even relate

Music: Jan Schonander

This is about as close to a "dittie" as you get in the synth VST world. I loaded up 5 different VSTs, four from Logic Pro X and 1 from Kontakt, mapped them into 5 different and sometimes overlapping parts of the keyboard and played it all in one go. In other words this is a one man band piece that can be performed live - there are no overlays just a single play. It was kind of fun doing this and I felt like one of those street musicians playing on a pedestrian street in front of an old-fashioned department store while playing. Maybe some of you will enjoy.

Liftoff & Alit

ABSTRACT SUNRISE

This acoustic guitar duo piece I wrote a while back just after visiting the Canary Islands. Now with the really warm days of the year arriving I felt the same mood coming over me as in those days on the island. So, I finished the mix and master to release it now! I hope it brings you the same summer vibe as it does for me.

The track is loosely based on a Rumba Flamenca, a palo or style of flamenco from Andalusia, Spain, however influenced by the Cuban music's version traveling back to the origin of Spain, after it's popularity in Havana's musical theatre. During the late 20th century, Paco de Lucía, together with percussionist Rubem Dantas, incorporated Afro-Peruvian musical elements such as the cajón (wooden box) and certain rhythms. That's where I came to know the style.

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

All music, arranging, composition, guitars by Daniël van den Berg, April 2022
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

Abstract Sunrise | Rumba Flamenca | Dan van den Berg

NEW SINGLE OUT NOW! 

Never Had A Love Like This Before is an indie rock song with a huge side-helping of bluesy guitar. It's about how love can simultaneously feel so right and so wrong. Why do we do it to ourselves, eh?

LYRICS:

Never had a love like this before
Never had something worth living for
Mind and body in a civil war
And I never had a love like this before

You barrelled into my life like a wrecking ball
The moment I saw you, well I started to fall
Now everything I had before is suddenly a broken mess
You stand there smiling like it's all a success
And oh, you ain't sorry

And I never had a love like this before
Never had something worth living for
Mind and body in a civil war
And I never had a love like this before

I tell you my secrets, you tell me your lies
It always fools me, I never know why
I'm a fly in a spider's web, I'm a moth drawn to a flame
My wings are burning and I'm falling again
'Cos oh, you ain't sorry

And I never had a love like this before
Never had something worth living for
Mind and body in a civil war
And I never had a love like this before

Now I'm stumbling in the dark
I'm never coming back
Everywhere I turn
I just can't escape the fact that

I never had a love like this before
Never had something worth living for
Mind and body in a civil war
And I never had a love like this before

I never had a love like this before
Never had something worth living for
Mind and body in a civil war
And I never had a love like this before

Photo credit: Cassi Josh, Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/lhnOvu72BM8)

Never Had A Love Like This Before

There She Goes (Cover)

U-Intermezzo

Out of the Box September 2022
Within you without you…

Your Space Or Mine

AND (these are the things)

And Gentle Rain,
Morning Dew,
Cardamum, Cloves and Cinnamon too.
Sugar and Spice
Soft Touch skin Soft touch Kiss...

These are things 
We are made of
Yes, these are a few of our favorite things:

Winning epiphany, Orgasmic Rush
Crisp Promising Morning
Empty Highway 
A Good Strong Cup
Steaming and Beaming and Moaning and Groaning
And Kitties 
And Snails 
And Whales
And puppy dog Jails
And Bones 
And Clones
And Clowns in Towns
And Cruising Around
Sails Full And Away with Feet of Clay
And Play And Play 
And Play

Lavendar Lullaby
Goose Down
Fillet Mignon Beefsteak!
Beefsteak!
Banana Slug & lady Bug

And these are the Things Little We are Made of 
Yes, These are a few of our Favorite Things:

And Bridges
Towers, Flower Power, Mod 
Psychedelic
Frog Meat
Woo Hoo Hoo

Tailwind And Power,
The Man of the Hour
Sugar And Flour,
And Justice, 
Revenge
& Getting Even
Even Steven
Steve McQueen And Bullets And Guns
And We're #1... NO!
I'm #1. 
And Shit loads of fun.
And a Bun in the Oven And Cloves in the Stew,
Tornado, Tomato
Lolly Wally
A Seat on the Lu.

