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Daisies Meadow

SUMMER SNOWFLAKES: variations on a theme. Intended to be released at the first snow fall, but it never came... So I kept recording.

INSTRUMENTS used: Electric Guitar, two steel 6-stringed guitars, 12s guitar, classical guitar, two hardware keyboards (rendering the pianos, organs, bass guitar, chimes, bells, flutes, strings), pedal effects.

The music grew like a fractal in all directions and became quite vast in scope: should I have split it into shorter tracks? Many would say yes, but I didn't fancy that and instead went for the ”LP option"; an instrumental, meditative journey, inspired by the genre invented by Mike Oldfield in the 70s.

When I first heard his work, many years ago, I didn't first get it, but I was intrigued. "What is the purpose?" was my early reaction. But I couldn't shake it off and became hooked to the complexity of his instrumental music, and how it seemed to constantly mutate into new sections. I kept listening, and gradually discovered the many hidden secrets. And it led me to become very interested in classical music.

SUMMER SNOWFLAKES is made in this tradition. Not explicitly trying to mimic Mr. Oldfield, but admittedly clearly influenced by his method. And why not? Was it wrong that Brahms wrote symphonies just because Beethoven already had done nine legendary ones? Would the world have been a better place if Shostakovich had stayed away from writing Preludes and Fugues for the piano? Should no pop songs have been allowed after Beatles? I say, let us be shamelessly inspired by the gigants and make some efforts to create something! Throw an egg if you must, but I think any sincere attempt to compose is welcome.

When I decided to go for a full length track, my vision was (somewhat childishly) the thought of the younger myself; the days when I was a die-hard Oldfield fan and had stumbled upon a new release: always a rare event, an instant buy, running home, headphones on, expectations high, launching it: the first sacred discoveries ... My track may not live up to this, but is a tribute to those days and that feel.

The recording was quite an undertaking and I didn't want to let myself down. I worked on it since December 2018, and was occasionally quite frustrated about it. I avoided midi, and tried to hand-play it all (for the fun of it) - often leaving me in big trouble. I admit there are some sun spots due to this, but I consider them as my finger prints and evidence that a human did this, not a machine. .

Art cover: by DS 2021, reflecting the heavy reliance and overlaying of pianos and organs, and the combinational nature of the music.

Special Thanks to Mark Hermse, Mike Hilton and Wojciech Langner for support and inspiring discussions!

SUMMER SNOWFLAKES

Enjoy sweety's and get some good vibes 4 spring 
1,5 hour music mixed for ya party, workout or doin householding.... dont forget to dance at the same time <3

TechHouseMixXx mp3

THE DAY OF THE GREEN EARTH - IMPROMPTU

As the title suggests, I made this piece to commemorate World Earth Day. And this piece is largely improvised, so I found Impromptu a fitting description. The accompanying guitar is playing parts that have been in my head for some time now, the lead guitar responds to them spontaneously. 

I filmed myself live while recording this track, you can see it here: https://youtu.be/eK4Z6XMy2xs

As always I really enjoy your likes, shares and comments!
-Dan

Data:
All music, arranging, composition, bass & guitars by Daniël van den Berg, April, 2021
Guitar: Joan Cashimira, modelo 145, spruce top w/ cocobolo sides and back, Gata de Gorgos (Alicante), 2015
Recorded using an Apogee MiC.
Mixed in Auria, masterered in Auria and Final Touch.
Photo and edit by Dan van den Berg, 2021

The Day of the Green Earth - Impromptu for two acoustic guitars | Dan van den Berg

I Can


Verse 1:
Yes you can say it
If you can say it, then you can do it
There are many struggles ahead
Meeting those struggles starts in the head
Say “I Can’ is the first step to overcoming those hurdles in life

Chorus 1 & 2:
You may think you can’t
But you can do more than you think
Step one is convincing yourself
Then figuring it out

Verse 2:
How do you accomplish what you desire
Put on the polish and turn on the fryer
The thoughts are not easy
Nor are they sleazy, but
The actions will challenge
And you may have to put out your talons
Start at Step 1, Step 1

Chorus:

Instrumental Verse and Chorus 3

Verse 4:
You are your own demon
Get to your brain a cleanin’
Your mind can be your friend
And put you on the mend

Or it can be an evil demon
In league with the devil’s legion
Get the do it mind set
Keep aimed with your sights set

