Daniel Inzani is composer, pianist and producer based in Stroud, UK. His musical upbringing has been a mixture of touring, collaboration and recording in an eclectic variety of musical styles. As a self-taught musician and mathematician he has experimented with combining rhythmic and harmonic ideas from around the world through his compositions and improvisation with the live ensembles he leads.
Daniel’s unique background, recording techniques and approach have led to him being commissioned for a range of film projects and developing of his career in this space. Daniel has scored the documentary feature Our Land which premiered at the 2025 Sheffield DocFest. His organic, reflective score all recorded live with an ensemble.
Further work to picture includes analogue film shorts collaborations with Narna Hue and projects with Bristol Expanded and Experimental film.
In 2024 Daniel released his first solo album, ‘Selected Worlds’ which listed in the top 10 Contemporary Albums of the year by The Guardian, receiving a 5 star review and September’s ‘Contemporary album of the Month’. The triple album is a true musical journey to be indulged in, each disc recorded with different sets of musicians, instrumentations, genres and intentions. The Guardian wrote of the album “unhinged, exhilarating adventures in genre-hopping”, exploring “the very different sides to his musical personality across three contracting but connected LPs”.
Much of Daniel’s musical development was in Bristol with the experimental music collective ‘Bloom’, where he formed his contemporary chamber quartet ‘Spindle Ensemble’ as well as the recently disbanded 8 piece group ‘Tezeta’, a cinematic and improvisational group initially inspired by Ethiopian jazz. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of its release, the Tezeta album ‘Seventh Place’ has recently been re-issued on vinyl with demand requiring re-pressing.
Daniel’s focus on group contemporary chamber music was developed with his quartet Spindle Ensemble. He composed, recorded and produced their critically acclaimed second album 'Inkling’ (Hidden Notes Records), which was listed as one of the top 10 contemporary albums of 2021 by The Guardian. These compositions have been described most accurately as Neo-Impressionist, a form of contemporary classical chamber music influenced by the Impressionist era in Paris championed by Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy, as well as other influences from music pioneers such as Moondog, Charles Mingus, Mulatu Astatke and Jonny Greenwood.
Throughout his career Daniel has collaborated with an eclectic range of artists. He has worked as a musical director for Cosmo Sheldrake’s 19 piece live band and arranger of strings and horns for Cosmo’s latest album ‘Eye to the Ear’, co-released the album ‘The Jester’ with Alabaster dePlume and has recorded and toured with Leonie Evans, Cloudshoes, Dubi Dolczek, Simiah, Ellie Gray, Stevie Toddler, Edward Penfold and Count Bobo.
He records and produces the vast majority of his own music live with various line ups and instrumentations, either with regular collaborator Cosmo Sheldrake, or via his own specialised location recording studio of vintage ribbon microphones which he takes to churches and concert halls to capture 3D immersive sound images. His compositions and recordings have enjoyed commendatory reviews in many respected music publications and radio play on BBC 1, 2, 3 and 6.
