DECADE: Improvised into existence from scratch during the last hours of the decade ... A quick recording resulting as a protest against myself, and my endless recording projects ... 

Alone with our dog; other family members visiting relatives in another country. But make no mistake, an excellent way of spending the New Years evening; initiating some drum loops, without any ideas whatsoever: but feeling inspired, can I find something anyway... ? Initiating some chords via a Roland arpeggiator, time ticking away ... 

Update 22:49: Got the bulk of a track done. 0ne hour and counting ...

Update 23:27: adding a synth line right at the start of the final ... does it work...?

Update 23:48: I think it does. No time for polishing the mix, let it be raw! Upload now ... 

Going public 23:58 SWE time

INSTRUMENTS: YAMAHA & ROLAND keyboards, IBANEZ electric guitar, BOSS ME 80 pedal effects, drum loops. Recorded line-in, .WAV, no midi.

ARTCOVER based on a photo taken by DS 2019.

Happy New Year to all /DS, right at the border of 2019 and 2020!

DECADE

Due to Soundcloud's way of mishandling my releases, both when it comes to cover artworks and vocal snippets used in my music, I am hereby leaving this platform and will focus my releases with my label Legacy of Thought and uploads to Bandcamp and YouTube. 

I was born in Sweden but migrated to Singapore in 2002. It was here that my focus on music really took off. Inspired by all sounds that move the mind I enjoy producing music in just about all genres. I love to explore and break the boundaries of where one genre starts and another ends. The fusion of styles is very much what keeps my interest spinning, turning each new project into an adventurous ride.

My entry point to music was with synth-pop and since then my focus has been an ongoing circuit of classical, soundtracks, rock, blues, jazz, hip-hop, trip-hop, chill step, dubstep, and future bass.
When it comes to down-tempo music, I have a deep affection for introverted songs.  I prefer textures of melodic music which has a drive but every now and then allowing shorter ambient drones to fall in as an intro. I am also a fan of groovy dance music and enjoy the most a sleek and fairly minimalist sound where main instruments get a chance to shine.
When it comes to electronic music there is almost an avoidable tang of vintage elements making its way through. At times I let this go all the way working with analog sequencing.
Current and future projects are with a set focus on chill-step, future bass, and cinematic music to fit the Future Garage segment of music.

Ongoing album projects:
Pipe Dreams (Lo-Fi Trip/Hiphop & Dub)
The Silk Road Chronicles (Ethnic chill-out & cinematic)
HiberNation (fusion chill-out)
Quantum Theorem (electronic soundtracks)

Discography:
Against the Tide (Album)
Going Down History ft. Hemanifezt (Double Single)
Psyche (Album)
Not Without You
You Gotta Hold Me Tight
X:Hale (Album)
Equinox (Album)
We The Ones Now - i_n_c
Antidote EP - Yellow Belly
Souls Untamed - Indii Wild Moon
Let's Go Primal
White Lines - Ingela Rensfeldt
Rage Against The Dying Light
Sea of Tranquility
Dawn of an Empire
Under The Same Sky
Unspoken (Album)
In Perspective From My Hammock (Album)
Je T'aime Par Toute L'eternité ft. Sara Brito

Collective releases:
Take Me To Your Leader (Alien Invasion)
Sea Of Crises (Seas of the Moon)
Tectonic Movements (History of Earth)
Quantum Flux (History of the Universe)
Dawn of Osiris (Tales of the Wisemen)
Valley Of Roses (Route To Dakar)
Alpha Centauri - Decent On Proxima B (Coloniser)
Phlegethon River Of Flames (Nine Circles Of Hell)
Into The Yellow Sun (Into The Yellow Sun)
Cradle Of The Universe (Future Wonders)
Hyperspace Rendezvous (For A Blind Universe)
Zeus At Olympia (Ancient Wonders)
Hippodrome (Ancient Olympia)
The Tibetan Levitation Project (Ancient Mysteries)

Label:
Legacy of Thought

Music is the universal language that speaks to our hearts and souls. It transcends borders and cultures, connecting us on a level that words cannot reach. Music has the power to evoke emotions, bring back memories, and create new ones, moving us in ways that nothing else can. It is truly a magical art form that unites us all.

As a composer, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, recording, and mixing guru, I am honored to share some original music with the SC community. There are so many talented and gifted artists on this platform! It's always inspiring to discover the different types of music and hidden gems one can stumble upon here. Personally, I enjoy mixing different genres and styles, so perhaps you'll find something here that you enjoy. I look forward to listening to your music too! If you have the time to listen, comment, like, repost, or follow, I will definitely do the same for you.🎸😃🎹🎸

"It's just a hobby!"

