Nicolas Project

We can't live with the fear
Can't live with the violence
Looking for Hope
Looking for Silence
if only a little while
for the Man In The Middle

Man In The Middle

The Ocean ( to a poem by Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Music by Klaas Versteeg, guest vocals by Nico Roos, drums by Rob Held.

Part One: (sung by Klaas)
Listen! You hear the grating roar of pebbles
Which the waves draw back
And fling, at their return up the high strand
Begin and cease and then begin again

Come to the window, sweet is the night air
Come smell the ocean 
It’s here and everywhere Come to the window, sweet is the night air
Come smell the ocean 
It’s here and everywhere

Part Two: (sung by Nico)
The Ocean has its silent caves,
Deep, quiet, and alone;
Though there be fury on the waves,
Beneath them there is none.

All the spirits of the deep
Hold their communion there;
And there are those for whom we weep,
The young, the bright, the fair.

Calmly the wearied seamen rest
Beneath their own blue sea.
The ocean solitudes are blest,
For there is purity.

The earth has guilt, the earth has care,
Unquiet are its graves;
But peaceful sleep is ever there,
Beneath the dark blue waves.

The Ocean - Nicolas Project Featuring Nico Roos & Rob Held

You gotta do what you gotta do. 
Release my Gotta Gotta mind.
lyrics and music by Klaas Versteeg

Release My Gotta Gotta Mind- Nicolas Project

One of my heartfelt prayers:
Keep it simple.....

Keep It Simple - Nicolas Project

the sound of our love is pure gold
in the quiet i can see our life unfold
i never have doubts when i hear your voice
everything else is just white noise

life is frenetic and fast and unfair.
the eye of the storm is the ground we share
life’ s a carousel but at night we step down
in your arms i bless the peace we have found 

who doesn’t want to live like a king
but a ransom is not what i want you to bring 
why do you stress with your drive to provide
cause love shines like gold when we put that aside

sometimes i just need to clear my mind
but life is so busy the time i can’t find
no matter my problems or what’s done or said
you will always be the sound in my head




lyrics by Sheena Hope

The Sound Of Our Love - Klaas Versteeg

WE is you and WE is me, we is more than family. It's gonna take WE to give a dam as the world is changing. Together we can weather the storms of time.

Sheena wrote this lyric as a response to this turbulent year (2020) and the realisation that only together can we change anything and that "We" is inclusive. 

lyics by Sheena Hope
music and all instruments played by Klaas Versteeg

We Is You , We Is Me

I send you my heartfelt prayers for peace 
The search for love, it starts in our minds
 In life’s struggles for hope, just look for the signs
 careful where you stand on the battle lines 

Lyrics by Sheena Hope
music by Klaas Versteeg

Heartfelt Prayers For Peace - Nicolas Project

I like music of the seventies and eighties a lot. I took my favorite weapon and composed and played this instrumental as a peaceful guitar warrior.

On youtube: https://youtu.be/nIWg2g0Xr_k

"One doesn’t need to become a peaceful warrior. By virtue of living here, on planet Earth, each and every one of us is a peaceful warrior in training — to the degree that we strive to live with a more peaceful heart… but also recognize that there are times we need to live with a warrior spirit." --Dan Millman

Peaceful Warrior - Nicolas Project

I combined hammond organ, guitars and flute. 
I love playing real instruments. 

On Love Lock Bridge, you can seal your love and throw away the key.
After a few years most of the locks are removed, but real love and hope always survive. 

On Youtube:  
https://youtu.be/BlJMIMd_r50

website:
www.klaasversteeg.com
Love is the key

Love Lock Bridge - Nicolas Project

Inspired by the  Shwedagon Pagoda in Myanmar. 
One of the world wonders for sure, this Pagoda shows only marvelous beauty.
We re-recorded this instrumental piece with a full band.

Pagoda - Nicolas Project

Music for lovers.
This melody came to me in a dream somewhere in the nineties.
Played my tenor sax , guitars , bass and electric piano.
Don't forget to take time for two.

Time For Two - Nicolas Project

The flute is a fantastic instrument for rock?
I think it is.
Klaas on the plute in the pic.

Aqua Longing - Nicolas Project

A funky song about how the quirky rambles of life and love are more important in the end than the bright dazzling beginnings.
Music by Klaas Versteeg / lyrics by Sheena Hope

The Fire - Nicolas Project

Nick McAlley is a singer-songwriter , multi-instrumentalist and music teacher. He records and produces his own music in his little studio in Belgium. He plays the guitars, bass, drums, sax, flute, keyboard, harmonica, mandolin. 
He is on tour with his music in Holland, Belgium and Germany, entertaining listeners and linedancers at every concert. 
He is influenced by many styles, but country music is one of his favorites. In the seventies he was a member of Dizzy Man's Band, in the eighties he played in theatres in in 3 musical productions. 
In this millennium he started his own act as a solo-performer. He recorded 4 albums and 1 single so far. 
Being an optimist he knows that you will take some time to listen to his heartfelt music. Better an optimist who is wrong , than a pessimist who is right....