Welcome to the new song “A day in your Life” by John Styles and Oliver Papke, and we want to thank you for your patience, things are not going as fast as we would like.

Never regret a day in your life, good days give you happiness, bad days give you experience,  both are essential to Life, this counts for us all, and with this song we tried to express both feelings / experiences, the instruments take you along this journey, this piece  is made for everybody, and we hope you all may experience peace, comfort and harmony as we do. 

When John visited Oliver in Bremen, and we were recording some new songs, we also discussed some older songs from John and the weird accords he used creating them.
One specific song motivated us creating a completely new song together, and we both started playing and recording a piano track, and then merged (were possible) both tracks into one composition, the intro of this song might sound familiair (by some of you) with an older song of John, but we both just loved it the way it is now.
We never intend to finish the song the way it is now, but some bad experiences lately shocked us both, some people said that due to John’s handicap (after the stroke he suffered from) he wasn’t able to create new / original music by himself anymore, he could only make music with other musicians, the worse thing was…………. “whom it said”. 
It almost made John loose the motivation to continue to make / create any music at all, and after long talks with cloose friends and family, John talked with Oliver and told him he would finish this song and create the complete orchestra around the piano track (they created both) all by himself, and Oliver agreed and even encouraged it.
Yes I was angry and very much disappointed for what was said to and about me, but the best way to proof to others, but mostly to myself that I can still make and create music, even with my handicap I still have the knowhow to do so, things are only going a lot slower now.

Many people also had to go through a simular experience in life, keep believng in yourself, other peoples opinion should never stop you from following your dream, or live life your way, and it is not worth standing still for, or let you down, whatever the reason may be.

The Piano and the Orchestra throwing out all rage and disappointment, and at the same time melt together in a sort symphonic duet that brings you into a peaceful harmonic state of mind.

Composer: John Styles & Oliver Papke
Piano: Oliver Papke
Arrangement & all other instruments: John Styles
Producer: John Styles

We hope you’ll enjoy this song, and we appreciate your comments, advices and critics as always.

John and Oliver

John Styles & Oliver Papke - A day in your Life

Welcome to our new version of “Winterzeit” we promised to finish 5 months ago, and we were planning to release during  these holidays anyway, plus we thought it would be great to let you enjoy this song and we could wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year at the same time.

The original motivation for this song:   Oliver was walking around with his wife Eva, and a melody came to mind, when he came home, he immidiately started to record his idea, and send it to John who loved it very much, and he started to play a second piano and made a bridge along with Oliver’s original idea, and after that, they created the First version we’ve released 5 month ago, you can hear it by clicking on the following link:
https://soundcloud.com/oliver-papke-freier-piano-k-nstler/john-styles-oliver-papke-winterzeit

Technical inside:  It was John and Oliver’s idea to rebuild this song into an orchestral version, making it longer and giving it a proper intro, outro and new bridge.
 We started to re-arrange the 2 original piano tracks, then Oliver played the piano all over again, created strings, brass and flute, then John continued creating 2 harp tracks, 2 trompet tracks and 1 french horn track, and Olivers the string section was split up (rebuild / layered) into 12 separate violin, viola, cello and contrabass tracks, and finally he added 2 palmflute tracks, while building up this new version and creating all new instruments and harmonies, John noticed something was missing, so he asked Colin if he could add something, and Colin created 4 new awesome (drums, bass, guitar and a choir) tracks for us to continue working on, and only Colin’s  choir track was then adapted by John to created a smoother real choir sound, and Colin’s other 3 were left as they were created.
To be able to add Colin’s tracks in the project and make it all sound spot on we had to make some adjustments on our original arrangement, so all instruments had their proper place in the endmix, eventually it took us 19 different pre- mixes untill we were all completely satisfied with this end-mix, we all hope you will enjoy this version just as much as we did creating it.

