www.continental-collision.com
Available on Bandcamp - https://continentalcollision.bandcamp.com/track/boring-town. 
Now on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/5wf5isry5VTiOJo93dU38E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD_ThUpLBk8&list=OLAK5uy_lzXT1QxPKHH__ERx2AeZbUlK8tnKV7IIo

The second song to be released under the name ‘Continental Collision’ but this time with special guest and good friend Dave McKeown. Rodolfo first let me hear the original basis for ‘Boring Town’ back in June, yet somehow he didn’t sound excited about it. However from the first I knew it could be great. I was looking for the story in those two words as well as in the mood of the music and fortunately it came quite quickly and fitted like a glove. Singing this was a challenge for me, like everything we do, but it was exhilarating. I had introduced Rodolfo to Dave’s cloud and it felt right that we should ask Dave to help us complete the song. I hope we will have the opportunity to work with him again soon. 

Composition, instrumentation, arrangement and production: @rplanes
Lyrics and vocals: @markjbennett
Saxophone: Dave McKeown: @https://soundcloud.com/dave-mckeown
Photograph: Harlem NYC by Douglas Corrance

When I look around I see the light’s gone out this town,
Realising just a bit too late.
Streets have all gone quiet and feels like all the wires are down.
Tell me why I’m feeling in this state?
Not so long ago we felt that we’d be happy here,
Not just for now, but for always.
That’s all turned around now at least that much it is clear,
Not the old days, instead separate ways.
Like the loser on a game show.
Can you tell me where did all the fun go?
Darling without you,
It’s such a boring town,
Only coz you’re not around.

The bar, where we first met, is still there, though I never go,
Realised it’s lost its old appeal.
Crossing the park, where we might meet and stop to say hello,
Couldn’t deal with how it made me feel.
All the places we once loved I feel I must avoid
Not just for now, but for always.
I no longer know what I want, I feel I’m paranoid,
Not the old days, instead separate ways.
Like the loser on a game show.
Can you tell me where did all the fun go?
Darling without you, where did the love go?
Such a boring town,
Only coz you’re not around.

Boring Town - Continental Collision (with Dave McKeown) - Now on Spotify/Bandcamp

Main parts --- nylon and steel string acoustic with some electric guitar overdubs later. A kind of study, with some almost experimental electric guitar ornaments. Recovered the acoustic guitar files, fixed them up, and glued it together! A bit of unevenness in the quality means best on earphones I think.

Step into the Light

After many drafts, hopefully I have a final version of this song! It’s about narcissists, who can seem shiny and attractive at first. But the dissonance eventually reveals itself.

Lyrics:

I love you, yes I do!
And you love me, I can see!
I’m the one, yes the one.
Shining bright, I’m the sun.

Little darlin’ fall for me,
The false charms ring true.
Magnetic ways I save for you,
A little scene, I make the score.

You love me, I’m a catch!
No one else in the race!
But can’t they understand
I’m the best in the land.

Little darlin’ fall for me,
The false charms ring true.
Magnetic ways I save for you,
A little scene, I make the score.

Ooh, why do they fall
For the lies
That make us despise
The size of his ego
Ooh, what can be done, for
The lives that have been
Taken
Why do they fall for the lies
Time to make the move.
Arise.

Narcissus

THE MAGIC TREE

The tree is an ancient symbol, old, watching us as a silent witness. As a child, I grew up in my parents' garden which had a massive, more than a hundred year old tree with a trunk thick enough for a three person embrace. We, my sister and I, felt safe under it, as if the tree protected us. Sometimes we'd hide there from the rain, we played hide and seek, and used it's old curled roots as the backdrop for our imagined adventures. 
With the three recent storms we had here in Holland I again saw the enormous strength and resilience of trees.
Although... One strength is bigger, that is of mankind as a whole. I am not a treehugger, although my wooden guitar I embrace every time I play, but I would love to see our world getting greener again, humans living more in balance and in sync with nature ... I play this one for the tree of my youth, It is still there, and try to put to sounds the images and stories ...

This is a piece for two acoustic guitars, although it has very clear composed parts, I improvise some of the parts, as usual. The style is a personal blend of flamenco, jazz, fusion, latin, rock, classical, etc.

