For M.D.
Lyrics:
You were an acrobat of life
And for those of us in the bleacher seats
With our mouths wide open
I heard you say
You rarely sink to these depths any longer
What makes a person come to the end of their rope?
You parked your car at the end of the road
You were goodness in the purest form (2X)

You walked among us
You talked among us
Some people are just too good for this world
You were the bravest person I've ever known
Disguised and alone
You were an acrobat when it came to life
Walking the high wire
Walking it your entire life
You said:
You rarely sink to these depths any longer
Just when you are starting to figure this whole world out
You were goodness in the purest form (2X)

Goodness In The Purest Form (Song for a friend)

I wrote this music whilst enjoying some red wine! Kept the singing for a more sober moment! 😊 Big thanks to my lovely and talented bf Sander for another gorgeous mastering job! 😊💕❤️🎶🎤🎵🙏

ACHES AND PAINS

NEW ALBUM! SHORT TALES FOR THREE GUITARS 

https://danielvandenberg.bandcamp.com/album/short-tales-for-three-guitars

1. Short Tales of the Green Forest
2. Short Tales of the Roads less Travelled
3. Birds of Paradise
4. In The Fragrant Shade Where The Lilac Crowds
5. Ochtendgloren
6. The Rush of the Race and the Calm after
7. De Fuego y Hielo
8. Fuego de Invierno | Seguiriya
9. Olores y Colores (bonus)
10. Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon - 花(Ka)鳥(Cho)風(Fu)月(Getsu) Part I
11. Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon - Part II - Andante 
12. Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon - Part III - Allegretto Appassionato
13. Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon - Part IV - Andante Espressivo 

This series came out of an idea I have had for a long time: to release my music from the strict boundaries of styles or categories. I write and play this music starting from a mood or idea and then through experiment or improvisation develop the pieces naturally, allowing any idea that comes to my mind in, whether it be classical, jazz, pop, rock, fusion, flamenco, tango, bossa nova, etc. The results are very personal to me, they are my musical vernacular, built from years of listening and playing with the guitar. 

Secondly, I use three guitar parts as it frees up multiple possibilities of composition and interplay. A form most familiar from the guitar trio of Paco de Lucia, John McLaughlin and Al Dimeola. 

I sincerely hope you'll enjoy my short tales for three guitars. 

-Dan

credits:
released April 27, 2021 

All music, arranging, composition, guitars by Daniël van den Berg, August 2020 - April 2021 
The Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon Suite, recorded January-May 2019 
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.

license:
all rights reserved

Short Tales

Short Tales for three guitars

Short Tales | album preview fragments | Dan van den Berg

Pic: William Morris, British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. And had a big beard (wasn't in ZZ Top to the best of my knowledge).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Morris

Remastered using SC's facility.

Published on 23 August 2021

My love will put you in hospital

Growing a beard for fun and profit (remaster)

This is Seismic Street, a fictitious dance club that plays the funky music from the 60s and 70s.

Lyrics;
Got a party up in here
The band is throwing down the beat
And we are shakin shakin shakin
Here at Seismic street

Ohh you got to move that body
You got to get into groove
Feel that funky rhythm
filling up your shoes

That bass has got ya quaking
Get up off that seat
That funky sound gets you shaking
Going off the scale
on Seismic street

Oooh get lost in the music
You're gonna be alright
C'mon now show us how to use it
Shake the day and step into night

Psychedelic the emotion
You're getting carried away
Music is the magic potion
You're gonna be okay

James B got ya feeling good
Sly just lets you be yoself
Curtis got you super flyin
With Kool and Clinton you don't need nothing else

That bass has got ya quaking
Soon your jumping off your seat
That funky sound gets you shaking shaking shaking
Going off the scale
on Seismic street

Got the gang all here
And we're all grooving to the beat
Everybody shakin shakin shakin
Here at Seismic street

Seismic Street

This is a good time here.  I've had this idea and this song pretty well done for about a year now but until I started doing a few collaborations lately I couldn't find the right opportunity for it.   

