What a haunting jam, changing and psychedelic !!

A very original track full of wonderful musical details !!!!

Not played for this for a while but it's up there with a nice cup of tea and a sprinkle of Amarok, so brilliantly creative and entertaining.

excellent. I Like "talking" Instruments. Many strong individual Charakters are on Stage.

Enjoying this masterpiece again, great expression!

Marvelous abstract work maestro! luv that guitar voice.

Tracks that maybe were not among my most serious efforts; either recorded very fast or just were initially promising but I (for some reason) prioritized other ones ... To be honest, I tend to listen to these 'less prominent' ones more than most of my 'serious' ones ... ;) If you know what I mean ... 

Imagine visiting a painter in his home, and you spot his secret canvas stacked in a darker corner ... not the ones qualifying for an exhibition; aren't they the most interesting ones!? They would give away a lot ... ;)

Instrumental sketches by DS

CREATURES OF THE RAIN FOREST. An experimental sketch, no extra charge 

Play it infinite many times at the fitness center or just skip to the next track in your flow. Forced on tape using a bunch of instruments. 

Ideas that I (for a while) considered for some longer compositions, but I decided to go for something else ...  seeking a new sound, a new direction ... 

/DS 29th Sept 2021, updated 18th July 2022.

CREATURES OF THE RAIN FOREST

Mit dieser musikalischen Hoffnung auf mehr Frieden in der Welt begrüße ich euch im Jahr 2024: nach fast noch weihnachtlich anmutenden Klängen zu Beginn folgt ein kraftvoller Hauptteil voller positiver Energie, rhythmisch und melodiös, mit einer Vielfalt an Sounds, bevor das Stück dann am Schluss wieder eher besinnlich ausklingt. 
Das Bild zeigt eine bei freepik.com heruntergeladene Bronzestatue des Künstlers „aalmehad“: „two people embracing each other“.
Viel Freude damit!🎹🎶🍀❤️
I welcome you in 2024 with this musical hope for more peace in the world: after almost Christmas-like sounds at the beginning, there follows a powerful main part full of positive energy, rhythmic and melodic, with a variety of sounds, before the  composition returns to a more contemplative ending.
The picture shows a bronze statue by the artist “aalmehad”, downloaded from freepik.com: “two people embracing each other”.
Enjoy!🎹🎶🍀❤️

WiesenBerg 2023

The Power Of Peace (The Day They Stopped All Wars)

Re recording of an old song. Solo Guitar and vocals with a little something here and there. Recorded this evening. 

Get up early and start your day
give some time back to yourself today
find the good times all around you
Bring the fun back in your life
leave those old work shoes by the door
you made your share of sacrifice
listen friend take my advice

The time for messing around is in the past
the days are moving by so very very fast
it's time for you to have your say
don't you letting things get in your way
forget about what other people do
and don't you worry about waht they say
cause they don't know you anyway

Save me.. save me.. save me
oh won't you please
won't you save me.. from another day
of doing things in the same old way

So settle up those old affairs
all they're going to get you 
is a head full of grey hairs
you know the folks around
they still love you so
they're gonna smile and wave as they watch you go
so won't you wave goodbye to yesterday
before you get too old and slow
it's time to shine and let it go

Save me.. save me.. save me
yes and carry me along with you
on this beautiful day




Save Me

New song recorded tonight. Things are what they are.. on the melancholy side.... which i'm prone to wallow in from time to time.

It has come to my attention that I haven't put my pen to paper for a while
I've been burning scented candles that suggested fields of roses for so long
and I've lately come to realize the simple reason for my lack of candor
and the soil of sordid life reveals the blameless grief left floating in the breeze
I opted out of bowing low for fear that I might make a wrenching scene

show me how I have fallen short read to me the judgement of the court
but be careful as you're coming down you're falling from the same high ground
it all comes back around

I thank god sometimes for time alone with cheap guitars and cheaper brands of wine
I avoid my past discrepancies and present time inequities like plague
and it for these very reasons that I held my tongue and stared into the sky
and stole time alone in selfishness for fear without that I might lose my mind
has my silence said enough for you today
you might think you've had it rough sometimes and want to say

show me how I have fallen short read to me the judgement of the court
but be careful as you're coming down you're falling from the same high ground
it all comes back around

Im well aware of failure as Im constantly reminded of it in the mail
and the boat that we were sailing is the one in need of bailing suddenly
have I suddenly become some different soul
and did you become the innocent that fell into the resulting hole
is it such a shocking revelation after all
made to get up off our feet before we lean to crawl

show me how I have fallen short read to me the judgement of the court
but be careful as you're coming down you're falling from the same high ground
it all comes back around


It all comes back around

"Prospero’s Farewell"
Valhjim

The day is done. Cry no more.
We have done our best. Already, 
the sun is sinking behind the sea. 

