We wanto dedicate this song too Hemmo our brother in arms (band member of http://soundcloud.com/euphoriqa).
We decided to make a song for Hemmo, to give him our support, and show him that we care for him and miss him very much, and we sincerely hope this piece may help him to fully recover soon.

Ralf came with the basic melody line, while we were all recording our bits, the original song changed slightly and also became longer.
Our families started to love this piece a lot, and they said we should share it with everybody, because there are so many people who are suffering from all kinds of illnesses and sorrows.
Along the way this piece became a sort of lullaby, sleeping, relaxing, uplifting and a meditation kind of song, which would be perfect for everybody, and of course most of all for our bro Hemmo.

We really hope this piece may give everybody some comfort and peace in heart and mind, it also relaxed ourselves and gave us relieve from all hectic, worries and troubles which were bothering us as well, and we really hope you can bare these 10,5 minutes our friends, our advice, just lay down and enjoy it really helps to relax you completely.
We're very grateful for and appreciate your comments, critic and fav’s.

Composer: Ralf Reichelt
All instruments and arrangements: Ralf Reichelt,  John Styles and Matt Baker
Producer: John Styles

Cover design & artwork: Ralf Reichelt 

If you're not able to play this song hear on SC, try: http://fandalism.com/euphoriqa/ckSm

Euphoriqa for Hemmo - It's sleeping time

'Lost Child'  was originally composed by Megan in April 2012. However, because of the personal emotions behind this song for her, she created a slightly different version and called it: “Gentle Tranquility and Reflection” which can be found at:
http://soundcloud.com/megsmusicjourney/simple-tranquility-composition

Megan then collaborated with Lee Lucas on this song and it was transformed into what is now known as “Arctic Ice”:  http://soundcloud.com/megsmusicjourney/lee-lucas-megan-mccarthy. 
This new version sparked the interest of John Styles, and all three started collaborating on this song further, [John, Lee and Megan]. During this process John also wanted to make some changes on the GentleTranquility song.

During a subsequent and long conversation about the original composition by Megan: "Lost Child", Megan told John what her initial idea and personal feelings were behind this song, and why she didn’t upload the original version and also changed the title to 'Gentle Tranquility'. John and Megan then decided to work on her original idea, which helped John to create the proper arrangement of this song track, and they continued working on her very first idea “Lost Child”.

While John worked on Megan's original “Lost Child”, three different versions, were created:

1. The version you are hearing right now, - 'Lost Child' [Rearranged/new instrumentation]

2. A completely new song titled: “Dance of the Northern lights” which was created by both John and Matt Baker and which can be found at: 
 http://soundcloud.com/onevision-crossworlds/john-styles-matt-baker-dance 

And 

3. “Arctic Ice Melting” which also needed to be slightly changed from “Arctic Ice”. This also involved Lee Lucas adapting his tracks, with the final song being a collaboration between John Styles, Matt Baker, Lee Lucas & Megan McCarthy. This will be released a little later as a second part to 'Arctic Ice' which was initially by Megan and Lee.

We hope that you enjoy this new version of the original 'Lost Child' and would love to hear any feedback from you. We will  also advise you when 'Arctic Ice Melting' is released [by John Styles, Matt Baker, Lee Lucas, and Megan McCarthy], as another version on the earlier released 'Arctic Ice' [by Lee Lucas and Megan McCarthy].

Original Composition: Megan McCarthy http://soundcloud.com/megsmusicjourney
Rearranged Composition: John Styles and Matt Baker http://soundcloud.com/matbaker1970
All instruments: John Styles, Matt Baker and Megan McCarthy
Producer: John Styles

Lost Child - John Styles, Matt Baker & Megan McCarthy

This song is a collab between Megan McCarthy, John Styles and Matt Baker.
John and Matt created an orchestral movement incl. guitar and synt tracks around Megan’s piano solo (read Megan’s description below), and corrected some slight errors on her piano play (on Megans request), we all hope you’ll enjoy this version just as we did making it. 
As Megan already tried to explain on her original song: http://soundcloud.com/megsmusicjourney/never-alone-2-by-megs-mccarthy
It’s a simple slightly sad piano solo/comp but with dances of hope, for all those people who ever feel alone/lonely, thinking of you xx)

Megan’s original description why she made this song: 
This is a piano solo and originally created for someone I love dearly, whom, after going through some difficulties, found himself surrounded by people, yet was very alone and lonely. I wanted to create something for him, so that he could know that he was never alone, and convey the sadness that this loneliness can entail, but also, to try and portray 'hints of dancing' or hope.
There is a difference between being 'alone' and 'lonely'. Everyone experiences both to a degree at some points in their lives, some more than others. Being 'alone' does not always mean that one feels 'lonely', and one can take 'time out' or feel at peace within themselves. Likewise, feeling 'lonely', does not always mean that a person is 'alone' and they may be surrounded by people, yet can still feel a sense of deep loneliness.
Originally titled: 'Thinking of You', I wanted to broaden what this song tried to reveal through emotion, for anyone who experiences such, with an understanding of, and empathy for, what it can feel like to be both alone and lonely in this world. Sadness can dominate, hope can be diminished, but throughout such times, there may be glimpses of hope and changes for the better in a journey towards feelings of greater inner peace and acceptance.
Sometimes all it takes, is for one person to show that they care, and to be there, in any way that they can, when it matters the most.

This is what this relatively simple song hoped to present, almost raw emotion, and not 'perfection' in technical proficiency, and it particularly reflects in a way, an old adage I love (or words to this effect):
 'You may not 'be' the world, but you may mean the world to someone' :-)

No matter how we may feel at times in life, if ever we feel lonely, and perhaps without hope, we need to know that we are never truly alone, and whilst sad in nature, I hope that the small 'dances of hope' shine through, and for those who listen, to know that someone is thinking of you x

Composer: Megan McCarthy 
Orchestral movement and Arrangement: John Styles and Matt Baker
Piano solo: Megan McCarthy
All other instruments: John Styles and Matt Baker
Producer: John Styles

We all hope you'll enjoy this song, and we appreciate your comments and support very much.

If you experience problem playing this song try: http://fandalism.com/quenya/cn6N

Never Alone - John Styles, Matt Baker and Megan McCarthy

This song is dedicated to my youngest son Pasha, where I have tried to put his wedding day and what happened after his standing up, onto music:  

In the first part of this song, Pasha is waking up, and the significance of the day is starting to sink in.

In the second part, Pasha is awake and he begins his drive towards his bride to be, and the feelings of excitement and anticipation grow.

In the third part of this day and song (bridge), he sees his wife to be and the beautiful wedding dress she's wearing for the first time and he is speechless.

In the fourth part, they drive to the city hall, to commence their wedding ceremony.

In the fifth part, they are finally pronounced married and they can start their new lives together as a true and committed married couple.

In the sixth part, the joy and congratulations abound from family and friends and the happiness on their faces is evident to all present.

In the seventh part (bridge), the start of their new life is captured by beautiful photos and their faces are beaming and shining with joy.

In the eighth part, the real celebrations begin with a big party and the cutting of the wedding cake.

In the ninth part, all who are present join in on the festivities and dance in celebration of the marriage between Pasha and Nastya.

In the tenth and final part of this song and day, the couple leaves to officiate and everybody can fill in the rest of the story. 

This is just my own musical interpretation of the strength of emotions coming from what I felt and saw in my son's eyes. After I first shared this song with him, he liked it very much, so I now share it with you all, as I am sure that many people can relate to the strength of emotions experienced on such special days of true love and commitment.

Composer, arrangements, instruments and production: John Styles

To answer some of your questions, yes the image is really my Son Pasha and his wife Nastya

I hope you'll enjoy this piece of music, and I sincerely appreciate your comments

John Styles - My Son's Wedding Day

Equinox is a cover and tribute too Jean Michel Jarre.
Matt and I wanted to replace some synt sounds for real orchestral sounds, and show you that many synt and electronic music can also be played by orchestra’s.

We hope you’ll enjoy our version, which we made when Matt came over to Holland to work together with me in the studio on a few of our new pieces which we also hope to upload very soon too for you to enjoy.

Composer: Jean Michel Jarre
Arrangements: John Styles & Matt Baker
All instruments: Matt Baker & John Styles
Producer: John Styles

As always we appreciate your comments or critics very much.

John Styles & Matt Baker - Equinoxe (tribute too Jean Michel Jarre)

“Peace at Last” is my new song I made for my sister Joja (Roos) who died a few days ago.

