Name: Endings are just beginnnings by THEUNS KRUGER
Duration: 3 min 18 s
Description: This is actually a simple melody laden with melancholy, starting off slowly and carefully, and then culminating in a euphoric crescendo. A nice exercise in arrangement and orchestration.

Tasty crystal-clear classical opening, great melody - lyrical!

After four months in a monastery where I was able to regenerate, I will devote myself to earthly tasks again.

Back to Life (5 - 2021)

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Crito – Daniel Gadd

This is actually a simple melody laden with melancholy, starting off slowly and carefully, and then culminating in a euphoric crescendo. A nice exercise in arrangement and orchestration.

Endings are just beginnings

Endings are just beginnnings

PEACE GUITARS; composed mostly outdoors during the 2021/2022 summers. The music was inspired by grand nature, desolated places, silence … I often brought the dog during these sessions and she enjoyed lying beside me, watching birds or boats passing by ... Hopefully the music will echo such moments ... 

I did struggle with the composition, and it took a lot of effort to complete the circle. It is an imperfect but very personal piece of music. Thx for listening. 

And let’s hope for a Peaceful future, soon…

DS 23th September 2022 (Project initiated 17th Sept 2021).

PEACE GUITARS

A simple folky stringed composition inspired by an admired and legendary folk guitar player, Gordon Mikefield, to those who know of the alias ;) now supposedly & hopefully not retired.
A haunting kind of tune with a selected arrangement comprising of acoustic & electric guitars, double-bass, mellotron and glockenspiel.
Inspiration from an album "Return To Ommadawn"
Thanks for listening.
Arranged and produced by, Mike Hilton © 17/12/22

Instruments;
Takamine 6-string acoustic
Fender Stratocaster
Mellotron Synth
Glockenspiel
Double Bass

Cover art ~ Paintt version " Holographic Tiles" of La Grotta Dei Ladroni, Sicily Italy, original image by, Salvatore Allegra.

Down The Rabbit Hole

Down the Rabbit Hole

Inspired by Amarok! Global Presence! Riffs of the 70s!

This recording is the result of my most ’guitar-intensive’ period ever. It came as a reaction to what came before it, a period where I focused very much on the classical guitar but a moment came when I was fed up with polishing small details in my repetoar. One day, I felt an incredible hunger for riffs, for steel string guitars, and for going back to (progressive) rock music! I always loved the rock of the 70s, considering it as ’Mount Everest of the music history’ (classical music excluded here). An era where everyone was incredibly ambitious, when everything had to be handplayed, and when the broader audience had some considerable attention span ;)

I started to explore some riffs on my CORT steel string guitar, which had been collecting dust in a corner for a long time. It soon gave me the opening riffs and some additional riffs (e.g., around 5 minutes into the track). I quickly worked up the bulk of the track and got maybe half of the track done in just a few weeks (not counting later polishing, when I re-recorded some bits to get the sound I wanted). I got a vision of the completed track, a long progressive one - yes, for sure inspired by Oldfield and YES (favorites from this era!), but it was easier said than done to complete the track. Considerable work remained, as I was about to learn….

It was incredibly hard to finalize the composition and I almost gave up on it. I arrived at a moment where I seemed to have promised too much and where the Ear demanded some serious further action; many permutations tested, but nothing seemed to work. In the end, due to all this, I lost some control of the files (e.g., a key solo guitar is badly panned but I seem to be unable to find the raw data needed to fix it).

Extremely much work went into the last months, on a mission to crack it! Late nights, tinnitus, frustration! :) Finally I think I found what I needed (but who am I to know).. I had to accept some slightly less than perfect audio at some places: does it matter? Not to me, but the listener is the jury. I decided to go for attitude and energy rather than anything else… I hope you will enjoy what I discovered!

I doubt that cold-blooded perfect ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ever will replicate what a desperate Dave J. Svensson sounds like, late at nights with all controls turned to 11 on a scale from 0 to 10 …. ;)

The SHAMBOLIC GUITARS were:
- two 6s steel: CORT (rythms!) and OVATION (main recurrent theme!)
- a 12s FENDER (colour!)
- three electric guitars: IBANEZ (now sold), PRS & SCHECTER (dirt!)
- two classical guitars: CORT, KREMONA (clarity!)
Plus, a ROLAND keyboard (for some pads), and various hardware effect boxes.

Artcover by DS, featuring the guitars listed above.

//Dave, 6th October 2023

SHAMBOLIC GUITARS

Interstellar Main Theme - Extra Extended - Soundtrack By Hans Zimmer

A Mike Oldfield tribute, keeping the legend and his music alive, with a guitar cover of this classic track.
Thanks for listening.

Jungle Gardenia with its haunting melody was released as a single b-side with Crime of Passion, 03/01/1984 on the Virgin label.
It also featured on the album "The Complete Mike Oldfield" 1985 on the Virgin label, the "Elements" album, 1993 on the Virgin label, and "The Mike Oldfield Collection" 2009 on the Mercury label.

Mike Hilton - Guitar.
Original Composer - Mike Oldfield, Jungle Gardenia, ©️03/01/1984, Virgin Records.
Background photo - ahmad-nawawi, Pexels.

No copyright infringement intended.
This audio contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner.
The above-mentioned audio on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information. I do not own the backing soundtrack to this music.

Jungle Gardenia

Jungle Gardenia (Mike Oldfield Tribute)

Our Father - produced by Mike Oldfield from the album Light & Shade. 
Another homage to the legend, keeping his music alive with a guitar cover of this great piece of music.
Thanks for listening.

Words from the man himself : "I worked on it around the time Pope John Paul II died, 2005, and what a fascinating and wonderful life he had; when he died, it didn't feel like he was gone, and it all just seeped into my consciousness, and ended up with this title. For me, it encapsulates the whole man's lifetime, and his death"

Guitar - Mike Hilton
Original Composer - Mike Oldfield, Our Father, from the album Light & Shade, released by Mercury Records © 26/09/2005.
Background photo - The Vatican, courtesy of Pexels.

No copyright infringement intended.
This audio contains copyrighted material the use of which has not  been specifically authorized by the copyright owner.
The above-mentioned audio on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information. I do not own the backing soundtrack to this music.

Our Father

Our Father (Mike Oldfield Tribute)

Tokyo Nights (Part 3 of this song)

Creator of sound. Probably not everyone's cup of tea.

Endings are just beginnnings

THEUNS KRUGER

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