This one being inspired by a couple of guys that I've admired since the early 70's. Their lyrics and detail to production always caught my attention. A salute to Walter and Donald.

Greg Hurley: Lyrics, music, recorded and Mastered

I'm So Thrilled

* Over one year now... with the pandemic!
And most of us are extraordinarily stressed and highly "at tension"
always and everywhere having to be utmost careful and attentive
while keeping calm and patient at the same time.

Apparently, many of us feel overstressed and consumed - at or over the personal limit. And that's fully understandable.

BUT: 
I want to remind us all that there are millions of upright people who constantly work hard and "at tension" for the majority of us each and every day during the crisis. And for over one year now!! 
Those fine fellows who care for our health, our daily life and needs... those who show more solidarity than most of us are even able to imagine! I'm speaking of the socalled "systemically relevants" and even beyond...

It's really about time to honour these fellow human beings, give them the attention they deserve for being active, attentive and reliable while we're all "at tension" so long... !

So this small musical tribute goes
*to all people working "at tension" in times of the pandemic 
for the great care of all of us!*
THANK YOU DEARLY!

Beyond, this track also is a tribute to all people around the globe 
who are seriously affected by the virus and its consequences
- economically (those of you who can't make a living anymore),
- sanitery (those of you who are critically infected and ill) and 
- emotionally (those of you who lost someone due to the virus).
Cause you really and significantly live "at tension" ...

With empathy,
Calaminus

AtTension

At Tension --- *

NEW ALBUM! SHORT TALES FOR THREE GUITARS 

https://danielvandenberg.bandcamp.com/album/short-tales-for-three-guitars

1. Short Tales of the Green Forest
2. Short Tales of the Roads less Travelled
3. Birds of Paradise
4. In The Fragrant Shade Where The Lilac Crowds
5. Ochtendgloren
6. The Rush of the Race and the Calm after
7. De Fuego y Hielo
8. Fuego de Invierno | Seguiriya
9. Olores y Colores (bonus)
10. Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon - 花(Ka)鳥(Cho)風(Fu)月(Getsu) Part I
11. Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon - Part II - Andante 
12. Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon - Part III - Allegretto Appassionato
13. Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon - Part IV - Andante Espressivo 

This series came out of an idea I have had for a long time: to release my music from the strict boundaries of styles or categories. I write and play this music starting from a mood or idea and then through experiment or improvisation develop the pieces naturally, allowing any idea that comes to my mind in, whether it be classical, jazz, pop, rock, fusion, flamenco, tango, bossa nova, etc. The results are very personal to me, they are my musical vernacular, built from years of listening and playing with the guitar. 

Secondly, I use three guitar parts as it frees up multiple possibilities of composition and interplay. A form most familiar from the guitar trio of Paco de Lucia, John McLaughlin and Al Dimeola. 

I sincerely hope you'll enjoy my short tales for three guitars. 

-Dan

credits:
released April 27, 2021 

All music, arranging, composition, guitars by Daniël van den Berg, August 2020 - April 2021 
The Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon Suite, recorded January-May 2019 
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.

license:
all rights reserved

Short Tales

Short Tales for three guitars

Short Tales | album preview fragments | Dan van den Berg

Aleck (Dean) Rand and Oddrun Eikli.
Guitar, musicarr. all instruments Aleck Rand https://soundcloud.com/aleckrand
Vocal and photo Oddrun Eikli

"My One and Only Love" , music written by Guy Wood and lyrics by Robert Mellin. Published in 1953.

My One And Only Love. Aleck Rand and Oddrun Eikli

"A Lot On Mind" ...

Do you know that? Having literally a brainstorm in your head,
a full blast of thoughts and useful or unuseful information?!
Physically tired but mentally wide awake...
And no on-off switch available.

Well, this track is about that condition.
A progressive musical sequence of patterns, 
a wide range of musical influences and style combinations,
connected by some mostly steady grooves and rich instrumentation.

Don't expect a wild or uncontrolled chatter of heavy thoughts
as I didn't intend to depict a kind of horror scenario.
It's just the allegoric interpretation of my own state of mind
and my usual workflow when making music ;-)

And before this tune ends it gives us all some tranquility...

