Wow Mark! There's been some serious evolution in your music my friend! This is fabulous! As for career liars, they're like cockroaches. They survive just about anything, and seem to multiply endlessly! Well done!

Super class collab. Edition and production are sensational

Yeah, this is really good.  I'm there with you, Mark

Very powerful political statement Mark, and great music as always!  Those horns really add a lot of character to the track, and great work on vocals!

This is still so good guys. My alltime favorite Steely Dan Song! :)

Extremely relevant song with a great arrangement and love that sax.

JUMP INTO A DAY MADE FOR DANCING

STRANGE DARK NIGHT [LIVE] COPYRIGHT 2022:  SCRT RECORDS

Pop The String

Oh shit, fucking bitch
I’m in hell and it’s home sweet home
The devil keeps asking us questions
And the answer is only no
That there is all we know
And we roll up on demons with no remorse
And we know all your women are boring whores
And our women are kicking the shit out of you

And they make all the news
And they make all the news
And they make all the news
And they make all the news

Media, media, everything’s media
Everything from TV to the pv to the city walls
Everything’s critical, the grey got the blues
They’ll make their own choices if they’ve got to choose
And they don’t wanna think of you
And there ain’t no supply that they need from you 
And they love what’s real, what’s them, what true
What sells and spreads and gets all the views

And they make all the news
And they make all the news
And they make all the news
And they make all the news

I’d die for what I believe in
Love life so I call it even
Right now I’m in trouble with it
But time’s gonna bring something new
I’m in love with the range of the view
Retain some of this stuff and change up a few
Break some of this stuff and make something new
The people will be here and say what they’ll too

And we’ll make all the news
And we’ll make all the news
And we’ll make all the news
And we’ll make all the news

And the little kids will play
In the pretty fields we save
And they won’t need to be slaves
When we rest in our graves
Free to make a choice
Free to raise their voice
Free not to answer the devil
Not to hear its noise

Personal Media

Rodolfo Planes offered me this great arrangement and suggested the title of 'Professional Liars' as a starting point. I changed the title to Career Liars as it scanned better with the melody and although we didn’t discuss the subject closely we both had our own ideas who these usual suspects might be. You all may also have your own choices other than these potential ‘Comeback Kids’. 

This was first written in 2022, but has developed gradually over the last two years with Ce Mastro’s spectacular chorus harmony arrangement lifting the song to astonishing new heights, then lastly Georg’s additional sax work giving a renewed energy and power. Thanks to everyone for their valued collaboration on this. Thanks for taking the time to listen.

Rodolfo Planes - Music composition, instrumentation, arrangement, production and mix - https://soundcloud.com/rplanes 
Me - Vocals and lyrics
Ce Mastro - Backing vocals and chorus vocal arrangement - https://soundcloud.com/cemastro 
Georg Boehme - Sax solo and fills - https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme

https://continentalcollision.bandcamp.com/track/career-liars

https://youtu.be/tHFD8lZXQII

 Career Liars by Rodolfo Planes and Mark J Bennett

How are you ever able to live with yourself? 
What do you really care about? 
You can cope just as long as you’re not left on the shelf, 
Hear me out. 

Are you ever conscious of the harm that you do?
 Or is all fair in love and in war?
And there is no depth that you and your crew won’t sink to. 
We’re done for.

Career liars, 
Truth deniers,
Big high flyers,
 Falsifiers.

Making all of your deals with your old cronies,
I think that is all that you’re good for. 
Nothing is ever sincere coz you’re real phoneys.
 Show them the door. 

Lying for a living, as long as we’re forgiving,
 We’ve been truly hood-winked this time for sure.
 We’re learning a lesson about the true cost of living 
Now we’re all poor.

Career liars, 
Truth deniers,
 Big high flyers, 
Falsifiers.

Career Liars - Continental Collision featuring Ce Mastro & Georg Boehme - Now Available on Bandcamp

Fuel for Dance: Composed, arranged, performed and produced by Evandro B. Lira aka Vintage Mutation.

The aforementioned composition evokes "the duty of the Human Being to express Life with intensity", that is, "to commit oneself with heart and soul to everything one decides to do". Vivid expression is the "fuel" that drives movement and art of existence (dance).

Fuel for Dance

Original composition, all guitars, piano, synth and mix by Neno J.

Jump Into The New Dimension

So much has happened in the World since I was last active on Soundcloud, nearly 3 years ago. The onslaught every day of so many people, animals and our precious Earth suffering, and no end in sight. I have been writing and painting how I feel, but my first recording is far from this, and of another time, a short, simple, and light offering for now.
I was born and raised in a small rural town that saw large amounts of snowfall in Winter, despite being the South of Scotland. We had plenty of hills to sledge down and no need to go to the Highlands. Through the years, in the many places I have lived in, my best walks were snow filled ones with the dogs, and in the mornings setting off when everything was pure and dazzling, and your whole body felt alive. The dogs would leap about so happy, and in turn affecting us, so that we were just as daft playing with them, totally energized! I give thanks for having had this.
This is for my beautiful wee Bridie, who died nearly 2 years ago.
Good to be with you all again on the Cloud!
Lyrics
Up with the lark and away we go
Treading so lightly in the snow
Skippin, and runnin, and jumpin so high
Scenting the air, as we touch the sky

Rollin and diving, and sliding away
Playing in a magical snow filled day
Skippin and runnin, and jumpin so high
Scenting the air, as we touch the sky

We play, all day, we play

Ooooh Ahhh
We're riding high today
Ooooh Ahhh
Love's shining all the way

Music, Lyrics, Vocals, Harmonies, Guitar - Lizzie Taypen 
Cover pic - Pencil Drawing " Bridie" - Lizzie Pentland (Yes, there are daisies in winter ;) haha)

Snow Skippin Days

Piano accompaniment: @Adam4le

🎹 New on YouTube: The Phoenix Waltz:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUzao17SVms

New Release! 18 April: https://gyro.to/WhatWasIMadeFor

Memorial Day Newsletter: https://shoutout.wix.com/so/cdO_XFpFk?languageTag=en

Memorial Day Piano livestreams from Classical to Jazz: Sat, 25 May 2024 (2k, stereo): https://youtube.com/live/p7Orj9A4qB0

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It has been some time... I have had a jaw procedure and if I do not exercise it, the surgery is in vain. This creates more pain in the jaw and neck and I did not practice my violin for months.

