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Baila Mi Salsa

Ese Amor No Te Conviene

Written and recorded close to the Avon in Stratford upon Avon, Nov 2022
Rick's drums added via the internet from just north of Finham Sewer in Dec 2022 ;-))

Guitars upon Avon

"Touch 'Em All Kirby" (Piano Improv)

Here's an acoustic guitar solo I threw together; I didn't record to a click so I'm probably way off time in some parts.

The Spaniard

SOLSTICE | PART II- Winter’s Bone

The winter solstice brings dramatic landscapes of cold and dark, and a time of poetic reflections. With the evocative, dramatic light of Winter, we find our spirits lifted and warmed by the bittersweet beauty of love, in spite of the chill. The title Winter’s Bone is derived from the movie, however here more as an evocative character combining both the sensation of cold and shades of white, the bone showing our barest, most honest form. As such I hope this piece tells a story of longing, melancholy and hope…

-Dan

As always I really enjoy your comments, likes and shares!

All music, arranging, composition, guitars by Daniël van den Berg, December 2022-January  2023
Guitar: Joan Cashimira, modelo 145, spruce top w/ cocobolo sides and back, Gata de Gorgos (Alicante), 2015
Recorded using an Apogee MiC.
Mixed in Auria, masterered in Auria and Final Touch

Solstice - Part 2 - Winter’s Bone | Dan van den Berg

https://youtu.be/3fHo4B1x_BY

Seems to be an endless repeated theme for me ~ running away to the countryside, and in recent years this has been the Australian wilderness, from the deep south to the far north.

Dedicated to, and featuring Gary Reeves (aka Mountain Songs) on drums and cymbals (remixed) at the start. Banjo, lap slide guitar (acting as bass), beats and vox by myself. This song is for Gary, who has been a wonderful musical compadre for many of us around the world, via this  Soundcloud Village.

Respect and acknowledgement to the Traditional Owners of the lands, waters and skies in this video, both in Australia and New Zealand. Particular thanks to the Yolgnu people of Gapuwiyak who made me feel so welcome during my short visit to Arnhem Land last year.

Looking Up & Down      Song, recording, audio & video July 2023 - Chris Okunbor (APRA)
I was chained to the city, thinking I could fly,
I gazed at the heavens as the clouds rolled high.
Long, long days working to the plan,
I changed my way of living and I left that town.

Now I'm higher than the mountains, looking down below,
rolling miles above cotton candy snow.
Way beyond the city, just going with the flow.
running to freedom to a place unknown.

Got a window seat, got a beer in hand.
Feeling in my heart for this ancient land.
Well, wild rivers snake,  jeweled seas shine.
Djerimanga Songlines are spinning out my mind.

Higher than the mountains, and the madding crowd,
cruising miles above cotton fields of cloud.
Way beyond the city, going with the flow,
running to freedom, to a place unknown.
To a place unknown.

Looking Up & Down

Looking Up & Down  ~ a song for Gary (video link in notes)

Afternoon Slumber

Instrumental, Vocals, Lyrics & Mix by Garddwr Porffor: https://soundcloud.com/garddwrporffor
Vocals, Vocal Melody, Poetry Selection by Nadia Selvaggi

Poem extracts taken from Mr. Maurice Roberts' metrical version of Davydd Benvrass' Ode to Prince Lleweylyn (fl. 1230–1260) Translation by The Cambro-Briton (1820)

*Lyric & melody sung by Garddwr Porffor by Garddwr Porffor

*Davydd Benvrass was a Court Bard for the Kingdom of Gwynedd, including the period of Prince Llewelyn ap Iorwerth's reign (Llewelyn the Great), which accounts for the jingoistic nature of the text. This poem is one of a number of Benvrass' works celebrating Llewelyn's victories in battle with King John of England. 

Creator of that glorious light,
Which sheds around his vivid rays,
And the pale moon which rules the night,
O deign to animate my lays!
O, may my verse like Merddin's flow!
And with poetic visions glow.
Great Aneurin, string my lyre,
Grant a portion of thy fire!
That fire, which make thy verse record,
Those chiefs who fell beneath the sword
On Cattraeth's bloody field:
O! May the muse her vigor bring
While I Llewelyn's praises sing,
His country's strongest shield.
Ne'er was such a warrior seen,
With heart so brave and gallant mien:
From a regal race descended,
Bravely he the land defended,
Kings have learnt his pow'r to dread,
Kings have felt his arm and fled.
Loegria's king with conquest flush'd,
Boldly to the battle rush'd,
Then was heard the warlike shout,
(Signal of the approaching rout)
Great Llywelyn raged around,
Bravest Chieftains press'd the ground,
None his valour could withstand,
None could stem his furious hand,
Like a whirlwind on the deep,
See him through their squadrons sweep.

