Tortured Soul

The More I Make Of you

Mork — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:01:05 +0000

Something new. Came together in like, 30 minutes, so was rather odd in that regard. Fast, simple, quick, fun I think.

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Enjoy.

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.

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2 weeks with an iPad

Mork — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:30:35 +0000

So I’ve had my iPad for just under 2 weeks. Revolutionary or evolutionary? Well, firstly, I’m delighted with it. It’s been a quite amazing experience and I, astounded at just how useful i have found the thing. To be fair, my first two weeks are probably quite atypical – i bought [...]

The politics and media of the US: impressions from a single week.

Mork — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:24:46 +0000

I’ve been here a whole week, for the first time this year, so some thoughts and general musings on America. Firstly, its worth noting, I like to listen to talk radio, and the only station i can get in the tank (Dodge Caravan) hired from Alomo is WFLA 540am – so clearly I’m now [...]

Blogging from my iPad.

Mork — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:57:46 +0000

So this is a first go…..is the iPad the answer to maintaining a blog on the move, out of the country, for someone who rarely gets the time to sit behind a decent screen and keyboard these days.

First impressions are fairly good. I can seemingly type on the on-screen keyboard relatively fast and accurately, [...]

Things To Remember

Mork — Sun, 09 May 2010 15:25:03 +0000

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 section in the middle to tie it all up. [...]

To Look Into Glass

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

Something new. Reflective. ish.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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).

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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:

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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.

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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.

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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

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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!

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New Song: A New Way

Mork — Sun, 17 May 2009 12:09:56 +0000

A new song – lots of keys in here, that’d have something to do with my new keystation – no longer need I suffer an 1987 casio keyboard through a dodgy Yamaha MIDI-USB lead that required me to sellotape several wires together and offer a prayer before I could get connectivity.

It’s been quite a while [...]

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 [...]