ABOUT
Daniel Gadd is a composer and songwriter from South Africa, currently based in London, UK.
Recent work includes composing additional music for Orlando von Einsiedel's delicate and heartwarming feature documentary ‘The Cycle of Love’ and writing several commissioned tracks for the video game ‘Road 96’ — a procedurally generated road trip made by renowned indie creators DigixArt. The original game soundtrack was released by G4F Records.
Television work includes scoring the three-part documentary series ‘Death In Bollywood’ produced by Grain Media and the BBC.
Working in film, Daniel has contributed additional music to titles such as ‘Heart of Invictus’ (Netflix) and the Emmy Award-winning documentary ‘Wildcat’ (Prime Video) as well as composed for the documentary features ‘Medicine Man: The Stan Brock Story’ (Prime Video) and 'Bruce Lee and the Outlaw' (MUBI) which premiered at the Sheffield Doc/Fest. He was also the composer for the romantic independent drama 'The Girl from the Song', a modern-day retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, which premiered at the Barcelona Film Festival and went on to be released by Netflix.
Daniel has assisted composers on various studio-level films such as ‘On Her Shoulders’, ‘Evelyn’, 'Murder on the Orient Express', 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society' and the Oscar-winning short documentary 'The White Helmets'.
As a songwriter, his debut album ‘As If in a Dream I Drifted at Sea’ was recorded by the ocean in Kalk Bay, Cape Town and released to praise from Folk Radio UK, Sylvie Simmons for Mojo Magazine and Michka Assayas on his radio programme ‘Very Good Trip’. This was followed by a second studio album ‘About Strange Lands and People’ — described as ‘absolutely lovely’ by Mark Radcliffe on BBC Radio 6 Music.