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Seriously Awesome SoundClouders!

Some of my very favorite latest tracks by many of the awesome Sound Clouders i admire! There's something here for everyone! All of these tunes are masterfully written, composed, arranged and Produced imho. 

May you inJOY, Share the Love and pass them on by Re-posting singly or as a playlist!

     Best Wishes and InJOYment always! :-D

~  Gary

Hard Core Awesomeness

The title pretty much sums up what I was aiming for. I recorded this one with my mini setup sitting outside in the sun. Oh bliss!
My influences here are pretty diverse: from Vicente Amigo to Al Di Meola to Return to Forever to Paul Gilbert to Steve Vai to Animals as Leaders... I hope one can hear a shimmer of that in this track...

Guitars and music by DanarchX, 2014

Exuberant Electric Exaltations

In Dark Waters

1920s to the 1940s, we saw the emergence of a new musical movement called the swing era, the period of "the jazz" or even the era of the big bands. This period gave rise to several orchestras such as Bennie Goodman, Duke Ellington , Count Basie and Artie Shaw.

This is what this song about. Pierro Tissan propose me to play this lovely song that represents exactly the great era of swing when the clarinet was the queen of jazz. 

My father was playing this kind of music with his Band: the Larry Martin  Orchestra(is name was Laurent Martineau but at the time it was important to have an English name to play swing :) ) and all his generation was dancing on this music.

So for about four minutes, I felt like I am Benny Martineau or Michel Goodman :)

Please come and join me in our SC virtual ballroom and dance in your heart with Pierrou's song 

You can discover Pierrou's music at @pierrou-tissan-private



Lovely - Feat. Pierrou  Tissan - Composition And Guitar

This is the 11th tune coming from my 13 song suite called ''Celebrating life'' that I composed and interpreted by the last 4 months of 2012. As you know, I am reposting all these songs (only 2 left :) with a new guest collaborator and rename the suite ''Celebrating life with friends''

For this posting, I have a great saxophonist in Santi Caballero! Santi is an experienced musician who takes is time to develop his solo and the result is flabbergasting ! I don’t know if he is an angel but I know one thing, each note is choosing to play bring us in the same direction: heaven :) He plays magnificently the theme song on soprano and plays his super doper solo on tenor! 

Here is the story behind this tune:

September 20th, 2012 was a very important day for me because I got to my 6th treatment which was mid-way to my chemo treatment and psychologically it was an important step: finally, I was starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel ... a feeling of relief and out of breath ... which creates this song of relaxation.

It's a song that has some shades of folk song because the guitars are playing  finger picking during the theme song and the song becomes jazz style for the solos because the piano who is playing in complete freedom.

I hope you enjoy this song as much I did while doing this collaboration

You can visit Santi’s cloud at @santi-caballero for great music


Atmosphere- Celebrating Life With Friends - Feat. Santi Caballero

So now finally after a long break from my music I am back with this new instrumental. The title, Burning Elegant Spirit, hints on the influences for this latin jazz infused uplifting acoustic guitar tune by the album of three of my all time favorite guitarists: Passion, Grace and Fire. 
It is in essence a joyful tune, but there are some tricky parts in there, both technically and harmonically. Swift moves, staccato and flow...

I am happy to be back here on Soundcloud again and as always appreciate your comments, likes and shares!

-Dan

All music, guitars, recording and drum programming by Dan van den Berg, August 2016
Guitar: Paulino Bernabe, Taller de Guitarras, Model-50, 2001, classical concert guitar
Drum samples using Sampletank & Amplitube
Recorded with AURIA for iPad, mastered with Final Touch


Burning Elegant Spirit  | Dan van den Berg

Dawning of a Brighter Day

Now with Mirko Borach on fretless bass, check out this brilliant bass player: https://soundcloud.com/stringburner

At the dawn of a New Year to come I send this one out to all of you here truly wishing you clear and bright days to come. It was an intense year for me here, but also for many of my friends around the world with great many challenges and struggles. I am looking forward to making things better in the near future and felt the vibe yesterday with all the guys and girls at my firm. It feels good, let's keep it up!

About this rock instrumental: it was my first full recording with my newest Fender Elite Stratocaster, a joy to play and I much enjoyed this familiar, twangy sound I know so well from my youth when I just started playing on my Fender Squire JV-series. 
This track is built around a few different sections and cab settings, from clean to gritty to fuzz distortion, which leads to different moods, riffs and melodies. In a way playing this Fender pointed the way to my early playing style in more of a rock setting. Through the last years I recorded a few with this kind of feel ever so once in a while.

I sincerely hope you will enjoy this one and as always I appreciate all your likes, shares and comments!

