- Daniel Masson
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Daniel Masson is a musician specializing in the electronic and world-fusion music genres; he is also a music composer, studio producer and guitarist.
Best known for his musical contribution to the famous compilations of Buddha Bar, Daniel Masson has made a career of crossing musical and technological boundaries. He has experimented with, and excelled in many different musical styles, making a name for himself in world Chill-out music. He has spent decades fostering the development of unusual styles of music before putting his own name on a record album.
Masson’s music career began at an early age; he acquired his first guitar when he was eleven. He has no formal musical training, he is largely self-taught. At the age of fourteen, he founded a Progressive rock Band where he was the composer and the guitarist. His subsequent solo career has been influenced by a variety of musical styles and genres ranged from jazz fusion, avant-garde rock, electric and acoustic rockto the pioneers in the early days of electronic music.
Arrived in Paris in 1976, he became a guitar teacher, offering lessons during the day and performing Jazz music in clubs at night. When first synthesizers had arrived, Masson is one the earliest musicians to be associated with Computer-assisted composition. In 1987, He has founded with his brother Christophe the Jungle Boys, a New Wave music band and a vinyl was released by EMI France Studios. This short experience has led him to give concerts in numerous French theaters. For some years, he has performed as Music Producer and session guitarist for various French artists such as Julio Iglesias.
When further technological progress has been made in music, Daniel Masson left the Band and embarked on music programming and studio production since the 90th. His versatility is almost nearly without peer. He has scored great number of high profile TV shows and commercials such as for France Télécom,Darphin, Roger & Gallet, Chopard and Swissair Airlines. His special talent led composer Goran Bregović to hire him to program and produce music of the famous movie “Queen Margot (1994 film)”. The film won 5 César Awards, oneCésar Award for Best Music Written for a Film and two awards at the Cannes Film Festival. He also provided music for the BBC Documentary film "Living the Dream". Over the years, Daniel Masson has provided hundreds of video games soundtrack for The Walt Disney, Paramount Pictures and Ubisoft Entertainment to name but a few. This rewarding experience has brought him to explore other horizons of musicality while his work continues to be highly requested.
Masson fell quickly in love with World fusion music when he first met in 1999, in Paris, Bari Siddiqui, a classical flautist, who created his own genre of folk fusion of North Indian Classical sounds with traditional Baul music. Since then, Masson has been traveling all over the planet in searching for new sounds whereby he could develop his Musical creativity in a spiritual surrounding. These adventures have fed Daniel’s inspiration to create his unique musical creativity: each of his albums tells a story of a journey and encountering with people. He founded his own label Jungle Line Records.
Masson’s first “music Journey” was electromana in Bangladesh. He spent 3 years composing, mixing and programming world elements and vocals of various artists from Bangladesh and Polynesia including Bari Siddiqui, Krishna, Feroz Khan. In 2002, he released his first album Jet Lag, a brand new sound of electro-world music. As a second journey, Masson has composed and produced 9 albums, the “Pacific Islands Collection” at Oceania Records. Each album is a subject of a Pacific Island.
Later, with the support of the French Foreign Ministry, he returned to Bangladesh to record and film the cream of Bangladesh’s Baul music tradition. There, he met other top artists including Bibi Russell, an international fashion designer and United Nations artist for peace, Farida Parveen and Norul Haque. Two years later, he released the CD/DVD Baul Dimension, a unique atmospheric ambiance where digital sounds are perfectly fused with human voices. He enriched the project by integrating elements recorded and filmed in Kenya, Cuba, Ibiza, Thailand and the Pacific Islands.
During his long trips, Masson has spent more than 10 years collecting ethnic sounds and human voices to use them in his home studio. His new Album adventures is a collection of old songs remixed including the project “fashion for development” featuring Bibi Russell, Bari Saddiqui among other artists.
Never one to be satisfied with the status quo, Daniel continues to push the limits of his artistry, fusing genres, styles, and technologies to create new and exciting directions in musical expression. With the first EP Bingo released in 2006 and the second EP Trempolino in 2008, Masson wishes to create a new composition style wherewith he blends ethnic sounds into an instrumental uplifting atmosphere and minimalist electronic sounds.
In 2007, he went to Syria and [Egypt] to record the music of Buddha Bar Travel Impressions. He composed and produced the music, while Fred Spillmann has produced the video. The CD\DVD album has been released in 2008 at George V Records.
Today, Daniel Masson is an internationally acclaimed artist who dreams of the universal connection between all peoples and cultures. His music is described as a mixture of vibration and harmony.
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