Great vocals in a well written song. Great instrumentations

love the medieval vibe to this - reminds me a little of Jethro Tull! great instrumentation and fab vocals - wonderful!

Very nice traditional folksong,,,good vocals and instrumentation

A very moving piece! The drums and vocals are amazing, I love them!

Hi my friend, it's a beautiful song, very nice voice, guitar, bass and drums, great product :)

9 years ago? Wow. I do like to see/hear how artists I newver really imagined working together, merge their intersts, passions, and skills. This is such a musically interesting recording! The rhythms and syncopations are tantalizing.Glad you  collaborated!

The Parting Glass - Open Collaboration Project

Pensées

With It Or Without It

Out of the Box October 2022
Beyond beyond…

Inter - Space

Out of the Box October 2022
Drift and dream….

En - Trance

So In Love W/ UK Man

Rubber Duck (Original Mix)

Ride The Wave

I love to go back to basics with songwriting and usually on a lazy afternoon pick up the acoustic and mike it up and record with no thrills and definitely no skills.
The Green is a tribute to a piece of grass that I spent my childhood homing my football skills, Learning how to ride a bike, fighting , chatting up the local girls and anything else really.
My mom still lives on the boundary of it as we did as kids. One day back in 2019 i was leaving to go back home from a visit and looked across The Green and I felt sad it was a hell hole of a burn out car, old burger van with grass growing around it and tire marks everywhere.
There were neighbours having a barbecue on their front lawn with friends, cans, tables and chairs on the council footpath and a massive bouncy castle on the council grass. With loads of cars using it as a car park.
Is this our England ! we loved were we lived and we’re grateful for such a big piece of grass to play are internationals on.
We wasn’t posh this was a council estate with good honest people who respected their homes and others. 
Patrick would come down with his Irish family & mates to play England v Ireland and we all live out our dreams on that grass . 
Yeah we had Mad Roy and Steak out Sid trying to stop us but it never did they were just old miserable buggers.
Kids don’t play on it anymore it’s a neglected shit hole because irresponsible selfish adults made it that way.
Long Live The Green I hope someday you make a recovery ❤️‍🩹

The Green (Acoustic)

Brian Butts - Guitar, Drums, Bass, Keyboard, Master Mix
Cosmic Keanu - Vocals, Lyrics https://soundcloud.com/cosmic_keanu?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Who Can Stand (feat. Cosmic Keanu)

let me be.mp3

When Lee Lucas posted a collaborative version of this song before Christmas https://soundcloud.com/lee-lucas/lee-lucas-mark-j-bennett-the-parting-glass, he suggested that I put out an open invitation for anyone to collaborate with the original stem. Of course, I appreciate that grafting any type of arrangement on to an acapella vocal track isn't easy but I'd welcome any approach. This is an Irish traditional song but it may well withstand a modern arrangement. The vocal stem has lots of reverb and echo on it but should you need a drier stem to work with, just message me and I can send a naked version. Also feel free to take some liberties with this should it lend itself in any other treatment. 

I raise my glass to those brave enough to listen to me tightrope-walking and also to those who might consider taking on this challenge. Cheers!


Of all the money that e'er I had
I have spent it in good company
And all the harm that e'er I've done
Alas it was to none but me
And all I've done for want of wit
To memory now I can't recall
So fill to me the parting glass
Good night and joy be with you all

Of all the comrades that e'er I had
They are sorry for my going away
And all the sweethearts that e'er I had
They would wish me one more day to stay
But since it falls unto my lot
That I should rise and you should not
I'll gently rise and I'll softly call
Good night and joy be with you all

A man may drink and not be drunk
A man may fight and not be slain
A man may court a pretty girl
And perhaps be welcomed back again
But since it has so ought to be
By a time to rise and a time to fall
Come fill to me the parting glass

Good night and joy be with you all
Good night and joy be with you all

The Parting Glass - Open Collaboration

It's been a pleasant challenge to craft Mark's adlibed voice.

Tried finger drumming... moments of 3/4, others 4/4... then I remembered Franco Battiato singing about 7/8 measures in Brittish folk, and... why not?

Similar doubts about the chords, I finally built a sliding harmony using groups of notes found along the vocal line.

Many laboratory hours after I got something friendly; time to jam brainlessly a pair of guitars which made some organic company to the voice.

