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mistermark

Worldbeat

a compilation of some of the better stuff I had recorded before 2022, the year I became much more active on SoundCloud (after getting a new piano for my birthday!). Before that, there was about 20 years (!) where I didn't record or hardly even play anything, other than drumming in various drum circles. So all this music is actually from between 1998-2002. Sound quality is not always great, but some hidden gems here & there. Thanks for listening...   :)

"Best Before Date" (music from before 2022 - compilation)

[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

Tradacoustic series no. 364

Music, mostly recent, a few days, a few months...

created: 2025/03/17

hk_tradacoustic_364

some music I wrote and performed some time ago, around 2001, and some more recent stuff from after 2022.

Mark Myoozik (all originals)

An ambient acoustic guitar piece about me being in total awe of my guitar, it's magical hypnotizing reverberating strings. Hope you enjoy the tingley stringley showers meant to give you the blissful beaming vibe 🌹❤️🌺 

Stringley - Music by REKHA - IYERN [Fe] | Ambient | Fingerpicking | Acoustic Guitars

Cover Art Design & Graphics by REKHA IYERN [Fe]

Composed & Produced, Recorded & Performed, Mixed & Mastered by REKHA IYERN [Fe] RECORDS in CANADA







Stringley M1B 2.6db REKHA IYERN [Fe]

Stringley

Stringley - Music by REKHA - IYERN [Fe] | Ambient | Fingerpicking | Acoustic Guitar 🎸

revisiting an old favourite with new & improved sound quality, mixing and arrangement. This is basically a repeating chorus, which is pretty catchy, but I’d love to eventually compose the rest of this tune, and have it played by jazz musicians with live instruments one day. This is probably still one of my top 3 favourite tracks, but there’s a couple other versions I’ve posted on here - one with a saxophone playing lead melody: 
https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/jazzy-ditty-new-med-quartet?in=user-432503709/sets/bestest-ones

and a slower extended version:
https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/jazzy-ditty-belle-curves-blues?in=user-432503709/sets/bestest-ones

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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

Jazzy Ditty (trio - piano)

Easy (cropped version of the song by Lionel Ritchie & The Commodores)

Mark's Album (post-2020)

Easy (cover, excerpt)

a slightly shorter version with piano only (song by John Lennon)

Imagine (cover, excerpt)

trying out a latin sounding rhythm with various perc layered in. I miss doing this with real drums with my old buds.

Mark's Album

latin perc loop 2

while practicing on the congas one evening down by the lake, this fellow comes up and, without speaking, joins me on the bench and starts playing some amazing melody riffs on the 'sheng' (a Chinese reed instrument). Didn't catch his name, but his playing did all the talking...

Voice Memos

duet with conga & sheng (live - see description)

jamming with some friends with various latin perc. I started this one off, playing on some sweet sounding congas of my friend Alex (the dude playing black drums in the photo. I'm on the left playing mine.) We used to meet every Sunday by the beach - just one of several drum groups I used to jam with back in the day...

here's s few photos of my ever-growing drum collection:
https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=28551615%40N00&sort=date-taken-desc&text=percussion&view_all=1

conga jam 3 - fire hydrant saga (Alex & friends)

a 5 minute medley featuring my favourite 20 second bits (roughly) from 10 of my favourite older recordings.
I need to do an updated version to include post-2022 stuff…

TRACK LISTING: 
0:00  -  Jazzy Ditty
0:42  -  Aulde Europe
1:07   -  Multi2dinal
1:46   -  Variations
2:13   -  Belle Curves Blues
2:35  -  Saxofunk/Game Show/Pennywise  
2:56  - Sitar & Santur
3:24  - Funky Junk
3:54  - The Last Days of November
4:48  - Elementus-Mix III

full tracks can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/sets/mark-myoozik

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

mark music medley (top 10 tidbits -oldies)

experimenting with mixing some preset Garageband loops with some original rhythms and melody.

Latin Kinda Thang

another of my few compositions created by finding & painstakingly arranging bits of sound samples in GarageBand (adding my own percussion bits throughout). Mixing instruments from both Indian & North African influence (and a hint of Gospel), the two styles seem to blend seamlessly, and I love how it transitions from the more ambient first half into the electronic frenzy in the second half, then back to the dreamy repeating pattern in the closing section. This one's definitely one of my top favourite tracks of the newer (post 2022) recordings.
(flute sample taken from the song 'Neydzan', performed by master ney flute player, Kudsi Erguner, from Turkey)

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: 500px.com/p/mrmark?view=photos
(totally safe site, despite the false warning Soundcloud sticks up if you click on the link)

From Agra to Zanzibar

Coat 220523

more experimenting with arranging sampled sounds & loops. a little slow to build up, but once the horns and hammond organ kick in, it's pretty funky.

-sampled instruments include: rhythm & lead electric guitar, some bass, filtered piano, horns, some drums & perc
-instruments played by me include: organ, drums & perc, a tiny bit of electric piano and bass at the transitions  

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

Sneaky Reggae

one of my favourite tracks from the older batch written around early 2001. Or at least it was a favourite for about 20 years until I started writing new stuff in 2022. The violin solo near the beginning is one of my favourite bits I've recorded, but the middle section could use some work since I don't play guitar - everything on this is played on keyboard. I'd love one day re-do this with better sound quality, or even with real violin and guitar.
 
instruments include drums, bass, piano, electric piano, violin, electric guitar, xylophone, organ (all played on keyboard).

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

Multi2dinal

re-uploading an old tune from around 2001, remastered from original tape. This is definitely one of the ones I'd love to hear played on real orchestral instruments.

instruments include violin (bowed & plucked), cello, clarinet, accordion, percussion - all synth sounds. 