Infanticide, Genicide,
Suicide
Fratricide, Dolimide, Dolomites,
Anthracites, Atrocity
Monstrosity, Velocity Outer Space
and Inner Space too
Big Gulp Slurpee
Star Wars
Lavendar Lullaby

And These are the things little we are made of 
Yes, These are a few of our favorite things

Sweet Summer Smell of Fresh Mown Grass
Less than $3 for a gallon of Gas
Oh Young Agile Bonnie Lass
Yearning for Yesterday
And this Crisis to Pass
Pass Pass 
Free Game Pass
Free Range Chicken 
Oh Bonnie Lass

Intransigent Dilligent Artificially Intelligent 
Jacked On In

Recapitulation, Sonic Humiliation
Rejuvenation, Alienation, Indigenous Vegetation

Prostitutes with their daddies a floggin
And Lumber Jack Loggin
And Ohhh the Ice Cream Truck,
The Candy Man, Apple Pie and Uncle Sam,
The M.O.B, The Klan, Alan Greenspan,
Flash In the Pan and You're the Man!

Laser Beams And Jim Beam
And Mount Gay, Everest, K2, B2 Bomber,
Coughing And Laughing
And Flirting and Crashing And Hashing And Smashing
All Records
Obliteration of the Foe And Bambi
And Patronizing The Pacified, Calcified Clueless, Majestic Toothless,
Emissions Control,
Andy Warhol, Frank Lloyd Wright And All the Holy Sites
Of Spiritual Substitutes For Drug Imbued Prostitutes

And These Are the Things Little We Are Made Of
Yes, These Are a Few 
of Our Favorite Things

And These Are the Things Little We Are Made of
Yes
These Are a Few 
Of our Favorite
Things

AND (these are the things)

This is the next in a line of heavy dub songs that Tez and I are releasing. We, or rather Tez, figured out how to create really authentic riddims. So now, it's a bonanza! I really like working with Tez. He's very capable and has excellent musical taste. He is also a certified wizard on the mixing deck. In this song, you'll hear me play bass and organ. You'll hear him play guitar and like I said, the riddim. He also produced it as mixed it. We hope you like it! 

Wurlitzer Dub (with Llanpsych)

32 anni di vita 

Ho trovato tanti ostacoli nella 
Mia vita che avvolte pensavo 
Fosse veramente finita è pensavo 
Di essere prigioniero  a vita, nella 
Mia vita ho sempre collezionato 
Qualche ferita che mi a bruciato 
Tutta la vita. 32 anni di vita è 
Finalmente sono riuscito ad
Abbandonare il mio passato 
Che mi a sempre dato qualche 
Grattacapo.  Con il tempo ho 
Recuperato tutto il tempo che
Avevo abbandonato è buttato,
Non mi sento più prigioniero di
Me stesso è soprattutto non mi
Sento più depresso con me stesso.
Perché vivo la vita in modo diverso 
In un nuovo universo. 32 anni di vita 
È si trova sempre la giusta via d’uscita,
Adesso vivo una bellissima vita perché 
Finalmente sono tornato quello di prima.
Adesso posso riprogrammare tutta la 
Mia vita perché finalmente ho trovato 
La giusta via di uscita per fare una 
Bellissima vita, 32 anni di vita è ogni
Difficoltà lo sempre sconfitta per vivere 
Una degna vita.

32 Anni di vita

Funny How?  From the debut album "X's and Ohs".

Funny How?

Half-British, half-Japanese, South London-based singer-songwriter and producer. Indie pop, rock and blues. Thank you for listening!

Never Had A Love Like This Before

david taro