Sounding really good your guitar and voice, and addressing a very relatable fear.

Beautiful song! it has an exquisite sadness

Do agree with the plot, though a bit dark. We always need to compromise somewhere I think.  Impressive composition & performance.

Hearing a lot of great guitar solos today, and this is certainly one of them!

Song to accompany a short story. A group of travelers ascends a strange, otherworldly hillside into a land where the laws of nature seem softened and reimagined. Guided by silent, graceful hosts through fields of luminous flowers and villages woven from living plants, they discover a world without darkness, urgency, or fear. Slowly, the line between visitor and native blurs, as they surrender to a life of silence, peace, and timeless light beneath three suns that never set. It becomes unclear whether they have found paradise—or quietly forgotten the world they once knew.

Beyond The Meadows Of The Clouds

zebra.m4a

This track dives into the dark corners of a relationship where things went wrong — but instead of pointing fingers, it's about looking in the mirror. It's about the denial, the blame, and finally the painful clarity: maybe I was the toxic one all along. Heavy with emotion, honesty, and self-reflection, this song is for anyone who's had to face their own flaws.

Tsis Txaus

I was really stoked to hear from letterfounder that he'd finished his song 'back at the cave', based around my instrumental 'writ in air'. 
I love his fascinating, exploratory music, great lyrics and vocals. For more of his excellent work visit: https://letterfounder.bandcamp.com
letterfounder - lyrics and vocals
learningtoplay - guitar melody

in progress 2019/20

back at the cave -- letterfounder (ft. learningtoplay)

La Chanson D'Hélène

Copyright Daniels & Durgy 2020
Gentle Rain Records
Written, Performed and Produced by Daniels & Durgy
To Buy our Album: https://danielsdurgy.bandcamp.com/album/blue-on-blue

Lyrics:

Blue on blue
As the falling leaves flew 
What a terrible thing to leave you.   
What a terrible truth to need you. 

Oh...  What I could I do? 
Should’ve kissed you by that window in your bedroom

As the pink light faded into the midnight blue
Guess it all came crashing down..  I needed you
Should’ve told you that I loved you
that I didn’t care who knew.. 
Blue on Blue..

It’s like we’re on two trains in the opposite way
Both looking in the same direction 
Holding onto this crazy connection 

Oh..    All I know
This feeling’s getting stronger
And I want you more 

Baby hold on to this feeling, I feel it too
Don’t care how long it takes, I’ll wait for you
Should have held onto you longer
When you held me in your arms
Blue on Blue

Blue on Blue

Blue On Blue

The Fear Of Unacceptance

This is about being afraid to be yourself for the want to fit in.  It is in 5/4 time.


Lyrics;
I'm unprepared for change
But I can't stem the tide
There's a crack in my foundation
Waiting for the pain

My thoughts begin to slide
Can't avoid the situation
Tumble through the quake
I am feeling so unstable

With a future so uncertain
The old me takes a bow
At the finish of a fable
But not before they drop the curtain

And I can hear the audience
Stirring in their chairs
Hoping for applause
Feeling nothing but despair

And out the door I go
Nothing out here seems the same
A brand new world is there to greet me
But I've nothing new to show

Can I even play this game
I cannot fit if I just be me
And I can hear the audience
Stirring in their chairs

Hoping for applause
Feeling nothing but despair

The Fear Of Unacceptance

ICE FROM THE SKY

2020 janine levinson

I woke up this morning to ice from the sky
In my little piece of paradise
It should be warm; it should be temperate
And yet, ice from the sky

It's dry! so dry! said the ground to the sky
In my little piece of paradise
It should be flowing where I have flourished
And yet it's terribly dry

Withering and shrinking; waiting for a drink
A sprout or two will rise -- but never climb to the sky

I woke up this morning with tears in my eyes
in my little piece of paradise
I should feel warm and be contented
and yet, tears in my eyes

Muttering and sinking; watching for a cloud
A spout or two will rise -- but never a drop from the sky

A quake could shake the ground 
And if a tear were to hit it right
It would split with an awful sound
And day would turn to night

The sky could fall --be upside down
The clouds my bed  -- the stars my ground
The heavens pour and burn my toes
Ice will fly.  Still nothing grows.

