sheer n clear Beauty from all directions! :))

loving every single bar..and beyond!!! :))

gracious nods to our 70's heroes, but You sir, take it to a Whole other level imho! :)) plaY ON....Play on Dan!

BiG sMILEs..... wow, oine of the most frantically inJOyable excursions onto multi-dimensional tonal reality i've in ages. Thank you!

you sound like steve vai, real nice keep it up!! so skillfull.

really admire your playing and writing man, this is just terrific.

Collected Lapidaries

This was something special! This track is a collaboration between Daniel van den Berg aka Danarchx on guitars and Jamie Rhind on Organ, strings synth and bass Synth. We aimed for a kind of Deep Durple meets Al Di Meola meets Yngwie kind of thing. It was cool and courageous of Jamie trying on a loud rock/metal piece but the result is... Well you judge! 
Music and instrumentalists: Jamie Rhind and Danarchx, 2014

Drag Racers on the Spanish Highway - Part 1 - Featuring Jamie Rhind

This fusion track is conceived as a series of wild flurries with melancholic and fast harmonic changes, it tries to charter different moods and feeling in a franticly romantic way. 
The title points to my heroes of Return to Forever, it's a tribute however in my own humble way and style, in which I might have picked up a thing or two from other musical influences... Without giving it away there is a quote somewhere in this track from the super guitar trio: Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucia, who all come from the same group of marvelous 70-ties musicians.

I hope you can appreciate my musical excursions here.

Daniel

All guitars and music by Dan van den Berg, 2014
Artwork by Dan van den Berg, 2014




Frantic Romantic Warriors - Dan van den Berg

The title hints upon the dangerously seductive dance of Salome. Beauty and unease... The track's harmonies and melodic intents seem to flow from eerie to melancholy, tension and resolve. 
I have been working on this track for quite some time in the shape of a very loud rock tune, yet in that form still to be released. Recently I asked Mirko Borach, aka Stringburner, if he would add his bass ideas to this. His musical intention, virtuosity and his singing tone made me try an acoustic version with more room to shine for his playing. In the reworking I changed it into an exotic wild oriental or eastern dance with the, for me at least, obvious hints of Jazz Rock, Flamenco and Fusion. I hope you can enjoy it!

And! Do visit Mirko's splendid work on his SoundCloud profile:
https://soundcloud.com/stringburner

Music, arrangements and guitars by Daniel van den Berg.
Fretless bass and bass arrangements by Mirko Borach.
Drum samples from Amplitube.
February 2015

Guitars:
Paulino Bernabe, Taller de Guitarras, modelo-50, 2001
Ibanez JS100




Veils in the Serpent Wind, Part I - by Dan van den Berg, featuring Mirko Borach

Music, Poem, Composition: Andrew Janik 
Voice: Oddrun Eikli
Photo by Michael Ryan, Vancouver

Thank you Andrew, for music, and for this deep JOY.
Andrew`s https://soundcloud.com/soundpainter words about this composition:
"This track is literally about all things, Emotional, Human, Animal, Environmental and interactions between all".

Andrew is also under Bury The Jar on bandcamp and Spotify- Bury The Jar is his latest project for more experimental as well as meditative slow world type music...
burythejar.bandcamp.com/track/all-thi…ended-version

Feel. Free
Heaven.Earth
Moon.Light
Fire.Inspire

Love.Hate
Hurt.Heal
Star. Sun
Stillness. Beauty

All things. All things
Touch. Me
All things. All things
Touch. You

Bird. Flower
Creature. Spirit
Time. Space
Soul. Whole

All Things. Music: Soundpainter. Voice: Oddrun Eikli

Composition, lyrics, piano, guitar, vocals by Joliz

February 2025

Same Pace

I started cool
You lit a fire.
When I burned
You turned to ice.

I started low
You pushed me higher.
When I lost grip
You crawled away.

I started slowly
You came to chase me.
When I gave up
You pulled the brake.

Our feelings grew
You hid behind wire
And I got hurt
Crossing the fence.

My loved one don’t
Think of the future.
You will see
It’ll never be.

All our lifes
Are made of moments.
They’re here and now
Each day anew.

All our plans
For the future
Are made of dreams
No dreams come true.

Then it turned the tide
And I lost interest.
I wanted life
Not chase and flight.

And I broke up
I broke off contact.
Then you woke up
And faced the fact.

You said "It makes no sense
To commit suicide
Out of fear
You might one day die.

Give me your hand
And let’s start living
Here and now
Each day anew."

Now we walk these streets
Each day together
Neither fast nor slow
But at the same pace.

My loved one don’t
Think of the future.
You will see
It’ll never be.

Same Pace

I am proud to present you a first track with the great guitarist Gaspar Monterde. I hope you like it.

