Sometimes things just won't go as planned, call it fate or bad luck. For me it's simply how things go in life. "That's how it goes"
Piano, Bass guitar, drums and a few synths.

Original image by MasterTux 
https://pixabay.com/users/mastertux-470906/

That's how it goes

A lot of synthesizer sounds with a very sub bass. Quality earphones are recommended. It feels like a ballerina that elegantly tries to dance to a very basic dance groove.

Original image "Music box"  by Tilemahos Efthimiadis
https://www.flickr.com/photos/telemax/4257725708
Published under the CC BY-SA 2.0 license.

Plastic Dancer

It's my birthday!
It's not my habit of spending much time on a song, one maybe two days tops. I took over a week to complete this summer tune. I'm not sure it will be better this way, at least I tried to spend some more time before releasing. ;-)
Heavy on the piano, added a jumpy and bouncing bass, drums and several synthesizers.

Original photograph: Girl in a party hat / Alice Keeler (https://www.flickr.com/photos/alicegop/14134533561/), artistic filter applied by Jan van der Velde, CC BY 2.0

Birthday, Another Year (has passed)

I'm not the arguing type, most often it's just a difference of opinion. In a most civil way we rather 'agree to disagree'. 
In this song you can clearly hear the difference between the two "voices" which play a different tune along the exact same chord progression. In the bridge I try to create some sort of a middle ground.. although it drifts away from the original key..
Piano with lots of strings  later accompanied by a synth pluck, bass guitar and drums.

Original Artwork:
"A young couple are having an argument, she is pointing with her finger and he is leaning towards her as the dog hides behind her skirts."
Credit: Wellcome Collection: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/sfddkrc6
CC BY 4: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Agree to disagree

Agree To Disagree

Sometimes music don't reveal you it's name.. So hence "Blank Canvas".
Slow paced with a little bit of spice halfway through..
Mainly focus on piano with a distinct synthesizer bass.

Image used is published in the Public Domain  by George Hodan:
https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/browse-author.php?a=8245

Blank Canvas

It's been a while since I published a new tune.. I finally got myself to finish one of my projects.
Started of with a nice chord progression on a Rhodes electric piano, added drums, bass and some synthesizers.

April Blossom

In this unprecedented slice of time in which we live most of us are living under the burden of some sort of social restriction. Let's hope that all of this will "blow over" rather sooner than later.

Another quick and rather sloppy production by yours truly.
Piano chord progression, added some synthesizer bass, a pad and some drums.. And a slightly "over blown" flute as solo instrument.

Original photograph by Manu (CC BY-SA 2.0)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/seven_of9/4653639499/
Artistic filter applied by Jan van der Velde

Blow Over

I've been working on this track for the past month.. I hate it when things go this slow and I just can't find what is wrong with it.. At some point you simply have to let go..
Kudos to my "Meerkat" pal from SA for his positive feedback. ;-)

Mostly piano, chords and melody, bass guitar and some drums. A layer of strings (Cello, Viola and Violins). It's written in C# Dorian and I did a shoddy job mastering the track. "Keep it Cool"! ;-)

Original image by Nicole Köhler from Pixabay
https://pixabay.com/users/Nikiko-268709/
Artistic filter applied  by me.

Keep it Cool (heatwave)

Keep It Cool (heatwave)

A new attempt to write an ambient track. Several synthesizers and a piano drowned in reverb.. All in an adagio tempo and dreamy synthesizer sounds. Sounds of an actual shoreline in the background..

Shoreline

Although I used to play bass-guitar in a punk-rock band, I don't see myself as a musician. After decades I tried a DAW program just for fun and I loved it.. Creating music is very much like programming and I'm a much better programmer than I am a musician. :-)

Jan van der Velde

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