Released July 19, 2021.
Original song by Mark J. Bennet (lyrics) & Rodolfo Planes (music).
Mark J. Bennett: lead vocals. @markjbennett
Ce Mastro: backing vocals. @cemastro
Gonzalo J. Ares: rhythm guitar, backing vocals.
Rodolfo Planes: piano, bass, v-drums, MIDI sequencers, lead guitar. @rplanes
Recorded in Edinburgh, Buenos Aires and Ushuaia ©2021.
Mix & mastering: Grosso Noise (Ushuaia, TDF).
©2021 Lone Penguin Records.
Image courtesy by Douglas Corrance ©.

Black Water (by Mark J. Bennet & Rodolfo Planes)

Take me to the brink down by the river.  
Take me there to drink the black water. 
Take me there to sink, right down in the mire.  
Take me down into Hellfire. 
 Take me all the way.

Make me feel the pain down by the river.  
Make me swallow down the black water.  
Make me feel each ache, each tremble and shake.  
Make my heart ready to break. 
 Make it go away.

I gotta lead my life the way that I chose. 
 I have got nothing left to lose. 
 I need to start my life anew. 
 I need my new life to breakthrough.
 It’s just beginning and overdue.

Seek to be redeemed down by the river. 
Seek to reflect in the black water. 
Seek to find the meaning, straight out of the past.  
Seek release from all that’s passed. 
Seek to find some peace.

Want some kinda future far from the river. 
Want a future free from black water. 
Want a life to live, free to take or give. 
Want to learn how to forgive. Want the pain to cease.

I gotta lead my life the way that I chose. 
 I’ve got nothing left to lose. 
I need to start my life anew. 
 I need my new life to breakthrough. 
It’s just beginning and overdue.

Continental Collision

Black Water

This is the second song released under the name ‘Continental Collision’, but this time, with a special guest and good friend: Dave McKeown on sax.
Released September 24, 2021.
Mark J. Bennett: lyrics and vocals. @markjbennett
Rodolfo Planes: composition, instrumentation, arrangement, and production. @rplanes
Dave McKeown: saxophone. @dave-mckeown
Photograph: Harlem NYC by Douglas Corrance ©

When I look around I see the light’s gone out this town,
 Realising just a bit too late. 
Streets have all gone quiet and feels like all the wires are down. 
Tell me why I’m feeling in this state? 
Not so long ago we felt that we’d be happy here,
 Not just for now, but for always. 
That’s all turned around now at least that much it is clear, 
Not the old days, instead separate ways.
 Like the loser on a game show. 
Can you tell me where did all the fun go? 
Darling without you, 
It’s such a boring town, 
Only coz you’re not around.

The bar, where we first met, is still there, though I never go, 
Realised it’s lost its old appeal. 
Crossing the park, where we might meet and stop to say hello,
 Couldn’t deal with how it made me feel. 
All the places we once loved I feel I must avoid 
Not just for now, but for always.
 I no longer know what I want, I feel I’m paranoid, 
Not the old days, instead separate ways.
Like the loser on a game show. 
Can you tell me where did all the fun go? 
Darling without you, where did the love go? 
Such a boring town, 
Only coz you’re not around.

Boring Town

Boring Town (feat. Dave McKeown)

Introducing Cintia Galeano in this song.

Released November 13, 2021.
Mark Bennett: lyrics and lead voice. @markjbennett
Rodolfo Planes: music, piano, bass, lead guitar, and drums & synths programming. @rplanes
Cecilia Mastropasqua: backing vocals. @cemastro
Cintia Galeano: backing vocals. @sebastian-espino
Cover image: courtesy of Douglas Corrance.

The Route To Tomorrow (by M. J. Bennett and R. Planes)

Finding the way,
To get through night and day,
Is just too much. 
Making your way 
Once more through the fray, 
Without losing touch, 
Is too much, 
For me, yeah.

Waiting in line,  
With no hint of a sign,
Is just too much. 
Pretending I’m fine  
Knowing that you’re not mine,
It’s too, it’s just too much, 
For me, 
All of the time.

This is the route to tomorrow, 
Beg, steal or borrow, 
To getting through to the other side of all this sorrow. 
This is the route to tomorrow, 
That I have to follow, 
To make it through to the other side of all this sorrow.

I’ll be OK,  
Whatever they say,
I can take it. 
Know I can’t stay, 
Gotta get me away 
From here. 
Before it gets too much for me, here.

I can survive, 
I might even just thrive. 
If I make it. 
I’m still alive, 
Watch me as I arrive, 
At the other side of all this pain and sorrow

This is the route to tomorrow, 
Beg, steal or borrow, 
To getting through to the other side of all this sorrow. 
This is the route to tomorrow, 
That I have to follow, 
To make it through to the other side of all this sorrow.

The Route To Tomorrow

The Route To Tomorrow (feat. Cintia Galeano)

Released June 21, 2023.
Original song 1980 Rodolfo Planes & Javier Rolando / Mark Bennet
Last production:
Mark Bennett: lyrics, lead voice, backing vocals. @marjbennett
Rodolfo Planes: music, piano, bass, guitars, Roland e-drums & brass synths programming. @rplanes
Dave McKeown: saxophones.  @dave-mckeown
Cecilia Mastropasqua: backing vocals. @cemastro
Cover image: Mark J. Bennet.

Almost Lovers (by Rodolfo Planes / Mark Bennett)

Once we were almost lovers, without a care.
We weren’t like all the others, somehow we just didn’t dare.
We never faced the fact,
What we had wasn’t real,
Didn’t have to deal,
With the truth while we were putting on an act
We’d have to pay,
And quite how that would feel.

