@phil-mcwalter approached me to ask if I’d like to do my own version of his song, https://soundcloud.com/phil-mcwalter/i-can-see-all-of-you-1 . He was keen that I used my own words, although I explained that I wouldn’t be able to match, let alone improve on what he had done. I persevered and once I found the mood I wanted to occupy, the words came quickly. Phil’s original version, if my interpretation is correct, appears to be from the perspective of an all-seeing/omnipotent being. Whereas the anxiety and tension I felt in the music led me to the perspective of someone who is all-seeing, via our various modern communications and information systems, yet simultaneously wholly powerless to change anything and gradually becomes insane. The beauty of writing something like this is that it doesn’t necessarily have to represent your own personal ideas and beliefs. I’m a little bit cynical in real life but nothing like this (honestly)… Feel free to take what you want from my diatribe, but only with a pinch of salt.

Hugely indebted and honoured to get to work with Phil on this. A very liberating experience that let me think outside of the box. Cheers Phil.

Thanks for listening ;-)

Original song lyrics, all music, instrumentation and final mix – @phil-mcwalter - I Can See All Of You - Nov 2013 © Phil McWalter
Additional lyrics, vocals and artwork (courtesy of Joseph Losey’s Don Giovanni) - Mark Bennett

Hellbound ( July 2014 © McWalter/Bennett )

I can see all wonder ,  that nature displays, 
From a newborn’s fingertip,  
To forests ablaze.
  I was simply spellbound , 
To the point of disbelief , 
Overwhelmed and awed, 
As if by grief . 
We unhappy few who have ,
 Such luxury ,
 Still blindly plunder ,
 Its treasury.

I was spellbound,
I’m losing my mind,    
Simply spellbound,  spellbound, spellbound,
  I’m losing my mind , 
Simply spellbound,  spellbound… Hellbound

I really can’t help but be,   
Quite so cynical,  
Maybe I’m just kind of,
 Hypercritical . 
The fool or the philistine, 
Who is to blame?  
Leisure and culture , 
They’re just not the same . 
Work to live, live to shop,
  Everything’s retail.  
Even your integrity,  
It’s all up for sale . 
Whatever you believe in, 
  Believe in yourself.
  I can’t keep everything   Inside my mind,  
Something’s gotta give ,
 It’s not how we’re designed.

I can’t keep everything,   
Inside my mind,  
Wade through false symbols , 
Drown in true signs.
  Information overload,  
Got nothing to say.  
Data Protection,  
This area’s grey.
  Intellectual copyright,  
We all assume,
  Will see us alright,  
From tome to tomb.

I was spellbound, 
   I’m losing my mind,    
Simply spellbound,  spellbound, spellbound,
  I’m losing my mind, 
Simply spellbound,  spellbound, Hellbound.

I can see all of you,
  Inside my head.  
Y’all know who you are,  
The quick and the dead . 
Soundbite, whatever you like,
  It’s all watered down.
  Well, I can take it straight,
  Coz I’m a big boy now.
  Lifestyle or a real life?  
Which will it be?
  For now, it’s still your life,  
Take it from me.  
Or maybe not,  
Coz I’ve lost the plot.
  I can see all of you,   
Inside my head.  
The ones that look shiny,  
The ones that look dead.

I can see all of you,  
Spellbound ,
 I can see all of you,
  Simply spellbound,
  I can see all of you,  
Spellbound,  
I can see all of you,  
Hellbound

Hellbound - McWalter Bennett (Click for info)

welcome to the psychedelic world peace corps page
this is where I will repost and share your tracks..
will be looking at sharing your older tracks as well
because I think its a good way of getting older songs that people have missed back in the activity stream..
to share is to care and please check out my main soundcloud page Jim Manser

Main account : https://soundcloud.com/temple-of-the-haunted-man
Recently, I have reduced my music and internet time. I apologize here that i can't reply to all comments. "2econd Skin" is a sideproject of https://soundcloud.com/temple-of-the-haunted-man for electronic, industrial, metal, ambient and soundtrack music.

!!!HOT NEWS!!! Phil McWalter's 'Valuable Friends' New High Quality 12" vinyl Album and CD now available!!! Link below...
This is @phil-mcwalter's repost account - The music and artists that I admire on SC and do my little bit here to support. Please follow here and my main page to hear the music I enjoy and admire and join in!

