All noises produced and recorded by D.D. at The Pleasure
Dome,Paris, during 2005-2007.
No synths used, no drums, no percussion, no guitars, just basses.
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No synths used, no drums, no percussion, no guitars, just basses.
>VALS POLACO vals 3:47
Recorded Tracks :
Larrivée Acoustic (basic track)
Upright Bass: Bass part.
Steinberger Electric Bass: melody left channel.
Sekine Fretless: Melody Right Channel, Harmonics.
Steinberger Electric Bass: Volume pedal harmony.
A tribute for both Frédéric Chopin and the great tango composers that
took Chopin waltzes as inspiration for many 3/4 tango classics (most notably
HectorStamponi)
>LA BAJA chacarera
6:35
Recorded Tracks :
Field recording (ambience): Street noises in Paris 2003 (and rhythmic loop
with those noises).
Steinberger Electric Bass: percussion groove (2tracks L/R).
Riverhead “Low” Bass: Basic groove and coda solo.
Steinberger Electric Bass: Melodies with
auto-wha.
Steinberger Electric Bass: volume pedal background pad.
Steinberger Electric Bass: distorition background.
Sekine Fretless: Double tracked (L/R) melodies.
Mixdown FXs: delay and reverb.
First song recorded for this project. A quite traditional
chacarera
, respecting not just the customary
chacarera rhythm, but also it's structure and parts: introduction, verse,
chorus.
The "bombo" pattern isplayed with a muted electric bass. The solo
over the coda's vamp
features one of my accidental discoveries: my 4 string Riverhead
with "floppy strings"...
>ZAMBA DESILUCION
4:00
Recorded Tracks : L'arrivée 5 string acoustic bass, solo performance @ The Pleasure Dome ParisJune14th, 2007
around midnight.
Traditional zamba (Rhythm and dance from
Argentina's folklore), traditional in its fixed structure of:
Introduction+12 bar theme+12 bar theme+12 bar chorus, the whole
played twice.
My very last composition sad and passionate...
>PASTORALPALOMA
4:40
Recorded Tracks : L'arrivée 5 string acoustic bass, solo performance @ The Pleasure Dome Paris
March 3rd, 2007
A more classical piece (no improvisation
throughout)
written in Nantes, France, in
february 2005..
>ABSTRACT N°33:02
Recorded Tracks :
Steinberger Electric Bass: Tapping Basic part w/flanger pedal.
Steinberger Electric Bass: distortion+step fx track.
Steinberger Electric Bass: Volume Pedal (ending).
Sekine Fretless Bass Guitar: melody+armonics
Sekine Fretless Bass Guitar: melody+armonics (double tracked harmony).
Schecter Jazz Bass w/black nylon strings: groove.
Mixdown FXs: EQ, delay (2), panner, and reverb.
One of my improvised multi track "sonic etudes".
Abstract, as its title clearly states, just a mood and different
sounds layered together.
>FAREWEL
unaccompanied acoustic bass
4:12
Recorded Tracks :
Michael Kelly Dragonfly solo performance @ The Pleasure Dome Paris
December 4th 2006.
A heart felt tribute to the late great
Michael Brecker. This song was inspired by his battle with leukaemia,
and a comment I heard that he was probably going to pass
away quite soon.
After listening again to one of his (so many) great solos, I confirmed that the
over used cliché "a great artist never dies, he lives in his art and legacy"
was absolutely true. When I composed and recorded this track Brecker
was still fighting and this was a melancholic yet hopeful thought
about him.
Eventually he passed away much too young a month after this track's
recording.