This again is very Mike Oldfield... btw I agree with you about the audience attention span... they certainly had that in Mike Oldfield's heyday. say 1970s through 1980s.

Ah... I just got to that bit in your blog about Mike Oldfield.  I could hear that influence before I read your blog. It is quite obvious.. well to me anyway because I had to spend many weeks learning all the wind instrument parts from 10 of his albums..

Wow this guitar part. I don't remember which album. I learned those parts quite a while ago. But I was back listening to those records again. :)

A special day for me full of music, last few & most best, this one.. theese deeetails! 😎🎸

What a song. What s presentation. This is real music. If Aliens are watcingus in Earth TV and there's Top Earth Real Songs... Look no further .. your got your natural intention your subconscious if your asking me... because of the way this came together... it seems le youtrued very hard to make it differently... then I'm not sure if to realized it was perfect... It's farking perfect... And it's the warts that are a good bit of that all... it's like being your neighbour enjoying you figuring out your musical soul

You're next. I'll include Mayur in this song Two. The musical love map is about to get Swedish and Indian love and it's going to be an incredible song. Give me a couple of days...Damo Demsey tonight so after that.. we get our tune 🔨

Time well spent. Yes, Tull, Genesis, Gentle Giant..etc. etc. 😆 you more than nailed it!! This kind of project is out of reach for most of us.

I like the piece, it is structured in an exciting and well-thought-out way, nice sounds

Selected tracks in no particular order but in my view the highlights of my output. Thanks for listening! Yrs /DS

BEST OF PLAYLIST

Live Reflexion#005

Out of the ruins of another project rises a new track ... < R.I.P. "Conqueror" >. Variations on a theme, searching for gold, an assault on the ears.

Written and recorded by DS, because nobody stopped him. Dedicated to warriors of instrumental music.

OUTPOST

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

My name is mr Nobody
Who likes to meet you all
But first of all 
I have to survive 
All these crimes
Against my life

I like to go some places
And forget all of your angry faces
But until then, I will hide when
You drink

This house is filled with your anger
In this house 
I cried myself
To sleep

My name is mr Nobody
Who likes to know why
Why I
Can't seem to behave
I don't feel save
Why nobody thinks I'm brave

I like to live a long time
And I hope someday that I feel fine
But until then, I will hide when
You drink

This house is filled with your anger
In this house 
I cried myself
To sleep

MR NOBODY (Original song) Demo version

Angelika ist meine Schwester, und es handelt sich um einen Drohnenflug. Dabei entstand ein kurzes Video, das den Ort zeigt, an dem sie lebt und arbeitet, und zu dem ich eine kurze Musik geschrieben habe, für ihre Webseite www.human-unfoldment.de .
Wir alle haben schon erstaunt unsere Fähigkeit zu Fliegen zur Kenntnis genommen - in unseren Träumen, von Zeit zu Zeit. Das tun wir dann mit der größten Selbstverständlichkeit, Leichtigkeit und Gelassenheit. Und wir haben den Wunsch, das unser Leben so wäre.
We all have the ability to fly - in our dreams, from time to time. It happens to be very simple, we do it relaxed and withour any effort. And we wish our lives would be like that.
This piece grew out of a little music I wrote for a video for the website of my sister, which is about yoga and personality building. The video shows a drone flight over the place, where she lives and works - a lake, trees, houses, nice weather.

Angelika fliegt

Dark void - Un vortice di bassa passione

Date de publication: 08/07/2023

Musique, arrangements, claviers, mastering: Cyril MENDEZ

Claviers utilisés en plus des VST: 
Roland Juno 106

Première maquette créée en Août 2014

© Cyril MENDEZ 2023, All Rights Reserved.

Cosmos

Summer of 23

Detour Ahead

Take It Easy Man / Nabil Khazzaka
Vocals and Lyrics: Nabil Khazzaka
https://www.looperman.com/users/profile/263151
https://soundcloud.com/nabilkhazzaka
Paploviante:
Bass, Music Composing, Mix, Picture and Mastering

Take It Easy Man - Nabil Khazzaka - Paploviante Music

The Door Of Perception II (Acoustic version)

Brain Reset (For four guitars)

Inspired by Amarok! Global Presence! Riffs of the 70s!