I bought my first guitar about 10 years ago, I was 56 years old. I had wanted to learn long ago and decided with my early retirement, now was a good time! I had no musical experience but with the help of many YouTube videos (mostly JustinGuitar.com), I started to learn. Along the way, I wrote my first original song and started videoing and recording my music, both originals (@lenaloise) and covers (@lenaloisecovers). My first song was posted about 5 years after that first guitar!

My music "hobby" has really grown since I started! Many guitars, pedals, gadgets, equipment! But it's a hobby! I work hard for every note and learning this instrument at an older age is different from starting in your teens! My page is a mix of things that I enjoy in my "hobby"! I record "almost live" with minimal takes and editing. I strive for fun, not perfection, and I learn as I need to for that enjoyment!

So please subscribe (if you like) and follow along! Thanks for listening!

Len

Composer of multi-instrumental music, with a preference for longer, progressive and complexly arranged pieces.   

Have played guitar for many years, but I am probably a slightly odd type of guitarist. Not particularily interested in the guitar genre, not too keen on listening to long solos, etc. I don't enjoy playing for people - a party-killer, in short. However, leave me alone with this wonderful tool (or the keyboard, which I play too), and I will start experimenting with it, searching for something to develop. 

Strongly interested in classical music and anything remotely related to that. I want to construct music with a similar structure and complexity, although with other instruments, and in my own way...  
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During 2010-2013, I worked on a suite of related pieces, GUITARS PLAYED BY DS, with every sound played on the electric guitar. A major undertaking, and (all-in-all) 45+ minutes long, all complexly related and released in five segments.

During 2014-2015, the main focus was on the full-format 'LONG INSTRUMENTAL', a progressive work with lots of different instruments and sounds, restless and complex. Some sections stand on their own feet: MYSTERY, and FANFARE. 

The 2014-2015 recordings also resulted in two shorter pieces: CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION and CLUSTER OF WARNINGS.

During 2015 I initiated a suite played on classical guitars - GUITAR STRUCTURES. It is a series of slowly changing ideas, a weave of melodies and harmony, the first section out in April 2015 (the 2nd came 2 years later).  

I played guitars on Tolubai's wonderful ambient piece 'MEMORIES' (August 2015).

EARTHSHINE came out in January 2016; a darker and slightly dissonant progressive piece, and one of my personal favorites. So is SILENCE, out 1st July 2016. September 2016: IGNITION  with TOLUBAI and LET THERE BE LIGHT 22th Sept 2016 with PuppyWolf. 

20/11-2016: The OORT CLOUD PROJECT I-IX. An 18+ minutes long progressive synth-based instrumental, with lots of short guitar phrases integrated. Also, the spin-off PASSAGE was released. 

GROTESQUE released too in the end of 2016. The 19th January 2017, I released the sketch OMMA CONTRAPUNCTUS PROJECT. The 4th February 2017, the track '3 WORLDS COLLIDE' was released.

'Guitar Structure No. 2' out in March 2017, took 2 years to complete.

BEST OF 2 WORLDS was released in November 2017, another personal favorite composition.

APPROACHING: an unfinished sketch released 1st April 2018. TAURUS IV released 8th April 2018.

New Years evening 2019, quickly improvising a track: DECADE. Uploaded 23:58 local time. It was a very fun way of ending the year and I used a symbolic art cover with red sweeping in, but I wouldn't have dreamed of what was to come soon.

One main project this year is the SNOWFLAKES VARIATIONS suite; the Prelude was released in January 2020.

8th April 2020: CREATURES RISING was released. CREATURES OF THE RAINFOREST also a spinoff track (released 2021).

In the Lockdown March-April 2020, I recorded 'Era', out of frustration...

5th June 2020: REPORT FROM PLANET THREE, which was initiated 31st May 2019. 

31st July 2020: FORECAST was released. April 2021: SUMMER SNOWFLAKES, a 25 minute long track and perhaps my most ambitious ever. 

OCTOBER 22, 2021: OUTPOST. Was hell of a lot work behind this, which started out as the "Conquerer" project already in 2017. 

APRIL 28, 2022: The Disclosure (Part I).
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022: PEACE GUITARS. A track very dear to me, much of it written outdoors at the shores with my lovely dog with me. 

OCTOBER 6, 2023: SHAMBOLIC GUITARS.  Intensive recordings!

DECEMBER 7, 2024: TABOOOO released. (Oldfield Tribute, started out as an experiment to impute what Tubular Bells 4 might have sounded as. But it took its own life and became a very different story)

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D.Svensson Sept. 2022

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