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

Captured on tape by DS during 2021/2022 under unclear circumstances. Shared with you via SoundCloud, in the form of a wav file. Downloadable for further analysis. Constructed via the usage of electric guitars, hardware keyboards and drum loops.

Science Fiction Soundtrack. (The 2nd part is still encrypted).  //DS 28/4/2022

THE DISCLOSURE

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)

WRITTEN AND PLAYED BY DS.

This was Work-In-Progress until the computer died (2015). A crude sketch to a longer progressive work - but the result contains elements that inspire me. It is one of my little personal favorites .... 

/DS April 2018 (edit January 2024).

APPROACHING

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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