Garden Cuenca Etude Mr
Instrumental piece for guitar and piano. 
The picture is the garden from the house where I was born. Goof memories

Garden

Picture Dixtuin CC BY SA Flickr - Brussels, Museum Musical Instruments
https://flic.kr/p/2oxg69A

Clip at https://youtu.be/uqiR07gABWw 
Used samples from https://www.discogs.com/master/236283-Various-Golden-Rain-Balinese-Gamelan-Music-Ketjak-The-Ramayana-Monkey-Chant 1969
Golden Rain - Balinese Gamelan Music - Ketjak: The Ramayana Monkey Chant

Audio File:
Samples Golden Rain B - Mix 28 - 4-2023 - Mr.wav
Loose stems and unmastered version available upon request

Collage Dance

Collage dance

https://youtu.be/pN_GyRUp66M

thanks to https://soundcloud.com/shamukhamedov-803522980 for comments on an earlier version and https://soundcloud.com/pleudoniem for borrowing his fretlles 5string bass guitar

Forward and upwards
No need to look back
When I hear your voice
I almost see your face
Give me that reality check

Detours and sideways
as push came to shove

Windows and doorways
(crawling out, pushing through)
loopholes and timeframes
Forward and upwards
(don't come back, don't look down)
fragile but agile
I know we can make it okay

I see you are wearing a mask 
 (lay it down)
to hide from the gazes

We're okay with everything
We're okay with everything

U-turns and ley lines,
cruising and loosing myself
every inch of the way
Can you shed a light
(show it to me)
on this conundrum now?
I'll wear my heart on my sleeve

Occupy where are you now?
Did you find a way for salvation?
(show me the way now)

Forward and upwards
)how to get myself out of here)
I'll only transmit on your wavelength

Forward

Darbuka, 12 string guitar and three tracks with freeware Essence VST from Ronan Fed - see https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2023/02/13/essence-plus/

Strapped to the Mast

Sempervivum-WIP

https://youtu.be/vM4m-a5I4QY

Lies and Deceit

G	  Gm	    G7		   C
Lies and Deceit, you were sly as a fox
C			      G
How could I know the game you play?
G	  Gm	    G7		   C
Anger and grief and trust just disappeared
C		  G
Station call, no reply

A			       E
Did you really think you'd get away with this?
    A                E
it all looks like a hit and miss
  C9	     F9
Stuck in the limousine

Angels and muses, songs in disguise
please take off your tight mask
Balancing challenges, how can you sleep
White-knuckled down to the bone

Bullet ripped your ear
But here you are
Keep your eyes on the getaway car
How dark can this story get?

Did you really think you'd get away with this?
it all looks like a hit and miss
Stuck in the limousine

Lies and deceit, clouding our minds
The library is burning
Closing a deal, sealing a pledge
who do you think you are fooling?

Lies an deceit

Lies And Deceit

Lumen Festival

Thanks to Mark and Eric for feedback on earlier versions
https://youtu.be/mDz6Y6Z_lbI

Love Scandal

Tried to get in touch with you
but you seem to have gone with the wind
I did my best, what more could I do?
In these troubled times

Following the trail to lead me
to the next split in the road
within a moment I will navigate
and be crawling through

______________

Facing my ghosts, but I
won't leave my post
Better trust my senses
before I roll the dice
______________

Love is scandal
and heartbreaks galore
The life of a spy is always a lie
but still we try

________________
I will confess
my crimes to you
the measure was pleasure
the dice had been rigged
but I made it through

The ethics got hectic
stakes ran too high
did I get too personal?
when you said
"do as you see fit"
______________

Bring me to the window
where the light shines
from the mountaintop.
I can handle the scandal
But I can't handle love

Out of respect, eh,
Slightly aloof
Love was scandal 
Who needs proof
When everything breaks down

Love is scandal
Truth is cruel
If only we could
live again
in saner times

Buy at bandcamp

Love Scandal

Inspired by the Laibach / Mina Špiler version my take on the wonderful Beatles song. ☮

Across the universe

Contains https://archive.org/details/solar_eclipse_1709.poem_librivox Solar Eclips, poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, as read by Newgatenovelist (EL)

Ceteris Paribus

Picture https://flic.kr/p/7RbvJS

Dirge is from the Album Planet Waves - one of the most poignant self-reflective Dylan songs. 

Dirge (Dylan cover)

on the road from Maribor to Bamberg I noticed a sign that said Quellverkehr - sounded like an interesting title for a synth-based instrumental. Hope you enjoy. Downloadable CC BY. 

Quellverkehr

Instrumental with intro inspired by Andreas Vollenweider's The White Winds / The White Boat. Picture - Pompey, October 2024 https://flic.kr/p/2r9G4Xt

Lavage

30 years ago, an attrocity was committed - genocide happened in Srebrenica. Why memory still matters. Picture https://flic.kr/p/a5yoxg 
Roͬͬ͠͠͡͠͠͠͠͠͠͠͠sͬͬ͠͠͠͠͠͠͠͠͠aͬͬ͠͠͠͠͠͠͠ Menkman Srebrenica CC BY 2011

Srebrenica

Distractors

I'm under the branches
In the shadow of the tree,
To listen to the tales
of a long gone history.

If you believe 
in revenging ghosts,
from a lack of future
you'll suffer the most.