Watch the Video on Youtube: https://youtu.be/6WQt8XH5u6M

Thank you Gaspar for this honor! @gaspar_monterde
Cover Design: @perevilardebo.estudio www.perevilardebo.com/

People, Not Profit

People, Not Profit (Orchestral Version)

Image by Stablecog AI:

When I came up with my stage name for SoundCloud,
I imagined an old organ grinder with his monkey and money cup,
cranking away on a street corner of an old cobblestone village.
But these days, the street corner was even older, as was the man himself,
along with his old synthesizer. The monkey is long gone, in case you were wondering.

Actually, I was quite surprised when the image that appeared got my glasses and my beard right, and even my blue shirt along with a pocket (where I keep my pocket protecter full of pens and pencils). Heck, it could almost have been my photo.

Ye Olde Synthgrinder

I am hugely grateful to Stefan Kraft, an incredibly talented musician and composer, for enriching my music with his stunningly beautiful arrangement & orchestration. It has been a great honour and pleasure for me to collaborate with Stefan.

You can hear more of his wonderful music here: @stefankraft_music.

Thank you very much for listening —  we do hope you will enjoy this piece!

Credits:

Piano: Anastasiya Ihnatovich
Arrangement & orchestration: Stefan Kraft


The video made by Stefan for our music is available via the following link:

https://youtu.be/BFBwKQEJkTY

All (Ft. Stefan Kraft)

Loosely based on the traditional song.  120 bpm. (Painting: Manuel M. Remartinez)

Loch Lomond (Interpretation)

Port Charm

Kintsugi is an art form that embodies the philosophy of wabi-sabi which values the beauty of imperfection and transience. Kintsugi also serves as a metaphor for embracing our flaws and imperfections in life seeing them as a source of strength and beauty and finding resilience in the face of adversity. 

Kintsugi

In 2018, I did a SoundCloud collaboration with @clive-hawkins after one of his tracks inspired me to write lyrics over his haunting instrumental 'After the Bomb'.

Clive had posted the line "let us not forget the consequences............of unleashing weapons of mass destruction!", and that comment, coupled with listening to his moody track, had me writing the complete lyrics inspired by his music in about 1.5 hours.

In 2025, I am currently working with accomplished keyboard player and Prog Rock enthusiast @Dee-Zee (Dave Zeitlin), to create an Ethno-Prog album 'Beyond the Veiled Horizon'. 

https://soundcloud.com/mrbouzouki/sets/beyond-the-veiled-horizon-series

So when I recently re-heard the old collaboration I wondered if Dave's keyboard wizardry could add a whole new dimension to the lyrics. The message in the lyrics has perhaps has even more urgency in 2025. 

The Doomsday Clock currently stands at 89 seconds to midnight. 
https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/2025-statement/

Using Clive's harmonic rhythm that inspired the melody, that inspired the lyrics, I basically gave Dave a blank slate to see what he could come up with as parts. As usual he delivered some amazing ideas and playing and this left me re-assembling this Redux version of the collaboration. Once again, I made use of the Alto vocal talents of 'Mrs Bouzouki' in a vocal harmony section and as part of some harmony stacks. Towards the end, the additional female backing lines are from the Soundiron 'Voices of Gaia' collection featuring the vocal talents of Linda Strawberry.

I feel the addition of a church organ really added to the track. As a result I removed a choir part I added in the original collaboration and added some low strings to add some weight to the bottom end in places. Besides piano, Dave also added some synth pads to keep things interesting during what is quite a long track. I hope that people can hear why I enjoy working with Dee Zee. I think he's done a fantastic job with this track.

I decided to keep my original vocal takes from 2018 but I feel the track has benefited from my improved mixing and production techniques. 

I feel that once again this track is a great example of how music can be created using the SoundCloud platform. A collaboration can build on a collaboration to create something bigger than the sum of the parts. Thanks @clive-hawkins for being the catalyst for this and @dee-zee for your compositional skill and playing. 

As a follow-up to this song you can watch this movie on the Internet Archive, produced in 1969 about the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombs of 1945. Some of the imagery is not for the faint-hearted.

archive.org/details/hiroshimanagasakiaugust1945
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Lyrics

After The Bomb - P Goodrich 22/01/2018

One World, One Tribe
One Fate, One Life
Two Sides, Too Late
Just What Have We Done

Dead Streets, Dead Lives
Dead Seas, Dark Skies
We've Gone, Too Far
Ohhhh We've Lost It All

(C)
And The People Cried As One
With The Firing Of A Gun
Too Late For Second Thoughts
Too Late For All Of Us

No Race, No Faith,
No News, No Lies
Past Ways, Past Lives
They're Over and Done

Dark Days, Dark Times
Dark Deeds, Dark Minds
No Hope, All Gone
We've Nowhere To Run

