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          This is one of the first songs that Dad taught me. It's from the album Mitchell/Coe Mysteries - Exiled. One of my favourite albums ever!
Lead and Backing Vocals: Naomi Daulby
Piano and Orchestration: Performed and recorded at home by Paul…
        
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          Another silly little tune, this time about the world's favourite stout! (Edit: uploaded a new version. Fixed a few mistakes.)
Lyrics:
When the sun is up high, in a bright blue sky
And you're walking around in Dublin town
You got nothing…
        
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          I wrote this one morning but gave up tryin to sing it . then I asked my buddy Steve  Schostal to do vocals . His Canadian accent was perfect for this . Notice how he leads the beat  ‘wow perfect.     
                                   I love Colabs
        
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          My April RPM Lockdown Challenge single instrumental. Originally wanted to do a 4 track EP, but 6 weeks of hayfever left me in a particularly uncreative frame of mind.
However, I'm past the tree pollen crap and working on a reissue of a project…
        
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          I made a silly little song in French about the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy `:-) Recorded on my phone, hope it sounds ok on the website!
Lyrics:
Je viens d'reveiller
Je ne peux plus dormir
J'prends du cafe
C'comme ça, i'faut s'nourrir…
        
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          Finally, at last... I've got something finished...
Been working on this for a few weeks.
A bit of a rocker... (and an aging lecherous one at that)
I got it as close as I could and then mixed it loud... I've over-cooked it slightly - but…
        
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          (Remastered 22/10/2021)
I was asked (told?) to upload something happy. Hmmm, I thought. This will end well...
So, a few days later, I was rehearsing a pleasant little thing I wrote several years ago that has a working title of  "She Was…
        
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          Excuse the weird title. After completion of the track i had a really weird dream and this is my interpretation of it. 
Min 4:00 and on is a calming landing into peacefulness and mindfulness. 
        
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          (Remastered 22/10/2021)
I wrote this one last September.
Allison Jane Sixsmith 1965-2016.
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**Forever - A A J Russe**
I can see you on your rocking horse now
The one that turned around and kicked you in the teeth
He thought…
        
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          (Remastered 22/10/2021)
Here it is in all of its glory...
THIS is the song that Mrs R and I had decided was a suitable response to a request to "Upload something HAPPY, stat!!!!!!!!!"
I tried to record it back in 2013 when I wrote it…
        
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          I was messing about and this came out. Thanks for listening
GET DOWN ON MY KNEES
I get down on my knees and I pray for a day
Where we can all go outside to run and play
Take my hand and  tell what you see 
can you see a future, for likes…
        
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          This may well have been our first collaboration, many, many Moons ago.
        
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          after a zoom meeting with friends, one of us was going cycle ing and this came to me . see if you can hear Colleen  breathing heavy.     haha
        
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          OK, so episode 3 of my Lockdown Orchestrations series....a different feel this time from the full-on epic trailer style from 1 & 2, perhaps?  
        
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          too much interest in career  not enough in living can result in an unbalanced life
        
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          I wrote this song as a way to process some of the feelings of sadness, dismay,  anger, fear and love that were brewing inside my heart this past week.  I live in Minneapolis, where the terrible killing of George Floyd occurred, and the subsequent…
        
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          This started life as a vey simple 'disco' bass riff over which I then brought in the chords. Its got a sort of 80s pop/prog thing going on - not surprising as I'd been listening to a lot of Nik Kershaw when I recorded it!
        