Come my love
Don't dwell upon the things we have lost
Pride and passion, honour, love,
sought at such a cost
We never did understand the twisting of the ways
It will serve us best to lift our heads
and think of better days

Then was seen the crimson flood,
Then was Offa bathed in blood,
Then the Saxons fled with fright,
Then they felt the monarch's might.
Far is heard Llywelyn's name,
Resounded by the trump of fame;
Oft the hero chased his foes
Where Sabrina smoothly flows.

Long and happy may he live!
And his hours to pleasure give.
And, ere upon his honoured tomb,
Herbs shall rise, and flowers shall bloom

Better Days by Garddwr Porffor & Nadia Selvaggi

Monsoon

CROSS UP ( FEAT. TRAVIS SCOTT, KEN CARSON, PLAYBOY CARTI & DESTROY LONLEY

(Written by Terry Reeves)
Terry Reeves: Lead Vocal
Hans-Michael Albers:  All instruments, arrangement & production

Whenever we send Hans the demo of a new song, one of the most enticing parts of the process is that we never know what is going to come winging it’s way back from Hamburg.  We never try and steer him in any particular direction because we have total faith that whatever he sends will  be much, much better than anything we’d had in mind.

Quite often, once a week or two has passed and he’s had the chance to expand on his thinking, he’ll send another version, totally different from the first but always something equally as brilliant, causing both Tel and myself to ponder which one to post.   A quandary of the very best kind.  

Chris O is a multi-faceted musician who seems at home within any genre but there’s no doubt she is best known for her mastery of The Blues, hence the demo leaning very firmly in that direction…or so we thought  However, on hearing it for the first time, Hans heard something very different.  His thoughts focused on a simple piano / voice ballad, something we were certainly not expecting but which totally blew us away.

By the end of that weekend though, along too came the blues version, a delicious groove to which I couldn’t wait to add some drums and as those who’ve already heard it will know, that’s the one we eventually posted.  Nevertheless, the indelible mark imprinted on my sensibilities by the unplugged mix simply refused to go away.  Even though it’s precisely the same vocal, the pared-back accompaniment pushes it’s heart and it’s power to the fore and I felt that it deserved to be heard.  So that’s the reason we’re posting ‘The Love of Mrs. O’, phase two…

In closing, despite our retirement from active involvement here on SC, Cripple Club wanted to send each and every one of you our sincere thanks for continuing to support our work.  Your generosity of spirit and kind words always mean so much to the three of us.  (Gary Reeves)

I met a brave woman by the name of Mrs O
Playing ‘The Blues’ flying high sometimes flying low
Guitars and Banjos pitching..always acoustic 
Singing and sharing a love affair with music

The Love Of Mrs O

No distance too far, mile by mile growing warm
Confidence of written word believing in art-form
Marriage strings and voice harmonising sounds
The love of freedom scales tightly in bounds

The Love Of Mrs O

Concerts of brave, pulse to a time
Ensemble in waves, helping the climb
Brothers of blues, traveller of love
Live music choose, to fit like a glove

The Love Of Mrs O

Mrs O keeps soaring magnum opus in her hands
Song of friendship for a man from many bands
Expanse of cumulus clouds, filming for all to see
Never hiding from the challenge in the Nebulosity

The Love Of Mrs O

Up and down across the world finding a closeness
No discrimination of any kind, love is always best
From ‘The Beatles’ land to a Sydney education 
Fondness for Mrs O, giving a continuous ovation