Composers:  Oliver Papke & John Styles
Piano:  Oliver Papke  https://soundcloud.com/oliver-papke-freier-piano-k-nstler
Guitar, Bass and drum:  Colin Powell  https://soundcloud.com/a-multitude-of-one
Choirs:  Colin Powell & John Styles  https://soundcloud.com/onevision-crossworlds
All other instruments:  John Styles & Oliver Papke
Producer:  John Styles

We hope you’ll enjoy our creation, your comments, advices and critics are very much appreciated.

Cheers John, Oliver and Colin

John Styles, Oliver Papke & Colin Powell - Winterzeit

Welcome to our new version of our song "Dreams", now with lyrics, vocals, guitars, bass and drums from Hemmo,  we hope that you will enjoy this song just as much as we do.

When John and Oliver released “Dreams” 4 months ago, Hemmo immidiately wanted to add lyrics to it, and of course we agreed for him to complete the song with all additions he had in mind.
Now with the opcoming switch from the old to the new year, we thought it would be nice to present this song, and wish that all your and your loved ones wishes and DREAMS may come through.   

It is always nice to dream, and even better if these dreams come true, it's just wonderful idea, everyone knows it, and had this thought, close your eyes with a nice drink and listen to beautiful music, and we start relax and imagining things we would like to come true in our lives.
We all experience it once, after a busy day, we just sit down and begin to relax and to dream of peace, there’s simply nothing better to chill and lay down and dream away, so let's all have our little dream and fill the world at these difficult times with music, it may build bridges and overcome peoples fears and sorrows.

Tech inside:
This song originated from an idea played on piano by Oliver, then John re-arranged it, and created verses, choruses, bridge and ending, accompanied by strings and send it back to Oliver, with the request to create contra melodies played by flutes and French horns, and as always they started to send tracks back and forth until they were both satisfied with the endmix, and release dit on SC and FB, and Hemmo started recording his ideas for the song with lyrics, guitars, bass and drums.

Hemmo’s motivation for writing thess lyrics will follow shortly.

Composer: Oliver Papke & John Styles  Songwriter: Hemmo Riihelä
Lead vocals, guitars, bass and drums: Hemmo Riihelä  https://soundcloud.com/age-r
Backing vocals: Hemmo Riihela and John Styles
Arrangement: John Styles  https://soundcloud.com/onevision-crossworlds
Piano: Oliver Papke  https://soundcloud.com/oliver-papke-freier-piano-k-nstler
Other instruments: John Styles & Oliver Papke
Producer: John Styles

We hope you will all enjoy this song, as always we appreciate your comments, advices and critics, we wish everybody all the best for 2017,  John, Hemmo and Oliver.


Dreams lyrics:
Close your eyes and take a breath
you feel allright, no pain no stress
in your mind tonight.
You can have a trip
to the land of joy
no wars no harms, just peace.
You have sun and sea
the trees so green
and birds are singing too.
When the night comes to that land
the darkness takes you to
through the magic stars and moon.
And the morning takes you to
another journey wild
when you see the smile of a child
having all the friends around
singing on their song.
Where do these places are
do they exist in real
is there a place to live in peace
not only in dreams
why this couldn't be real
do we have to find this only in dreams.
Take your friend in hand
take it, so it feels you care
your dreams come true for sure
in the end.
We all have dreams to dream
we all have dreams to dream
Not only closing eyes
but eyes wide open
can reach your dreams come true
and have a sun through your life
and every day 3x

John Styles, Hemmo Riihelä & Oliver Papke - Dreams

Welcome to our new song “Soulmate” another experimental piece John and Oliver composed.
While John was with Oliver they experimented with their specific way of playing and creating harmonies, John showed Oliver some of his weird chords, and they both kept playing (practicing) till a new idea came out, they immediately called it “Soulmate”, and Oliver wanted to put drums in it for the rhythm, then John suggested to let cello’s create the rhythm of the song, that was exactly what Oliver wanted to learn anyway, so they kept on playing and changing till they were both satisfied, finally they ended up in the kitchen with the laptop, listening over and over again and discussing what needed to be changed, writing down all ideas what John needed to change / add for the harmonies in the studio.

