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)

mistermark Selection

Late 2025 Soundcloud Playlist

[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

Tradacoustic series no. 406

Music, mostly recent, a few days old, a few weeks.

created: 2025/07/09

hk_tradacoustic_406

Drama free audio     <3     GET IT WHILE YOU CAN

qwerty

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

Mark Myoozik (all originals)

Witching Hour (Deluxe Edition)

The Valkyrie

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)

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)

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

Personal issues aside, although synchronised with the Earths 🌎

...A timeless battle takes place at a place and a time of no importance ⌛️ 

....The important point is that this battle can be traced throughout space and time
to other cities , other countries...other galaxies as well as your own mind ! 🧠 

...A way of being and thinking kept hidden from us 🔮 ,as spell casters and masters of Manifestation- 

...brought forward from the hidden caverns and temples and minds throughout time,finaly being understood ,overstood and embodied.

...all at another critical point in space and time when that mind magic will be needed to match the advancements in Technology and the Anti life Magic being used against us.  🐉 🖥 

....witness as we become energy weapons in this war, with a Massive download of knowledge from Codex regarding this mind wizardry in the first verse, and a stern warning from myself in the second verse, I feel this track expresses our desperation for us all to pull our inner child from the rubble of the old world before it's too late. 🔥 🎆 

Thanks for your time listening and reading.

Beat by Codex Scrolls, 
1st verse Codex Scrolls
2nd Verse Son of Lamech 


Lamechs Lyrics :

As rockets trash other regions
Mothers pleading to anothers feelings
To reach in recover sufferin bleeding 
Children screaming but not succeedin
Crushed Under tonnes a rubble n steal n
Concrete Crumble offa buildings Leaning
Roll a Thunder drumin a bleak beat n
lightning striking sheets with each streak 
Somea the Only thing lightin our streets
Aside from fires on oil n gas leaks. 
Tides a rise high n boil in acid deep 
Rancid Reeks make u gasp n spoil 
As masses meet upon trashed soil 
I'm tasked to bring heat to the royals 
Defeat these retreating elite loyals 
Numbers depleting exceedingly quick 
Feeling each lick of the whip 
Rip u 2 bits for  kneeling as bitch 
By wizards n demons your griped
Picked by fiending lizards fixed 
Livin for  all of your material shit 
Fit for devils dealings n needin ur hit 
Im fully equipted as an energy weapon 
Aggresivly Stepin from ethereal ships
Sifting the essence to Relentlesly shift
 n Refreshen my trip
 through dimensional rifts 
 bring back lessons in telepathic gifts 
 essential to lift that detrimental mist
Lament configuration in fire n spit 
Elementals dent all instrumentals
 Plentiful blends End all these pretend fools 
And all of the pieces that fit 

Cave of Hostility

As I've started doing lately, this is a short excerpt, focusing on just the closing section of a full piano tune I recorded around 2001. The approach kind of reminds of the ending of "Crime Of The Century" by Supertramp (obviously nowhere near as interesting). Apologies for the poor recording quality, and the piano sound wasn't the greatest back then. Still, this little 1-minute closing section is still one of my favourite things I've recorded. 
Here's a link to the original, full tune:
https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/the-last-days-of-november-2022-remaster?in=user-432503709/sets/mark-myoozik

More goodies in the "ISOLATED TRACKS" playlist:
https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/sets/isolated-tracks

Last Days of November (EXCERPT - ENDING)

This is just a short sample of a blending test of the cool sounds on the mellotron instrument I use in GarageBand. If you’re not familiar with how a real mellotron works, it’s worth checking it out! Here's a very informative demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByD8gH7kYxs

The acoustic guitar is played using a VST guitar on keyboard.
The mellotron sounds are:
  - flute / strings blend
  - cello / strings blend
  - male / female choir blend
  - boys / female choir blend

Here’s a crazy song of mine where I’m using the mellotron is a really ominous chorus (Cut 2: "The Chase"):
https://on.soundcloud.com/mHrSTfwtJ2xxo7s5A

More goodies in the "ISOLATED TRACKS" playlist:
https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/sets/isolated-tracks

mellotron choir (SOUND DEMO)

Ever since I saw an incredible Canadian band (Recipe From a Small Planet) do a live Reggae jam and seamlessly slide into a cover of 'Watching The Detectives', I wanted to try something similar. In this case, I did the opposite, starting with the cover, and adding a kinda reggae/dub section at the end, which starts at 3:15. 

For the dub portion, I enlisted the help of one of the best talents I know - @Llanpsych (Tez) - to add his magic and 'dubbify' the whole instrumental section at the end. I'm singing and playing all the instruments here using my keyboard, and some echo effects, and Tez did the rest to produce that authentic dub atmosphere into the mix. I recommend listening to that part at least with headphones, and hope you enjoy the result! Thanks so much Tez, I couldn't have done this without your mad skillz!