Out in the field 
looking for a trace
of a kindred spirit 
or familiar face

Trying to make sense of it all
don't listen to distractors

Why, we feel so rejected
Try focus, we've got nothing left to loose

I'm getting mixed feelings
as I'm watching the screen
Scrolling down this endless
stream of misery.

Remorse and regrets
I get sidetracked all the time
In a lapse of reason
loosing control
the pretty pair of truth or dare
acts as if the devil may care

Distractors

short semi-improvised piano piece for a garden-video, see
https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-harvest-135018838 

https://youtu.be/jzGvHOd8sbY

Garden piano

Thanks to @Encym @markjbennett, @mark-hoogslag and @pleudoniem for feedback on earlier versions

Through the trees, a forest
The end has started,
the beginning begun.

Tides are turning
War was over, 
or so we thought

*Out with the old
In with the new
if you don't know 
which is which
what you're gonna do?

You chose, you stepped, 
you thought you knew, 
Yet the tree still asks: 
Who chooses who?
Who chooses who?

Keep on climbing the decision tree
Up the branches, to infinity
decided for you and me

For Regulo Tortolero:

A través de los árboles, un bosque
El fin ha comenzado,
el comienzo comenzó.

Las mareas están cambiando
La guerra había terminado, 
o eso pensábamos

Fuera el viejo
Dentro el nuevo
si no sabes 
cuál es cuál
¿qué vas a hacer?

Elegiste, diste un paso, 
creíste que lo sabías, 
Sin embargo, el árbol sigue preguntando: 
¿Quién elige a quién?
¿Quién elige a quién?

Sigue subiendo
el árbol de las decisiones
Al final seremos libres

Decision tree

Short instrumental piece for videoclip https://youtu.be/XSdGAcSlmY4

Bad Bentheim

https://oorlab.bandcamp.com/album/lighthouse-songs

The silver sun is rising and rising
Signs of winter coming
Snow on the hills
She leaves for the harbour
To scan the endless line of waves

As cars float down to the seaside road
a fog is rising
over Lady Bridge street
The chance of a meeting
is very small
but if you come to the light house
I'll wait for you
if you wait for me

Oh my compass
show a homeward sign
no star's a-shining
the tide's ahead of time  

I think it's all coming back
And I know yes I know
you're gonna remind me of the promisses
that we were meant to keep.

Fly in time, is an innocent line
If you really must leave 
don't hesitate
but whatever you do
don't close the gate.
There always will be
a window of opportunity

Bandcamp

The Tide’s Ahead of Time

https://oorlab.bandcamp.com/album/lighthouse-songs
Sideways

Hearing shots again
What can be done?
Sometimes it feels
like there is no room for reason.

In the days of punk
'79
Wine and dine, all seemed fine 
but times were changing

  Sideways down the slope
  Sliding into the rope

They pawned the truth out
and bartered the facts
These moodswings hit me sideways
no happy ending these days.

Cover my back, wipe the tracks
It seems wise, 
not to blow 
this disguise yet 

  Sideways down the slope 
  Sliding into the rope 

You cancel me
I cancel you
what we're gonna do now?
try to get out somehow

Fingers crossed
hope for the best
but prepare for the worst
in these present troubled times

  Scattershots matter not
  Sideways down the slope
  Sliding into the rope

Lighthouse songs

bandcamp

Sideways

Instrumental music for video from a visit to the Ozeaneum, SeaAquarium in Stralsund / Deutsches Meeresmuseum - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozeaneum

Ozeaneum

instrumental music for video of a timelapse from a rooftop

Timelapse Torun Skyline

Gedichten op muziek, over de Havenstad Harlingen; meer informatie & boekingen 
https://www.jankobusseunnenga.nl/

11-Ons-bootje

10-Dorp-aan-zee

04-Visvangst

01-Harlingen

08-Fabels-IX

03-Havensteden

Done with Cubase 11, Vdrums and Hagstrom hollow body guitar - in 5/4 measure (at least that was what I put the metronome to, and then played along).

Anything but straight

Title taken from a recent article about observations with the Palomar telescope, where they detected transients in archived photographic plates. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-21620-3

Transients

picture https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200129309 Een tuinman verzorgt een jonge boom
Jacques Callot, 1621 - 1635

Garden man, keep on digging
filtering the mulch from clay.
For your work you'll be rewarded
With a splendid harvest, 
on a future day.

Garden girl, making selfies,
filtering roots from layers of ground,
seedlings in topsoil, 
make the season go round.


Garden plans, it's only patience
Check the weather on your app
Come rain or shine,
All will be fine,
Pumpkins and onions,
mushrooms and wallnuts,
beetroot and cabbage,
Anything goes,...

Gardenman

https://youtu.be/OYm9VP2UnFw 
France : Aquitaine : la Gironde : La grande dune du Pilat (Près d' Arcachon)
December 2025

Dune du Pilat

New album https://3eilanden.bandcamp.com/album/harlingen

Comments & ideas for collaborations appreciated. 
Instruments: violin, mandoline, acoustic, bass and electric guitars, harmonica, tin whistle, darbuka, sansula, roland synthesizers. 
Recording with Cubase Elements 11 

Recommending these inspiring musicians: 

https://soundcloud.com/the-plugs ;  https://soundcloud.com/pleudoniem ;  https://soundcloud.com/markjbennett ; 
https://soundcloud.com/dan-lockhart ; 
https://soundcloud.com/julsy ; 
https://soundcloud.com/houckjt ; 
https://soundcloud.com/tante-meli .

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