(Don't follow me here, best on my main page ;)

!!!HOT NEWS!!! New Valuable Friends vinyl album and CD available! ALSO 2nd Deluxe CD+Booklet "Songs That Mean Something" See links below. 

Composer/Guitarist/Producer

Songs: We find them unpainted in our hands, throw them up into the air of our imagination, turning them in the colours we see after we close our eyes until they feel just right, and sometimes we catch them perfectly, without blemishing them...

My music is on most platforms for your ease.

Wow!!  417K+ plays and 4,000+ valued followers and friends on SC alone, that provide lots of wonderfully helpful comments that fuel the next track! Really big thanks to the SC community for listening and providing such brilliant feedback and support. It means so much to myself and my collaborators - huge thanks.

I work in different styles, as the inspiration, dreams or bubonic plagiarism comes! I use Logic Pro X on Mac.
 
I write, produce and play all my own stuff (unless otherwise stated), play vintage Tokai Strats mainly, PRS Torero, Steinberger, Gretsch G2627T, Classical, Fender Dreadnought, Yamaha and Rickenbacker basses, keyboards and sax. I use Native Instrument's Komplete, Omnisphere 2 and my own organic samples.

I mix on Sennheiser HD 280 Pro's and HD 650's (closed and open headphones) when not making a bigger noise through my Yamaha HS8 studio monitors. I use Focusrite Clarett 2Pre ThunderBolt and Apogee audio interfaces, Neumann & iSK condenser & AKG dynamic mics. 

Hardware: Feb 1978 Marshall JMP 50W Combo, BOO & BOSS stomps

I love collaborating with other musicians and will compose with, play guitar for, produce, arrange, master or even just hum along with other SC musicians. Please ask!

P.S. I am a long standing member of the Performing Rights Society and PPL through my old TV and theatre work as well as my record and publishing deals.

Be another :
All voices : Alice Ciacco ( https://soundcloud.com/user-268821845)
All instruments (except when specified)  words, music and sound : François Tamby

be-another.com
https://open.spotify.com/intl-fr/artist/2Dr2hO4mMuknAciKExnxYn

Composer & Producer of Ambient, Electro, Musical Score, Industrial productions of my own as well as on behalf of other Artists.

https://submarinebroadcastingco.bandcamp.com/album/beings-from-the-origins

https://submarinebroadcastingco.bandcamp.com/album/higher-selves-ep

Founder & Owner of the SWISS VINTAGE STUDIO in Switzerland.

https://www.swissvintagestudio.ch/

https://www.youtube.com/c/SwissVintageStudio

KR2EV1

Nicolas

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Vintage Gears Studio in Switzerland.

Take Care and Enjoy as much as we do Enjoy Your Music!!!

KR2EV1

Nicolas

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'SWISS VINTAGE STUDIO' 


Effective Studio Equipment List

(as of 1st of August 2020)

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DAW Production Environment

APPLE MACPRO 12-CORE (2), IMAC, …
ABLETON LIVE SUITE 11, APPLE LOGIC PRO X, AVID PRO TOOLS 12, REASON, … 
DISKS, CONTROLLERS, … ABLETON PUSH, PRESONUS ATOM


AUDIO Interfaces

UNIVERSAL AUDIO APOLLO X16 (2)
UNIVERSAL AUDIO APOLLO X4
UNIVERSAL AUDIO APOLLO DUO
UNIVERSAL AUDIO SATELLITE THUNDERBOLT OCTO ACCELERATORS (4)
UNIVERSAL AUDIO PLUG-INS (ALL)


MIDI, CV-GATE Interfaces and Cabling

ALYSEUM AL-88C (4)
MOTU MIDI XPRESS 128 (4)
PEAVEY PC 1600X
KENTON PRO 2000 MKII (4)
PLANET WAVES CABLING
ROLAND SBX 80


Mixing Consoles & Effects

MIDAS M32 DIGITAL CONSOLE (2)
MIDAS DL32 
MACKIE 3204 VLZ3 (PURE SIGNAL I/O, NO PROCESSING)
MACKIE 3204 VLZ4 (PURE SIGNAL I/O, NO PROCESSING) (2)
PLANET WAVES CABLING FOR ALL AUDIO EQUIPMENT
YAMAHA SPX 900 (TESTS ONLY)
DIGITECH DSP 256 (TESTS ONLY)
TC-HELICON VOICELIVE PROCESSOR (TESTS ONLY)
KORG DRV 3000 (TESTS ONLY)
ALESIS MIDIVERB III
TEAC LM-8ST (6)
ROLAND SBF-325
KORG SDD-1000


