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<p class="has-text-align-center has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-large-font-size"><strong>"An epic…a rollercoaster rush."</strong><br><em><a href="https://theanswerisinthebeat.net/2022/04/03/melissa-grey-david-morneau-diego-vasquez-dr-diego-flower-cat-2022/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Answer Is In The Beat</a></em> </p>
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<p class="has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background"><strong>DR DIEGO</strong> bursts into bloom from the seeds of classic deep house, disco, chiptunes, and baroque organ music. <br><br>Diego Vásquez’s bass clarinet and Melissa Grey &amp; David Morneau’s vintage handheld synthesizers swoop and spin and soar like reflections from a mirror ball until they metamorphose into a pulsating processional that pulls us out the door and into the vibrant sunshine.</p>
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<p class="has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background">Bass Clarinet<br>Diego Vásquez<br><br>Merlin Music Machine<br>Melissa Grey<br><br>Nintendo Game Boy<br>David Morneau<br><br>additional clarinets, recording<br>Diego Vásquez<br><br>composition, sound design, programming, additional instruments, mixing, mastering<br>Melissa Grey &amp; David Morneau<br><br>produced by Melissa Grey &amp; David Morneau</p>
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<p class="has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background">Diego Vásquez is a clarinetist-dancer who approaches all his music making from a deep connection with the body.<br><br>Diego is Principal Clarinet of Berkshire Opera Festival (MA) and Norwalk Symphony (CT), and performs regularly with regional orchestras in New England.<br><br>Diego attended the Lucerne Festival Academy (CH) as a clarinetist in 2016 and as a dancer-mime soloist in 2017-18 for Stockhausen's INORI. In 2019, he performed Stockhausen's UVERSA [basset-horn, electronics] at Zelyonka Space Up, Ukraine’s largest modern dance festival.<br><br><a href="http://www.diegocl.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">diegocl.com</a></p>
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