Enjoy your listen!

A Lot On Mind

Ever wonder about "INTELLIGENT ALIEN LIFE"?
Who's to say that some forms of alien life are not so drastically different from us that we may not even begin to recognize them as life at all? 
At this point in the history of mankind, there is so much we still don't know.
So consider this... If it is possible that some small portion of alien lifeforms are nothing at all like us, or any other recognizable lifeforms on our Earth, then it must be possible that some alien life exists in a form that even our wildest imagination can't even possibly conceive of. 
Recognizing how that possibility is beyond the scope of my own comprehension, I tried to imagine something a bit more tangible. That brought me to the idea that "THEY" could exist as gigantic streams of pure energy, a form of energy totally unknown to us, flying through the cosmos on an endless journey, and possessing a consciousness and level of intelligence that challenges our wildest imagination.
As they dance and swirl in a flock, traveling near the speed of light, while exploring countless treasures in the cosmos... what would a conversation between them be like?
So... that's what I was thinking about as I composed this track titled "FLIGHT of the INTRIGOKNOTS", which is sort of a homage to the unknown.
And... coming back down to Earth... 
THIS MARKS MY FINAL AND RATHER EPIC MUSIC PRODUCTION for the year 2022!
ENJOY!
 
All music composed, performed, programmed, mixed by Audric Jankauskas

FLIGHT of the INTRIGOKNOTS (Audric Jankauskas-2022)

Seaten your fastbelts & enjoy the flight :-))
We'll reach our destination in about 4 minutes...

With the organic splendidness of https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind and the funky groove of Calaminus you gonna fly high...

After all these dramatic events of the last days (Brussels, the passing of our musical friend Michel Martineau...) we'll need the uplifting positivity of the Funk more than usual. So Jamie & I joined again for to groove you up, give you some funky comfort these days.

This tune is a special easter egg for you as well, we hope you'll like it!

Happy Easter from both of us!

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Flight Crew:
Jamie Rhind - Organ Solo
Calaminus - all the funky rest


Funk 'n' Fly - Calaminus with Jamie Rhind (Easter Egg Collab)

The Change is here.  It's continues to be such a long road ahead, but we've now seen remarkable progress in upcoming vaccines for COVID and a new president has been elected in the US.  We're feeling a change.
Joining us on this original are the superb guitarists Stephan Lipinski and Daniele Turani, with whom I have created a whole lot of music.  Beautiful players who inspire me and others around the world.  But the key addition on our track is Los Angeles composer, producer and piano and keyboard player extraordinare, Brian McDonald.  He's such an incredible musician, who makes a living creating music for advertising and movies, and reworked the entire original, changing the structure, adding his wonderful piano and synth work, and turning this into something really special.  Follow these exceptional musicians and recording artists:
Brian McDonald:  https://soundcloud.com/brian-mcdonald
http://brianmcdonald.com
Stephan Lipinski:  https://soundcloud.com/pinner
Daniele Turani:  https://soundcloud.com/danieleturani
http://www.danieleturani.com

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Feeling A Change - Stephan Lipinski / Brian McDonald / Daniele Turani / Jamie Rhind

FUEGO DE INVIERNO - WINTER FIRE - SHORT TALES PART VIII

In this part of my Short Tales Series, pieces for three acoustic guitars, I explore diversions from a very solemn, contemplative Flamenco style or "Palo" called Seguiriya. “Seguiriya” is one of the oldest flamenco styles. It is one of the most important with the “bulería” and “soleá”. More precisely I blend it with the Buleria. You can hear snippets of the original style here and there in this piece as well as the outro. I however travel into different fields of music with it, Latin, Classical and Jazz. The result is I guess Fusion or Worldmusic. 

I hope you'll enjoy this one as well as the full series of Short Tales for Three Guitars, which I will put up here as an album, as well as on Bandcamp soon for sale. 

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

Data:
All music, arranging, composition, bass & guitars by Daniël van den Berg, February 7, 2021
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.
Photo and edit by Dan van den Berg, 2021

Fuego de Invierno

Fuego de Invierno | Seguiriya | Dan van den Berg

So fun to play with Audric Jankauskas on his tune.

