You have a deep connection to certain sounds and themes, now largely gone, and this makes for a sense of "timelessness" in your music. I really like it. But then, I am no youngster.

Perfect harmony between vocals and the overall atmosphere of the tune

Love your original pieces. Really beautiful yet again

nostalgic tune, high quality writing and performance

Between Summer and Winter

Through Yellow and Red

Mount Abby's Race W/ UK Man

shizoku

Featured on Dutch radio show Lucas ON AIR. Full album "Jingles & Fillers" available now: https://rickvanmeijel.com/2023/11/17/stream-the-new-album-jingles-fillers/

Written and recorded by Rick van Meijel. Produced by Rick van Meijel and Lucas ON AIR.

Website: https://rickvanmeijel.com/ 
Bandcamp: https://rickvanmeijel.bandcamp.com/ 
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1bdwkuQO06SvcwkT8lfGxs
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/rick-van-meijel/1465083130
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFUXwOzNAKG0ZAIgOfzHzig
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Jingles & Fillers

The Battle [filler] (from Lucas ON AIR)

  This was the first Original song and music i made in Garageband, when I got my home studio..   😊                  lyrics:                                                   i didnt want to see you go,  but you was acting like a stone .. So i just had to make a choice, and listen to my inner voice..              i didnt know how to survive,  and i really had to dive.. down in the ocean of clouds.. but in the end i will feel proud. .                                I took a step into my dreams,  try to understand what they means.. i held my breath and count  to ten, searching for myself again..                                  i'll spread my wings out to fly, looking down from the sky. and while i watched you walked away, i smiled and let the pain fade..                                            Dont be afraid to live alone, you are stronger than you know..   Just keep your head up and be proud,  raise your voice and be loud .                                            the future lies there for your feet,  walk the steps in your own street.. Bevare you always have a choice,  Just listen to your inner voice..                                               

Your inner voice       (Original)

We Are Not The 1%,We Are Everybody Else.

Love Will Last

There's a melody
From eternity
That echoes among the trees

An ancient tale
That will prevail
Carried by the summer breeze

There's a piece of art
A mysterious start
To our mutual dreams

Born from beauty
Killed by duty
A kaleidoscope of human themes

When Me and You have ceased to exist
Love itself will subsist
Love itself will last 
Long after all the lovers have passed

A place for fools
Where silence rules
And tomorrow's lovers sleep

A clown who cries
When roses die
Sorrow hidden in gaudy pockets deep

When Me and You have ceased to exist
Love itself will subsist
Love itself will last
Long after all the lovers have passed
Love itself will last
Long after all the lovers have passed

Love Will Last [An original song]

Alpha Mound & Tidsrymd "En plats i solen" (release date: June 17)

Alpha Mound & Tidsrymd is a musical collaboration that has been going on since 2019. The first single "Slow-wave Sleep/Dröm i färg" was released in 2020 and now their debut album "A place in the sun" will be released on June 17, 2023. The music moves between post-rock, ambient, kraut and dream pop. It is instrumental music, using vocals without words. With vivid song titles and musical visualization, they take listeners through different imagined scenes. The album is released on streaming services and CD through Stålverk Records.


Alpha Mound

Alpha Mound is Joakim Westlund's solo project. Since his first release in 2012 he has produced many albums and EP:s under this moniker, sometimes through collaborations with other artists. The music is usually ambient with sound design as a central element.


Tidsrymd

Tidsrymd is Johan Ohlsson's project, producing electronic music since 2018. The music moves between kraut, minimalism and ambient. 


Alpha Mound & Tidsrymd "En plats i solen"

The album "En plats i solen" was mostly made by the duo in Joakim's studio in Sandviken. Later on guest musicians have been brought in to build the large soundscape that makes up the record. The album features Sofia Costa Nordvall (vocals), Karolina Dahl (vocals), Peter Fredriksson (trombone), Martin Hällgren (drums) and Ida Norrman (vocals).


About some of the tracks:

Godmorgon framtid was the first single from the album, which came with a remix by Slim Vic. It is inspired by an old coffee table book from 1984, with the same name, in which Bengt-Arne Vedin and Bengt Preston painted titillating visions of the future and predicted such things as "electronic express letters" and robotic lawnmowers. It is an energetic, hopeful and uplifting song.

Dagsverk is a work song with a swagger, post rock guitars and humming sing-along chorus, kind of a spiritual for the 2020s. 

Vid tystnadens rand takes us to atmospheric ambient with quietly humming vocals (a bit like Enya). Alpha Mound plays a bowed guitar, which adds a kind of quiet drama to the song.

Östersjön paints a dystopian dark ambience to soft, jazzily stroked drums. We see the song as a bittersweet musical depiction of a rather ruined place, where beauty and tragedy sings side by side.

En plats på solen is a brutal song that contrasts the uplifting title track. But instead of beaches and leisure, we imagine solar storms and extreme heat. The composition is inspired by the title track of the 1984 Dune film and Edvard Grieg's "The Death of Asa" from the Peer Gynt suite, but filtered through the usual punk/indie racket.

01 - En bättre värld

New track taken from my new release 'This Is Only Part Of The Story' released today on Subexotic Records. Buy it on limited edition transparent vinyl here:

https://countersilence.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-only-part-of-the-story

Or download it from there, or iTunes, Amazon etc.

A Measure Of How Close We Came, from my new release - out today!

Thank you for listening!
A new collaboration with another great SoundCloud Artist.
It has been a pleasure to collaborate with the very talented singer Kireina Michan
Check out the great work of kireina:https://soundcloud.com/kireina_michan
Lyrics, vocals and cover art: Kireina Michan

In The Long Run (Feat. Kireina Michan)

Para Que Tu Me Oigas
The beautiful voice of Brazilian tenor Ricardo Tamura with accomplished pianist Lucy Arner. 
Lyrics are written by renowned poet Pablo Neruda;
 music by composer Pamela Illanes-Tatsuoka. 
 The Foundation of Pablo Neruda has granted permission. 2009
 Poems are from the book;
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. Translated by W.S Merwin
pages 10 and 11
©2009PamelaIllanes-Tatsuoka. All Rights Reserved

Poema V "Para Que Tu Me Oigas" (Poem by Pablo Neruda)

....There's a story in there somewhere....

A bunch of demos and improvisations


BOSS BR800 Multitrack recorder 
-Built in drum machine
-Built in guitar effects processor

Yamaha MX88 Synthesizer
Yamaha CS1X Synthesizer
 Yamaha Clavinova CLP 535 Digital piano
Squire Strat Electric guitar
Fender Standard Telecaster Electric guitar
Lee Oscar harmonicas
L'Artigiana accordion

No Midi 
No loops
No DAW

Love Will Last [An original song]

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