It feels like I already liked and reposted this song on many accounts :D

I love this track - this could be a fun track for a Halloween party or film xx

fantastique!!! quel groove, quel charme, quelle classe!!!

Heard this one on Josh's page!!! So well done Mark!!! Your vocals and lyrics are F$#@%ing Great! Very Waits to my ears whom I absolutely love! So damn creative... you got it down pat man. Lyrics and vocal versatility!

Loving the banjo sound - works well with this!

TRULY GREAT example of looking forward by looking back! Love the Waits feel, love the banjo and guitars, love the arrangement. Just wonderful!

Very interesting arrangement and groove. Never heard that before but the banjo solo rocks

I'm super impressed this is an original! Reminds me a bit of Nick Cave, with maybe a hint of Tom Waits. Seriously one of the coolest damn things I've heard on SC in a while. Killer work dudes, and huge props to you personally Mark. Wow!

New track named Contemplation, hope you like it!

Contemplation

Rope-Dancer

Hope is in the air — a wind that is fierce enough to lift kites and rattle wind chimes, but gentle enough to free specks caught in a spider’s web. To become windswept is to go with the flow, keeping faith in a good future, and to do what you know to do to make hope come alive.

A neoclassical treatment with a little hip hop beat.

DAW Apple Logic Pro X
MIDI Akai MPK Professional  55-65-55 bpm
 E-Instruments used: Concert Grand Echo Piano Clarinet Solo 
Cellos Marimba Breathy Vox E-Percussion: Timpani
Timpani Tremolo Crescendo Analog Dream
Bass ’N Drum Remix
Lo-Fi Remix Studio Brush Kit

Audio of wind and wind chimes recorded live, February 24, and May 29, 2024.

Photo by Carolina Kaboompics (with alterations) at pexels.com
https://www.pexels.com/photo/orange-fabric-blown-by-wind-near-body-of-water-4711951/

Windswept

B-Soft Whip

Bonjour j'ai le plaisir de vous offrir

Le morceau "L'orange c'est la santé" joué en concert à au Café associatif de Marquefave (CAM) (31), le samedi 31 août 2024

En attendant la sortie de mon nouvel album le 20 septembre "Émancipés du vide?" et la sortie d'une nouvelle vidéo dans quelques jours.

Vous pouvez retrouver l'album prisme, d'où ce morceau est extrait, en écoute intégrale ici :
- https://matzizrecords.bandcamp.com/album/prisme 

Et télécharger cette version live gratuitement
sur mon Bandcamp ici :
- https://matzizrecords.bandcamp.com/track/lorange-cest-la-sante-live-a-marquefave-free-dowload

sur mon Soundcloud ici :
- https://soundcloud.com/mzprisme/lorange-cest-la-sante-live-a-marquefave-free-dowload

Pour m'aider et pré-commander l'album ça se passe ici :
https://matzizrecords.bandcamp.com/album/emancip-s-du-vide

Les photos arrivent bientôt !!
On se retrouve sur les Marchés à partir de
Mercredi 3 septembre à Bram (11) et samedi toute la journée à priori à Ax (09)

A bientôt

Mathieu TORRES
M'Z
https://mzprisme.wixsite.com/mz-musique

Prisme

L'orange C'est La Santé - Live À Marquefave - (free dowload)

CAST OF CHARACTERS:

Llanpsych-- @llanpsych -- Tez – Initial composition/seed idea, foundational acoustic and electric guitars, distorted electric guitar
Mistermark – @user-432503709 – Mark – vocals, lyrics, high organ, toy piano, percussion, sound effects, production, editing, mix
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen– 5-string banjo solo, electric rhythm guitar
J.J. Terrell-- @j-j-terrell—JJ-- low organ, piano, synth flute, sound effects
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken–drums, percussion 
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – 4-string fretless bass
Composition – The Eclectic Collective

