Excellent break up song.  Impressive range in your vocal too.....like how you let it loose a couple of times.

Another great collab, guys! Very smooth vibe this time . Ahh just arrived at that textured build in the middle! Great !

Really like this. The melody fulfils the lyric. Your voice is truly fantastic.

Awesome vocal.  Interestingly enough, it sounds a bit like Sinatra.

Yet another great collaboration with Noobly.

Even later in 2025 Playlist

Remixes

The Funky Cat Dance (Live Remix)

A tribute to all those hours in the life that we loose with utterly senseless stuff and that vanish into oblivion. Not the hours that we loose on necessary evils like household chores but rather the ones like doomsscrolling where we know, we could and should have used them better. But then in the end - does it really make a difference in the long run?
 
Three times the same motive with different turns after a few seconds respectively (at @0:00, @0:57, @1:50).  And an appendix  @2:19 with an open quesion and the hint of an answer.

Again, this composition will come with lyrics in due course, however, since I don't have access to my studio currently, this will take some time - will likely publish some other things before.

Thanks to all of you for listening and supporting my work!


Elegy for the Hours (Contemporary Piano Miniature)

You've read the story of Jesse James
How he lived, how he died
You liked it, huh, you're asking for more
Well, listen to the story of Bonnie and Clyde

So here it is, Clyde has a girlfriend
She's beautiful and her name is Bonnie
Together, they form the Barrow gang
Their names, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow

Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde

Me, when I knew Clyde back then
He was a loyal, honest and straight guy
It must be believed that it's society
That has definitely damaged me

Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde

What hasn't been written about her and me
It is claimed that we kill in cold blood
It's not funny, but we are forced
To silence the one who starts to yell

Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde

Every time a policeman gets killed
When a garage or a bank gets robbed
For the police, there's no mystery
It's signed Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker

Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde

Now, every time we try to settle down
To settle quietly in a furnished place
Within three days, here comes the rat-a-tat-tat
Of machine guns coming back to attack

Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde

One of these days, we will fall together
I don't care, it's for Bonnie that I tremble
What does it matter if they skin me
Me Bonnie, I tremble for Clyde Barrow

Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde

Anyway, they couldn't get out of it
The only solution was to die
But more than one followed them to hell
When Barrow and Bonnie Parker died

Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde

Bonnie and Clyde (COVER)

Bonnie and Clyde (COVER feat MARC FREAK)

My favourite club is definitely Foufoune Paradise on Dagon Street.

Lyrics :

Foufoune paradise on Dagon Street,
the neon hums your name in liquid gold,
a symphony of shadows and damp heat,
where the secrets of the night unfold.

I meet you there in the pulsing lights,
your laughter tangled in the bassline’s sway,
a scented silhouette against the velvet sky,
dripping honey, melting time away.

(Chorus)
Oh, let's get wild, set the demons free
In this electric moment, just you and me
In your slutty mini skirt, your moves entice
There’s no place like Foufoune paradise.

The air is thick with sweat and desire,
your fingers trace the rhythm on my spine,
a language spoken only in the scarlet fire
of glances lost in your glass of wine.

Dagon Street breathes in our tangled steps,
Your silky curves crave for my gentle touch,
Your marble lips taste of stolen breaths,
The world dissolves to just this much.

(Chorus)
Oh, let's get wild, set the demons free
In this electric moment, just you and me
In your slutty mini skirt, your moves entice
There’s no place like Foufoune paradise.

The city hums a lullaby of chrome,
but here, we are the only truth it knows,
a fleeting spark, a wild, wandering poem,
our bodies tangled in afterglow’s throes.

When dawn ejaculates its haze of gray,
we’ll fade like echoes in the alley’s sigh,
but Foufoune’s pulse will linger, soft and sly,
a ghost of us beneath the streetlight’s eye.

Foufoune Paradise

Another simple track 😎
Lyrics/Vocals by me
Music made in GarageBand

Thank you so much for listening! 🫶

Lyrics: 

I wrapped myself in self-pity
Heard a heavy ringing bell
Didn't think I could be unwrapped
Hidden walls that never fell..

So many layers of emotions
I knew I had to start
And when the first layer was removed
The rest began to fall apart..

Unwrap-app-ing  myself
Unwrap-app-ing myself

Now my soul is almost open
All the layers taken off
But I have left some walls
In case I don't have enough...

A new story will be written
New layers will come
But with an unwrapped soul
I can wrap myself with love...

Unwrap-app-ing myself
Unwrap-app-ing myself

Unwrap -app-Ing Myself  (Original)

It is such a privilege to partner with Noobly. 'Down' is our fourth track together.

