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          This is my 2nd Piece that I "wrote" in a pretty simple fashion. I started with the 2 pizzicato tracks and then Improvised 3 voices on top of that. It started as a test if I can plug in my audiointerface into my phone and it kind of worked out…
        
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          Everyone has at least *one* album in them!
https://peppermintsky.bandcamp.com/album/aurora
        
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          Dark Glitch Piece i had sitting in the backlog works. 
Hypertension Amame. 
        
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          This Track was recorded a couple of years ago, and I started thinking about it because of the recent Track "dreaming" that I uploaded.
My friend Lavasir Nordrum (http://www.lavasir.no/portfolio/into-the-mendicant) somehow managed to get us…
        
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          I recorded this song a couple of years ago in a church. It was raining and I felt a bit blue at the time. I only had a zoom h1 recorder, a metronome and headphones at the time.
So I couldn't really play over what I recorded previously. But…
        
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          Steve developed this beautiful track with his ukulele and I 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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          I went to that High School, I wonder how many of them survived the Thirst:) 
        
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          Ukulele and vocals performed by Jazz, 12. 
She's starting to write her own stuff (proud!) but just to get her in the studio for the first time, here is a cover of a song by Vance Joy.
        
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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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          (Remastered 22/10/2021)
Here's the very latest from the broom-cupboard.
I wrote it one dark night over 23 years ago.  
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**All I Have To Do - A A J Russe**
There isn’t much time to get this out
You won’t hear me if I have to…
        
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          Love a bit of  DADGAD  Tuning, even got the Good  Wife to get her voice out  of
the wardobe.
https://youtu.be/hmuBgAC3wnk
        
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          If ever there was a song that begged to close an album, it was this turkey.
A couple of things here.  First, I don't really know what I was going for.  Quiet, slow, boring?  Probably not boring, but there you go.  The cool thing happens in…
        
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          Hey,
I just improvised again this night and wanted to share what came out. Usually I'm such a perfectionist and have to get every detail right, with the effect that I don't share a lot of stuff that I do.
Here I recorded the first voice…
        
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          had a few changes throughout this project, breaking my head and shedding some sweat but hey, there's plenty of free time so what the hell! 
Added some hard electronic metal halfway.
The vocal samples is a real television broadcast about propaganda…
        
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          This song features my first attempt at recording myself playing a drumkit. I only did four takes, sorry.
Lyrics:
They’re gonna say I stole this song
And I knew it all along
They own the copyright on C, G, C, G, D
They’re gonna sue the…
        
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          I asked Olivia to name something (in three or four syllables) that causes her consternation. Her answer, "Society". Sometimes she follows my scratch vocal line when I record a demo for her, this time she just let it rip, and it is probably the…
        
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          This song is for everyone who has failed at their Assertiveness Training.
Lyrics:
Sittin
Spinnin
Doin evrythin but winnin
 
Startin to talk but instead I cough
like an angel hell-bent on sinnin
 
Moanin
Groanin
fightin with my demon…
        
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          Wrote this as a thank-you to someone who has been very kind to me, and who REALLY likes photography.
Lyrics:
Waking up on a dreary morn
Eatin a big bowl of flakes of corn
 
Read a text at 9 am
55 minutes or the chance will end
 
R…
        
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          New material to put together and listen to in case we get quarantined:)
        
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           the telemarketers are working from home,  very hard indeed.
   this gives me the modern blues
        
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          This one is pretty much your basic bad day. I mean hectic, frantic, crazy, pull-your-hair-out, everything’s going wrong, Junior puked in class and I crashed the car on the way to get him days. Really bad but survivable.
Make yourself the main…
        
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          This was the first idea I had for May Music 2020 or whatever the hell I'm calling this month's project.  I came up with the guitar riff using the fake guitar thingie in GarageBand.  I "played" the riff using the fretboard on my iPhone.  I sort…
        
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           A lil tale about the street and wall street 
 in the style of Bob Zimmerman
        
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          C.S. Lewis once wrote about the concept of "out of simple evil comes complex good." These are trying times, an understatement if there ever was one. As you read this, you have uncertainties and fears for what our current situation means for right…
        
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            Warrior Clans are a part of my heritage.
      Speaking plain truth to each other is a sign of respect , not a micro         
         Aggression.  
        
