GodKing MajorLucre

GodKing MajorLucre - Wit A Bad Bitch ( Freestyle )

GodKing MajorLucre - Money On My Mind  ( GoodVibes Freestyle )

a few songs where I take a turn at the singy part, either the lead, or backing harmony, or just a little noise here & there.


Playlist photo by John Curley; iPod Photoshopery by me

Singy stuff (songs with my voice)

Heat. Real Life Problems. Passion. Poetic Melody. Prolific

1390 Mixtape

Life

GodKing MajorLucre - Ft O.D. ( Life )

💥💥🔥🔥🔥🔥🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🏁🏁🏁🏁✈✈✈✈🎶🎶Fire. 

Dont Sell Your Soul

GodKing MajorLucre - Dont Sell Your Soul ( Freestyle )

Leav Em Smoked

GodKing MajorLucre - Ft Yaper Clicc ( Leave Em Smoked )

3 hour flip.
Original tracks - https://youtu.be/jOyUBpEfC0w (3, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17)
MOSNAR DET - Remixing, Drum Programming

Loop Diggers Sunday Roulette Challenge 114 Trk 2 - N U N Y A

Shawty Part 2

GodKing MajorLucre -  Shawty Part '2' ( Freestyle )

Im Major

GodKingMajorLucre - I'm Major ( Interlude )

2023-04-30

Between Raindrops

Naviar Haiku 491
morning glow
buttercups flutter
at the forest’s edge

Catherine LoFrumento lives in Connecticut with her husband and fur babies. Her poetry has been featured or is forthcoming in various journals and anthologies including: Cattails, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, bottle rockets, Chrysanthemum, Hedgerow Journal, Three Line Poetry, and Poetry Quarterly. You can find more of her work on Twitter: @Catherin03 and on Instagram: @Poetrycatt

Morning at the Forest’s Edge

Morning at the Forest’s Edge (NaviarHaiku491)

Hood Rich

GodKing MajorLucre - Ft YaperClicc Hood Rich

I watched Glastonbury with old legends like Elton, Cat Stevens, Blondie and The Pretenders etc. who all showed they can still rock the place in their 70s!! Amazing! Hats off to all!!

Here's a track in the "Brit" style and tradition and it gave me an excuse to give my guitars and voice a bit of an airing :)

Writer's Block

an excerpt of the intro of a song written by my good friend Dyniss from back in the day when we were in a band together (lead vocal - Dyniss, harmony - me). It's a good example of our vocal tandem when we sang together. 

Here is a cover of Dyniss's band covering "We Can Work It Out", with me on vocal lead: 
https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/we-can-work-it-out-with-dyniss-vocal-mark?in=user-432503709/sets/singing-stuff

Here is a medley of Dyniss tunes recorded from our rehearsal sessions:
https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/dyniss-ditties-bestest-bits?in=user-432503709/sets/compilations

For more about Dyniss, visit http://dyniss.com/

Live in the Studio

Less Than Me (intro harmony / song by Dyniss)

Credit roll-2023

A slow interconnect rule returns a new collection

I think this was the only cover tune we did back in my band days playing with my great friends Dyniss, Morris, and Alex. Here I take a turn at lead vocals with Dyniss on harmony. This is a ‘live’ version recorded in Dyniss’ studio (I believe in one take), though we performed it live on stage often.
Them wuz some good ol' times.

Dyniss Band members:
Dyniss - acoustic guitar, backing vocal
Mark - keyboard/accordion, lead vocal
Alex - 6 string fretless bass
Morris - Drums

Written by Lennon, McCartney

We Can Work It Out (cover; vocal mark)

Naviar Haiku 499

afternoon heat
the heavenly dance of
cumulus clouds

Hege A. Jakobsen Lepri is a Norwegian-Canadian translator, walker, coffee addict, haikuist, and short-story writer. She currently divides her time between Norway, Italy and Canada. She started writing haiku to get past writer’s block but got hooked on the daily practice.

Her haiku, senryu, and haibun have since been featured in Frogpond Journal, Under the Basho, Best Haiku Anthology, Poetry Pea, Haiku Blossoms, Quatrain.Fish, Autumn Moon, Prune Juice, Songs of the Pandemic, Haiku Journal, Dadakuku, Heron’s Nest, Hedgerow, Open: Journal of Arts and Letters. Her prose is widely published, most recently in Best Small Fictions 2023.

Shade’s Cool Embrace

Shade’s Cool Embrace(NaviarHaiku499)

A Steak Hat Hovers over a Red Mist

Bill Boethius: Ibanez Gax70 guitar with bottleneck and EBow

Performed, composed and produced by Bill Boethius Osborn

Steak Hat

Dynamite

GodKingMajorLucre - Dynamite

My grandma's favourite song. that's papa on guitar, me taking a turn at vocal. I also do a pretty lame job trying to strum accompaniment while dad plays the middle solo. Originally recorded around 2014 with my phone mic, I also recently (in 2024) used AI tools to isolate the vocal & guitar into separate tracks so I could better adjust the balance. happy with the result. 

This song’s got a lot of meaning in our family. About as close to a perfect country song as it gets for me. 

(written in 1946 by Fred Rose. covered by the likes of Hank, Roy, Charlie, Elvis, and of course, Willie.)

Here's one other song we did together around the same time: 
- Back Home Again: https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/back-home-again-cover-take-2-collab-with-dad 

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

Voice Memos, country

blue eyes crying in the rain (cover, with Dad)

Arrite... dusting this one off again for another year.
First, to answer the question I know everyone wants to know about this one - "Is that your real hair?!?" 
No. No it's not.   😎 
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I lived in Japan for a year between 2002-2003 doing the teaching English thing, and made some good friends at one of the schools I worked at. We sometimes went out for Karaoke (of course!) and on one such night around Christmas I took a turn to sing one of my faves - Blue Christmas, the Elvis version. 

This is a live recording of me that night. The exuberant reaction from the group is partly due to the fact that I was/am normally a pretty quiet & reserved fellow, especially in crowds, and they were both shocked and seemingly quite impressed by my getting up to sing Elvis, and by how much I apparently sounded like him. 

I could translate some of what they're saying here, but you'll get the idea. For example though, the word "Sugoi" means "Cool!". In another spot, someone walks into the room mid-song, and another person says "hey hey, this is cool, it's Elvis!... watch this..."
See what you think.  ;)

Happy holidays everybuddy!

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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

Blue Christmas (Karaoke in Japan)

Dad & me making music together. took us over 40 years but we did it! This was recorded around 2014 or so I think. 

dad - acoustic guitar
me - voice

We tried this in 2 takes. The 2nd take had a bit louder, stronger sounding vocals, but the singing wasn't quite as subtle and soulful as this one, which is the 1st take. Even with the funny botched ending, this was always my preferred of the two versions. Unfortunately the vocal recording on this 1st take was too quiet (gotta find a better way to record singing than in the basement with my phone mic!). But after looking for years for a way to bump up only the vocals, I finally made use of one of the many AI tools popping up these days for isolating instruments from audio recordings. The tool I used is called 'Splitter AI / vocal remover', but there are others out there. Finally, I was able to isolate the vocals & guitar into separate tracks and make the voice  louder. 

(Song by John Denver)

I'm happy to be sharing these examples of my family making music from back in the day. :) Here's the other song we did around the same time. This is a very special song in our family, and I was super glad I got to sing it with my dad playing.  

Blue Eyes Cryin' In the Rain: https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/blue-eyes-crying-in-the-rain?si=29d81db0b84147ab9c54e6a0062a498f&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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

Less Than Me (intro harmony / song by Dyniss)

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