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Sheela Gathright - Lead vocals / backing vocals
Orlando Lund - Backing vocals / all instruments / programming / production
© S.Gathright / O.Lund
https://www.facebook.com/palmagrooveproject

Palma Groove Project - 5 O'Clock In The Morning (album master)

NOËL - Paploviante Original

Double Espresso

An exploration in reggae universe with my old clarinet  ;-)

Clari-Reggae

Together.    A remarkable gathering of more than twenty of my favorite SoundCloud musicians.  Guitars, keyboards, basses, tenor sax, clarinet and vocals. Together's musicians are serious creative instrumentalists and are inspirations to so many.  Many are recording artists.  The finest players I know here.   So many are simply remarkable.
   
Together represents what SoundCloud is about, and how effectively musicians can work across the world.   Musicians who have never ever even spoken with each other, but recognize each other by their sounds and the notes, rhythms and phrases they play.  Pretty damn cool.

12 countries are represented here  -- Canada, Dubai, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Spain, Sweden and the US.   

There are two sections to the piece - a blues piece and a modal fusion section, with soloists across each part, showcasing their distinctive voices.  Vocalatti's beautiful singing is woven throughout the piece - her words and voice really pull us together.  The wonderful keyboard head during the opening and closing was composed and performed by Calaminus, who also has added the great organ comping you hear throughout.   The first and last soloists are brilliant musicians and soloists, as are so many throughout.    

It's been such a pleasure to pull this together over the past 3 weeks.  So sit back and enjoy a true SoundCloud experience.    

We thank you so much for your time listening, your comments and your shares to followers and social media.  And thank you for your exploring and following these wonderful players and voices on their instruments.

Musicians (in order of appearance)

The Rhythm Group:
Vocalatti - vocals - Manchester, England @vocalatti
Calaminus - keyboards (horns, organ, add. drums & loops) - Stuttgart, Germany @calaminus 
Tunde Fernandez - bass - Barnstaple, England @tunde-fernandez
Jamie Rhind - keyboards (rhodes, drums, main backings) - New Canaan, Connecticut (US)
Daniele Petrocchi - bass - Lucca, Italy @daniele-petrocchi

Blues Section Soloists:
Ronny Heimdal - guitar Bergen, Norway @ronny-heimdal
Justin Valente - guitar Wayne, New Jersey (US) @justin-valente
Stephan "Pinner" Lipinski - guitar Mount Laurel, New Jersey (US) @pinner
Calaminus - organ Stuttgart, Germany @calaminus
Tom Adams - guitar San Antonio, Texas (US) @tytlblues
Ian Tait - guitar Edinburgh, Scotland @ian-tait
Marco Oversteegen - guitar Almere, Netherlands @marco-oversteegen
Michel Martineau - clarinet Gatineau, Canada @michel-martineau
Benny Sutton - guitar England @bennysutton
Giuliano Ghisi - guitar Dubai, UAE @gghisi
Rients Draaisma - guitar Oudeschoot, Netherlands @rients-draaisma
Johnny (Sax) Pugh - tenor saxaphone, Jumilla, Spain @johnny-pugh
Alan Schulman - guitar New York, New York (US) @digschulman
Dean Clark - guitar New York, New York (US) @aleckrand
Anders Moberg - guitar Norrköping, Sweden @anders-moberg-1
David Nederland - keyboards Barcelona, Spain @david-nl
Daniele Turani - guitar Italy, @danieleturani
Joe Bongiovanni - guitar Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio (US) @joe-bongiovanni
Darren Chilton - guitar Tokyo, Japan @spectrum_one 
Jeff Fiorentino - guitar Hollywood, CA @jeff-fiorentino-jfrocks    Daniel van den Berg - guitar Rotterdam, Netherlands, @danarchx

Modal Section:
Daniele Petrocchi - bass - Lucca, Italy @daniele-petrocchi 
Jamie Rhind - keyboards New Canaan, Connecticut (US) @jamie-rhind
Daniel van den Berg - guitar Rotterdam, Netherlands, @danarchx
Jeff Fiorentino - guitar Hollywood, CA @jeff-fiorentino-jfrocks
Tunde Fernandez - bass Barnstaple, England @tunde-fernandez
Rients Draaisma - guitar Oudeschoot, Netherlands @rients-draaisma
Jorg Calaminus - keyboards Stuttgart, Germany @calaminus
Vocalatti - vocals - Manchester, England @vocalatti

