sounds like it was recorded at a campfire in space with god

Acoustic With Style

Guitar song

We were inspired to add some new elements to this song. Bringing in the lads from Nomad was epic!! This is the new 'Bend'. 

Bend ft. The Nomadic Orchestra

www.davidmeulen.com

The Midnight Abyss was recorded live in studio, late one Cape Town night in 2013 at Heritage Sound Studio. Preceding the reprise on the album, it is the last full song in the tracklist.

"@davidmeulen" released 24 April 2014 and is available on iTunes world wide. 
Download now here!
itunes.apple.com/album/id858136774

Music & Lyrics by David Meulen
Lyrics co-written by Jessi Howell

Artists featuring in  The Midnight Abyss:
Guitar & vocal - David Meulen
Piano - Evelyn Hart

Engineer/Producer - Brendyn 'Rusti' Rossouw
Mixing Engineer - Neal Snyman
Mastered by Steve Fallone at Sterling Sound, New York

Cover photo and design - Laura McCullagh
Illustrations drawn by Jessi Howell

Buy on iTunes

The Midnight Abyss

Written and self-recorded in 2015 by Brad Wilson (Guitarist).
Denver, CO. Art credit: Charmaine Gurule

Ouachita

Selfish Me (Demo)

Big Bad Machine

That’s when I’m here
That’s when I’ve arrived
It was a big bad machine
And the doing was mine
It was a working engine
Oh working like it should
It was a working engine
Oh working like it should

When I feel the rapid sea
When I get paid
When I’m smokin’ on the hill
When I feel no pain
When I’m runnin’ fast like a grey train
When I hear them callin’
callin’ my name
When I know that soon 
I’ll need nothing at all


When I know the reasons
When I know I know
When it’s ugly but its good
When the green lights go
When I’m looking out down below
From where the tall, tall winds blow
When I know that soon I’ll need nothin’ at all

When I’m far from the city
When I get gone
When I know that its comin’
And it won’t be long
When I have again what I have lost
And when I know just what it cost
And when I know that soon 
I’ll be better again







Drum. Daniel Huxham
Lead elecrtic guitar, Andre Geldenhuys
Electric guitar, Sannie Fox

Lyrics, Sannie Fox
Recorded by Paris Lucas 
Mastered by Brian Lucey, Magic Garden LA

Record Label, Just Music

Big Bad Machine by machineri

When I was Tall

I love Radiohead. This song is a classic.

Follow me @mayomagnet

Radiohead - Creep (Maya-Rose Acoustic Cover)

another version of wicked games.this version worths listening.

Gemma Hayes - Wicked Game

The Title Track of the album is a 12minute song....But here is a radio friendly edit that cuts out the big Guitar and Drum end.......

Life Inside a Dream Radio edit

Now I Have You - Guitar Instrumental

We Move On (Demo Version)

Running In Circles

A little experiment with Tigerfight Productions. 

Searching

Just 2 Acoustic guitars and my voice... and a little bit of keyboards behind. Hope you like it!

You Were Right

I love the blues and became determined to learn to play when I found my beautiful Eastman archtop guitar up for sale, second hand for a bargain price, in Jan 2012. As soon as I touched it I fell in love.

I first tried playing guitar several decades ago: with unrealistic teenaged enthusiasm I fully expected to sound like Hendrix within a month or two while practising just thirty minutes a week. I gave up when I still struggled to tune my guitar and the cowboy chords I'd learnt sounded really rough when I literally banged on them. Girls were much more interesting.

In my late thirties I had a mid-life crisis(!), so I  bought a US Strat and a Gibson LP Pro, determined to learn to be an ageing 'bedroom rock star'. I was working long and hard hours so only practised on odd weekends, always wondering why following tab and listening to CD lessons was not working. I decided I was tone deaf and incompetent, so yet again, I gave up, still unable to master bar chords, convinced I would never be able to play.

