KAC- String Stories (RPM 2010)
10 tracks by kavin.
Kavin.s Acoustic Church (KAC)
Instrumental guitar album for the RPM Challenge 2010, to record an album in 28 days in February.
35:38
04 Much Is Seen..Nothing Revealed
Fun with live looping and a ring modulator.
E minor open tuning improv.
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Track Name: 04 Much Is Seen..Nothing Revealed
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Kavin's fave RPM10 tunes
31 tracks by various alonetone artists
Ongoing list as I listen to all the great toonage!
113:37
Empty Promises
Another one from way back when.
I've always loved belting this one out...
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Track Name: Empty Promises
Artist: Colin Garvey
Album: One Note Blues
Mad Girl's Love Song (RPM)
This is the first tune for my 2010 RPM Challenge.
A bit short...my first attempt earlier in the evening (completely different tune) I ended up scrapping at 1:30 a.m., so this one was... (more)
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Track Name: Mad Girl's Love Song (RPM)
Artist: Doug Sparling
Album: Mad Girl's Love Song
Finisterre (RPM)
Written and Recorded: Feb 04, 2010
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD - capo III), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity...all fingers, no picks.
2010 RPM Challenge
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Track Name: Finisterre (RPM)
Artist: Doug Sparling
Album: Mad Girl's Love Song
Red Spider Nebula
Well, I promised myself I'd play my cello for RPM.
I know. You think I wrote a song about a spider, realised it wouldn't fit on my space-themed RPM CD, so googled "spider constellation" and... (more)
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Track Name: Red Spider Nebula
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A Subtle Limp
Getting my 7/8 groove on.
Unmastered track from my 2010 RPM Challenge submission.
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Track Name: A Subtle Limp
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Album: Comfort Noodles
Night Fell (with Kirk Lynch & Bethan Mathis) (RPM)
Dream come true to put vocals to El Lynch's sublime Night Falls, but I confess to quite a lot of lyrical help from La Mathis, who also appears as the gypsy. I had the story... (more)
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Track Name: Night Fell (with Kirk Lynch & Bethan Mathis) (RPM)
Artist: Sister Savage
Album: Juped (RPM 2K10)
taking my time (rpm)
this song is basicly about taking my time...taking my time to feel the earth, the sun. Not looking over the fence for something better.
taking my time
no longer rushing down the... (more)
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Track Name: taking my time (rpm)
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Album: Anthony Sweet's Album
Walking In Winter (RPM)
Written and Recorded: Feb 21, 2010
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGBE - Capo II), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, Audacity...all fingers, no picks.
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Track Name: Walking In Winter (RPM)
Artist: Doug Sparling
Album: Mad Girl's Love Song
Men From Mars (Sister Savage RPM)
My alternative bubblegum space pop contribution to Sister's RPM Challenge space project.
Her music, my vocal.
"I'll be in his bunk tonight." <- not my doing.
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Track Name: Men From Mars (Sister Savage RPM)
Artist: Sister Savage
Album: Juped (RPM 2k10)
Lorelei (RPM)
Written and Recorded: Feb 07, 2010
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD - capo VII), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity...all fingers, no picks.
2010 RPM Challenge
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Track Name: Lorelei (RPM)
Artist: Doug Sparling
Album: Mad Girl's Love Song
For the Day When We All Have the Time
White walls, bare wooden floors.
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Track Name: For the Day When We All Have the Time
Artist: Minus the Hat
Album: The Transmigration of the Medicine Man
Interlude
An instrumental that sits in the middle where your grandfather would have been turning the LP over to play side 2
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Track Name: Interlude
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Album: RPM 2010 pre-master
travelling the forgotten road 20100223
lullaby featuring piano (but of course!)
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Today I learned how to add an insert effect to the master channel. The song was way quiet so it got boosted via a limiter. Hurray.
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Track Name: travelling the forgotten road 20100223
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Album: yelyah.com
Teller Of The Tale
A song celebrating the animator for The Teller of the Tale. Music is post-avantgarde neo-progressive rock.
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Album: Three - RPM Edition
Vodka (RPM)
The vodka, ahhh. One of 3 that I recorded to a dimming flashlight during a power outage.
One take into the Micro BR hole with some harmony and noodle overdubs.
Vodka
I want the vodka... (more)
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Track Name: Vodka (RPM)
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What Words Cannot Express
I wrote this synth and guitar instrumetal after a tragedy struck our neighborhood.
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Track Name: What Words Cannot Express
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Gallows
If the synth intro doesn't do anything for you, just wait about two minutes for the main part of the song to start.
