The Continuum (2010)
10 tracks by J.S. Tolar
RPM 2010.
Drift away into sleep into a world unknown. This album is about the ever elusive dream and the dark secrets and truths that attack the dreamer. Some have commented that at the end the dude wakes up, but he doesn't. Its a false awakening or a continuum. In the end the dreamer feels he awakes but his cycle of sleep is only shifting to a lower cycle and realizes he is still asleep and dreaming. Depressing I know. A happy ending would of been too easy!
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The Waking
waking eyes
dream or real
walls closing in
screams in the air
This pain I feel
chains upon me
I will break free
save me wake me
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Realization
Well this song is heavily inspired by Dream Theater. It hits really hard on my concept for the RPM album. More tracks will follow.
Lyrics:
In this dream I feel alone I see the dark in my being... (more)
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Shattered Sky
You walk outside from the hell you left behind and find that its only getting worse. But There is a small feeling of hope within.
Outside is here
The sun is fierce
The sky is ripped... (more)
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Uninvited Prey
In this dream you are not alone...
Darkness falls and I feel Im not alone
a shiver runs down my spine
glowing eyes staring in front of me
they multiply everywhere
I cant... (more)
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Hunted
So basically the dude thats dreaming is being hunted by his own hatred, fears and deep dark sins.
Also thanks to Wildgeas for reviewing the drums and guitar solo when I first started this. Helped a lot... (more)
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Shining Light
I got 2 left to go and I feel like I have been run over by 8 trucks!
Anyway...
This song is about reaching the light in the dream.
I've reached the edge of this world
The... (more)
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Breaking Sleep
I hear the rain outside my door
The clock beats to the rhythm of light
colors swirl in the corner of my eyes
waking from this hell I survived
Breaking Sleep from this dream... (more)
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The Continuum
Is this reality or is it still a dream....
Inspired by Sister Savages "Red Spider Nebula".
My eyes open in
this light
Awake
Awake
From this darkness
I... (more)
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Crystal Shore (2010)
10 tracks by J.S. Tolar
This album is pretty much done. I have to tweak a couple of songs, but for the most part its good to go. Crystal Shore is about a short story I wrote back in college. Its mainly an alternate reality/afterlife in a fantasy world. Hope you enjoy!
45:01
Awake
Awake
open eyes
lucid dreams
sleep again
cross the stream
Feel your soul
let it shine
close your eyes
leave your time
Fall away
into dreams
all alone
wake for me
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Trinity Jam
This is a song dedicated to my old guitar Trinity. It took me through a lot of shows back in the day and I finally got it back around Thanksgiving last year. Its good to have it back!
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Next Life
I wrote this song for my wife. Its about meeting each other again in another life. Hope you enjoy!
Lyrics:
Live
in the waste of time
youll find
in the space of light
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Scrolls of Glass
When the scrolls of glass are brought together the realm of crystal shore and this world will collide resulting in complete destruction.
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Endless War
This song is about an immortal soldier. It was partly inspired by the video game "Lost Odyssey"
First time here
I see the sun inside
These wounds fade away in time
See the scars... (more)
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Metal Shavings
I was working on my guitar raising the pickups and the screw driver I was using snapped in half and metal shavings lodged themselves into my finger. Well after I finally got them out, I wrote this song. Stupid screwdriver....
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Lifeless
She lies on the ground, her life taken from her. Hold her in your arms and know you must die to save her, to go the other side. You walk away ready to die and emerge into the unknown.
This song is part... (more)
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Solitude
Solitude
I am here
Im trapped yet Im wandering
free from mind
free from all the sorrow
free from time
free from all the hatred
I am here
Im in solitude... (more)
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Crystal Shore
This song is about going through time, space and death to save the one you love. It is based on a story I wrote a long time ago in college where Crystal Shore was the afterlife in which to find the one you... (more)
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The Other Side
Frozen Lands
Darkened skies
Feel the wind
Its creeping under
Moonlit hands
silent waves
A single strand
your life is fading
Feel all I am
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Circle of Legends (2002)
8 tracks by J.S. Tolar
Long story about this album. Here is the short version: After my first album space of time, got a record contract. Made circle of legends. Got TV time, good amount of stage time. Contract ended because of Drug problems with management. After that I completely stopped playing music until this year.
33:56
Until Forever
This song was written as part of my second album back in 2001. It was inspired by the events of 9/11.
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Space of Time (2000)
8 tracks by J.S. Tolar
First recordings. Recorded in the pro tools audio lab on old apple G4 at my college back in 2000. I was a lab tech at the time and I was supposed to supervise the lab, but instead I recorded this album. I almost got fired, but I got my boss to lay down a track with his saxophone (DR.C) so my job lasted a couple more months :)
29:17
Dr C
First recordings done back in 2000. This song was kind of a please don't fire me kind of thing. I almost got fired for recording this album in the audio lab back when I was a lab tech at Northwest Vista College... (more)
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Kick ass songs (2010)
8 tracks by various alonetone artists
something to get me jumpstarted.
36:05
The Joining
Here is the "more complete" track I promised with backing vocals.
A song about loving the real me...who do i see when i look in the mirror? Do I love what I see?....i really want to.
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Album: Anthony Sweet's Album
Whisper to the Wind
Lyrics:
Calling me, she comes in the night
the summer breeze is feeling... (more)
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Track: Whisper to the Wind
Artist: Wildgeas Music
Album: Unzipped
Beautiful Chords
It aint like no ones done this before
But how can you tire of beautiful chords
In the fifties
In Tenessee
Where my love
was born
Two young men upped and... (more)
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Track: This Song I Wrote
Artist: Inmyths
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Track: Car Crash
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