The moment when I discovered, not wanting to share,
You with any of the others, that I just couldn’t bear.
But when my back was turned,
You made out with a guy,
I thought was my friend.
Then I knew that my world had been overturned,
Put out to dry,
And what a way to end.

It’s not the way that I’d hoped this scene would play out,
Leaving the stage in the first act.
It was cruel but at least I was left in no doubt.
C’est la vie, as a matter of fact.

Were never really lovers, just make believe.
Like sister and brother, with only ourselves to deceive.
I should have known right then,
I’d be out on my ear
Instead of in love.
Waiting for the finale, not knowing when,
I’d disappear,
When the push comes to shove.

It’s not the way that I’d hoped this scene would play out,
Leaving the stage in the first act.
It was cruel but at least I was left in no doubt.
C’est la vie, as a matter of fact.

Almost Lovers

Almost Lovers (feat. Dave McKeown & Ce Mastro)

This is the first song composed by Mark and Rodolfo.

Composition, instrumentation, arrangement and production: Rodolfo Planes @rplanes
Lyrics and vocals: Mark J. Bennett @markjbennett
Backing vocals: Ce Mastro @cemastro
Image of Loch Maree, Scotland used with kind permission of Douglas Corrance.

Set Me Down That Road (by M.Bennett and R. Planes)

I know where I’m going,
Though I don’t know where I am.
My drive ain’t slowing,
If it’s Birmingham, Alabam.
Gotta get me on the road,
Back to where I’m coming from,
Might not have the zip code,
But I know where I belong.
I know, I know, I know that I belong.
It might take me some time,
But I’m on my way already.
Set me down that road.

I know what I’m missing,
And where I might find it.
Without even reminiscing,
I’m right back there, I admit.
Close my eyes, and I’m there,
Though in reality,
I’m still stuck in elsewhere,
And I’m the absentee.
I know, I know, I know that I’ve done wrong.
It might take me some time,
But I’m on my way already.
Set me down that road.

I’ve been uninvited,
Yet I felt compelled to come
A need to be reunited,
Whatever the outcome.
This prodigal believes,
In the error of his ways.
He vows that he’ll never leave,
Where his hat now he lays
I know, I know, I know that I’m back home.
It has taken some time,
But I feel at home already.
I’ve been down that road.

Set Me Down That Road

Rodolfo Planes - Music composition, instrumentation, arrangement, production and mix. @rplanes
Mark J. Bennett - Vocals and lyrics @markjbennett


Southern Star (by Rodolfo Planes and Mark J Bennett)

It’s written in the stars,
When seen from Earth,
Venus… even Mars.
Whatever it’s worth.

The Southern Star
The Southern Star

Is that ‘Pie in the Sky’?
Take the bait,
Maybe just a lie,
Trust in fate?

The Southern Star
The Southern Star

Estrella del sur
Estrella del sur
Estrella del sur
Es la clave,
Del rumbo del destino
Del rumbo del destino.
(Southern star, it's the key from the course of destiny)

Man’s knowledge and skill,
Charts land and sea.
In order to fulfil,
Destiny

The Southern Star
The Southern Star

Celestial sphere,
Obscured now by,
Tears and fear.
The end is nigh.

The Southern Star
The Southern Star

Estrella del sur
Estrella del sur
Estrella del sur
Sin la clave,
Nos niega el destino
El curso del…
El curso del destino
(Southern star, without the key, fate denies us the course of destiny)

Need and hunger,
Has our innocence
Rent asunder,
By its wickedness

The Southern Star
The Southern Star

Escape to stars.
Throw right off of your
Shackles and bars.
We need to endure.

The Southern Star
The Southern Star

Estrella del sur
Estrella del sur
Estrella del sur
Sin la clave,
Nos niega el destino
El curso del…
El curso del destino
(Southern star, without the key, fate denies us the course of destiny)

Reverse Entropy

Rodolfo Planes - Music composition, instrumentation, arrangement, production and mix and mastering. @rplanes
Mark J. Bennett - Vocals and lyrics @markjbennett
Ce Mastro - Backing vocals and chorus vocal arrangement - @cemastro
Georg Boehme - Sax solo and fills - @georg-boehme

Career Liars (by Rodolfo Planes & Mark J Bennett)

How are you ever able to live with yourself? 
What do you really care about? 
You can cope just as long as you’re not left on the shelf, 
Hear me out.

Are you ever conscious of the harm that you do?
Or is all fair in love and in war?
And there is no depth that you and your crew won’t sink to. 
We’re done for.

Career liars, 
Truth deniers,
Big high flyers,
Falsifiers.

Making all of your deals with your old cronies,
I think that is all that you’re good for. 
Nothing is ever sincere coz you’re real phoneys.
Show them the door.

Lying for a living, as long as we’re forgiving,
We’ve been truly hood-winked this time for sure. We’re learning a lesson about the true cost of living 
Now we’re all poor.

Career liars, 
Truth deniers,
Big high flyers, 
Falsifiers.

Career Liars

The band started as a duo during the lockdown. Rodolfo Planes (based in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Rep. Argentina) sent a musical demo to Mark Bennett (based in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)hoping he would write lyrics for. The music somehow stirred a sense of longing and belonging, combined with the enforced isolation from loved ones, inspiring Mark to write very touching lyrics. Then the partnership was born.
After a while, different fellows were invited to collaborate to play and perform some backing vocals. 
After finishing ‘Black Water’, the song released in the first single, Mark and Rodolfo decided to re-write the old material to contribute to the band repertoire. The band decided to invite Ce Mastro as vocalist, Dave McKeown, and recently Georg Boheme to play the sax lines. Other collaborations has included Cintia Galeano on backing vocals and Gonzalo Ares on guitar and backing vocals.

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