Daniel Aged

Over the course of two decades, Daniel Aged’s artistic vision has been defined by rugged sensitivity and exploratory precision. His touch is immediately recognizable within the first note, his signature intervals and progressions shimmering from deep within lucidly psychedelic arrangements. From his origins as a teenage protégé session and live musician for Raphael Saadiq, John Legend, Beck and Elton John (among many others), his production, arrangement and musical direction work for Frank Ocean, Zsela, FKA Twigs, and Kelela, and his own band inc no world’s crystalline soul excursions, Aged has wound through contemporary pop music as a master craftsman adaptable to anything yet fully in his own lane. Aged’s latest album 'You Are Protected By Silent Love' follows his recent self-titled LP and 'Bass Improvisations EP' and takes the luminous head music into even deeper waters, filled with kosmische Americana, microfunk daydreams, liquid mercury gospel, Red-era Fripp dark matter riffing, and delicate polyrhythms that subtly recall the percussive drive of footwork and jungle. So expressive is Aged’s instrumentation that it’s easy to forget that this is an all- instrumental affair, anchored largely by his keening pedal steel textures and inquisitive bass playing. Rarely are such complex emotions and radical musical touches rendered with so much heart and directness-- in under an hour Aged invokes the urbane pastoralism of Jim O’Rourke and Ralph Towner as much as the sweetly crushing passing chords of Thomas Whitfield’s band at their peak or D’Angelo’s Voodoo reduced to only morning mist and tumbleweeds. While musicians often speak of aspiring to make healing music, Aged’s album arrives truly as a balm, with room for every shade of emotion but guided by a tender, unafraid hand. The release of You Are Protected By Silent Love inaugurates the launch of Aged’s record label, Chiron Sound Ltd., a multimedia platform for exploring musical autonomy and dedicated to the release of his own music and quality recordings of friends and fellow travelers. Chiron Sound will focus on free expression, improvisation, and singular visions—unconstrained by genre, the label will draw alliances across geography and generations towards a horizon of progressive music, tuned to uplift, comfort, and inspire.