Uses two Creative Commons samples from freesound.org:
2523 RHumphries rbh thunder... (more)
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Track Name: Gallows
Artist: Synaptic Disturbance
Album: They Are Killers
Kavin. - psychedelacoustic vol.5 (2009)
14 tracks by various alonetone artists
My annual end of year music collection which I give out instead of Christmas cards.
44:27
Sevtar
Created this loop at a gig and saved it to the looper. When I got home, dumped it to Logic and added some ebow.
The name is a character from a book I'm reading "The Last Hawk" by Catherine Asaro.
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Track Name: Sevtar
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Album: Shadows Fall>ebow/loop studies
My occidental Bushido (with Kavin)
This One was a creation with my friend and gran Master, Kavin. You can fin more kavin´s tracks on alonetone.com/kavin :)
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Track Name: My occidental Bushido (with Kavin)
Artist: Hardrick - Kavin
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Propitiation
Fooling around with a friend's mandolin.
tech: Epiphone mando, direct in, 2 tracks, Logic spaces small hall setting.
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Track Name: Propitiation
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GAC1112109 (Harmonic loop+flute)
This is the last of the live stuff for awhile.
Ross Reitzammer on flute.
Oh by the way, I have blogspot presence now:
http://guitarlooper.blogspot.com
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Track Name: GAC1112109 (Harmonic loop+flute)
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So Last Year-Kavin.'s December (2009)
5 tracks by various alonetone artists
The stuff I squeezed out last month.
14:46
The Last Time I Loved You
Sometimes love can be a hard bargain.
Thanks to Richard Hardrick for the inspiration.
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Track Name: The Last Time I Loved You
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Pasty
Some non-guitar silliness. Every instrument is an iPod Touch app except for the drums which is friend Phil on electronic percussion.
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Quiet Sun
Our sun is in a long, cool, quiet period right now. But average ocean temps are the highest ever, and polar ice and glaciers are melting at an alarming rate. Something is going on here.
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Westward (RPM 2008) (2008)
10 tracks by kavin.
My offering for the 2008 RPM Challenge
(record an album-10 songs or 35 minutes long in the month of February)!
32:32
Kavin.'s Acoustic Church-Sabbatical (RPMC2009) (2009)
4 tracks by kavin.
RPM Challenge 2009 album
5/1/09
Deleted the songs which will later appear on the new and improved version of Sabbatical, which I hope to release in late '09.
15:19
04-Halfway to heaven
for the 2009 RPM Challenge album "Sabbatical"
Standing at the edge of Canyon de Chelly in Arizona at sunrise last summer I had an out of body experience.
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Track Name: 04-Halfway to heaven
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Album: Sabbatical
08-Lights Over Phoenix
For the RPMC 2009 album "Sabbatical"
From a news story last year about UFOs over Phoenix. They turned out to be some lighted balloons some guy had set aloft. So this tune about UFO paranoia.
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Track Name: 08-Lights Over Phoenix
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Album: Sabbatical
God Bless You, Mr. Faraday (2008)
7 tracks by kavin.
A collection of electric pieces, a warmup to RPMC '09
24:20
The Last Whale
For the RPMC Whale Challenge. All sounds guitar. An experiment with Audacity and using Macbook internal mic for room mic.
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DL4 Test
A test run with my new Line 6 DL4 delay pedal. Recorded with a handheld mp3 recorder, hence the ambient room noise. The DL4 was fed into a BOSS loop pedal also. No overdubs, all on the fly.
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Kavin. - best of Psychedelacoustic© (2007)
17 tracks by kavin.
The best stuff from my annual Christmas albums!
54:26
10-Take Me Where You are going
Kevin Emmrich added lyrics, vocals, harmonica and percussion to Walk That Lonely Road. Thanks Kevin!
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08-Walk That Lonely Road
This is a remastered version of DJam, uploaded previously, with Darrin Kobetich on mandolin. Look him up on myspace, he's an incredible guitarist! I am playing a National Estralita resonator tuned to double drop-D.
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03-Shall We Gather At The River?
An old hymn given the John Fahey acoustic instrumental treatment.
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Track Name: 03-Shall We Gather At The River?
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Kavin.-Old Days (2005)
3 tracks by kavin.
Fingerpicky stuff from the old days.
10:37
Jarhead
A fingerpicky tune from the old days.
The different guitar voices (nylon string classical and Guild 12-string) were attained using a Line 6 Variax 600 modeling guitar. Great for recording, but I returned it because of some minor issues.
