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 recordings, on which he explored all shades of glitch music: Wounded Animals (from anxious distant piano solos in empty rooms, hollow rumbles of isolationism-style passages to emotional, touching ambient soundscapes) and The Art Of Sleeping In (beautiful, gripping, heavenly soft microwave ambient), he delivered a blow again with his Treehugger EP, released on 12rec, on which he showed us everything he can – from warm, cozy, soft tech-minimal to pure piano ambient and tender guitar songs. And now he presents his fourth release this year (this guy is a real hot rodder, don’t you think?), exclusively for Top 40.

Elementary EP is “a must-hear” stuff for everyone, submerged in lo-fi aesthetics. Very short field recordings of an elementary school band, made with cell-phone (!), became a basement for these beautiful songs. A humming, enigmatic layers, touching, atmospheric ambient songs, it is so energetic and so primitive at the same time! The title of this work, elementary, goes exactly right with these tracks, because they are a bright example, of how very simple concept and idea, provided with very simple medium of expression, can became a basis for such powerful, sincere and emotional work.

check the daniel maze - wounded animals
check the daniel maze - the art of sleeping in

check the daniel maze - treehugger EP