This song began as a haunting guitar chord progression that Tez came up with and shared with the rest of us. He also did an additional accoustic accompaniment and that crunchy distorted guitar once some of us started adding parts. Ken was first up, adding his reggae-tinged drums, then later his pots and pans percussion. As he was doing that, Josh was coming up with his bass line, and they did their little dance of back and forth until the rhythm section was set. Mark then came up with some dark lyrics and added his unique, Tom Waitsian vocals. He also added the high organ during the banjo solo, followed by a toy piano which you can faintly hear right after the solo. Also for the solo he created a clanky percussion arrangement, blending in elements from Ken's percussion sound too. Stephen followed shortly after with the atmospheric reggae-style guitar chords, and also came up with the amazing banjo solo you hear around the middle. Last, but not least, JJ came in with his trademark organ sound and paired up a piano and flute track to seal the deal with some melodic ambience. Then he and Mark added the cool creaking door & rain storm effects that open and close the song, and in other spots. Mark filled the main production duties on this one. He has proved himself to be a masterful editor, producer, and mixer, and we are lucky to have him as part of the team. Both Ken & Stephen provided a choice of mastering options to choose from… a nice gesture to put a bow on this one. 
This song is an homage of sorts to the great Tom Waits - we're all big fans, and tried to do something in his unique style. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed creating it.
 
ORIGINAL LYRICS BY MISTERMARK:

I got something hidden in my closet 
that I don’t want you to see 
a little like a shady deposit
and it’s bound to incriminate me

Well now some might call it a skeleton 
like a raincoat filled with bones
see I been hangin’ it there since I don’t know when
and I just can’t leave it alone

Me and Bill rolling bones in a gambling hall 
I threw snake eyes but Bill counted three
I took his accusation just a little too far 
then everybody went quiet as they stared at me

Now the finger bone’s connected to the trigger
and the hand bone’s connected to me
and every day my secret’s gettin’ bigger
soon enough I’ll be swinging from a tree

(swing it boys)

Coz I got something hidden in my closet 
that I don’t want you to see 
I done made a shady deposit
and it’s bound to incriminate me

Well now some might call it a skeleton 
like a raincoat filled with bones
see I been hiding it there since I don’t know when
and I just can’t leave it alone
(repeat)

Bones (The Eclectic Collective)

WHO NEEDS A FANFARE
IN A FANCY BAR
YOU CAN DRIVE QUITE FAR
IN AN RUSTY OLD CAR
I AM ANIMAL
I GO MINIMAL
THE ALLIGATOR WAY

I GROW BY THE LIGHT
WHETHER DIM OR BRIGHT
IN A SILLY TRY
TO REACH THE SKY
I AM VEGETABLE
I GO MINIMAL 
THE POISON IVY WAY

ROCKY AS A TOAD
CARVED ALONG THE ROAD
A BOULDER OF OLD
A NUGGET OF GOLD
I AM MINERAL
I GO MINIMAL
DOING IT MY WAY

THE LARGER THE CROWD
THE FURTHER I STAY AWAY
THE MORE THE TALK GETS LOUD
THE LESS I HAVE TO SAY
I’M NO WATERFALL
I GO MINIMAL
THE MISSISSIPI WAY

THE MISSISSIPPI WAY (Lyrics)

Old frozen scenes
where daylight breathes
and fades away
As they roam and seek
how it feels unreal
left here today

Gone, the past has gone
forever gone
As hope, keeps holding on
keeps holding on

Old echoed dreams
they crawl and weave
then fade away
Not much left to believe
as the past it creaks
here today

Frozen Scenes

'clown redux'

music: Rentt
lyrics, vocals, art: scotty
 https://on.soundcloud.com/QJv6N4bvd11GGu6D9

I put my makeup on before I hit the darkened streets.
Frighten children passing, as I pick my trick for treat.
Lure 'em to my vintage van with puppies and candy,
then tie 'em up and gag 'em so they can't release a shriek.

Then I'll take them to the basement of an old abandoned house.
The fear that they possess is what makes me most aroused.
And when I've done my dirty work, I'll put that fire out,
and dump 'em in the woods, with their parts scattered all around.

Call me fucking sick, I'm just a product of this world
and all you fucking people, how society's unfurled.
Try your best to catch me. Do your best to understand. 
But for every one of me there's worse things done by 'the man.'

clown redux (one man verity show)

The Bridge is the final installment in an instrumental trilogy I've entitled Wilderness Wanderings. Life can certainly take mysterious turns and take us to very dark places, and God knows I have been down those roads! However, after the darkness comes light, and after the despair, hope! This is a musical expression of that hope and redemption... the bridge to life, which firmly stands, between the far spent night, and the promised land! (Note: I previously released this piece as a standalone, but wanted to include it in this collection. The piano has been revamped and remixed from the previous version)

Wilderness Wanderings (Part 1)- The Void https://on.soundcloud.com/bdkLbag8oqhxn3hT8

Wilderness Wanderings (Part 2)- The Mist https://on.soundcloud.com/c1WnpumUc4dqz2H96

Bones (The Eclectic Collective)

mistermark

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