Mark Sheeky Music

Photograph of Heaven from the album Remembrance Service (for those who died homeless postponed).

The album is a sonata of atmospheric musical vignettes.

Inspired by a notice during the Coronavirus pandemic, the songs and instrumental pieces here explore themes of urban life and alienation in a post-industrial, post-apocalyptic landscape.

Great Grandfather's Song from the 2022 remaster of 2020 album Burn Of God.

Over two years in development, Burn Of God is a progressive concept album on the theme of religion, a depiction of a night of anxiety, an examining of the eternal questions of meaning and existence. This album continued the evolution of my music work from instrumental to vocal orientated rock or progressive music, and includes greater use of live instruments than in my work to date.

The project began as a series of solo piano works which aimed to depict a specific mood of darkness and emptiness, something like an Erik Satie nocturne. The music grew into a story with links to Ingmar Bergman's film Through a Glass Darkly. It was then that I knew he wanted to make a snapshot of religious belief.

Hitler in High Heels from the 2022 album Secret Electric Sorcery.

Secret Electric Sorcery is an album of songs, a mix of new-wave electronic with rock guitars, piano and vocals; the next evolutionary step in performance and production.

The themes reflect my feelings of the current times. Teenage Dreams, Eyes of Pity, Be My Jesus, Back When It All Began; these are love songs from an adult perspective.

Young Attractive And Physically Fit from the 2021 album Nightfood.

Nightfood is an album of two halves which continues to explore structures and unity in contemporary music. The first four tracks, the 'Nightfood Sonata', is a surrealist rock tale of broken love. There are elements of progressive rock; with guitar, piano, synthesizer, and other effects to create something different.

The second half is a radical shift from the first. The 'Neon Sonata' consists of three up-beat electro-pop tunes, ending with a dance-trance composition from the 1990s, the theme to the Amiga game Burnout.

The track Nick Drake from the 2021 concept album The Myth Of Sisyphus.

Fostered in the extraordinary year of solitude and struggle that was 2020, this album began as an idea about working on something with care and attention in obscurity. Though not as bleak as Camus' philosophy, or directly inspired by it, there is a nod to the work, a comment on the affirmation of life vs. death, too. The tracks are unified musically and thematically, telling a story in images. We move between a windswept hilltop and bleak interiors as we roll our rock along the eternal journey.

A track from my first album, Synaesthesia, first recorded in 1999. Synaesthesia is an electronic concept album. This was my first serious attempt at an album sized composition, and was influenced in style and form by Jean-Michel Jarre album works such as Rendezvous and Chronologie.

I recorded the album 4 times. Resurrection here is from the 2020 version.

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The Lost Princess from the 2019 album Music Of Poetic Objects. The piece is part of a triptych of tracks about an artwork called The Love Reliquary.

The album explores ekphrasis, the transmutation of art through different media. Typically applied to poetry inspired by paintings or artworks, ekphrastic music seeks to condense the essential feeling of an artwork in music.

The style of the music continues the trend from Cycles & Shadows, expressive music centred around piano performances, augmented with other electronic instruments with an orchestral feeling, to create something completely new, yet linked to the cusp between the classical and romantic eras.

The music for Swift Trilogy was composed in 2016, shortly after I completed the final painting in the series. My aim was to create music that conveyed a feeling to complement the paintings, the audio equivalent of a background layer of grey; this is why rain and mist permeate this music.

The Love Reliquary music was written in 2017, at around the time of Cycles & Shadows, and illustrates the change of direction of my musical style which began to emerge at that time.

The first six tracks were created in response to Ekphrastic Towers, an exhibition of art and poetry in Stockport War Memorial Art Gallery by the Write Out Loud poetry group and curated by John Keane.

Pandora from the 2013 album Bites Of Greatness.

Bites of Greatness is a mix of catchy tunes with a computer game feel, a sort of sibling to Stupid Computer Music. Here, however, the tracks are original work composed for this album rather than existing computer game themes.

Musically, this album is a panoply of catchy tunes. I had often wondered why artists like Jean-Michel Jarre didn't just make an album of only the catchy tunes that were often released as singles, so this album was my response.

Loneliness And Divine Love from the 2012 album The Love Symphony.

The Love Symphony is an album that is symphonic in scale and ambition. The album uses the theme of love to tell an instrumental musical tale, a journey of loneliness into love.

The music here is unified with perhaps the simplest idée fixe possible, three fixed tones, as the listener is taken on a melodic journey. The work is divided into three broad sections, each with three tracks.

In 2015, I created an accompanying film for the entire album using stock footage to create a visual analogue of the music. The Love Symphony: A Fantasy of Darkness and Light, was premiered in London in 2015.

Catacombs from the 2012 album Flatspace II: The Official Soundtrack. Catacombs first appeared on one of my earliest (as yet unreleased) CDs, The Incredible Journey.

I developed around 50 computer games before Flatspace became my most successful creation. The sequel, Flatspace II, included a wide range of new music, and at the end of 2011 a new soundtrack was assembled.

Most of the tracks here are either new releases or new versions; the original intro to the game appears here, a re-recording of Mariner and the 7th Bell, as well as the vocal version of Ultramarine. New tracks include Black Hole, Flatrunner and Waiting For C-Major.