They decided to make a premix, and request Colin to add drum, bass and guitars to it, and he did it splendidly.
In the end-mix (back in Holland), John tried to create 3 different moments (emotions) within this song.

The first part (0:00 -1:30) the search for your “soul mate”, the cello’s are playing the struggle we go through to find our soul mate (which is hard as everybody knows), and the strings and bass only accompanying the piano and cello’s.

The second part (1:30 – 3:00) the full orchestra, drum, bass and guitar take over (you found your soul mate) the overwhelming feeling (happiness) a person is in when that happens, we tried to let the instruments express that feeling, also John changed the cello’s slightly (higher tempo) so they fit better with the drums.

The third part (3:00 till the end) all instruments are in full harmony and played exactly in the right tempo, you’ve accomplished your goal in Life, both “soul mates” found their way of living together.
As said before this was an experiment, to see what we could accomplish with instruments and creating harmonies, to build up a song, we all hope you’ll enjoy this song, and we are looking forward to your reaction.

Composers:  John Styles & Oliver Papke
Piano & Cello:  Oliver Papke
Orchestral Movement:  John Styles
Guitars, Bass and Drums:  Colin Powell
Arrangement & Production:   John Styles

All your comments, advices and critic are always very much appreciated,  Cheers  John, Oliver and Colin

John Styles, Oliver Papke & Colin Powell - Soulmate

Welcome to our new song “Passion of the Heart” another experimental song composed by John and Oliver.

Also this song was created / changed while John was with Oliver in Bremen, Oliver played his original idea, and they arranged it with their specific way of playing and creating harmonies, John showed Oliver some of his weird chords, and they both kept playing and changing (practicing) till they were both satisfied. Oliver wanted the piano to be put forward playing the passion, and let the orchestra playing the flames (expressing the feel and emotion).

Because the studio had to be moved to another location, we couldn’t release as many songs as we would want to, so we want to thank you all for your patience. Now in the new studio John could finally try to create the specific arrangement (Oliver and John talked about in Bremen), multi layering all instruments and sending mixes back and forth to Bremen, till we were both satisfied with the outcome, we wanted the piano to come out stronger (as a solo  instrument), and the orchestra just accompanying it within the song, the flute and the violin are playing the flames sparkles (whatever may come to mind when listening to this piece), and John kept on going as he wanted the flute and violin talking with and too each other, but not being solo instruments, so they would just grow over the orchestra at some places, we hope we’ve accomplished that, and you all enjoy it.

To express the “Passion of the Heart” can be done in different ways, also because it’s experienced in different ways for everyone, when Oliver told John what he wanted to say with this song, and how he wanted everybody to feel (and hear) what he experience when these emotions overwhelms him, they talked a lot about how it could be done with instruments, to our opinion, music can say a lot more than words, when John was back in Holland he took 3 pictures to inspire him to create to orchestral movement, eventually we choose the cover for this song (Heart with flames), the Heart (and it’s emotions) is played by the piano, and the flames are expressed by the Flute and Violin, the overall emotional feeling is softly accompanied by the rest of the orchestra.  

Also this song was a sort of experiment, creating harmonies in a different way, to build up a song and let the instruments be our story teller, we all hope you’ll enjoy this song, and we are looking forward to your reaction.

Composers: Oliver Papke &  John Styles
Arrangements: John Styles & Oliver Papke 
Piano:  Oliver Papke
All other instruments:  John Styles
Producer:   John Styles

All your comments, advices and critic are always very much appreciated,  Cheers  John and Oliver

John Styles & Oliver Papke - Passion of the Heart

Finally as promised for so long, a solo project by John Styles, and many new songs will follow shortly.

