SoundCloud collaborations

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At the beginning, Jamie and I wanted to create a jam session with 3 keyboardists. We started the track with Calaminus at the organ solo, Jamie at the trombone patch and me at the electric piano. Later, Mirko "StringBurner" joined us on the bass, bring us beautiful bass arrangements and an outstanding solo. Thanks to Mirko and thanks to Jamie Rhind & Calaminus  for their amazing keyboards solos.
Check out those great musicians at:
@stringburner, @calaminus, @jamie-rhind

Sharing The Way - feat. Jamie Rhind - Calaminus & StringBurner

On this summer track we can hear some awesome musicians:
Acoustic Guitar: Dan Van Den Berg @https://soundcloud.com/danarchx 
Synth Solo: Jamie Rhind @https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind
Fretless Bass: Mirko Borach @https://soundcloud.com/stringburner
Keyboards and drum programming: Julien Apelian
I hope you will enjoy!
The picture was taken by Dan in Portugal, Algarve.

Summer Rising with Dan Van Den Berg, Jamie Rhind, Mirko Borach & Julien Apelian

This is just so delightful to be able to share music that way.
Thank you so much Julien for your awesome music. Your path opened mine to look at the sun rise with new eyes.

Composition: Julien Apelian (@Jules-keys-1)
All vocals/melodic lines: KOSMEE
Enregistré @ Cala Luna Studio

TRIP TIME (ft.Julien Apelian & Kosmee)

The great bass player Mirko Borach, aka Stringburner https://soundcloud.com/stringburner, sent his wonderful original piece called "Mysterious" to Julien Apelian https://soundcloud.com/jules-keys-1 and me to see if we could add our touch and instruments to his warm singing bass sounds. It is a track that is reminiscent of several typical seventies and early eighties bands and sounds, ranging from, for example, a Black Sabbath type oriental riff, to more Return to Forever-like sounds, to even a hint of the Doors in some of Julien's playing. We had great fun working together again, arranging parts and adding solos and the wonderful mixing and post production by Julien tops this collaboration off!

We hope you'll enjoy this fusion of styles and our playing on Mirko's original called ...Mysterious...

Music, drum programming & fretless bass by Mirko Borach https://soundcloud.com/stringburner
Keyboards, synths, Rhodes, arrangements, mixing and mastering by Julien Apelian https://soundcloud.com/jules-keys-1
Guitars and arrangements by Dan van den Berg
July 15th, 2015

Mysterious | by Mirko Borach, with Julien Apelian on keys & Dan van den Berg on guitar

Redemption is an original track set up by Mirko Borach soundcloud.com/stringburner. In Mirko's words: "The title Redemption aims to signify the balance between the human soul and nature in a spiritual way of life far away from the hustle and bustle and the drab monotony of everyday life.".

This track brings to mind the glorious days of seventies fusion with bands like Return to Forever, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Weather Report. Mirko, aka Stringburner, sent us the outline of this track with some splendid bass work and percussion. 

Dan van den Berg soundcloud.com/danarchx on acoustic guitar, Jamie Rhind soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind on synthesizer & Julien Apelian soundcloud.com/jules-keys-1 on piano and keyboards joined in on Mirko's request to really make this a virtual band effort where each player is featured. We are very proud of the result.

We had a great time pulling this together and hope you now will too. The photo of the beautiful waterfall was taken in Costa Rica by Jamie. As always we really appreciate your comments, likes and shares!

Bass guitar, bass arrangements and tabla percussion programming by Mirko Borach
Acoustic guitar and guitar arrangements by Dan van den Berg
Synthesizer and co-production by Jamie Rhind
Synthesizers and piano, drum programming, arrangements, mixing and production by Julien Apelian
October 2015

Redemption - Mirko Borach, Dan Van Den Berg, Jamie Rhind & Julien Apelian

Humble cover de Raoul Midon 
Julien Apelian 
Sonith 
Marc Saint Hilaire 

Invisible Chains

Sonith Kumar