fabulous fadework over some really nice jazz chording!!!  I  Dig this icee cool ambient trip!

Excellent guitar performance once again! Love the sound on this track! Very good!

Always a strong sense of emotion/imagery in your guitar soundscapes. :)

Exotic world, my friend. And just enough percussion to spike the primal mood. :)

Very creative, really captures that frozen world theme.

Joon's compositional skill, gives 'Mountain' the intensity and gradual build-up that captures the essence of the song while honouring his own unique style. 

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Mountain featuring Joan Hendriks

Nilo

Ice Age

I decided to complete this song after all.
It is for our 21st century schizoid man, Putin.
His name will be forever remembered for the barbarity of his actions.

Never Was – Stop the Invasion

We live in a prison
With bars of our own making
All those things might have been
but never, never was

Right, left
Up, down
Near, far
in, out
suck, blow
walk, run
stay or go

Eat, starve
start, cease
Blue, red
war, peace
Good, bad
fast, slow
Free will police

Vocal sample from '21st Century Schizoid Man'

Cat's foot, iron claw
Neurosurgeons scream for more
Paranoia's poison door
21st century schizoid man
Blood rack, barbed wire
Politicians funeral pyre
Innocents raped with napalm fire
21st century schizoid man
Death seed, blind man's greed
Poets starving, children bleed
Nothing he's got, he really needs
21st century schizoid man

Never Was - Stop The Invasion

jolie

UTOPIA | DYSTOPIA

This track has been in my head as an idea for quite a while. I was looking for an opportunity to give one of my favorite guitar players on SoundCloud a prime spot in a new tune of mine. I am referring to Louis Taverna @louis-taverna here, an extraordinary electric guitar player, who is a master in all the fields of shred guitar playing rooted in the eighties and beyond. He does so with taste and conviction. And boy, he helps lift this jazz rock and prog track to great heights! I hope you’ll enjoy this as much as I did!

As always I really appreciate your likes, comments and sharing of the tune! -Dan

Original music (guitars, bass and drum programming) written and arranged by Dan van den Berg, June 2022

Guitars:
Louis Taverna: in unison with Dan on theme at 1:21, second solo section at 1:34 min, unison lines with Dan at 2:02 min, main theme at 2:33 min, end solo section 3:54 min, end theme in harmony with Dan at 4:44 min.
Dan van den Berg: all other guitars, and as noted on the track.

Uptopia | Dystopia | Dan van den Berg,  featuring Louis Taverna

The Tabula Smaragdina (stressed tábula smarágdina, Latin for "emerald tablet") is a text traditionally attributed to Hermes Trismegistos, which forms the philosophical basis of Hermeticism and is considered the foundational text of alchemy.

The Tabula is one of the most famous texts of alchemical and hermetic literature. The twelve or so dark, allegorical sentences reflect the idea of a interrelation between the microcosm and the macrocosm. That which is below is like that which is above, and that which is above is like that which is below, an eternal miracle of the One.

The oldest extant version of the text is found in the appendix to a 6th century Arabic manuscript. Translated into Latin in the 12th century, the Tabula was commented on and received by many alchemists in the Middle Ages and increasingly in the Renaissance period. Even after the emergence of modern natural sciences, its fascination, at least for occultists and esotericists, remained unbroken until the present day.

Die Tabula Smaragdina (betont tábula smarágdina, lateinisch für „smaragdene Tafel“) ist ein traditionell dem Hermes Trismegistos zugeschriebener Text, der die philosophische Basis der Hermetik bildet und als Grundlagentext der Alchemie gilt.

Die Tabula ist einer der berühmtesten Texte alchemistischer und hermetischer Literatur. In den rund zwölf dunklen, allegorischen Sätzen spiegelt sich die Vorstellung eines Zusammenhangs von Mikrokosmos und Makrokosmos. Das was unten ist, ist wie das, was oben ist, und das was oben ist, ist wie das was unten ist, ein ewig dauerndes Wunder des Einen.

Die älteste erhaltene Textversion findet sich im Anhang zu einem arabischen Manuskript des 6. Jahrhunderts. Im 12. Jahrhundert ins Lateinische übersetzt, wurde die Tabula im Mittelalter und verstärkt im Zeitalter der Renaissance von vielen Alchemisten kommentiert und rezipiert. Auch nach Entstehung der modernen Naturwissenschaften blieb ihre Faszination zumindest auf Okkultisten und Esoteriker bis in die Gegenwart ungebrochen.

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