Sleep Therapy
Music can be a powerful tool to help you fall asleep, relax and de-stress. Music has the ability to slow down your heart rate and relax your entire body. It can also help to drown out background noise and other distractions, which can prevent you from getting a good night's sleep. Listening to calming music can help to take your mind off of worries and anxieties, allowing you to drift off into a peaceful sleep. There are many types of music that are suitable for helping you fall asleep, including classical, jazz, and even some new age music. It is important to find a genre of music that you find soothing and calming, as different types of music can have different effects on people. You can also experiment with different tempos and rhythms to find the perfect combination for helping you drift off.

Sleep Four

Hip Hop ?? Colors

Dedicated to some folks in my life who've picked me up along the way, especially through music...

This is one I'm pretty proud of.  Oddly, it's the first time I’ve written a full original song with me singing my own lyrics. I'm joined by the uber talented @TexMex-Shaman, who is wielding the lead electric guitar starting at the first verse through to the end. (this is the second time now where my vocal melody is partly inspired by his magical playing!) He also lends his mastering skillz to great effect here. Thanks TMS for truly bringing this to life with your playing! 
All other instruments are played by me on the keyboard - acoustic guitar, bass, organ, Wurlitzer electric piano, 2nd electric guitar (the higher one in verse 2), horns, drums & percussion, words and voice. The chorus is supposed to sound like a 60's soul song, like Marvin Gaye meets Van Morrison. 
If you play this more than once I'm sorry but I'm afraid you'll be stuck with it in your head all day.  :)

This one's a personal one for me, so thanks for listening, and for picking us up with your music!

LYRICS: 

Verse 1
alone in the corner, that old six string whispers to me
ah but when daddy played, he could set your spirit free 
like the drops in the rain, or a forest tall and green
there's music alive all around
and mamma she told me, you must listen for more than the sound
and hear with your heart

Chorus     
(And then she’d) 
pick me up higher, pick me up higher, pick me up higher
pick me up, lift me up, build me up,  
pick me up higher, pick me up higher, pick me up higher
pick me up, lift me up, build me up, 
pick me up higher 

Verse 2
Now I’m writing my own song… makin’ music with old friends and new
But the joy of my days, are my beautiful daughter and you
And when you play that song, she would close her eyes and sway
all the while as she sings
And man when I hear her, whispered memories they lift me up still
like a bird on the wind

Chorus  

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Other credits: 
-second verse sample of 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' (by John Denver), performed by my 9 yr old daughter
-image design by me using Chat GPT
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here's a link to just the final chorus vocals and horns isolated: 
https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/pick_me_up_vox_isolated

and here's a link that features mainly the sax solo & horn section:
https://on.soundcloud.com/y1PR8xv69y77n5CY5w
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here's some pictures I took:
https://500px.com/p/MrMark?view=photos

-mark

Pick Me Up (with TexMex Shaman)

Over There - Guit 1

Corazón iluminado

-Unfassbar-

In collaboration with https://soundcloud.com/marysabyss_colouredhazes

Ecliptic Drift

The Sparrow Sings

Offertory: Exsultabunt (Mass in Honor of Blessed Karl of Austria)
Cor Unum Artists
Paul Jernberg, Composer and Conductor

Recorded June 23, 2025
St. John the Evangelist Church
Clinton, Massachusetts

Recording engineer: Joel Conrad

Exsultabunt (The Saints Shall Rejoice)

Holly Tries To Waltz

Part 3 coming soon ... 😉

01 - Soundiron - Voices Of Rapture - Alto Phrases French
02 - Soundiron - Voices Of Rapture - Tenor Phrases Latin Slow
03 - Soundiron - Voices Of Rapture - Tenor Phrases Humming
04 - Spitfire Audio - Aperture Strings - Reflections - Tremolo
05 - Spitfire Audio - Lea Bertucci - Acoustic Shadows - Trumpet - Decay Swell with Room Sound [Long]
06 - Spitfire Audio - Percussion Swarm - Chimes & Phones - Nuna
07 - Spitfire Audio - BBCSO - Core - Brass - Horn - Legato
08 - Spitfire Audio - Fragile String Evolutions - Pad Waves
09 - Spitfire Audio - Hans Zimmer Strings - 60 Cellos - Col Legno Tratto
10 - Spitfire Audio - Originals Felt Piano - Ribbon Reverb

Fragile Tales [Green Interlude]

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