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.
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 […]
Came together in a couple of hours on a wet, miserable, crap saturday afternoon, that’s supposedly at the tail end of summer, but it might as well be deep mid-winter the way the weather is going. So I put this together, and it’s a helluva lot […]
I put this first up last week, but havn’t actually had the time to put in an entry for it. This started as one song, but then grew naturally into 2. So it’s split up, but in “Many Ways To Be” this is Track 2 and […]
Violently Blue [audio:http://idisk.mac.com/morkjturner-Public/My%20Music/Many%20Ways%20To%20Be/02%20Violently%20Blue.mp3|titles=Violently Blue|artists=Mark J Turner] Part one….see “The Lives I have Lived” for the song which immediately follows on from this….
[audio:http://idisk.mac.com/morkjturner-Public/My%20Music/Many%20Ways%20To%20Be/01%20My%20Many%20Ways%20To%20Be.mp3] New Song. New Album. New Artwork. Enjoy. This is my latest song, written and recorded using GarageBand. It’s been quite some effort to get the arrangement just how I like it, and bringing all the pieces together, but i think it’s fresh, original, and has […]
I wanted to finish off “Inversions” with a Cover (as each of collection so far, has been made out of 9 original tracks and 1 cover) – but I’d been looking for ages for the right song, that I put my own twist on, that I […]
This is really, really weird. I suspect most people who hear this are going to hate it. The underlying rythmn track is one of the earliest riff’s I ever wrote (we’re talking 13/14 years old I guess) – and it was quite heavy, my main influences […]
I had a flurry in May, sometimes putting together 2 tracks a week, but my latest effort has taken 3 weeks just on it’s own to really come together. Finally nailed it yesterday as well – it’s a bit of an epic, both in terms of […]
There’s inadvertently been a bit of an Ian M. Banks obsession taking route in my current music labelling – I’m currently reading “The Player Of Games” by Banks (superb bloody book by the way) for about the fourth time in total – and really enjoying it […]
A very quick song this one, a bit of an experiment for me, but the intention was something gentle akin to “Walking Home”. Nothing spectacuarly original about it, but it’s pleasant I think. Very simple, and thus a very simple title. [audio:http://idisk.mac.com/morkjturner-Public/My%20Music/Inversions/03%20I%20Love.mp3]
Sounds like my life right now…. [audio:http://idisk.mac.com/morkjturner-Public/My%20Music/Inversions/05%20The%20Rush%20To%20Nowhere.mp3] Enjoy. Posted on My Music page under “Inversions”.
Possibly on a role now 🙂 A few hours spare inbetween chasing children around parks and singing my eyebrows on the BBQ: a rare, short effort, with an up-tempo beat, and a nice contrast between the various pieces – possibly a slightly odd structure, really an […]
My brief experience playing with some other guys, in the band “Happy Millionaire” has come to an end. Unfortunately, my work life balance is generally a bit screwed up, and trying to ensure I could be all things to all people was making the whole thing […]
I’ve had some rather gratifying enquiries as to when I’ll next be releasing some new recordings. I was quite shocked, as I honestly wasn’t aware anybody cared – so enough of my own self congratulation 🙂 There are a couple of reasons why I havn’t been […]
I’ve stumbled since song 9, and not really had anything new in mind for over a month now. Left it, and as these things tend to, this really just came out of nothing – an acoustic riff which was fun, turned into something powerful, upbeat […]
Something new. Didn’t quite come out as I intended (far more upbeat and bouncy than original envisioned to be honest), but it benefits from being played _real_ loud, and is kinda fun, if not too serious. I like the middle break, where I switched to some […]
Turns out some guys at work are in a band….checked out some of their stuff and it was pretty good, so I thought I’d give em a link. Check it out, they are called “Happy Millionaire“. Noel and Mike work with me at T-Systems in London […]
I have some work I must complete this weekend…so of course, I’m finding every excuse under the Sun to do something else. I came up with this little ditty. I’ve been playing the underlying accoustic track for years, something I came up with I must have […]
This is really, truly, something special – worth checking out. Real music.
I just finished another song in GarageBand. I’ve had bits of this kicking around for a few weeks now, and in an effort to avoid finishing some real work, I found myself bringing it together and finishing it off. This is much more upbeat than I’ve […]
Well, since I first started using GarageBand in anger, I’ve managed to record and produce 10 tracks, just under 1 hour of music. Not that I’m stopping, but now appears a good point to bundle everything together into a virtual album, and put a stake in […]
More an excercise in recording techniques with GarageBand, but the result was mostly pleasing, so I have posted a new track on “My Music” page. You can listen to it here of course: http://www.morks.net/downloads/GarageBand/10%20No%20Respect.mp3
A new song. Headbangers at the ready: http://www.morks.net/downloads/GarageBand/09%20Thunder%20Roll.mp3 See “My Music” for more information.
Another song. Something of a ballad, and a bit, well, generic arguably, but relaxing, fun to make, and has a nice sound I think. Made with a great vocalist in mind, _not_ an instrumental. Posted on my music page for prosperity, obviously. http://www.morks.net/downloads/GarageBand/08%20Walking%20Home.mp3
I felt quite challenged trying to create another song with GarageBand this weekend, as I appeared to have used all the riffs, ideas and other bits I’d accumulated over the years, and would need to create everything in one go. From this starting point, the only […]
I’ve posted another song, Perihelion. You can read more about it on my Music page. For those just wanting a listen, here it is: http://www.morks.net/downloads/GarageBand/06%20Perihelion.mp3