Mad skills, Mark! I admit that I skipped through it a bit, not having the proper time to listen straight through, but man, do you cover a lot of territory, and you do it well!

Simply outstanding journey on the keys mark!!

FUN-Tastic-O! Thanks for sharing, Mark !!! 😊🎹👌

Beautiful music odyssey..amazing work👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️

Your piano skills are absolutely incredible, Mark!!! The jazz has descended on you in a spectacular fashion!!! See, you have feel, beyond most, and it’s always interesting and catchy, and intriguing, not to mention, inspiring!!!! I’ve played with a ton of musicians, in my storied life… you have a special sense of proper proportions, and place for everything musical!!! Excelsior, sir!! Also, your drumming is lit!! Always dig it!!!! 🔥🔥🔥💎💎💎🙏🙏🙏👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Hey Mark man, this is an amazing trip through your piano explorations. Love your mastery of styles, from boogie woogie, to bossa, too pop. You really nail everything in this, brother man. I'm very impressed and entertained. Awesome work with this huge piece, bro!

Sounds great.  Interested in a hand transplant operation?

"Through My Eyes" (Edit.: Mastered with iZotope Ozone 11 on December 4th, 2023)

This is a partly improvised "smooth jazz" or "lounge" track made as a humble tribute to my - for the most part American - collection of the wonderful musical adventure called smooth jazz that has given me so much over the years (maybe also the term "Westcoast music" could be relevant here). 

I shall call this track "Through My Eyes" because it kind of tries to capture and present something about the American smooth jazz tradition - as seen through my eyes. 

This track was loosely inspired first by Mr. Keith Jarrett's two wonderful songs, "The Good America" and "Country" which both express an enormously positive and hymn-like feeling, and second by Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 3 in F Major, III. Poco allegretto (Op. 90), the beauty of which has been "haunting" me for many years (and maybe also to some extent by Mozart's Symphony No. 40, I. Molto allegro, and Schubert's Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished", I. Allegro moderato, etc.).

I have not found out much about the origins of the two Mr. Jarrett's songs but in a recent interview he talks about them and rightly describes - if I understood correctly - the song "The Good America" as almost like a prayer. I also got the impression that both of these two Mr. Jarrett's songs kind of represent a view of America. 

I have also gotten inspiration here from the music of one of my all-time favorite jazz bands Spyro Gyra and from all the wonderful music that Mr. Carlos Santana has provided to the world. Last but not least as a source of inspiration I shall mention the music of Mr. Burt Bacharach (especially his breath-taking song "Bells of St. Augustine"). There is again also a bunch of other classical and popular music and jazz lurking on the background as a source of inspiration. 

The instruments and plugins I have been privileged to use here are once again my old workhorse Korg SGProX digital stage piano (master keyboard), Yamaha Montage 8 synthesizer (CFX Concert) and the wonderful instruments from Scarbee (Rhodes, EP-88S), Native Instruments (Abbey Road 80s Drummer), the UVI SonicPass and Arturia V Collection. The drum grooves, fills etc. are from the 80s Drummer and edited by me.

Through My Eyes

Get Something Going

About The Eaters Of The Future

excerpt of the song "Clyde's Glide", isolating just the horn section with some percussion (shaker & claps). The horns are played by me using VST instrument through my keyboard. had a lot of fun with this!

Here's the full song, where I'm joined by some friends from the Eclectic Collective:

https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/clydes-glide-bl-mastered

Clyde's Glide (ISOLATED HORNS)

A 20 minute medley of some of the better bits & pieces from 20 of my solo recordings, all from about 20 years ago (between 2000-2004)

A pretty wide variety of styles - jazz, funk, ambient, classical, world, worldbeat, experimental, alternative, industrial, reggae, electronica, latin, pop, game show music, more. Some unorthodox explorations here... have at it.

0:00 - I, Spy
0:55 - Variations
2:10 - Belle Curves Blues
3:24 - Saxofunk (a)
4:14 - Game Show (b1 - interlude)
4:55 - Game Show (b2 - main theme)
5:35 - Lives of our Days
6:04 - Aulde Europe
6:38 - Multi2dinal
7:56 - Sitar & Santur
9:06 - Last Days of November
11:10 - Industrial Mustard
11:57 - House In Da Jungle
12:45 - Casio Adani
13:26 - Funky Junk
14:49 - Jazzy Ditty
15:44 - Tiger Raga
16:53 - Latin Loop 2
17:59 - Latin Kinda Thang
19:29 - Pennywise (c)
20:50 - Harp of My Dreams (reprise)

(image is a mosaic of mostly self portraits using a scanner)

Mark's Album

Mark Music Medley (part 1: 2000-2004)

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Carlos Vivanco

Cosmic Rain

Surfing Clouds

Another medley of more recent recordings, this time pieces of piano tunes composed in 2022. Starting with a few boogie tunes (a style I recently started learning), and moving into my typically more experimental stuff. A bit rough here & there, and a couple tracks are incomplete ideas, but a good overview of what I've been up to after about a 20 year break from writing music.

