Artist description One man band playing and programming all instruments.Music focusing on bass and piccolo bass (no lead guitars). [dee-en-dee-ai]

Music Style Progressive rock, jazz fusion

Musical Influences Yes, ELP, Return to Forever, Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa and many others.

Similar Artists Sometimes DNDI may sound like it's musical influences but the improvisations and innovations on the bass and piccolo bass only make DNDI music what it is. More info on the website link.

Artist History Started to dabble with overdubbing at age 12.This went on (while working as a bass player) until the 80's when Dondi Ledesma began recording his music on studios. The DNDI projects were first released in 1991.

Group Members Rizal Dondi Ledesma :bass, fretless bass, piccolo bass, keyboards, drum programs, flute and vocals.

Instruments bass, fretless bass, piccolo bass, drum machine/sequencer, keyboards, vocals, flute.

Albums DNDI 1, DNDI 2, Shadow Of The Sun, Medicine, The Last Electric Knight, Original Sin, Die Black Rat

Press Reviews www.geocities.com/SoHo/Study/3605/auds/press.html . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "DNDI recordings aren't as easy to access as your next-door designer drugs or methampethamine hydrochloride,besides a limited distribution pressing is limited."(Cynthia Pare, Rock & Rhythm) . . . . . . . . . "The music of Dondi Ledesma cannot be easily described nor categorized."(Pocholo Concepcion) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . This page has been designated a Cool Site in the Netscape Open Directory : http://dmoz.org/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Still Crazy After All These Years" (Philippine Daily Star) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Like the best bassists before him, Ledesma is never content in staying within the parameters of a specific musical form, so that his experiments with shifting time signatures recall the bebop giants, and the blazing lead guitar lines on the piccolo bass are a manifestation of a metal temperament. (excerpts: 'Waiting for Dondi Ledesma' - by Juaniyo Arcellana Entertainment News [The Philippine Star] )

Additional Info 'The DAM Songs' and 'The DAM Songs 2' Cds are compilations of selected Dondi Ledesma songs from the first to the sixth album carefully remastered, optimized and encoded to give the best quality sound available only on these Cds at D.A.M. 'The DAM Songs 2' contains fewer but longer songs than the first CD but both have about the same lenght of entertainment time. . . . . . .

Location Pasay, Metro Manila - Philippines

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