I hope you will enjoy and appreciate this one and as always: I really enjoy your likes, shares and comments!

-Dan

All music, arranging, composition, guitars by Daniël van den Berg, February 2022
Guitar: Joan Cashimira, modelo 145, spruce top w/ cocobolo sides and back, Gata de Gorgos (Alicante), 2015
Recorded using an Apogee MiC.
Mixed in Auria, masterered in Auria and Final Touch
Cover art: Daniël van den Berg

The Magic Tree

The Magic Tree | Dan van den Berg

Here is another band blast from the past called faithinfools a seven piece rap rock outfit from Wigan that i played guitar for and is an original rap rock track called Spaghetti Western and was recorded at Jarraf studios in Wigan by John Kettle, and also comes with a video set in Wigan and filmed by Ric Foster! The cover picture is from Haigh festival back in 2012 were we played on a massive stage to over 4k audience. Hope you enjoy! Cheers Peace

Video on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56KJQqcOQUY

Band line up:

Stuart - Raps
Natalie - Vocals
Will - Drums
Kurt - Guitar (Clubfungus)
Smalley - Trumpet
Chris - Saxaphone
Rob - Bass

Faith in fools - Spaghetti Western 📹

more or less derived  from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1QjyskJ9jw
Thank you so much Georges from your divine music

Close Your Eyes.. from Breezin'(Georges Benson)

- Download available -

This is the third collaboration between Mono-lux and the poet Jo Richter @sonic-textures… enjoy

Poetry is Vital
sound space and time
structuring impulse
carving chiselling kneading morphing
large and small gifts

Poem and conception by Jo Richter
Narration and sounds by Mono-Lux

Vital

A little psycho funk trip with accordion and more...

Funk This!

🖤Buy

Sweet Hard

Vocals by IPG1
https://soundcloud.com/ipg1/the-new-direction-now-100-bpm

Production & Music: Cosmic Keanu

The New Direction - IPG1 & Cosmic Keanu

Modes About Me X Fantasy Club X GEN6IX - Forget About You - G minor - 142 bpm

Music/remix: Composed, written, and performed by Fantasy Club and GEN6IX
https://soundcloud.com/davemoney1
https://soundcloud.com/gen6ix

Vocals/lyrics: Composed, written and performed by Mark David McClellan
https://soundcloud.com/modesaboutme

Original song/music/sample: Composed, written and performed by Dr. Dre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFcv5Ma8u8k

Lyrics:

I can show you were the crow lives now
Black feathers and king like crown
Kiss that ring when your taking the bow
Don't shake
They take flesh by the pound
Don't mistake
Love for a noun
Cause it means heartbreak
When the ups are down
heartbreak
When the ups are down
Bitch I'm over and Out
Over and Out 
I got goons in the back a the Ford
Goons and they back at the fort
Did I mention we knock and we chop
Mmm
Socks and we fill m with rocks
We bored
Yeah
Films about knocking the clocks
Out a cops on the road
Show
Flock and they raise me on shoulders
Like never Before
Woah oh woah
Yeah
Don't rag on the man with the scorn
Body bags under the porch
He don't whip in he rip off the Porsche at the store
He don't trip and he quit every time he gets bored
Every time I get
Yeah
Wanna be on the road
Wanna be on the 
I don't wanna be here
I wanna be on the road
I wanna be away
I wanna be on tour
I need everyone's attention but I also wanna be alone
We got a long night
And a long drive
I got something we can light
Make the honey that is roasting in the pipe
That's tight
10 roach
Break down
Frank Stein
Bee hives make the money that's right
What a life
Break out the wine
I'm fake your fake
That's wild
Let's walk and talk some shit for a while

Forget About You (Prod. GEN6IX and Fantasy Club)

I like Soundcloud because it's a friendly community for sharing our music. When I comment on a track, I like to say something about how you wrote, performed or produced it. I have musically diverse interests: pop/rock, jazz-rock fusion, prog & alternative rock, blues, classical and neoclassical, to mention some. Main instrument is guitar; I'm not a keyboard player or singer, but hopefully I can do enough there to make my work sound ok.

Narcissus

Steve Matthews