What a cool cover of this song!! Loving this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  You have a perfect vocal for this!!!

wonderful - as ever. Thanks for sharing Daniel :)

thanks again, I love it.....Quite obvious you were in the front row when God handed out talents, You got them all....... norman

I got a very good mood when I listened to your music, thank you Daniel

A remix of Portico Quartet's Steepless featuring vocals from <a href="http://soundcloud.com/cornelia">Cornelia </a>.

Portico Quartet - Steepless (Capac Remix)

a little piano impro with paper on the strings

paperpiano

I was really chuffed to have my song featured in the Levenshulme video entry for the Mary Portas Pilot Fund: http://youtu.be/3xvqQdNfs5M. So I've decided to give it away as a free download, rough and ready as it is.

Ready

Pedro Meirelles - Van Gogh

Here Comes Santa

Lovely Sleigh Ride

Week #12: "The Ballad of Mack the Knife" - originally called "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer" - was written by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht as the prelude to the musical The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper). The play was a Marxist critique of capitalism. It was incredibly successful and showed over 1,000 times in Germany and other parts of Europe. An English translation premiered on Broadway in 1933 (after Weill and Brecht were forced to flee Germany), but it was unsuccessful. The show was revived in 1952, with an English translation by Marc Blitzstein. Leonard Bernstein conducted this revival and this time, it was more successful. Still, it wasn't until 1955, nearly 30 years after Mack the Knife was written, that Louis Armstrong recorded a hugely popular version of the song.

Mack The Knife

2016: This year, I plan to release a few thematic LPs of original folk/americana songs.

2013: The (Half) Year of Jazz. Like Project 52 Songs, I intended to post one song per week - the difference being that these were all to be jazz standards. However, life got in the way, so I had to stop this project after about four months. http://yearofjazz.wordpress.com/

2012: "The Robot". The album is best described as experimental-vocaloid-folktronica with a touch of ambient. The album is available for name-your-price download at the-robot.bandcamp.com.

2011: Project 52 Songs: I spend this year writing, recording, and producing a song each week. I was thrilled to be made "SoundClouder of the Day" (#SCOTD) during this project. Many of the songs are still available here.

In addition to this work, my folk/protest album, “Traitor” was released on August 9, 2011. It is available at iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/traitor/id455176631

Mack The Knife

Daniel Michael (P.52.S)

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