Finally going to end this RPM with a slop fest.
Pretty disgusted with my efforts. I did have some fun though.
I feel like I just gave birth to a full set of Ludwigs.
High gloss black of course.
Final version
Day 28
Anyone else still writing songs?
this is the result of trying to listen to too many mixes in one day. Sometimes it's just easier to record something else.
~Bless the Beasts & Children~
Shades of feeling. How do I transfer them to the music unless only I can is to roar as the buffalo? Overload from top, firmament from below. Play one note. Then another, then a third. Then overdrive them, all…
Recorded Oct 2010.
It was meant to be a full band pop-rock song. But I started overdubbing on the original exploratory demo I'd done to work out the arrangement (with no click track). I kept coming back to it intending to start afresh... but…
Acoustic tale recorded Christmas 2010.
I wrote it years ago. Even tried rehearsing it with the band I was in at the time. But I couldn't play it properly. It took several weeks of practicing DADGAD (never really used it in anger before) until…
The contrast of this aging "summer boy" and his outdoors-loving daughter who is more than happy to run out into the cold.
Late December
Late December
The nights get so long
Turning embers
In the dark before dawn
Late December
For…
A tale of keeping your head above the water, or not...
Recorded Jan-Feb 2011.
I wrote it many years ago, never thought I'd ever do anything with it.
I intended to record this with just an acoustic and my new EDB (electric upright bass…
This is a piece written for a small ensemble of Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Flute, French Horn and Percussion in harmonic series tuning using a section from harmonic 12 to 30 reduced to an octave tuning of 15 steps.
This piece is…
Goodbye Blue Monday
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Goodbye blue Monday
There's nothing else to say
We always knew
we would part this way
Time comes to say goodbye
To pause perhaps and wonder why
Why we always had to be
So blue, so blue
I can see that life…
#7 for the RPM this year
Lyrics:
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i know
what this means
i know now
meaning is only found in meaningless
The path to knowledge is convoluted
often self destructive
ingrained in our souls is a
nihilistic ending to all your…
the clock on the wall is watching the window
the shades are at half mast for what i do
there are regrets just over that horizon
but i know i know i can count on you
i think of a time when i was unwilling
the dark days i counted with a mark on…
This is a piece written for 37signals, made to accompany a [fun video they did on Letterpress printing](http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2795-a-letterpressed-thank-you)
The track is best listened to in context of the video, since it's scored…
Reg has got a little soppy since he met his new girl, the widow Desirea. His pretty sure she's the one but the old fears keep rising. He knows he has to put the past behind him if any relationship is ever going to stand a chance of working…
Lyrics & Vocals: Todd Swain
Guitar: Paul D. May
Fiddle: Mara Shea
Accordions: Andreas Diewald
Composed, arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
This is a little folk/shanty tune that started as a quick little instrumental draft and…
A tale of keeping your head above the water, or not...
Recorded Jan-Feb 2011.
I wrote it many years ago, never thought I'd ever do anything with it.
I intended to record this with just an acoustic and my new EDB (electric upright bass…
Recent Comments
Pretty damn cool! Dig the opening riff! Sounds very cathartic!
Oh Gumbo, you know there is no such thing! Ha, you are the best!
Oh, love the unexpected change in the middle, then back again. Exceptional piece of music.
Great song-writing - awesome delivery!
Think this melody would translate magically to a music box. Beautiful and bittersweet song. My, your vox are astounding.
Lovely intro Keith and a very pretty song with emotive lyrics.
You rule
Very affecting. Powerful stuff, Mr V.
Beautiful vocal Michael.
I know someone else on Alonetone who loves that name, and so do I. This is tender and beautifully performed.
Ah, here it is, I wondered where no. 4 was! Lovely tender strings. So meltingly gorgeous.
Agree with Geas! He's hiding behind the same sofa as me. But we have chocoolate toast.
Night, night, sleep, sleep, ti ti tight!
Good one, Tim. Really enjoyed that.
Oooh, consider me enjoying! This is a gem.
Beautiful, man! YES
Sensible man Reg. Ahh sweet.
Oh lovely breezy feel! Great ensemble!
Great approach to lyric writing. I'll have fun analysing that later. Love the music and melody also. Ooh, lovely break!
Great song, love the sudden change of tempo in the middle. Really enjoying your voice! Perfect diction!