Name: A Song For A Dead Man by A&E SoundForge
Duration: 2 min 7 s
Description: Re Mixed and remastered one of my older songs.

Beautiful song. I'd love to see your lyrics. Nadia

Gorgeous, resonant voice, and passionate delivery!

Strong track Eric. Powerful vocals with an undeniable emotional message. Memorable performance. Durge

Brilliant bit of work my brother!  Always a strong vocal presence in your work my friend...and still leaning to you being some sort of famous rocker hahah!

simply beautiful, sung with intent and true emotion, fantastic work

Super emotive song , awesome melody, 🙌 to the vocal 🙌👏

very beautiful song and your vocals reminds me James from Metallica when he sung the Unforgiven🙂

I made this for my little sister; it's a string of cameos about the town where we were born and raised - a suburb of Newcastle Upon Tyne.  Low income, but real world, real people, real troubles, real joy, real love, real communities, real humour, real music, real life.  All in gloriously rough 1960's industrial working class North East England monochrome.

For those of you not from that part of the world, lyric translations back to English are available upon request. :)

Started as a scribble, pretended to be a poem for a while, then I decided to noodle along and then.....  Ah, you know how it is.....in Byker town.
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Byker Town

Wallpaper of steam trains
Where the sweeping headlights sprawled
‘Cross the ceiling to the old piano
Up against my bedroom wall
In ‘67 the lid came down
Never played again so fair
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Cross the bridge to get to school
Rope swings underneath
Bull’s eyes from the slaughterhouse 
Bombed out rail yard stark relief
Billy Smart’s big top’s coming down
But I don’t care
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Stench of old men in the Raby Arms
A bottle of dog to take back yem
Dominos and baccy tins
Were all that mattered way back then
Every retail product to be found
In Ernie’s shop just six foot square
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Quayside Sunday mornings
Champion, just the job
A week of meat to feed the bairns
For only fower bob
Scranshins from the chippy van ‘round
The side door of the Mayfair
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Sent out on the Wednesday
In Charlie Shepherd’s finest rags
Over to the smokies
To get free broken kippers by the bag
Dad got paid when Thursday came around
Treats for us to share
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Front step full of babbies
Grazed knees on skinny legs
Back lane rows of nappies
Her face is full of wooden pegs
He’s on the dole no work to be found
Torn bookie slips by his chair
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Nets twitching down the road
Never washed in years
Kids with mucky faces 
Almost clean behind the ears
Never seem to have a frown
Owning only what they wear
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Give up all the baggage I’ve got now
Of life in disrepair
I’m walking back to Byker town
I’ll meet you there.

Byker Town

Re Mixed and remastered one of my older songs.

A Song For A Dead Man

 Nights

Red Skies At Night

You Complete Me

Music and Lyrics by Jimmy Rivas @j-rivas

Sung by Mark J Bennett

Image of Loch Ness, Scotland by Doug Corrance

I was knocked out when Jimmy offered this beautiful song to me to sing, but then it took me 3 months to build up the confidence and to practice it. Jimmy is one of my favourite singers on SC (or anywhere) and he makes everything sound easy as he is so professional, so I hope you don't mind my take on this. Thank you Jimmy for sharing your skills with me.

You complete me
no matter how I feel
even with my nerves of steel
when the day is done
I know something good has begun
you complete me
when the day is warm
and the blue skies form
we sail on a following sea
far away from big pine key

You Complete Me - J.Rivas & Mark J Bennett

Reimagined this older song after being inspired in my backyard...

Firefly

24.10 Caramelo🍭🍬

Too late two-lane road
You know the one I mean
One of those can't wait
to get around em kind of streets

Gotta See my baby cause I made her cry
Got a slammin' phone goodbye
I'm just a little too late
on this two-lane road tonight

Ten trucks deep in traffic
all goin' to the morgue
Mary's texting Johnny
Johnny's texting George
It's a sad, sad situation
10 miles and hour I crawl
too late on a two-lane road
half a world from home

words and music Doug Roossien

Too Late on a Two Lane Road (Half a world from home)

Re-Release;
Made in Ableton (2018)

Genres;
#Electronic
#Experimental
#Ambient

Loveless Black Hole

Well ….. synths, composition

https://on.soundcloud.com/n1u9HxZB74wW7FYv6

Surfers like Us ….. guitar, co-composition

Our next journey is unusual, but necessary. And each of us should make it in our hearts, and then invite other people to join us on this journey - a journey to world peace. The problem is still very relevant!!!
    This piece is our tribute to the victims of the nuclear attack in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. It is also a cry and an appeal for world peace!
    Artur: „When I got this intriguing synth track from my friend (Well) to record my guitar part, I was looking for the key to this song. Everything became clear after watching the film "Oppenheimer" by Christopher Nolan. I was deeply moved! May such a tragedy never happen again."
    Håkan: „I made this synth track and sent it over to Artur, hoping he could use it. He envisioned this theme and everything fell into place.
   Let us all hope that this never will happen again. Join us in our quest for world peace”.

    Release day: 21th Nov. 2023

Forgive us, Hiroshima! Forgive us, Nagasaki! (w/Well)

there's a video on youtube - - https://youtu.be/HnQbYqjhOto
or via facebook - - https://www.facebook.com/andrew.salvner/videos/vb.100000523514403/1363835973643840/?type=2&theater

all music and half the vocals by jens grünbaum (aka senfsuck)... the other half the vocals by andrew salvner (aka pretzels malone)

(the words)
rising out of the ocean, in slow motion 
looks like somebody got a promotion 
no time for suntan lotion 
the whales are coming (the whales are coming) 

they got no legs, but they wiggle like snakes 
big ass snakes, whale sized snakes 
and the blow hole on top of their head, 
it ain't blowing stuff out, it's pullin' stuff in

pretzels inhaled by whales

*  the soundcloud download is an mp3....I made a temp single on bandcamp in case you want to snag a copy in some other format.  https://lilspaceman.bandcamp.com/track/the-whales-are-coming

** jens is the bomb.  check out his adventures in the following places.
https://soundcloud.com/senfsuck
https://soundcloud.com/senfschool
https://www.youtube.com/user/xanthansemph
http://senfsuck.de/
https://soundcloud.com/herculeszentrale/
https://soundcloud.com/3-monteith
https://soundcloud.com/against-the-meuchelpuffer
http://nevermoon.com/


the whales are coming

the whales are coming (ft. senfsuck)

First, I would like to say thank you for reading this. That means that you liked my songs enough to see what I’m about. That means a lot to me.
I’m a working man and a family man. The years digging ditches and breaking my back to put food on the table, has given me enough ammo to write a song or two. I like to write songs about real life with all of its struggles, beauty and grit…

In this digital age of perfect music I'm trying to leave the human imperfections in the tracks. Most parts are done straight through with no splices. A missed note or chord here or there, bit out of time...trying to keep it raw. Maybe I go too far sometimes?

I don't play games on SoundCloud. If I like your music ill like it and follow you. I wont unfollow you even if you don't follow me back!  If you do I'll be delighted though!

A Song For A Dead Man

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