I am trying to express my feelings and my last words towards her, but I am speechless at the same time.
I know deep in my heart that now she finally has peace and she isn’t suffering anymore, only for that I am happy for her, but I also notice and experience the suffering and the loss of all her loved ones has to endure.

I know how much she suffered and had to fight her pain everyday over and over again, now that’s over and Roos finally has her peace, I love you dear sister and you’ll remain in our hearts forever.

This song is for you my dear Joja, I am sure we’ll meet again, Rest In Peace.

Composed, Arranged and Produced: John Styles

John Styles - Peace at Last (Dedicated to Joja (Roos) R.I.P.)

We’re happy to give you our 2nd improved version of   “All I want for Christmas is You”  a cover of Mariah Carey, and again Matt and I wanted to exchange all instruments used in the original song, for orchestral instruments (as usual).
Then we’ve asked Daphne Braaksma to do the vocals on this song, and although this was a though one for  all of us to crack, we hope you think we’ve managed, and we’re very grateful towards Daphne that she excepted this difficult task, Matt and I are very proud of her, we all hope you’ll enjoy this version too.

A story so true, so many people trying to be with their loved ones for the holidays, and so many people can’t because of different reasons, or they’re abroad, or missed their flight, train or bus, it happens every year again, and I am sure for those people this song comes to mind.
So let’s hope just this ones, everybody will make it to be with their loved ones all over the world.
Please also look around for people who are all by themselves, show them you care for them too.

We wanto wish you all, A MERRY CHRISTMAS, and a very happy and healthy NEW YEAR. 

Composers: Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff
Lead vocals: Daphne Braaksma http://soundcloud.com/luck4ever
Backing vocals : Daphne Braaksma and John Styles
All instruments: Matt Baker and John Styles
Arrangements: John Styles and Matt Baker
Producer: John Styles

John Styles, Matt Baker & Daphne Braaksma - All I want for Christmas is You (part 2)

Welcome to our new theme song / soundtrack with an intense meaning “When my time has come”, this is the analog master, the digital master can be heard: 
http://soundcloud.com/matbaker1970/john-styles-matt-baker-when-my

When Matt send me his first raw idea of this song, I knew immediately that this song had a double meaning for me, as always he allowed me to start building up the song and make arrangements for us to continue, only this time I wanted to do it differently, so I asked him to make a piano and a guitar track with exactly the same feeling within it as his first idea for this piece, and when he send them, I started building around those 2 tracks, for some weird reason his 2 tracks were exactly what I needed to express myself towards all people who supported me and my family so much after I suffered from a stroke 3 weeks ago.
I am slowly recovering, although things have changed dramatically, I wanted to go back making music as soon as possible to get things out of my system, and maybe help and comfort others at the same time.

Why this piece is build up the way it is, and what it means for me:

Part 1: The moment I found myself laying at intensive care, and everything go so slowly around me, and nothing seems to get within me anymore, you’re only connected to the machine to monitor you all the time.
You can’t do the things anymore you wish to do so much, and only resting and relaxing is required.
You try to assure your loved ones that everything is OK now, but they saw the difference on me, which I didn’t realize myself yet, but I didn’t have the power to worry about that at all.  

Part 2: After I came home I couldn’t do so many things, I couldn’t sit up long, only walking and laying down was OK for me, plus I moved along so slowly, and couldn’t talk to express myself the way I wanted.
I got scared I wouldn’t be able to make music the way I wanted, so I tried playing around a bit, and asked Matt to send me a completely new piece we were suppose to make for the docu “The Frysk” anyway, I needed to test myself if I was still able to do exactly the same as I could before, or even better.

Part 3: Although I was struggling with my tiredness, and things didn’t want to go as I had it in my head, the moment I put those tracks into my machine, I just listened many times and finally became calm, the song evolved in my head as a symphony, so slowly I inserted track for track like a jigsaw puzzle.
The song became longer, and the more I worked the more emotions came out, which somehow also relaxed me as well, when creating music touches me so deeply, that’s the proof for myself I go the right way.

Part 4: Realising how lucky I was, it obviously wasn’t my time yet, and although the title of this song may apply something different, I am still alive, and it did make me think differently about my life and the things I worried about so much lately, I know I can’t change it, the situation forced me to adjust and go back to my own self and my roots, and because I have to back down now, I also learned have to enjoy and appreciate much more the things I have, and the talents given to me to express myself in music to help others too.
I’ve also learned I can’t take all the problems on my shoulders, and what my own limits are, and exactly that gave me the space within my soul and mind to hear the beauty of Matt’s raw composition, which made me hear a full orchestra play it, now it was my “quest” to create that “Orchestral sound” 

Part 5: The final part became an Epic Crescendo, and is the conquering feeling I experienced when the first take of this song took shape, and finally after 3 days work I had conquered my fear, I knew I didn’t loose the touch, and at the same time I could feel the intense power of this piece which was in my head from the start, and being able to get it all out and creating this orchestral sound was like a therapy for me.
Please don’t take me wrong, I know I am not fully cured, and I still have to take medicines for the rest of my life, but I know that the will to fight back, gave me some of the power to do what I love to do most, and for that I am very grateful to my family and friends for their support, patience and believe in me.
It may still takes a lot of time to recover fully, but slowly I get back and getting stronger each day.

For everybody in the world, if this has happened to one of your loved ones or friends too, please be patient with them, allow them to do things in their own pace, that’s the most important thing, we don’t need your pity, treat us the way you’ve always done before, only things will go a bit slower, and although everybody experience this differently, if possible we just need to recover, and that takes time and acceptance.
Allow them to talk out and share their emotions with you, they need your shoulders to cry on, more then your advice, allow them to empty their pain and sorrows first until their strong enough to fight themselves.
In my case, I am lucky that I have creating music as therapy, and great friends like Matt allowing me to work with them on their compositions, and give me total free hand to do with it what I think it needs.
I sincerely hope that many people can find the same comfort and relaxation I got creating it, and listening to this piece does relax me very much too.

I also want to thank everybody for their warm words of support towards me and my family.

Composers: Matt Baker & John Styles
Arrangement: John Styles & Matt Baker
Instruments: Matt Baker & John Styles
Producer: John Styles

We hope you’ll enjoy our song, and we’re sincerely appreciate your comments and support, John and Matt.

John Styles & Matt Baker - When my time has come

My dear friends, this is a completely new mix of my tribute too Francis Lai, I released a week ago, after advices given to me by my good friends and other listeners, I remastered it, I wanto thank you all for your support and I hope it sounds now a lot better as I hoped it would do.
Unfortunately because of my health situation, I am not able to release as frequently as I would like too, and that might also be the reason I overlooked some things, but slowly I’m recovering.

My version of Francis Lai’s composition “Bilitis” was laying on the shelf for quit a long time, after my server crash I was forced to recover all my music again, and this one wasn’t completely finished yet, so while it didn’t need to much work, I thought I complete it now and release it for you all to enjoy.
My friends and I intent to redo this song again with a real orchestra and replace all synth sounds for real orchestral and choir sounds, and make it longer, we’ll keep you posted.
With this version I just needed to proof myself I still could do it by myself too, slowly…..yes, and it did gave me the strength, confidence and motivation to continue, and that’s what matters a lot to me.

Having to move to a smaller studio recently, I was forced to get rid of some instruments, and I also found my old Elka synth, and I just needed to play it again with this awesome sounds, so I started recording analog again as the old days, and I combined it with my orchestral sounds, and that's what you're hearing now.

Of course I hope you’ll all enjoy my version of “Bilitis”, and I promises you all I’ll continue with new originals as well as soon as possible…., I appreciate your comments and critics cause it helps me to develop.

Composer:  Francis Lai
Arrangements, Instruments & Production:  John Styles

I also want to thank everybody from my heart for your wonderful supporting letters & words towards me and my family, it’s really heart warming for us all.

John Styles - Bilitis (part 2)

Welcome to our version  (experimental )  on Ennio Morricone’s  “Once upon a time in the West (theme)”
We wanted to do an experiment, make a piece in complete free hand (free motion) without metronome, starting to create choirs first to make them sound as realistic as possible, and then create an orchestra around those tracks.

We split up the song in 2 parts, as by hearing the original soundtrack has 2 different rhythms / tempo’s, and we worked on those 2 parts separately, without consulting each other as we normally do by Skype, email  or telephone.

