This Romanian composer uses a classical vocabulary towards decidedly contemporary ends. Formal concert piano, shimmering strings and cool upright bass all meet across morphing time signatures and shifty scales. But least likely of all: everything's grounded in strong melodies.
"As the writer and performer, Daniel is able to expertly build a song around cinematic imagery – adding just enough to create something growing, changing, and morphing, until it takes on a life of its own."