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Reverie in G - an improvisation by Vikki 

Reverie in G

Arrite... dusting this one off again for another year.
First, to answer the question I know everyone wants to know about this one - "Is that your real hair?!?" 
No. No it's not.   😎 
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I lived in Japan for a year between 2002-2003 doing the teaching English thing, and made some good friends at one of the schools I worked at. We sometimes went out for Karaoke (of course!) and on one such night around Christmas I took a turn to sing one of my faves - Blue Christmas, the Elvis version. 

This is a live recording of me that night. The exuberant reaction from the group is partly due to the fact that I was/am normally a pretty quiet & reserved fellow, especially in crowds, and they were both shocked and seemingly quite impressed by my getting up to sing Elvis, and by how much I apparently sounded like him. 

I could translate some of what they're saying here, but you'll get the idea. For example though, the word "Sugoi" means "Cool!". In another spot, someone walks into the room mid-song, and another person says "hey hey, this is cool, it's Elvis!... watch this..."
See what you think.  ;)

Happy holidays everybuddy!

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here's some pictures I took: www.flickr.com/photos/mark_boucher/
my best photos on 500px (safe site): 500px.com/p/mrmark?view=photos

Blue Christmas (Karaoke in Japan)

(p) & (c) 2023/2024. Taken from the debut album (to be released mid-2024, under the tittle "Rock and Roll Kills").
Youtube link: https://youtu.be/Ls4kYAwMN2w
lyrics (Parental Advisory):
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You're so strage to me

you got offended so fast
you're not built to last
you're made of sugar, butter and shit

You think it's only you
you cry like a bitch
your job it's only to abuse

whatever i say is wrong
your life is like a crappy song
no reason to talk to you anymore!

Rock and Roll Kills

You're So Strange To Me

This improvisation started out as a holiday song.  "Musings" are my sketch journal like a painter.  Most are complete songs with some interesting twists.  Thank you for listening!

A Musing #8

Ethereal Soundtrack
An abandoned forge is taken over by creatures of the night 
For Shelter and Refuge.

Abandoned Forge

Jumpin' Jack Flash W/ Pdb Orchestra

"Jamming w/ Jazz Bass" (Edit: Mastered in iZotope Ozone on January 13th, 2025.)

A little excercise that I finished today. I made this track originally some time ago playing a VST bass, but after I finally got a Jazz Bass recently I wanted to try to play and record something with it, and here we go! 

Played by me using sounds from different VST instrument collections (Rhodes V8 Pro electric piano, Native Instruments Komplete Now collection & Abbey Road 1980s Drums, UVI SonicPass collection). The bass was played by me with a Fender American Ultra Jazz Bass (Cobra Blue). 

Sorry about the mistakes with the bass.. But after I sold my beautiful G&L Interceptor bass guitar in the late 1990's it has now been maybe 25 years since I played bass the last time, and I'm practicing:) 

Especially playing with the correct timing and with right & consistent velocities was really challenging. I also actually played the bass line maybe too loud, so had to do some EQ'ing and stuff afterwards.

Jamming w/ Jazz Bass

https://open.spotify.com/album/1hfPBkKWQOfpe4uvOBlZ8w

Stairway

Wishing I Was Somewhere Else

Composition.
2024.

On this new version, I added a score for the section of seconds violins, and also modified a bit the location in space of the instrumental sections.

Puppets walking towards their destiny

Star Trekking

Quite the release of emotion....enjoy....kick a glass window in if you have to...its okay...\m/

Let's Go (Instrumental)

VHS-Sunset

Before We Broke

Fixation

01 - UVI - FALCON - PULSAR - Swan Song
02 - SA - EWC - Tutti - Cyclical
03 - BS - Era 2 - Vocal Codex - Breath
04 - Arturia - Pigments - Dual Perc Loop
05 - NI - STRAYLIGHT - Shimmering Bells
06 - NI - Reaktor 6 - Space Drone 6

Pulsar - Space Drone

For everyone who says fuck off
First, get fucked 
Then, go fuck yourself 

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Wishing I Was Somewhere Else

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