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Instrumental improvisation, bluesy and smooth

Instrumental multi-guitar piece, with a simple melody and arpeggiated accompagnement
Was used in a stageplay.

Sound quality is not that good, since it was recorded in 22kHz instead of 44.1kHz, due to the old Pentium 166 being too slow to properly handle multitrack-recording. nTrack was originally used for the recording, although the song has been arranged later on using Cubasis VST, where the samples have been converted to 'proper' 16bit/44.1kHz CD quality. The VST-effects were added in Cubasis. Here, the guitar is simply plugged into the line-in, which is not helping the sound either.

Delicate song about loneliness. This was recorded in 2000 and sounds OK to me. Maybe I've overused the reverb, but that's what all beginners do and that is what makes your own voice often sound better than it actually is. 

A dutch song about a young girl, who doesn't fit into our current world. She is not stupid, but fails to behave properly in our school system. She is sensitive, follows her dreams and, sadly, gets rejected.

My Escape is a song about dreaming, reality, virtuality and escapism. Or about liking what you can not have. Or about leaving from where you are and trying to grasp something that isn't there.

Jazzy popsong, about, well, Religion. It was musically originally inspired by "Here In My Head" by Tori Amos, but the arrangement is totally unrelated to Tori Amos music. The lyrics are thematic but also somehow vague, to indicate general directions but with some freedom to give your own meaning to the song. It combines two themes. One about religion and one about loss and death. The two paths are combined and related. This is the first listenable demo from 2000.

Electric guitar with a rock feel, as an arrangement for a stageplay piece. Not happy with the sound, but that's what you get when plugging your guitar into a SoundBlaster line-in card.

Dutch song about love and marriage. The kind of song my wife asked me to write. I'm not that good in happy and positive songs, but this one is OK. It probably needs a less mellow arrangement, though, to improve.