Birds fly to their nests. The tide is soft 
and warm. The world is calm. I leave 
in peace. I am satisfied. There is love 
in my heart 

and understanding. 

We all do that we can. At times, we exceed 
expectations and surprise even ourselves.
 
Often, we fall short, but that is fine,
that is human, and we come here to learn

 from all we live.

The day is done, but there is another shore 
behind the horizon where the sun shines
brighter, the meadows greener, the music 
of the spheres takes on a myriad forms 

that feel 

soft to the touch, their colors morphing 
in tandem with feelings of unimaginable
 beauty and love.

So, cry no more. I will be fine and keep you all
In my heart forever. World without end.  
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Valhjim
synthesizers, samplers, guitars.

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—© 2025 Valhjim. All rights reserved. Original music by Valhjim.

Prospero's Farewell—A Requiem

airTIME

I invite you to listen to my piano improvisation “Roads We Take”.
“It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.” ― O. Henry

Download the piano sheets of my music here:
https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/Search.aspx?query=victor%20birkan&u=1

Watch the videoversion on my YouTube channel:
https://youtu.be/G0y0-WhfSho


Roads We Take - Improvised Piano Piece

Well, its taken a year but at last I've managed to create something new, a track that reminded me of warm, sultry days on holiday. I do hope you like it and any support you can give me as I find my way back into music would be much appreciated!

Glistening (feat. Zara Delaney)

Sunshine. The Sun. Our God and creator!

In this song I'm pretending Earth is asking me to make soldiers of all Humans to clean the air we all have to breathe especially for those in cities that have to breathe horribly fume filled air all the time. We have the tech and if we spread our wealth properly and had the will, we could all breathe clean air. Let's make it happen! Step number one to get on the right side of climate change. Burning more oil like some ignorant assholes want us to certainly ain't the answer. Yes we need to burn oil as our society relies on it but to deny climate change, purposefully try and confuse people's mindsets about it and feed the oil industry with a stay for a few years is very fucking dangerous for all of us... Stop listening to people not qualified to teach you about subjects they don't know..Read James Locklock if you want to actually find out where this is all going. He is one of many incredibly informed sources of good information and one of the greatest thinkers EVER.
Rest in Peace James 🔆
The oil industry spent decades crushing his ideas with narrow-minded propaganda and now all of his ideas are widely excepted by science and they are unbelievably fascinating and I would say some of the most spiritual theories ever created by a person. He found the one system that I will sing for until I'm dead 🫡💪🏽 Gaia will go on with or without us so time to synchronise with mother Earth. The Sun will take no prisoners!
We have an oulipo style lyric spelled by the first letter of each sentence of the first seven stanzas

♾ Smog Please Lift Let The Sun Shine ♾

I wrote and released this song in November 2024 and just redelivering today to give the vocal the improved voice. Let's go Earth 🌍  I still struggle on the Please Hear line so might drop it to 432Hz to nail that comfortably. Interestingly it's down to what I sing before those words and the part of my throat I'm at with those that makes the change hard, it's not a range thing it's a change thing. Doing the same tuning drop with God and the Universe was the only way my body could express what was in my head. It works wonders when you actually tune to your body! This song will be a completely different beast when I get around to a full 432 build

Listen to Singing Tip - Make your own frame of reference by The Beautiful Dark on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/9m2EDADpJzh8EooRg3
This my thinking in relation to this if you are interested in learning my approach.

My advise is actually tune everything to your chosen reference tone. I tune everything to perfect pitch 432 as this is more realistic to replicate on stage where as although a DAW can pitch shift you there if you are staying at 440 and pitch shifting artificially, which a modern DAW does amazingly well, that will put pressure on you when recreating your songs in a live environment. So I'd suggest go all in or stay at 440 if you have goals of hitting the stage with your music

Thanks Aileen for helping me appreciate this world more deeply ♾️
https://on.soundcloud.com/efwXGhXZD1oQCanPW5
A true human Light

Lyrics

Soiled air
Mist from humans
Oratory good beast, care
Give us stare through clean air, No fumes

Planet of one
Long lost founded son
Earth
Ask me for help
Send billions to repent
Earths soldiers are sent ~ Our ascent is meant

Light us a way
Insert air love today
Fear drafts away
Total clear air for alls' haze in gaze 

Love is here
Everything is clear
To the filter my dearest...

This sanction of fear?
Hire restriction to here.
Evolve the help we give, Please hear...