I Can

It has been almost 2 years since I heard a production made in a style completely unknown to me: https://soundcloud.com/tetsuo-dubs/tetsuo-senso. I know the creator personally. I asked him what he would say about making a metal version of the track, as I had ideas for processing...
He has supported the project! For many months (while the track was preserved on my hard drive) he encouraged me to release this song.
Today is finally the moment to release - after doing the last few touches these days. Thanks, TETSUO! :)https://soundcloud.com/tetsuo-dubs
This time too, my virtual band rushed to my aid - as I usually do with my compositions.
Produced by Val Akey.
Used and programmed VSTIs:
- Drums: Addictive Drums2;
- Bass: Broomstick Bass;
- Guitars: RealLPC + GuitarRig5.
- String Orchestra: Cytrus (FL Studio 20)
- Choir: DSK ChoirZ

Release date: 21 April 2021

Sensitive Destruction

Para Lia - Kassandra
from the album ‘Gone With The Flow’
paralia.bandcamp.com/album/gone-with-the-flow

Visit the 3D virtual art exhibition with the great work of Louis Renzoni and the music of Para Lia here:
https://www.sophisticatedape.com/gone-with-the-flow-exhibition/

words and music by René Methner
mix and production: René Methner
mastering: Thomas Heimann-Trosien, TurnstyleMastering, Berlin
cover artwork based on Louis Renzonis 'Light From A Candle' 

Follow Para Lia on:
www.facebook.com/paraliamusic/
www.instagram.com/paralia.music/
twitter.com/para_lia_band

The background for the inspiration of course is Homer and the tales on the Trojan war. But Kassandra does not tell a story – it’s a kind of a painting with an ancient scenery or maybe just a sketch: Kassandra in front of the burning city. And it could be a modern painting. We are in a distance of more than 3.000 years to the plot of the ancient tales – and still mankind has Kassandras and tears in front of burning cities.

Working on Kassandra i had in mind from the beginning that Cindy will take the main voc in this song. So i wrote the harmonies and the song structure with that in mind and i love how she sings the song. Kassandra also includes a few notes played with a Greek Baglamas and helps the song to get a special note. This string instrument is the small sister of a Bouzouki. 

lyrics:
on sungod days in the morning dew
the tears of kings are just a few
meaningless rain drops

we keep that fire burning
until the tide is turning
and the ships are grounded

in the golden light of the afternoon
she is dancing like the queen of doom
she blinks into the sunlight

we keep that fire burning
until the tide is turning
we watch the flames rise higher
we keep that fire burning
until the tide is turning
we watch the flames rise higher
into the sky
into the sky

Gone With The Flow

Bandcamp

Kassandra

From the Album: "Friends, They're Gonna Get Your Story Wrong" (2021)
Lyrics:
You could tell my heart just wasn't in it
When I walked through the door
You could tell my heart just wasn't in it
When I washed up on your shore
On the surface
It seems calm
But underneath
There's a raging sea
Pulling me
Down
Let me swim out to the breakwater, I'll be fine
Every ounce of energy that I conserve
I just flail and I give it away
I just flail
And give it away

I've never met a woman like you before
I'm swimming for my life
(and you know it)
I just keep on writing these sad, sad songs
There just C and D and E
They're like taking buried treasure from the sea
Let me swim out to the breakwater
I'll be fine
Every ounce of energy that  I conserve
I just flail and I give it away

My heart just wasn't in it
As you could see
When I washed up from the sea
Swim out to the breakwater
I'll be fine
I've never met a woman like you before
I'm swimming for my life
And you know it
Let me swim out out the breakwater
Breakwater
I'll be fine
Let me swim out to the breakwater of my heart

The Breakwater

J’AI BESOIN D’ÂME J’AI BESOIN D’AMOUR ENVOIE
J’AI BESOIN D’ART J’AI BESOIN D’ARGENT ENVOIE
J’AI BESOIN D’OR J’AI BESOIN D’ORGIE 
JETTE MOI UN SORT UN TOUR DE MAGIE
A CORPS A CRIS LE JUS DU FRUIT DÉFENDU J’ADORE

J’AI BESOIN D’AIR J’AI BESOIN D’AZUR ENVOIE
PAS BESOIN D’ARMES PAS BESOIN D’ARMURE RENVOIE
ALLO ALLAH SALUT JEOVAH VA VOIR LÀ-HAUT SI J’Y SUIS ET
ENVOIE UN SIGNE OH DIEU SI T’ES LÀ ENVOIE