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Track Name: Jarhead
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Live in the Vortex - Kavin. (2008)
3 tracks by kavin.
Sunday aftnoon (11/09/08) took the reso down to the Fort Worth Modern Art Museum and recorded some doodling inside the Serra sculpture Vortex. No effects added, all natural reverb inside the structure.
28:35
Vortex1
Sunday aftnoon (11/09/08) took the reso down to the Fort Worth Modern Art Museum and recorded some doodling inside the Serra sculpture Vortex. No effects added, all natural reverb inside the structure.
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Track Name: Vortex1
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Album: Live in the Vortex
Vortex2
Sunday aftnoon (11/09/08) took the reso down to the Fort Worth Modern Art Museum and recorded some doodling inside the Serra sculpture Vortex. No effects added, all natural reverb inside the structure.
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Track Name: Vortex2
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Album: Live in the Vortex
Vortex3 (recorded live @ Modern Art Museum Fort Worth 11/9/08)
Decided to finally upload this, warts and all.
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Track Name: Vortex3 (recorded live @ Modern Art Museum Fort Worth 11/9/08)
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Kavin. - 121308 (2008)
8 tracks by kavin.
My offering for the 24 hour EP. I kept it fairly simple so it took me about 12.
26:19
Tonefreaks
5 tracks by kavin.
More old stuff. Playing with some friends.
19:31
Between the Day and the Night
Another one written by Dennis Coble. He plays my 12 string, I'm doing the lead bits.
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Track Name: Between the Day and the Night
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Album: ...out in the dark of the night
Jump Start
An improv with Phil (drums). Added synth later. At the end you hear the giddy laughter of two musicians who just had a real good time!
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Track Name: Jump Start
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RPM09 Kavin.s faves!
19 tracks by various alonetone artists
My favorite tunes from the RPM Challenge for 2009, at least the ones posted on alonetone. A great year for RPM music!
71:22
Trash Wednesday
Rhythmic groove with bass and "guitars". In addition to the obvious bass track, the two distorted "guitar" tracks are actually also basses, EQ'ed and altered with various effects to sound less bassy and more guitary.
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Track Name: Trash Wednesday
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Album: Succulent Morsels
Playing Me
Lyrics:
I don't know what you want
when you treat me that way
I can't help being turned on
Is that what you want
Just to see what I would do
To see if I'm in love with you... (more)
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Track Name: Playing Me
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04_ice castles, ice castles
you used to be a person in your shell
now you're just a shell
so big inside your home
the turrets face the lowly masses
so big inside your home
obvlious to... (more)
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Track Name: 04_ice castles, ice castles
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Album: Ice Castles, Ice Castles
09 - Carry On Crying
09 – Carry On Crying. Written and recorded on 12th/17th Feb.
A 5/4 romp starring Sid James and Hattie Jacques. Godley and Creme will direct the video.
Info and lyrics at (more)
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Track Name: 09 - Carry On Crying
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Album: Presents
If You Steered By The Stars
Remedies are funny things. You want to get better but you don't want to change.
This is now a minimally tidied up version of this track 18/3/09
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Track Name: If You Steered By The Stars
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Album: Lies and Tales and Sticks and Stones
What Did I Do?
Recorded: Feb 20, 2009
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD - capo III), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity, Sound Forge.
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Track Name: What Did I Do?
Artist: Doug Sparling
Album: Nothing Will Break Our Will To Be Free
Breathe (with Kavin Allenson)
In memory of my father, Anthony, who died suddenly in 1988.
With Kavin Allenson. (Huge thanks to Kavin for writing the music that inspired this song to the surface.)
(Allenson... (more)
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Track Name: Breathe (with Kavin Allenson)
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Album: Mischief Bound
brand new hobby
Dedicated to all musicians who get asked "what do expect to get from making music?"
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Track Name: brand new hobby
Artist: another cultural landslide
Album: hey... that's not a tootsie? roll...
shadow of the sun
start here at the airport
feels like im going blind
middle of the day in a dark bar
1000 miles away from peace of mind
im tring to remember
when i was a kid
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Track Name: shadow of the sun
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Album: food and shelter
Boxes and Strings
A song for the end of your last set of the night.
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Track Name: Boxes and Strings
Artist: Mark Moschell
Album: Circus of Freaks and Fools
Kavin.'s alonetone picks
47 tracks by various alonetone artists
For the full monty see my favorites.