I woke up this morning to ice from the sky
In my little piece of paradise
It should be warm; it should be temperate
And yet, ice from the sky

Ice From The Sky

Old school sampling in a nutshell. Using an Emu E4X dinosaur, best filters I've ever heard, but what do I know. The Emu was horrible to work with, that I do know. Bounced the lot to Ableton

a voce piena

Losing Light

The sadness that persists...

"unbroken sorrow
shall we find a way
to numb the pain
dispel dark thoughts
escape the grief
and lift the veil of tears.

with my fragility
will you please remember me
or am I just a passing note
in your sweet melody?

all falls to dust
decay and rust
all fades with time
grows weak with age
but the day is done
the day is gone 
the day that calls
the day that falls
tomorrow.

the day that calls
with unbroken sorrow."

Unbroken Sorrow

Dan X2 is Dan Blackard (Reno, Nevada & Susanville, California) and Dan Lockhart (Carmel, Indiana & Edwardsville, Illinois).  We met here on SoundCloud.  We like making music together.  We have written and published over 300 songs together.  More songs written together than Lennon and McCartney.

You can find Dan Blackard's music here:
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-blackard

You can find Dan Lockhart's (aka ProgRockDan) music here:
https://soundcloud.com/dan-lockhart
https://soundcloud.com/user-276716031
https://soundcloud.com/progrockdan-instrumentals

The ProgRockDan1 site was taken down by SoundCloud. It was located here:
https://soundcloud.com/progrockdan1

We play the music that comes to us.  Much of our music has a basis in blues and rock.  Although we venture into other musical territory.  You will find hints of jazz, country, bluegrass, soul, classical, and other music in our songs.  We have a number of songs that change time signatures and pace.

When we first started recording we called ourselves Dan and Dan. 
 You can find our music under that moniker here:
https://soundcloud.com/user-590884876

We stopped using the name Dan and Dan's because there were to many other Dan's using that name.  If you google Dan and Dan we would not show up.  We believe that Dan X2 to be a moniker that we could own.   If you google Dan X2 we are right at the top,

You can find more Dan X2 music on ReverbNation:
https://www.reverbnation.com/dananddan5

The first Dan X2 album is now available on iTunes.  Songs on the album are not available on SoundCloud.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/4114/1439066447?app=itunes&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

You can also find the Dan X2 album on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3hEejRAQYPj9q130D5lZ8f

You can also find the second Dan X2 album:  "Playing the Odds" on Amazon Music:
https://www.amazon.com/Playing-Odds-Dan-X2/dp/B08C4VNX3R

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6oI3XsqPph3v6Xkg2BjVDG

and other on-line music sites.

We have a music making process that fits our unique skills.  We each do the parts that best fit our skills and interests.  Dan Lockhart does the initial song development.  Dan Blackard writes the lyrics, perform the vocals, and adds lead guitar.  Dan Lockhart then takes the track and do all final production (mixing and mastering).

Dan Lockhart writes all of the chords, timing, changes, and develops the track.  I then send two tracks to Dan Blackard.  One track has Dan L. describing the song.  Tell him the key, the timing, and any oddities about the song (changing keys or time signature...).  In the track Dan L tell Dan B verbally where is the verse, chorus, bridge and any other important information.

Dan Lockhart then send a second track that does not have this verbal dialogue.  This is called the instrumental track.  This is a track to which Dan B. can sing and add his parts.  Dan Blackard then returns  four pieces to Dan L:  a complete version of the song, a solo track of his vocals, a solo track of his guitar parts, and the artwork to accompany the song.

Dan Lockhart add his information into the original file.  Dan L. listen to it and make changes to the song to enhance the meaning of the lyrics. He sometimes adds instruments or takes away some instruments.  As Dan L. play many instruments (guitar, keyboards, banjo, mandolin, pedal steel, violin, viola...), he can make a lot of adjustments.    On rare occasions he move pieces about.  Dan Lockhart then masters it and prepare it for final production.

You can find press releases about us in the Lassen News here:
http://www.lassennews.com/former-resident-creates-album-with-near-stranger/

and in Current in Carmel  here:
http://www.youarecurrent.com/2018/12/20/carmel-resident-partner-create-album-through-internet/

You can find Dan X2 videos Here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7p2YTgLdrMAJjSBBwrgRew

Out albums are also on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCicvC6l-R73MzdLHLdcFuZQ

We hope you enjoy our music.

The Fear Of Unacceptance

Dan X2

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