FOUS NOUS LA PAIX ENVOIE LA MONNAIE ENVOIE
OUAIS LA PAIX SUR TERRE LES NYMPHÉAS DE MONNET ENVOIE
LES HOMMES LES FEMMES ET LEUR PROGÉNITURE
ONT BESOIN D’ÂME, D’AMOUR ET D’AVENTURE
SI TU NOUS VOIS SI TU ENTENDS NOS VOIX ENVOIE

ENVOIE ENVOIE
SI TU CROIS EN MOI ENVOIE
ENVOIE
ET JE CROIRAI EN TOI
ENVOIE
ET JE CROIRAI EN TOI

ENVOIE (Lyrics)

Migration from my 2nd page.(https://soundcloud.com/kyo_arakane_2)
I think I've lost my account id and password there....I cannot upload or leave comments anymore.

I'm a chocolate addict. I eat it quite often. It's a good stress releaser. 

I like this jazzy feel of the track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVeYx3iLYyE&t=25s

Somewhere Over The Chocolate Dreams

“The banjo is such a happy instrument. You can't play a sad song on the banjo, it always comes out so cheerful.” -Steve Martin

"If you're bored it's probably because you're boring." -My Mom

Inspired by the funnier side of @jeff-pope whose songs are anything but boring. Check him out. 

I’m not mad
I’m not sad
I’m not anything but where I’m at
I’m just bored, so bored, so bored

I’m not a fanatic
That’s too erratic 
I’m just a TV set to static
That means I’m bored, I’m so bored, I’m just bored

I got nothing to believe in
No dreams to be dreaming 
Tomorrow’s just another day

I don’t care for chitchat
I been there, I done that
The world could just spin away

I don’t fish
I don’t golf 
Whatever turns you on turns me off
I’m so bored with being bored 
I don’t wanna be so bored no more

I tried cocaine 
And LSD
I tried transcendental philosophy 
But I’m snoring, ‘cause it’s boring
And it’s 4 in the morning, I’m bored

Sorry if I’m a no-show
I’m feeling anti-social
It’ll probably be boring anyway

A birthday, an earthquake
Anything for for god’s sake
The world could stop spinning for a day

Then I’d be glad
I’d be relieved
Because I’d be anything that isn’t me
‘Cause I’m bored, so bored, so bored

Yabba dabba wabba whoa whoa whoa

I’m not mad
I’m not sad
I’m not anything but where I’m at
I’m just bored, so bored, so bored
So bored
So bored
So bored
So bored
So bored
So bored
So bored
So bored
So bored

So Bored

Irrlichter means "Will-o'-the-wisps"
Freedom of expression and discussion are an important part of being human, no question ...
but some arguments distort facts like will-o'-the-wisps in a swamp from which they come.

"Irrlichter" Concertino 1 for trombone and orchestra

PACMAN* - Cloud 9 (The Speaker Breaker's Underground Remix)

Production @thespeakerbreaker
Vocals @pacman-mic-mastery
Cover Art @chris-pendergraft

We appreciate you listening!!!

PACMAN* - Cloud 9 (The Speaker Breaker's Underground Remix)

JOY RIDE

01 - NI - Session Guitarist - Picked Acoustic - Tonight
02 - SA - PS - Tubular Bells - Short Soft Sticks
03 - SA - PS - Xylophone - Swarmed Sticks Hot F
04 - SA - OACE - Chamber Grid

Winter Heat

InstruMental & Mix by PH https://soundcloud.com/patrick-ph-245811196  /  https://soundcloud.com/user-351782230
Lyrics & Vocals by Special Cecilia https://soundcloud.com/specialececilia & https://soundcloud.com/spacialcecilia
ANOTHER FANTASTIC VERSION ON BC > https://specialcecilia.bandcamp.com/track/fresh-air

FRESH AIR PH Original Edit Feat Special Cecilia

Listen to St. Clement while watching Lance Mountain skateboard in the 1984 skateboarding film, The Bones Brigade Video Show here: https://www.facebook.com/couchkingpresents/videos/715433375670753/

I had been really wanting to make new music with Calebass. I have been making a lot of songs that lean more heavily toward hip hop the last couple years and felt like heading back toward the direction of my earlier years on SoundCloud. Luckily Calebass was willing and ready and the music flowed easily and steadily. Jon did an amazing job adding an element of jazz with his bass and Janine really awakened the psychedelic spirit and Age of Aquarius with her vocals. It was extra bonus to have both Sinfields participate in this song making this a real SC family affair. Lyrically, I was inspired by the children’s book, Ox-Cart Man, which I love, and all the felt mouse toys I recently made for my cat at my daughter’s request. 

