i'm so excited to hear what you've done with Mark's vocal :)

i am so truly loving this!! Beautiful work, my friends :)

This piano backing is stunning - on my version of the track I tried the piano approach and failed. This is epic.

This was amazing!  I'm glad I didn't hear this until after I played with it or I wouldn't have even tried.

@surfin-whitley-bay: Thanks Mark, sorry I'm only replying now. Cheers from Marty and me

Bravo on the piano! a real pub version guys! love it!

The Parting Glass - Open Collaboration Project

CULT BURY RIOT・太陽の王国　From vocal Spade13(13R.I.P)
New MV 黒点
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDQaNRIjosQ

黒点 - MV ver YouTube  -

„Songwriting Projekt zur Nachhaltigkeit“ ist ein Projekt im Rahmen des Programms PUSH DICH! der Baden-Württemberg Stiftung.

Lyrics: 
We‘re The Solution

We‘ve got to hurry
cause time is flying.
We‘ve got to worry
cause the planet is dying.

You may think 
you can leave us crying,
but we‘re trying
to change things up.

Be the solution
to all the pollution you see. 
Unfortunately, we‘re the problem too.
Both me and you.
So sad but true.

No plant B,
Lakes are drying out,
Millions of seabirds are dying out.
It makes me
wanna cry out loud,
We‘re going down!

It‘s up to us to rearrange.
All of Europe needs to mak a change.
Planet earth‘s no longer the same.
We‘re going down, down, down.

Be the solution
to all the pollution you see. 
Unfortunately, we‘re the problem too.
Both me and you.
So sad but true.

We‘re the solution!

We’re the solution
to all the pollution, but we,
unfortunately, we‘re the problem too.
Both me and you.
So sad but true.

We’re The Solution

Written, Arranged, Produced & Engineered by Mike Luv

ML- Semi-Generative Patching in VCV Rack

Urgency

Composition : Thierry Mfe
Mixage : Guillaume Gaudioso
Mode : 
Time signature : 5/4

Post Apocalyptic Syndrome

'tarnished ground'

Falsestart: drums, bass, production
Little Lone Waltz: lyrics, vocals
Jonathan Beckenstein: lead guitars
Scotty: rhythm guitar, lyrics, vocals

The darkness all around, 
it pulls me down into the ground
and, yet, I've found my being sound.
For the light that shines through found
some truths, confound.
A strange compound.

The fall of light rebounds
and calls on tarnished ground.
The fall of light glows round
and calls a distant sound.

tarnished ground (with Falsestart, Little Lone Waltz and Jonathan Beckenstein)

Mom's harp and an old unlabeled Ariah guitar I picked up in EastVan, CA, for CAN$35 at an antique store w/some damage...

MomsHarprahSsmoM (and the Back Screen Door)

Power Plays 128 BPM

thats been fun: Ableton live 11 - some jazz loops, a sax improvisation in one go + video plugin (Zwobot v2.9) - The visualization on youtube: https://youtu.be/lj4M5yI1Jwc?si=W_m43XCVG-4Ik61K ... done all very spontanously in Ableton's session view ...

Sax rmx // plus VJ session / link in description

21.02.2024 Can You

The colorful symbols are my message to everyone... 🌍 ☮︎ 👍 🍀 2024 for a better world...!

City ​​Blues

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

My take on Mark J. Bennett's open collaboration of "The Parting Glass". Just some free piano, that's all.
Thanks for sharing this Mark, it was a delight to play along with.

The Parting Glass - Mark J. Bennett With MLucas

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

2023 - For the past few months I've been working with Public Resource, a California based non-profit to release an extensive collection of older music for free use. In addition to audio, we'll be releasing the music as MIDI and musicxml. Last week we started posting a new featured piece every week on the Public Resource Soundcloud page (@PublicResource). Follow there, or look for frequent reposts here. It'll include classical music, pop music before 1927, ragtime, folk songs, and more. The main collection will be at the Internet Archive, and will be called the "Internet Jukebox". I'll post more about it as it grows.

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 - Mark J. Bennett With MLucas

MLucas

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