The basics of this track were conjured up with a neat little programme called i2sm that converts photos or paintings into sounds [its free - google it]. The music here was generated by a photo of, yes, a Sunflower in an urban backyard.

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My lovely little wife and her Father Lee singing a cover of the 1973 gospel tune Dan Schutte. One track, one take in the front room of South House Studios. Some people call it a "living room".

The title is a reference to the rain in "Pain" and how once the pain is gone you feel like it's a new day. My first foray into multi-tracking vocals, with mixed results. I like the effect, but I just had realized I can sing about half way…

My 100th upload to Alonetone! I played a pretty random arpeggio which I arranged into 3 versions of medium notes, long notes, and short notes followed by a gap. I cloned these version and transposed them up and down one octave respectively…

A single track of improvised chromatically tuned congas in 7/8, accented with clave, guiro, cajon and quinto. (For those who may be interested in collaborating on this, the triplet phrasing of this groove may be most easily counted like this…

Goodbye Blue Monday - 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…

Goodbye Blue Monday - 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…

Sloane did me a favor & played an electric guitar part on this one. I had hoped to work with her more on this project, but she wound up leaving town to help take care for a recovering family member. ------------------ Seventeen thousand…

Sloane did me a favor & played an electric guitar part on this one. I had hoped to work with her more on this project, but she wound up leaving town to help take care for a recovering family member. ------------------ Seventeen thousand…