As many of you know by now, I am not able to work as fast as I would love to, that is also one of the reasons why I prefer to collaborate with my friends, because is it for me also a big motivation to continue and learn to find the best way to recover / improve my skills all over again and overcome my disabilities.
Between all collabs with my dear friends (for which I am very grateful for their support), I still continue to record / create my solo projects, and it’s my goal to create at least 6 of them each year. 

This creation is an instrumental version of Only Teardrops (eurovision song winner in 2013 sang by Emmelie de Forest for Denmark), but then slightly faster recorded / played then the original.
I started to record this song in July 2016, as I’ve always loved the instrumental version very much, but I couldn’t get the synthesizer sound right, for some reason the sound dragged the overall mix, after I moved into my new studio, I played around by pitching the Bpm, and I noticed that when I increased the tempo slightly everything sounded a lot better (the dragging stopped), at least the way I wanted it to sound like.
Besides the fact that the choirs are not fully 100% as I would love them to be, I think it’s the best I could do for now, I might pick this song up again at a later stage, and try to make everything sound perfect, or make a Orchestral version out of it (and of course make it longer).
Still, I hope you all enjoy this version as much as I did creating & producing it.

Composers (& songwriters):  Lise Cabble, Julia Fabrin Jakobsen and Thomas Stengaard.
Performed and Produced: John Styles

Your comments, advices and critics are very much appreciated as always, cheers John.

John Styles - Only Teardrops

Welcome to a new collab between Emmazen and John Styles, featuring Oliver Papke.

Emma’s motivation for “Angels weep for You”: the idea was a moment where I felt in the dark about something that was bringing me down and causing me a great deal of sadness..I imagined that as I was weeping the angels would be weeping too because they feel our pain, many of us may have experienced this thought too, when we go through certain difficulties in life and we weep, maybe the angels weep with us….

John and Oliver’s motivation for “Heaven”: disappointments in our life makes us wonder, how would it all be in heaven, would we be able to live our life’s without any worries, would there be peace, freedom and love for one another, instead of all the worries we all have to endure here on earth, and how is it possible that people here on earth live in war with each other, and still they all believe that they’ll go to heaven, do we all change when we die, or is earth itself is the reason of all hate, jealousy and distress..., something isn’t right to our opinion. 

Technical inside from John:
When I heard Emma’s song “Angels weep for you”, I thought it had the same feel as a song I composed with Oliver called “Heaven”, and I asked Emma if she would allow me to re-produce her song, and merge her song with ours, and she approved.
I discovered that Emma’s song was made in a different rhythm then our song, so first I had to make sure all our instruments would fit perfectly with Emma’s, but our harmonies and piano maintained to sound strange.
So I muted Emma’s instruments and changed some of our chords, then I enlarged her song and made her vocals fit to the new mix, then changed all our harmonies again to make Emma vocals fit in naturally, then turned on Emma’s instruments that would still fit in the production, and those which needed to be replayed, I did, and cut the parts that still fitted, my major goal was to change everything without losing the atmosphere of Emma’s song, so when I had a mix I liked, I send it to Emma, and she loved it immediately, then I continued to make everything as perfect as possible, then I replaced her instruments for mine, and after I adjusted the piano, I asked Oliver to play the piano all over again within the same rhythm (atmosphere) of Emma’s original song.

When we had a mix we all liked, Emma and I decided to change the title in: “Angels weep for You” in “Heaven”, so both our songs would be mentioned into the title on this release / version “Angels weep for You in Heaven”.

