Welcome to Riddleworks Productions! Glad you found us. Were the directions OK? My name is Dan Palladino and I'll be your humble host during your stay. The mission here at Riddleworks is to provide a home for a wide variety of my music. That music may take the form of an electronic/symphonic piece, a Beatles-influenced pop tune or an improvised space-jazz exploration. Let's just call it quirky pop/rock, leaning toward experimental space-jazz, drizzled with a funky blues topping. Damn marketing department! You're all fired! Anyway, feel free to wander around and make yourself at home. Did I mention that I'm available to work on your project? (Click here for details.) If you need anything, just pull on the silk rope and I'll come running with a cup of hot tea.

Today on the Riddleworks Player: Big Sky © 2009 Dan Palladino It's all loaded up and ready to go. Just hit play. If player isn't working for you, Click here to listen.

New Tune
I'm going into a period of writing a bunch of short instrumental pieces. The first one is called "Big Sky". It's ready to go on the player above. Enjoy!

Private Lessons
I've had a couple of private lesson slots open up recently. Click here for more info on studying guitar, music theory, songwriting and recording with me.

Happy New Year!
Here's wishing you and yours health and happiness in 2009. Remember that when things look bleak, music can help you feel better. Crank it!

New on the Riddleworks Player, "Plant A Seed". This was written specifically for a short film by Evan Austin Rosenberg. It stars none other than Richie "LaBamba" Rosenberg, arranger-extraordinaire and trombonist on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. LaBamba was kind enough to come in as a guest lecturer for my Introduction to Music Business course at County College of Morris, Randolph, NJ. Thanks, Rosenbergs! Click here to see the film.
Click here to hear the whole tune.

Dan on YouTube.
Here's some live video of yours truly jamming with my pals, The Waffle Band. Always plenty of improvisation and silliness on a Waffle. Click here to hear us playing Sly and the Family Stone's "Thank You".

YouTube Video.
Tamra Hayden has just released the video for her tune "Eden Will Bloom". You can see my handsome self in the band shots. Click here to check it out.

New Tune.
I just finished up a new tune. Well, it's really a re-working of an old tune–I wrote "Uniforms" in 1998, but thought it deserved a new treatment. Some acoustic pop/folk for your listening pleasure. Hope you like it. Click here to listen.

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