A musical companion from Montréal, Québec

BLUE BUDDY.

A true friend through music.

Songs for the bright days, the blue ones, and every road between. Made by Daniel Fotoohi — musician, composer, producer and guitar builder.

Meet Daniel

20+years with music

MTLhome base

Made by hand. Shared with heart.

Daniel Fotoohi, known as Bluebuddy, with his guitar

Daniel Fotoohi45°30′ N · 73°34′ W

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01The listening room

A song can sit
with you.

Original songs, instrumental worlds and production work — made with care, and meant to be passed along.

BLUEBUDDY · SELECTED WORK

TWO ROOMS · ONE ARTIST

Songs & soundtracks

Original music by Daniel FotoohiON AIR

Choose a doorway

Find your
own frequency.

BlueBuddySongs · Spotify BluebuddyMore listening · Spotify Just for You — RockMixing & mastering · SoundCloud Heavy With Thoughts 2Production credit · SoundCloud You Need This 4 — Hip Hop ChillProduction credit · SoundCloud You Need This 3 — Hip Hop ChillProduction credit · SoundCloud

The records are yours to discover. Take the long way round.

From the songbook Your Eyes Were Home✳Rose in Winter✳Sea to Sky✳Long Road✳Into 2026

Open the track index20 TRACKS

Titles and artist destinations were captured from the public Spotify players on the previous site. Open Spotify for the current track availability and artwork.

02Music for moving pictures

Sound finds
its picture.

Compositions, music videos and live moments from a practice that moves between the screen, the stage and the listening chair.

Explore the full video archive42 VIDEOS

Film, music videos & other appearances

PIANO · LISTENING & PERFORMANCE

GUITAR · JAZZ & LIVE PLAYING

All 42 YouTube embeds found across the previous Videos page are collected here; Rainbow Toonies was linked from its Music page. Videos stream from YouTube.

More sessions, concerts and studies live on the Bluebuddy channel.Visit YouTube

Bluebuddy's recording room with instruments, speakers and recording equipment

ROOM TONE / 01

03The creative workshop

Warm signal.
Clear intention.

From first sketch to final master, the goal is the same: help the song become more itself.

01Recording & overdubsA patient room for instruments, voices and ideas.

02Mixing & masteringBalance, depth and a finished sound that travels.

03Production & arrangementShape the parts, sounds and spaces around a song.

04Composition for pictureOriginal music for film, short-form stories and advertising.

Talk through a project

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Good production makes room for the feeling, then gets out of its way.

BLUEBUDDY · WORKING NOTE 01

04The craft of the instrument

Built to find
its own voice.

A guitar begins as a feeling in the hands. Daniel has designed, built and repaired instruments for players who want something personal.

Handmade archtop jazz guitar taking shape in the workshop — 01 / ARCHTOPBuilt by hand · Montréal

Close-up of a hand-carved guitar neck and fingerboard — DETAIL STUDYGRAIN / 02

THE FIRST ARCHTOP · 2010

Four months at the bench. One instrument that changed the way he listened.

2–4months for a custom build

01instrument at a time

Ask about a build or repair Build timing shown on the previous site; ask for the current queue.

01Listen

02Choose the wood

03Shape by hand

04Set it free

05Passing the language along

There’s always
another chord.

Daniel is developing online jazz courses and continues to teach guitar. The lesson is never just the shape of a chord — it’s learning how to hear where it wants to go.

Ask about lessons Online course studio in progress

LISTEN·LEARN·PLAY

06The person behind the songs

A life spent
listening closely.

Bluebuddy is Daniel Fotoohi’s musical home: a place for the songs, the film cues, the instruments and the people they bring together.

For more than twenty years, he has moved between piano, guitar, bass, songwriting, production and the quiet patience of the workbench.

THE PLAYER · THE POET · THE BUILDER

2005

A room to make things

A home studio takes shape — a place to record, learn, teach and keep following the sound.

2010

The first archtop

Four months of full-time building bring a first handmade jazz guitar to life.

20+ YEARS

The work keeps widening

Music for albums, short films and advertising; festivals and bands across Canada; studies in jazz, production and guitar craft.

TODAY

Writing toward the screen

Based in Montréal, Daniel is pursuing a PhD in composition for film while developing courses and continuing his studio and instrument work.

✳Silver CupAmerican Society of Young Poets

✳PublishedParis · London · USA · Canada

✳HonoursAudio engineering · Music production · Jazz performance

07The next note is yours

Let’s make
something matter.

A song to shape, a guitar to imagine, a score to write, a question about lessons — start with a hello.

Write to Daniel

BLUE BUDDY.

A song can sitwith you.

Songs & soundtracks

Find yourown frequency.

Sound findsits picture.

Warm signal.Clear intention.

Built to findits own voice.

There’s alwaysanother chord.

A life spentlistening closely.