Started in December 2024.  Once again, I spent a few months getting a new Logic template put together, and this is also my first set of recordings moving to Neural DSP’s set of quite frankly astounding plugins (so no more DI’d Amp or stock plugins from […]
This is a collection of all the cover versions I have recorded.  Credits to all the relevant artists obviously 🙂
Started in October 2022, as I prepare to take 2 months out of work…..thought it’s about time I got the old fingers moving again and tried to record some new music.  This took a few years in total, as once I got working again…..well, simply wasn’t […]
This page was last Updated on the the 16th December 2024 – it’s important you know that, because sometimes this page goes for years without an update, and some of the information is embarrassingly out of date! I am a late 40 early 50’s something middle […]
Lockdown was a small collection of songs I managed to put together during that insanely odd and exceptional time we all lived through in 2020. I started out with the intent of a full ten song collection, but it never really happened. I quite like the […]
I won’t attribute this to anyone. Sign of the times. My latest practise session becomes a piece. Enjoy. The Blowhard
Song No 2, 2020! Nice mix, odd key change, having fun with Logic’s new AI Drummer Tracks. Enjoy! Mindlessly About Me (5:26)
Lockdown is my 22nd collection of Songs in roughly 15 years (with a few of the earlier songs written as early as 1994). I’ve really slowed down in recent years, work, love, life etc. However, times are strange and that’s stimulated me spending a fair bit […]
You thought this blog was dead! I thought so too. In fact, when I finally found need to come back and update it, I found it had been down for 6 months with a dead database and no backups…. :—-) So, Lockdown. We’re in it, and […]
And one more……maybe I’m on a roll.  Nice solo here.  Well, I thought so. Tread Ever So Carefully  
So another brief hiatus.  I don’t get as much time as I once did.  But here’s something new. Electric Symphosia
One of the reasons for a protracted delay was much life circumstances change….moved home, changed jobs, lots of other cool things going on. Less cool was hard-drive crash and a loss of lots of stuff. Backup turned out to be corrupt, etc/etc/etc. Actual hardest loss was […]
Been a while….and in that time I did do a couple of songs. But didn’t update the site in ages. Here’s the first – Enjoy!: Worry Not Might Not  
Something new! Been a while…..too busy learning the Saxophone. Make Me http://www.morks.net/music/Inside%20The%20Outside/03%20Make%20Me.mp3 Enjoy!
Something new.  Enjoy. http://www.morks.net/music/Inside%20The%20Outside/01%20Would%20Be%20Should%20Be.mp3  
Something new.  Rockier sounding Rythmn guitars (I hope).  Experimented with lots of other soundboards, but in, it was 99% the same because I couldnt get it to sound as good I think this does.  Enjoy. http://www.morks.net/music/Inside%20The%20Outside/01%20Inside%20The%20Outside.mp3
Inside the Outside was started in Summer 2017, but dragged on for few years.  Call it ‘musicians block’ but life did take a few more curve balls, and actually, i was out enjoying it a lot more. In Spring 2020, I decided with ‘Lockdown’ to end […]
Something new   http://www.morks.net/music/Haunted/09%20Me%20Too.mp3   I’ve also added two more songs to this Album, but missed posting them up for some reason.  Make sure to check them out on the album page itself:   http://www.morks.net/2016/04/haunted/
Saving time, one new post 🙂 05 Born and Burnt.mp3 06 My New Baby.mp3   Enjoy
  Something new.  Much fun. Changed setup almost entirely, so its got quite a new sound.   Will blog on the gear change later. 04 Purged.mp3 Enjoy!  
Something new – got a bit carried away.  S was away, so I spent most of the weekend mucking about with it.  The tempo and some complex changes seem to cause some screw up in Logic that i couldn’t quite fix or understand, and i hear […]
Here is something new.  “Blue up Two”. Enjoy. Blue Up Two    
This is track number 1 – Haunted.  Very pleased with how this came out, though I seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time mixing to get the right balance between the clean electric and the lead guitar riffs when they kick in.  Problem is depending […]
Haunted was the longest I have taken to complete a set of songs to date – lots of changes and other interesting things going on in life, let this take more time and be more relaxed.  Some cool tracks on here, and some others not so […]
Something new.  Face In The Mirror. 09 Face In The Mirror.mp3   Enjoy.    
I’ve now moved my own personal website (where I host music i make in my own time purely for fun) off Amazon Web Services (AWS) onto OTC (“Open Telekom Cloud”) – which is a new public cloud offering from my employers, T-Systems/Deutche Telekom.  As this service […]
Something new.  Truly, just messing.  Fingers got all tight.  So uh. Yeah. 08 Messing.mp3 Enjoy.
07 Madness Is Killin..> Another new song. Enjoy.  
Something new 06 Get A Life.mp3   Enjoy
Saw Metallica live.  ’nuff said.   05 Shallow Evil.mp3   Enjoy.    
