10 years. It's amazing how these things eventually find their way. It's worth the wait!

like Lou Reed met Robin Trower-which means I like it!

A song about mixed feelings around coming home.

Lyrics:
Home for three days just a short stay
Just enough time to do my washing and
Phone a few friends for a few words
Catch up on all the sleep I’ve been missing then
Write a postcard to a friend in pain
Home for three days—I’m back again

Home for three days, take a bath and shave
Shake the dust from my body and
All the thoughts of foreign ways
Laid to rest in my memory
Listen to an old song with a close friend
Home for three days—wish they’d never end

Home for three days and my turn
To wash the stairs and sweep the alleyway
Join the dole queue, pay the fuel bill
Find my room’s in such a state again
Grey and chilly skies, nights drawing in
Home for three days—where to begin

Home for three days, back in old ways
Troubles resurfacing, walls need plastering
Home for three days, happy anyway
In three days time, I’ll leave it all behind again…

Win Hill

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Home for Three Days

Die Brücke - Rock Flexible
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Lyrics (Naicke/Rock_Flexible)
Naicke and me wrote these Lyrics together in form of a small 
private lyrics workshop. Some others to come in a next song.
Thank you, Naicke (https://soundcloud.com/user-746049418) :)
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Die Brücke 

Wieder habe ich Dich in meinen Träumen verpasst
Ein Tag, wie viele andere zuvor
Wir kennen uns noch nicht
Aber kenne ich mich denn selbst schon gut genug?
Irgendwann fing es an
Deine Bilder schmücken den Moment
In dem ich mich verlier
Und zu mir finde
Und zu uns finde
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Solange Du da bist
Auf der anderen Seite der Brücke
Deine Bilder, erdrücken die Stille in mir
Solange Du da bist
Deine Bilder, sie schweigen
Kälte fällt auf mich, in der ich erfrier
Erfrier!
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Wird das, was wir dort finden
Das was wir schon haben zerstören
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Vielleicht 1000 Schritte weit
Vielleicht nur 1 000 Momente noch Zeit
Bis zur anderen Seite der Brücke 
Irgendwann
Von Anfang an
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Jemand müsste den Anfang machen
den ersten Schritt
einen Fuß vor den anderen
Wie weit kann ich gehen? 
Noch kann ich Dich nicht sehen
Aber sind wir bereit?
Bin ich bereit?
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Wird das, was wir dort finden
Das was wir schon haben zerstören
——————
Vielleicht 1000 Schritte weit
Vielleicht nur 1 000 Momente noch Zeit
Bis zur anderen Seite der Brücke 
Irgendwann
Von Anfang an
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Production Info:
- Drums - Ableton and Lynn Drum
- Synths - Several Arturia synths
- Charvel Gtr. + NI Guitar Rig
- Vocal chain: SM7B - Joemeek VC1
- Recorded and produced in Ableton Live 
- Vocals, Instruments, Recording, Composition, Finalization - rock_flexible
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(c) 2021 - rock_flexible, Berlin, Germany

Die Brücke - Rock Flexible

Here’s proof that I still exist. I know I’ve been quiet for a long time now. Been busy with work and other shit, but I’ve still been singing and practicing these great old tunes like this one from Bob Dylan. There’s also a video of this on youtube, so check that out if you like. Thanks! 
https://youtu.be/eE_vfBnUYYs

Oh and Happy New Year to everybody. Hope you're all doing good.

Don't think twice it's alright (Bob Dylan cover)

fade out.mp3

Please see https://youtu.be/0gUTAXqrdVQ for music video

Country Girl

Solo guitar - LeoMReznik. My next blues improvisation with backing tracks.

SoulJamBlues

Was watching 'Sprung', the comedy series this week, and this song featured in the soundtrack. I hadn't heard it for years. Couldn't get it out of my head. Wondered what it would sound like with some shruti box accompaniment. The rest is history. 
Feeling proper chuffed with myself as I played everything and sang at the same time, using the footpedal for my shruti. (Now I just need to be able to do it with people watching!)

Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol Cover

In 2013 I reached out to the Weighty Tree (Mark) https://soundcloud.com/theweightytree and asked if it would be ok to overdub some lead guitars.  I had had a great time working with Rick Cheehy earlier that year https://soundcloud.com/rickcheehy/sets/the-vercelloni-cheehy and wanted to keep it going.

Mark kindly made a bunch of his instrumentals available and I built upon the platforms one-by-one.  I recently came across the folder of MP3s that I sent back to him and was going through them.  Bayonet resonated.  I jotted down some lyrics and recorded some vocals the next day.

Collaborations are great and have no shelf life.  Keep adding.

Music by The Weight Tree with lead guitars and vocals by me.

Bayonet (with The Weighty Tree)

Tropical Rain Forest Sirens

this track originally started as a solo piano tune, and keeps evolving with different instruments playing the lead melody. I think I"ve landed on the one I like best - flugelhorn (french horn is what I rlly had in mind).

photo by me somewhere along the beaches in Toronto

All comments welcome, and don't be shy to be critical or suggest ideas to help me improve. :)

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here's some pictures I took: www.flickr.com/photos/mark_boucher/
my best photos on 500px (safe site): 500px.com/p/mrmark?view=photos

Mark's Album (post-2020)

Altitude 238 (piano & flugelhorn)

There is the entrance door
there is the wooden floor
there are the shoes in pairs of two

There is the windowsill
and from the window still
there is the same familiar view

There is an empty space
where you used to put your hand

This is your favorite book
this is your favorite chair
this is the blanket that had covered you

This is your favorite cup
this is your favorite tea
it's strong and bittersweet and burning

There is an empty space
where I used to put my heart

Here is the wooden door, the floor
here are the shoes in pairs of two
here is the book, the chair
here is the old comforting blanket
here is the cup and here's the tea
so bitter still and burning

And I am here
I'm always here
yes I am here
like an open window...

(Music/ Lyrics/ Mix/ Image/ Field recording: VSS.
Field recording: Walking on gravel, birds, outskirts of Berlin)

Window

Thanks for listening and more importantly, thank you for sharing your work and recommendations!

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