Together  -  23 musicians.  12 countries.  1 stage

This was something special! This track is a collaboration between Daniel van den Berg aka Danarchx on guitars and Jamie Rhind on Organ, strings synth and bass Synth. We aimed for a kind of Deep Durple meets Al Di Meola meets Yngwie kind of thing. It was cool and courageous of Jamie trying on a loud rock/metal piece but the result is... Well you judge! 
Music and instrumentalists: Jamie Rhind and Danarchx, 2014

Drag Racers on the Spanish Highway - Part 1 - Featuring Jamie Rhind

This fusion track is conceived as a series of wild flurries with melancholic and fast harmonic changes, it tries to charter different moods and feeling in a franticly romantic way. 
The title points to my heroes of Return to Forever, it's a tribute however in my own humble way and style, in which I might have picked up a thing or two from other musical influences... Without giving it away there is a quote somewhere in this track from the super guitar trio: Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucia, who all come from the same group of marvelous 70-ties musicians.

I hope you can appreciate my musical excursions here.

Daniel

All guitars and music by Dan van den Berg, 2014
Artwork by Dan van den Berg, 2014




Frantic Romantic Warriors - Dan van den Berg

Footprints is one of the most famous jazz tunes of all time.  Written by the incomparable Wayne Shorter, perhaps the greatest jazz composer of the 20th Century, Footprints is simply a classic and right of passage for jazz players.  The tune was written in the mid-60s, when Wayne was huge part of Miles' seminal quintet, and already one of the top Tenor Sax players in the world, and before he left to help form the fusion band Weather Report with Zawinul and Jaco.

Footprints' form is a modal blues, and graciously joining me here are two of the very finest modal players and instrumentalists on SoundCloud - Canada's Michel Martineau on Clarinet https://soundcloud.com/michel-martineau  and Norway's Ronny Heimdal on guitar  https://soundcloud.com/ronny-heimdal  

Michel's most important musical mentor has been Wayne Shorter, so it was only fitting that he be an important part of this recording.  Michel has created a beautiful harmony line to complement the head, when doubled with clarinet and a synth trumpet patch, bringing a warm color and his elegant phrasing to the recording.  His soloing evokes Wayne's searching, and is simply marvelous.

Ronny's superb guitar playing and musicianship has stood out to me since I first found him here on SoundCloud and asked him to play on my fusion composition Busting Out, which he just tears up.  He has impeccable rhythm, an appetite for improvisation and musical excellence, and a complete understanding of jazz-fusion.  His music here on SoundCloud is quite electric:), so he toned it down a little here to mix in with the acoustic clarinet, trumpet and piano lines.

I've been looking forward to recording this classic, and we are so very pleased with the music we have here.  Please check out both Ronny and Michel's galleries, including Michel's gorgeous 13 compositions he wrote and collaborated with during his previous bout with Colon cancer, one for each of his chemo sessions.   They are very sensitive pieces given the difficult to impossible road ahead that Michel was facing at the time, and stand as perhaps the finest collection of pieces and collaboration I have found here.  

Michel just learned less than two weeks ago that this most serious Cancer is back, and will have to aggressively fight it again, but has recorded Footprints because of his love of jazz, of Wayne Shorter, and because of how much your positive comments and words of feedback mean to his healing process.   While not one of his original 13 compositions, I will always think of this collaboration in a similar fashion, where you hear the beautiful voice and spirit of Michel's clarinet and Ronny's guitar as they reflect on some of the music that has been his most important over time to us.  

A true honor for me to perform with these professionals.  Enjoy Footprints.

Thanks as always for your time listening, for your comments, for your shares, and now... for your prayers.

Michel Martineau - clarinet
Ronny Heimdal - guitar
Jamie Rhind - keyboards (piano, trumpet, bass and drums)

Footprints - with Michel Martineau (clarinet) and Ronny Heimdal (guitar)

In anticipation of my love's return from a long trip I made this track reminiscing on her being with me again. I guess it shows happiness and a sense of longing as well. I based it on a clean guitar section that I start the track with. Then it builds on that with some fast synthesizer-like lick into the main romp that repeats a couple of times in different sounds and mixes...
She is back now... :) This tune is for her...

Hope you like it as well. Thanks for stopping by!

Daniël

All guitars and music by Daniël van den Berg, DanArchX, 2014

The Return - برگرد پیشم

Great musician I met in SC, wonderful songwriter, singer and producer Bruce Conover (https://soundcloud.com/conover), compose this sweet song, with an arrangement of a BIT sound.
I am sharing here the final mix of the song; full of nice feelings, reflections and tender memories.
Thanks Bruce.!!
8-)

Take Two Steps Forward.
Lyrics, voices, lead organ and final mixing: Bruce Conover  https://soundcloud.com/conover
Harmony & rhythm: BITs https://soundcloud.com/bit-s

"Look at the people
that took the time to come around.
To stare down into a hole
they just dug in the ground.
It gets me to thinking
Of the old man, and I'm proud.
But I'm not sure
If I can walk around 
And he'd show me.
Take two steps forward 
You know you're gonna fall back one
Because things will get worse
before the battle is won.
You got it take two steps forward.
Take a breath and look around.
Make sure you're livin a humble life
And you're never too proud."