Great temptation of singing with Mark, but I finished the vocal edition by building a final choir instead ;)

Hope you'll enjoy, and peace be with you all !!

Original vocal track: https://soundcloud.com/markjbennett/the-parting-glass-open-collaboration
Parting Glass project: https://soundcloud.com/markjbennett/sets/the-parting-glass-open

The Parting Glass (with Markjbennett)

When Mark J Bennett posted his a Capella, vocal rendition of this classic song as an open collaboration, I was immediately drawn to his wonderful and heartfelt performance. I then stumbled upon the version done by Matthew Wilson, in which he created a flawless piano accompaniment for Mark's vocal. To their magnificent work, I added some orchestral touches and present the outcome of this three way collaboration here. We all hope you enjoy our collective work. 

To hear more of mark's music, go here: https://soundcloud.com/markjbennett

and to hear more of Matthew's work, check out his page here: https://soundcloud.com/matham-wilsoned

The Parting Glass

This is my input on Mark Bennett's collaboration project "The Parting Glass".  I promised to do it ages ago but was finding it difficult to find the right approach and also match the slight shifts in timing in Mark's lovely original acapella. My version doesn't match the musical standards of some of the previous contributors because I lack their skills, but hopefully offers a different view of the song. To me, this is a song sung by a person who knows he's not coming back, hence the way I have ended it.

The Parting Glass - Mark J Bennett - ft enlimila

My second collaboration with Mark, here the first:
https://soundcloud.com/fugaaa/crazymodernjazzorchestra-crazy-happyness-gianni-fuga-and-mark-bennett
"The Parting Glass" is a traditional Irish folk song written a good few hundred years back, and one that became very popular with the Scots even as far back as the 18th century. It was that popular in Scotland that it may have even inspired the great Robbie Burns to write the poem "Auld Lang Syne" which was put to music and became even a more of a tradition for the Scots to bring in the new year.

My friend Mark Bennett, singing, made an open collaboration:
https://soundcloud.com/markjbennett/the-parting-glass-open-collaboration
I first heard it in the beautiful version of my friend Lee Lucas:
https://soundcloud.com/lee-lucas/lee-lucas-mark-j-bennett-the-parting-glass
Here the other versions:
https://soundcloud.com/markjbennett/sets/the-parting-glass-open

It sounded like a beautiful song (I didn't knew this traditional song), so I wanted to try and put the music, suggesting Mark to add some vocal harmony, he once again sang the whole song ...
Here's the result, I hope you like it.

The Parting Glass (Traditional)

Mark J. Bennett - Vocals
Gianni Fuga - Piano and other

The words are as follows:

Of all the money that e'er I had
I have spent it in good company
And all the harm that e'er I've done
Alas it was to none but me
And all I've done for want of wit
To memory now I can't recall
So fill to me the parting glass
Good night and joy be with you all

Of all the comrades that e'er I had
They are sorry for my going away
And all the sweethearts that e'er I had
They would wish me one more day to stay
But since it falls unto my lot
That I should rise and you should not
I'll gently rise and I'll softly call
Good night and joy be with you all

A man may drink and not be drunk
A man may fight and not be slain
A man may court a pretty girl
And perhaps be welcomed back again
But since it has so ought to be
By a time to rise and a time to fall
Come fill to me the parting glass

Good night and joy be with you all
Good night and joy be with you all

Mark Bennett: The Parting Glass - ft. Gianni Fuga

Recorded at home, this is my first set of proper recordings since A Driven Man.

The Parting Glass - with Mark J. Bennett

Come see what's new: https://soundcloud.com/ruizzoidman21centurions

Amateur composer, home musician, sharing music, feedback and support around the cloud. Previously poet and songwriter, now exploring the edges of modern music.

These demos (click on titles for lyrics & +info) are intended to be played with/by a real group, someday...

Dear listener, Feel free to leave comments and I'll try to reply.

I've been making music for around 16 years now but because of the wonderfully generous community that is SC, I have learned so much in a short time. I look forward to learning even more by collaborating. 
I suppose my strengths are in lyric-writing and singing. I feel fortunate to have been able to work with some stunning compositions by some very talented SCers.

My very best to you, Mark

Some links to recent Continental Collision streaming sites, etc are available below:

The Parting Glass (with Markjbennett)

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