COLORS OF SUMMER

Although my Short Tales album is out, I still keep making these trio acoustic guitar pieces. This one I initiated just after the release and finished just now after rearranging and adding segments. It explores different Latin inspired rhythms, the time signature could either be 95 bpm or double that depending on the section. 
In my mind these sounds here recall summer moods and feelings, some uplifting, some more melancholic.

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

All music, arranging, composition, guitars by Daniël van den Berg, May - September 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 cover art: Daniël van den Berg

Colors of Summer

Colors of Summer | Dan van den Berg - a Short Tale ...

Collab with AudioBake

https://soundcloud.com/audiobake

AudioBake + Insatiable Void - PANIC

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Carlos Vivanco & Jason Mowry
Final mix by Jason Mowry
@asleepwithheadphones
@lazydadamusic

Sepia Tone

Homecoming

Homecoming by Jason Mowry & Carlos Vivanco

First written in 2010 with a single verse, the song slowly developed since then, going through several developments since its inception. I wanted the drums in the verse to have a bombastic 1/1 feel, hence the heavy bass drums and tom-toms. The song lacked a proper chorus for several years, so Adam Becker helped me structure one.

The "bones are brittle" passage was originally structured as a third verse; it would have been twice the length of the first two verses with eight lines as opposed to four. In 2019, the third verse was replaced with a new bridge section, and only the first four lines were retained from the original verse. Leo Scarselletta was responsible for giving this section a half-time feel.

Sinny: assorted drums (electronic drum kit, kick drum, bass drum, tom toms, snare drum, buffalo drum, brake drum, toy drum); percussion (congas, bongos, djembe, cowbell, tambourine, sleigh bells, shaker, gong, slapstick); piano, midi guitar, kazoo, conch shell, samba whistle, found sounds (paint can, carpet, fire extinguisher flap, bleacher, scissors); drum, synth, mellotron, and bass programming, lead and gang vocals, yelps

Luke Giunta: bass guitar, rhythm guitars

Sebastian Fredette: lead and rhythm guitars

Adam Becker: electric guitar (sirens, shredding, riffing, interpolations), vibraslap, gang vocals, vitamin endorsement

Bad Bone Betty: “guest vocals”

Bad Bone Betty

The holy ray of light, which I withstood, would have destroyed me with its sharpness, I think, if I had turned my eyes away from it. And I remember how boldly I endured the light, until at last my vision joined the infinite. Your abundant grace gave me courage to lower my gaze into the eternal light so deeply that I succeeded in gazing - until exhaustion. In its depth I saw inwardly in a bond of love what is unfolding outside in the universe.... We are so caught by this light that we never turn away from it to something else with good will! Because the good, the goal of our will, meets all in this light. What is perfect here, becomes defective outside.

"Dante Alighieri"

Der heilige Lichtstrahl, dem ich standhielt, hätte mit seiner Schärfe, glaub ich, mich zerstört, hätt' ich die Augen von ihm abgewandt. Und ich erinnre mich, wie um so kühner ich dann das Licht ertrug, bis endlich sich mein Schauen dem Unendlichen verband. Du überreiche Gnade gabst mir Mut, ins ewige Licht den Blick so tief zu senken, daß mir das Schaun gelang - bis zur Erschöpfung. In seiner Tiefe sah ich innerlich in einem Liebesbunde, was sich draußen im Universum auseinanderfaltet... Von diesem Licht werden wir so gefangen, daß wir hinweg von ihm nach etwas anderem mit gutem Willen nimmermehr uns kehrten! Dieweil das Gute, unsres Willens Ziel, sich all in diesem Lichte trifft. Was hier vollkommen ist, wird draußen fehlerhaft.

Out Into The Bright

This track is a remote collaboration Between Paul Banham and MIZERO,Its been a amazing experience to work with such a fantastic artist who creates poetry that sits deep in the psych. She has inspired me to go darker and deeper with my sound. I wanted to capture some of the ambience and drama of  Dario Argento's 1977 Italian horror classic 'Suspiria. soundtrack by the goblins and drag it into the 2020s...Watch this space and Mizeros for future releases....

