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

Mark Myoozik (all originals)

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/
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Jazzy Ditty (trio - piano)

a funkified creation with pretty rough drumming throughout because I insisted on playing the drum part live using the keyboard drum pads. Still, some zany chaos going on here. This is from back in 2000 or so.
Another older track I’d like to rework into something a bit cleaner, with better quality sounding instruments. 

Comments always appreciated, but don't feel shy to give critical feedback - always trying to get better!

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Mark's Album

Funky Junk

a rare step into the electronic dance music arena, which I tend to avoid on accounta the two left feet. this is one of the older ones recorded with pretty retro equipment somewhere around 1999-2000.

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

House In Da Jungle

another older track I'd like to try to expand on some day. Just didn't have the playing chops at the time of recording it. Still don't  :O)

This track was also used (temporarily) as a middle section of an alternate, slower and extended version of ‘Jazzy Ditty’, one of my favourite tracks. But I hope to eventually replace it with something that fits better. 

Artwork is a variation I did (added guitar strings) on a well known Matisse print.

Comments always appreciated, but don't feel shy to give critical feedback - always trying to get better!

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Belle Curves Blues

This tune is another variation of an old original piano melody that's gone through several drastic 'evolutions', appearing in a number of my other songs. In this version I'm playing a harp sound on the keyboard run through an arpeggiator. 

Here are the other very different versions based on the main piano theme:

- Away With The Rapids (2023 with the Eclectic Collective)
on.soundcloud.com/dFMUQdi9gWaLzkVj9

- Elementus III (2023 electronica version)
on.soundcloud.com/pzhhhyx1LiCpdVpP7

- Harp of My Dreams - reprise (2022)
on.soundcloud.com/sXpwXvUTQgf9zYJ48

- Woman of my Dreams (electric piano 2001)
on.soundcloud.com/UGvhWvSRoM56csRb7

- Woman of my Dreams (original 1999 'band' version played on an old Casio)
on.soundcloud.com/e47FS1S2gUAUtmj79

Harp Of My Dreams - reprise (2022)

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

an older one. seems to evoke the image of a slow moving caravan making their way through the shifting sands across a wide open desert.

Unorthodox Explorations

Desert Odyssey

the sound of these horns made me think of some ancient roman epic story. a friend of mine thought it sounded like something out of a fantasy movie soundtrack.

Epic Horns

a pretty old melody (around 2001?) from back when I was first experimenting with Arabic scales & rhythms.

Hijaz Kar - Middle Eastern Dance

One my my earliest original recordings, played on an old Yamaha PSS-680. Drum pattern is pretty sloppy since I was playing it live, and pretty beginner playing overall. Still, a funky little ditty with a baseline I liked at the time.

Groovy Smooth (Clyde's Glide)

this recording from around 2001 was a bit of an accident; when I was messing around with a drum machine and somehow the midi connection was triggering sounds from the drum machine while I was messing around with a dark melody on the synth. sounds pretty much like the title says.

Haunted Drum Machine

One of the older recordings from around 2001; a 3-part medley made of 3 styles: funk, reggae, and 'game show' (?). Not sure that's a style but it is now. 
(Saxofunk is a rearranged piece based on the song 'Saxafunk' by Neville Brothers)

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

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Saxofunk / Game Show / Pennywise

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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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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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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The Last Days Of November

The sitar is one of those beautiful classical instruments that has so many rich subtleties to it... it's one of my favourite instruments but hard to replicate if you're not playing a real one! Nevertheless I've recorded a few tracks that feature sitar  - the others being "Tiger Raga" and "From Agra to Zanzibar". The other main instrument on this track is the santoor, a kind of dulcimer played with small sticks striking the strings. 

This is another older track from around 2001, which I keep meaning to re-do with better sound quality and mix. It’s dark with an upbeat rhythm, and a cool little bit around the middle. And as a drummer, I do like the percussion in this quite a bit. 

Comments always appreciated, but don't feel shy to give critical feedback - always trying to get better!

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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

Sitar & Santoor

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

This tune is (almost) the oldest version of an old piano melody I wrote around 1999. The chord arrangement has been used in several other tunes of mine, but each one sounds drastically different. This is actually the only version I did that has a melody line - the synth sound - that was meant to be a vocal melody. There are actually vocals written for this song, but they're pretty sappy. Apologies, too, for the very retro and cheap sound quality of the recording. 

Here are the other very different versions based on the main piano theme:

- Away With The Rapids (2023 with the Eclectic Collective)
on.soundcloud.com/dFMUQdi9gWaLzkVj9

- Elementus III (2023 electronica version)
on.soundcloud.com/pzhhhyx1LiCpdVpP7

- Harp of My Dreams - reprise (2022)
on.soundcloud.com/sXpwXvUTQgf9zYJ48

- Woman of my Dreams (electric piano 2001)
on.soundcloud.com/UGvhWvSRoM56csRb7

- Woman of my Dreams (original 1999 'band' version played on an old Casio)
on.soundcloud.com/e47FS1S2gUAUtmj79

Karaoke in Japan

Woman of my Dreams (1999 'Casio band' version)

This tune is another variation of an old original piano melody that's gone through several drastic 'evolutions', appearing in a number of my other songs. In this version I'm just playing the basic piano arrangement by itself on electric piano. 

Here are the other very different versions based on the main piano theme:

- Away With The Rapids (2023 with the Eclectic Collective)
on.soundcloud.com/dFMUQdi9gWaLzkVj9

- Elementus III (2023 electronica version)
on.soundcloud.com/pzhhhyx1LiCpdVpP7

- Harp of My Dreams - reprise (2022)
on.soundcloud.com/sXpwXvUTQgf9zYJ48

- Woman of my Dreams (electric piano 2001)
on.soundcloud.com/UGvhWvSRoM56csRb7

- Woman of my Dreams (original 1999 'band' version played on an old Casio)
on.soundcloud.com/e47FS1S2gUAUtmj79

Mark Myoozik (all originals)

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