Monitoring Speakers

PMC twotwo.8
KRK VXT8 (ROUGH DEVELOPMENT AND PRE-MIX ONLY)
KRK V4 (ROUGH DEVELOPMENT AND PRE-MIX ONLY)


HeadPhones

SHURE SRH 940 (2) (FINAL MIX, MASTERING)
AUDIO TECHNICA M-70X (FINAL MIX, MASTERING)


Mix and Master Testing / Benchmarking Equipment (FINAL MIX, MASTERING)

PMC twotwo.8
VARIOUS CAMBRIDGE AUDIO CD DECKS
ANTHEM DUAL STAGE AMPLIFIER
JEFF ROWLAND CONTINUUM AMPLIFIER
FOCUS AUDIO FP 90 SE SPEAKERS
TRIANGLE EXTAN 9 SPEAKERS
CARDAS CABLING


GEARS, Synthesizers, Vocoders, Sequencers, …

AKAI MPK88
AKAI S5000 (2)

ALESIS HR16

ANALOGUE SOLUTIONS OBERKORN SEQUENCER (3)
ANALOGUE SOLUTIONS MEGACITY (2)

ARIES 300

ARP 2600 (2)
ARP ODYSSEY
ARP OMNI MK1

ARTURIA KEY STEP (2)

CASIO SZ-1 SEQUENCER

ELECTRO-HARMONIX LITTLE BIG MUFF
ELECTRO-HARMONIX MICRO SYNTHESIZER VINTAGE 

ELKA RHAPSODY

ELECTROCOMP EML 101
ELECTROCOMP EML 400
EML POLYBOX (2)

EMS SYNTHI AKS 

EMU AUDITY 2000
EMU B3
EMU MORPHEUS
EMU PROCUSSION
EMU ULTRA PROTEUS

ENSONIQ FIZMO
ENSONIQ SQ80

KAWAI K5
KAWAI K5M
KAWAI K5000 S (2)

KORG DW 8000
KORG KR-55B
KORG MONO/POLY 
KORG MS 2000
KORG MS 50 
KORG PS 3100
KORG PS 3200 
KORG VC 10 
KORG WAVESTATION SR 
KORG WAVESTATION A/D
KORG WAVESTATE

LINN LM02
LINN 9000 

MAXIM MDS-1000

MOOG MEMORYMOOG PLUS
MOOG MINIMOOG
MOOG OPUS 3
MOOG PRODIGY

OBERHEIM DSX 
OBERHEIM MATRIX 6R
OBERHEIM MATRIX 12
OBERHEIM MINI SEQUENCER CPS-2
OBERHEIM OB 8 MIDI (2)
OBERHEIM OB 12
OBERHEIM OB-X MIDI 
OBERHEIM STRETCH DX 
OBERHEIM XPANDER

ROLAND ALPHA JUNO 1 
ROLAND D 550 (2)
ROLAND JD 800 
ROLAND JX 10 SUPER JX
ROLAND PG 1000
ROLAND RHYTHM 77
ROLAND S 760 
ROLAND SVC-350 + MICS
ROLAND TR 808
ROLAND VT-3 + MICS

SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS MULTITRAK (2)
SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS PRO ONE
SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS PROPHET 600
SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS PROPHET VS 

STUDIO ELECTRONICS SE-1  

VOCE DMI 64 MKII

WALDORF MICRO Q (2)
WALDORF PULSE 2
WALDORF STREICHFETT (2)

YAMAHA DX7
YAMAHA DX7 II FD E! GREY MATTER (2)
YAMAHA KX 5
YAMAHA RX 5
YAMAHA TG 77 (2)
YAMAHA TX 416

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:

Our music can be found by visiting our main page here (https://soundcloud.com/mountain-songs)

Hellbound - McWalter Bennett (Click for info)

markjbennett