I DR0VE ON     Paul Banham    (Feat..) MIZERO.          https://soundcloud.com/mizero-two

The van broke down
just 5 miles from O'Hare
Not sure what we were doing
Had no tickets anyway
As the sun set in the West
We walked East
Planes roaring overhead

We ran as fast as we could run
Escape our only goal
From small town suffocation
And our designated roles
BBQs on Saturdays
Cold Millers with the guys
The vanishing horizon
Matched the dulling in our eyes

Not quite a decision
That either of us made
But a moment of clarity
And what it meant to stay
It never matters
Which road we take
As long as right beside me
I have Karla with a K

We ran as fast as we could run
Escape our only goal
From small town suffocation
And our designated roles
BBQs on Saturdays
Cold Millers with the guys
The vanishing horizon
Matched the dulling in our eyes

The excitement and the newness
As we move from town to town
As we worked to settle down
Turned piece by little piece
into what we'd sworn not to become
we lived the lives we ran from

We ran as fast as we could run
Escape our only goal
From small town suffocation
And our designated roles
BBQs on Saturdays
Cold Millers with the guys
The vanishing horizon
Matched the dulling in our eyes

The Vanishing Horizon

Roberto B (@mgxloop and @volt5000) and I are glad to present "20 Days", as track 7 in our collaborative album in progress since the start of 2022. We hope you'll enjoy it, as much as the preceding tracks from this album we already posted here.

The track was created in collaboration on 14, 19 and 20 February 2022 (initial and subsequent mix and recording in GarageBand and Logic Pro by Alex M) and 21 February 2022 (further and final additions, arrangements, mix and recording in MAGIX by Roberto B), and posted here on SoundCloud on 22 February 2022 (by Alex M).

The artwork cover for the track was created by Alex M on 22 February 2022 (in Tayasui Sketch in Mac OS), then cropped and annotated with text by Alex M (in Mac OS Preview) the same evening - in coordination and agreement with Roberto B.

Thank you so much, Roberto, for this dreamy and jazzy ambient collaboration of ours!

Duration: 7:24 minutes

20 Days - Roberto B & Alex M

Days

Dark Days Like These

ECHO ANIMO - HEAVEN ON EDGE

Long Way Through Desert

A small note on my own behalf: I have noticed that my playback figures have dropped dramatically. The statistics show that the number of playbacks has dropped from 2000 per week to just under 200.
On the one hand, this is frustrating, as everyone sees this as an indicator and confirmation of their work. On the other hand, figures are not particularly important, but one wonders what is wrong. In my opinion, SC has changed a lot, uploading tracks has become more complicated and constant security queries are annoying.
In addition, great artists are disappearing from the platform, partly by their own choice, partly because they have been banned, the algorithm has “recognized” them as spam and mercilessly deleted their account. I'm still a paying member, but my attitude towards this has changed...

Please let me know your experiences and impressions.

😮‍💨😔


When I don't have the time to actively listen to my favorite artists on soundcloud, I just leave the stream running...while washing up in the kitchen, for example 😆

By the way: this user-92853963 was my old link address and leads to the empty.... I AM NOT A ROBOT!

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A long, long time ago, there was an organ in the Christmas-decorated living room in his parents' house, where Frank grew up. Originally bought by his father for his two older siblings, they showed no interest in playing the organ. Frank, however, did. White and black keys and giving off strange sounds. 

So at the age of 9 he began to let his fingers circle on this instrument, searching for the right keys like on a typewriter. And another 9 years would pass before he could buy his first own instrument. Already at the age of 13 he made notes about the then current synthesizers, bought one magazine after the other and visited music fairs in Frankfurt, Germany.

His first keyboard was the Yamaha DSR-2000, which he bought in a music store near his hometown Biebertal. In installments! Finally he could develop himself further - away from the limited tonality of the small organ. The built-in 8-track sequencer helped him to reach unimagined heights. 
Little by little his equipment expanded and his ambition to create music like that of Jean-Michel Jarres came closer. Influenced by this and countless other musicians of the time, his interest grew, but he taught himself everything. Not even having attended a music school or being able to read music at all, he wrote one song after another and recorded them on the only medium available to him at the time: audio cassettes.
Many of these recordings are unfortunately lost forever, because cassettes are and were not the best recording medium. He has to try to play many of his songs from memory. 

In 2007, he fulfilled a long-awaited wish: to buy a KORG. He had always wanted to own one, but with the latest synthesizers at the time of their release having a purchase price of over 6000 D-marks (the currency of the time in the 1980s and 1990s), that dream of owning one was far away. So in 2007 he bought a used KORG 01W/FD at ebay. And as before with the purchase of the Yamaha keyboard, a completely new world opened up to him.

In addition, there were expanders and sound modules from Kawai, Roland and Yamaha (K1m, SC-55, QY10). Six years later his enthusiasm for making music ebbed and rediscovered his hobby (which it always was and still is). In 2018 in April he decided to present his music to a wider audience and uploaded his first song on the platform soundcloud. Since that time, thanks also to the ever-evolving software, he continues to evolve, experiment and relive his times through music.

Out Into The Bright

Frank Mehl