By: Bruce Conover.

Take Two Steps Forward ((Conover / BITs))

Blues For Pete

After I posted my short Flamenco-esque tune called "A little Flamencoated" I decided to make a full version, which covers a little more ground. This one has a few more twists and turns and as I usually do, it does honor my heroes, in this case of course Paco de Lucia, Al di Meola and John McLaughlin, who blew me away the first moment I heard them in the eighties. But also recently the marvelous Vicente Amigo. 

Also, I dedicate this to my mother who bought a flamenco guitar with the first money she earned as a teenager. She loves flamenco and as a kid/teenager I used to play for her in our parents' kitchen when she was cooking. I always get a little sentimental when I hear and play flamenco... 

I hope you can appreciate a bit of a detour from my regular loud rock fusion stuff.

Daniël

All guitars and music by Daniël van den Berg, DanArchX, 2014

Guitar: Paulino Bernabe, Taller de Guitarras, Modelo-50, 2001
Drum samples by Amplitube
Bass: Ibanez JS100, with Octave FX
Microphone: Apogee
Recorded with Ampitube
Mixed with Final Touch


Flamencoated Flavours | Dan van den Berg

How great it is here on SoundCloud to have the chance to perform and record with pros, and when I first heard Daniel https://soundcloud.com/danieleturani I knew immediately that I wanted to play with him.  Daniele's superb musicianship and creativity is featured here on In The Mode, a modal fusion tune we did together that comes to life with the aggressive back and forth soloing we both love made famous by John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, Jeff Beck/Jan Hammer, and others back in the 70s and since.  Modal tunes hold on a tonic, allowing the musicians to create lines over the single chord, instead of moving between chords.  Check out where Daniele takes this one - it is a perfect complement to my synthesizer playing.  We are really thrilled to be releasing our In The Mode as our last tune of 2014 - and to start the new year for many listeners as well.  Hoping you enjoy our sound here.  

Please check out Daniele's beautiful work on his SC gallery https://soundcloud.com/danieleturani - he is one of the very finest guitar players I have had the opportunity to perform with.  Grazi Daniele.

We thank you, as always, for your time listening, your comments and your shares, which continue to keep your favorite music alive to new listeners.

Happy 2015.  It has been a wonderful 2014 here on SC.



In The Mode - with Daniele Turani / guitar

Blues For Charlie is a dedication to the lives that were lost recently in Paris and now Copenhagen.  Our hope is that the emotion of the playing here touches people to remind them of the sadness of these horrible acts.  

Three very fine guitarists have joined me in this tribute - Tom Adams, Ian Tait and Kevin McCuistion.   Kevin leads us off and is followed by Tom and then Ian.  Check out and follow their great playing:

https://soundcloud.com/ian-tait
https://soundcloud.com/kevin-mccuistion-1

We Are Charlie

Blues For Charlie - with Tom Adams, Ian Tait and Kevin McCuistion guitars

The title hints upon the dangerously seductive dance of Salome. Beauty and unease... The track's harmonies and melodic intents seem to flow from eerie to melancholy, tension and resolve. 
I have been working on this track for quite some time in the shape of a very loud rock tune, yet in that form still to be released. Recently I asked Mirko Borach, aka Stringburner, if he would add his bass ideas to this. His musical intention, virtuosity and his singing tone made me try an acoustic version with more room to shine for his playing. In the reworking I changed it into an exotic wild oriental or eastern dance with the, for me at least, obvious hints of Jazz Rock, Flamenco and Fusion. I hope you can enjoy it!

And! Do visit Mirko's splendid work on his SoundCloud profile:
https://soundcloud.com/stringburner

Music, arrangements and guitars by Daniel van den Berg.
Fretless bass and bass arrangements by Mirko Borach.
Drum samples from Amplitube.
February 2015

Guitars:
Paulino Bernabe, Taller de Guitarras, modelo-50, 2001
Ibanez JS100




Veils in the Serpent Wind, Part I - by Dan van den Berg, featuring Mirko Borach

Original music by Jun Senoue and Kenichi Tokoi for the video game, "Sonic Adventure" (Sega, 1998) for the Sega Dreamcast.  I love the soundtrack from this game so I wanted to do a cover with some of the best guys I know!

