Together.    A remarkable gathering of more than twenty of my favorite SoundCloud musicians.  Guitars, keyboards, basses, tenor sax, clarinet and vocals. Together's musicians are serious creative instrumentalists and are inspirations to so many.  Many are recording artists.  The finest players I know here.   So many are simply remarkable.
   
Together represents what SoundCloud is about, and how effectively musicians can work across the world.   Musicians who have never ever even spoken with each other, but recognize each other by their sounds and the notes, rhythms and phrases they play.  Pretty damn cool.

12 countries are represented here  -- Canada, Dubai, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Spain, Sweden and the US.   

There are two sections to the piece - a blues piece and a modal fusion section, with soloists across each part, showcasing their distinctive voices.  Vocalatti's beautiful singing is woven throughout the piece - her words and voice really pull us together.  The wonderful keyboard head during the opening and closing was composed and performed by Calaminus, who also has added the great organ comping you hear throughout.   The first and last soloists are brilliant musicians and soloists, as are so many throughout.    

It's been such a pleasure to pull this together over the past 3 weeks.  So sit back and enjoy a true SoundCloud experience.    

We thank you so much for your time listening, your comments and your shares to followers and social media.  And thank you for your exploring and following these wonderful players and voices on their instruments.

Musicians (in order of appearance)

The Rhythm Group:
Vocalatti - vocals - Manchester, England @vocalatti
Calaminus - keyboards (horns, organ, add. drums & loops) - Stuttgart, Germany @calaminus 
Tunde Fernandez - bass - Barnstaple, England @tunde-fernandez
Jamie Rhind - keyboards (rhodes, drums, main backings) - New Canaan, Connecticut (US)
Daniele Petrocchi - bass - Lucca, Italy @daniele-petrocchi

Blues Section Soloists:
Ronny Heimdal - guitar Bergen, Norway @ronny-heimdal
Justin Valente - guitar Wayne, New Jersey (US) @justin-valente
Stephan "Pinner" Lipinski - guitar Mount Laurel, New Jersey (US) @pinner
Calaminus - organ Stuttgart, Germany @calaminus
Tom Adams - guitar San Antonio, Texas (US) @tytlblues
Ian Tait - guitar Edinburgh, Scotland @ian-tait
Marco Oversteegen - guitar Almere, Netherlands @marco-oversteegen
Michel Martineau - clarinet Gatineau, Canada @michel-martineau
Benny Sutton - guitar England @bennysutton
Giuliano Ghisi - guitar Dubai, UAE @gghisi
Rients Draaisma - guitar Oudeschoot, Netherlands @rients-draaisma
Johnny (Sax) Pugh - tenor saxaphone, Jumilla, Spain @johnny-pugh
Alan Schulman - guitar New York, New York (US) @digschulman
Dean Clark - guitar New York, New York (US) @aleckrand
Anders Moberg - guitar Norrköping, Sweden @anders-moberg-1
David Nederland - keyboards Barcelona, Spain @david-nl
Daniele Turani - guitar Italy, @danieleturani
Joe Bongiovanni - guitar Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio (US) @joe-bongiovanni
Darren Chilton - guitar Tokyo, Japan @spectrum_one 
Jeff Fiorentino - guitar Hollywood, CA @jeff-fiorentino-jfrocks    Daniel van den Berg - guitar Rotterdam, Netherlands, @danarchx

Modal Section:
Daniele Petrocchi - bass - Lucca, Italy @daniele-petrocchi 
Jamie Rhind - keyboards New Canaan, Connecticut (US) @jamie-rhind
Daniel van den Berg - guitar Rotterdam, Netherlands, @danarchx
Jeff Fiorentino - guitar Hollywood, CA @jeff-fiorentino-jfrocks
Tunde Fernandez - bass Barnstaple, England @tunde-fernandez
Rients Draaisma - guitar Oudeschoot, Netherlands @rients-draaisma
Jorg Calaminus - keyboards Stuttgart, Germany @calaminus
Vocalatti - vocals - Manchester, England @vocalatti

BUY JAMIE'S MUSIC

Together  -  23 musicians.  12 countries.  1 stage

Kings of Manguareo Present:
All of Me(Mark Simons / Gerald Marks)

Three Owls are:
Mark Bennett: Vocals
Dick Vestdijk: Violin
Régulo Tortolero: Cuatro, Bass, Brushes, Cymbal, Maracas
Recorded between Edinburgh (Scotland), Amersfoort (Netherlands) and El Limón (Venezuela) and
Mixed at NoHum Studio, April 20 2016 / July 16 2018, El Limón-Venezuela by R.T.
Photo: R.T. ©® 2006

All of Me

All Of Me (Mark Simons / Gerald Marks)

This was initially intended to be a new version of a previous song (https://soundcloud.com/alexis-roche-2/sur-la-toile) but it became a new song on its own, one that matches the "original momentum" more closely.

