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The Beautiful Ones

This is another “folk" approach to a cover song, in this case an all-time Motown favorite originally popularized by a 1968 collaboration of the Supremes and the Temptations (written by Gamble & Huff and Jerry Ross). Hard to match the vocal excellence of those two awesome groups but I just put a spin on it to channel the awesome emotive nature of the song. Got a little out of my comfort zone but for a base file done on my iPhone and with some grand help from my partner in music, Nat Daniels (piano & bass & production), I like the outcome.

I’m Gonna Make You Love Me (Motown cover)

Just a stormy melody I played, wanted to broadcast because I felt I hit a cord this time, hope you feel it! kind of all over the place but it works I guess. Let me know if I should do a full song with the melody!

Improv #21 - Redroom

v1.02 - 11/16/2021
composed by: Roy Hargrove
produced by: Jeff Volkman

Juicy

Fusion Beck

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Carlos Vivanco & Jason Mowry
Final mix by Jason Mowry
@asleepwithheadphones
@lazydadamusic

Blue Skies

Unais Ck  ♥♥♫♫♫Marudhani Voice only - Madhushree & A R Rahman♫♫♫♥♥ 
Pour le plaisir

Remix Marudhani

Gravity

https://soundcloud.com/markjbennett: lyrics / vocal melodies / vocals
Ruizzoidman: music / vocals

Mark says: In the music Manuel kindly offered me, I could clearly hear historic military conflict and I felt it was important that the lyrical theme resonated with us both. I had often visited the Canary Island of La Gomera and couldn’t escape the history of the Guanches, nor ignore the powerful beauty of the mountain, La Fortaleza de Chipude. Manuel has been such an enthusiastic partner in this project with an imaginative and energetic approach that left me in awe.

Manuel says: Mark and I decided to sing together after I arranged his acapella voice within his open collab “The Parting Glass” last springtime. I was working with strong but abstract inspiration at that moment, and shared some ideas with him. Step by step, and with help from his epic lyrics, the track got shape with a non-stop brainstorming. Now, we’re proud to post this work together, no doubt the one on which I’ve worked (and enjoyed) the most by now. May you feel disoriented, most perhaps in 11/8 instrumental parts, just grab the bass line to a safer ride along ;) 

If you’d like to understand more about the Guanches - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanches

Some images of La Fortaleza -es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortaleza_de_Chipude

Photograph of the Guanches leader Hautacuperche in Valle Gran Rey, La Gomera by Douglas Corrance

=[ Narrator’s Prologue ]=

Los Guanches, 
Proud Atlantean people,
Safe in their utopia,
For millennia,
In their island paradise. 
Little did they know,
What would await them,
And what their fate, would be…

=[ Song ]=

Conquistadores came,
And across the barranco,
The alarm was raised,
In whistling form.
Fiercely defiant,
Protecting our sacred ways,
Ambushing the foe,
With advantage of terrain.

La Fortaleza, 
Our mountain is our strength,
And our place of sacrifice.

The mountain is our strength, 
And will be our retreat
Our culture may be gone
Save for the whistling. 
Throughout the valleys,
Our bloodline survives 
The mountain is our strength,
And will be our last stand.

La Fortaleza, 
Our mountain is our strength,
And our place of sacrifice.

The mountain, our only hope,
And our last refuge
Facing our final battle
With only rocks and sticks
Our blood now flows
Down the barranco
The mountain once our strength,
Now, our fitting end.

=[ Epilogue ]=

When a stronghold,
Becomes a foothold,
The only hold out,
Nothing left to hold, 
All will fold, fold, fold, fold…

La Fortaleza

La Fortaleza (with Markjbennett)

Lyrics by Tony Harris (Tribute to my Uncle)
Vocals, Melody, Instruments & Mix by Glen Granthem

IN DECEMBER OF SIXTY NINE
THE WAR WAS ON HIS MIND
CAUSE HE WAS NUMBER THREE
ON THE DRAFT LOTTERY

HE WAS SOON ON HIS WAY
TO RUN AND MARCH IN THE SAND
WILL NEVER FORGET THAT DAY
EVERYTHING WAS SO UNPLANNED

HIS UNCLE WORE AN OLD DIME
ON HIS DOG TAGS IN WWII
AND IT WAS NOW HIS TIME
TO WARE IT ON HIS CHAIN TO

IF THAT OLD DIME COULD TALK
WHAT A STORY IT COULD TELL
IT TRAVELED ON TRAINS,
SHIPS, PLANES AND BACK HOME

(CHORUS) 
THAT DIME ON A CHAIN
MEANT THE WORLD TO HIS UNCLE
THAT DIME ON A CHAIN
NOW MEANS THE WORLD TO HIM
THAT DIME ON A CHAIN AND GOD
BROUGHT THEM BACK HOME AGAIN
YEA, IT BROUGHT THEM BACK HOME

WHEN THEY WERE ALL ALONE
THAT DIME ON A CHAIN
REMINDED THEM OF HOME
AND HEARTACHE AND PAIN

HIS UNCLE COULDN'T TALK ABOUT WAR
WITHOUT BREAKING DOWN AND CRYING
THE HURT WAS IN HIS INNER CORE
DYING WAS ALWAYS ON HIS MIND

(REPEAT CHORUS)

2019 © Lyrics by Tony Harris (BMI)

Dime On A Chain - Lyrics by Tony Harris - Featuring Glen Granthem - Original

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The Beautiful Ones

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