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A song about Cindy punching Steve in the face because he probably deserved it.
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2011
One of my favorite songs I've recorded. An amalgamated tribute to 80's Crimson, Andy Summers and Peter Gabriel.
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Based on a poem by William Sharp that I found while researching my family history.
The poem has been put to music once already, by one Christopher Goldsack, http://www.sundown.pair.com/Sharp/piratepoem.htm but I wanted to put my own little…
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Boom, boom, boom, boom
I'm gonna shoot you right down
Right offa your feet
Take you home with me
Put you in my house
JOHN LEE HOOKER - BOOM BOOM
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A Blues recorded by the side of the road, of course! I pinched the words from an old Bob Dylan tune. I sure hope no-one minds... :D
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A view on ghosts. Used my tenor recorder, guitars, and bass. Bizarre how once song writing starts, it seems to write itself. Hope you like.
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I decided to challenge myself by requesting some beats from a beat producer, Ant 'Brave Toaster' Hughes. One of the beats was named Popcorn Chicken.
I added a few bits and pieces with my virtual keyboard (including a little Blondie tribute…
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i can hear the digits in your digital audio
i feel the need to fidget with my mouse and my moby
i’m listless as i listen to prestigious presentations
of manipulated data and prestidigitation
i type unlisted numbers into my communicator
i'm dubious…
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Most of the lyrics written in 1999, a tough year. Many thanks to JB for his awesome screaming lead playing (done first take, I should add!!!) and to LadyJane for supplying some oooo's. (anyone needing some vocals - send her your song!)
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A saucy little ditty from the Jip and LJ laboratory. The first thing I've sung for 3 weeks (been resting a very strained voice - eek!)
I'm having a party, I'm inviting everyone
There'll be much frivolity, booze flowing, so much fun
I may…
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I've been messing with Jip's Gong Bong! Enjoy :o)
Do what you do, do it for you
Make your imaginings come true
Follow your dreams and not the crowd
Be you for you and shout it loud, shout it proud, yeah
See your big dream
Show your true self…
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I was playing with my new uke (yellow and fruity), picked up my Beatles songbook and this popped out :)
Enjoy!
xox
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She Will / Like the Rain
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She came in like the rain
More than half a day past due
And I swear she looked the same
In the way dreams and memories never do
She passed me with a glancing smile
As I tried to look away
But her gaze could…
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Not penned by The Beatles but a nice little tune :)
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Musique pour ne rien faire. Because of summertime, summertime...
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Originally written on guitar in about 1996 with Phil Tapp...now down a tone on Piano...
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Re-make of a song I wrote for my Mum in the late 90's, as a nod to Jim Reeves.
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We were killing time
We had a killing time
Always a killing time
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angel delight
as soon as i awoke i ran downstairs to my laboratory
to see what my strange attractor had brought me
at first it had been disappointing: a few wisps of smoke
some sea-shells and butterfly wings
but this time i found something…
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I started to speak but forgot what I wanted to say.
I started to write but I ran out of room on the page.
I opened up all the windows and it started to rain.
I opened my head and took out a piece of my brain.
My body woke up but it felt…
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drowning in a sea of vaseline
alive or dead or somewhere in between
sit very still and read a magazine
wash and wash but never get it clean
it must be true I saw it on the screen
painting all the roses for the queen
don't eat that you don…
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A simple little guitar instrumental from my RPM 2013 album. This carries the ocean & water theme that's loosely present in that album, and was witten to follow the song "Twenty Atmospheres".
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This is a remix/reworking of "Katie Left Memphis" as performed by Tangle Eye.
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This is a rock song!
Its sort of ok but i'd rather have a pint of strong ale!
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Lido shuffle from way back in the 80's a Boz Scraggs cover with Johnny Robbo from over at the Cool Lab, John really smashes the music….hope you enjoy
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June, the summer is in full swing. We cook jam from wild rose petals (or more precisely, Svetlana brews, I play for her).
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Holed up in my shed at work last winter looking out the window and writing down anything i could see!
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A crackin bunch of lo-fi instrumentals from 1994
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I asked my love to take a walk
Just a little old walk. Just a little old walk
Down by the banks where the waters flow
Down by the banks of the Ohio
If you’ll just say that you’ll be mine
And in no other’s arms entwine
Down by the banks where…
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Train of destiny comes when you do not expect it.
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A jazzy instrumental that was once titled Union Of The Steak.
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Taken from our "Majikal Moose Moustache Musique" album
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An old song re-vamped. Thanks Greg you know how to get my creative juices flowing !!!!
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Recorded this a few years back,needed something to blow my harp too. Didnt know all the words so i made the last couple of versus up.
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Just messing around with a chord progression I liked. Some neighborhood wildlife joined in. Goofy, mellow stuff, even for me.
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Gene sent me this excellent backer with him kicking up a storm and i added my vocal hope you enjoy i Did.............................
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Another one from Jip and LJ. Didn't realise how 'Teletubby' it was until it was done!
