Some of the music I have come across, created or been invited to play on, that I feel closest to.  Many new musicians here for me.  Hope you enjoy exploring some of these creative players and a little bit of their music.

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Best of 2017 - Favorites I have come across.  Great stuff

First Go At It

Collected Lapidaries

The Embassadors - Sierra Alone

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

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

Irie my friends , 
here some minimal roots meditation for you .
Have a nice chill with it ;)
one love and respect !

Roots Meditation

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WaWa

Irie everyone ,
Irie : A Jamaican expression used to describe a feeling of 
happiness , harmony and contentment ! ... :)
This one livicated to my SC friends , fans and supporters : Thank you a lot !
I wrote and recorded this song already  in 1997 so I did it again ..
It is not my best vocal but I really love the groove and wish you an Irie weekend - one love and respect !

Irie !!

Here's my original track I made after a long long time...
dedicated to the loners who had envisioned a design for his/her ideal city during late modern times, which has never been realized because of its radical idealism and criticism against the reality of materialistic world.

It's an instrumental blues rock, but actually, I wrote the draft at first as a song with lyrics a couple of years ago, but I couldn't finish the lines, and let it alone... then almost have forgotten... but I found it on my HD a few months ago, then have revised it as a completely instrumental version...
I hope you enjoy. Any feedback will be appreciated...Thank you in advance.

[Ain't the one - Music info]
- Music Composition, Instrumentation (Guitars, Bass Guitar and Drums) and Production: Hiroshi Kohno
 - All were played and recorded in the studio (live, open-mic-rec)

This time, I didn't use any distortion effector...instead, done with minimal overdrive of amps to avoid the undesired turbidity of sounds while picking the several strings at once, since I found that my strat had the problem with intonation tuning on the high position, which I couldn't adjust myself...

- Guitar: Fender USA Stratocaster '58 extra re-issued(tuned to one semitone dropped down)
 w/ Fender '65 Deluxe Reverb Amp.
>> Lead(on the right) & Some other small fills (various position): 
 Front-PU, w/Boss CS-2, Vintage CE-1 & Maxon AD-9. 
 Additionally, Boss BF-2 for Choir-like fills.
 >> Rhythms (on the left): 
 Half-tone(front-middle PU), w/Maxon RTC600, MXR Phase90 & Maxon AD-9.
- Bass: Fender USA '66 Precision-Bass 
 w/ Fender Bassman Amps, plus Boss CS-2.
*All effectors were anterior use to amps. 
- Drums: Tama Acoustic Drum Kit w/Zildjian Cymbals (6-mics rec).
- Mixing and a few minor edit (revision) of drums : DAW.

© 2017 Hiroshi Kohno

Ain't the one

Ain't The One - aerogene070

A tribute to one of my biggest guitar influences & great American composer Pat Metheny - including Antonia, Minuano, Tell her you saw me, How Insensitive.

Tribute To Pat

Led by Tenderlonious, Ruby Rushton deliver their second album for 22a fuelled by a love of Coltrane, Yusef Lateef, Fela Kuti, Slum Village and Sa-Ra. 'Elephant and Castle' roots their undeniable London sound in samba influences.

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2017/05/04/premiere-ruby-rushton-elephant-and-castle/
Listen on Youtube: bit.ly/elephant-and-castle

Listen on Youtube

Ruby Rushton - Elephant & Castle (STW Premiere)

Dusty, downtempo house from London-via-Lithuanian producer @arnheim, finessed by live jazz instrumentation from Tyrone Isaac-Stuart on sax and Jabriel Al Suhaimi on guitar. Out on his own Barbara Recordings.

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2017/05/05/premiere-arnheim-would-you-tell-me-about-you/
Listen on Youtube: bit.ly/would-you-tell

Arnheim - Would You Tell Me About You (STW Premiere)

Prelude To A Kiss

Vocals - Will Brown
Drums - Jamie Barker
Bass - Josh Prewer
Guitar - Stojan Djordjevic
Keys and synths - James Waterhouse
Trumpets and horn arrangement - Seb Skelly
Saxes - Oscar Ives-Owen
Trombone - Matthew Ludford-King

Recorded and mixed by Stojan Djordjevic as part of the Tonmeister course at the University of Surrey.

Can't Hide Love - Earth Wind and Fire Cover

Forthcoming on Mr Bongo, 9th June 2017 https://www.mrbongo.com/products/gaby-hernandez-spirit-reflection-vinyl-lp

‘Spirit Reflection’ is the third album LP from Los Angeles singer-songwriter Gaby Hernandez. Blissful layers of instrumentation, electronics, vocal harmonies and folkloric percussion intertwine with west coast feel to create a unique, beautiful and multi-layered album.

‘Spirit Reflection’ features a stellar line-up of LA talent; jazz star Kamasi Washington, Stuart Howard (AKA Lapalux), Kelis and Gaslamp killer collaborator Dexter Story, plus Ninja Tune, Plug Research and Soul Jazz artist Carlos Niño aka Ammoncontact, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and GB all accompany Gaby, with stunning results.

The album has already received support from Gilles Peterson, Lefto, Toshio Matsuura (U.F.O.) and J-Rocc (Beat Junkies) amongst many others. 

In our opinion this is a future classic, and an 'album' in the truest sense of the word. Brilliant.

Gaby Hernandez – Entranced [PREMIER]

inspired by potsu
i got bored 
i should be studying for finals lol
enjoy :)

the girl from andromeda

PHO's Sophomore Release 'two'

Produced by John Davis and PHO
Engineered by John Davis at Pachyderm Studio
Mixed by John Davis at Bunker Studio
Mastered by Scott Hull at Masterdisk
Design by John Hexer

Luke Ibach - Bass
Joe Paris - Guitar, Glockenspiel 
Spencer Christensen - Guitar
Demetrius Mabry - Drums
Patrick Horigan- Keys, Synths, Guitar
Lukas Skrove - Trumpet and Flugel Horn
Aaron Levin - Tenor Sax and Flute
Arthur "LA" Buckner - Percussion

Special Guest:
Kirk Johnson - Percussion - Tracks 2,9,10
Sten Johnson - Trombone - tracks 3, 7, 11

Release date:
12 May 2017

Sour Town

Still Waiting

A Gypsy Swing with acoustic guitar, piano, upright bass & drums.
Thank you for your generous time listening :)

Cinematic

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Gypsy Swing

Frank Sinatra - Fly Me To The Moon

Louis Armstrong - La Vie En Rose

This is the full version of a suite from my band, Psycles.  I hope you listen and enjoy.

Onsra - I Fall in Love (Full Version)

This is a cool, old Little Richard cover.  Great solos from Howard Levy and B.J. Cord.  I think the guitar solo has some great moments, though I wish I would've chilled out a bit at the end.  That's me singing.  Fun listen.  From the album: Chris Siebold & Psycles Live At Martyrs' CSM 2011 Available on CD, vinyl, and all digital formats.

Directly From My Heart To You

Thank you for stopping by, feel free to check out my new SoundCloud profile: 
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Music is a passion, i'm keyboardist and love to play some guitar, bass and drums as well.
Compositions, recording, mixing and mastering at Audio Colors Studio.

Gypsy Swing

Julien Apelian