The Love Of Mrs O

THE LOVE OF MRS. O (UNPLUGGED) - CRIPPLE CLUB

Frida's Wings – The Skeletons
November 2023
Duration: 2:40
Listen to the Playlist: soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/art-expressed-in-music-i
Painting: Frida Kahlo, Four Inhabitants of Mexico (cropped).  Frida pictures herself at 4, with a Judas, a pre-Columbian symbol from Nayarit, and a skeleton.
Music for Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) who will be performing Frida's Wings, a ballet based on the life and works of Frida Kahlo, June 2024 in Colorado.
This piece will also be included in the upcoming “Art Expressed in Music” series.
Thanks to John-Marc Ventimiglia @john-marc-ventimiglia for creating the “rattling bones” sound library
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self portraits and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.  Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. She is also known for painting about her experience of chronic pain. In most of her self-portraits, she depicts her face as mask-like, but surrounded by visual cues which allow the viewer to decipher deeper meanings. Aztec mythology features heavily in Kahlo's paintings in symbols including skeletons and skulls.  In the painting, Dream of The Bed, painted in the year of 1940, Frida expressed her feeling and interception of death, which depicts a skeleton on the canopy of her bed (as she had in her real life). Her husband, Diego Rivera called the Juda, Frida's lover, but Frida said it's just an amusing reminder of people's mortality. Frida Kahlo spent much of her life in pain.  As As a teenager she suffered a horrific bus accident which left her unable to have children and meant she needed more than 30 operations on her spine. Eventually her withered leg had to be amputated and she died at 47. She said in her diary: “Feet, why do I need you, if I have wings to fly”

For guitar, accordion, trumpet, violin, double bass, sound effects and percussion.

Art Expressed in Music - Frida's Wings - The Skeletons

...for all the dead and dying.
Libretto/Lyrics (LAT/EN):

***** 00:00 Requiem æternam *****
Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat eis.
[Eternal rest give unto them, O Lord,
and let eternal light shine upon them.]

***** 07:57 Kyrie eleison *****
Kyrie, eleison.
[Lord, have mercy.]

***** 10:29 Domine Jesu Criste *****
Domine Jesu Christe,
rex gloriae,
libera animas omnium defunctorum
ne cadant in obscurum,
sed duc eas in lucem sanctam.
[Lord Jesus Christ,
King of glory,
deliver the souls of all the departed,
that they fall not into darkness,
rather, lead them into the holy light.]

***** 13:31 Lux aeternam *****
Lux æterna luceat eis, Domine,
et Requiem perpetua dona eis
[May light eternal shine upon them, O Lord,
and the eternal rest give unto them.]

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Contemporary classical music for synphony orchestra, organ, choir and solo voices.

Instruments
Strings: 1. Violins, 2. Violins, Violas, Cellos, Basses
Brass: Trumpets, Horns, Trombones, Tubas
Woodwinds: Flute, Oboe, English Horn, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, Contra Bassoon
Percussion, Harp, Organ & Choir (Sopran, Alt, Tenor, Bass)

Solo voices with electronic effects:
in II/IV by Stefanie Holtz
in I/III by Jürgen Krause

All lyrics taken from the christian liturgy

Created and conducted 2021-23 by Kapellmeister Krause

Requiem

Requiem - Part I-IV

Imprint-
Words&Vocals-Modes About Me
https://soundcloud.com/modesaboutme
Beat-Tot.
His new project's album is seriously Cool & Dope! Must check!
https://soundcloud.com/modesaboutme/sets/buffalo-avenue

Imprint- ft.Modes About Me

Once again Christmas has arrived. It is time to express our best wishes for happiness and fulfillment to everyone and to imbue ourselves with a sweet and happy atmosphere. It's not easy to do so when we think about the number of people who are currently suffering from wars, persecution, repression and famine. We need a better world, let's try ....let's do it ...... Merry Christmas !!!

Composed & produced by: Chivicke
HomeStudio Productions ©2023
Kontakt Voices: Adey
Image: Mo Eid

We Need A Better World

Written by Tracy G Dartt
Performed by Josh McAlexander

The God on the Mountain

Vocals; https://soundcloud.com/specialececilia

Production; https://soundcloud.com/rizlix


Here's a collab featuring the vocals of the amazing Special Cecilia, you can find her original vocal here;

https://soundcloud.com/cecilia-special/hope-for-humanity-acas-special-cecilia


Hope you all have a happy holidays!!