Genres: alternative / jazz / blues / funk / rock / new age / ambient / piano

0:00 - piano boogie sample #2
0:43 - piano boogie sample #5
01:14 - piano boogie sample #3
02:02 - piano boogie sample #7
02:31 - piano boogie sample #6
02:54 - piano boogie line in A#
3:13 - boogie piano (12x4)
04:00 - jazzy ditty (med tempo)
4:57 - blues for JC (guitar & piano)
6:00 - latin piano sample #2
6:20 - lives of our days (2022)
6:45 - altitude 238
7:23 - pilot strut (chorus)
7:52 - reggae C reggae Do
8:08 - suitcase
8:59 - our time
10:07 - finished diminishing
11:17 - heavy steps
12:33 - electric piano dark sample
13:18 - searching for solemn (chord sample)
15:31 - heroic (chord sample)
16:20 - pilot strut (extended verse)
17:36 - dissonant jazz hands
18:25 - a new nostalgia
20:40 - closure (chord sample)

Mark Music Medley (part 2: piano - 2022-2023)

Cast of Characters:

David Marconi — @david-marconi-917184705 — electric guitar, bass, foundation synth plus midi percussion and assorted traditional voices, production, mix, and composition
Elpiverse — @elpiverse — Elpi -- vocals, vocal composition and production
Ron Lewis — @ron-lewis-779503933 — synth
TexMex Shaman -- @texmex-shaman –Stephen– sitar and mastering
Llanpsych-- @llanpsych -- Tez – electric guitar
J.J. Terrell-- @j-j-terrell—JJ-- synth flute and ambient synth
Mistermark – @user-432503709 – Mark – talking drum, jaw harp
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken–drums and percussion
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – 5-string fretless bass
AliasZen (Elpi's husband) — artwork (created with the help of AI)

This song began with David, who wrote it on the guitar, synth, and bass over a programmed beat he created. He and Josh met more than two months ago and decided to do a collaboration, based on mutual enjoyment of and respect for each other's music. Dave had this song pretty much fleshed out, although it was still a skeleton when he offered it to Josh, who, of course, got the rest of the Eclectic Collective involved.

Dave asked us all to compose our own parts for the song, so we all got to work right away doing that. We all realized that the first order of business would be to get a real beat on this, so Ken accomplished that task with some dynamic, Eastern inspired drums and percussion, which he plays throughout the song. JJ then stepped in and added his best eastern flute magic. Stephen was next with the perfect-vibe sitar you hear in the first two sections.

Josh came next to add his five-string fretless bass to the mix, augmenting David's high, staccato bass with his deep, low tone bass. Then, for the third section, where David's Gilmore-esque guitar solo resides, Josh drops out, allowing for Dave's awesome bass playing in that section. However, Josh does come in again towards the end, in the final section, too. Also, in that section, Tez dropped an augmented, harmonic, electric fire, complementary guitar part. Then, David's frequent collaborator and friend Ron added some well blended, ethereal synth to the first section, too.

Once we had the instrumental parts pretty much laid down, we began to discuss getting a woman to sing on this, as David was inspired by The Great Gig in the Sky, by Pink Floyd, and we all agreed. Who we found to do it actually blew all of our minds. JJ, being familiar with her music, contacted Elpi first, and we were all lucky enough that she agreed to do it. Having heard Mediterranean music all her life in Greece, she tapped into what her husband said were her "ancient Greek roots," for her spectacular vocal performance. She finds all the modal notes and places them perfectly throughout her sections.

But before we were done, Mark came through with some really striking talking drum parts in the first two sections, too. Once we had everything in the can, David took over, both with some masterful editing and production, and with the balanced, dynamic mix. The mix was a formidable task, but he did it with considerable skill, also taking everyone's opinions into account, which is a talent in and of itself. When he was done with the mix, he turned it over to Stephen for the mastering, which the latter did to everyone's satisfaction, as always.

This is the first song the Eclectic Collective has done with David, Elpi, and Ron, and we all hope it's the first of many, as we welcome them into the EC family. They all have some wonderful music on their pages, too, so do yourself a favor and check out all of them, as well. We hope you enjoy listening to this song as much as we enjoyed creating it.

The Siege (by David Marconi, featuring Elpiverse, Ron Lewis & The Eclectic Collective)

Calm

Inspired by a track taped from Bruce Conover's morning relaxation in his deck... First I made a synth out of the sounds in "PreSonus Studio One 5"..., and the rest is history.
Here's the link to the original track: https://soundcloud.com/conover/my-back-yard-nature-sounds-at-5am/comment-1089809905
Stop by and check out Bruce's page here:
https://soundcloud.com/conover
This track is also open for download or collab!!!
Enjoy Fam!!!

For The Birds

Composé, réalisé par Jacques Lemaire alias Idematoa, Septembre 2020 via Studio One
Free Download : https://idematoa.bandcamp.com/track/from-one-shore-to-another-my-new-life

Used Softwares :

01 - Spitfire Audio - BBC Symphony Orchestra - Core - Clarinet Legato
02 - Spitfire Audio - BBC Symphony Orchestra - Core - Flute Legato
03 - Spitfire Audio - BBC Symphony Orchestra - Core - Horn Legato
04 - Spitfire Audio - Aperture Strings - Aperture Ensemble - Tremolo
05 - Sonuscore - The Orchestra Complete - Violin 1 Staccato - Violin 2 Staccato - Viola Staccato - Cello Staccato - Double Bass Staccato
06 - Orchestral Tools - Time Micro - Bass Ensemble Triplets
07 - Spitfire Audio - BBC Symphony Orchestra - Violin 1 - C.Sord Long CS
08 - Spitfire Audio - BBC Symphony Orchestra - Core - Brass - Horns a4 - Legato

Mark Music Medley (part 2: piano - 2022-2023)

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