What Was I Made For? was done some time ago. However, events recently changed my ideas on the movie Barbie. While I never considered myself a feminist per se, I encountered recently the difficulty women, especially minority women, face in many fields.. Though I do not consider myself very high, a few men began to abuse, bully, sabotage me in Spotify. This will happen in all fields, but I feel especially vulnerable because it is an art form. Bullying stifles creativity..The point is we should not be treated as property. Double standards because if we stand up for ourselves, we are deemed 'aggressive'. More here: https://www.sharonelainechen.com/news

What Was I Made For?

And so it goes

And So It Goes (Cover)

Pomrčina Mjeseca

The ones in dark corners
I am with you.
I sense your hush.
The ones of smoke and needles and bruises
who found glory
and saw how far a fall it is back down. 
The ones who hang around
when Main Street closes down.

The outcasts, the insane, the altered.
Each with a piece missing.
Invisible scars and otherwise.

A pact, a cult of the underground.
Where each path has it's inverse.
Where each feeling goes obscure.
Smoldering still from the impact of the world.
Cloaked in the darkness of night.
The only time we see what's real.

Words by Riley Robinson

Void of Blood and Rust

Montage et photographies :
© 2025, Chartrand Saint-Louis
Lien vers la vidéo : https://youtu.be/CifO9a47woM

Musique :
© 2025, musique d'ambiance, titre : "La pluie et le beau temps", par Chartrand Saint-Louis; Arrangement (orchestration) par Albert, 2:20 min.

Mixage, révision et sonorisation par Albert

La pluie et le beau temps

"La pluie et le beau temps", par Chartrand Saint-Louis; Arrangement par Albert [lien vidéo]

noxpox - klobonos

Once I wrote a longer description here: a love song in 7/4 ¿or 14/8?

Silvia II (Lo que siento por ti) /  Silvia II (What I feel for you)

Es de difícil clasificación  /  It is difficult to be classified
dentro de las variedades del amor  /  among all varieties of love
lo que siento por ti, lo que siento…  /  what I feel for you, what I feel …

Sólo sé que no puedo vivir sin ti,  /  I only know I can’t live without you,
no puedo ver sentido a mi vida si no estás aquí.  /  I can’t find sense to my life if you are not here.
Lo que siento por ti, lo que siento…  /  What I feel for you, what I feel …

Cuando todo va bien  /  When everything goes fine
lo que me une a ti es tu forma de ser,  /  what joins me to you is your way of being,
es muy fácil ver  /  it is very easy to see
todos tus encantos de mujer.  /  all your woman's charms.

Una idea que no puedo soportar  /  An idea that I cannot bear
es verte en brazos de otro, en otro lugar.  /  is seeing you in other one’s arms, in another place.
Lo que siento por ti, lo que siento…  /  What I feel for you, what I feel …

No puedo imaginar  /  I cannot imagine
tu voz susurrando a otro compás.  /  your voice whispering to another compass.
Lo que siento por ti, lo que siento…  /  What I feel for you, what I feel …

Cuando algo va mal,  /  When something goes wrong,
puedo contemplar tus defectos con claridad.  /  I can behold  your faults with clarity.
Cuando algo va mal,  /  When something goes wrong,
sólo quiero escapar a otro lugar.  /  only I want to escape to another place.

Grab it !!

Silvia II (Lo que siento por ti)

i want to break free

Composé, réalisé par Jacques Lemaire, mai 2020 via Studio One

- Galaxy Instruments - Noire Felt - Basic Felt
- Spitfire Audio - Ólafur Arnalds Stratus - Matrix - Looped Rhythms
- Spitfire Audio - Ólafur Arnalds Chamber Evolutions - Chamber Grid
- Spitfire Audio - Woodwind Evolutions - Woodwind Swamp
- Arturia - Pigments - Voyage
- Sonuscore - Elysion - Mars of Iron and Stone
- Spitfire Audio - Hanz Zimmer Strings - 60 Cellos - All in One - Col Legno Tratto
- Spitfire Audio - Olafur Arnalds Stratus - Matrix - Rhythmic Waves
- Spitfire Audio - Acoustic Shadows - Lea Bertucci - Trumpet Pitch Bend
- Spitfire Audio - Alev Lenz - Don't Sit Down
- UVI - Falcon - VOKLM - Cookle Cutter
- Sonuscore - The Orchestra Complete - Morin Kh High Sustain Nonvib - Violin 1 - Harmonics Tremolo - Choir Female - Sustain OH - Cello - Harmonics Sustain - Grand Piano Lid Closed
- UVI - Falcon - Beatbox Anthology 2 - AceT 1

Intimate Music - Like The Wind

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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:

Career Liars - Continental Collision featuring Ce Mastro & Georg Boehme - Now Available on Bandcamp

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