My SC collaborations with these wonderful musicians:
@fire-jam-band
@nobsmeyer
@ldchool
@stefan-van-walsum
@user-342548892

Collaborations

Some time ago John Baker (@ldchool) sent me this great backing track he created and asked me to play a lead break on it. After I did we recognized that this track strongly deserves vocals. So I sat down and searched for some words to get some lyrics together and thought of a melody to sing. Then asked my friend Marcus to come over and sing. We all are very satisfied with the result. Thanks to John's mixing skills and Marcus' voice it turned out quite nice.

Lineup:
John Baker (@ldchool):
The complete backing track, mix and mastering
Marcus Heck:
Vocals, background vocals
Andy:
Lyrics, leads and fills

Let The Good Times Roll

Visualize

Recorded in Modesto, Ca.   Featuring Gibson 335 Electric Guitar solo. Alto Saxophone so. Steinway Brothers Acoustic Piano Rhythm. Fender Electric Bass. Roland Synthesizer Bass. Gibson L5 Electric Guitar Rhythm. Godin Electric Guitar Rhythm. Horn Section, Trumpet,  Alto, Tenor & Baritone Saxophones. Trap Drum kit Full set. Percussion Congas, Bongos, Cow Bell. Ago go Bells. Zildjan 22" Ride & Crash Cymbal.

Cannery Row

Beal Street Junction

Art Expressed in Music – Dali's Eccentricity, Feat. Belial Pelegrim
March 2024
Duration: 3:30
Listen to the Playlist: soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/art-expressed-in-music-i
Painting:  The Persistence of Memory
Bruce Klepper: music composition with melting clocks (“soft watches”) and sound effects
Belial Pelegrim: sound design
Listen to Belial's brilliant electronic music: https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim
John-Marc Ventimiglia: tool to create the melting clocks (“soft watches”), gliss and panning tools, Dali sound clips Visit: https://soundcloud.com/john-marc-ventimiglia
Salvador Dalí (May 11, 1904 - January 23, 1989) was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work. Born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain, Dalí received his formal education in fine arts in Madrid. Influenced by Impressionism and the Renaissance masters from a young age he became increasingly attracted to Cubism and avant-garde movements. He moved closer to Surrealism in the late 1920s and joined the Surrealist group in 1929, soon becoming one of its leading exponents. His best-known work, “The Persistence of Memory” was completed in August 1931, and is one of the most famous Surrealist paintings.  “The Persistence of Memory” epitomizes Dalí's theory of "softness" and "hardness", which was central to his thinking at the time. As one art historian wrote: "The soft watches are an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space and time, a Surrealist meditation on the collapse of our notions of a fixed cosmic order". This interpretation suggests that Dalí was incorporating an understanding of the world introduced by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.  In August 1929, Dalí met his lifelong muse and future wife Gala, who was a Russian immigrant ten years his senior.  Dalí and Gala lived in France throughout the Spanish Civil War (1936 to 1939) before leaving for the United States in 1940 where he achieved commercial success. He returned to Spain in 1948 where he developed his "nuclear mysticism" style, based on his interest in classicism, mysticism, and recent scientific developments. Dalí's artistic repertoire included painting, graphic arts, film, sculpture, design and photography, at times in collaboration with other artists. He also wrote fiction, poetry, autobiography, essays and criticism. Major themes in his work include dreams, the subconscious, sexuality, religion, science and his closest personal relationships. His eccentric and ostentatious public behavior often drew more attention than his artwork. In 1968, Dalí bought a castle in Púbol for Gala, and from 1971 she would retreat there for weeks at a time, Dalí having agreed not to visit without her written permission. His fears of abandonment and estrangement from his longtime artistic muse, Gala, contributed to depression and failing health. In 1980, at the age of 76, Dalí's health deteriorated sharply and he was treated for depression, drug addiction, and Parkinson-like symptoms, including a severe tremor in his right arm. Dali was obsessed with death. Feeling that any every moment he needed to be alive. At the end of his life, he is quoted as saying he was eccentric because he needed to show that he was alive as versus his brother who died very young and his family always referred to him as his brother. On the morning of January 23, 1989, Dalí died of cardiac arrest at the age of 84. He is buried in the crypt below the stage of his Theatre- Museum in Figueres. 
For strings, flute, trumpet, trombone, virtual instruments, sound effects and percussion.