Sunshine
Universal
Nurture

Sunshine
Highest form
Indigo clone
New life not alone
EVOLUTION

Soiled air
Mist from humans
Oratory good beast, care
Give us stare through clean air, No fumes

Sunshine
Jniveral
Nurture
Come on from our highest form
Let's lift that dome

Sunshine
Univeral
Nurture
Sunshine
Highest form
Indigo clone
New life not alone
Never alone
This is evolution
Never alone
We're lifting that dome


Sunshine

Song written, sung, produced and engineered by Chris Scheri.
Instrumentation by Chris, Mark, David, Brendan

COULD HAVE STOPPED THIS

(Intro. Instrumental theme )
Walking in the park on a hot Summer night.
Make the best of this - he wants to help.
Walking in the park on a hot Summer's night.
Make the best of this - and help yourself.

But you know
You could have stopped this
could have stopped this
could have stopped this (repeat chorus)

(repeat instrumental theme)
Walking in the park on a hot Summer night
Where's the rest of this? Where are you now?
I'm walking in the park on a hot Summer night
What's the best of this? I need to know the rest of this.
Because I know
I could have stopped this
could have stopped this
could have stopped this
I could have stopped this

Over and Over. It keeps me awake at night.
“Could have stopped this” (background vocals)

Guitar solo.

M8 Just when you think, “Everything's alright.”
Just when you think, “We're under control.”
You trip on a thought and slip into “If Only”
If only I'd known, I would have been there!

There – on a hot Summer night
Your thoughts are everywhere.
Can I still help you?
Walking in the park on a hot Summer night,
You're the best of this!
Oh can you tell me, is there anything
I can still do for YOU?

(Choruses repeat till the end, joined by lead guitar on the
third repeat)
YOU COULD HAVE STOPPED THIS

Could Have Stopped This

You Could Have Stopped This

Tuning 432Hz A Standard
Capo 5
Key Dm
Rough tempo 62 bpm

Instruments
-Vocals and Acoustic run live as foundation
-Acoustic picked run
-Additonal vocals x 2
-Piano run x 1 start to finish (I'm making less mistakes - Cheers Nana)
-Strings legato section built with cellos and two orchestral legato pads played on keyboard throughout
-Piano, Strings and Celtic harp section added as intro played on keys and additional harp throughout

Merit by Morality

Our world is real
It's getting hotter
Yet most don't care for future of Otter
We bus, train, car or bike it to work
Then stare at a screen and increase our "worth"
Meanwhile the greenhouse kills more crops
Each shift many die desperate hunger their props
Well how about that!
They found Earth too...
Yet in our meritocracy,
Continue you do...

Merit by morality
Come the day it finds our sanity

This ain't luck
It's by design
We make society and the rules it rhyme
We decide who spreads our wealth
'Often pick the richest qualified in greed stealth
It's the mind set of money
Keep up with the joneses
Your need to care of their opinion they hold of us
With this disease the companies win
You're all just fodder who can't find within

Merit by morality
Come the day it finds our sanity

So where is true merit?
Our true morality?
Our own health is wealth with true equality
With current control a vacuum for money
Armageddon is on 'less we fill all tummy
Collective health is wealth on a Gaia ground Earth
Planet Human evolved where Love governs worth
Love is our answer
Love shows the way
Love is survival
Love gives all a say

Merit by morality
Come the day it finds our sanity

Merit by Morality

Please Play This In The Fitness Centre - Always

Composed & Played by DS; Guitars, Keyboards, Organ + DrumLoops.

Actually recorded in 2014, and for a while I was planning to expand it to something longer. But other pieces took priority, and I forgot about it. During the last months I have experienced some computer instability, lost functionality and files - and, finally, my main machine chrashed seriously early September. I don't think I can ever bring back the raw files to life again, but the mp3 survived. Actually, it was a private draft at SC, and I decided to let it live as a public track.

Very few will continue to listen after the disastrous dissonances taking place early on - rejected by most, and why not? We can't all have the same taste! 

DS //Sept 2016



COUNTERFACTUALS: instrumental sketch by DS

VARIATIONS OVER A THEME BY M. OLDFIELD ["OMMADAWN"].
DRAFT VERSION (TO BE COMPLETED 2017).

INSTRUMENTS: classical guitar and two 6-stringed steel guitars, electric guitar, and keyboards (= organ, bass, kalimba, flute, VST voices; drums played by hitting muted guitars & drum pad).

The classical composers did this all the time: taking a melody by someone else, and composing something new out of it - Variations by a theme by X. E.g., Johannes Brahms made a wonderful 25-part piano-suite based on a theme by Handel (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variations_…_Theme_by_Handel), ending with an amazingly complex contrapunctal passage. A stunning piece, well worth seeking on Youtube (or whereever).

