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Recent Collaborations - Burning it Up With Friends

Soundcloud guitar legend :-)

Here's a collection of some of the tunes I have created with the finest guitar players I know on SoundCloud.  Sure makes for a wonderful extended set of listening.  Very grateful that each one of these musicians has recorded with me here...I have learned from each of you and drawn from your own musical tastes, influences and music.  These guys have chops AND taste:

Tom Adams   https://soundcloud.com/tytlblues
Joe Bongiovanni  https://soundcloud.com/joe-bongiovanni
Darren Chilton @spectrum_one 
Dean Clark   @aleckrand
Rients Draaisma  https://soundcloud.com/rients-draaisma
Jeff Fiorentino  @jeff-fiorentino-jfrocks 
Tunde Fernandez  https://soundcloud.com/tunde-fernandez
Giuliano Ghisi  https://soundcloud.com/gghisi
Ronny Heimdal   https://soundcloud.com/ronny-heimdal
Stephan Pinner Lapinski  https://soundcloud.com/pinner
Anders Moberg @anders-moberg-1
Scott Nelson https://soundcloud.com/scott-nelson-364333064
Marco Oversteegen @marco-oversteegen
Daniele Petrocchi  https://soundcloud.com/daniele-petrocchi
Al Schuman  https://soundcloud.com/digschulman
Benny Sutton @bennysutton
Ian Tait  https://soundcloud.com/ian-tait
Daniele Turani  https://soundcloud.com/danieleturani
Justin Valente  https://soundcloud.com/justin-valente
Dan van den Berg  https://soundcloud.com/danarchx

Thanks as always for your listens, comments and shares.

Great SC Guitarists

Has been such a great experience playing music here on SoundCloud with accomplished creative musicians from all over the world.  Thanks to the many musicians who have agreed to play and record with me here.  It is been a very rewarding experience to blend so many influences into our tunes together.  Here is a playlist of tunes I've recorded over the past two months with others.  If you don't know these fine players, get to know them better through their own galleries here:

https://soundcloud.com/ian-tait - guitar
https://soundcloud.com/michel-martineau - clarinet
https://soundcloud.com/justin-valente - guitar
https://soundcloud.com/ronny-heimdal - guitar / keyboards
https://soundcloud.com/danarchx - guitar
https://soundcloud.com/bit-s - keyboards
https://soundcloud.com/dabluroom - guitar / bass
https://soundcloud.com/mean_old_fireman - slide guitar
https://soundcloud.com/search/people?q=gernot%20baur - harmonica
https://soundcloud.com/aleckrand = guitar
https://soundcloud.com/bronzed-god - vocals / guitar

Thanks as always for your time listening, your comments and your shares.

BY JAMIE'S MUSIC

Fall Collabs - Recordings with SoundCloud Friends

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New music with Jamie Rhind & Dan van den Berg

DanArchX.  Dan is simply a remarkable talent.  Well known here among my friends on SoundCloud, Dan's musicianship is at the very highest level.  Both a brilliant acoustic and electric guitarist, Dan brings his A game to everything he touches, raising the bar for everyone, and creating excitement and thrills at every turn.  

Dan does this all for fun, as he is also one of Holland's top architects, and the creativity and sensitivity he brings to those works and designs complements what he brings to music here.  Technical ability in spades, a superb sense of rhythm, a truly gifted composer, a master recording engineer and a flair for the dramatic.  It just doesn't get more exiting here.

Take a look at Dan's growing gallery - his love and mastery for Spanish Flamenco guitar, and his ability to use a combination of sensitivity and energy to amaze.  

The pieces here I have done with Dan take us back to my favorite fusions musicians and groups - bands like Return To Forever, Miles Davis, The Mahavishnu Orchestra...the true pioneers and leaders who combined jazz and rock.  And Dan keeps up with these guys.  

Many of you have listened already to these tunes and offered such positive words.  Please give them a listen again if you have the time, and head back into Dan's gallery as well, where he has far more music.  

Thanks for your inspiration Dan.   And your friendship.



Dazzling 'em with Dan van den Berg

Race with the devil on spanish highway

This song is dedicated to a very dear friend. Know him practically all my life, starting with listening to beautiful heavy music during teenage years in the eighties leading up till now. This track is a humble hommage to all that.
All guitars & music by danarchx
©2014

Aristotle Copernicus

This metal track was a challenge a friend gave me, write me a thrash/speed metal piece. It's a homage to the Thrash Metal bands I used to listen to as a teenager in the 80-ties. I guess you can figure out who... For my friend and hope you like it.