Heaven has not been released yet, but if you also want to listen to Emma’s original song, you can find it: https://soundcloud.com/arsivall/angels-weep-for-you-a-mari-usque-ad-mare

Composers:  (Angels weep for You) Emmazen,  (Heaven) John Styles & Oliver Papke
Vocals:  Emmazen  https://soundcloud.com/arsivall
Piano:  Oliver Papke  https://soundcloud.com/oliver-papke-freier-piano-k-nstler
All other instruments:  John Styles
Arrangement & Production:  John Styles
We hope you will enjoy this song, we appreciate your comments and critics as always, John, Emma and Oliver

John Styles, Emmazen & Oliver Papke - Angels weep for You in Heaven

Here’s our new song, a collaboration between John Styles, Claes Steen, Oliver Papke & The Orchestra.
This version is a pre-release, as we still want to replay the outro, however after an accident our friend Oliver Papke ended up in the hospital in need of a surgery, so we dedicate this version to Oliver, and we hope he will recover fully, and get’s well very soon, best wishes from us all our friend..

Claes send John his new song (he named “Heaven can wait”) total length of 1:44, gave him free hand to play / create along with it.
Then John cut it into 2 bits of 52 seconds, and he created an intro, bridge and an outro together with Oliver, while they were sending tracks back and forth they end up with a new song which we all liked, when all melodies and harmonies were re-arranged, John asked Oliver to play the piano all over again.
The Orchestra offered to play the brass & staccato violin sections, and the contra bass, for which we are very grateful..
As John still wasn’t satisfied with the outro, he did it all over again, it was our intention to let The Orchestra replay their instruments in the outro as well, but for now there was not enough time, so we’ll continue to finish this song at a later stage.

Composer: Claes Steen, the Intro, bridge & Outro: John Styles and Oliver Papke
Arrangement: John Styles & Claes Steen
Drums: Claes Steen  https://soundcloud.com/cermat
Piano: Oliver Papke  https://soundcloud.com/oliver-papke-freier-piano-k-nstler
Trumpet, Oboe, Trombone, French Horn, Contrabass & Staccato Violins: https://soundcloud.com/the-orchestra
All other instruments: John Styles & Oliver Papke
Producer: John Styles: https://soundcloud.com/onevision-crossworlds

We hope you’ll this song just as we did making it, your comments, advices and critics are very much appreciated as always, cheers John, Claes, Oliver and all members of The Orchestra.

John, Claes, Oliver & The Orchestra - Heaven can wait

Welcome to our latest collaboration on “Heavenly”

Ralf’s motivation and meaning behind his composition: 
When our gaze turns upwards, we see heaven in its beauty.
We can rely on the fact that the sky is there tomorrow.
Likewise, we are sure that he is there, he should be hidden by clouds.
Yes, peace seems boundless above the clouds.
From the earth, with all our worries, fears, and sorrows, we sometimes lack the view. Perhaps dark thunderclouds weigh on us and the wind comes from different directions. We can not see it at the moment, we do not give up, but are confident, for behind all the sun always shines. Somehow, everything clears up again and we can say again ......
When our gaze turns upwards, we see heaven in its beauty.

Technical inside of this collab:
Ralf and John wanted to do some brand new songs together, but it appeared that John couldn’t get the right feel for the suggested new ideas, so he decided to pick up an older song from Ralf to get into the same mood of producing the songs they use to do in the past.
Using the same multi-layering technique John is using lately instead of playing around with the volumes and panning within the mix, gave him more freedom adding more details, instruments and harmonies to Ralf’s original song. They used to do different kind of songs then the ones John made lately, but it eventually it worked out to both their satisfaction, we hope you’ll enjoy this song just as much as we did making it.

Composer:  Ralf Reichelt  https://soundcloud.com/bingzhu
Arrangement & all instruments:  Ralf Reichelt & John Styles
Cover design:  Ralf Reichelt
Producer:  John Styles

We are looking forward to your comments, critics and advice's, it’ll help us to increase our performance, cheers Ralf and John

Ralf Reichelt & John Styles - Heavenly

Welcome to a new song from Euphoriqa featuring Colin Powell & Claes Steen called Rainbow Symphony.