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

Aulde Europe

This was one of my earliest compositions - from around 2001 - of what I would consider a 'full' song... i.e. not the usual recording of me noodling on a part to build on later and never finishing. The main chorus & verse theme are pretty straightforward and remind me a little of the 'Winter Games' theme by David Foster. But the bridge section in the middle and especially the arpeggio in the closing section are something quite different... arguably my favourite minute or so of anything I've recorded.

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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

The Last Days Of November

I was honoured to get a message from Mark Sartori (@user-83791253-79179570), whose music & guitar playing I'm a big fan of, asking if I might want to collaborate on one of his pieces of music. He suggested I add some percussion to his guitar, and this is what came together. Mark S has since recorded a new, solo version of the song as well. 

Thanks Mark, for giving me the nod to work with you on this really fine & catchy tune. Hope folks dig this pan-Pacific partnership!

Little Wind (Mark Sartori with MisterMark)

Misty Jazz Guitar Chords

Ledb

I've had this idea for a while to insert a Reggae/Dub section into a Jazz or Blues tune, and finally got around to it. Luckily, this is both - a 24 bar Blues structure in a Jazz style, with 3 horns. As a bonus, I managed to work in a little tribute to Pink Floyd. See if you can spot the several references to the song 'Money' in the Dub section starting @ 2:46, and the subtle nod in the track art. 

Also, one of my fave sounds in music is hearing a trombone player 'go off' in an unhinged solo, bonus points if it's muted with a plunger  ;). I tried at least a very small attempt at that... it comes in right after the 'Dub' section while the sax & trumpet swap melodies from the first half. Maybe it works maybe it doesn't, but I laugh whenever I hear it. All instruments are played by me on keyboard.

***Also, check out the really cool take that fellow Canadian 'Big Al From The Grove' has on this track, where he graced it with his brilliant guitar playing: 
https://soundcloud.com/user-543408605/1-for-the-money-3-for-the-blues

thanks for listening!  

(just realized, this is actually track #100 in my SC catalogue, since starting in 2013. yay!)

-sound sample & some music themes from 'Money' by Pink Floyd (written by Roger Waters)
-image created using Dall-E

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

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- Here's a funny photo I took & Photoshopped which was inspired by this Pink Floyd song: 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mark_boucher/53706894609/in/dateposted/

- my best photos on 500px (safe site): 500px.com/p/mrmark?view=photos

1 For The Money, 3 For The Blues (& a Dub interlude tribute to Pink Floyd)

I have some friends in Toronto who are serious students of West African Malinke drumming. This is an excerpt of a performance their band - Bolokelen - did in Kensington Market several years ago. I got to be a guest drummer on the Dun Dun (more specifically the Sangban - the colourful drum seen on the right side of this photo, played with a stick). Not my usual drum of choice (that would be Djembe or Congas) and it showed at times!

This photo is from the popular Afrofest show in Toronto, and the dancer is Tapa Diarra, a Malian singer now living in my home town Montreal. The fellow in the orange poncho is my best friend Frank, seen playing Dun Dun here.  :)

Just wanted to put up a few examples of my Latin & African drumming from back in the day since I am a drummer/percussionist first, but I don't have much here on Soundcloud.  apologies for the poor sound quality.

here's s few photos of my ever-growing drum collection:
https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=28551615%40N00&sort=date-taken-desc&text=percussion&view_all=1

Live in Kensington

Bolokelen (live West African drumming performance)

Cleaning the basement today I realized it's been about 10 years since I last played any of my drums, so I dusted them off and recorded a little something. I also found my old flute which hasn't been played in even longer, and added that to the mix. The didgeridoo is played by me too, though I can't really play it properly. This is a pretty rough take slapped together in a couple hours, but had fun messing around. :)
Best experienced loud(ish), with headphones

instruments played:
  -Wind:  flute, didgeridoo 
  -Drums: djembe, congas (2), talking drum
  -Percussion: maracas, cowbells, calabash, small log drum

here's a version with (my) voices added. See which you prefer...
https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/flute-loops-jam-with-voices

Image designed & created with Dall-E

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here's some pictures I took:
https://500px.com/p/MrMark?view=photos

Flute Loops & Jam (*original version*)

same as previous upload, but with (my) voices added. see which you prefer...

See the original for details: https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/flute-loops-jam

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here's some pictures I took:
https://500px.com/p/MrMark?view=photos

Flute Loops & Jam (*voices version*)

fresh collaboration between Chris O'Brien and Tony Walker... a distance thing, with Chris being somewhere deep in the Iberian peninsula, and Tony still in SE London...

songs available for bands to record... and written to order

start all over again

A song for the RPM challenge 2025
(Recorded on iPhone)

I’m light

Smooth jazz music ( instrumental music, piano music, nu jazz, lounge music, chillout music )

This track uses sound samples from GarageBand which I then arranged into this thumpin’ thingamabobber. Like lots of my stuff, this is just an idea which may be developed into a fuller arrangement later.

I, Spy

On The Sunny Side Of The Street Comping

"Big Foot" Selmer Balanced Action Tenor Saxophone by Masashi Usui

MXL V69ME Tube Microphone Test Play Add Reverb Only No EQ and Effects by Masashi Usui 碓井雅史

DAW: Pro Tools
AIF: Focusrite 2i2 3rd gen 96/24bit
Microphone: MXL V69ME Tube Condenser Microphone with Vintage Sylvania Tube 12AT7
Tenor Saxophone: Selmer Balanced Action 255xx
Mouthpiece: Vintage King White worked on by Sebastian Knox
Ligature: Vintage King
Reed: Rico Grand Concert 3

Office THE SOUND
http://usuimasashi.com/

"Big Foot" Selmer Balanced Action Tenor Saxophone by Masashi Usui

New Orleans feel, country blues influence.