This vocal nic @nic_nic_nic put over it is totally opposite, not even opposite, it's in an alternate timeline from where I saw it going, but when I heard it, I thought it fit in a way possibly too cool for me to understand.  

Lyrics for this one come from a public domain poem credited below:
https://poets.org/poem/afternoon-hill

Afternoon on a Hill
Edna St. Vincent Millay - 1892-1950



*Special shout out to my brothers in Natt Brus for loaning me this guy and also thanks for all the inspiring kick ass music you guys create.  Love all you guys & keep rockin!


bow 
Guitars, Music & Arrangement : TexMex Shaman
Vocals by Nic

lyrics : 
I will be the gladdest thing
    Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
    And not pick one.

I will look at cliffs and clouds
    With quiet eyes,
Watch the wind bow down the grass,
    And the grass rise.

And when lights begin to show
    Up from the town,
I will mark which must be mine,
    And then start down!

Got some good old fashioned love!
Got some good old fashioned love!
Got some good old fashioned love!
Got some good old fashioned love!

bow - Collab with nic and TMS

Solarized Sky

Music & Lyrics, Drums, Bass, Synth, Organ, Piano, Vocal : Jan Schonander
Music & Guitar: REKHA IYERN [FE] https://soundcloud.com/rekha-iyern-fe

Some rough’n’ready rocking with REKHA….

Too much time with over 300 passed away every day.

THE 300

A dependable man
Drives his kids to school
Takes his time from work
Doesn’t miss an event
Or a single bedtime story	

A standout woman
Young and old they need her
It’s her life’s work
Behind every event
And never needing glory

You’re gonna be
One of three hundred
You’re gonna be
One of the lucky
You’re gonna see
How you blundered
Didn’t have to be 
Three hundred
Two hundred
One hundred

Just a boy and a girl
A hand, a touch
A caress, a first kiss
Don’t miss a glance
Never straying afar

A curly haired child
Tent torchlight at night
An adventurous life
Doctor, astronaut, explorer 
A movie star

You’re gonna be
One of three hundred
You’re gonna be
One of the lucky
You’re gonna see
How you blundered
Didn’t have to be 
Three hundred
Two hundred
One hundred

They’re all together
The three hundred
They’re all together
The three hundred
They’re all together
The three hundred

You’re gonna be
One of three hundred
You’re gonna be
One of the lucky
You’re gonna see
How you blundered
Didn’t have to be 
Three hundred
Two hundred
One hundred

The 300

The 300 | REKHA-IYERN [Fe] 🎸

Original music by FPMORINSTUDIO/Francois Pierre Morin Composer, Photo by Jean Nicolas Morin : Vallée du lac a la loutre Mont-Tremblant Canada.

Guitar And Synth BALLAD  2021

Love Compass

;-Prisonnier-;

Thanks you so much for listening!

I try to write with rich lyrical details and self-deprecating humor about the human condition. Plus, that unique Shade Structure sound!  It sounds best with headphones. Thanks for any comments, reposts or likes.

Discography: Available under Album tag on my Soundcloud main page. Free Downloads/ Always Free
* The Curse Of A Good Looking Ghost (2024)
* Low Profile (2024)
* Smilers (EP 2023)
•Short Songs For Tall Minds"  (2022)
•Friends, They're Gonna Get Your Story Wrong (2021)
•A Suburban Dadaist With Some Store Bought Beats (2021)
•All Feel and No Technique (2020)
•This Is How I Spend My Nights (2019)
•California Songs (2018-2019)
All sounds contained within are home-made/DIY recordings. Most songs are short stories, as I am influenced by Musicians & Writers like Raymond Carver, Warren Zevon, Mountain Goats, Tom Waits, Mark Eitzel,  Randy Newman, Destroyer, Steely Dan, Captain Beefheart, Loudon Wainwright III, Leonard Cohen & The National. Most songs have the lyrics on the song page. Thank you for listening!