Transuranium Arconicum

We had a blast pulling this together.  Its a simple blues/gospel riff on organ in F, that sets up some wonderful opportunities for heavy jams over the top by Justin and Tom, two of the finest blues players I have ever recorded with.  Tom has the solos with a more treble sound, and Justin boosts his midrange and bass.  Check out their SoundCloud pages if you are not familiar.  They are bad ass, just like this tune.  Let us know what you think!

Bad Ass Blues - with Justin Valente and Tom Adams / guitars

What fun pulling this together with three serious musicians.  You probably know Joe Bongiovanni and Justin Valente's awesome blues oriented guitars, and they stretch out here on this funk / soul / fusion groove.  Burning it up they are.  And joining us on Alto Sax is recording artist Matt Criscuolo.  Look for him at mattcriscuolo.com.  These guys just play their ass off here.  Started with an internet fusion loop, I added many keyboard lines to funk it up to the max, and we added these pros.  Joe takes the opening solos for the first four minutes, Justin follows, and we finish with all the guys trading off.  So much energy.  Positive energy here.  Put this on and relax.  Hope you enjoy the entire tune - an extended play jam.  Damn this is burning.... Thanks for listening.  The guys would love your thoughts....

Funk And Burn - With Joe Bongiovanni and Justin Valente guitars and Matt Criscuolo alto sax

Created this tune to combine elements of rock and fusion, and was looking to set up soloing similar to what John McLaughlin and Jeff Beck did with Jan Hammer.   Norway's superb fusion guitarist, composer and recording artist Ronny Heimdal is featured, and just tears it up.  Into pieces.  Little pieces.  Check out his gallery here on SoundCloud:

https://soundcloud.com/ronny-heimdal

Hope you enjoy our music.  Thanks so much Ronny:)

Busting Out - with Ronny Heimdal / guitar

How special for me to have been a part of this collaboration with the young and extraordinary Dutch composer/guitarist/keyboard player Rients Draaisma.  While my hope was to create a forum for a call and response type solo between my synth and Rients' soaring creative guitar ala John McLaughlin and Jan Hammer in the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Rients immediately turned it up several levels to create what we have here.   The head came from a synth solo line of mine that was then adjusted by Rients to meet the intricate and changing meter.  Everything else Rients did - the composition, the most intricate drum tracks, and his very deep soloing.  All  Overnight.  Wow.

We both hope you enjoy The End of The Circle, and would love your feedback.  Please check out Rients' Soundcloud compositions and performances, his website and his wonderful videos on YouTube...his playing and writing is going to change music....

The End of The Circle - with Rients Draaisma / guitar

Bringing a soulful sound to SoundCloud with this one.  Lifetime recording artist, soul vocalist, saxophone and harmonica player Johnny Pugh sits in with blues guitarist extraordinaire Justin Valente and me on an emotional Ray Charles type slow jam.  What a wonderful surprise to hear Johnny's beautiful harp lines, which fit perfectly with Justin's raw electric blues energy.  Real proud of this one, as it captures the heart and spirit of why we all love SoundCloud.   Check out Johnny and Justin's music here - you will love their playing.  Thanks for listening.

Soul Brothers - with Justin Valente guitar and Johnny Pugh blues harp and horns

...Had to think of an ecstatic, wild dance with a little evil twist, the rite of the fire dance...

All guitar and music by DanarchX, 2014

Sinister Swing

Ever since I found SoundCloud I have wanted to record with Italy's Daniele Turani https://soundcloud.com/danieleturani one of the finest guitarists I have heard here.  Daniele is a true master of progressive rock and has recorded and produced several ambitious albums of superb music which I have - and you should too.   Surprised Daniele with this smoother fusion composition, and he graciously approved.  Check out his sweet sweet playing here on the guitar solos and rhythm.  And also his fine photography on Instagram:)  A pleasure Daniele.  Grazi!!  

Enjoy and thanks as always for listening.

https://soundcloud.com/danieleturani


That Feeling - with Daniele Turani / guitar

The title pretty much sums up what I was aiming for. I recorded this one with my mini setup sitting outside in the sun. Oh bliss!
My influences here are pretty diverse: from Vicente Amigo to Al Di Meola to Return to Forever to Paul Gilbert to Steve Vai to Animals as Leaders... I hope one can hear a shimmer of that in this track...