C)
And The People Cried As One
With The Firing Of The Gun
Too Late For Second Thoughts
Too Late For All Of Us

(organ instrumental)

No Rest, No Sleep
No Love, Just Hate
Dull Hearts, Dead Minds
The Future It’s Gone

One World, One Tribe
One Fate, One Life
Two Sides, Too Late
Oh What Have We Done

(C)
And The People Cried As One
With The Firing Of The Gun
Too Late For Second Thoughts
Too Late For All Of Us

One World, One Tribe
(Ad Lib)
We’ve Nowhere To Run
(Final Whispered) After The Bomb ... After The Bomb

After The Bomb - Redux 2025 (89 Seconds To Midnight)

This is the first in a series of eight easy, acoustic, rather short and inconclusive tracks, which I’ve assembled by working on new and reworking on some old material adding parts and sounds. 
Will anything actually happen in the end? Unlikely. Definitely not here. Here it’s a montage of bare arpeggios in various keys.
I recorded this some weeks ago: sorry about the guitar sound, the string squeak is a bit too much; now, I hope to have fixed that investing in a better and more expensive set of strings.

Part 2 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-2-dawn
Part 3 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-3-noon
Part 4 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-4-late-afternoon

Composed by Michele Ansani (2025).
Female vocals are courtesy by Edm - Silk Vocal Samples.
Posted on SoundCloud: 2025, July 15.

In case nothing happens - part 1 (night)*

This is the full version of a suite from my band, Psycles.  I hope you listen and enjoy.

Onsra - I Fall in Love (Full Version)

This is a cool, old Little Richard cover.  Great solos from Howard Levy and B.J. Cord.  I think the guitar solo has some great moments, though I wish I would've chilled out a bit at the end.  That's me singing.  Fun listen.  From the album: Chris Siebold & Psycles Live At Martyrs' CSM 2011 Available on CD, vinyl, and all digital formats.

Directly From My Heart To You

If you like loud pianos, heavy rock and massive drums, you've come to the right place. These are full tracks, tests, works-in-progress, and experiments.  Heavy rock, progressive instrumental, progressive metal, fusion-rock live here. And some ambient-groove for the late-night my-ears-need-a-break moments.

THE NEW ALBUM OF MY BAND THE HYPERSONIC FACTOR  CALLED BELEVOLENT BEASTS IS OUT NOW!  AVAILABLE ON ALL STREAMING SERVICES!
featuring:
Jason Rubenstein - Keyboards, Piano, compositions, arrangements and producer
Mirko Borach - Bass and compositions
Tom Hipskind - Drums
Dan van den Berg - Electric and Acoustic guitars, compositions, arrangements, synthesizers
https://thehypersonicfactor.bandcamp.com/album/benevolent-beasts



Check my SOLO Album here! https://danielvandenberg.bandcamp.com/album/short-tales-for-three-guitars

This site is for my musical avatar or alter ego. Architect/partner/company owner by day, I find myself playing guitar and writing these tracks in afterhours, at nights, evenings, when in need of a dose of guitar sounds. You will find a wide range of guitar oriented music, ranging from Jazz to Blues, Flamenco to Classical, Rock to Fusion. And many collaborations with some great musicians.

I have been playing guitar since I was 11 years old, largely self-taught and have tried different styles and instruments: Renaissance lute, flamenco guitar, classical guitar, steel string guitar and electric guitar with which I have been playing in styles ranging from rock and metal in my early years to classical music, some American Folk music, jazz rock, prog rock, flamenco nuevo and fusion.

It’s been a splendid time here so far, in collaborating with a lot of brilliant musicians on SoundCloud and sharing ideas and the passion for music. 
My collaborations are with musicians that I have a deep respect for and have a mutual appreciation for real instruments, and musical styles that focus on letting the instruments “shine”. 

Here is some technical data:
Currently I am using Amplitube and Auria on an iPad as DAW with Final Touch for mastering. For acoustic recording I use an Apogee microphone.

Guitars are:
Fender AMERICAN ELITE STRATOCASTER® HSS SHAWBUCKER, 2016
Fender Stratocaster Squire (first edition: JV-series)
Ibanez JS100, Joe Satriani model
Evh Frankie Striped MN Relic R/W/B

EVH 5150 Series Standard Stealth Black EB guitar
Fender American Professional II Stratocaster HSS Olympic White RW
Charvel Pro-Mod DK24 HSH 2PT CM Mahogany Natural
Paulino Bernabe, Taller de Guitarras, Model-50, 2001, classical concert guitar
Marín, Modelo Estudio /9 Calidad, 1997, Malaga, Spain, flamenco guitar
Joan Cashimira, modelo 145, spruce top w/ cocobolo sides and back, Gata de Gorgos (Alicante), 2015

I hope you will enjoy my music.

Daniël van den Berg
DanArchX

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