this is the slightly sparkly version of my version of Moschell's "Boxes and Strings" from his 'Circus of Freaks and Fools' RPM Challenge CD. I recorded it as a video last night and redid it in the studio (unfinished sauna) today.
you guys amaze me with your RPM. I'm seriously blown away by this entire album. Each track stands out on its own so well... tapping into different emotions... flirting with different styles... it's an amazing piece and it makes me proud to be a part of alonetone. cheers to Kirk and Wendy... I raise my glass high!
Lyrics:
There’s a pound or two of flesh in my chest yet.
It sits next to the bag that brings me my breath, yes.
A knot of muscle that flex and flex and flexes,
It’s okay—no rest (unless time requests it).
In the bowl above my eyes a gelatinous…
This is from our album, "When I Was Your Age," recorded entirely in the month of February for our third year participating in the RPM Challenge. "When I Was Your Age" is a collection of 13 songs looking back at when we were kids.
This is from our album, "When I Was Your Age," recorded entirely in the month of February for our third year participating in the RPM Challenge. "When I Was Your Age" is a collection of 13 songs looking back at when we were kids.
This is from our album, "When I Was Your Age," recorded entirely in the month of February for our third year participating in the RPM Challenge. "When I Was Your Age" is a collection of 13 songs looking back at when we were kids.
thanks for these childhood memories that you've managed to completely capture - i have freed the repressed photomat booth man that was locked within and he is now running wild like a cave man in the 21st century
This is the finished version of Iris Florentine. The acoustic version is still up, though...
Iris Florentina
by Jack Merlot
copyright 2009 all rights reserved
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young and lovely, with a wise patina
tapping her toe like Degas' ballerinas…
great bass sound. singing like a girl is a strenght not weakness. you dont really sound like a girl. i think what you are afraid of is being emotional .....like a girl. please that is so much better than the alternative. be happy
tim
Queens Over Aces
by Jack Merlot
copyright 2009 some rights reserved
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one hand clapping in the sycamore trees
while you're out mapping the coast
won't you come back, brother, oh please
I swear that I miss you the most
the Pacific…
this song was inspired from an ee cummings poem. it was composed for rpm 2009.
lyrics:
i'll tell you a dream i had once
up in the sky blue everything
flying away a kite on a string
i didn't have anything
i was cool you were warm…
I heard someone say to an undergraduate class, 'you're on your way to everywhere' and I loved that line. This is sort of a Beatle-esque tune. My friend Mike Levine stopped by while recording a showed me a new jig on the mandolin. I recorded…
I love it David! It takes it back more to how it was written.. only with piano instead of strummed acoustic. My missus will like it too as she wasnt happy with where i took it in the end. The anguished vocal really ups the emotion, as does the stripped down arrangement. Definitely a job well done. Thanks for doing it boss :)
When CobSOn was 6 years old, mom and dad Cobson sent her to the local music school (in the suburbs of Toulouse) where she started to play the piano. The course lasted 11 years.
During the summer 2002, she wrote her first words, "give the slip…
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I don't know why I like this one so much but I do - Snow PS. That was me who commented on Go Away too (no surprise , right?)
GREAT SONG!
I want to see you play live before I die.
Predictably brilliant cover, David! Love your arrangement and interpretation of this incredibly affecting song.
you guys amaze me with your RPM. I'm seriously blown away by this entire album. Each track stands out on its own so well... tapping into different emotions... flirting with different styles... it's an amazing piece and it makes me proud to be a part of alonetone. cheers to Kirk and Wendy... I raise my glass high!
like the harmonies here
Hardrick, Just wanted to say how much I love this tune. It has such a calming effect on me. Beautiful work.
You guys ROCK!
Great album- really takes me back. This one had me dancing ( not a pretty sight)
Great song! Had me laughing for ages. So true, so true...
thanks for these childhood memories that you've managed to completely capture - i have freed the repressed photomat booth man that was locked within and he is now running wild like a cave man in the 21st century
great bass sound. singing like a girl is a strenght not weakness. you dont really sound like a girl. i think what you are afraid of is being emotional .....like a girl. please that is so much better than the alternative. be happy tim
Excellent. Made me laugh. Always good. Not often you hear a dual kazoo break!
i like the quirky picking and as always the story is what draws me in. nice tim
Do like your laid-back vibe. Reminds me a bit of Iron and Wine but better! Good stuff
Sgt Pepper meets Wilco! Excellent song, beautifully done.
Great feel to this tune. Love the mandolin and lazy vocals. Nice one. Faved it!
I love it David! It takes it back more to how it was written.. only with piano instead of strummed acoustic. My missus will like it too as she wasnt happy with where i took it in the end. The anguished vocal really ups the emotion, as does the stripped down arrangement. Definitely a job well done. Thanks for doing it boss :)
Love the atmosphere/flow (I don't know what to call it) on this beat.
Wow. That's spotless. Nice. Love how the vocals work together, and the melancholic wail and bounce.