-Dan

Recording data:
All music, guitars drum programming by Dan van den Berg, December 16, 2016
Guitar:
American Elite Stratocaster® HSS Shawbucker
Fretless bass by Mirko Borach, Stringburner, https://soundcloud.com/stringburner
Drum samples using Amplitube, SampleTank, editing in AURIA
Recorded with Amplitube, Auria
Mixing and Mastering in AURIA and Final Touch

A Brighter Day

A Brighter Day | Dan van den Berg, with Mirko Borach on bass

'Hanami' is a word taken from Japanese language. It is the Japanese tradition of observing the beauty of flowers, but this word is associated with the period when the cherry tree blossom. I have tried to reflect through my music this splendid moment of the year.

This beautiful picture was created by Phill Hendley (Fickr- Creative Commons)

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Hanami

A Very Warm n Cheery Hello to All of you Wonderful folks on Sound Cloud, and beyond !!! (:-D)  What a Fam!  ;)
                                                                                                                                      Yeah...  I still count my lucky stars Every time i boot it up, Listen, Resonate,  and interact with Y'all.   :)                                                                    

So... Write on, Play On, and Sing On, dear friends. 
Let's keep on makin' this crazy ol' world a Better Place One Tune at a time, by simply sharing our Joy and honing our heartfelt Musical passions.   :)

Here's wishing Everyone the  Best in 2018 and beyond!
 
Share the JOY,  Embrace your Peace, and Spread the LOVE.....  <3

Best Wishes always, 
~ Gary    ( a.k.a. Anomon   or as it sounds phonetically, ' Ah Know Man' ).  

p.s.  peeps,
This piece was actually originally my 2018 Musical Christmas Card to every one of my friends and supporters on SoundCloud!

Written and Arranged and (c) 2017 by Gary Courtland-Miles
Vocals by 'O'

Heartfelt

SUMMER RAIN / HOUSE MUSIC

Track instrumental (May 7, 2018)
Pierre Bordetti : Bass, guitar, keyboard.

Cryptic

Written by:  Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington

Vocals - Irina
Piano - Eric Dartel - @ericdartel

Artwork by Tatyana Markovtsev - https://feeltheline.com

Wild Is The Wind - with Eric Dartel

Written, performed and produced by Anne Wichmann
Mastered by https://soundcloud.com/russell-sinfield

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Flying in the Dream

A Letter from the Past

A Letter From The Past

Piece for acoustic guitar trio, Part 1 - Introduction & Allegro assai

花(Ka) is a flower. 鳥(Cho) is a bird. 風(Fu) is wind. 月(Getsu) is the moon.
Literal translation "Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon"

This Japanese proverb is showing the sense and spirit of Japanese people. They feel beauty most in these four elements and have made many paintings and poems to this theme. That is why these four elements are considered as the beauty of nature. "Experience the beauty of nature and in doing so learn about one's self."

I wrote this like a tone poem in several sections, trying to evoke different sensations of movement and beauty, inspired partly on melancholic Japanese style infused music, by the likes of Ryuichi Sakamoto, also David Sylvian's music "When Poets Dreamed of Angels" Secrets of the Beehive, and the composition by the Assad brothers called "Natsu No Niwa Suite”, to name a few. Also this is a salute to the greatest guitar trio to date: Paco, Al and John. Long live Passion, Grace and Fire!

I hope you will enjoy this new composition of mine and as you know I always enjoy your comments, likes and shares!

-Dan

Data:
All music, arranging, composition, guitars by Daniël van den Berg, January 2019
Guitar: Joan Cashimira, modelo 145, spruce top w/ cocobolo sides and back, Gata de Gorgos (Alicante), 2015
Recorded using an Apogee MiC.
Mixed in Auria, masterered in Auria and Final Touch.
Photo edit by Dan van den Berg, 2019

Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon

Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon - 花(Ka)鳥(Cho)風(Fu)月(Getsu) Part I | Dan van den Berg

Piece for acoustic guitar trio, Part II - Andante

花(Ka) is a flower. 鳥(Cho) is a bird. 風(Fu) is wind. 月(Getsu) is the moon.
Literal translation "Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon".

Part II picks up the themes from the first movement, but brings them into different scenes and backgrounds. The pace is slower, melancholic and lingering. Like the moonlit Night, with drops of rain, short flutterings of birds and the wind moving the heavy branches of trees …

I hope you can enjoy this music here, as always I really enjoy your likes, comments and shares...

-Dan

Data:
All music, arranging, composition, guitars by Daniël van den Berg, January 2019
Guitar: Joan Cashimira, modelo 145, spruce top w/ cocobolo sides and back, Gata de Gorgos (Alicante), 2015
Recorded using an Apogee MiC.
Mixed in Auria, masterered in Auria and Final Touch.
Photo edit by Dan van den Berg, 2019

Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon Part II, Andante

Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon - Part II - Andante | Dan Van Den Berg

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