This version exclusively available on SoundCloud has an alternate guitar solo from Brett; for the original solo, watch the video here:
http://youtu.be/bh0WgDF91tM

Peter Fernandes / Arrangement, Keyboards, Production
Brett Garsed / Guitar Solo
Richard Hallebeek / Backing Guitars
Ric Fierabracci / Bass
Shane Gaalaas / Drums

"Red Barrage Aquarium" feat. Brett Garsed (alt. Guitar solo)

At the beginning, Jamie and I wanted to create a jam session with 3 keyboardists. We started the track with Calaminus at the organ solo, Jamie at the trombone patch and me at the electric piano. Later, Mirko "StringBurner" joined us on the bass, bring us beautiful bass arrangements and an outstanding solo. Thanks to Mirko and thanks to Jamie Rhind & Calaminus  for their amazing keyboards solos.
Check out those great musicians at:
@stringburner, @calaminus, @jamie-rhind

Sharing The Way - feat. Jamie Rhind - Calaminus & StringBurner

About a month ago I released a solo flamenco nuevo piece for acoustic guitar called The Ornament of Solitude in the style of Soleá. I felt that it could have an alternative instrumentation by adding a string section and some extra percussion here and there. This is regularly done by the flamenco guitar greats causing a more ballad kind of feel to the music. 
As I like both versions, the original pure guitar and percussion one as well as this more romantic version, I decided to share this one with you as a reprise and surprise. Some of you already had a sneak preview, but now here it is for every one to hear...

I hope you will appreciate this new take on my earlier release and as always very much appreciate your shares, comments and likes. Thank you!

Dan van den Berg

All music, production, percussion arrangements and guitar by Dan van den Berg, December 28, 2015.
Guitar: Paulino Bernabe, Taller de Guitarras, Model-50, 2001, classical concert guitar.
Basic flamenco rhythm sample adapted and edited from: Flamenco Loops, Vol. 1, Estudio de Grabacion La lsla, 2012 La Voz del Flamenco.
Drum, percussion & string orchestra samples generated by using Sampletank.
Recorded and mixed in AURIA for iPad.

Photo taken by me in Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Spain, December 2014.


The Ornament of Solitude - Orchestral Version | Dan van den Berg

It's five o'clock in the morning, and I can't seem to stop my mind from ticking.....

5 O'Clock In the Morning (feat. Sheela Gathright)

ع بالي إسهر .. ع بالي إرتاح

    ع بالي سافر .. ع بالي لاقى المفتاح

    ع بالي أمور السما ع الأرض تنحلّ

    غير هيك .. ع بالي فكّر

    ع بالي شوف ناس

    ع بالي إكتُب عن يالّي ما بينشاف

    ع بالي حِلّ هالعقدة الـ ما عم بتروح

    ما معقول شو نِكتة

    ع بالي كون الفرق بين الأرض والهوا والبرق

    شو في ع بالك .. حخفف ع بالَك

    في ع بالي كتير

    حسمعك بالي .. ما عليه بلاوي

    الهوا ع بالي حيطير

    ع بالي إمشى ببحر نضيف

    ع بالي أصحاب يكون بالُن خفيف

    ع بالي كِل الشعب ع نفس الموال

    ع بالي إسبح .. ع بالي إفرح .. ع بالي إسرح

    ع بالي إمرح .. ع بالي إفلح .. ع بالي إطرح

    عليكُن سؤال بيحرج .. مين

    مش مرتاح البال

    متِل مل قلت

    ع بالي الأمور بين السما والأرض تنحلّ

3abali - Lemonada - The Arabian Latin Chillout

Jazz/Fusion keyboard player, composer and producer.  Marketing, advertising, publishing and sales career.  Originally from Chicago, where I developed a strong appreciation for the blues and classical, and moved to New York, where jazz and the fine arts are so deep.  Key musical influences include Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Zawinul and Weather Report, Chick Corea and Return to Forever, John McLaughlin and the Mahivishnu Orchestra, Stanley Clarke, Scott Henderson and Tribal Tech, Jeff Beck and Jan Hammer, Mike Stern, John Scofield, Pat Metheny, Emily Remler, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Jimmy Smith, Joey DeFrancesco, Larry Young, Buddy Guy, Santana and Earth Wind & Fire.   Former classical clarinet and piano player.  Unless noted, my music on SoundCloud was composed, recorded and performed using only keyboards.  An avid photographer.  Many covers here are my shots.  To see my photography look for Herbiejazz on Instagram or search for Herbiejazz on Google.  And a big thumbs up to SoundCloud and the SoundCloud community, and so many friends who have joined me to create.  Thank you all.