Hand in hand, beneath the piney green
Sunlight and truth, peeking through the trees
Rain-softened earth smells like something is growing
You let go of my hand and you drift away

A blanket of snow covers the city’s sharp edges below us
It’s the kind of day, that makes you think about your life
Northern light shines in your eyes
You drop your head and miss
whoever you’re missing

You’re acting a part and playing pretend
It can’t be sustained, we’re reaching our end
You think I don’t notice, but I see it all
You’re walking a wire, 
I’m waiting to fall, down

We used to care what the other one thought
But I can see now, the store is closed
Making up reasons, not to be around
While my obligations have me
Tethered to this ground

To avoid reality, you busy yourself
You never look me in the eye anymore
Too afraid to cut me loose, 
but I know that’s what you want

You’re acting a part and playing pretend
It can’t be sustained, we’re reaching our end
You think I don’t notice, but I see it all
You’re walking a wire, 
I’m waiting to fall, down 

Music & Production:   Noobly   https://soundcloud.com/noobly-1
Lyrics and Vocals:      Todd J McLean
Cover Art:                   All The KIng's Gopher's (Oil on Wood)

Down

This started with a very beautiful piano piece by Tom, then advanced by Jussi’s great electric guitar lead. I added an imagined lyric about someone not being able to commit to a relationship and the song was completed by Boon’s excellent acoustic guitar work. Thanks to all for their wonderful contributions. Thanks everyone for giving this a listen. Much appreciated by us all. 

Desamor by Tom Régnier, Jussi Welin, Boon Suzuki and Mark J Bennett

There’s an absence in my life, 
Perhaps of my own device. 
An awkward independence, 
Rendered me unable to share,
 My life with any other. 
Desamor, Desamor

There’s an absence in my life,
 Desamor, Desamor 
An awkward independence,
 Left me unable to share.
 Desamor, Desamor
 Keeping a distance from love and affection, 
Forbidding myself that joy.

There’s an absence in my life,
 Desamor, Desamor

Keeping a distance from love and affection, 
 Forbidding myself that joy.
 Desamor, Desamor

Desamor - Tom Régnier, Jussi Welin, Boon Suzuki & Mark J Bennett

Here's another song about everything and nothing. Musically, I'm still a bit quiet... I hope you find the right moment to listen to it... It's not exactly high-energy, I admit.

Searching for some light divine

I love this time of year when the light seems to play on the floors.  It's just a peaceful thing I notice.  Certainly not earthshaking, but lovely.
Thank you to David Dunham for his friendship and his unending help in mastering my piano tracks.
@david-dunhamuser589535203

The Evening Light

Hey I’ve done a mix of Ian’s @ipg1 cool rap using EPMD it’s my thing which used the brilliant samples Seven Minutes of Funk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoYzawnDGP0 and  Marva Whitney with Poetry by Scott La Rock & KRS1.  Enjoy!!
D

WE ARE ALL HIPHOP IPG1 X RICO.  BOOTLEGS OS MIX

In memory of a beloved doggy.
At the end she fell asleep in my Granddaughters arms.
Where do Dogs go

Today we have lost a dear friend,
it was a friend that we loved so much.
I am sure that she is in heaven for dogs
and I believe that she looks at us every day
that lies ahead in the future. 
We will remenber all days we had
together with this lovely friend


I remember the first time when we met.
It was a summer day when they did arrive.
She was comfortably lying in my daughter’s knee.
It was obvious that she loved her masters
and the expression in her face was sweet.
We will remenber all days we had
together with this lovely friend


Her little sister is searching for her
and she can smell her scent everywhere,
in every corner inside and outside their home
and when she doesn’t find her sister she starts to grief.
She can still feel the love from her,
and now You know where dogs will go
after fulfilling their duty in life

Lyrics in Swedish

Vart tar hundarna vägen?

Idag har vi förlorat en kär vän,
det var en vän som vi älskade så mycket.
Jag är säker på att hon är i himlen för hundar
och jag tror att hon ser på oss alla dagar
som ligger framför oss i framtiden.
Vi kommer att minnas alla dagar vi hade
tillsammans med denna underbara vän

Jag minns första gången när vi träffades,
det var en sommardag när de kom.
Hon låg bekvämt i min dotters knä.
Det var uppenbart att hon älskade sina ägare
och uttrycket i hennes ansikte var ljuvt.
Vi kommer att minnas alla dagar vi hade
tillsammans med denna underbara vän


Hennes lillasyster letar efter henne
och hon kan känna hennes doft överallt,
i varje hörn både inomhus och utanför deras hem
och när hon inte hittar sin syster börjar hon sörja.
Hon kan fortfarande känna kärleken från henne.
Och nu vet du vart hundar kommer att ta vägen
efter att ha uppfyllt sin plikt i livet

Where do Dogs go - 2025-11-10 14.47

These lyrics tell a bittersweet love story about choosing devotion even when it comes with the risk of heartbreak. The narrator reflects on how love and loss are intertwined, acknowledging that every beginning has an end and that deep connections often carry pain. Despite this inevitability, they decide that loving fully... even at the cost of losing the person... makes the journey worth it. It’s a soulful meditation on courage, vulnerability, and the beauty found in loving someone with everything you have, no matter the outcome.

If Loving You is to Lose You

If Loving You Means I'll Lose You

When Love begins

This is the last renovation of several songs I wrote some years back and recorded with Roger Stankovic (https://soundcloud.com/roger-stankovic), who did the lead vocals. Started as a basic piano and vocals track, but I took it down and added some new elements. Very happy with Roger's amazing work on this! Harmonies, moi, and Jen DB.

Falling Sands

some variations from Jacques Lemaire upon a theme by Marco Lucchi

Jacques Lemaire & Marco Lucchi - wallpaper music n*1 [variations]

Thank you for stopping by for a listen! I hope you find something to enjoy and special thanks to my SC friends and collaborators.

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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

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