The Lost Scores

The Lost Scores: thirty years of unreleased music, finally released

I'm Jurgen Bettonviel, musician and composer from Tilburg, the Netherlands. The Lost Scores is the project I use to release the music I've been writing for the past thirty-odd years.

Why "The Lost Scores"?
Because most of it I always wanted to release, but never actually did. And yes, I tried. I booked studios, played with friends, hired session musicians, spent kinda serious money. The results were never good enough to release. To my taste, anyway. And let's be honest, my singing and playing needed some help too. Still do.

So the songs and rough ideas got pumped onto my hard drives through Reaper. Well... what for?

Fast forward to now
Home recording has been around for ages, and I've done plenty of it. But home recording alone was never enough. Recording properly, and above all mixing: that was the real culprit. A good song can drown in a bad mix, and mine regularly did. Today's technology finally fixes that. And it's not just the finished songs. Half-finished tracks and song ideas that sat on those drives for years can finally be completed too. Pick the really good ones, finish them, put them out into the world. How cool is that?

AI slop? You decide
And yes, I know the term AI slop. I'm careful not to add to that, but time and time again people tell me my songs are worth it! Whether I succeed is not for me to judge, though. That's up to you, the listener.

So I'm digging through those old projects, picking out the songs and ideas that should face the public, and finally putting them out. New ones? Yes, those too!

The music
Mostly indie rock, but I never learned to stay in one lane. Expect sidesteps to metal, reggae, pop, techno, ambient and 70s rock.

Music isn't my day job, by the way. Software development is, and that's a passion too. Lately it means diving deep into AI, and building Lost Kings, a chess variant I'm developing as a game. Which probably explains why I wasn't afraid to let technology into the studio.

The CV, for those who want it
I played in Beatles and Iron Maiden cover bands (more than thirty years ago), co-wrote and played in Johnny's Pitbull, a Dutch powerpunk quartet, and played old English dance music in Van Jottum, just acoustic guitar and a recorder. These days I play in De Klinkerts, an acoustic cover band, and contribute to ZwaarFris, an instrumental project. Yes, that's all over the place. So is The Lost Scores.