As we all know people hear and experience different things in music, and we just wanted to see how close our creations would come together in the pre-production, when all the tracks were completed,  I cut all the tracks in bits of 1 second, and I allowed myself to make slight changes within parts of 0,125 second on all tracks to make both Matt’s and my instruments sound as smooth as possible, keeping the Ennio’s main theme sound recognizable for everybody, and still give it our own signature at the same time, because we don’t  want to sound like copy-cats.

Most musicians and composers will say that’s impossible, as we also thought so ourselves ( especially as Matt lives in England and I in Holland, so we can’t sit next to each other ), but we did it anyway, another prove that collaborating and creating music together for almost 3 years, makes us a solid team, and we understand each other almost blindly, and I am very proud of Matt what he has accomplished through the years, and honored to work together with him.
Although this may not sound exactly like the soundtrack most of you know it, we hope you will enjoy our version too.

We are planning to do the “final” of Ennio’s composition (which is longer) later this year, with real voices.

Composer:  Ennio Morricone
Arrangement:  John Styles & Matt Baker
Instruments & voices:  Matt baker & John Styles
Producer:  John Styles

All your comments and advices are very much appreciated as always, all the best for now, John Styles & Matt Baker 


John Styles & Matt Baker - Once upon a time in the West

We hope you’ll enjoy our new version of “Vanishing Point” that Matt composed for me after I suffered from a stroke a year ago.
Later he asked me to get back to this project when I am recovered and strong enough.

John’s description:
Unintentionally Matt gave this piece the title which described very well how I felt laying in the hospital: in a way I was dropped back to “zero” (almost like looking at the tiny light at the end of the tunnel) en got to learn everything all over again. So, I had to completely reverse this “Vanishing Point” to rehabilitate. 
It was Matt’s wish that his song would bring me some relaxation and help me with my recovery, and IT DID. Also after reading those many responses and support from our listeners and friends at that difficult period, I was very happy when Matt suggested me to do this beauty all over again.
After working together so tightly for more then three years by now, Matt and I understand each other so well; we know what we want a piece to sound like, we do not need to explain much to each other. 
For some reason everything always falls in it’s place, which makes working on each others music so natural for us both.
As many people already commented, we are a good team like real friends or “Brothers in Arms”.
Proof for that to me is this beautiful piece. Matt knew by heart exactly what I needed, and it also made me feel his support and care for me and my family, and his hope for my quick recovery.

So what Matt meant for me at first, we both hope now to spread this strength and support towards everybody who needs to recover from whatever they suffered from, because this strength is within us all.

Composer: Matt Baker
Arrangement & all instruments: Matt Baker & John Styles
Producer: John Styles

All your comments and remarks are very much appreciated as always, cheers Matt and John

Matt’s original song can be found: https://soundcloud.com/matbaker1970/vanishing-point

Matt Baker & John Styles - Vanishing Point (part 2)

Welcome to my version of an Irish / Celtic traditional called “Irish Lullaby”.

When I first heard a short version of this song done by my friend Alan Johnson, I immediately wanted to re-arrange it and make it longer, it was Alan’s idea to do the melody with flutes, and I loved it so much.
Then I started to make it longer, and re-arrange it, and played all the instruments all over again.
As I am not really a flute player, I did it with a keyboard, and then used all my tools to create the best sounding flute and tried to maintain the same feel the song had for me.

This song touched me so deeply when I heard it the first time, and as usual I started hearing a complete orchestra playing along with the flute, and Matt Baker and I will revisit and do it all over again, and make it even longer.
I hope this piece will touch you just as much as it did to me, and you’ll experience some comfort and peace of mind as it does to me too while I was making it.
I know many people love it so much, as they shared their opinions with me when they heard me working on it, so that’s the reason why I want to share it with you too.

As this is a traditional, I couldn’t find a name of the composer on the net, I hope you’ll enjoy it.

Arrangement, Instruments & Production:  John Styles

Your feedback, comments and critics are very much appreciated as always.

John Styles - Irish Lullaby

Welcome to our new song (cover) and instrumental version of the Dutch song “15 Miljoen mensen”, Matt and I wanted to do something different (besides our busy schedule finishing our current Feng Shui project), so we picked up this song that we wanted to do anyway to experiment even more with new instruments, and testing the equipment in my new studio, we hope you’ll enjoy this new release, translation in English would be “15 Million People”, but in respect to the composers of the song, we kept the original title. 

Many months ago Janny (Caustic Cheese) asked me to collaborate with him and change his version of 15 Million people into a orchestral version, I agreed and when it was finished he released it on his SC account, his version was slightly slower then this one, and because of it, I could not let all my instruments sound the way I wanted, so I told Janny that I would give it another go later on, and make a new version all over again with Matt Baker but then faster.

By doing this piece slightly faster (all over again), we also noticed that the instruments started to sound better, and gave us more space and freedom to play around and add even more instruments and choirs.

Because of the new way of producing our songs lately, we were able to give it more body, also with this piece we layered all instruments (instead of using volume), eventually it became a very big project, we hope you’ll be able to hear all separate instruments, and you’ll enjoy our instrumental version too.

The original song was composed for a commercial for Postbank BV (now ING), and the clip (song) became so popular, that it was released as single and became a number 1 hit in Holland.

Composed and Written: Jochem Fluitsma & Eric van Thijn
All instruments and arrangements: John Styles and Matt Baker 
Producer:  John Styles 

As always your comments, advice and critics are very much appreciated, thanks for listening, John and Matt

The lyrics freely translated into english:

Fluitsma & Van Tijn - 15 Million People

Land of 1,000 views
The land of sobriety
All together on the beach
Biscuit at breakfast
The land where no one lets go
Unless we win
Then comes the passion acute loose
Then no human remains longer inside
The land wars patronizing
No uniform is sacred
A son who calls his father Piet
A bicycle is nowhere safe

chorus:
15 Million people
At that tiny piece of earth
Who do not you write the laws for
That shows their value
15 Million people
At that tiny piece of earth
Which should not 't straitjacket in
That shows their value

The country full of protest groups
No chef who really is the boss
Curtains are always open
Lunch is a cheese sandwich
The land full of tolerance
Just not for the neighbor
The big question that always remains
Where pays his rent ie nou

't Land that allows for everyone
No dog who knows a gutter
With fried rice balls in the wall
And no one who eats dry bread

Chorus (2x)

John Styles & Matt Baker - 15 Miljoen Mensen (see description)

Welcome to our new song “Candlelight”. We created it while , after two years, we were again sitting together in the same studio.
With the holidays coming up, we were asked to create a new leader / theme-song for a Radio-show, so sit or lay down and relax, we hope you'll enjoy this journey. 

Technical inside:
Normally we send tracks back and forth discussing what else can be done or changed about our compositions. This time John (from Holland) visited Matt in Liverpool, en now we were able to create new songs “Live”. Actually sitting in the same studio works a lot better and faster to our opinion, so now we could really experiment creating more songs from one lead.

This song was created as a new theme for a radio-show called “Candlelight”. When we had the main-theme, we started to try out “contra melodies” (John’s expression), and we ended up making other melodies / songs.
We wanted you all to experience / hear how that works, W when we played / jammed “live”, we ended up having a nice catching lead. Then we worked everything out (expanding the project with more instruments). Immediately we could hear more harmonies, and this time we completely finished all those harmonies one by one.
Now we had five different songs, which could also be merged back into one complete massive project, to be used during the complete show, and still has a different (not the same) sound all along.

As said before, normally we send tracks back and forth to each other, and we exchange our ideas via telephone or Skype till we finally end up having a complete new song / project (also when covering others).
Even when we do a collaboration with other artists, the same happens to us many times, we start working on those songs / projects, and we end up having / making completely new songs as well. To John’s opinion, that is because we can instantly hear the contra melodies while we are creating as well.
This is due a new way of producing (layering) our songs: we start making a song having (for example) 12 main tracks, then we start creating the harmony tracks, and those harmonies fit perfectly, then we extend the song moving along with all those separate tracks, and again new harmonies will be created etc. etc. When we take out those new harmonies, we hear / see new songs coming to light (getting born).
This song basically resulted into five new songs, and we tried to glue three of the originals together.
1st part 0:00-3:12, this song starts with the maintheme, 
2nd part 3:12-4:09, 1st harmony (bridge) 
3rd part 4:09-5:10, 4th harmony (outro)
4th part 5:10-end, back to the maintheme including some of the 2nd and 3rd harmonies merged in.
We will also release Candlelight 2 later on, the real endmix will only be made for the radiostations. 