Thanks for all your years of listening everyone!

This is dedicated to the joys of making things at home.

Calebass: Guitars and Song Image / Art
https://soundcloud.com/calebass
Jon Lock: Bass
https://soundcloud.com/jon-lock-5
Janine Levinson: Vocals
https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson 
Alex Collett Sinfield: Saxaphone
https://soundcloud.com/alex_collett_sinfield 
the Couch King: Lyrics, Vocals, and Production
musiciselation.bandcamp.com
Russell Sinfield: Mix and Master
https://soundcloud.com/russell-sinfield
The Chaos Cookhouse: Studio
https://chaoscookhouse.bandcamp.com

Lyrics:

Felt
Of natural fibers  
Pelt 
Nature’s the provider  

Sheep and goats and muskoxen
Wool and cashmere qiviut 
Nothing that’s a toxin only
Simply as god giveth
Dyes of plants and insects 
Cochineal that’s rich and intense
I light up the incense 
As you gather up our projects
Single felting needle
Scissors from the cupboard
We are crafting peoples
Churning our own butters

Lalalalalalala
Lalalala
Lalalalalalala
Lalalala

Saint Clement fleeing from his city
Felted wool upon his blistered piggies

Accidentally felted 
From moisture and friction 
It took the shape of
Socks 
Accidentally felted 
From the moisture and friction 
It took the shape of
Socks

I dry skins in my oven 
Till the thin fur turns 
Orange summon 
Urnamman as smoke drifts to heaven
Waking up the legends battling 
Over bragging rights to the origins 
The color of carrot  
Felt hoods dyed and blocked 
To make hats 
I inhale the vapors  
And see the stories come to life 
As a small white cat adhered to a board 
Acts out the dreams of a young child bored 
In a mad scene 
Of scientists looking for a vaccine 
To score points for the lord of carotene 
Off with his head

Calebass, Jon Lock, Janine Levinson, Alex and Russell Sinfield & the Couch King - St. Clement

Glass

Track shows a very delicate theme and a quite hard-riffed part, both alternating and finally flowing up to an endless symphonic dream (words are half a poem I wrote previously (not these, but lyrics below)).

Letra  /  Translated lyrics:

No despiertes (Sólo un sueño)  /  Don’t you wake up (Only a dream)

No... despierta... no... no despiertes  /  No ... wake up ... no ... don’t you wake up
no, cuidado... no despiertes, na na na na na...  /  no, take care ... don’t you wake up, na na na na na…
... despierta al fin y date cuenta  /  ... wake up at last and realize
de que todo ha sido un sueño, na na na na na...  /  everything has been a dream, na na na na na...

Una vez más, nervios y resentimiento,  /  Once again, nerves and resentment,
todo en mi vida es sueño, sólo ha sido eso.  /  everything in my life is a dream, it has only been so.

Y de nuevo, con el tiempo,  /  And again, with time,
incubando un nuevo sueño,  /  incubating a new dream,
me voy hundiendo en mis propios brazos,  /  I am sinking in my own arms,
me acuno, me canto y me voy acostumbrando...  /  cradle myself, sing to myself and get used...

Otro escenario, otros personajes,  /  Another stage, other characters,
la misma historia, na na na na na...  /  the same story, na na na na na...
que durará un día, un milenio,  /  which will last one day, a millenium,
toda mi vida, na na na na na...  /  all my life, na na na na na...

Pero sin duda vendrán a despertarme  /  But undoubtedly the laughs of people
las risas de la gente, alguna tarde.  /  will come to wake me up, any evening.

Y entonces, con miedo...  /  And then, fearfully...

No... despierta… no… no despiertes (…)  /  No ... wake up ... no ... don’t you wake up (…)

No despiertes (Sólo un sueño)

BIOHAZARD Written when the pandemic first began.. Beat by Wyshmaster. Mixed & Mastered by Kief Nebula

WAKE UP AND DREAM

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