alonetone radio: Favorites
Favorites
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…
Uploaded
Everyone has at least *one* album in them!
https://peppermintsky.bandcamp.com/album/aurora
Uploaded
Here is another ZOOM Collaboration with:
Steve Krell
Colleen Dillon
Roger Harris
Greg Connor
We posted the lyrics and featured the chords, just in case you wanted to write your own lyrics and post them with this idea.
Empty Bottles…
Uploaded
Dark Glitch Piece i had sitting in the backlog works.
Hypertension Amame.
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
I went to that High School, I wonder how many of them survived the Thirst:)
Uploaded
(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…
Uploaded
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.
Uploaded
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?
---
I recall that in childhood we all watch adventure films (or performances), and here the children…
Uploaded
A song that sort of wrote itself, quite quickly, wouldn't say it's a happy song, but
sometimes you can't help what pops out.
https://youtu.be/dXRczkBRPCk
Uploaded
Found a real old one that's not here, must be 10 years old, if not more.
Uploaded
I started writing this song in the summer (August) of 2015 and finished it recently. The bulk of the tune was there but not the words. I recorded it using a bouzouki which is tuned GDAG, low to high though I wrote it on the guitar. This is now…
Uploaded
I wrote this for my wife Julie in time for our wedding day in 2004.
Uploaded
Part of the Brandy Brothers’ Shoebox Songs project. Word of the month was “Detective”. Had a lot of fun doing this one.
Uploaded
ExTrapp Cimmunicado- by Eniconation ....
This track is about me retuning back to trap music after I left last year ..
Its more like Murder Music
Uploaded
I have no memory of writing or recording this song. I have no idea what it's about.
CONNIE'S SONG
Em D C B...
(Em) Before I knew anything (D) about you, I (C) loved you
(Em) Whenever you would show, I stared in (D) wonder
I heard you…
Uploaded
MN Homebrew Radio show has a monthly writing contest. This month it was to use the word "wait" or "waiting" in your song. So the hook line of the chorus popped into my head at 5:30 in the morning and the rest of the song came pretty quickly…
Uploaded
got my Tongue caught in cheek this fine morning.
I love Surf music and Gretsch guitars.
Sooooo! Oh and Spaghetti westerns.
Uploaded
empty club smokey Sunday afternoon t bone style blues
starring the greatest Harp player I know Mark Imsdahl.
Thank you Mark
Uploaded
A demigod or demi-god is a minor deity, or a mortal or immortal who is the offspring of a god and a human, or a figure who has attained divine status after death.
Uploaded
I BUY GUITARS
Em
One man might buy cigarettes and waste it all in smoke
Another marijuana and share a friendly toke
Am
Another, with more money, might invest in antique cars
Em
I buy guitars
A man might buy a baseball card
Keep it…
Uploaded
The waitress girl friend pays all the bills while I plays the blues
My Paul and strat just love to rumba
Uploaded
(Remastered 22/10/2021)
Here's the very latest from the broom-cupboard.
I wrote it one dark night over 23 years ago.
****
**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…
Uploaded
On a brisk autumn evening, in front of the Weather Channel, fast asleep, my dog and I dreamed up this song.
keywords: electronic, experimental, chill, instrumental
"Remastered" - 12/18/2010
Uploaded
Thanks to the online Spanish/English dictionary guy for providing the vocals
Uploaded
Inspired by those “music everyday” iphone commercials.
Uploaded
performed with 2 tracks of a Prophet 12 desk module and an Alesis Q49 in Magic 19 of 41 edo tuning.
Uploaded
Not sure if this one is worthy of the 6:00 running time as it's not nearly that much of a prog epic. I think I over did the padding (unintentionally). I could have cut the break in the middle considerably, and the solo at the end could be cut…
Uploaded
capo @ 3
Am walk down...
When I was a child we'd drive 200 miles
to Grandma's in the Spring
I'd hop out of the car, run to the back yard.
Grandma had a swing
But the times have changed...
When I became a dad I took all the rope I had…
Uploaded
YOUR FACE
People ask if I forgive her
What a silly thing to say
My love is destined to outlive her
In every single way
And people say she's gone forever
I know that might be true
But my heart just says "Whatever,"
and "What is that…
Uploaded
WITHOUT THINKING
capo @ 3 in C
C I do things without E thinking
Am (walk down) I admit it's true
But I do C nothing without G thinking about C you
Am I turn a corner
Em I pump some gas
F I fold a pillow case
C I wash a G glass
I stand…
Uploaded
SKATING - Capo @ 7
Starts on A
Am F
I shouldn’t be out skating. Storm is passing thru
Dm E
Out here in the darkness where I last saw you
Standing…
Uploaded
I guess you can call that a religious experience:)
Uploaded
Love a bit of DADGAD Tuning, even got the Good Wife to get her voice out of
the wardobe.
https://youtu.be/hmuBgAC3wnk
Uploaded
actually a song i only wrote a few weeks ago rather than one from eons ago lol...
wanted to keep this recording as simple & raw as possible since i have a bad habit of over working/over editing stuff, so hopefully that shows somewhat…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
No more covid songs....
Time to write about other things
This one's for my muse
I had uploaded an earlier version, but didn't like the mix
here's another version
KC
-----------------------------------------
So many years we've been…
Uploaded
a pseudo 17 edo three piece band - guitar / vocalist, bass, drums
Uploaded
April rain storms are exciting but I am warm and cozy in side.
wrote this after hearing that some people suggest a dream before settling in for the nite. My J 45 really wrote this tune I just sang along
Uploaded
This is sort of two songs stuck together. That wasn't the plan, it just sort of happened. The only thing interesting about the noisier first half is the fuzz pedal on the rhythm guitar. Big Muffs really are harder to fit into a mix. I do love…
Uploaded
hang drum app, stretched huaca and bird flute samples
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
Just a quirky little improvisation. The "theremin" was performed using a Korg KAOSS pad.
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
Worked with a couple of college interns last year who'd never heard of any band I like. I felt like an asshole bragging about going to shows that happened 20 years before they were born.
Lyrics:
Oldie Bear was there at woodstock
Dancin…
Uploaded
I wrote this song for my brother, who'd recently had surgery. Yes, I know it's long. I cut something close to three minutes out of it...FWIW it's supposed to butt right up against the next track "Oldie Bear" but you can't really do that in an…
Uploaded
A post on the Facebook RPM group featured a quote from an aging Dave Grohl complaining about Kids These Days and Their Terrible Music, pointing out that the current number-one song was about someone's butt. So, I wrote a song about my butt…
Uploaded
There is actually a LOT of goose poop at my office park, but I opted to use the joke title referring to my favorite Beach Boys song.
FWIW, the drum loops came from https://www.organicdrumloops.com/
Uploaded
This one is the only track that I am a little disappointed in. I thought it would be a banger and a lead-off track, but I had trouble getting it to exactly where I thought it would be. I think the problem is that I am nowhere near as good a singer…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
New material to put together and listen to in case we get quarantined:)
Uploaded
the telemarketers are working from home, very hard indeed.
this gives me the modern blues
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
A lil tale about the street and wall street
in the style of Bob Zimmerman
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
Warrior Clans are a part of my heritage.
Speaking plain truth to each other is a sign of respect , not a micro
Aggression.
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
Beauty and artistic taste is clear to everyone and eternal, although it does not save the world.
---
A Late Walk
Robert Frost
When I go up through the mowing field,
The headless aftermath,
Smooth-laid like thatch with the heavy dew…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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 ???
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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
Uploaded