https://youtu.be/x_ObOaS1R4c

The chords came about while improvising on my Hagstrom HJ800 guitar. The lyrics were inspired by watching watching a VPRO TV series of three Belgian travellers (Arnout Hauben, Philippe Niclaes, Ruben Callens ) walking around the North Sea.
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rond_de_Noordzee 

All comments welcome, on the lyrics, instrumentation, mix 

Hornsea

Em     Bm       F#m
Let’s go round the North sea
   Am          G         C
To see how far we can go
B                    A               D
Through fog and rain on windswept cliffs
   D      E
Wherever the storm wind blows.

Chorus
 Em
Came upon the Hornsea
Where the coast was sinking fast
The future of the living here
Is written in the past

Navigate the sand dunes
beware of tidal floods
Keep your compass ready
when passing through the mud,

Like a tumble weed on a prairie
Or driftwood on the sea
Walk on the coastal trails
In the land without trees

Beyond our own shores
There’s a water world we don’t know
From shallows to trenches
To watch the blue wave glow.

Chorus

Came upon the Hornsea
Dolphins showed me the way
Sailing out of the harbour
as the night turned to day.

ISRC NL-1BH -21-00007

Hornsea

2 parts fender stratocaster and 10 parts midi : Cubase (groove agent, prologue, halion).
Comments welcome.

Trajan was  Roman emperor ( 98 to 117 AD).

Trajan - 24 - 9-2021 - Mr

Future journeys

Trajan

bandcamp

When the moon is up
and the sun is down
come dancing
And the fog crawls up
from the sea below
come dancing

Dance on the volcano
Waltz on the Titanic

When the stars come out
and the night bird calls
come dancing
When the rhythm goes down
into a sway of sorts
Come dancing

When the light is fading
and the tide has turned
come dancing
When the door is closed
crawl through the window
come dancing

Dance on the volcano
Waltz on the Titanic
 ( take a chance now)

Dance on the volcano

Disco track , based on a bass loop. BPM = 103
VST's used: Tunefish4, Kamioooka x64, Surge, Kairatune, Drumatic, Synthmaster

One leg dancing

Boost

When - Music - Cries - 1roomstudio - Oorlab17 - 4-2022 - Mr
1Roomstudio - Lyrics & Flute
Oorlab - vocals, guitar, drums

When Music Cries
From Prompt Writing 12/30/21

Comes from somewhere
Hidden deep... slow arise
Strings pull  beating heart
Spirit helpless pulled apart
Somewhere deep surprise

Meaning pulses strains aloud
Singing soulful lines  - comprise
Bowing phrases arc their point
Expressive faces tears anoint
Aloud .... when Music cries

Desperate tears... tears of joy
Come naturally to this boy
Practiced pluck of violins
Melody embrace - begins

Black and White Harmonize
Keys and Signature of Time
Music reaches most sublime
Aloud again when Music cries 

1Roomstudio
https://www.songwriter-forum-kitchen.com/forum/songwriting-ingredients/26/prompt-writing-2021-and-2022-its-not-a-challenge/7279/msg76277#msg76277

When music cries

Thanks to @Pleudoniem for text suggestions, and even providing the clip, and Marc Veldt and Jankobus Seunnenga for comments on earlier versions.
https://youtu.be/vc6Fm3b2zmg

Take your disco lights
Out tonight
Send your laserbeam
into the sky

Lord I'm lonely
But the beat will guide me
back to the place
where we can be together

Unbox your dancing shoes
don't tie them too loose
Emoji, gives me a sign 
that all is still fine?

