments and even objects, noises and sounds, then processing and morphing those mixed tracks to achieve an original, unreal yet warm and lively sound. Those organic drones started to get more and more complex and weird as I kept pushing the limits of my postulate: “Just noises produced by mechanical means”.

In the bonus CD of the Special Edition of Musique Mécanique you’ll find the very first track I recorded for this project using this concept: “Recitativo”, is one of my complex organic drones going on for more than 8 minutes, mutating and evolving  as I just solo on top of it my with my electric guitar. Some other tracks using this drone techniques made it to the final cut of Musique Mécanique, most notably “Metallic Drone” and “Drone Mécanique” and “Solstice”, but glimpses of these methods impregnated the whole project in the background of each track.

Then I started a second type of research, exploring the possibilities (and fun) of playing around with delays and echoes.  The random counterpoints, brilliant accidents and unexpected harmonies provided by these delayed signals (usually with particularly high decay/feedback times) proved to be quite addictive, and it took the best part of the album, its bonus tracks and extended to many other projects like “lärmkunst”. The bonus CD includes some compositions I recorded for other projects using the very same “Delays Mécaniques” concept.

The culmination of this echo-drenched research and the idea of using delays as a composition technique, ended up in a collection called “Auto-Counterpoints”, but that will be a different project, as those tracks are more focused, rigorously planned, standard compositions.

Musique Mécanique shows the research process, its unexpected results and delightful accidents.  In a way this is the ultimate ”experimental” album for me: a recording of my experimentations with sound and composition,  a pure “research” project, where I found the charm of starting a track without knowing exactly where it would lead me, without any plot or plan. Then, in post production the composition process continued, giving these recordings a more coherent, achieved structure and sound.

Hopefully some of you will appreciate the results of this process that took 2 years of passionate work. Thanks for making it happen, thanks for listening.

Love:

          dd, Paris October 2010

Lugar Comun

Lugar Comun/Daniel Diaz Trio

This album is Daniel Diaz’s third CD, performed in trio with USA woodwind player Bobby Rangell and Argentinian percussionist Javier Estrella.  Performed live in the studio with no overdubs.

Credits:

Performed by
Daniel DIAZ : 
(Acoustic  Bass Guitar, Upright Bass,)
Bobby  RANGELL : (Flutes, Soprano and Alto Saxophones.)
Javier  ESTRELLA :(Drums, Percussion.)

Recorded at Angel Studio, Paris, France, May-June 2004

Produced by Daniel Díaz

Arrangements:
Daniel Díaz, Bobby Rangell & Javier Estrella.
« Bebê » and « Rosa…Rosa » arranged by  D.D. 

Mixed by D.D. at The Pleasure Dome, Paris, during July 2004.

Cover art by Sergio Pittaluga.

Available CD and Download:
Bandcamp/Lugar Comun

Listen: Spotify

More DD albums here

Daniel Diaz Trio Lugar Comun
Daniel Diaz Trio / Lugar Comun

Track list:

1. Zamba 4 by daniel díaz (zamba en cuatro)  
2. Chacabas
  by daniel díaz  (chacarera trunca)
3. Lluvias Costeras
by daniel díaz  (tango ballad)
4. Milonga Donata
by daniel díaz  (milonga)
5. Luiza
by antonio carlos jobim (vals)
6. Rosa…Rosa
by sandro & oscar anderle  (milonga)
7. Candombe p’al Beto
by daniel díaz (candombe)
8. Bebê 
by hermeto pascoal  (milongon/samba)
9. Pop (Lugar Comun)
by daniel díaz (popballad)
10. Get Out Of Town
by cole porter (bossa)
11. Calcarea
by daniel díaz  (ballad)
12. And I Love Her
by lennon & mccartney (bolero)

Total Time 70:48