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Nocturnal | Bajo la Luna de Sangre - Petenera y Bulerias

from Flamencoated Music for the Acoustic Guitar | Dani​ë​l van den Berg by Daniel van den Berg

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Nocturnal | Under the Blood Moon

This is a flamenco oriented solo guitar instrumental that I mainly played and came up with late at night during several September days. Then on the 16th of September there was this unique phenomenon of a Blood Moon, being a lunar eclipse combined with a “supermoon”. I felt it appropriate to name this one after the Red Moon.
This one basically has three sections, an introduction in the form of a Petenera, a moderately fast Bulería and the Outro returning again to the Petenera.
The Petenera is a flamenco palo in a 12-beat metre, with strong beats. It is identical with the 16th century Spanish dances zarabanda and the jácara. It has a solemn quality that I think is fitting to the mood of a Nocturnal, a night song.
The Bulería part I did is different in harmonization from a regular bulería. I transposed the root note to a low F# to have different chord solutions allowing deep open bass strings to ring against high placed chords, high up the guitar neck. It gives extra resonance combined with brilliance of tone.
I used a lot of the authentic flamenco percussion here, hand claps, cajón and dance paces, and actually have the Petenera and Bulería overlap in some parts.

-Dan

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from Flamencoated Music for the Acoustic Guitar | Dani​ë​l van den Berg, track released September 25, 2016
Written and recorded in September 2016, released September 25 2016, all music and guitar, drum programming by Daniel van den Berg, 2016
Recorded using AURIA for iPad and an Apogee MiC, mastered with Final Touch.
Drum programming and samples using Sampletank and Auria for iPad. Percussion using Flamenco loops, samples from Amplitube and Sampletank.
Guitar: Joan Cashimira, modelo 145:
Solid Spruce Top
Cocobolo Back & Sides w/ blonde streak
Wooden Rosette Inlay
Ebony Fretboard
Rosewood Profile
Scale: 65.0 cm
Length al guitar: 100 cm
Depth: 9.7 cm
High B : 28.2 cm
Lower B : 37.1cm
Neck width at 12 th fret : 6.3 cm
Neck width at 0 fret: 5.4 cm

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Daniel van den Berg Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Architect/partner by profession I find myself playing guitar and writing these tracks in afterhours, at nights, evenings, when in need of a dose of guitar sounds.

I have been playing guitar since I was 11 years old, largely self-taught and have tried different styles and instruments, Renaissance lute, Flamenco, Classical guitar and fusion. ... more

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