wow Mark man, this is fantastic! so exotic and authentic sounding. what a wild ride! really a masterful display of your talents. love the drums, too. great work!

Love the sitar..Exquisite soundtrack..infectious & captivating sound experience..remarkable & magnificent ..fantastic mix & recording production!

Nice track this one..  i love the India vibes..   and the theme´s sounds awesome and a little familiar..  Great Track!!

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)

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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Jazzy Ditty (trio - piano)

Endless Sea

How much can you compose in a two-hour time limit?

Experimentation with pizzicato technique.
Other tones were placed as one felt inclined.

I hope you enjoy it :)

Soju

2hour project "Strange Scene"

This track was made with Prophet V, Pigment 4, Synthmaster One, Cube CMI V & Spatk 2 (Perc/Toms/Congas,FX)

Wild West

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

Ambient sitar & tabla music, loosely inspired by the classic Dixieland standard, 'Tiger Rag' (well, only the name really).

It's another older track, maybe from late 1999 or so. The sound quality of the tape recording is not that great, but I more recently (in 2022) added a bit of reverb effects in a few parts to punch it up a bit.

I remember when I was first working on this, I started with the tabla drum pattern and tampura drone, which I liked so much, I left it playing all night and woke up to it the next morning and pretty easily came up with the main sitar theme. Maybe the drums inspired something in a dream, who knows...

instrument sounds generated using an E-Mu 'Proteus 3: World' sound module, which uses samples from real instruments.  

AI generated image using Dall-E

Mark's Album (post-2020)

Tiger Raga

Samples taken from "Irish Ways", written by John Gibbs & performed by Sinéad O'Connor. Originally released in 2016

We are a River (feat. Sinéad O'Connor)

 PTSD

bless you if you have or live with someone who has it. ❤ 

PTSD

Do you want to be an angel? -
"Yes, to show people on earth..,
that we exist."

TRITONUS/TRITONE__________________________________________________

Who knows to what extent the Church forbade composers to use this interval. According to musicologist Anthony Pryer, the tritone "...was recognized as a problem in music as early as the 9th century [and] as a natural consequence, and so they banned it [and] had rules to get around it. I don't think it was ever considered the devil residing in music".

Why is the tritone considered evil?
In the typical story about the tritone, many people believed that this interval had such an unpleasant sound that the people of the Middle Ages considered the tritone to be "the devil's work."

As we have already noted, we rarely hear the tritone as an independent interval. However, as with everything in music theory, there are many counterexamples. One such example of the devil's tritone can be found in the Black Sabbath classic " Black Sabbath ".

Listening to it, one might think that this is exactly what the church wanted to ban centuries ago!

The tritone interval is contained in every dominant seventh chord. The tritone interval gives the dominant seventh chord such a strong resolution to the I chord in a chord progression.

Fallen Angel

Another incredible collaboration with composer Mopso Drive 
FABRIZIO DE LATOULIERE from Bologna, Italy and the masterful engineering and mixing by Gemini AKA Nigel Robinson who I am forever grateful for.  Vocals by Cara25 and lyrics inspired by the 6 of Swords Tarot card.  Leave everything behind and start a new life.

ORGANIC 6 of Swords Vocal Mix

pop or not-good enough/thanks /a lot/folks

Jumper On the Line

Feelings of deep thought and concentration

Cube of Thought

jerque

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.

Tiger Raga

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