Tortured Soul » Guitar

Savage Garden

Mork — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 19:09:46 +0000

New meandering on ye old guitar. Been a while, so I was a little rusty, but turned out well I think.

files.me.com/morkjturner/u5qx9a.mp3“>Download audio file (a>)

To Look Into Glass

Mork — Sat, 01 May 2010 14:12:58 +0000

Something new. Reflective. ish.

Download audio file (1j4hnc.mp3)

Five Incredible Reasons

Mork — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:36:55 +0000

Track from 2 from Tortured Soul. A very melodic, thumping beat I think. Some nice changes, and an enjoyable middle-break.

Download audio file (02%20Five%20Incredible%20Reasons.mp3)

The Spirit Of Radio

Mork — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:34:33 +0000

A limbering up excercise. A cover I never thought I’d be able to pull off. It was hard work, and yeah I skipped the solo and the groovy ending. But it got my fingers moving

Download audio file (06%20The%20Spirit%20Of%20Radio.mp3)

New: Tortured Soul

Mork — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:33:58 +0000

So ok, I failed in my abstinence. But I just had a tune in my head, and it didn’t take more than a few hours to push it out. I think the track evokes some kind of angst, and is almost certainly in some way related to the crazy time I’m having at work at [...]

“Vapours & Dust” – Then “Goodnight” for Goodbye.

Mork — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:03:53 +0000

A rather productive weekend in the middle of February. Hard to believe actually, as I didn’t land into Stansted until midnight Friday, and didn’t make home until after 2am. So on Saturday I completed “Vapours and Dust” which had been hanging around in GarageBand since last weekend.

Then today, inspired into action to [...]

Consider This…

Mork — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:48:35 +0000

Into the home run now on “Distant Journey”. Time Bleeds was a little heavy, and perhaps a little subdued, so I wanted something a bit more upbeat – that said, I started with something inspired by “Someone Else” by Queensryche, but the thing took on it’s own life pretty quickly, and you’d be hard [...]

Time Bleeds

Mork — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:30:53 +0000

Something new – got quite heavy in the middle this, though in the end, I’m very pleased with it.

Download audio file (07%20Time%20Bleeds.mp3)

Shape Of Things To Come

Mork — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:20:43 +0000

Much snow in this part of the world, gave me time in my office at home, even with putting in a decent days work first – managed a quick song (hopefully, don’t think it sounds like it was put together quickly at all).

Download audio file (06%20Shape%20Of%20Things%20To%20Come.mp3)

Enjoy.

Ghosts Of Mine

Mork — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:58:11 +0000

New Years day was a GarageBand fest – taken me most of Christmas to summon up the mental energy to start writing something again. Anyways, quite like this:

Download audio file (05%20Ghosts%20of%20Mine.mp3)

A complete cacophony of guitar tracks, nearly burnt my poor old iMac out recording the thing

God Is Not Great

Mork — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:58:19 +0000

It’s taken a while for me to post this – been busy as hell.

Download audio file (03%20God%20Is%20Not%20Great.mp3)

Enjoy.

A Short History Of The Future

Mork — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:13:53 +0000

Second track from “Distant Journey” and I absolutely loved writing, recording and listening back to this one – sometimes the stuff just seems to flow, you don’t even have to even try very hard – the recording seemed to work pretty much off first bat, the mix was pretty much “as is” and the whole [...]

Journey On The Sands Of Time

Mork — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:11:06 +0000

I’ve made a start on my new collection. This was going to be the title track, but by the time I’d finished recording, I’d kind of gone off the title – seemed a little, well, contrived – regardless, I’ve left the track name but the collection’s entitled “Distant Journey”. It has a good opener sound [...]

Don’t Stop Me Now

Mork — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:39:03 +0000

Absolutely, by far, my favourite Queen song. A total, and utter classic. Brilliant.

Would never be the same without Freddie’s Lyrics, but still, I wanted a warm up before I started a new collection and this was just itching to be done.

So, after a much enjoyed summer hiatus, here’s my latest track.

Download audio file [...]

Last Rights

Mork — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:00:04 +0000

“Edge Of The World” has been my most difficult production to date. Not much of it has felt fun, I really don’t know why – though I’ve still enjoyed and been quite proud of some of the end result, I’ve had to force production, if that makes any sense – their’s little that’s coming naturally.

I’ve [...]

Wrath Of A Mad God

Mork — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:13:26 +0000

Download audio file (09%20Wrath%20Of%20A%20Mad%20God.mp3)

Chapter & Verse

Mork — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:29:24 +0000

This has taken a near month to complete – it’s the first recorded with my new Les Paul standard – it’s taking a while to get it setup properly, and get it sounding as I would prefer – still not quite on par with my vintage, though it’s sure nicer to play!

Download audio file (08%20Chapter%20and%20Verse.mp3)

The Painted Man

Mork — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:41:13 +0000

I’m reading a fantastic book at the moment, “The Painted Man” – it’s a wonderful fantasy story of a young boy in a world where demons haunt humanity each and every night, and only magic, drawn y the name of “wards”, can protect people from the strange creatures that hunt them. It’s a really enjoyable [...]

Withered Isle

Mork — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:21:06 +0000

It’s a fact that I recorded and wrote half of this, got frustrated with various technical problems in production, fathomed out solutions for those by recording “The Silence”, then came back to this with a new gusto and managed to pin it down. The problem I was having were down to GarageBand’s rather crap way [...]

The Silence

Mork — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:06:45 +0000

Cover time. This was an absolute bugger to get down, but as all I have of the original is a very ropey, very poor quality mp3 of a live performance – I was very determined.

The various changes in tempo made it an absolute pig to do competently however, and their are at least two “glitches” [...]

My Naked God

Mork — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:55:56 +0000

I upgraded to GarageBand ’09 this weekend, and it’s a nice incremental improvement. The guitar modelling technology that’s the big new feature is quite neat, though I whilst I found a lot more “reallistic” valve amp sounds using it, i couldn’t quite generate a sound that mixed well into a song, at least, not as [...]

Fight Back The Fear

Mork — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:41:58 +0000

This took a few weeks to finish and dozens of seperate sessions, from a few basic sounds I’d been playing with – suffice to say it turned out very differently to what i had in mind, and incorporates several different moods, themes and intensions – so arguably, it sounds a little bit confused, but the [...]

Edge Of The World

Mork — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:17:47 +0000

New year, new song, new album.

Title track took its inspiration from the picture, which I found first whilst skimming around – and gave me a cover and a title.

I think it has a good vibe, and an interesting melody particuarly the bridge to chorus.

Download audio file (01%20Edge%20Of%20The%20World.mp3)

Inexplicable

Mork — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:39:11 +0000

So, 2008 is coming to and end. I’ve finished both Inversions and now, Many Ways To Be. I’m really pleased with both, and they show a progression in style and content I think – my playing is even getting a little better, which is nice.

So here is my last track for Many…., Inexplicable. I wanted [...]

Deja Vu

Mork — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:02:46 +0000

Cover time – everyone should know where their weaknesses, and their strengths lie – when it comes to my guitar skills, speed is not mine – so in choosing this song as the cover to include in “Many Ways To Be”, i set myself something of a challenge – much of this under-rated album track [...]