Art Expressed In Music - Dali's Eccentricity, Feat. Belial Pelegrim

JIM ANDERS _Bombe

Cosmic Dreams

You always seemed to have the appetite
You always seemed to have the drive
You were voted most likely to succeed at everything
But now you’re just another drone working nine to five

You’re thinking to yourself this isn’t good this isn’t right
This is not how you planned to be spending all your life
You think about those dreams of yesterday
As you go about your uneventful day

Every you tell yourself

Tomorrow everything’s goanna be okay 
But tomorrow’s always a day away
Here’s hoping that tomorrow finally comes

Your life was not supposed to turn out quite this way
Everything was goanna fall in place
You set out looking for a great adventure
But you didn’t even get a little taste

Tomorrow everything’s goanna be okay 
But tomorrow’s always a day away
Here’s hoping that tomorrow finally comes

You’ve got a shelf full of self help books 
Not one of them’s done a damn thing
But it’s not over until the fat lady starts to sing
Procrastination’s like black hole 
It can suck you in
Feels like you’re fighting a battle 
That you’re never going to win

Tomorrow everything’s goanna be okay 
But tomorrow’s always a day away
Here’s hoping that tomorrow finally comes

Procrastination Song

EXODUS

向日葵

浮かぶ雲流れそこには青と
燃えるような陽が
俯いていたままの世界は影が
どうも笑うようで

いつもそうだ届くかな
なんて僕は一歩引いている

いつかはこの手の中に
燃えるあの陽が灯る
俯いていたままの世界に
光は届けられるかな

渦を巻いたまま立ち止まる
僕はあの陽にずっと
俯いていた世界なんてのは
僕の心次第です そうね

いつかどうか届くように
焦がれ 燃えるこの陽を
絶やさぬように
いつもそうだ届くかな
なんて僕は一歩引いていた

広大な宇宙の下
こんなちっぽけな僕が在る
等身大なんてやつはいつも
思うよりずっと小さいんだよな
広大な宇宙の下
こんなちっぽけな僕が歌う
等身大 もっと壮大
いつかこの手の中に光を

こんな僕も届くかな
遥か遠く光るその熱に
いつの日か 僕の宇宙
晴れて凛と咲いてみせるから

向日葵 / 微熱

Written, performed and recorded by Nate Jessee at Trash Island Studios

Lyrics
Pressure's building my time is wasting
I can't understand that
Life is for living

So I close my eyes and float away

To a place I take my mind
Every day it's all the same
Living the daily life
No wonder we lost our mind

When it gets too real
The tide pulls you away
If the sun never set
Let it go and be

In another place, I lay
My mind to rest each day
Don't care what you have to say
There's meaning beyond your range.

When it gets too real
The tide pulls you away
If the sun never sets
Let it go and be

Let It Go

A Better World

This is my first collab with Rob Johnson from @fire-jam-band. And it was mind blowing. Rob contacted me and mentioned that his voice with that "Southern Twang" would perfectly fit to the style of music I create. And I had the idea of a southern rock ballad. Now here's the result!
I'm so happy with what came out of this idea after Robs phenomenal input.

Southern Lullaby

Southern Lullaby (with Rob Johnson on vocals)

This is my first collab with Norbert Meyer, @https://soundcloud.com/nobsmeyer.
We met here on SC and he told me that he grew up in the city where I live. No more reasons needed for working together on a song.
I had the idea for this ballad and he played a marvelous bass part on this track.
Again, Moni singing. The ballad I promised her some time ago :-).
And, also for the very first time, Melli, another friend of mine, contributed the background vocals. 
Hope you like this ballad although it's not the usual Rock and Blues stuff.

