Daniel Gwilym Jones
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Daniel Gwilym Jones is a Welsh/Colombian musician and music producer born 17 April 1974. Known for playing and creating different alternative and experimental rock bands in Colombia like Danny Dodge,[1] Bombalacran[2] and Two Way Analog.[3]
Jones's bands have been mainly characterised by being part of the underground scene in Bogotá and playing in different musical festivals like Rock al Parque, especially the post-punk and alternative scene in the 1990s, and later the indie and Shoegaze scene in the early 2000s.
In the late 1990s Jones moved to Seattle in the US for a few months with his Danny Dodge bandmates who were living there at the time to create a new project, after a few months things did not quite go as expected and Jones moved to London as a first attempt to continue his music career. After a period in London the band then called Orbita Cascabel decided to try and settle again in Colombia where they recorded a yet-to-published album. After finishing the album of Orbita Cascabel the band performed the first per-release gig that ended up in the band losing all their instruments to a break-in at the place of the gig that same night. The recording fortunately did not get stolen but has not seen the light of day, the band could not cope with the loss and decided to break up the band, this time forever and move on with their lives.
In the early 2000s Jones decided to continue with music and created Two Way Analog as a solo project where he started his music and production experimentation. The first album, Music and Songs for the Road, is a guitar focused album, heavily influenced by the soundtracks of road trip movies of Jim Jarmush, David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino. In this album Jones experimented for six months with recording techniques just using two microphones and a 8-channel Adat recorder. Here is where Jones developed a passion for analogue recordings which he still implements even in his latest Synthwave band Commodore74.
In 2010 Jones decided to move back to London to promote Two Way Analogue and ended up playing for different bands and musicians mainly with Belle Phoenix, Cowboy Small. Meanwhile, his side project Field Trip to the Moon started to become Jones's main band, but due to personal and family issues Jones had to move back to Colombia in 2015.
For the next four years Jones recorded three more Two Way Analog albums and one album with his acoustic side project called Willem Dajones. When the pandemic hit the world Jones decided to move with his family away from the city, a few months after that he contracted COVID-19 and had a near-death experience which made him be in recovery for eight months due to a series of fractures to his jaw teeth and skull. After recovering Jones decided to pursue a different path in music experimenting with synths and drum machines with his current project Commodore74, a more post-punk/indie pop project that draws inspiration from the raw energy and DIY ethos of punk and writing lyrics that engage in the political and philosophical landscape.
References
- ↑ "Danny Dodge, Gratamira, Chinauta, 1995 | Radiónica". www.radionica.rocks.
- ↑ Tiempo, Casa Editorial El (March 14, 1997). "ROCK BOGOTANO SALE AL ESCENARIO". El Tiempo.
- ↑ Shock, Redacción (May 20, 2019). "La banda bogotana Two Way Analog regresa con nostalgia experimental". Shock.
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