We hope we have given you an inside look how we work together. We discovered that when we really sit next to each other, we can create so many songs, almost without any limitation, and very fast too.
Our hope is to create a (paid) FULL soundtrack for a movie or a documentary, so we can completely focus on doing things we REALLY love to do together as a team. Reading all the responses from our listeners let us feel we are obviously on the right track. So we would like to thank you all for your support and feedback towards us and our music, and we hope you’ll enjoy this piece of music too.            

Composer: Matt Baker & John Styles
Arrangement: John Styles & Matt Baker
Instruments: Matt Baker & John Styles
Producer: John Styles

As always your comments, feedback and critics are most welcome, they help with our developments.

Matt Baker & John Styles - Candlelight

We hope you will enjoy our new song “Waiting”, may it give you all some comfort and relaxation and peace in your heart and mind.
After working together on "Brave Angel", Alan Johnson gave this composition to John, and gave him full freedom to convert it into a  orchestral song, John started to rebuild the song and make it longer with a different bridge, then John and Matt started to create all harmonies and rearrange it so they could fit with all other instruments into an orchestral movement.

The title “Waiting” can be explained in so many different ways, as it also has more meanings to us then you might expect, we all do a lot of “Waiting” in our lives.

By the meaning “Waiting for You” , with the upcoming holidays for sure many people have to wait for their loved ones to come home on time for Christmas eve, so the holidays can be celebrated together, especially when people have to come from far, and have to catch a bus, train and airplane in time to go home.
As many movies were made with this subject as theme, we can all name lot’s of titles of movies which of course will be broadcasted as well during the holidays, and most of the time there’s a happy ending and everybody is happy, but not in all cases, as many of you may have experienced as well.

And “Waiting” while you’re in the hospital like many of our friends, they need to wait for tests or surgery, or they are recovering from an illness, and they are “Waiting” to be cured till they finally can go HOME
.
Everybody has their own experience of “Waiting”, some are positive, some are negative as well.
We tried to express our own experiences, feelings and thoughts that we couldn’t say in words, so we say it with music, as we both and our loved ones also had and still have their “Waiting” moments.

“All instruments are carefully layered accompanying the piano melody, each part gives a different emotion” this remark was given while I was finishing this song in the studio, to us this is what we hope this song would do to and for you all as well. 

This way we also want to wish all the best to Hemmo Riihelä, Megan McCarthy and Ralf, Melanie and Florian Reichelt and all other friends and listeners we haven’t mentioned, all the best and speedy recovery, may God be with you all, and may the spirit and joy of Christmas be present in your heart, because we believe in spirit we’re all together one way or the other.

To everybody in the world, we wish you all a Merry Christmas and all the best wishes for 2016. 

Composer:  Alan Johnson https://soundcloud.com/ma56
Arrangement: John Styles & Matt Baker
All instruments: John Styles & Matt Baker
Producer: John Styles

Your feedback / comments / critics are always appreciated, it helps us to develop, cheers John and Matt

John Styles & Matt Baker - Waiting (read description)

Welcome to our new release called “Norway” it’s made for a promo video clip for the Norwegian Tourism Dept.

First of all thanks to all people who kept supporting and following us, we know we have not been able to release more music lately, but we are very busy with 2 large projects we hope to reveal to you soon.
Those project take up most of our time, but we keep on going and more new music will follow soon.

We have been busy with this project a long time, trying new technologies and recording methods, also because we wanted to add a lot of instruments known by the Norwegian natives / locals, we kept adding and changing until we were both satisfied with the end result.

Again we layered all instruments to create the optimal dynamics, and at the same time we wanted to be able to patch each single instrument so that we could combine whatever was needed the way the customer wanted it to be, so we could enlarge or shorten the mini docu / promo clip as requested.
Our major problem was to solve the different instrument characteristics and blend them all in perfectly without having to struggle with the frequencies overlapping each other to much, so we could make all instruments be heard properly, now we think we nailed it, so we let you judge and give your opinion.

We also hope you can just relax and while listening to this piece you can imagine yourself flying through the beautiful fjords, landscapes, mountains and forests of Norway, and enjoy the view like we did looking at the footage picking up the motivation making this piece for you all to enjoy.

We hope to release our videoclip very soon too with the courtesy of  Norwegian Tourism dept.

Composer: Matt Baker
Arrangement: John Styles & Matt Baker
Instruments: Matt Baker & John Styles
Producer: John Styles

 Your comment, advices and critics are very much appreciated as always, cheers John and Matt.

Matt Baker & John Styles - Norway

Welcome to our new release and cover of the soundtrack “Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain” composed by Yann Tiersen.
This was one of the first songs Oliver played on his piano, John immediately wanted to rearrange Oliver’s recording, and make it longer accompanied with a complete string section.
So they started to record it all over again, they started sending tracks back and forth till they were both satisfied with it.
The fact that they both can’t read notes, everything was hummed on a Dictaphone, so they could hear how it was suppose to sound like.
First the piano track was finished, then the harmonies were created (also by humming) so eventually they could be played as string tracks, this was all done by creating and adjusting midi’s.
Because John and Oliver are not really midi experts, we’re still learning, and a lot of things doesn’t go as we hoped it would, however this piece will be done properly at a later stage too, we hope Matt Baker will join us, as he’s the real midi expert, as it’s very easy for us to say with recordings what we want, but how to execute, that’s another thing.

We hope you will enjoy this piece just as much as we did creating it.

Composer:     Yann Tiersen
Arrangement:  John Styles & Oliver Papke
Piano:             Oliver Papke
Strings:           John Styles & Oliver Papke
Producer:       John Styles

John Styles & Oliver Papke - Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

Welcome to another collab between John Styles and Colin Powell (aka https://soundcloud.com/a-multitude-of-one).

For me this song went through the weirdest development ever, I composed this song 30-5-15 for a school project, as Matt Baker and I were very busy with our Feng Shui project, I’ve send the 1st premix to Colin and asked him if he could add some guitars to it.
Colin send me a completely unexpected mix back for me to consider, without guitars (as to his opinion the guitars were already spot on) but he added beautiful flute and French horn to it instead.

At first this piece was motivated on the situation in the world with all the attacks and war everywhere.
Then I wanted to make this piece longer playing along with all the tracks, as I felt with the additional tracks from Colin I could also change the message into something beautiful, for example if you come at spots in the world where nature shows it’s splendour, the calmness and relaxing feeling you can get enjoying it.
But for some reason nothing worked, so I put this song aside as I wanted to try it later again.
But this song never left me alone, and I kept trying but for some reason whatever I did with those tracks nothing seem to work or sound alright to me.
Then I suffered from a mid-ear infection for 6 weeks, and couldn’t hear properly what I was doing (which frustrated me even more), I wasn’t able to perform proper productions anymore.
The more I tried the worse the song became, so after my ears started to get better, I took the original song, trying to find out what was going wrong all the time, as I never experienced this before.
I decided that I would listen to it over and over again, and trying to find the proper cover for the release, until it would hit me, I came across 2 pictures 1 as you can see now and 1 of me walking in the hills taken from behind.
Without going into detail, the latest developments and disappointments I had to go through in my life, finally gave this piece a meaning, and it also made me realize the song was ready all along.
I always tried to make music for others, to give comfort and bring positive emotions to them.
But to accomplish that, there’s always this moment that you’re “Numb” or “Speechless”, you’ve got no idea what hit you, first you have to go through that face, and to accept the facts that brought you there, then you can climb up, and find the right road to continue your life.
No matter what, accepting the truth (how hard it can be) is always better then a soaring wound, I tried my hardest to push those feelings away, like there was nothing going on, but it just made things worse.
It’s better to deal with those feelings and get them out in the open, so your inner wound can heal.
When I listen to this song myself, I can hear the Guitars, the Piano and the French Horn expressing all my sorrows and pain, and the Flute and Strings trying to comfort me and pulling me out of this painful thoughts.
It’s OK to be “Speechless” it’s a faze you have to go through, in the long run it will make you stronger.
The open ending I left in this piece (on purpose) is so that everybody can fill in their own story or meaning.
I am grateful to Colin for the 2 tracks he made, unintentionally those were exactly what this piece needed, at least I think so, and who knows I might pick up this song one more time and redo it all over again.