Sharp ears may notice the following 2 details: 

  -  In the last few seconds, I threw in the theme from 'The Godfather', played on melodica (see credit below). 

  -  at 0:39, you can faintly hear my dog barking in the background. I decided to keep it in, since she barked at the line, "red dogs under illegal legs", which I thought was funny timing!  :)

INSTRUMENTS:
bass, drums, rhythm & lead guitar, organ, piano, electric piano, melodica, steel pan drums, ukulele, synth horns, voice

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-song art designed using Chat GPT and Photoshop
-original song written by Elvis Costello
-theme from The Godfather, 'Speak Softy, Love' - written by Nino Rota

Watching the Dubtectives (cover + dub mix with Llanpsych)

A Tall Tale

■video
https://youtu.be/ALa7-lJYBMU

■概要(Overview)
財布を家に忘れた！交通系ICカードの残高は残り僅か。
まいったなぁ。

I forgot my wallet at home! I only have a little money left on my transportation IC card.
I'm in trouble.

■歌詞
ああ　もうろくなことにならないわ
言葉にならない気持ちが
胸の奥を　締め付けてくるんだ
ノートにメモして　壁に貼り付けて
絶対、絶対　Ah 忘れないように Yeah

Oh my goodness
I think I left my wallet at home
I have to walk home
やっちゃったね　わっはっはっは
わっはっはっは・・

夕陽目に染みるぜ　お腹も空いてきた
Ah ポイントカードも財布の中

As I walked, sharpening my five senses

こんな道があったんだ　(La La La ...)
あそこのパン屋おいしそう　(La La La ...)
いいな　いいな　いいな　いいな(Don't think,feel)
五感を研ぎ澄まし　(La La La ...)
第六感に目覚める　(La La La ...)

What a wonderful day it is!
What a terrible song!
Just walk straight ahead.
Don't ever say it's bad luck.
Don't forget the important things.

歩いて帰ろう
健康にいいし
段々ストレスも
忘れてくるから

甘い！甘い！
それは甘いわ！
上り下り繰り返す道
コロッケ食べたくても
あと十円足りないわ！

■Lyrics
Ah, nothing good will come of it
These indescribable feelings
Tighten the depths of my heart
Write them down in a notebook and stick them on the wall
Never, never forget Ah Yeah

Oh my goodness
I think I left my wallet at home
I have to walk home
You did it, hahaha
hahaha...

The setting sun stings my eyes, I'm getting hungry
Ah, my point card is in my wallet

As I walked, sharpening my five senses

There was a road like this (La La La ...)
That bakery over there looks delicious (La La La ...)
Nice, nice, nice, nice, nice (Don't think, feel)
Sharpen your five senses (La La La ...)
Awaken to your sixth sense (La La La ...)

What a wonderful day it is!
What a terrible song!
Just walk straight ahead.
Don't ever say it's bad luck.
Don't forget the important things.

Let's walk home.
It's good for our health.
And it helps us forget about stress.

Sweet! Sweet!
That's so sweet!
The road goes up and down repeatedly.
Even if I want to eat a croquette,
I'm ten yen short!

財布を忘れたわ(I forgot my wallet)

same song new day - raccoons in the brain pan

Terpsichore

Attempt on this inspirational track: https://soundcloud.com/petrus-major/kalia-beach-personal
I just added keyboard and tenorsax, each in on go.
I recommend listening to the Original, which is perfect !
The image is simply showing the Dead Sea ... not Kalia Beach !

Kalia Beach by Petrus Major // Keys Sax remix

Scarface (Rehearsal)

create human time 4 bar loop with bodhrán / bongo and guiro for the DAW version
50bpm 6/4 I think
it's setup for strings this and that would allow guitar line as is as in it wouldn't need to get fancier

The Love Beside You

Look around
They're right beside you
Love doesn't change
It's forever new
It's found online when local fear deludes
Love, be beside us,
Cue breath merge deluge

Love is strong
It 'need not presence
It's miracle maker
Magic cosmic essence
'The love beside you faces contempt
Judgement of two
You and Me
Too much is meant

See, love is meaning with no explanation
Unconditional first to station
Spacial glow as Earth shines brighter
Heaven alive births peaceful mightier

Love is for now to make forever
It stays as love in accepting clever
Conscious of the mirrored being
Beside you, don't reflect that mean

Mean 'aint me
Mean 'aint you
Tilt away from scenes that don't ring true
Proof of love is just a feeling
Let's beautify Earth's eyes with beaming

Shining out to the other life
Look, Us humans do it right
We love their cells and not their look
We love existence framed how all eyes hook

Look around you
They're right there
Love doesn't change
Love is the forever prayer
It's found online when local fear deludes
Love beside us cue breath merge deluge
Our love is beside us
Our love is beside us

The Love Beside You (Demo)

Mark says - 
In the 5 years I have been working with Rod, I have been encouraged to reach as far as my experience allows me to, with complete support at all times. So far we have completed 11 songs and have experimented with several others that made for a great learning curve for me, with several more at other stages of development... Watch this space, however as we are methodical and patient, therefore it may take some time to get them off the ground.