Dag Nabit - Audric Jankauskas / Harry Jacobson

This track is a very groove - driven one with guitars and guitarish lines, riffs and chops played and triggered completely by keys...
That's why it's titled "Keypoint".

Well, the socalled keypoint here is, that guitars triggered and played via the keys of a keyboard usually sound crappy or simply not authentic. At least I tried to execute the "axe" ...
But there are more points to get hooked by this track - it was a real pleasure to jam and build it up for me, filling it with a bunch of ideas and a whole lot of groove!

And that's for sure one of the major keypoints for me:
being pleased, satified and driven by positive energy...
in times when these aren't self-evident.

Hope you'll get hooked by optimism while listening as well!

Keypoint

Visit the CALAMINUS MAIN PROFILE for more recent releases: http://soundcloud.com/calaminus-music
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Calaminus was a one-man-project from Germany, producing original works of groove-orientated instrumental music between 2009 - 2021. 
Its main focus was on genres like Funk, Fusion, (Acid/Nu)Jazz and Groove Pop, sometimes enriched by diverse ethnic influences of our Worlds' Music.

All original tracks - performed, arranged, recorded, mixed & mastered by myself - are still available under Creative Common License (CC-NC-ND) for free non-commercial use.
If you want to use my music for any media projects commercially, please contact me. You can purchase a licence of your choice then.

I also released  5 ALBUMS  you can listen to for FREE as well:

"Filet de Fonque" (2010)...  http://www.archive.org/details/Calaminus-FiletDeFonque/ 
"On the Trail" (2012)...  http://www.archive.org/details/Calaminus-OnTheTrail/ 
"Grooveyard" (2013)... https://archive.org/details/Calaminus-Grooveyard/
"To Another Place (2014)... http://archive.org/details/Calaminus-Another-Place/
"No Lament" (2015) ... https://archive.org/details/Calaminus-NoLament

For even more releases feel free to visit my side project https://soundcloud.com/quipmusic/ 
which expands the Calaminus stuff in a proggy, multigenre way.
Some music tracks of mine, that aren't represented on this profile anymore are there as well.

If you like my music, spread the word, leave me a comment & share the groove with your friends... Or simply ENJOY :-D
If you don't like something, please feel free to criticize constructively...
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PLEASE NOTICE:
As mentioned already above, all albums and my whole music catalogue can be downloaded for private non-commercial purposes without any costs.

BUT: if you want to use it in any media project of yours, please contact me first. Commercial usage of my music is strictly prohibited unless otherwise expressly agreed!
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Respected musician friends on SC,  I had the honour to make music with and/or I can really recommend to you:

- https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind
- https://soundcloud.com/danarchx
- https://soundcloud.com/jules-keys-1
- https://soundcloud.com/michel-martineau
- https://soundcloud.com/roysmith
- https://soundcloud.com/stringburner
- https://soundcloud.com/simon-reich
- https://soundcloud.com/tunesma
- https://soundcloud.com/audric-jankauskas
- https://soundcloud.com/4pickupguy
- https://soundcloud.com/aleckrand
....
THANK YOU for your music.... and for the moments we shared!
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Some artists beyond SC whose music inspires me and influences my works:

Incognito, Maceo Parker, Nils Landgren Funk Unit, Steely Dan, Soulive, Lettuce, Jamiroquai, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Victor Wooten, Bruce Hornsby, Toto, Sting, Beady Belle, Bill Evans, Derek Trucks, Joshua Redman, John Scofield, Adam Holzman, Dave Matthews, Iona, Snarky Puppy, Raw Stylus, Tribal Tech, Spocks Beard, Robben Ford, Ron Spielman, Sceaming Headless Torsoes, Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Yellowjackets, Weather Report and many more...

Thank you for your inspiration!
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And now, last but not least: 
have fun(k), enjoy the listen & share the Groove!

Cause ALL MY MUSIC during the years WAS MADE FOR YOU
and I enjoyed creating all the tracks for your pleasure!