Composer & Arrangements:  John Styles
Flute and French Horn:  Colin Powell
All other instruments:  John Styles
Producer:  John Styles

We hope you’ll enjoy this piece, and it will give you some comfort and relaxation to you life too, all your comments and advices are very much appreciated as always, cheers John and Colin

John Styles & Colin Powell - Speechless

Welcome to our latest collaboration, and please read the description for all the details of this song.

John’s motivation to compose this song:
We all go through rough times in our life’s, and sometimes it’s hard to share it with others, because you do not want to cause other people pain and suffering too, but at the same time, it makes you lonely and sad.
Although (doing so) you mean well, the people that love you, has no idea what is going on with you, and they start worrying for you even more, and things will just get worse for yourself and them.
Eventually all the pain comes out, and you get nightmares and even cry during your sleep because of it.
When you look at your beloved one who’s crying and you have no idea what is causing this inner pain, that’s what causing my pain feeling powerless to do anything to help and to comfort my beloved one, and taking away those pain and sorrows.
With this song I tried to express my pain and thoughts, and searching for answers and solutions to help out besides to hug and comfort my beloved one. 
I experienced this so deeply, and I remember how hard it was to put these thoughts and feelings on music.
I know for myself: I am strong enough to fight each battle, and I can handle all troubles that comes on my path, but I can’t handle and fight (for you) against “The Tears in your Eyes”.
When you wake up, and see that your beloved one is crying (even in her sleep), believe me, they hurt me more then anything else in Life, and it tears you apart from deep inside too.
I may not be so good in words, but I hope you can hear what I tried to express in this piece, as I know many people in the world are suffering from the same troubles I described above, I hope this piece may bring you comfort as well, I tried to express myself as I would towards my beloved one. 

Technical Inside of John and Oliver’s version of “Tears in Your Eyes”:
When I arrived in Bremen, I told Oliver the story behind this song, he also shared a similar experience, and he wanted to learn to express himself with music and at the same time learning to use other instruments (not only with piano), and at the same time get “John’s” weird accords and tempo changes right LOL.
We took a version of my composition done by  “Quenya Projects” (which was never released yet) and we started working on the flutes (that was the hardest part), we created an extra piano line and harmonies with string ensembles which would fit to the flutes and piano, and we could merge with my existing instruments.
Once back in the studio Holland, I started to adjust all recorded midis so they would really sound like real instruments, and started to multilayer all tracks all over again into this mix / version.
We hope you all will enjoy it as much as we did making it, and this piece will bring you comfort too.    

You might want the hear the extended and single version as well):
Originally I merged “The Tears in your Eyes” together with another song of mine "No Secrets" into the extended version I released earlier, you can hear: https://soundcloud.com/onevision-crossworlds/john-styles-tears-in-your-eyes , I merged them together because to me these two songs had the questions and answers, I just want you all to enjoy this beauty, although it caused me a lot of tears while making it, and because of that I really think I gave it my very best shot.
This version has answers or at least that's what I tried to put into it.
Then I received a request to extract both songs and release them separately, 1 of them was released as the single version: https://soundcloud.com/john-styles-projects/john-styles-the-tears-in-your

Composer and arrangements: John Styles
Piano 1: Oliver Papke  Piano 2: John Styles
Flutes & String ensemble: John Styles & Oliver Papke
All other instruments: John Styles
Producer: John Styles  
We hope you all enjoy this song, and your feedback, comments, likes and critics are welcome as always.

Peace and respect to all, John and Oliver

John Styles & Oliver Papke - Tears in Your Eyes

Welcome to our new version of “Winterzeit” we promised to finish 5 months ago, and we were planning to release during  these holidays anyway, plus we thought it would be great to let you enjoy this song and we could wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year at the same time.

The original motivation for this song:   Oliver was walking around with his wife Eva, and a melody came to mind, when he came home, he immidiately started to record his idea, and send it to John who loved it very much, and he started to play a second piano and made a bridge along with Oliver’s original idea, and after that, they created the First version we’ve released 5 month ago, you can hear it by clicking on the following link:
https://soundcloud.com/oliver-papke-freier-piano-k-nstler/john-styles-oliver-papke-winterzeit

Technical inside:  It was John and Oliver’s idea to rebuild this song into an orchestral version, making it longer and giving it a proper intro, outro and new bridge.
 We started to re-arrange the 2 original piano tracks, then Oliver played the piano all over again, created strings, brass and flute, then John continued creating 2 harp tracks, 2 trompet tracks and 1 french horn track, and Olivers the string section was split up (rebuild / layered) into 12 separate violin, viola, cello and contrabass tracks, and finally he added 2 palmflute tracks, while building up this new version and creating all new instruments and harmonies, John noticed something was missing, so he asked Colin if he could add something, and Colin created 4 new awesome (drums, bass, guitar and a choir) tracks for us to continue working on, and only Colin’s  choir track was then adapted by John to created a smoother real choir sound, and Colin’s other 3 were left as they were created.
To be able to add Colin’s tracks in the project and make it all sound spot on we had to make some adjustments on our original arrangement, so all instruments had their proper place in the endmix, eventually it took us 19 different pre- mixes untill we were all completely satisfied with this end-mix, we all hope you will enjoy this version just as much as we did creating it.

Composers:  Oliver Papke & John Styles
Piano:  Oliver Papke  https://soundcloud.com/oliver-papke-freier-piano-k-nstler
Guitar, Bass and drum:  Colin Powell  https://soundcloud.com/a-multitude-of-one
Choirs:  Colin Powell & John Styles  https://soundcloud.com/onevision-crossworlds
All other instruments:  John Styles & Oliver Papke
Producer:  John Styles

We hope you’ll enjoy our creation, your comments, advices and critics are very much appreciated.

Cheers John, Oliver and Colin

John Styles, Oliver Papke & Colin Powell - Winterzeit

Welcome to our new version of our song "Dreams", now with lyrics, vocals, guitars, bass and drums from Hemmo,  we hope that you will enjoy this song just as much as we do.

When John and Oliver released “Dreams” 4 months ago, Hemmo immidiately wanted to add lyrics to it, and of course we agreed for him to complete the song with all additions he had in mind.
Now with the opcoming switch from the old to the new year, we thought it would be nice to present this song, and wish that all your and your loved ones wishes and DREAMS may come through.   

It is always nice to dream, and even better if these dreams come true, it's just wonderful idea, everyone knows it, and had this thought, close your eyes with a nice drink and listen to beautiful music, and we start relax and imagining things we would like to come true in our lives.
We all experience it once, after a busy day, we just sit down and begin to relax and to dream of peace, there’s simply nothing better to chill and lay down and dream away, so let's all have our little dream and fill the world at these difficult times with music, it may build bridges and overcome peoples fears and sorrows.

Tech inside:
This song originated from an idea played on piano by Oliver, then John re-arranged it, and created verses, choruses, bridge and ending, accompanied by strings and send it back to Oliver, with the request to create contra melodies played by flutes and French horns, and as always they started to send tracks back and forth until they were both satisfied with the endmix, and release dit on SC and FB, and Hemmo started recording his ideas for the song with lyrics, guitars, bass and drums.

Hemmo’s motivation for writing thess lyrics will follow shortly.

Composer: Oliver Papke & John Styles  Songwriter: Hemmo Riihelä
Lead vocals, guitars, bass and drums: Hemmo Riihelä  https://soundcloud.com/age-r
Backing vocals: Hemmo Riihela and John Styles
Arrangement: John Styles  https://soundcloud.com/onevision-crossworlds
Piano: Oliver Papke  https://soundcloud.com/oliver-papke-freier-piano-k-nstler
Other instruments: John Styles & Oliver Papke
Producer: John Styles

We hope you will all enjoy this song, as always we appreciate your comments, advices and critics, we wish everybody all the best for 2017,  John, Hemmo and Oliver.