193:46
Toad Hall (the return)
The title comes from reading "The Willows in Winter" to my son Maurice, which is the sequel to "The Wind in The Willows" and thinking of Toad and the sort of idyllic natural landscape. While messing... (more)
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Track Name: Toad Hall (the return)
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Aucustic Breeze
Was listening to some unplugged from Nirvana, Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton. When this arrived in my head.
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Track Name: Aucustic Breeze
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Still
This is maybe the first track written entirely by This Caustic Autumn as a group effort. I'd been to see Sigur Ros play at Massey Hall in Toronto the night before we wrote this, so that's where the idea... (more)
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Track Name: Still
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Album: Novella Minor
Planet of Static
The first track I built, back when I was still full of hope for this exercise. I'm not convinced the hope survived it :)
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Lamentation On The Northern Isle Part Two
an exposition,traditional of the raga,bilaskani todi,transformed into a slightly ,dark ambient piece of music,exploring musical landscapes,with a scenario,as if for film music,which my pieces normally are.
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Track Name: Lamentation On The Northern Isle Part Two
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SOMETHING JUST BROKE
Well, you see, I got left and it wasn't right and with all that stress it just broke. Just like that.
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Track Name: SOMETHING JUST BROKE
Artist: jmt
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Zero
This tune has been knocking about in various forms for the last decade and I've never given it a name.
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Track Name: Zero
Artist: Colin Garvey
Album: Fall To Earth (unfinished)
09 - Carry On Crying
09 – Carry On Crying. Written and recorded on 12th/17th Feb.
A 5/4 romp starring Sid James and Hattie Jacques. Godley and Creme will direct the video.
Info and lyrics at (more)
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Track Name: 09 - Carry On Crying
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Album: Presents
Trash Wednesday
Rhythmic groove with bass and "guitars". In addition to the obvious bass track, the two distorted "guitar" tracks are actually also basses, EQ'ed and altered with various effects to sound less bassy and more guitary.
Commented on 2 times. Favorited by 3 alonetoners.
Track Name: Trash Wednesday
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Album: Succulent Morsels
04_ice castles, ice castles
you used to be a person in your shell
now you're just a shell
so big inside your home
the turrets face the lowly masses
so big inside your home
obvlious to... (more)
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Track Name: 04_ice castles, ice castles
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Album: Ice Castles, Ice Castles
What Did I Do?
Recorded: Feb 20, 2009
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD - capo III), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity, Sound Forge.
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Track Name: What Did I Do?
Artist: Doug Sparling
Album: Nothing Will Break Our Will To Be Free
Breathe (with Kavin Allenson)
In memory of my father, Anthony, who died suddenly in 1988.
With Kavin Allenson. (Huge thanks to Kavin for writing the music that inspired this song to the surface.)
(Allenson... (more)
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Track Name: Breathe (with Kavin Allenson)
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Album: Mischief Bound
shadow of the sun
start here at the airport
feels like im going blind
middle of the day in a dark bar
1000 miles away from peace of mind
im tring to remember
when i was a kid
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Track Name: shadow of the sun
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Album: food and shelter
If You Steered By The Stars
Remedies are funny things. You want to get better but you don't want to change.
This is now a minimally tidied up version of this track 18/3/09
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Track Name: If You Steered By The Stars
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Album: Lies and Tales and Sticks and Stones
Boxes and Strings
A song for the end of your last set of the night.
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Track Name: Boxes and Strings
Artist: Mark Moschell
Album: Circus of Freaks and Fools
Once Again
Collaboration with Sister Savage.
Took SS's music and wrote this song. Another mother and daughter collaboration!
(Mathieson & Savigear 2009)
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06.Then the Devil takes you down;Slap Johnson
Blues inspired tune.
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Pileus (remix)
Another one recorded "live on the fly", so the sound quality isn't great. Also some tonal support from SonicMood program.
Pileus is a cap-like structure, like on a cloud or mushroom.
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Track Name: Pileus (remix)
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Brief Resonator Meditation
Brief musical sketch, to be transformed into a teary-eyed country weeper.
Instrumentation:
1 Dobro Resonator Guitar, played on both sides of a slide.
[If you give a page a dobro ...]
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Track Name: Brief Resonator Meditation
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Album: 1st Album (sketches)
Stuck In New York (Mean Streak Blues Band)
Added a guitar track to my buddy Nitro's blues dance album which will be titled "Wanna Dance?" You can look him up on reverbnation.
Nitro - Drums, writing
Ruthie - Vocal
Kavin - guitar
Rick - bass-
Bull - piano
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Track Name: Stuck In New York (Mean Streak Blues Band)
Artist: Mean Streak Blues
Album: Wanna Dance
