SIGH AT THE CLOCK

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 SERIES

SINCERE THANKS TO ALL WHO PLAYED & LIKED & COMMENTED & REPOSTED!

YRS  //DS

DS SHORT TRACKS

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

*Some deny it, but the consensus is strong. As more and more data is accumulated, the cluster grows ever stronger. Will we act upon the warnings, break the trend?* 

Composed and recorded while working on another (longer) instrumental composition...  

Instruments: 6- and 12-string acoustic guitars, electric guitars, keyboards, midi-handplayed bass and percussion, + drum loops. 

Both ClusterOfWarnings and CambrianExplosion have been derived from themes also featured in my 25 min long multi-instrumental: 
https://soundcloud.com/davidjsvensson/long-instrumental-part1draft-ds2015
https://soundcloud.com/davidjsvensson/long-instrumental-part2draft-ds2015 

To re-use ideas, modify them, and let them be the basis for new compositions has a long tradition; already Vivaldi and Bach did this (all the time). From a theoretical standpoint, it interests me; how flexible and potent is a single idea ... 

Cluster of Warnings is possibly the piece I am most satisfied with, so far. 

I appreciate your time here, thanks in advance for any likes/repost/comments!

//DS

ps. Artwork by DS 2014.

THE CLUSTER OF WARNINGS

MUSIC WRITTEN BY TOLUBAI.
KEYBOARDS: TOLUBAI.
GUITARS: DAVID SVENSSON.

For a long time now, I have very much enjoyed the music by Tolubai. (https://soundcloud.com/tolubai).

His compositions are always interesting, emotional, creatively arranged, finely balanced, and full of substantial ideas and material ... 

One of my personal favorites was always the tasteful, contemplative, and melancholic 'Memories', originally posted several years ago; one of Tom's true masterpieces, finely played by himself, very subtile, movingly ... Listen careful to the original, how inspired it is ... 

One day, while listening to it again, I started to play along, and got the idea of record some of it. More as a tribute to this already perfect piece, not to improve on it; rather, respectfully celebrate it ... 

One thing lead to another, Tom and I collaborating ... 

And, I am proud to announce: here it is. (Also cloned at Tom's account: https://soundcloud.com/tolubai/memories-tolubai-feat-david-svensson)

I hope you like this joint effort (and, if not, there is always the original!).


Best regards //David, 11 Sept 2015

ps. Link to the original: https://soundcloud.com/tolubai/memories




Memories - Tolubai feat. David Svensson

Probing the landing site in wonderful total silence.
Recieving data, odd features visible.

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WRITTEN 2016 BY DS IN COLLABORATION WITH TOLUBAI 
Keyboards, Electric Guitars, Drums Loops.
Further sections will follow.

(Link to TOLUBAI's excellent tracks: https://soundcloud.com/tolubai.)



SILENCE

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)

Evocative song to listen to without hurry... most serious job I've done lately, say no more.

Letra / Translated lyrics:

SI TÚ ME FALTARAS  /  IF I MISSED YOU

Abre tu risa mis ojos,  /  Your laugh opens my eyes,
olor a café por la mañana…  /  smell of coffee in the morning…
Para murmurarte un beso  /  So as to whisper you a kiss
me levanto de la cama.  /  I get up from the bed.

Aaaay! Si tú me faltaras  /  Aaaay! If I missed you
aaaay! de tedio moriría.  /  aaaay! I’d die of weariness.

Me despierta muy temprano  /  Wakes me up very early
el olor de tu cuerpo a mi lado.  /  the smell of your body beside me.
Para que se haga de noche pronto  /  So that it gets dark soon
rápidamente me he levantado.  /  I have got up fast.

Siento que mi vida se desliza por el sabor tan suave de tu cuello y de tus besos.  /
I feel my life slips along such a soft flavor of your neck and your kisses.

Puedo ser ligero como el aire y filtrarme con mi fuego en tus sueños y en tus deseos.  /
I can be as light as air and percolate with my fire into your dreams and your desires.

Busco el momento cada día de volver para gozarte, para olerte, para amarte…  /
I look for the moment every day to come back so as to enjoy you, to smell you, to love you … 

para amarte, sí, aaaay! para amarte.  /  to love you, yes, aaaay! to love you.

Juega tu lengua en mi cerebro,  /  Your tonge plays in my brain,
recorren mi espalda tus caricias.  /  your caresses cross my back.
Miro el reloj y suspiro,  /  I look at the clock and sigh,
deseando que acabe el día.  /  wishing the day to finish. 

Aaaay! Si tú me faltaras  /  Aaaay! If I missed you
aaaay! de tedio moriría.  /  aaaay! I’d die of weariness.

ER40FI07

Si tú me faltaras (de tedio moriría)

SNOWFLAKES VARIATIONS: COMPOSED AND PLAYED BY DS. 

PRELUDE: here introducing the main theme which will be heavily used in a much longer and more complex follow-up piece. RECORDED: audio-in handplayed, using two brand new Yamaha and Roland keyboards.

SNOWFLAKES VARIATIONS: It will be an agnostic kind of suite, in the sense that it follows no particular rules in how to develop, it simply grows, fractal style, in its own way ... The 2nd part is to 95% ready, and is extensive. It will feature more guitar work, and have more ebbs and flow. It has a bit of a different dynamics and the 'Prelude' didn't integrate well when inserted there - let's use it like this, as a teaser for the real work ;)

The inspiration came from some perfect days in the north; bright, ice-cold winter landscapes, with fine layers of snow falling, the sun still shining through ...

DS 10th January 2020.

Update December 2020: a 20-minute PART II is in the making and likely to be released early next year... polishing some transitions...

Update April 2021: As it happens, it took me more than 2 years to complete the 25 minute long Zummer Znowflakes.... 

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(To the SC IT staff: why do your Artificial-Idiot Engine play country-music with lyrics directly after my Prelude? There are not exactly lots of similarities? Any monkey would make a better guess)

SNOWFLAKES VARIATIONS: PRELUDE

Music and mixing: Wypernet soundcloud.com/wypernet/tracks
Lyrics, vocal, mixing and mastering: Lukowig www.facebook.com/Lukowig/ twitter.com/Lukowig

Aucun dragon aucun sphynx
ni sur les lagons les lynx
aux yeux injectés de sang
ne nous empêcheront de pénétrer séant
dans les domaines de l'étran-
ge engloutis dans nos océans
engloutis dans nos océans
engloutis dans nos océans...

Aucune mesure temporelle
aucun monde imaginaire ou réel
ne nous empêcheront de disparaître
dans les domaines qui viennent de naître
du fond des profondeurs béan-
tes de nos pétillants océans
du fond des profondeurs béan-
tes de nos pétillants océans...

Domaines [Wypernet and Lukowig]

From The Age Of Solitude

Sandstone / Open Collab / Paploviante 2020
BPM 120
The track is downloadable as a mp3 file!
You can complete what you want!
If you publish it, you have to mention me in the description and title!
Thanks !

Sandstone - Paploviante open collab

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

Thank you for listening!
A new collaboration with another great SoundCloud Artist.
It has been a pleasure to collaborate with the very talented singer Ren Faye
Check out the great work of Ren: @https://soundcloud.com/renfaye-1
Lyrics and vocals: Ren Faye

Drinking Games (Feat. Ren Faye)

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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