Baby
Can't you see I'm running from you
trying to get away from you so
you can't do your usual trick and
mesmerise me
Maybe
You already had it in your…
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Mark wrote the lyrics after waking up with them in his head. He didn't know what to do with them so sent them, entitled If I Say, to Lady Jane to play with. Then Jip sent some music, called Jozzy, to Lady Jane to play with. Being a lazy mare…
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[recorded in glorious 4-trak at lotek studios in the '90s]
straining to maintain
straining to maintain a sense of dense intensity
vainly feigning pain of a spurious immensity
a furious refrain of precarious opacity
nefarious pretence…
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Take my head if you can, but you shall not have any part of my neck......
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" "Jabberwocky"
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub…
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/s.legg4/fliessite.htm
princess anorexia ('90s demo i think)
princess anorexia was out walking
in the magnetic fields of her mother
queen anaesthesia, whose reign had died down
until now it was no more than…
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Kubla Khan. Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment. (poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea…
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After lots of chirpy, upbeat stuff coming from me and Jip, here's some misery - oh yes, and some rapping - oh! and a little bit of swearing! Well, there wasn't much else I could do with it.
Enjoy, as much as you can, and I'll get back to…
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Originally an assignment for a Coursera guitar course given by Berklee College of Music. My final grade for the whole course was 98.3%, yay!
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Dave sent me over this punk track so i went back in time and found my best East London accent and off i went .....i really love what dave has done with the guitar work it really laid the bed for the lyrics ...Best played really loud.....
The…
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A little Chico Style Blues with slide guitar and awesome blues piano.
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The plinky sound is an acoustic guitar prepared with a drumstick stuck under the strings.
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The idea behind the song was to create complete chaos you might find on a carnival. Flutes are my lifelong obsession.
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Ladies and Gentleman,
a brand new banger from the TEN.SENSE cauldrons!
all music composed by yours truly in Ableton Suite...
and I love feedback so tell me you thoughts!
for more on TEN.SENSE visit listn.to/tensense, ten-sense.com, or follow…
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the sarangi that dreamed an electric dream....in raga bageshri...a raga of the apres miudi
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I lurch crablike across the boundaries of public decency.
I feel no shame.
Its just a job.
Someone has to do it...
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just a fingerpicking exercise with some improvisation that i recorded for a Coursera course.
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This is the overture for our game that we have in pre production. For further details check out our website. www.doublevisiongames.org
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Just a little cover tune I did in preparation for last year's live RPM Challenge album "Letters."
Nylon string Yamaha travel guitar, vocals, and one mic... Missed notes and all.
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Previously released as "a little moon music", Here, used as the background for a video i made in Oct of Great White Sharks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX5R3lrxmYs
This is not the typical Discovery Channel version, here i saw the more languid…
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Back from the pub and straight on stage in the cellar....Hic!! Burp Fart!!!
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A spacey instrumental recorded during the Dawn Chorus this mornin (18/6/2013) If u turn it up u can hear birds tweetin merrily away...
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Many thanks to Greg Connor for helping me with this track...I have been playing this Lindsey Buckingham / Fleetwood Mac song for a while, but could never sing it...so I recorded the acoustic guitar and sent it to Greg and he added outstanding…
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Lady Jane's one woman band! No loops today - I got all my instruments out - all being guitar (played with plectrum in neck without realising - oops!), bongos, rain stick, ting sha bells, tibetan singing bowl and tinkly bell thing from my miniature…
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Cover of River of Deceit, by Mad Season. This is the first song I've finished in a long time.
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Diana, or "Di", as we most often call her, has such a sultry voice and we wrote this song especially to let that aspect of her voice shine through. It's a reserved yet hot and sexy Urban R&B piece.
Alan wrote the music and Di and Alan co…
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This is a Rock Ballad guitar instrumental written and performed by Alan. It reaches deep into the listener's emotions to feel the sadness and sorrow of the piece.
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This is Alan singing a slow R&B Pop ballad. Think of Al Greene with a modern backing track. Alan wrote the music and the lyric. Let us know if you like it a bit...thanks!
(c) 2013 Alan D. David, BMI (Half of Double Trouble)
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Music: Jip
Verse lyrics: Mark Goldsack
Chorus lyrics: Lady Jane
Lead recorder: Lady Jane
Vocals: Lady Jane
A wonderful collaboration that came about by Jip and Mark sending me music/lyrics totally independently and me having a eureka…
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Heres one i have done with Chunk's excellent backer..
Down this Road (Lyrics)
She said, she was sweet
she lied she were no where complete
she said that she wanted my babies
that should have told me that she was a little crazy
one night, thats…
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For the grandchildren, when I get some!
Moonbee started life as a doodle, then he was turned into a little story, then a song!
This is Part 1 of the series - I have no idea how many there will be in total!
Enjoy! xox
P.S. This is…
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Part 2 of The adventures of Moonbee and friends.
Just me and my new guitar :)
Enjoy
xox
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When he knows....... he knows.....Acoustic Electric & Harp..............
All i know (Lyrics)
I sit here cold
i sit here lost
knowing no where to go
don’t know who to ask
don’t know what to say
or do
all i know is i love you…
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Has an intro and outro. It's a guitar solo! ...I woke up from a Coma a couple of years ago with nerve damage in my left arm, and was told I'd never play again. Since then, I've worked hard to do so, and this is one such attempt.
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