[Remixed Jun 21, 2019]

Je mets les voiles 

Vois la grisaille
Qui voile la ville
Moi je fais bye bye
En remontant par l'écoutille

Je mets les voiles
Mets les voiles
Mets les voiles
Vers mes désirs qui se dévoilent

Vois-tu la faille
Au-dessus du vide
Assez de regarder la paille
Lassé de moi terre-à-terre aride

Je mets les voiles
Mets les voiles
Mets les voiles
Peut-être à la prochaine escale

Cherche un amer
Un bras de mer
Capte un signal
Des étoiles, des étoiles, des étoiles

Je mets les voiles
Mets les voiles
Mets les voiles
Vers mes désirs qui se dévoilent

Alexis Roche's Album

Je mets les voiles

Continuing my series of sea-related songs, I am very pleased once more to welcome DD "clari magique" John (https://soundcloud.com/ddjohn) onboard. 

Au-dessus des poissons

Hissée voile
Prends le vent
Les courants forts
Sur l'océan

Cap au nord
Fends l'écume
Baleines à tribord
Reflets de lune

Terre en vue
Sémaphores
Passé le phare
Bord-à-bord

Sur la vague
Dans le vague
Ramé en galère
Par vent contraire

Le tout c'est de rester dans le vent
De toujours regarder devant
Pour voir quelquechose à l'horizon
Au-dessus des poissons

Au taquet
L'aventure
Et des embruns
Pleins la figure

Découvert
L'Atlantide
Bordé de sirènes
Aux chants fluides

Des voyages
Des naufrages
Il restera
Des coquillages

Disparus
Sous l'écume
Avec les murènes
Les poissons-lunes

Au-dessus des poissons (with DDJohn on clarinet)

The legendary Leslie Speaker and Amp created the waffling sound of the Hammond organ, which was used in so many great jazz and blues and rock ensembles and recordings.  Introduced in the 60's, it was  strong competition to a Marshall stack, and also held its own in a jazz club.  What a warm sound that the Leslie created.  You'll recognize it in the middle part of this jazzy, Hammond driven original.

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.

Leslie

Salsa Bingo Boy

with backingvocals from https://soundcloud.com/markjbennett 

Doggerland

I have been waiting 
for the rain to come.
The land was drying,
under the heavy sun.

Doggerland's sinking
into the sea,
up on trial is infinity
Doggerland's sinking
going so deep,
under the tide
from which time can leap.

But now it is raining
and the sky will fall
I didn't heed that
final stormwatch's call

Doggerland's sinking
into the sea,
up on trial is infinity
Doggerland's sinking
under the tide
going so deep
from which time can't hide.

I have been waiting
for you to change your mind - 
You should be wiser,
how could you be so blind?

Doggerland's waiting
to tell its tale
whatever we do
the tide prevails...

So here is tomorrow
there goes today:
Watch it unfold
I should be on my way.

Playing blindman's bluff
in a hall of mirrors,
in the winter cold.
Where is the land
where is the ground
that we can hold?

I'll keep searching 
for Doggerland

Doggerland

Bandcamp

Doggerland (feat. Mark J. Bennett)

Don’t Give Up The Day Jobs - based on the original collaboration invitation https://soundcloud.com/dave-mckeown/dont-give-up-the-day-job
Music by Dave McKeown https://soundcloud.com/dave-mckeown
Lyrics and vocals Mark J Bennett 
Some vocal melodies and a line or two I owe to my dear friend, the late NiggyQ https://soundcloud.com/sanigar

Just when you thought,
It couldn’t get much worse.
Zero hours contracts,
Universal Credit curse.
Without Gran there’d be no childcare,
Without the food-bank, the cupboard’s bare.
Don’t give up the day jobs,
Work nights as well.

I’ve always been a grafter,
Never one to shirk,
Early morning papers, 
And weekend laundry work.
No time left for more education,
No energy left, nor motivation.
Don’t give up the day jobs,
Work nights as well.

Why does it have to be this way?
Why don’t debts ever go away?
Still we’ve lived to fight another day.
I fear it’s the way, that it’s going to stay.
Accept the lot you’ve got, the life you live from day to day. 
Day to day, day to day.

Just when you thought,
It couldn’t get much worse.
I made an insurance claim, 
But they wouldn’t reimburse.
Is it worth it just to keep standing still? 
We can’t afford to ever get ill.
Don’t give up the day jobs,
Work nights as well.

All Of Me (Mark Simons / Gerald Marks)

Kings of Manguareo Present...