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          Midday field. I watch the lark, which serenely rises in circles up to dissolve there, forever. He sees no danger around. Why [should] I care?
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I recall that in childhood we all watch adventure films (or performances), and here the children…
        
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          There is almost no snow this year, it appears for some time from nowhere and immediately disappears. I look at this all out the window, and found myself looking more and more often back at the past experience. Is this a sign of age? Hmm, I certainly…
        
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          This song has been sat on the marvellous mechanical mouse organ in the broom-cupboard for well over a year.
A few weeks ago I got a bit of a scare - the mouse organ nearly broke down (in the middle of sorting out Delta Dawn). While I was fixing…
        
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          This is one of the many songs going round my head from when I was young. No idea whose version I heard and used to sing along to back then, but it was written by Larry Collins and Alex Harvey.
(EDIT: Done some research. It was Dottie West's…
        
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          I was flapping around working on something else with just vocal and guitar the other day. It wasn't going well, so I just started slapping the guitar and singing one of my favourite songs.
What I didn't realise was that I was recording it…
        
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          Antoinette plays keys, Anonymous plays drums, Evan is guitar left, Chris is guitar right (sorry I was a jerk and too loud) - This dates from 1977 when I was a classical major and Antoinette a piano major. Even though this improvisation was from…
        
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          This was the original version, before I re-recorded it with an acoustic guitar. That version is still on here.
        
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          Millions of years ago... Before the dawn of history... I was a in a school band. I couldn't play an instrument then so I was the vocalist. This tune was one of the band's originals.
Now, bear in mind this was the 'Ay-deees' so it was mullets…
        
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          Instead of chlorine dioxide treatment try sanding you tongue with full grit sand paper. 
"Fight Club" effect.
Wanted to keep this as dirty as possible.
Keep safe from the 2nd wave. 
        
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          I kept this track simple didn't add a lot of effects, just kept it going with 4 phase changes. I might take it down soon to work on it some more. 
        
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          Like anyone who happens to look, I see the signs of a failing economy all over the Country. This song is a effort to encourage folks to struggle for a more open and equitable system for the financial benefit of all of us.
        
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          This old civil war song, calls to mind the needless slaughter   and stark inequity of wars.
        
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          Just fooling about with arpeggiators and apps, what else is new?
        
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          The creepiest dungeon and fortress beasts are alive during peculiar hours. 
        
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          So the latest Orchestral piece I have composed was originally started a few months back before the Virus story broke. I had started it simply as a 'dark' piece, but once the Lockdown started it sort of fitted, and I expanded it to try and tell…
        
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          Original song by my friend and music partner Randy Arneson.
Recorded in Garageband using a pickup plus condenser mic on a vintage Gibson 12 string (2 channels of guitar). I have a couple different versions of this one recorded... 
        
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          Due to climate change we've had little rain in the last couple of years
The day after I had written this song it rained all day :-)
KC
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The third year of drought
Three summers in a row
A relentless…
        
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          wholetone whole grain iOS jam with the Continua synth and Fugue Machine sequencer
        
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          Well I did try and get an RPM challenge done after last years fail, but I'm still lacking enthusiasm or creativity.
Hence the uninspiring title of 'The Fifth', as this was the 5th track I was working on and the only one that came close to completion…
        
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          Steve developed this beautiful track with his ukulele and Colleen added some lyrics to make a “positive message” song for the times we are in…. Hope it makes you smile too…
It Won’t Be Like This Forever
Sitting here on my front steps
Listening…
        
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          A  great  collaboration, Greg Connor blowing the Blues away ….
Video by Roger Harris:
https://youtu.be/jjRgh8282kY
        
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          It a motivational track
From TEEJAY ADIX BHAD MHARN.
        
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          Nw Tink Right 
Tink About Your Life
Tink About Your Future How Is Going To Be Bright
Set Your Mind On Nobody
No One To Help
Credit Has Overtaken
You Will People Owing A DEBT.
                 (W.I.L.D-M.I.N.D).
        
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          a track each of Prophet, NTS-01, Brazille, and Diva driven by an SQ-1 sequencer
        
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          With a little help from Arthur & Elvis i had a bit of fun in the cellar and Regged up an old classic. Thanks for listening
My baby left me 
she never said a word
My baby left me 
she never said a word
You know she left me 
she left…
        
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          Initially a contribution to an upcoming Chris Vaisvil record.  I did several short real time played or created samples and remixed live in a new Pure Data patch I'm developing the 53 seconds I did for Chris with my original samples enhanced…
        
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