My uploaded track is an attempt to create some variations on a theme by Oldfield. For reasons explained below, it is only a first draft and it is clearly a bit unpolished. I plan to make it considerably longer.

Wouldn't it be better to focus my efforts on my own material entirely, you may ask? Rather than fiddeling around with old ideas? Well, that is not always how inspiration works! 

Due to recently having bought a new guitar, I wanted to soundcheck it, investigating it's scope and limitations together with other instruments. So, (perhaps inspired by the soon release of R.T.O. by Mr. Oldfield, scedueled for the 20th January), I started to improvise over the OMMADAWN theme... Initially, that allowed me to focus on the guitar playing, rather than composing... One thing gave another, the recording became longer ... I never planned to release this - but the challenge is here now: the mountain is in front of me, and for that reason only I must climb it. As simple as that - it keeps me inspired!

In my view, no progressive instrumental record is more remarkable than the original 1975 OMMADAWN; absolutely stunning in all possible ways, and it has shaped my own way of approaching music. [Obviously, no comparison intended -any such would immediately result in a RED CARD]. 

The original OMMADAWN is an artefact. With its unearthly motifs, harmonics, continuous flowing, superior playing on a multitude of instruments (including some tremendously advanced guitar solos), it is incomparable to all other music.

Did I not know better, I could have counted it as a success of the SETI project: finally, a message from the Overlords! Inserted here on Earth by a vastly superior civilisation, with an intruiging hidden message ... :) Damn it that we can't grasp what it has to say to us - but for sure, something deeply profound. The only thing we intuitively feel is that it can't have been composed by any human - right? Finally, a really wonderful conspiratory theory! Alan Turing still alive, working secretly in Area 51 using super Quantum Computers on decrypting the inner meaning of the 1975 OMMADAWN signal... ;)

Regardless of what you may think of my draft, it was respectfully meant, and in the unlikely event that you liked some of it: make sure to fully credit the original composer for that. 

First draft recorded 14-15 January 2017. (Uploaded 18th - wanted it partially out-of-my-system before the 20th).

Thx for listening //DS

OMMA CONTRAPUNCTUS PROJECT (variations over a theme by Oldfield)

CREATURES RISING: written and recorded during 2019-2020. 

Edit 2021: This was initially intended to become a longer progressive suite, a massive project, and I released a sample … 

But the other sessions took its own directions and it gave rise to “Report from planet 3” and further projects boiling in my pipeline. So now I consider this short track a standalone. 

I am quite happy with it as such, and thanks to all who listened.


Uploaded 7th April 2020, Edit 4th September 2021.

Artcover by DS 2021.

https://youtu.be/afXYxTemtVY

CREATURES RISING

Only a person with a twisted mind would record something like this.

Close to the edge, long term pressure - society in full crises. Death rates, stockpiling. When will it end? Will it end? Will there be a 2nd wave, a more dangerous one? For how long time will the world be f' up?

Instruments forced to appear on tape where: IBANEZ ELECTRIC GUITAR, BOSS ME80 PEDAL EFFECTS, GUILD 12-stringed GUITAR, HAGSTROM 6s acoustic GUITAR, ALESIS DRUM PAD, ROLAND FA06 KEYBOARD.

Recorded under considerable worry in March 2020 when states in Europe started to lockdown. Added further guitars the 5th May in a sudden flash of inspiration. Thanks also to a good old SC friend for a comment on a draft that made me considering finalizing the track!

I could now try to hide behind a claim like "this was just for fun", "it's not a real track", etc; but, actually, this is rather me: this is what I do, when nobody stops me!

ERA - sessions during The World Crises - instrumental sketch by DS 2020

THE FORECAST: an instrumental sketch written by DS in a thematic collaboration with Arctic Windhorse: special thanks to her for inspirational discussions, feedback and support during the recordings(which took place 2018-2019).

The music is slightly incomplete and has mixing issues but does it matter? Some human errors, yes; some non-fixable issues in the .wav master files, indeed. We welcome it as a blessing in times of coldblooded, perfect AI. Alive and kicking....

The most significant element of this track - the generator of the textures - is the analogue NORD A1, with it's rich pad layers. It is also symbolically fitting for a very nordic collaboration (Alaska and Sweden).

So what do we forecast? The answer is more bad weather.

NORD & Roland keyboards, vst bass guitar, electric guitar, Boss-ME80 pedal effects, acoustic guitar, drum loops, and cajun percussion.

THE FORECAST

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)

SEPTEMBER 6, 2025: WATERFALL (part 1). Another part will follow in 2026!
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Many thanks for visiting here, and for the comments, 'Likes' & reposts.

D. Svensson Sept. 2022

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