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          Nothing special about this one except that it was written in 7/8.  Also, this month I've tried to work out guitar parts using MIDI instruments when I'm fiddling out the initial bass and drum grooves.  It doesn't really amount to much, it just…
        
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          The first May 2020 Music project song to be finished.
I did the RPM Challenge in February.
In March I did another one... just because.
In April I did the COVID-19 RPM Challenge Bonus edition.
In May I am doing another one... just because…
        
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          Written for a zoom group of favored musicians to criticize but I thought about it and it sounds alright to me.  lets see if they will just support or make it better.
       Hummmmmmmm.
A true story romanticized a bit . Old Charlie is a real…
        
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          Beauty and artistic taste is clear to everyone and eternal, although it does not save the world. 
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A Late Walk
Robert Frost
When I go up through the mowing field,
The headless aftermath,
Smooth-laid like thatch with the heavy dew…
        
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          I had been listening to the new Massive Attack album for a few weeks, and I was initially trying to mimic some of the sounds I heard on there - especially from the songs "Splitting the Atom" and "Girl I Love You." But, then somehow the whole thing…
        
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          This song is a work in progress.  I attended an online songwriting workshop hosted by Chad Shank (Minnesota Songwriters Association) who was talking about songs with varying length lines to create more of a conversational atmosphere and the use…
        
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           Looking down the road as how sweet it will be after the bug” virus” 
       Is gone
  Open the doors and windows  , drive fast with the top down
   We gonna drink some wine with friends o mine,   pas the bottle around
  Go to a block party…
        
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          Ooh, found an old one not on this profile of mine, perhaps this needs an update, as the title mentions, this is from 2011, how old am I  ???
        
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          The idea was to create something with a bit of the flavor from Bach's Passacaglia in C Minor (and especially the orchestral transcription by Respighi). I didn't quite hit the mark, but it was a really fun project. 
Remixed: 12/18/2010
keywords…
        
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          Heres one I found on my Hard drive an experiment with Igor 2016 part of a project called mmmm I believe (Hi Igor its been a while...) anyway hope you enjoy 
        
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          After a break I like to come back with two uploads. I like to leave the dynamics in each channel as they are, because I like the Sound as it is. May be you like to set
the volume louder while you are listening ?
        
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          Another co - lab.  Greg  Connor on Electric Guitar
        
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          Guitar and synth drone improv inspired by the “Revelation Space” trilogy by Alastair Reynolds.
        
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          Audio selection from a 2009 Ustream show I did.
        
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          A straight-ahead rock song with a quirky arrangement change on the second verse. Includes a trippy Pink Floyd-esque middle 8 and a Boyzone rousing key change at the end... You're welcome! 😆
        
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          Inspired at a "safe" distance by my friends on our Zoom song writing chats.
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Lift Me Up
© 2020  Gregory A Connor
Rising tide, lift me up,  let me float away 
This Safe harbor turned to mud,   this…
        
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          Kansas City has some great steak houses 
  Kansas City blues bands  are Texas twisted 
       Kansas City is OK
        
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          Written for the April 2020 RPM mini-challenge.  I hoped for an EP and ended up with a single song.  The song is largely recorded on a T25 mic I built for Brian of A Beautiful Scene as a means to test the mic. It's pretty solid if you ask me…
        
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          Yo, It's Time To Tag Your Favorite Rappers If He/She Can Do Better On Rebirth Cypher Challenge.
First Place. 10k
Second Place. 5k
Third Place. 3k
Post It On Instagram Hashtag# Rebirthcypherchallenge For Repost  And Tag Those Who Are On…
        
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          A new song
The worst man possible for the job right now
KC
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You divide and conquer
While there is fear and hunger
You play a dangerous game
But you won't take any blame
Your're a cheat and…
        
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          A strat and a slow minor blues are a go to for an overheard  cell phone call. 
      The tone is pure strat wiggly bar juju.  Thanks Robert Cray
     
          Blues lyrics are not required to be politically correct
        
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          Matt Parker - bass
Tess Savigear - backing vocals
Meg Radley - backing vocals
Gary Fox - horns
        
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          Lekzyomoakin dishes out a new and motivational song to tell everyone how we are going talked about in life and hereafter whatever you do today will be a history tomorrow either good or the opposite side of it the song feature a great rapper known…
        
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          We wrote and recorded a new song while we are all on lock down...have really missed playing with the band. Lindy wrote the song and recorded his part at his home studio sent it to me and I added my parts and vocals Our studio is behind Ken's house…
        
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          I just had a birthday and the Rubics nude band was here.
I invited some of my favorite imaginary friends. See if you can pick them out
  Chuck Berry on guitar, Jerry Lee on keys   Duck dune on bass and the Eureka springs Sheriff dept on back…
        
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