….that another song come’s so fast.   Sometimes they just come quick and simple, and don’t sound like any effort at all – others take weeks nae months of painful effort to birth.  This one came through this afternoon, and it is pretty simple, starting with […]
Opening track from my new missive.  As often, after a few months break, I had creative constipation, then suddenly it all came out like once, after days and days of trying to get something that worked. Hence the title 🙂 This is the first song produced […]
And so, with this, I close Perspective.   Almost put two songs together in one day today, nothing stunningly original here, but I nice change in tempo and a good finisher to the set I think.   Enjoy!   [audio:http://files.me.com/morkjturner/jqgzui.mp3|titles=Faking It|artists=Mark J Turner]    
[audio:http://files.me.com/morkjturner/vm48fq.mp3|titles=Short Stay|artists=Mark J. Turner] Wanted to shed some of the complexity, make it fast, make it fun, keep a strong melody, and just have something very “rocky”. One more to go, and that’s Perspective done. Enjoy.  
The cover entry for Perspective.  Brilliant song, one of my all time favourites by “Tears for Fears”.   Not exactly what you might expect with 3 guitars, a bass and a drum machine, but I wanted to give it a go.  It’s ok, but doesn’t touch […]
After the last rather heavy missive, something far more melodic, much more complex, and with arguably, far too many notes.  But fun.   [audio:http://files.me.com/morkjturner/qy7zei.mp3|artists=Mark J Turner|titles=A Shameful Smile]    
  [audio:http://files.me.com/morkjturner/js6v7u.mp3|titles=The Way To Do That Thing You Do|artists=Mark J Turner] Something new and tasty.  Quite heavy.  Purely co-incidental that the new Megadeth album was out last week…..  
Distant Journey was completed 14th February 2010.  The intention of this collection is a progressive rock/metal extravaganza, with absolutely no compromise.  The first song, produced in late 2009, is a real synth and guitar lead overload track – complex, intricate, fusion, jazz, metal, thrash, rock and […]
Edge Of the World was completed in 2008 – My favourite track on this collection is “My Naked God” which is a fast moving rock track, with a nice harmony.  The overall sound is fairly similar to “Many Ways To Be” so far, the only significant difference […]
Many Ways To Be – Everything seemed to really fall together well, from the outset with My Many Ways To Be, to the conceptual “serial” of Violently Blue and The Lives I Have Lived then the upbeat rocker in Rollercoaster. I started to use twin lead harmonies strongly here, and put a […]
Inversions began in early 2008, and was completed quickly.   I really started to branch out trying a variety of different styles – with a particular focus on Progressive Rock styles such as those of “Dream Theater”, one of my favourite bands.  Inversions worked out really […]
The title track no less….got a bit carried away, and this took way too long – but it’s come out really, really well, and I’m very happy with it.   It’s got pretty much every instrument I own on it, which is unusual – that’s three […]
    Been listening a lot to old 80’s rock and metal bands recently.  You’d never tell. [audio:http://files.me.com/morkjturner/saq2ok.mp3|titles=The Bright Lights|artists=Mark J. Turner|autostart=yes] Enjoy.
  Something new. Unsubtle, nothing stunning original, but fun (to play, to record) – to listen, well, that’s up to others. [audio:http://files.me.com/morkjturner/skxnue.mp3|titles=The Business|artists=Mark J. Turner|autostart=yes]    
Second track, but decided it’s going to be the opener so relegated Making Me, Like You to second – not based on quality, just how it’s feels for an opener.  Anyways, some oddness here, but also some frivolity – quite fun, got a bounce in the middle, […]
This is the first track in a new collection of ten entitled “Perspective”.  This will be my tenth album in half as many years, which is a little shocking – not quite sure where i get the time! As is often the case after a small […]
“Way Back When” completes Tears To Distraction.  Something more simple with an upbeat to finish off what hasn’t been the easiest collection to complete.  But here you go, enjoy.     [audio:http://files.me.com/morkjturner/c56wew.mp3|titles=Way Back When|artists=Mark J. Turner|autostart=yes]
[audio:http://files.me.com/morkjturner/7ngfho.mp3|titles=Wickied|artists=Mark J Turner] It’s Wicked.  
I really don’t.   [audio:http://files.me.com/morkjturner/e3j6hr.mp3|titles=Me I Don’t Know Much|authors=Mark J Turner]   Enjoy.
This is something light and fun, bit rock’n’roll, but still with some edge.  One of those really quick songs, but quite like the vibe. [audio:http://files.me.com/morkjturner/3exrsn.mp3|titles=Summeriforous|artists=Mark J. Turner|autostart=yes]   Enjoy
[audio:https://files.me.com/morkjturner/pzj5zm.mp3|titles=The Reality Disfunction|artists=Mark J. Turner|autostart=yes]   Fast, fun, furious – energy all over this one.