Dreams lyrics:
Close your eyes and take a breath
you feel allright, no pain no stress
in your mind tonight.
You can have a trip
to the land of joy
no wars no harms, just peace.
You have sun and sea
the trees so green
and birds are singing too.
When the night comes to that land
the darkness takes you to
through the magic stars and moon.
And the morning takes you to
another journey wild
when you see the smile of a child
having all the friends around
singing on their song.
Where do these places are
do they exist in real
is there a place to live in peace
not only in dreams
why this couldn't be real
do we have to find this only in dreams.
Take your friend in hand
take it, so it feels you care
your dreams come true for sure
in the end.
We all have dreams to dream
we all have dreams to dream
Not only closing eyes
but eyes wide open
can reach your dreams come true
and have a sun through your life
and every day 3x

John Styles, Hemmo Riihelä & Oliver Papke - Dreams

Welcome to our new song “Soulmate” another experimental piece John and Oliver composed.
While John was with Oliver they experimented with their specific way of playing and creating harmonies, John showed Oliver some of his weird chords, and they both kept playing (practicing) till a new idea came out, they immediately called it “Soulmate”, and Oliver wanted to put drums in it for the rhythm, then John suggested to let cello’s create the rhythm of the song, that was exactly what Oliver wanted to learn anyway, so they kept on playing and changing till they were both satisfied, finally they ended up in the kitchen with the laptop, listening over and over again and discussing what needed to be changed, writing down all ideas what John needed to change / add for the harmonies in the studio.

They decided to make a premix, and request Colin to add drum, bass and guitars to it, and he did it splendidly.
In the end-mix (back in Holland), John tried to create 3 different moments (emotions) within this song.

The first part (0:00 -1:30) the search for your “soul mate”, the cello’s are playing the struggle we go through to find our soul mate (which is hard as everybody knows), and the strings and bass only accompanying the piano and cello’s.

The second part (1:30 – 3:00) the full orchestra, drum, bass and guitar take over (you found your soul mate) the overwhelming feeling (happiness) a person is in when that happens, we tried to let the instruments express that feeling, also John changed the cello’s slightly (higher tempo) so they fit better with the drums.

The third part (3:00 till the end) all instruments are in full harmony and played exactly in the right tempo, you’ve accomplished your goal in Life, both “soul mates” found their way of living together.
As said before this was an experiment, to see what we could accomplish with instruments and creating harmonies, to build up a song, we all hope you’ll enjoy this song, and we are looking forward to your reaction.

Composers:  John Styles & Oliver Papke
Piano & Cello:  Oliver Papke
Orchestral Movement:  John Styles
Guitars, Bass and Drums:  Colin Powell
Arrangement & Production:   John Styles

All your comments, advices and critic are always very much appreciated,  Cheers  John, Oliver and Colin

John Styles, Oliver Papke & Colin Powell - Soulmate

Welcome to our new song “Passion of the Heart” another experimental song composed by John and Oliver.

Also this song was created / changed while John was with Oliver in Bremen, Oliver played his original idea, and they arranged it with their specific way of playing and creating harmonies, John showed Oliver some of his weird chords, and they both kept playing and changing (practicing) till they were both satisfied. Oliver wanted the piano to be put forward playing the passion, and let the orchestra playing the flames (expressing the feel and emotion).

Because the studio had to be moved to another location, we couldn’t release as many songs as we would want to, so we want to thank you all for your patience. Now in the new studio John could finally try to create the specific arrangement (Oliver and John talked about in Bremen), multi layering all instruments and sending mixes back and forth to Bremen, till we were both satisfied with the outcome, we wanted the piano to come out stronger (as a solo  instrument), and the orchestra just accompanying it within the song, the flute and the violin are playing the flames sparkles (whatever may come to mind when listening to this piece), and John kept on going as he wanted the flute and violin talking with and too each other, but not being solo instruments, so they would just grow over the orchestra at some places, we hope we’ve accomplished that, and you all enjoy it.

To express the “Passion of the Heart” can be done in different ways, also because it’s experienced in different ways for everyone, when Oliver told John what he wanted to say with this song, and how he wanted everybody to feel (and hear) what he experience when these emotions overwhelms him, they talked a lot about how it could be done with instruments, to our opinion, music can say a lot more than words, when John was back in Holland he took 3 pictures to inspire him to create to orchestral movement, eventually we choose the cover for this song (Heart with flames), the Heart (and it’s emotions) is played by the piano, and the flames are expressed by the Flute and Violin, the overall emotional feeling is softly accompanied by the rest of the orchestra.  

Also this song was a sort of experiment, creating harmonies in a different way, to build up a song and let the instruments be our story teller, we all hope you’ll enjoy this song, and we are looking forward to your reaction.

Composers: Oliver Papke &  John Styles
Arrangements: John Styles & Oliver Papke 
Piano:  Oliver Papke
All other instruments:  John Styles
Producer:   John Styles

All your comments, advices and critic are always very much appreciated,  Cheers  John and Oliver

John Styles & Oliver Papke - Passion of the Heart

Welcome to our new (vocal) version of the song “Soulmate” now with the wonderful voice of Julia Crystal and lyrics from Leandro Silva da Costa, we hope you’ll enjoy this version too.

While John was with Oliver they experimented with their specific way of playing and creating harmonies, John showed Oliver some of his weird chords, and they both kept playing (practicing) till a new idea came out, they immediately called it “Soulmate”, and Oliver wanted to put drums in it for the rhythm, then John suggested to let cello’s create the rhythm of the song, that was exactly what Oliver wanted to learn anyway, so they kept on playing and changing till they were both satisfied, finally they ended up in the kitchen with the laptop, listening over and over again and discussing what needed to be changed, writing down all ideas what John needed to change / add for the harmonies in the studio.
They decided to make a premix, and request Colin to add drum, bass and guitars to it, and he did it splendidly.

While we were already working with Julia Crystal on another song, Julia heard Soulmate, and asked John if she could sing on this song too, so she asked her friend Leandro to write lyrics for it, and when they were finished, she immediately started recording the lead and all the harmonies, we were all blown away of the results. Then John and Colin started to adjust those recordings to sync them with the instruments, and unfortunately we had to cut something away, however Julia and Leandro were both very happy with the end result, then John had to send some mixes back and forth to make everybody completely satisfied with the mix you hear now.  

As said in the earlier description, this was an experiment, to see what we could accomplish with instruments and creating harmonies, to build up a song, and now we could also build in these beautiful vocals from Julia, we all hope you’ll enjoy this version of our song too, and we are looking forward to your reaction.

Composers:  John Styles & Oliver Papke     Lyrics: Leandro Silva da Costa
Vocals:  Julia Crystal
Piano & Cello:  Oliver Papke
Orchestral Movement:  John Styles
Guitars, Bass and Drums:  Colin Powell
Arrangement & Production:   John Styles

All your comments, advices and critic are always very much appreciated,  Cheers  John, Oliver, Colin and Julia

Lyrics from Leandro Stenland:

I dream again
I was down and I found no need
The loneliness weaving wonders 
No one asks how I might feel

To be a seeker
As the night fell down across the dream
Start what I've never dared to speak of
It's you - It's me - we try to hide

I fear...
As unimportant as it seemed
Still lit worlds no one could see

For thee I seek
Beloved soulmate, its you I need
I've tried to find the key
To open the door to unlock thee

I've been searching low and high
Thou were not so easy to find
I've wandering too many miles
Somebody please just tell me why

If there's a soulmate for everyone
Lets keep this life together
For now and forever
I will be here for you
Only for You
If there's a soulmate for everyone

John Styles, Oliver Papke, Colin Powel & Julia Crystal - Soulmate

Finally as promised for so long, a solo project by John Styles, and many new songs will follow shortly.

As many of you know by now, I am not able to work as fast as I would love to, that is also one of the reasons why I prefer to collaborate with my friends, because is it for me also a big motivation to continue and learn to find the best way to recover / improve my skills all over again and overcome my disabilities.
Between all collabs with my dear friends (for which I am very grateful for their support), I still continue to record / create my solo projects, and it’s my goal to create at least 6 of them each year. 

This creation is an instrumental version of Only Teardrops (eurovision song winner in 2013 sang by Emmelie de Forest for Denmark), but then slightly faster recorded / played then the original.
I started to record this song in July 2016, as I’ve always loved the instrumental version very much, but I couldn’t get the synthesizer sound right, for some reason the sound dragged the overall mix, after I moved into my new studio, I played around by pitching the Bpm, and I noticed that when I increased the tempo slightly everything sounded a lot better (the dragging stopped), at least the way I wanted it to sound like.
Besides the fact that the choirs are not fully 100% as I would love them to be, I think it’s the best I could do for now, I might pick this song up again at a later stage, and try to make everything sound perfect, or make a Orchestral version out of it (and of course make it longer).
Still, I hope you all enjoy this version as much as I did creating & producing it.

Composers (& songwriters):  Lise Cabble, Julia Fabrin Jakobsen and Thomas Stengaard.
Performed and Produced: John Styles

Your comments, advices and critics are very much appreciated as always, cheers John.

John Styles - Only Teardrops

Welcome to a new collab between Emmazen and John Styles, featuring Oliver Papke.