Guitars and music by DanarchX, 2014

Exuberant Electric Exaltations

Justin https://soundcloud.com/justin-valente and I wanted to throw out a guitar/organ jam to thank Tom Adams https://soundcloud.com/tytlblues for his incredible support of the Blues here on SoundCloud.  Inspirational and a mentor he has been to so many around the world.  So many countries.  Yesterday Tom surprised us all with a Soundcloud farewell jam and so we thought it would be best to get right back to him to let him know we digged his efforts for us all here.  On Payday,  Justin just takes this one home for Tom, as only Justin can.  He's picking up the organ and drum groove and spinning it around silly.  Heavy blues rock sound from New Jersey!!  Gotta love it.  Sweet sweet electricity.  We're missing you already here Tom.  You know it.  The stage is always open.....Let's hear some Soundcloud love for Tom and Justin.  And thanks as always for your listening, comments and shares!


https://soundcloud.com/tytlblues
https://soundcloud.com/justin-valente



Payday - Tribute to Tom Adams - with Justin Valente / guitar

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

Scotland's finest SC guitar player and gourmet chef Ian Tait https://soundcloud.com/ian-tait and I have whipped up some fall chill for you.  Wouldn't be Ian without a little funk too, so we've kept a funky groove for the chill.  Summer is leaving us, our leaves are turning, so why not throw out some Fall Chill.  If you haven't yet checked out Ian's outstanding gallery, you will find him here at https://soundcloud.com/ian-tait

Thanks as always for your time listening, commenting and sharing among the SoundCloud and social media communities.  

Fall Chill  -  with Ian Tait / guitar

Dan van den Berg steals the show here on a Miles type modal groove, while breaking a high E string in the process.  See if you can find where:)  A special tune for us to toast Miles like this.  From the late 60s on Miles always had one or two super serious fusion guitar players on stage with him - John McLaughlin, Pete Cosey, Mike Stern, Barry Finnerty, John Scofield, Robin Ford and Foley.  He would have dug Dan's wonderful playing.  Thanks for you listens, likes, comments and shares.  The stunning photo was taken by our son Cameron at Machu Pichu, Peru

Check out Dan's extraordinary playing at https://soundcloud.com/danarchx

And here's a playlist of the 20+ tunes that Dan and I have recorded together.  Wonderful music:) https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/dazzling-em-dan-van-den-berg

Taking It Up - Dan van den Berg / Jamie Rhind

Created this tune to shed some reflection on the most difficult ongoing and escalating situations that exist in the Middle East.  The extraordinary Canadian Clarinetist Michel Martineau graciously accepted the challenge to join the music and has created a wonderful line that weaves in and out to complement the pulsating rhythms and modal melodies.  Thanks so much for joining this piece Michel!  You have again added brilliance to music here on SoundCloud.  Please check out Michel's creativity and superb tone and sound at https://soundcloud.com/michel-martineau  Thanks as always for your listening, your likes, comments and shares.

Sunrise Over Baghdad -  with Michel Martineau / clarinet

Always exciting for me to have an opportunity to perform and record with Norway's brilliant fusion guitarist, composer and recording engineer Ronny Heimdal https://soundcloud.com/ronny-heimdal .  I started working on this tune late this summer when one of other favorite guitarists Justin Valente https://soundcloud.com/justin-valente sent me a funk track to collaborate on.  6 weeks went by and I was waiting for Justin to add his solos to it.  But I forgot the original track had come from Justin and then asked Ronny to do his thing with the opening and solos, and posted, without giving credit to Justin for setting the groove - or even the original idea.  SO SORRY JUSTIN!  Memory lapse!

With the new tune, Ronnie kicks it into high gear immediately on this funk fusion jam, and just doesn't let up.  Not only is he bringing his A game to make this come alive, but he's also brought his knowledge and ear to create the right sound and balance.  If you are fan of superb guitar, of jazz rock fusion, and of modal pieces, this one's for you   -  Go Ahead Ronny...named after a classic tune Miles Davis did on Big Fun, with John McLaughlin stretching it out over a modal groove....  Perhaps I should rename it So Sorry Justin:)

Thanks as always for your time listening, you comments and your shares.  And take a couple of minutes to check out both Ronny and Justin's brilliant music at their galleries...



Go Ahead Ronny - with Ronny Heimdal

After the Race there are the tumbling weeds carried by the wind flying by, rolling on the highway. This is part 2 of the Drager Dracers on the Spanish Highway, with the marvelous allround musician and keyboard master extra-ordinaire Jamie Rhind.
The track has the same basic structure of harmonics and melody but taken a pace down to let it sing and linger. Hope you like our second escapade on the Spanish Highway!

Visit Jamie's page of wonders: https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind

Tumble Weeds on the Spanish Highway - Part 2 - Featuring Jamie Rhind

So now Jamie Rhind and myself have made our collaboration into a Trilogy Suite! This is Part 3 of our excursions "on the Spanish Highway". After the heavy thundering "Drag Racers", the eerie "Tumble Weeds", here now is the melancholic acoustic part 3: "Day dreamers". Or Soñadores en la Carretera Española, if that's correct in Spanish... We had great fun again making this romantic version, using the same themes, but taking it to a flamenco jazz fusion remake. We hope you like our part 3!

