a night a few winters back

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I wrote the lyric for this song after a family blackberrying expedition a few years ago. My old friend Gareth and I put some chords to it and recorded it. Lizzy Taypen said that she liked it a lot, so I took the opportunity to rope her in to sing with us. I mixed her vocal in and produced another version. https://soundcloud.com/garddwrporffor/blackberrying-harmonies-with-lizzie-mix-2
I listened to it again and thought that Lizzies vocal was very special and that I had missed the best version. So I mixed a version with only Lizzie singing and a more gentle support track. I thought that it was beautiful, it is the track  here.
Her page https://soundcloud.com/taylor-pentland

Blackberrying

When the sun light falls in a steeply slanted angle
And the colours of the world fade to muted reds and golds
The living soil still holds it’s warmth and waning sweetness
As another summer gently slips from our aging fingers hold
We can still find simple joy in the things we did as children
Finding fruit among the bushes along the margins of our roads
with our adult children now
as we enjoy this timeless pleasure
Of finding fruits just hanging ripe and ready in the hedgerow
And taking them back home with us like edible treasure hoards

Folk don’t seem to bother now, to take the time to pick them
Still they grow and glow like jewels amongst natures topiary
A present from an old imagined ancient world of wonder
As sweet fruit drops into our hands from the realm of the fairyies
We stretch to reach the fullest ones, beyond reach in the branches
the nettles tingle our arms and legs if we fail to be wary
Then we carry home our bounty, taking great care not to spill them
and turn them into memories that we had very nearly lost
a refreshment for our hearts from our purple blackberries

Blackberrying feat Lizzie Taypen

same as previous upload, but with (my) voices added. see which you prefer...

See the original for details: https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/flute-loops-jam

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here's some pictures I took:
https://500px.com/p/MrMark?view=photos

Flute Loops & Jam (*voices version*)

a quick one in the morning............cheers for having a listen

I'll Be On My Way

This is an excerpt from the second movement of the Ascension Symphony.
A prayer and meditation. It ends with absolute peace and harmony.

Dreams: Excerpt#11 from Ascension Symphony

The pen and the sword.

I wrote this for Townes several years ago. Recorded on a Zoom H-1

Townes would have been 80 on March 7th.  Brilliant, sad, self-destructive singer-songwriter.

No Place To Fall

Beyond Earth And Sky (for Piano)

غُربة - Alienation

Study in E Major for Violin and Piano (Saturn) is the first movement of the Three Planets Suite for Violin and Piano.

This version is a re-mix of the version I uploaded to Sound Cloud in 2022 and has better EQ and other production features than the earlier version.

The piano part is also slightly different, using a track I had recorded earlier in 2022 but which was not used in the 2022 upload to Sound Cloud.

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with distinctive rings and has an average radius of about nine and a half times that of Earth.

Saturn was a god in ancient Roman religion and a prominent character in Roman mythology. He was attributed, in part, as a god of agriculture, time, abundance, wealth and periodic renewal, representing the passing of the seasons on Earth.

The beginning of this piece captures what we might imagine as the stillness and isolation around Saturn the planet and the steady motions of all the many parts that make up the planet and its rings.

The second part represents the relaxation that might be found in a simple and soothing song on a summer's day around grape harvest time.  It provides a brief glimpse of what we feel as the seasons move from the abundance of the harvest into the chill and sterility of late autumn and winter.

Study in E Major for Violin and Piano (Saturn) was composed in Avid Sibelius and used the digital sounds of a Yamaha P-515 grand piano.

Production of this 2025 version was carried out in ProTools.  The track has not yet been mastered.

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