Emma’s motivation for “Angels weep for You”: the idea was a moment where I felt in the dark about something that was bringing me down and causing me a great deal of sadness..I imagined that as I was weeping the angels would be weeping too because they feel our pain, many of us may have experienced this thought too, when we go through certain difficulties in life and we weep, maybe the angels weep with us….

John and Oliver’s motivation for “Heaven”: disappointments in our life makes us wonder, how would it all be in heaven, would we be able to live our life’s without any worries, would there be peace, freedom and love for one another, instead of all the worries we all have to endure here on earth, and how is it possible that people here on earth live in war with each other, and still they all believe that they’ll go to heaven, do we all change when we die, or is earth itself is the reason of all hate, jealousy and distress..., something isn’t right to our opinion. 

Technical inside from John:
When I heard Emma’s song “Angels weep for you”, I thought it had the same feel as a song I composed with Oliver called “Heaven”, and I asked Emma if she would allow me to re-produce her song, and merge her song with ours, and she approved.
I discovered that Emma’s song was made in a different rhythm then our song, so first I had to make sure all our instruments would fit perfectly with Emma’s, but our harmonies and piano maintained to sound strange.
So I muted Emma’s instruments and changed some of our chords, then I enlarged her song and made her vocals fit to the new mix, then changed all our harmonies again to make Emma vocals fit in naturally, then turned on Emma’s instruments that would still fit in the production, and those which needed to be replayed, I did, and cut the parts that still fitted, my major goal was to change everything without losing the atmosphere of Emma’s song, so when I had a mix I liked, I send it to Emma, and she loved it immediately, then I continued to make everything as perfect as possible, then I replaced her instruments for mine, and after I adjusted the piano, I asked Oliver to play the piano all over again within the same rhythm (atmosphere) of Emma’s original song.

When we had a mix we all liked, Emma and I decided to change the title in: “Angels weep for You” in “Heaven”, so both our songs would be mentioned into the title on this release / version “Angels weep for You in Heaven”.

Heaven has not been released yet, but if you also want to listen to Emma’s original song, you can find it: https://soundcloud.com/arsivall/angels-weep-for-you-a-mari-usque-ad-mare

Composers:  (Angels weep for You) Emmazen,  (Heaven) John Styles & Oliver Papke
Vocals:  Emmazen  https://soundcloud.com/arsivall
Piano:  Oliver Papke  https://soundcloud.com/oliver-papke-freier-piano-k-nstler
All other instruments:  John Styles
Arrangement & Production:  John Styles
We hope you will enjoy this song, we appreciate your comments and critics as always, John, Emma and Oliver

John Styles, Emmazen & Oliver Papke - Angels weep for You in Heaven

Here’s our new song, a collaboration between John Styles, Claes Steen, Oliver Papke & The Orchestra.
This version is a pre-release, as we still want to replay the outro, however after an accident our friend Oliver Papke ended up in the hospital in need of a surgery, so we dedicate this version to Oliver, and we hope he will recover fully, and get’s well very soon, best wishes from us all our friend..

Claes send John his new song (he named “Heaven can wait”) total length of 1:44, gave him free hand to play / create along with it.
Then John cut it into 2 bits of 52 seconds, and he created an intro, bridge and an outro together with Oliver, while they were sending tracks back and forth they end up with a new song which we all liked, when all melodies and harmonies were re-arranged, John asked Oliver to play the piano all over again.
The Orchestra offered to play the brass & staccato violin sections, and the contra bass, for which we are very grateful..
As John still wasn’t satisfied with the outro, he did it all over again, it was our intention to let The Orchestra replay their instruments in the outro as well, but for now there was not enough time, so we’ll continue to finish this song at a later stage.

Composer: Claes Steen, the Intro, bridge & Outro: John Styles and Oliver Papke
Arrangement: John Styles & Claes Steen
Drums: Claes Steen  https://soundcloud.com/cermat
Piano: Oliver Papke  https://soundcloud.com/oliver-papke-freier-piano-k-nstler
Trumpet, Oboe, Trombone, French Horn, Contrabass & Staccato Violins: https://soundcloud.com/the-orchestra
All other instruments: John Styles & Oliver Papke
Producer: John Styles: https://soundcloud.com/onevision-crossworlds

We hope you’ll this song just as we did making it, your comments, advices and critics are very much appreciated as always, cheers John, Claes, Oliver and all members of The Orchestra.

John, Claes, Oliver & The Orchestra - Heaven can wait

Welcome to our latest collaboration on “Heavenly”

Ralf’s motivation and meaning behind his composition: 
When our gaze turns upwards, we see heaven in its beauty.
We can rely on the fact that the sky is there tomorrow.
Likewise, we are sure that he is there, he should be hidden by clouds.
Yes, peace seems boundless above the clouds.
From the earth, with all our worries, fears, and sorrows, we sometimes lack the view. Perhaps dark thunderclouds weigh on us and the wind comes from different directions. We can not see it at the moment, we do not give up, but are confident, for behind all the sun always shines. Somehow, everything clears up again and we can say again ......
When our gaze turns upwards, we see heaven in its beauty.

Technical inside of this collab:
Ralf and John wanted to do some brand new songs together, but it appeared that John couldn’t get the right feel for the suggested new ideas, so he decided to pick up an older song from Ralf to get into the same mood of producing the songs they use to do in the past.
Using the same multi-layering technique John is using lately instead of playing around with the volumes and panning within the mix, gave him more freedom adding more details, instruments and harmonies to Ralf’s original song. They used to do different kind of songs then the ones John made lately, but it eventually it worked out to both their satisfaction, we hope you’ll enjoy this song just as much as we did making it.

Composer:  Ralf Reichelt  https://soundcloud.com/bingzhu
Arrangement & all instruments:  Ralf Reichelt & John Styles
Cover design:  Ralf Reichelt
Producer:  John Styles

We are looking forward to your comments, critics and advice's, it’ll help us to increase our performance, cheers Ralf and John

Ralf Reichelt & John Styles - Heavenly

This is a cover of the last solo recording from Roy Orbison that he made together with Jeff Lynne

This is the final (2014) cut, we're happy to have this result after so many hours working on this, so we're proud to present this tribute to this awesome musician.
A few months ago, Bob asked me for the instrumental version for a gig, and when I've heard it, I thought I wanted to give it a new try, now I had the time to do it, and I hope you all like it. 

The 2nd (2012) release of this song can be found: http://soundcloud.com/john-styles-projects
Other releases can be found: 

http://soundcloud.com/age-r/john-styles-age-r-bob-moore-a
http://soundcloud.com/moore_jeep/a-love-so-beautiful-roy

All tracks are played in live, so no samples are used at all, that's also with all our vocal tracks, so we sang each track in ourselfs.

We hope you'll all enjoy this song just as much as we did making it.

Composed: Roy Orbison
Vocals:  Bob Moore
Backing vocals:  Age R & John Styles
Instruments:  Age R, John Styles & Bob Moore
Arrangement & Production: John Styles 

The Lyircs of "A love so beautiful"

The summer sun looked down
On our love long ago
But in my heart I feel
The same old afterglow

A love so beautiful
In every way
A love so beautiful
We let it slip away

We were too young to understand
To ever know
That lovers drift apart
And that’s the way love goes

A love so beautiful
A love so sweet
A love so beautiful
A love for you and me

And when I think of you
I fall in love again
A love so beautiful
In every way

A love so beautiful
We let it slip away
A love so beautiful
In every way

A love so beautiful
We let it slip away

John Styles, Hemmo & Bob Moore - A love so beautiful (Roy Orbison cover)

This Symphonic Rock version and cover of John Barry's composition, was still waiting to be finished in a different arrangement for a very long time, and I am happy that Matt and I finally did, and we really hope you'll enjoy this version just as much as we did making it.
We combined synt sounds with real instruments in this piece.
I am happy that some of my friends encouraged me to do more of my Symphonic Rock music as well, because picking up some of the earlier songs I've worked on, also makes me feel good and cheerful again, and give me new inspiration for new originals.

