about
Daniel Gadd is a songwriter and composer from South Africa, currently based in London, UK.
His debut album ‘As If in a Dream I Drifted at Sea’ was recorded by the ocean in Kalk Bay, Cape Town and sounds of the street, birds and passing trains can be heard blending into the songs. This was followed by a second studio album ‘About Strange Lands and People’, a new collection of songs — soft-spoken, warm, nostalgic and dreamlike.
As a classically trained composer, Daniel's most recent work includes 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 composed for the documentary features ‘Medicine Man: The Stan Brock Story’, currently on the festival circuit in the United States and 'Bruce Lee and the Outlaw' 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', the Emmy Award-winning documentary ‘Wildcat’ and the Oscar-winning short documentary 'The White Helmets'.
In addition to his film scoring work, Daniel is part of the team at Spitfire Audio.