I have visions of it being your opening track at a sold out 60,000 seat concert. Should be viral! .

bouncing along with this one nice solo work

Main parts --- nylon and steel string acoustic with some electric guitar overdubs later. A kind of study, with some almost experimental electric guitar ornaments. Recovered the acoustic guitar files, fixed them up, and glued it together! A bit of unevenness in the quality means best on earphones I think.

Step into the Light

This one is something I've been playing over and over for months, never really having any definite lyrics, just all subconscious meandering, never wrote a word down, a little different to my usual process. 

lyrics 

All men are strangers to the touch
one femme fatale with the golden locks
I'm done with hesitating knockout!
debilitating
just show me that you really care

I know it's hard loving one man
but you must do all the best that you can
I'm done with hesitating knockout!
debilitating
just show me that you really care

I know that the word is out
all over town
they only pick you up
right before
when they're knocking you to the ground

cu me ce va I heard him saying
but I don't care for the game that you're playing
I'm done with hesitating knockout!
debilitating
just show me that you really care

I know that the word is out
all over town
they only pick you up
right before
when they're knocking you to the ground

I know that In life is strange
stuck on the inside of a hurricane
and there I will remain 

Thanks for listening and inspiring folks, always greatly appreciated 🙏✌️

The Word Is Out

From the  EP " Smilers" June 2023. check it out!
A 60's garage rock/surf rock song about the legend of "Aqua Chupacabra", the undersea monster who only eats the coolest of the cool surfers.
Lyrics:
Listen up, Moondoggies!
If you think you're a cool surfer
You need to beware
Because there is a monster out there
The old surfers called him
Aqua Chupacabra

If you go to Huntington Beach
You know you're within reach
Because groovy surfers is all he eats
Aqua chupacabra
His legend will go on
Bruh!
Aqua Chupacabra

If you're heading out for a midnight surf
At Silver Strand
Don't do a handstand
You might as well just stay on the sand
Although he finds surfers there
Very, very bland

Radio Announcer: Hello KNX radio listeners
Aqua chupacabra has been sighted off the coast of Oxnard California
Take caution

If you're gonna do some midnight surfing
Down at The Cove
You know that he knows
It's a eating treasure trove
Do yourself a favor
Don't look cool
Put on your Grandmother's librarian coat
Aqua chupacabra
Aqua chupacabra!

Aqua Chupacabra

A lovely tune composed by Benny Golson. Featuring Henning, Wolfgang, Christoph and my clarinet.

Swing Ticket

Steppin' Lightly

taking a stab at my first (I think?) orchestral style string arrangement. Just slapped on top of a previous unfinished piano tune, but everything’s original. Probably more tweaking to get a better mix, but pretty happy with this first go. String sounds courtesy of BBC Orchestra VST plug-in. I have a kind of silly nostalgic video/slideshow in mind to go with this one day...

…It sounds kind of like a soundtrack at the end of some schmaltzy movie, maybe where the dog runs away from home, has all kinds of adventures, and returns years later to find his owner doesn’t recognize him at first, but eventually does, and they run to each other in slow motion, and the dog wants to say that all he ever really wanted was to be hugged, but he can’t say it because he’s a dog, but the owner somehow understands and everything works out in the end. Roll credits.


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

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Mark's Album (post-2020)

Lives of Our Days (piano & strings)

I think I’m Broken(Instrumental)

They're At It Again (G. Di Nunno)

They fell in love almost from the start
Solid enough couldn't break them apart
Had to slip away when things got hot
Made a decision to tie the knot.

Learned the script for sweet success
With jobs, home, someday kids
Off to find their happiness
From their purse-filled wedding day.

Through the ups and downs as days passed by
She began to nag, and he'd roll his eyes
Each found faults they pulled to leave a mark
Didn't take too long to strike a spark

Soon throughout the neighborhood
The silence would be gone
This eruption is getting good
As all of it could be heard

With eyes wide and mouth's agape
They're at it again
Cussing vile, a crushing storm
Oh, they're at it again.

That look of love replaced by disgust
Both had their affairs that blew out trust
Doesn't seem it could get any worse
Going nowhere might as well divorce

Both with lawyers in a room
A sense it could explode
Some cutting words, and it went boom
While the lawyers shook their heads.

With eyes wide and mouth's agape
They're at it again
Cussing vile, a crushing storm
Oh, they're at it again.

All lyrics and musical content by Gino Di Nunno
Copyright 2023.

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Summer's End

Here’s one that was recorded way back, pretty rough production but I still quite like it.
Lyrics 
I see you standing in the corner of the room
Guess you think it's kinda cool
But come on babe
Come on and dance with me.

Checked you out and you're looking good
All dressed up like I new you would
But come on babe
Come on and dance with me.

Grooving to the music and you're looking great
Don't waste time 'cos it's getting late
But come on babe
Come on and dance with me.

You're dancing fast and you're dancing slow
Come on Hon lets give it a go
But come on babe
Come on and dance with me.

I see your friends are pointing my way
Come on over Hon and say
But come on babe
Come on and dance with me.

Instrumental, Verse One, Verse Two, Chorus, Outro

Come on and dance with me

I Just Can't Help Believeing, Gene Jumper, ( cover song ) Elvis

I Just Can't Help Believeing, Gene Jumper, ( Cover) Elvis

Music:  PJ Project & Janne Hennie
Lyrics & Vocal:  Janne Hennie
Instruments & Mix:  PJ Project

Lyrics:

So much to catch up on
Some of it never gets done
Time is too short, passes to quickly
suddenly the day is gone

It will be fine, it will be okey
Just speak up
And the help is on the way

People fussing, children shouting
So much noise all around
High demands coming from all sides
No peace to be found

It will be fine, it will be okey
Just speak up
And the help is on the way

Life is short, use it well
There is so much to gain
By slowing down, take a break
Time will pass anyway

It will be fine, it will be okey
Just speak up
And the help is on the way

It Will Be Fine   W/PJ Project

UPDATE: for 2024 I am returning to my true love of Prog/Progressive Rock, and I intend to do seven tracks this year. I will be taking a break from Soundcloud here and there to get those nagging life obligations that we all have completed. Stay tuned and best wishes!

NOTE: Songs leading up to an album will not be a Progressive Rock project for 2023. Haven't run out of ideas--just giving light to older songs that have been begging to be heard.

I am an obsessed Progressive Rock fan favoring no genre in particular, yet I have  carried influences from: most every Italian band, especially Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso, along with Jethro Tull, early Genesis, Marillion,  King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Ange (from France), and on the heavy side there is Mercyful Fate and King Diamond.  My guitar heroes include: Michael Schenker, Martin Barre, Steve Hackett, Robert Fripp,  Steve Rothery, Michael Denner, Hank Sherman. 

I consider deep lyrics to be essential (especially if you can't sing), as well as song dynamics and surprise elements, with a touch of altering song structures (gained from the days of tearing apart every Mercyful Fate song minus the Satan stuff). I am not inventing the wheel, nor do I consider myself groundbreaking in any way. I just can't stop writing songs. As I am aging (now 64) and being handicapped due to a work accident in 1978 which took 3 2/3 fingers off the left hand. I have an aching right wrist that doesn't let me fly as I once did, so I work within the limitations given.  I hope you enjoy.

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