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With JS Tolar, as band Visions Of Nell.
My tribute to Anne Boleyn, the first queen to be publicly executed in England. I used some of the poetry she wrote during her imprisonment in the chorus. An innocent, incomparable woman.
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(Em) A legend that the sailors told
Tales shared from long ago
(C) Secrets that are captured in the (Em) air
(Em) It comes to you from far way
Whispered roars that fade away
(C) Answers that are carried on the (Em) breeze
Only (C) heard…
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With Soundsmith Kamachi.
Lyrics heavily based on a poem by Sir Henry Wotton, "Queen of Bohemia".
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With the electrorgasmic Aged Machine, written and recorded for the RPM Challenge 2012.
Sabotaged by the coffin card girl
Rode out of the cartomancy world
I'm soaking and sick of this
Of being a bee sting because he doesn't know a good…
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With music written and performed by Soundsmith Kamachi.
It was the last day of RPM and he asked me to write a lullaby for a track called Cornucopia. Very much enjoyed how easily this one flowed. That's my mum, Bee Mathis, adding class to the…
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Terrible recording due to my old studio set up dying, but a nice keepsake of just how bad things became before the rebuild.
Lyrics by Brent Kinder.
With piano by Igor Alexeev.
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With music written and performed by Aged Machine for the RPM Challenge, 2013.
Demo version.
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I had to do it. I had to write a song for a Bond movie. Now they just need to make the movie, and hire me to do the soundtrack.
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"I'm GLAD I died in the car crash....but, I guess you died there too." So sad...
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Loneliness heals
Loneliness crushes
Loneliness gives strength
And takes it back.
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At the crossroads, with the only loved. Where art thou, mein lieber Augustin? Will we see you again?
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Für Fenella Humphreys, a classical artist.
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Written by the very lovely Keith Landry, who also plays guitar here.
Thanks to Bee Mathis, who joins me singing back up.
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With the amazing JS Tolar, as band "Visions of Nell".
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Music performed by Geoffrey Armes.
Song written by Brent Kinder, for his album "Sunny, sorta...".
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My first attempt to work with loops I created using midi.
With Mr Sandbags (reichatron). There's a really cool version with guitar added by Mac somewhere too, but it's weirdly vanished! Will add as soon as I find it.
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With Mr Sandbags (beats and reichatron), as band "Elusive Gene".
Played on BBC Radio Introducing. :)
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With music by Geoffrey Armes, and vocals by me. RPM 2011.
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With Mr Sandbags (piano), as band "Elusive Gene".
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Not an overall bad recording, and I’m quite pleased with the lyrics of this Psychedelic Folk tune.
FUTURE BOUND
Should I take the left or should I pass it by zoom?
Lost my faith in maps, so how will I decide zoom?
Spirits crying to be…
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Vocals by Greg Connor, lyrics by Connor and Merry Bear, music by Bear.
And y'all thought the Hokey Pokey was what it was all about! This song is 4 dimensional – up/down, left/right, in/out, now/then. BIG THANKS to Greg Connor for fabulous vocals…
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MAD AND SAD AND SCARED
I just want to get by for a friend
This is not how I would want to end
Mad and sad and scared
In everything I've shared
That is all I leave behind me
This is all I am
Hope I find a way
To kiss you every day
That…
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Lyrics, music, acoustic rhythm guitar, front vocals by Greg Connor. Acoustic Bass, electric guitar, synthesizer, and background vocals by Merry Bear.
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Lyrics, vocals, rhythm guitar, lead guitar, and acoustic bass by Merry Bear. Fabulous and greatly appreciated harmonica performance by "Minneapolis" Mark Imsdahl.
MINNEAPOLIS MARK
He's Minneapolis Mark
He's got that magic spark
-- Makes…
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This is a fun idea Greg has, and I can't wait to hear more.
He sent me an acoustic and vocal track and asked me to complete it.
I stayed up most of the night jammin' it. :)
It's a bit loose around the edges because I didn't work anything…
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Thanks to Robert Palomo for giving this a little sound engineering. Robert said " I mixed thru my mastering plugin (Ozone 5).
