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Fast, fun, furious – energy all over this one.
[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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
It’s taken a while for me to post this – been busy as hell. [audio:http://idisk.mac.com/morkjturner/Public/My%20Music/Distant%20Journey/03%20God%20Is%20Not%20Great.mp3|titles=God Is Not Great|authors=Mark J Turner] Enjoy.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
[audio:http://idisk.mac.com/morkjturner-Public/My%20Music/Edge%20Of%20The%20World/09%20Wrath%20Of%20A%20Mad%20God.mp3|titles=Wrath Of A Mad God|artists=Mark J Turner]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
I won’t explain the title, but I stumbled upon the word, and this latest recording on which i was working, seemed to fit the definition well. Enjoy. [audio:http://idisk.mac.com/morkjturner-Public/My%20Music/Many%20Ways%20To%20Be/08%20Synaesthesia.mp3|titles=Synaesthesia|artists=Mark J Turner]
Life is just relentless. Funny how the music so often comes out reflecting exactly how each and every day feels at that moment. [audio:http://idisk.mac.com/morkjturner-Public/My%20Music/Many%20Ways%20To%20Be/07%20Relentless.mp3|titles=Relentless|artists=Mark J Turner]
It’s been nearly 2 months since I managed to finish anything new. A combination of a very busy time at work, home, and finishing off my Masters degree (now complete, hooray!). Then when I did get something started, GarageBand decided to screw everything up for me […]
This is my latest song, written and recorded on Sunday 21st of September. I started off with something quite different in mind, but once I got going, it kinda took on a life of its own. It has a nice time-change mid-way through which takes it […]