Here comes the disco king
watch him do his thing
like a chachacha
before the camera

There 's a tendency
in the tinder scene
that if you dance alone
you get stuck in the zone

But I don't mind
as long as I can find
a disco light
shining through

Disco Lights

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

Sarajevo, recorded on the street at the gate, circa 21.00.
To learn more about the musical history of these kind of Adhans -see
https://folkways-media.si.edu/docs/folkways/magazine/2014_fall_winter/Muslim-Call-to-Prayer.pdf

Adhan 20 - 4-2023 - Gazi Husrev Begova Džamija

7 instances of Bucketone (version 1.0.0.0), 5 of Bucketpops (version 1.0.1.0)
KVR OSC 173 Entry

Thanks to Björn from Full Bucket http://www.fullbucket.de/music/

Effect Plugins - native Cubase reverb, delay and EQ

https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/2023/osc-173-two-buckets

oorlab - Bucketones KVR OSC173

Music for this clip
https://youtu.be/07oXun5IcCE
Downloadable CC BYNC
ISRC NL1BH2300026
27-7-2023
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dirrksv/albums/72157614980749778
for MB

Forest stream Leuvenumse beek

Forest Stream Leuvenumse beek

Instrumental version, for one with vocals and lyrics please go to
https://soundcloud.com/richsoundz-534267642/an-auspicious-day-oorlab-music

Picture
c.1546 PREVIOUSLY ATTRIBUTED TO FLEMISH SCHOOL, 16TH CENTURY
Elizabeth I when a Princess c.1546
Queen's Drawing Room, Windsor Castle
https://www.rct.uk/collection/404444/elizabeth-i-when-a-princess

An Auspicious day (instrumental)

Bandcamp

An Auspicious Day (instrumental)

Video clip at
https://youtu.be/NoqHw8uYV9E

Scottish trails

Cammo Estate

Music for this video -https://youtu.be/ApjBAbc2nPU  an impression of the beautiful harbour of Arbroath at the Angus Coast in Scotland

Scottish Trails

St. Vigeans

Arbroath Harbour

Video clip at https://youtu.be/QDIE_9uOm0M

Can you hear it?
voices bringing fear of missing out
'Lure the sailors!'
Who can tell what the song is about?

Icy seas and restless winds,
Clouds closing in
I can hear Sirens sing.

From my window,
of oppurtunity I try to get a glimpse
Of a way
To get me  - out of here

Signal tower
doesn't shine no more.
Light is dimmed
and the harbour dark.

Strap me to the mast

Four winds blowing
honeyed voices tempting us
A lover's promise
That none can keep but all of us want

Icy seas and restless winds
Clouds closing in
I can hear Sirens sing

Come and get it, she said
You can - enjoy yourself.
Don't you worry
about these barren rocks in the surf,

This shipwreck's end is oh so cruel
A life closing down
How could I be such a fool

Strap me to the mast

Strapped to the mast

Strapped To The Mast

saddened by the murder on Alexei Navalny made this short piece. Hopefully his wife can carry on and end the dictatorship - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/19/yulia-navalnaya-vows-to-continue-late-husband-alexei-navalny-work

Navalny

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

For a clip with timelapses 13 - 23 February 2024 :
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3s6lZDARB1
https://youtu.be/g-CX1l2_9k4
https://www.tiktok.com/@oorlabdv/video/7338898218907929888

Weather Detective PL97

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/2neHBtC4ZPI
Splinted

Well your request
is invalid
Computer can always say no.
The search is over
As you linger in the afterglow.

World War III has already begun
While you were dancing & had your fun
I had to jump ship
and go with the flow
counted my blessings
Flew straight as a crow

Unusual patterns, 
Coding gone wrong
Your ethics' for sale: 
MFA took too long

Operator is void
your change is rejected
The download on hold &
Your name it is auctioned, 
bartered and sold...

I feel so splinted

What a fantastic decade!

Slowly I awake
Slowly I rise

Your appointment
Has expired,
Computer is still saying no!

A many-splendored thing
of which we need to sing!
A many-splendored thing
of which we need to sing!

I throw myself
Slowly I awake


The recording was dne in Cubase Elements 11, and contains a.o. Essence Plus 1.0 Freeware VST3, from Ronan Fed.

Splinted

video

Strawberries
Summerfruit
feels like
orchard music

water mellons
Huckleberries
Peaches, Pineapple, Plums
Apricot
   and quince . . . 
 