As an early retiree, I decided to give it a final attempt when I found my black beauty: the first few years were a journey of discovery, discipline and sore fingers. I practised most days (except when arthritis in my joints and a trapped nerve in my shoulder 'froze' my fretting pinkie and sent my thumb totally numb). Back then, I trawled YouTube and bought a DVD course of lessons, and plugged away. It was worth it as I really enjoyed the fairly limited range of things I could play.

When I first arrived on Soundcloud, I was not expecting to find such a talented and helpful community. I just wanted to upload a jam track for my friends to hear, then I found the amazing wealth of creativity here. 

Sadly, my frozen shoulder, trapped nerve and related problems have pretty much stopped my guitar ambitions since 2016.

However, I still have a blast exploring all the fabulous originals and covers so many relatively unknown, but hugely talented, musicians have conjured up for the SC community. In my first five weeks on here I downloaded c100 tracks and 'liked' hundreds more, and since then I have created many playlists that I regularly listen to depending on my mood...

Simon Cowell and his ilk (overpaid gatekeepers/brand creators/ubercapitalists) have, until now, throttled mass talent for the sake of creating a relative handful of extremely wealthy 'cash cow' celebs.

Who needs these supposedly 'professional talent spotters' and their artificially enhanced 'celebrities'? The internet rocks!

NB If you too suffer from joint pain, RSI or trapped nerves I highly recommend this free DIY pain relief site: it is not just for guitar related injuries but pain anywhere in the body pretty much, and the techniques used really do work - although for me, they provide just temporary relief. Good luck!

David Meulen picks up his scratched, trustworthy acoustic guitar. – he’s been playing it for a long time now. The sound it emits is both percussive and melodic all at once, the perfect combination for his unique hard-hitting acoustic rock style. This is the sound he has found, and he’s ready to share it with the world.

At age 17 David started alternative rock band Dividable Grand with high school friends, and performed with the group for a couple of years. A fair amount of success followed with DG performing alongside some of the biggest acts in South Africa, including Prime Circle, aKing, Taxi Violence and many more. Television appearances, festival performances and extensive radio play followed and led to the band recording with top South African producer Theo Crous.

Using the experience gained from this, David branched out to other genres and started focusing on his solo career.
The first thing he did was embark on a lone road trip, bringing only his guitar and essentials. The purpose of this? Songwriting. Starting again from scratch, building up from nothing. 
Poor guitar! 
Preparations for live shows followed, and you could feel the excitement building. He is a man on a mission, and that mission is music.

Once he was sure he had the tracks perfected, he approached Brendyn Rossouw of Heritage Sound studios, and together they crafted an album that would do the songs justice. 
The minimalistic @davidmeulen features an eclectic mix of well-known artists. Legendary Johnny Clegg Band drummer Barry Van Zyl and virtuoso Dirty Skirts bassist Maurice Paliaga came in to provide rhythm sections for a few of the tracks. The lonesome Blues Harp king Dave Ferguson appears on the bluesy tracks. Double-bass, piano and accordion add to the unique sound of the album, which was released 24 April 2014.

David’s passion for music can be traced back to when he discovered The Beatles at the age of six. “I love The Beatles. They make me utterly happy. I first heard a song of theirs on the radio and I was sold – this was a good 30 years after they broke up! I started playing guitar a week later. This is what I’d love to create, I thought – something that lasts and inspires.” 
He should probably have been a sixties man. Walking into his home you’ll often hear the turntable belting out Hendrix or Dylan while he jams happily along, the greats watching from the psychedelic posters that cover his walls. Occasionally he grabs his Gibson Les Paul, nudging the volume knob up suspiciously often, singing along as loud as humanly possible.

And this is what you can expect from a live show by David Meulen. Joining him on stage, drummer Jay Latter and bassist Kyle Dijkstra provide a vibe leaving you with a strong urge to sing, dance, and no choice but to have a good time. The trio will be gigging throughout 2014.

Keep watching out for David Meulen and his crew – there’s plenty more on the way.

The Midnight Abyss

David Meulen

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