  Latest missive for “Tears…..”.   Something slow with lots of space upfront, quickly becomes crowded out back.  Fun, fun, fun. [audio:http://files.me.com/morkjturner/5acixy.mp3|titles=Loss Of A Mad Man|authors=Mark J. Turner]      
  [audio:http://files.me.com/morkjturner/mtxv0l.mp3|titles=Tears To Distraction|artists=Mark J. Turner|autostart=yes] As is often the case, three months, no song – two days, two songs.   Really starting to feel comfortable within Logic Studio now, though I guess I’m barely scratching the surface – and have only really managed to “recreate […]
[audio:http://files.me.com/morkjturner/p0h9jq.mp3|titles=Simply Complex|authors=Mark J Turner] It’s been a while, as I’ve been focused on setting up my home studio, and moving from GarageBand to Logic Pro 9.  That’s taken basically 3 months of time, and whilst I had a few ideas here and there, nothing really worked […]
My last song ever produced in GarageBand (or at least planned to be). It was fun…..now, onwards and upwards. This will be track number 1 on my collection, “Tears To Distraction”.  Intention had been the title track, but in my head, it just doesn’t work with […]
Starting off 2011 with a new album – to be entitled “Tears To Distraction” – starting off the new album with a cover, and wanted something different – took some work, but I quite like the end result. Jeff Wayne’s “The Eve Of The War”….enjoy. [audio:https://files.me.com/morkjturner/d4aso6.mp3|titles=The […]
And……such a fitting post for the final song for “Pressure”.   That’s what it’s all been about hereabouts for some time now, and a personal red-line was crossed for me some time back…..the Pressure is therefore gone, and I really do “Welcome the End”.  I like […]
I started with the idea of piano based rock epic, ala Meatloaf.  Actually, it didn’t really deviate from that intention, and stayed fairly much on track.  Let you decide if it was successful or not… Enjoy [audio:http://files.me.com/morkjturner/tls3zw.mp3|titles=Song of Susannah|artists=Mark J. Turner|autostart=yes]
A new song, something of a new vibe. First new bass strings in 10 years, led to quite a thumping solid bass sound, so it was probably overdue 🙂 Very enjoyable instrumental, really enjoyed the time change and the solo. Enjoy. [audio:http://files.me.com/morkjturner/e8lksq.mp3|titles=The Choice To Forever Regret|authors=Mark […]
New song.  Had writers block for nearly two months now, but this one came from nowhere.   Nice funky jive 🙂 [audio:http://files.me.com/morkjturner/32yf6t.mp3|titles=Elusive|artists=Mark J Turner]
Latest missive for ‘Pressure’, named ‘Surface Detail’.  Lots of reverb’d piano and bar clip’d accoustic as the backing here.  Some nice lead riff’s as overlays and a generally, complex and full sounding track.  Enjoy. [audio:http://files.me.com/morkjturner/j368y5.mp3|titles=Surface Detail|authors=Mark J. Turner]
Starts off with an arguably, moronic sound heavy metal riff, then right at the end takes a harmony twist and goes into something hopefully surprising – then again, the riff comes back and It starts to play more of a serious underpinning to a harmonic pinched […]
Another song that came relatively quickly – under a few hours.  The songs are getting simpler, in that the main theme might be a little elaborate, but their’s only the main theme.  I’m not convinced either way at the moment, I like the dramatic changes into […]
For pressure, I wanted a really simple rock ‘n roll cover; last time round I spent many many weeks figuring out “Spirit of Radio”, and whilst it was fun and I liked the end result, I only wanted to spend a few hours on the cover […]
So here’s the title track for Pressure.  Heavier, darker, with a good melody still thrown in.  Used some synth pad stuff from within GarageBand for the intro, and some new Drum Loops picked up from bandmateloops.com the rest is all home-made as usual.  Slightly unusual from […]
Quick off the mark……finish one, and well, it’s a national holiday – and the family left to visit the in-laws, so I had some spare time. Pressure is the name I’ve given to my new collection of ten (starting today) – unusually, this isn’t going to […]
The last song for “Tortured Soul”, entitled Surrender.  Hard work, long, funky jazz type beat going on in the back – fun to put together, sounds good I think. [audio:http://files.me.com/morkjturner/jn39b9.mp3|titles=Surrender|artists=Mark J. Turner]
Something new – dark, weird, fun, odd structure. Enjoy. [audio:https://files.me.com/morkjturner/7ie090.mp3|titles=The Dark Line|authors=Mark J Turner]
Something new. Came together in like, 30 minutes, so was rather odd in that regard. Fast, simple, quick, fun I think. [audio:http://files.me.com/morkjturner/dhe4x9.mp3|titles=The More I Make Of You|authors=Mark J Turner] Enjoy.
New meandering on ye old guitar.  Been a while, so I was a little rusty, but turned out well I think. [audio:http://files.me.com/morkjturner/u5qx9a.mp3|titles=Savage Garden|authors=Mark J Turner]
Wanted to do something a little slower, a little simpler, with a relaxed style, but also different and not just another acoustic driven ballad.  This has a nice little bass melody underneath it, and I built up the rest around that, throwing in a solo driven […]
Something new.  Reflective.  ish. [audio:http://files.me.com/morkjturner/1j4hnc.mp3|titles=To Look Into Glass|artists=Mark J Turner]
Track from 2 from Tortured Soul. A very melodic, thumping beat I think.  Some nice changes, and an enjoyable middle-break. [audio:http://public.me.com/ix/morkjturner/My%20Music/Tortured%20Soul/02%20Five%20Incredible%20Reasons.mp3|titles=Five Incredible Reasons|artists=Mark J Turner]
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 🙂 [audio:http://public.me.com/ix/morkjturner/My%20Music/Tortured%20Soul/06%20The%20Spirit%20Of%20Radio.mp3|titles=The Spirit Of Radio|artists=Mark J Turner]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Something new – got quite heavy in the middle this, though in the end, I’m very pleased with it. [audio:http://idisk.mac.com/morkjturner/Public/My%20Music/Distant%20Journey/07%20Time%20Bleeds.mp3|titles=Time Bleeds|authors=Mark J Turner]
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). [audio:http://idisk.mac.com/morkjturner/Public/My%20Music/Distant%20Journey/06%20Shape%20Of%20Things%20To%20Come.mp3|titles=Shape Of Things […]
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: [audio:http://idisk.mac.com/morkjturner/Public/My%20Music/Distant%20Journey/05%20Ghosts%20of%20Mine.mp3|titles=Ghosts of Mine|authors=Mark J. Turner] A complete cacophony of guitar tracks, nearly burnt my poor old iMac out […]