Something new. Includes guest appearances from my new PRS SE 😀 [audio:04 Want to Grow Old…>|titles=Want To Grow Old…|artists=Mark J Turner]     Enjoy.  
Something new.  Doesn’t happen very often these days. [audio:http://www.morks.net/music/Take%20What%20You%20Need/03%20Take%20What%20You%20Need.mp3|artists=Mark J Turner|titles=Take What You Need]   Enjoy
So song number 2….   This started with a very modern Joe Satriani riff….that quickly evolved.  In the end i could have cut the original idea out as i wasn’t sure its bluesy style really fitted where the rest went – the time signatures don’t meld […]
So, it’s been a while.  Life change a lot.  Here’s something new though – getting back into it.   [audio:http://www.morks.net/music/Take%20What%20You%20Need/01%20Living%20and%20Loving.mp3|artists=Mark J Turner|titles=Living and Loving]   Enjoy    
Need some serious inspiration to get going on another set of songs. I am well aware that I haven’t got a hugely distinctive sound in a while. All you iCompositioners who give me such great feedback, anyone interested in a collaboration to find a new sound […]
Just installed the Logic Remote app which Apple released for free on IOS – very cool 🙂 I now have a mobile mixing desk as well as my old Behringer.  Actually, its really far more helpful/useful than you may think, if your a Logic man (or […]
This site has now moved onto Amazon’s Web Services (AWS), the public cloud service provided by Amazon. For those technical, very clever service – would imagine the website will run significantly faster, more securely and allow far more download bandwidth than I could deliver on a […]
This collection of songs started into 2015, following a 6 month hiatus, and took over 12 months to complete, which is unusually long (considering I usually do two sets of 10 a year).  “Take What You Need” was created during a fairly miserable point during huge change […]
[audio:http://www.morks.net/music/Night%20%26%20Day/10%20Dying%20To%20Be.mp3|artists=Mark J Turner|titles=Dying To Be] Final song for Night & Day.   Enjoy.  
Randomly just came across this song on YouTube, probably first time I’ve listened to it in 20 years – loved this as a teenager, just had to cover it 🙂 [audio:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39223099/My%20Music/Night%20%26%20Day/09%20The%20Last%20In%20Line.mp3|titles=The Last In Line|artists=Mark J Turner] Will no nicely as the one cover out of the […]
Something new.  Quick and dirty. [audio:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39223099/My%20Music/Night%20%26%20Day/08%20No%20Fault%20in%20Failing.mp3|titles=No Fault In Failing|artists=Mark J Turner] Use both my Les Paul, the SDX1 and my ESP Volcano on this – think that is the first track that does that.    
Something new.  Something slightly weird.  Enjoy [audio:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39223099/My%20Music/Night%20%26%20Day/07%20Two%20Souls.mp3|titles=Two Souls|artists=Mark J Turner]  
The title track.  Generally gets given as I finish as i liked the way a song worked out 🙂 [audio:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39223099/My%20Music/Night%20%26%20Day/06%20Night%20%26%20Day.mp3|titles=Night & Day|artists=Mark J Turner] Enjoy.  
My First song for 2015, and written and recorded on my new Jackson Adrian Smith Signature SDX1.  All fun. Enjoy. [audio:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39223099/My%20Music/Night%20%26%20Day/05%20My%20Only%20Way%20Back.mp3|titles=My Only Way Back|artists=Mark J Turner]    
Something new. [audio:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39223099/My%20Music/Night%20%26%20Day/04%20Shut%20up%20and%20Smile.mp3|artists=Mark J Turner|titles=Shut Up and Smile] Well, you gotta.  
Something new. [audio:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39223099/My%20Music/Night%20%26%20Day/03%20Tell%20Me%20Tales.mp3|artists=Mark J Turner|titles=Tell Me Tales] Enjoy.
Second Song. Something new.  A case of mistaken identity.   [audio:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39223099/My%20Music/Night%20%26%20Day/02%20Second%20Chance.mp3|artists=Mark J Turner|titles=Second Chance]   Enjoy (or not).  
Very Deep…. (not).   Track number 1.   [audio:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39223099/My%20Music/Night%20%26%20Day/01%20The%20True%20Meaning%20Of%20Truth.mp3|titles=The True Meaning of Truth|artists=Mark J Turner] Funky kinda side beat.   Enjoy.  
My father past away on December 3rd 2014.   It’s just for my own memory, but I dedicate this song to him.   The idea was originally about something else, but all I thought of whilst working on this was him.  He always encouraged my interest […]
“Night and Day” is a new collection of songs started in December 2014.  Though I am just starting out, I am keen to do something harder and a bit rockier than some of the melancholic sounds of the past few songs – more upbeat and maybe […]