℗ © Copyright Ian Stokes. All Rights Reserved
Recorded and mixed using Logic. Mastered in Soundcloud
Guitar played: Taylor 714 CE in DADGAD Tuning (all tuned down a half step and capo'd at the 7th fret.)
Photography: Thanks go to Nigel and Libby Hume at Hume Photography

I wrote this his song imagining the days when travelling large distances by foot was normal and the hardship encountered by a traveller on a long journey when the winter weather closes in......
Lyrics:
The light was fading fast
A traveller far from home
Snow fell hard unyielding
Winter striking its blow

From far upon the hillside
He looked down on the valley below
Searching for a sign of 
Shelter from the cold 

Down there in the distance 
A glimpse of candle light
A window through the darkness 
On this bitter night

The prospect of a haven
On this lonely road
A simple roof and walls of stone
With shelter from the cold

Come inside, there’s safety now
There’s warmth here while you rest
There’s room there by the open fire
Beside the chimney breast

Here’s food to give you comfort
a warming cup to hold
Gather up your strength
While you have shelter from the cold

I know not how to thank you
There are no thanks to pay
The sun will rise tomorrow
And you’ll be on your way

Such kindness I shall ne’er forget
This story shall be told
A kind and gentle stranger 
Giving shelter from the cold

Shelter From The Cold

Shadows (Falsestart/Aine Parkes)

Original composition by Nylïa

All instruments, effects are performed, recorded, and mixed by me.
For more information, see my public Profile.
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We are All Ukrainian 💌

on its journey downstream

CONSOLATION

A song of empathy and solace for all those going through rough times, uncertainty, loss and grief right now caused by war, expressed in my humblest and non-verbal way ...

All the best,
-Dan

All music, arranging, composition, guitars by Daniël van den Berg, March-April 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

Consolation | Dan van den Berg

A woman with painted nails.

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Music is a means of communication. I don't know if I have conveyed all the sensations that this photo has produced in me: pain, anger, sadness, anguish, and endless sensations full of desolation.

In these complicated days I remember all the good Ukrainian musicians whom I follow here, to whom I wish the best of luck, to their families and to their country.

Created in March/April 2022.

18 MS2 tracks with native instruments and from the Xewton forum.

7 Sunrizer tracks.

3 Korg iM1 tracks

Made in ipad.

Thanks for listening and commenting.

Paco.

A woman with painted nails

Metronaut

Take It Back

Guston

False Rain - Sixgane

Little Universe is a psychedelic, atmospheric and mystically childlike psychill album born from a period of retreat, where silence and inner space became the primary source of creation. It is not telling a story about the outer world, but about the quiet cosmos within about feelings that are not loud, but deep. Each track is a small room, shaped by moments where explanation dissolves and only pure sensing remains. This album is a quiet universe of melody, vastness and intimacy. It invites you not to escape but to enter, to recognize the place inside where even when everything around you breaks, something inner still keeps shining.

Bandcamp:
https://sleepybutterfly.bandcamp.com/album/little-universe

released November 8, 2025

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on its journey downstream

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