The subject matter of this song may be based on a different scenario but it is also a token of my gratitude to my inspirational collaborator and friend Rod, who has given me much confidence to rise to the ambition of his musical creativity and meticulous arrangements. Thank you all for giving this song your time.

Rod says - 
This song was conceived a long time ago to be sung in Spanish, but Mark did a magnificent adaptation with his English lyrics, and the meaning is 100% faithful to the original spirit, even though he hadn't heard the original song in Spanish. Technically, there are three voices together, consolidating a multi-vocal performance. The synth sounds emulate my old analog and FM synths, and the guitars were routed through an old console to achieve the vintage sound I was looking for.

Rodolfo Planes - Music composition, instrumentation, arrangement, production and mix - @rplanes
Me - Vocals and lyrics
Image by Douglas Corrance

Thank You (Rodolfo Planes/Mark J Bennett)

I would like to tell you just how grateful I am,
And also how important you’ve been here in my life.
I know I don’t need to draw you a diagram,
Thank you for being there all this time as my wife.
I have to tell you just how good you’ve been for me,
And I hope that I have also been there for you,
When you needed me through all this trouble and strife.
 
No need to show me all of your gratitude,
I already know how much you show that you care,
When you were prepared to move to my latitude,
Then I was convinced I was ready to share,
My life with you whatever it threw at the both of us.
I know that it’s true, no matter what you care to say.
I’ll always need to express all of my thanks to you 
This will always be true on that I swear.
 
I would like to tell you just how grateful I am,
And also how important you’ve been in, in my life.
I have to tell you just how good you’ve been for me,
And I hope that I have also been there for you,
When you needed me through all this trouble and strife.
Then I was sure that I was ready to share,
My whole life with you, whatever that meant for the both of us.
I know that it’s true, whatever you say.

This song on Continental Collision's own cloud - https://soundcloud.com/user-517923604/thank-you

Thank You - Continental Collision (Rodolfo Planes & Mark J Bennett)

Disordered Thinking

I ve got to fast her
It’s not her I can eat
But what a tasty treat
Cravings, as she defeats

Fasting is for fools
And that’s what I am
A fuckin tool
Not cool
Should’ve stayed in school
Got the golden rule 
To be everyone’s fool
Like a jester
Making them laugh as I die
They don’t know 
But I’m sad as I cry 
To myself
As I am starving for her love
Ive got to fast her

This track just sort of happened. Was feeling something fast-er

FAST_HER

(I'm not on SC much these days, but should be more active again in another month or so, and hope to catch up on exploring all y'all's creations)

This is an older experimental tune from around 1998. It started off intending to be a classical type thing with just orchestral instruments, but I kinda got carried away! All instruments are played on my old Roland synthesizer. I hope to return to the original idea some day to record better performances of the guitar and trumpet sections (collaborations welcome!), or redo it entirely. But the cello intro & outro are a strong foundation, and the short interlude (oboe & plucked violin) at the 2:30 mark is among my favourite bits of all my stuff. Looking for a better title too  🧐.

Variations

All sound is my voice recorded on my phone with no effects added, only effects come from live fx jam which you can watch on youtube https://youtu.be/mJ0_TcHbrVo?si=6Z3WMC-_B-Ph6z2g

sampled my voice - koala sampler jam 05.07.25

Lovely Backing Track provided by Guitarbuddy Tamil Lessons ==> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVXtdt17A2A

Youtube Shorts, Senator Bernie Sanders on Israel ==> https://www.youtube.com/shorts/C6eLSicpUR0

BERNIE’S GOT IT RIGHT
Ooooh-oh, Ooooh-oh
V1
I ain’t a lover of the Left
Ain’t a lover of the Right
I’m a lover of the truth
A lover of the light, and
Bernie
Good ol’ Bernie
Senator Bernie Sanders
He’s got it right, yeah

CHORUS
Bernie’s got it right
Bernie’s in the fight
Regarding terror-Israel
Bernie’s got it right

V2
He says that Netanyahu
Is a war criminal
The innocent blood on his hands
Is despicable
He’s starving children in Gaza
Billions of tax dollars spent
On Netanyahu’s Wars
History will never forget

CHORUS
Bernie’s got it right
Bernie’s in the fight
Regarding terror-Israel
Bernie, Bernie, Bernie’s got it right

Ooooh-ooh, Ooooh-ooh
Ooooh-ooh, Ooooh-ooh

CHORUS
Yeah, Bernie’s got it right
Bernie’s in the fight
Regarding terror-Israel
Bernie’s got it right, got it right!