WordsMightBethe Weapon ToCreateThePerfect Crime
If I had a dollar for everything I done
To help you through…
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This recording was revised 8/7/2014 with sound effects (train and whistle) and wah-wah guitar.
WRECK OF NINETEEN THREE
People listen to me tell you
Of the story of a man
Roamed the country in a school bus
People called him Danville Dan…
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#RPM Challenge 2014#
First Song of the Challenge . . . Here We Go!
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Searching for new sounds. The Goodall, Boss OC3,DL4 and stereo Jamman
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Contemplation (Temple of Wind)
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Thanks to Shelly, Duma, Kimberly, and Selena for helping to play all the bells stacked up on this track!
This is track three from our 2014 RPM album, [Eleven](http://alonetone.com/cavestreet/playlists/eleven)
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Where I slip into the music stream, and away
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The wife had the book "To Kill a Mockingbird" for her book club but life got in the way and she didn't have time to finish it before the club met...so of course we cheated and watched the classic Gregory Peck movie so she would know the ending…
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mashed Roger Sundström (drums), Glenn Smith (bass) and added guitar noodles. Stir.
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This is a snippet of acoustic guitar recorded a year or so ago which was already loaded with effects. I ran that through paulstretch and came up with this. It created almost orchestral or choral sounds in places.
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Title track from my ''Dead Man's Shoes'' album 2008
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Recently picked up an old Ovation 12 string for cheap and also the newer Boss octave pedal, so I had to do something with the new toys
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I made this tune to check what can be done with the free "DVS Saxophone" vst plugin. Hope you enjoy the tune.
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The opening track to my ''Dead Man's Shoes''album from 2008.
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An old one off of the never-to-be-released "Reminder of Winter in April" CD. There are just some days that you wake up and head off into your day knowing that you're "walking into the fire."
"Take with you only what you need to survive."
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One of Greg Connor's best song in my opinion
Greg allowed me to add a little moody electric guitar to it...
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Married to a wage
A slave to the front page
Married to the money market
Such an easy target
I can't stand it ; can't stand it
Everyone is trying
God damnit ; God damnit
Everyone is dying
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Remembering Bliss
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2-3-14 Improv with new acoustic & new delay/looper. By the end of the month I'll probably have two or three albums worth of outtakes of this kinda stuff. Haven't even scratched the surface…
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Last one for the Galaxies CD.
I hope you enjoyed it.
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Track taken from my ''Dead Man's Shoes Acoustic Takes'' album 2008.
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Some video game love. Hotline Miami and the Hove.
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Doing my CD in July, and this is my first tune. Dreamy acoustic/synth voice.
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The coveting of mystery is not what it used to be.
So silent, we sway as if there was nothing wrong.
So I keep away from me as you get the best of me.
This violent reaction brings longing and painful new poison.
This humbling history is…
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Wrote this after seeing a fox in the Elkesley forests the other day.
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I thought it would be fitting to post this today, on Memorial Day, as a tribute to my friend William Easley, as well as all who have fought and died in wars, American or otherwise.
Sometime back in the 60's William (Billy from here on) heard…
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Track taken from my self titled''Adam-Son E.P.''2012
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I've gone a bit Bluesy on this one i got the French Horns out i blame watching BBC4...anyway hope you enjoy....
Counterfeit(Lyrics)
The night outside was as Black as coal
Her heart was made of stone
i couldn’t find no place to go
God did…
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A tune from my back catalog which i thought needed a little overhaul
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This (just in case nobody notices) is a desperate cry of protest against the suicidal car culture human has created.
Credits: contains samplings from http://www.freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/
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A mix of Roger Sundström's "Midsummer Ghost" and Paul Muller's "Aethra"..I added some ebowed fretless guitar.
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Sometimes the past in which you felt successful and strong, reminds of fragility of life. It's a sign of that you are in a point of transition and you should make a choice. Or the choice will be made for you. For me.
~for Geoffrey~
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Smoke of the past
The shadow of experiences
What was not
But could have been
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For Kevin Scot Sparks, Painter-Prof., All-Age Mentor & Trumpeter-Producer
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Together with a few guitaresque pieces (some are presented here, "Lettres 'D Amour" or "Mar Adentro" for example), this one was my "swan song" in already so distant 2009.