Another Broken Heart Song

All music written and recorded by John Baker (The Old School)
All lead guitar written and recorded by Andy Pfitzer
Mixed & Mastered by John Baker

I wrote and recorded this song back in 2015 when I didn't really have any equipment other than a DAW and a cell phone. The recording and mix wasn't great but a friend of mine and the first person I began talking to on Soundcloud (Rob from Fire Jam Band) loved the tune and did some vocals for it. I had the original version of this on my page for quite some time and removed it a good while back. I never had any intentions of re-mixing it, let alone, remaking the entire thing from scratch, but Rob had asked me that if I ever remade one of my songs let it be this one, so it took over a year of dragging my feet, because I wanted to be in the right frame of mind when I did it, but I finally have it completed. Everything is played almost as close to  the original as I could get and Andy Pfitzer helped me out by performing all the lead guitars in this because my original lead lines were awful. So a big thank you to Andy for all his help. 

This is also one of the last songs I used real guitar amplification for.

Old School Rock N Roll (2019) feat Andy Pfitzer on Lead Guitar

LEAD-GITARRE: ANDY PFITZER
Text und Musik von Stefan van Walsum
Alle Instrumente und Gesang von Stefan van Walsum
Schlagzeug programmiert mit Toontracks EZ-Drummer-2
Produziert, Aufgenommen, Mix und Mastering in
Nandi´s Cavern-Studio von Stefan van Walsum
Copyright 2020 / Alle Rechte vorbehalten

Will dich niemals missen (Der Text)
1 Vers   
Schaue ich zurück -
und denk` ich drüber nach.
Kann es wirklich sein,
dass es ohne dich nicht geht?
2 Vers   
Du Wahnsinnsfrau -
mit der ich alle Wege gehe.
Und wenn es drauf ankommt -
wirst du zu mir stehen!
Refrain
Ich möchte dich nie mehr missen, denn du bist irgendwie....
Nein ich möchte dich nie mehr missen, denn du bist irgendwie!
Wie Milch und Zucker in meinem Kaffee.
3 Vers 
Komm schon, komm schon -
seien wir nicht dumm.
Wir machen nichts  kaputt,
wofür wir beide stehen.
Refrain
Ich möchte dich nie mehr missen, denn du bist irgendwie….
Nein ich möchte dich nie mehr missen, denn du bist irgendwie!
Wie Milch und Zucker in meinem Kaffee.
Bridge   
Ich will auf Ewig bei dir sein, dass weiß ich genau.
Du willst immer an meiner Seite sein, du hast es geschworen.
Das mit uns wird ganz sicher, kein schnelles Ende nehmen.
Kein jähes Ende nehmen!
Refrain Outro  
Ich möchte dich nie mehr missen, denn du bist irgendwie….
Nein ich möchte dich nie mehr missen, denn du bist irgendwie!
Ich möchte dich nie mehr missen, denn du bist irgendwie….
Nein ich möchte dich nie mehr missen, denn du bist irgendwie!
Wie Milch und Zucker in meinem Kaffee.
Wie Milch und Zucker in meinem Kaffee.

Taste freeze - ja sicher...

Will dich niemals missen

Will Dich Niemals Missen feat. Andy Pfitzer I Taste Freeze- Ja S!cher...

All music written & performed by John Baker
All lyrics written & performed by ZagWax
All lead guitar performed by Andy Pfitzer
Mixed & Mastered by John Baker

Just a good  old fashioned rock n roll love song!!!!!

Under The Moon (with- ZagWax & Andy Pfitzer)

Special thanks to all the Soundclouders who like, comment and repost my Music and I will try to support them too!
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All music written, performed, recorded and produced by Stefan van Walsum.

I am a german musician- born in the middle of the sixties. I am not a filigree genius. I would like to say- I am a craftsman musician. If the sound is loud and powerful- then I am satisfied!

I have autodidact learned to play the instruments guitar, bass and drums. 

My lyrics and music are inspired of everyday life. I am not a virtuoso but I love what I do. 

For recording my songs I use my homestudio. (Nandi´s Cavern Studio) 

The enthusiasm for the music is my drive and I am happy if I can take the audience with me on my musical rambles! 

If you liked to have more music and informations about me, go to my Homepage.

After playing in coverbands for decades I'm now trying to record my own songs. Some of my friends (members of various bands I played with) singing. I'm doing the guitar parts and production with reaper DAW. Drums: EZDrummer, Superior Drummer (toontrack). Guitar: (mostly) S-Gear (scuffham amps)

Will Dich Niemals Missen feat. Andy Pfitzer I Taste Freeze- Ja S!cher...

Stefan van Walsum

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