V3
I ain’t a lover of the Left
Ain’t a lover of the Right
I’m a lover of the truth
No so-called anti-Semite, ‘cuz
Bernie
Good ol’ Bernie 
Senator Bernie Sanders
Bernie’s got it right
Bernie’s got it right-right-right

Ooooh-ooooh

Bernie
Good ol’ Bernie
Senator Bernie Sanders
Bernie’s got it right. 


© 2025 Renee La Chapelle – All Rights Reserved

BERNIE’S GOT IT RIGHT

Day mode vox in/improved on first vocal attempt since and added acoustic guitar. My uncles Ovation...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6xMOTjLIaY&list=RDp6xMOTjLIaY&start_radio=1
That is the original version by The Moody Blues... If you don't know the song... Meet a song that people will still listen to in millions of years. It's amazing the Moody Blues original!


Man this song has dug in deep for me. I'd say it was possibly the third song I learned on guitar. Polly by Nirvana, Stairway to Heaven by Led Zepp and then I probably played this one more then any for a few years. I remember watching my Uncle Liam who just left us, RIP buddy... playing it when I was a teenager and I was in awe. He was such an amazing performer and his playing is possibly the single most important real that made me lean to song writing as opposed to becoming a technically great musician.

This is for you Liam, the Ovation is in, we both played this song more times on that guitar then we could count... The guitar travelled with both of us around Europe years apart (although I only made France and Holland with it 😆🤷🏽). Ovy is now 42! I wouldn't be what I am today without you man. Love ya forever and thanks for teaching me

Lyrics (Written by Justin Hayward)

Nights in white satin
Never reaching the end
Letters I've written
Never meaning to send
Beauty I'd always missed
With these eyes before
Just what the truth is
I can't say anymore

'Cause I love you
Yes, I love you
Oh, how I love you

Gazing at people
Some hand in hand
Just what I'm going through
They can't understand
Some try to tell me
Thoughts they cannot defend
Just what you want to be
You will be in the end

And I love you
Yes, I love you
Oh, how I love you
Oh, how I love you

Nights in white satin
Never reaching the end
Letters I've written
Never meaning to send
Beauty I've always missed
With these eyes before
Just what the truth is
I can't say anymore

'Cause I love you
Yes, I love you
Oh, how I love you
Oh, how I love you
'Cause I love you
Yes, I love you
Oh, how I love you
Oh, how I love you


This track is NOT monetised

Nights in White Satin (A Rendition of the Moody Blues Original track 1968)

many things.

Breakbeat track with a focus on textured leads and clean, heavy breaks. This track is driven by bleak, melancholy melodics amidst hopeful themes for more mundane times bleeding through throughout. Honestly, I have worked on this one far too long. It has driven me a little crazy, so I am elated to finally get it off my plate to anyone else tired of these interesting times.

Interesting Times - Dmin 155bpm

Cumbianaut-Viento y sombra

This tune began with just the upright bass & flute part that were inspired by an old song that I liked a lot by an English Jazz trio called The Herbaliser. Beyond the basic A - B - A arrangement I couldn't really think of much else to do with it, so I enlisted a couple blokes from the Eclectic Collective to help flesh it out. Namely Stephen (@texmex-shaman), and Chris (@hiddenhands-760647700).

Stephen added the trippy high pitch reverse guitar effect, and the sick bluesy lead guitar in the middle section (thus the title, Blue In The Middle). He also lent his mastering skills to great effect on this one. And Chris added some delightfully dark atmospheric backing guitar parts and effects, as well as the Portishead influenced drum track. I was then inspired to add the background echo guitar sound in the middle section, the vocal sample near the end, a bit of percussion and minor sound effects. All my parts were played on keyboard except the vocal sample (from Garageband) and the flute, which I played live. 
Thanks guys for bringing this to life, and hope folks enjoy this trippy little ditty.

Image art designed and created using ChatGPT 4o.

Blue In The Middle (with CGManess & TexMex Shaman)

Here's a heavy original fusion recording ... Make A Difference.
Give it a try.  The beautiful photo is from Lofoten, Norway, in the Arctic Circle.

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Make A Difference

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.