Shellcracker - Natural Law - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009
Shellcracker lives on the bottom of the sand at least the fish do that are staple fun in North Carolina. These fish are among the largest of the freshwater bream species sure to give any enthusiast a tug or two. Their name comes from their habit of eating freshwater mollusks, all of which carry univalve or bivalve ornamental walls for a dwelling. It's all part of Natural Law. What do I say about a metaphor except to demonstrate the clues that lead to meaning. What lands are there left to conquer Shellcracker? Can you sweep through the algae with your fins as a fan? You smile like an ocean pearl and you smile. Would deep water suit your taste better than the spring shallows? Shellcracker, yep field artilleryman, the last of a kind never seen, just beyond the reef where there is magic, . . .so it is with Natural Law as the extended dream of making songs carries me further downstream - Shellcracker.
Blue Opal - Carolina Commons - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009
One of four songs I made in Andy's Studio Digital Waves here in Fayetteville. Blue Opal, Miss Noble, why do you steal my heart? As the story is the story goes, . .she's that chip of fire blue caught at an angle when just about all the light is gone. Is this a Country song?
Just When I Thought - Carolina Commons - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009 - Digital Wabe Recordings.
Here is one of two songs that started this music thing for me in October 2007. Just when I thought my life had turned topsy turvy and I had nothing left to give, . . .you noticed me.
Felinicity - Natural Law - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009 - all rights reserved.
Felinicity, the world has gone to the cats - Lions, Tigers, Leopards, Panthers, Cougars limited in form and function to the dance of the cat aloof on noiseless paws, they stalk, . . .hear their calls as they make their way through the jungle streets all with intent and purpose illuminating through their eyes. Felines, what role do they play in Natural Law as a predator? Culling the sick and injured so that only the strongest of the species survives, genetically mapped out through centuries of evolution. . . .and on it goes this felinicity.
Clock Hands - Trace - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009
Caution - Clock Hands is a Lo-fi recording. Nothing in this song is studio quality obviously, just an example of possibility in a limited manner. . . frivolity really.
Mood story song to announce life waltzing through the migration of time. Whisper to me that passage of time to trace the length of shadow that clings to the wall as I am there with an observer's stance recording the movement of the clock hands' inevitable touch. Trace, the lost desired amount, rare without question, obscurely discreet is waiting for the receptive outside the norm yet comfortably perched within possibility.
Thanks for listening to this song - Clock Hands.
Spider Dance - Splash - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009
Thanks Tom Mohler for the guitar parts and for mixing this song down for me so I could post it here on ASCAP. Spider Dance is a lofty skewed foot moving walk along a web so high above. Ok, here it is again - not for sale - just to listen to as I hope to remake this song outside the confines of my living room - a real studio where records are made? This song was written for Bigeasy Michael on this site. It was a very difficult period he experienced last year that made me look at a way to pass along a smile despite his loss. Here is your Spider Dance Michael minus a few drums because of my two left thumbs. I thank Tom Mohler for putting in the guitar parts and mixing the song.
Swift Water - Carolina Commons - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009
One of four song I made in Andy's Studio Digital Waves here in Fayetteville. WHite knuckled, my life is a leaf tossed in the current to drift, . . .rage on Swift Water, Your spray is on my face.
It's Time to Leave - Splash - Mark Holman ASCAP 2009 - Higher Order Language Works
So the dream gets closer to fruition as each page is planed with Elmer's glue mixing for all to hear. Splash, the second unproduced Holworks album reflects a variety of musical styles to conform to the concept. Are story songs in vogue? This is one of them for sure. There's a finality in aging, when she no longer cares, youth, this life that leeches from our bones day by day abandons us one by one. Then the epiphany it will never be any better than it is right now. How do I find my way back to her. . .Ponce de Leon resveratrol?
Natural Law - Natural Law - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009
I am a paramecium or at least that is what this music thing makes me feel like - single cell with a thin membrane loaded with cilia to help me swim. So I swim upstream to what? a dream? Yep - guess that makes me certifiable especially when I have no support. no resources, and a huge idea. Here's one for you - no cars at least once humans are able to create unnatural law like we have been. I have lots to say here.
Second Chance - Trace - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009
Here is more obtuse music settling in the sidelines of my soul, a facsimile of reality yet its own seperate entity that eludes solace. Is there a time when there needs to be reconciliation and progress? Again, this song is for me as I am still quite baffled by the unfamiliar housed completely in the mundane. I am aware that a one second blast from an internal radio doesn't quite allow for interpretation of the parts yet the dialed in station seems to have a rotation that allows me to capture a glimpse. The second chance if you will, . . .yet there are more examples especially in LOVE.
For Our Soldiers - Carolina Commons - Mark Holman - Holworks Music - ASCAP 2009
Hellish heat distorts the ground, . . . and so it goes a duty, honor, Country call that servicemen uphold as their forefathers had in order to secure freedom. God Bless the men and women who serve our Country. Resources and possessions scattered all across the globe as we thirst in the shimmering heat. Draw us the compass point on an azimuth we can track - global positioning accuracy - a petroleum prayer.
Anotha Banga!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Instrumental for sale by way of Cashstroentertainment
From the Debut Album "Long Way Down"... CLEOMcLAIN! myspace.com/ihatecleomclain