When Claes send his new song to John, immediately John played with piano a melody to it, and reconstructed the song and made it longer. then send it too Colin, he added drums, bass and guitars to it, and wrote lyrics and recorded samples so for John to consider, he made a new mix, and he send it to Hemmo, so he could re-record all vocals and harmonies.
When Hemmo send his vocal tracks to John, it appeared that the song needed more lyrics, so Colin adjusted the lyrics to the way Hemmo was singing the song, so Hemmo could record it all over again, due to this process, John and Colin had to re-record their backing vocals as well.
When all vocal tracks were done, it appeared that the original drums, bass and guitars needed to be adjusted as well, so the song has now drums, bass and guitars played by Hemmo and Colin.
When everything was mixed, the orchestral instruments needed to be adjusted so it would sound in perfect harmony with all added instruments & vocals, then in the final stage John and Hemmo added some extra accent / additions to make it sound the way we all wanted it to be.

Composers:  Claes Steen & John Styles    Songwriter: Colin Powell
Lead Vocals:  Hemmo Riihelä  https://soundcloud.com/age-r
Backing vocals:  Colin Powell, Hemmo Riihelä & John Styles
Piano:  John Styles   https://soundcloud.com/onevision-crossworlds
Guitars, Bass & drums:  Hemmo Riihelä & Colin Powell  https://soundcloud.com/a-multitude-of-one
Orchestral movement:  John Styles & Claes Steen  https://soundcloud.com/cermat
All other Instruments:  John Styles, Hemmo Riihelä & Claes Steen
Producer:  John Styles

We all hope you’ll enjoy this song as much as we did making it, your comments, critics and advices are very much appreciated, as it will help us all to develop our skills even more, John, Hemmo, Colin & Claes. 


 RAINBOW SYMPHONY – Lyrics by Colin Powell ©2017 
Back in time, when you were young 
And didn’t have a care 
Look inside, I know you’ll find 
The real you is there! 
Open up your heart 
And just be who you are 
Don’t be afraid 
You can reach up to the stars! 
When the morning dawn is breaking 
It’s the start of a brand new day 
Put your troubles far behind you 
It’s a brand new start today 
It’s a brand new day! 
Glowing with glorious colors inside 
Open your eyes to it all… 
Take a look around 
And savour all you see 
Listen to the sounds 
It’s a Rainbow Symphony! 
Follow you dream and keep love in your sights 
Open you heart to it all 
Living your life as it was meant to be 
Everything will be OK 
Do you realize 
You’re greater than you know? 
Just take a breath 
And let your love light grow! 
When the world you know is crumbling 
When your life just grinds you down 
There’s another world around you 
There’s a secret deep inside 
There’s a better world 
Go deep into your mind 
There’s another place 
Where everything’s in a perfect state 
The earth’s illusions fall away 
You and I will move on 
In a world that’s full of rainbows 
Underneath the sun
Take a look around / and savour all you see / listen to the sound, it’s a Rainbow Symphony!

Euphoriqa feat Colin Powell & Claes Steen - Rainbow Symphony

John & Fabian - You make me feel alright (2012 remix)

I am Bjorn Levlund born in Sweden in 1966.
The System is a production company since 1988, I produce movies, commercials and musicals. 
In my spare time I love producing music with friends, and doing so we started to work with starting musicians, and were able to give them the opportunity to develop their skills. 
Because we joined forces with other producers, we got the chance to work within projects like: Midnight Blue, OneVision and Revival. 
During this financial crisis we're in, it's hard to get projects of the ground, still we have good faith things will become better soon, new activities will be started in Australia with David Andersen, and in Holland with Revival, we intent to join forces again. We are planning to open up the old studio in Wuppertal again, we will keep you informed on this site. 
For now we only upload tracks from previous projects, to give you an idea what we have done so far, but we will soon upload new material as well, cause we: John Styles, David Andersen  and I are already busy composing, arranging & producing new songs, and i am looking forward to work with other musicians again, I love to JAM, the more people the better.

I hope you will enjoy the music, we love to make it, would you like to join in, just let me know by sending me a message.

John & Fabian - You make me feel alright (2012 remix)

The System Int.