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Really happy to announce the next instalment of my series of online concerts ‘Synthrospections‘ on:

Tuesday 8th June at 8.00pm (UK BST time).

And it’s FREE!!!

Yes, I wanted to allow anyone to come along and have fun (limited only by Zoom’s 100 participants max). All you have to do is email me at info@danielbiro.com putting ‘Free gig’ in the Subject. I will then send you the Zoom invitation. 

People who are already on my mailing list and VIP members will receive the link automatically, so no need to contact me.

As a reminder, ‘Synthrospections’ are solo keyboard improvisations using my considerable collection of vintage synths, Rhodes piano and other keyboards. So expect some electronic cosmic ambiences with jazz angularities and abstract grooves. 

To add a sense of risk, each concert will be entirely improvised. Something from nothing. No prepared beats, sequences or tunes, just impromptu stream of consciousness constructs, inspired by the adventurous ‘happenings’ of early 70s electronic pioneers like Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze, but also the spirit of that era’s Miles Davis jazz-rock alumni (Herbie Hancock, Joe Zawinul, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea) as well as the ethereal moods of German ECM label sonic landscapes.

The performance will be recorded and then released as an album on the Sargasso label shortly afterwards.

The  concert will be on Zoom and will be followed by an informal chat.

Last month’s concert is now available as a download album ‘Hidden Castles’ from my website or Bandcamp.

You can get FREE tickets to all my live events by subscribing to my new VIP membership scheme where, for a small monthly sum, you get loads of freebies, exciting perks, downloads, pre-release albums, etc. As a special introductory offer all new subscribers will get an invitation for 15-minute online Zoom chat with me. 

See you ‘there’!

Have launched a new membership plan to allow those who want to be part of what I do to get close up and personal. There are different Tiers to choose from with plenty of music goodies, live events, one-to-one chats, unreleased tracks etc.

Subscribers will be able to access an exclusive series of monthly streaming solo concerts live from my studio that will then be edited into proper album releases. Plus loads more stuff…

To join or find out more click on the link below. Hope to see you on the other side.

Was very pleased to have been asked to write the soundtrack for two documentaries. One on the youth of Charles de Gaulle directed by my good friend Olivier Sarrazin for French TV. And one for the BBC, an interview with Barak Obama on the occasion of the publishing of his new book ‘The Promised Land’, directed by David Shulman. Both very enjoyable projects.

Nice review of ‘Still’ in Prog Magazine.  The album is officially released on June 26th (digitally from all the usual outlets and physically through Burning Shed) but for those of you who can’t wait you can order pre-release copies now from the Shop.

My new album with Colin Bass (Camel) is finally here! A collection of meditative, ambient songs with Colin on vocals, bass and piano and myself on keyboards, we both share the songwriting credits. The album is officially released on June 26th (digitally from all the usual outlets and physically through Burning Shed) but for those of you who can’t wait you can order pre-release copies now from the Shop.

So what’s the story behind this collaboration? Well, way back in 1977, when I was 14 years old, I attended a week-long Summer music seminar in the Alps resort of Les Arcs. I met many weird and wonderful musicians but especially American composer and multi-instrumentalist Jim Cuomo (amongst other things a pioneer of early 8-bit computer games music) who was there to lead the jazz/ rock/pop workshops together with his group The Casual Band. The bass player was Colin Bass, who had just left the Steve Hillage Band and was about to become a permanent member of prog group Camel. A friendship developed with both Cuomo and Bass which went beyond that particular encounter and we have kept in touch ever since.

In 2014 me and Colin started discussing the idea of working together on an album of songs where each of us would contribute an equal number of compositions. With Bass now living in Wales and myself here in London, all the work was done remotely. But despite the distance we developed an immediate symbiotic understanding of what the project should be. The almost complete absence of drums gives the songs a floating sense of space and timelessness. From the pattern-based ‘Summer’ to the freeform ‘The Man Who Never Was’, and from the sparse minimalism of ‘Once Was a Time’ to the epic ‘Heaven’, ‘Still’ evokes a place of quiet emotions and nostalgic reflection. Recently, the song ‘Old Europe’, originally written as an ode to Europe, has taken on new and topical meanings.

‘Still’ is dedicated to the memory of Jim Cuomo who sadly passed away in 2018.