A new song that I've been working on, still yet to be titled, but heres a live recording as part of the Winter Bridge Sessions (video to accompany on youtube).
It was recorded on a bridge at night in the winter ... aka Winter Bridge Sessions…
Great live take, Corbin. For the perfection of the your studio tracks, it is the purity of your live performances (particularly the outstanding vocal delivery) that truly blow me away.
I look forward to hearing that jig-picked guitar more clearly on a studio recording someday... And loving the commentary at the end of this track. It's good to hear the voices of youth (bringing me back to my own and the crazy things we'd do... much like recording on a bridge in winter).
This is a new song that was written and performed with my friend Tim de Graauw. One evening we sat down for about 2 hours, hashed out ideas, got the creative juices flowin, played some G tar aaand out of that came this song.
This is just a rough…
Man, great live recording in the undisclosed stairway location!
This track really is better than anything on the radio today... In every way. This song and "One Step At a Time" really are as good as music gets, and has me thinking about how to improve as a writer.
To think that you've written, arranged, and recorded these two songs this early in your musical journey has me looking forward to where you'll be going!
A composition written backwards. I started with the relative harmony/coherence of the final measures and retrogressively dismantled it, concluding with the relative chaos of the opening.
Zappa, to be sure. Also a bit of Stockhausen, vague memories of "Pierrot Lunaire," and the sense of things falling off a shelf in an overcrowded closet.
Frankenstein Sound Lab: You nailed it! The song ("Everyone Says I Love You") is introduced, straight, by Zeppo, mangled by Chico, picked up by Harpo who (if memory serves) plays it as an ode to a horse, then finally falls into Groucho's clutches, who sings:
Everyone says I love you
But just what they say it for I never knew
It's just inviting trouble for the poor sucker who
says I love you
The thought here was that the only thing that could climax this descent into bathos would be for Zeppo, reappearing, to play a final refrain on the trombone. Which, of course, my little pastiche doesn't include among the instrumentation.
Another oldie from the cassette era, circa 2001. The title ? Cant remember...think it might have been in Esperanto, but why now escapes me...probably meant something at the time.
I wrote this one after visiting my daughter in Daytona Beach and seeing all the homeless people ,I live in a small town in central NY I had never seen homeless people before it was a shock
Another one from the collaboration of Chris Vaisvil, Norm and thetworegs from the album Women and Whisky together ain't no good. We hope you enjoy......................
Reg created the lyrics, vocal melody, and sang
Norm composed and played…
Another one from the collaboration of Chris Vaisvil, Norm and thetworegs from the album Women and Whisky together ain't no good. We hope you enjoy......................
Reg created the lyrics, vocal melody, and sang
Norm composed and played…
Written: 2004
Composer: Doug Sparling
Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop.
Piano music created at the command line on a Linux laptop.
These are the first tunes I composed after switching from performing to writing. I don't own a piano…
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Great live take, Corbin. For the perfection of the your studio tracks, it is the purity of your live performances (particularly the outstanding vocal delivery) that truly blow me away. I look forward to hearing that jig-picked guitar more clearly on a studio recording someday... And loving the commentary at the end of this track. It's good to hear the voices of youth (bringing me back to my own and the crazy things we'd do... much like recording on a bridge in winter).
How did this one slip under my radar? Love the stripped-down nature with the tempo change and spot-on harmonies. Damn.
Man, great live recording in the undisclosed stairway location! This track really is better than anything on the radio today... In every way. This song and "One Step At a Time" really are as good as music gets, and has me thinking about how to improve as a writer. To think that you've written, arranged, and recorded these two songs this early in your musical journey has me looking forward to where you'll be going!
you got down the hi-jinxz....
an heirloom...
Zappa, to be sure. Also a bit of Stockhausen, vague memories of "Pierrot Lunaire," and the sense of things falling off a shelf in an overcrowded closet.
Frankenstein Sound Lab: You nailed it! The song ("Everyone Says I Love You") is introduced, straight, by Zeppo, mangled by Chico, picked up by Harpo who (if memory serves) plays it as an ode to a horse, then finally falls into Groucho's clutches, who sings: Everyone says I love you But just what they say it for I never knew It's just inviting trouble for the poor sucker who says I love you The thought here was that the only thing that could climax this descent into bathos would be for Zeppo, reappearing, to play a final refrain on the trombone. Which, of course, my little pastiche doesn't include among the instrumentation.
Nice mix mate. Sunderland I remember going to see me granny there back in the 60s Roker I think it was.
Nice guitar and vocals mate dig it.
Dig this mate nicely done.
nice one like it mate.
When your right Norm your right.....Whiskey will get you through times of no women better than women will get you through times of no whiskey
Nice vocals clean sound nicely done.
Dig this mate nice one.
Your right Norm maybe the album should be called Women & Whiskey together ain't no good, i'll change it
Cute nice nice one
Beautiful melody, love it!
Wonderful!! GREAT guitar sounds!
Beautiful moment...
like it very clever