MYCOLOGICAL METABOLISM

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

Oblivion (by Astor Piazzolla) - violin piano version

9-15-2022 final master
 ...music developed by my friend Dale Wicks (he's here, but mostly all over music sites, take a listen he's a great performer and writer)HALFWAY TO CRAZY 8-26-2022

Just got off the phone
Hopped in my car
Wheels on the highway
Headed for your heart
A hundred ways to say I’m sorry
Ain’t going to earn me one more try
I could hear those tear drops falling
Before your slamming phone goodbye
Tonight, I’m halfway, halfway to crazy
Just pulling in, on the border of insane
Wish that trucker, would just pull over
He’s taking up, all of heartbreak lane
(pause) I remember that night you said goodbye
You were lying by my side
I should have never made you cry
That moon was shining in your eyes
I remember your kiss and your caress
Till, I forgot my tenderness
Don’t know where I’m headed now
Guess I’ll soon be finding out
Maybe I’m halfway, halfway to crazy
Just pulling in, on the border of insane
I was halfway, halfway to heaven
Only got, got myself to blame
Halfway to heaven
Wish I took a plane
Cause this loneliness, … sure driving me insane
Left me halfway
halfway to all the way all the way to you
But now I’m halfway…tonight I’m halfway to crazy

HALFWAY TO CRAZY ~ DOUG ROOSSIEN / MASTER ~ words and music / PRODUCTION ~ DALE WICKS

Software

Instruments used:
- Omnisphere 2
- FLEX
- NEXUS (my beloved "Blackhole Piano")
...percussion from an alternative living family while chopping wood (not to question their way of life!) 🙃

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Drums: NI Karriem Riggins.
Bass: NI Monark.
Guitars: Suhr Custom Classic through NI Guitar Rig and Archetype Rabea.
Keys: various NI, Karanyi Sounds and Spitfire Sounds.
Mastering: Ozone 10 Standard.
DAW: Ableton.

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