This is a live recording of a jam at Pikne baar which grew out of a soundcheck

5th Element (live rec)

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!

I am Elias Epp, musician and software engineer from Ulm (Germany). Seramind is my music project.

Curator of the Audioscenarion and Testexperiment podcasts.

Most of my stuff is ambient, techno or dub related music.

Pablo Pesantez en este mundo terrenal es un Dj y productor, el cual busca sonidos exclusivos y tiene sus influencias en el pasillo ecuatoriano, el Trip Hop y lo experimental, con un acceso desde temprana edad a la música africana. Su carrera musical a nivel local esta presente en eventos de Hip-hop junto a la Ganja Crew en batallas de Barrio , en su actualidad con Cholos Locos Inc (Pioneros de rap Cuencano)y ademas de música electrónica, a nivel
internacional llegó a tocar con el hoy reconocido C-Tangana, Retrograth.
Actualmente forma parte de la banda : La luz que enceguece
BLIND es un proyecto musical cuyo género es difícil de definir
debido a la diversidad de estilos musicales acarreados por cada
uno de sus integrantes; sin embargo, lo que sí se podría diferenciar
muy claramente es su enfoque caracterizado por la rebeldía,
anarquía, protesta y reflexión.
El origen de su nombre se vincula al destello de luz que causa
la ceguera, la oscuridad; además, en la letra i del logo ─que
contiene varios símbolos─ está la representación icónica de la sal,
pues “su mensaje es la sal que este mundo necesita”.
Es difícil definir un nombre para este genero musical, ya que hay
muchas influencias bastante definidas desde cada uno de sus
integrantes, las cuales una vez que las juntas, dejan de ser algo
específico

Hilbert's Problems is a blues-rock band from Tallinn, Estonia. 
Five members of the band are united togehter with love for old-school blues and rock music and passion for creating and performing music together.
2014 marks the year of our first public appearance in rock'n'roll clubs, lounges and open air festivals. 

Hilbert's Problems music consists mainly of our own creation, trying to offer our listeners wide variety of music to their liking - from mellow blues to passionate rock!

Our facebook URL                     https://www.facebook.com/Frontecielo-1026106534209801/?modal=admin_todo_tour 
                                                                               
  Album Nights available now, free, on Bandcamp
https://frontecielo.bandcamp.com/releases

Videos on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNF-6I6e7r4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnWVLtu7580

Donatella Basilico: keyboards, drums (acoustic set, electro-acoustic Roland TD9 set ), percussions, lead vocals
Piero Caniparo: electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, guitar synth Roland GR 55, choirs

The most part of our "structural" first tracks are played and recorded live together, usually drums and guitar or drums and bass; drums parts are from a real drum set 

Original drawing by D.B., not for reproduction


We' re deeply lovers of music, of many different genres: from classical and opera to rock, progressive rock, psychedelic, jazz, fusion, tango, dreampop, ambient, experimental  and beyond...
We' re trying at the moment to find our identity and expressivity in our favourite musical world:
progressive rock.
Comments, exchange of opinions, observations, advice are always welcome.
We're also on You Tube if you feel like to pass by...
Thank you for attention and feedback, I like to answer everyone, if sometimes I'm a little slow is because I lke to listen to your work while I answer.
I really like reposting the tracks I liked on our personal profile but obviously I can't keep them more than a few days. 
Donatella

We reccomend visiting Jul's Progcast Blog, a truly interesting and well done blog about indie prog rock but not only. You can find such a great music, it's really well worth a visit.
https://julsprogkastblog.blogspot.com

Músico - Banda
Cantautor, Guitarrista y  Tecladista de Rock Argentino, Brit Rock, Pop  y  Música Instrumental. 

“Cualquier cosa es un camino entre un millón de caminos. Por tanto, un guerrero siempre debe tener presente que un camino es sólo un camino; si siente que no debería seguirlo, no debe permanecer en él bajo ninguna circunstancia. Su decisión de mantenerse en ese camino o de abandonarlo debe estar libre de miedo o ambición. Debe observar cada camino de cerca y de manera deliberada. Y hay una pregunta que un guerrero tiene que hacerse, obligatoriamente:
¿Tiene corazón este camino? Todos los caminos son lo mismo: no llevan a ninguna parte. Sin embargo, un camino sin corazón nunca es agradable. En cambio, un camino con corazón resulta sencillo: a un guerrero no le cuesta tomarle gusto; el viaje se hace gozoso; mientras un hombre lo sigue, es uno con él” - Carlos Castaneda (del libro “Las enseñanzas de Don Juan”)