Composer: John Barry
Arrangements: John Styles
All instruments: John Styles & Matt Baker
Production: John Styles

John Styles & Matt Baker - Dances with Wolves

This (original) composition I want to dedicate to everybody experiencing troubles, suffering and pain in any way in thier lives, and I wish this piece could comfort them as it did to me creating it.
While I was creating this piece originally as “Childhood (Unspoken Words)" I’ve tried to express my own feelings and things I couldn’t speak out because they were to painful for me, or I didn’t have the support I was hoping to get from my loved ones (family and friends) because they simply couldn’t understand what I was talking about, or what was disturbing me.
Talking to dear friends lately and reading those letters I already had received earlier from loyal listeners of my music, I noticed that my song went into another direction.
I conquered those pains and suffering, but still a lot of people out there didn’t, and they still suffer daily.
So I decided to continue giving this song another title, as the intention was still all the same to me, but now I wanted to share the comfort which I can’t say with words, but I am able too with my music.

I realized that those unspoken words are the hardest to deal with, exactly what I was suffering from as well, while the years pass by and you get older, those unspoken words starts bugging you deeply, and the pain keeps returning no matter what you do, they have to come out one way or the other.
We don’t realize how much pain we can cause towards others, by using the wrong words or not even listening because we don’t care, or we’re afraid ourselves for it, because we haven’t even conquered our own pain, and talking with a very dear friend of mine this weekend, made my decide, to bring this piece out as it is, but then as “Unspoken Words”, those words that hurt the most, and are the hardest to share or bring out
I know from my own experiences no matter how hard, if you do let them out, it’ll give you peace and relieve, and it makes life so much easier, and grief and pain makes place for happiness and comfort, and that’s exactly what I try to give to all of you who suffers daily, and I sincerely hope this piece will give some relief, comfort and hope to all who needs it. 

Composed, Arranged, Performed and Produced by John Styles

John Styles - Unspoken Words (part 2)

After many requests I have edit a jam-session to show how a catchy song can be created by layering sounds in different ways.

This song 'Confusion" was created after a jam session, so just having fun making music, and while playing we ended up with this catchy tune, I wanted to release this Jam-session so you can all hear how a song can be is created from scratch, considdering the instruments used while I layered, and only the beginning and the ending of the song are really almost ready, of course we'll add a lot more instruments to build up the complete song, it will now still be worked on and finished by the members of:  http://soundcloud.com/quenya-projects

A short discribtion of how this song is build up, so you get an idea how I work and make songs:

0:00 - 0:52  I tried to put in the original idea, and added some instruments.
0:52 - 1:11  Started with the first layering option.
1:11 - 1:31  The first Bridge just to show with different use of chords how a bridge can be.
1:31 - 2:28  I layered 5 different instrument to see how things would sound like with drums
2:28 - 2:57  The 2nd bridge I played around with all chords and instruments differently to see what bridge would sound like
2:57 - 3:16  Now I’ve made another layering of instruments I also use in both bridges.
3:16 - end   This is how I would produce a song with the use of instruments you heard combined

Nothing is the same in this song, this is how you can see how a producer works with raw 
material to build up a song, so hopefully this WIP-track shows you better what I do as producer and composer.
A theme or idea mostly comes to mind during my sleep, and when I wake-up with a nice melody, I go to the toilet and record my idea on a memo-recorder, and next day I'll try to work everything out the way I think it should be.
But sometime a song also gets born just doing some jamming with collegue musicians.

Composer: John Styles
All instruments: John Styles, Bjorn Levlund and David Anderson
Produced (IP): John Styles

John Styles - Confusion (Please read discribtion)

This is already the remastered (2nd version / release) of  “Back to You”, I would like to discribe as a journey to your inner self, so let me share a story with you:
.
I was sitting in the middle of the night all by myself, watching the stars and thinking by myself, and realising how peaceful life can be, and how we are surrounded by so much beauty when there is silence.
What have we accomplished in this world, and what have we done that life became so hectic and stressful.
I wondered if we would all just set down just like I did, and start thinking of what we obviously seem to have forgotten, and open our eyes to see and experience how everything could be, would that really change us, and therefor the world, what would it take to make us all go back to our inner me, and find that peace.
Am I so naïve or am I the only one thinking about this?
If we all would do the same, things should change, I can’t imagine we all prefer this hectic and stressful life.
So I took my guitar, and came up with this melody, and I felt like a child again, and I noticed that while I was playing people came towards me, and really just set down and just listened, nobody was angry that I woke them up while I was playing, so somehow they must have started to ask themselves the same question.
Luckily someone took his Smartphone and recorded it, and when I listen to it again, it brought me back to that specific moment, and I must admit, it makes me relaxed again, so I thought let’s share it with everyone.
This piece of music is just my interpretation of that very specific moment, I don’t know if it’ll have the same effect on you, but I hope it does, and you’ll also sit down and let this journey will make you calm down, and make you think and enjoy, maybe it’ll also make you fly, but most of all, RELAX and go to your inner self, cause within us all is this peace and harmony, we just have to find it.

I am still working on this song and writing lyrics for it as well, I'll keep you posted 
Cheers John Styles

Composed, arranged, played and produced: John Styles

John Styles - Back to You (Part 2)

I am John de Bruijn, born in Holland in 1956, since 1972 I'm a songwriter, composer, producer and arranger by the name John Styles, and I recorded several songs within different Projects also with other groups.
I wrote a lot of ballads in the past also for other artists, when i started working within Projects, I started into making background / theme-music for docu's, movies & commercials, and I still do.

For more then 9 years I work together with http://soundcloud.com/matbaker1970, we composed and co-writed together for Themes / Scores / Soundtracks for Films and Docu's, we hope our music might one day be featured in a Film, Docu or Commercial.
We released a charity album: https://soundcloud.com/onevision-crossworlds/love-hope-forever-preview
Our latest projects: https://soundcloud.com/feng-shui-music and we're now working together on Music4Brains Project, in which we're creating music for people with brains enjury, anxiety and overstimulation problems to help them to coop with their dayly problems accepting different types of sounds & noice. 

Our band: http://soundcloud.com/euphoriqa includes Hemmo ( http://soundcloud.com/age-r ) and Ralf ( http://soundcloud.com/bingzhu ) were making covers for fun, we also compose / write songs, which could be used as soundtracks or themesongs too.
With https://soundcloud.com/quenya-projects we ask other musicians to join us to collab on NewAge, Celtic and Folk / experimental type of music.

I also collaborated with many artists over the years, We found the right way to work together, talking on the phone or skype discussing what or how we want things to be build up, and keep sending tracks back and forth till we're all satisfied.
The nice thing of working into those Projects is that you can help new talents on their way, and working with them also gave me other chances, and I became a allround songwriter / composer within all styles and types of music.
I traveled all over the world to scout for new talents, which made me a more fulfilling person, and I feel rich (not moneywise), being so close to so many cultures I learned so much, and I also make Therapy Music for about 10 years now.

I am very happy that my music helps so many people all over the world, and that I can use my talent to help others, so that my God's given gift can be spread out and touch others, I'm blessed to be able to reach so many hearts and souls.
Music is my drive, without it I wouldn't feel alive, it's also a therapy for me, and luckily my family supports me all the way, that makes me a very happy man, and hopefully you'll be able to hear and sense that within my music, ENJOY my music!!!!!

I have collaborated with:



http://soundcloud.com/bingzhu
http://soundcloud.com/age-r
http://soundcloud.com/matbaker1970
http://soundcloud.com/euphoriqa
http://soundcloud.com/quenya-projects
https://soundcloud.com/oliver-papke-freier-piano-k-nstler
http://soundcloud.com/megsmusicjourney
http://soundcloud.com/the-wilburys
http://soundcloud.com/dkouglas
http://soundcloud.com/booback
http://soundcloud.com/moore_jeep
http://soundcloud.com/costas-christodoulou-1
http://soundcloud.com/padruna
http://soundcloud.com/luck4ever
https://soundcloud.com/ma56
https://soundcloud.com/achazia
https://soundcloud.com/debhenriksson
https://soundcloud.com/rustystringz
https://soundcloud.com/studiorivy
https://soundcloud.com/aprilgibsonmusic
https://soundcloud.com/the-orchestra
https://soundcloud.com/ice-requiem
https://soundcloud.com/a-multitude-of-one
https://soundcloud.com/a-live-music-project
https://soundcloud.com/donna-murray-1
https://soundcloud.com/koenjanssenmusic
https://soundcloud.com/fivosvalachis

When you are also interested of collaborating with me or join a project, please visit:  http://soundcloud.com/john-styles-projects as well and leave a message there.

If you want to collaborate or use my music in remixes, just ask me by writing me a message, don't just use it, cause then it's stealing, let's be fair all together.

OneVision CrossWorlds

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