All guitars, piano and music by Jamie Rhind and Dan van den Berg, 2014

Visit Jamie's extensive and wonderful catalogue of music here:
https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind

Daydreamers on the Spanish Highway - Part 3 - Featuring Jamie Rhind

The brilliant Dan van den Berg https://soundcloud.com/danarchx and I are thrilled to share a tribute to two of our favorite bands, The Mahavishnu Orchestra and Return to Forever.  These seminal bands and their musicians were so important to the merging of rock and jazz, many having come out of Miles Davis' fusion band, and featured virtuoso soloists and creativity that had not been seen before with electric music.  Dan here plays both electric and acoustic guitars, and has added so very much of himself to this modal tune.  The tune features a repeating simple lick, with dueling aggressive synth and guitar solos that these bands pioneered and took to a very high level, with John McLaughlin and Al DiMiola on guitars and Jan Hammer and Chick Corea on keyboards.     Please check out more of Dan's extraordinary music at https://soundcloud.com/danarchx .  

As always, we thank you for your time listening, your comments and your shares.  Enjoy Mahafusionu....

Mahafusionu - with Dan van den Berg / guitars

This one is quite a crazy funky fusion track! A great bass player Mirko Borach aka Stringburner(https://soundcloud.com/stringburner )came up with the idea to cover this track by Los Lobotomys, a fusion group that was formed by Steve Lukather in 1989 with some of his friends and talented players, like David Garfield.
Mirko asked Jamie Rhind (https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind) and me to join on this one to complete the blend. Jamie brought his Miles' oriented synths, I brought my loud and funk rhythm guitars. We reworked the original, added different sounds and flavours to it, turning it into "Entanglement".  All of us have one solo spot around the main theme. Quite interesting is the turn of events with a more quiet interlude after the guitar solo, something we just had to keep in from the original.

Anyways! We hope to entertain you with this cover of a great fusion track and band. Do check them out if you don't know them already! Los Lobotomys...

Bass and bass arrangements, initial drum programming by Mirko Borach https://soundcloud.com/stringburner

Keyboards, synths and synth arrangements by Jamie Rhind https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind

Guitars and guitar arrangements, drum programming, mixing and mastering by Dan van den Berg

Drum samples from Amplitube
April 2015




Entanglement (cover) - feat. Mirko Borach | Jamie Rhind | Dan van den Berg

Spanish Highway // Big Head Todd and the Monsters // All The Love You Need (2007) 
© 2007 Big Records

LINKS TO ALL THE LOVE YOU NEED
iTunes: http://bit.ly/T5C1yh (mp3)
BHTM’s Store: http://bit.ly/R79tjY 
Amazon: http://amzn.to/V2rVdh (CD + mp3 download)
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/Rudmhr (stream)
SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/TnCO8p (stream)
YouTube: http://bit.ly/P59XdB (stream)

bigheadtodd.com
http://www.facebook.com/BigHeadToddandtheMonsters
https://twitter.com/bhtm
http://www.youtube.com/bigheadtoddmonsters
http://soundcloud.com/bhtm-1

CONTACT // BHTM@redlightmanagement.com

Big Head Todd and the Monsters  // All The Love You Need (2007) – SoundCloud links below
1. Her Own Kinda Woman (3:48) http://bit.ly/T0H7L0
2. Cruel Fate (3:16) http://bit.ly/Q9hmcf
3. All the Love You Need (4:28) http://bit.ly/QCn0n8
4. Cashbox (3:27) http://bit.ly/T0HftW
5. Fortune Teller (3:33) http://bit.ly/RPUVae
6. Ever Since Ya Pulled Me Under (5:04) http://bit.ly/TwJDq5
7. How Easy (4:22) http://bit.ly/QCnidI
8. Spanish Highway (3:49) http://bit.ly/T0HiG9
9. Blue Sky (4:26) http://bit.ly/Zi9CFO
10. Under a Silvery Moon (4:14) http://bit.ly/Ryvusx
11. Beautiful Rain (3:41) http://bit.ly/Uz2sxh
12. Sugar Buzz (3:51) http://bit.ly/PQhFr0

Big Head Todd and the Monsters are:
Todd Park Mohr – vocals, guitar, keyboards, saxophone, harmonica
Brian Nevin – drums, percussion, vocals
Rob Squires – bass guitar, vocals
Jeremy Lawton – keyboards, pedal steel guitar, vocals

Spanish Highway // Big Head Todd and the Monsters // All The Love You Need (2007)

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