Peace

Dan

The artwork was created here;

https://www.canva.com/

RiZLiX Ft. Special Cecilia - Hope For Humanity

Combstead - Main Mix, Composition, Arrangement https://soundcloud.com/markcombs-928282858?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Robert Grigg - Guitar, Master Mix https://soundcloud.com/robert-grigg?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Brian Butts - Guitar

G.B.C. - To Each Its Own

Title/Out Of Time(J.J.And Khan)
Vocals, song & lyrics/Khan
 Bass ,Drums, piano, synth,production/J.J.Terrell

J.J.Terrell
https://soundcloud.com/j-j-terrell

Lyric

I don’t wanna miss moments
I don’t wanna miss miracles
I don’t wanna miss mysteries
I don’t wanna miss my life

The man who can see
 mystery in all things lives 
outside of time.

Every cloudy day
Every Single day
Every mundane life give me miracles
私は瞬間を見逃したくないの
私は奇跡を見逃したくないの
私は神秘を見逃したくないの
私は人生を見逃したくないの
あらゆるものに神秘を見る人は
時間の外に生きている
曇り空の日々
孤独の日々
どんなありふれた日々も奇跡を与えてくれる

Outside Of Time (J.J. And Khan)

The snow is fallin' on Christmas Eve
And I'm walkin down familiar streets
Warm food waits for me at home
Right now I'm happy just to feel the snow

But when we get back you'll be there
Smilin' at me from atop the stairs
The lights are glowing all around the place
A loving feeling resting on your face
This is your homemade Christmas
This is your homemade Christmas

Now I know where our home exists
It took awhile but I can admit
Not a place but it's all our own
Anywhere I'm with you, we're not alone

Presents and family are miles away
Along with memories of Christmas days
But we're together and that's all I need
warm on a homemade Christmas Eve...
This is your homemade Christmas
This is your homemade Christmas

All the promises that we have kept
replace the shiny new store bought gifts
The days ahead that we now see
Can't be wrapped under a Christmas tree...

The winter deepens in the frosty days
And glowing fires still keep me amazed
Inside our home's everything we need
When you wake up next to me...
On our homemade Christmas
On our homemade Christmas

- V3.04

Your Homemade Christmas

A warm Soulful tune to warm up a grey coolish December afternoon!
Thank you for all of your very kind plays, shares and playlists, really appreciated!

(C) Vocalatti ASCAP

Feeling High

When I sent Mike Fox the acoustic track never did I think in my wildest dreams that he would produce such a mix  of sounds.
The brief was a modern pop track in the realm of Louis Capaldi / Ed Sheeran that sort of thing.
And what I got was an amazing piece of nostalgia 70s Chic  v 80s club which I actually bloody loved.
Just shows that it’s best to trust the process and let these outstanding musicians/producers do their thing . 
It’s such fun collaborating with different people and listening to their different take on things.
Mike is an excellent songwriter himself and you can always pick the earworm in his work.
Big thanks to Mike he was a pleasure to work with and a real gentleman.
I hope you enjoy it guys as much as we did making it.


Give each other up 

V1 
Your love for me is out of practice 
We got somewhere lost in all the traffic 
Im getting prickly now in the hustle 
Im sorry if I ever caused you trouble 

Chorus  
We  can fail at what we hate 
And we can fail at what we love
But doesn’t mean we should give each other up


V2
Why don’t we never seem to make it to desert
Your the sweetest thing  i don’t deserve 
I always new how to make things better 
Now I’m just that storm in your weather 

Finish on a double Chorus

Give Each Other Up ~ Fox & Brownie

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Salamander

Thanks to @david-dunhamuser589535203 for his continual mastering help and support.
I'm very grateful.

Night Train

Taken from the upcoming debut full length album (planned to be released mid-2024 - "Rock and Roll Kills").
(p) & (c), 2024.
Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVDW2mi4i0g
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Explicit lyrics:
Felt like almost dead, would you carry me home, would you lay me down?
Felt like shit again, would you bring my pills? do you know how it feels?

i don't know where to go...is this the end? i don't know!
From the tip of my head...till my toes, is this hell and heaven's above?

is there a free ride or a lottary prize? to win to lose on an XL size?
crappy or not, time will show...all i know is heaven's above!

I don't wanna buy a lotta food
i don't wanna get rid the booze
i don't wanna buy an SUV
i don't wanna get fatold and get peed

i don't wanna watch the news
i don't wanna get dirty with tools
i don't wanna smell your farts
i don't wanna mess around with you fatfucks!

Rock and Roll Kills

Heaven's above?

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Dream and walk your way...
I made it with the image of a cheering song to dream and walk your way.

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