Releases
top19 catalog#: top19
date: 20.03.2006
artist:

Daniel Maze

title:

Elementary EP

artwork: cover.jpg
full release: top19.zip

track

time

format


01.sleigh bell 4:15
preview
02.one more before the grade 7s 4:48  
03.grade 6 students (last note) 4:29  
04.gathering acoustic data 3:52  
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Daniel Maze is a young composer from Canada, Vancouver. As he told me about himself, “I’ve been into music all my life”. I bet he was! After releasing two brilliant mini-albums on Italian net-label Sine3pm, he delivered a blow again with his Treehugger EP, released on 12rec. And now he presents his fourth release this year (this guy is a real hot rodder, don’t you think?), exclusively for top-40.org.

Elementary EP is “a must-hear” work for everyone, submerged in lo-fi aesthetics. As a source for these beautiful songs, Daniel used a very short field recordings of an elementary school band, made with cell-phone. This humming, enigmatic, touching, atmospheric ambient songs are so energetic and so primitive at the same time! This Elementary single is a bright example, of how a very simple concept and idea, provided with a very simple medium of expression, could be a basis for such a powerful, sincere and emotional work.