This recording is the result of my most ’guitar-intensive’ period ever. It came as a reaction to what came before it, a period where I focused very much on the classical guitar but a moment came when I was fed up with polishing small details in my repetoar. One day, I felt an incredible hunger for riffs, for steel string guitars, and for going back to (progressive) rock music! I always loved the rock of the 70s, considering it as ’Mount Everest of the music history’ (classical music excluded here). An era where everyone was incredibly ambitious, when everything had to be handplayed, and when the broader audience had some considerable attention span ;)

I started to explore some riffs on my CORT steel string guitar, which had been collecting dust in a corner for a long time. It soon gave me the opening riffs and some additional riffs (e.g., around 5 minutes into the track). I quickly worked up the bulk of the track and got maybe half of the track done in just a few weeks (not counting later polishing, when I re-recorded some bits to get the sound I wanted). I got a vision of the completed track, a long progressive one - yes, for sure inspired by Oldfield and YES (favorites from this era!), but it was easier said than done to complete the track. Considerable work remained, as I was about to learn….

It was incredibly hard to finalize the composition and I almost gave up on it. I arrived at a moment where I seemed to have promised too much and where the Ear demanded some serious further action; many permutations tested, but nothing seemed to work. In the end, due to all this, I lost some control of the files (e.g., a key solo guitar is badly panned but I seem to be unable to find the raw data needed to fix it).

Extremely much work went into the last months, on a mission to crack it! Late nights, tinnitus, frustration! :) Finally I think I found what I needed (but who am I to know).. I had to accept some slightly less than perfect audio at some places: does it matter? Not to me, but the listener is the jury. I decided to go for attitude and energy rather than anything else… I hope you will enjoy what I discovered!

I doubt that cold-blooded perfect ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ever will replicate what a desperate Dave J. Svensson sounds like, late at nights with all controls turned to 11 on a scale from 0 to 10 …. ;)

The SHAMBOLIC GUITARS were:
- two 6s steel: CORT (rythms!) and OVATION (main recurrent theme!)
- a 12s FENDER (colour!)
- three electric guitars: IBANEZ (now sold), PRS & SCHECTER (dirt!)
- two classical guitars: CORT, KREMONA (clarity!)
Plus, a ROLAND keyboard (for some pads), and various hardware effect boxes.

Artcover by DS, featuring the guitars listed above.

//Dave, 6th October 2023

SHAMBOLIC GUITARS

*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

COMPOSED AND PLAYED BY DS 2015-2016 using keyboards, organ, distorted electric guitars, acoustic guitars, midi-played bass, percussion & drum pads (and drum loops).
SPECIAL THANKS: to @tolubai for valuable feedback during the development phase.
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In the mood for something easy, clear-cut, and straightforward? Look elsewhere. EarthShine is a dark, experimental and slightly dissonant piece; clearly not intended for the charts, and with a rather unclear purpose ... (which, by the way, is entirely to the liking of the composer, with his evidently rather odd taste).

Initially concieved as a PRELUDE to the two-part instrumental published earlier (https://soundcloud.com/davidjsvensson/long-instrumental-part1draft-ds2015), taking one of the main themes into another iteration, in new directions.

The main theme, the slightly dissonant opening theme (based on a Gminor chord over the bass note H, followed by a Hminor chord), gets evolved into the more harmonical organ/synth sequence appearing multiple times in the final, thus ending this piece (and the entire suite) on a more positive note.

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The rather odd music was partly inspired by ideas and discussions in 'Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies' (www.nickbostrom.com, Oxford University); a remarkable work apparently taken very seriously by e.g., B. Gates, and respected scientists such as M. Tegmark, S. Hawkings, and M. Rees.

"Artificial intelligence already outperforms human intelligence in many domains" [p.11]. Still, the idea of an intelligence explosion occuring in our life time is to many laughable, and, clearly, it is unknown if it can occur at all; we only know that Nature once rigged materia in such as way that high intelligence emerged (i.e., us) [insert your own interpretation here].

Some would argue that there are much else in the world to worry about first; but, is this a new kind of Manhattan Project actually coming up on the horizon, with potentially far-fetching existential consequences for Mankind?

It remains to be seen if it was correct to end the music with some hope.

//DS 2016



EARTHSHINE

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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