I don't need more
to be convinced

Summerfruit in the kitchen
you don't know what you're missing...

songwriting challenge - see
https://discord.com/channels/1031582785799979108/1031582786898890889

Summerfruit

Summerfruit (Kalimba Kitchen Challenge)

https://youtu.be/yNXn4UIvlG8

Cooler days are coming
after this wave of heat
The pendulum is swinging

Remember '93
when we were free
In forests wide
no need to hide
the road was clear 
I had you near

Leafs were shaking 
branches torn
Everything is moving
In this polystorm

I'll be here & waiting
There's a change in the wind
and a shift in the undertow
how it will go
no-one knows
In this polystorm

Polystorm

Picture: Washington and Lafayette at the Battle of Brandywine
circa 1825, oil on canvas by John Vanderlyn

Brandywine Creek

Remember '77 when we held the line
On the banks of the Brandywine.
They fought like dogs and we did too,
Though none of us had any clue

About the general's secret plan
women and horses traded in a scam

We who get shot at, don't know naught
Inside the trenches with our sorry lot.
In the forests of Delaware
You'll remember what happened there

In shallow waters, I covered my trail
but my crossing was to no avail

 Comes a time 
 We'll be crossing the Brandywine
 Come spirit of '76
 down with the redcoats, hurray for the whigs

Washington still stuck to his guns
but a flanking maneuver set him on the run
Despite the loss and the cannonade
a tactical pullback was swiftly made.

The continental brigade still had time
On the banks of the Brandywine

 Comes a time 
 We'll be crossing the Brandywine
 Come spirit of '76
 down with the redcoats, hurray for the whigs
 
Remember '21, snow fell down
a north wind blew all around
Brandywine painted in white
covering up the soldier's plight.

Philadelphia here we come!
Down from Westgrove to Rising Sun

Brandywine Creek

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

https://youtu.be/5dJnzrZA0-8 
Instrumental for a clip with an impression from Berlin in autumn

Berlin autumn

Piano and Violin - inspired by recent visit to the enchanting village of Pentedattilo in Calabria. 
clip with a few amateur pictures can be found here
https://youtu.be/JbEkQfkuzhI
4-11-2024-mr-oz-oorlab

Pentedattilo

Open for collabs.
Also on
Musicoin
https://musicoin.org/nav/track/0xd3700a0eaecfe60dae1b5a9fffecfb055710dcfe

Longstory Short (Guitar Instrumental)

Original mix at
https://youtu.be/CLuUIf2F_mY
Collaboration October 2020 by @pleudoniem @ProgrockDan1 & yours truely.
Picture by Dixtuin, London 30-12-2016
https://www.songwriter-forum-kitchen.com/forum/collaborations/21/asking-for-a-friend/6614/

Lyrics

What about salvation?
(Asking for a friend)
Is it too late to learn guitar?
(Asking for a friend)
What about reincarnation?
(Asking for a friend)

Is New York already safe?
(Asking for a friend)
Has the debate taught us anything?
(Asking for a friend)
Can crises be averted?
(Asking for a friend)

Can I get myself into new Zealand?
(Asking for a friend)
Can one get oneself tested?
(Asking for a friend)
Is love still a proposition?
(Asking for a friend)

The title was taken from a tweet by Sean Ono Lennon, when he 'asked for a friend' (#askingforafriend) if it is possible to get a resident permit in New Zealand. 

IRSC NL-1BH -20-00022 - Asking for a friend


https://soundcloud.com/progrockdan1
https://soundcloud.com/pleudoniem
http://www.soundcloud.com/oorlab
September - October 2020

https://oorlab-music.tumblr.com/post/632616978945916928/asking-for-a-friend-collaboration-with

Asking For A Friend (Less Perc mix)

Welcome to oorlab's soundcloud corner: 

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/silent-steps ; https://soundcloud.com/julsy : https://soundcloud.com/houckjt : https://soundcloud.com/tante-meli

latest album https://open.spotify.com/album/2OMg0zyJSeFFV1bQ6gh8Nm (sep 2022)

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