It was the first track of yours that I listened to. It hypnotized me right away!!!  Many years ago...

and back to the start again. Interesting with this percussion behind the guitar.

That loud percusive sounds like a heartbeat.

These melodies remind me of Mike Oldfield.

One of my all time favourites! Love the iterative melancholic sequence and how it is playfully wrapped. Simply great!

A lovely intertwined mix of guitar and a soothing perc brings me back to this piece..

You remind me of L.Kottke a little with a classical flair.. great track.

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)

STRUCTURES.

A new series of pieces based on the classical guitar (but recorded plugged-in). Composed and played by DS 2015.

It is a work of variations, with some core elements re-appearing multiple times (but evolved, and differently combined). Meditative, explorative, and slightly abstract. Created through a gradual weaving of different themes, growing larger structures ... 

It is likely that there ultimately will be a cycle of five, six, pieces of this kind. 

DS //May 2015





Guitar Structures No. 1 - By David J. Svensson

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

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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