~Sign Of Hope~
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Naively conceived, written and published in February 2012 for "Contemporary Chamber Music" (vol.1), an RPM12 album.
The titles of the pieces in album are follow each other in a certain order - see album description.
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Naively conceived, written and published in February 2012 for "Contemporary Chamber Music" (vol.1), an RPM12 album.
The titles of the pieces in album are follow each other in a certain order - see album description.
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I'm on ice, I'm afraid to go on.
It seems fragile, but I have to go,
I have to go through it.
I had to.
Tardius evolvere on my theme "From Outside A Wall" (presented here at alonetone, too).
For the idle people (or, better: Pour la…
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Soul: it exists, it does not gets old, it just gets... tired. But we'll feel this later, much later.
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How precise I have to be? And where is the boundary beyond which comes unnecessary perfectionism?
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Where to go away everything that we created? To nowhere, I guess. So, the show goes on. Or: tomfoolery all the way, yeah!
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This Political Folk tune is set to a rustic, tribal Samba beat – perfect for dancing naked about Stonehenge – and asks if we are evolved enough as a species for the world we’re trying to create for ourselves today.
WHO WE ARE
TAKE ME BACK…
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This song written by Mark Imsdahl..I found it over at Greg Connor's ...I liked it so much that I asked Greg and Mark if I could do an electric version of it and they agreed...i want to have Mark blow some harp on it when he gets back from vacation…
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County Line
Making my way to the County Line
Gonna leave my troubles far behind
Change my name to something new
My happy life is overdue
Everyone I owe is standing in line
If I was just broke, I’d be doing fine
Everybody wants a…
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Very old song I wrote in the late 1970's, but still like it. Enjoy
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“This Change”: (Richard Hardrick)
Everything change
oceans of life, fight against death (hum)
I'm only a shade (afraid)
I' m trying to find my own way to survive
I'm better hide away, far away.
I can't resist this change
sky or sea…
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My dedication to all the night people.
~Midnight, alone, you~
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As if I was a tree,
And would stand in the woods,
Taking the rain and the snow.
As if I was a tree,
Standing in the field,
Looking at the eternal movement of the clouds.
As if I was,
as if ...
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...it seemed to me that all was not right, should it be otherwise, would be better, but how?
..and then I woke up.
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The fates of people like snowflakes: curled, they laugh and fall down.
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Pièce pour guitare, en trois parties.
~Journaux de Paris~
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What a treasure these marbles! Colorful, transparent, with or without stripes... Let's play?
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For Bee.
Also:
Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings,
And Phoebus 'gins arise,
His steeds to water at those springs
On chaliced…
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This is where the dream of free flight lives.
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1) Announcement:
"Engineer M.S. Los invites willing to fly with him on August 18 on the planet Mars to appear for personal talks from 6 to 8 pm Zhdanovskaya Embankment, 11, in the yard…
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You live on street. Act quickly, without any sense, as the wind that blows where he pleases. Chaos? primitive element? ...stirring the cauldron full of cultures and no-cultures…and the real life begins.
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/For Trevor, from far abroad
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Sometimes the natural order of things seemed broken, the course of events accelerated to a rapid and you feel that what is happening with you is ...a movie, and you're in, but this is not your, you are here by accident.
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…just another turn…
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...whether roaring like hungry lions impatient for the arena? I go out into the world, I am tense, I know that the audience, they are mine, is only important. Bull for them, I for them.
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Time to exit, Matador!
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This is just me experimenting with some drum and bass style stuff! I hope that it is interesting to the ears! Enjoy
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A sea shanty, pondering the ways Captain Digby may have lost his eye.
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another Reg & the Tormentors song that isn't finished yet...but it's practice tonight so maybe it will get finished tonight
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"Hey Motorman" was written for the 100 year celebration of the Ariel Lift Bridge.
The bridge was originally built in 1907 with a gondola that went from side to side carrying passengers and vehicles. It was later replaced with a lift system.
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Three years ago, I brought my two youngest up to the summit of a local mountain (actually, we went up Shelving Rock Mountain, but that song wouldn't be as good). Have a listen to see how that hike went.
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