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Lyrics have been adapted from a poem Mike wrote when he was in his teens.
Enjoy!
XOX
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New original from me, hot off the old wotsit.
When it was half written yesterday, I was considering binning it as a throwaway exercise - I do that quite often. But I played the songwriting demo to someone else and, er, apparently I should finish…
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Sassy Nation version!
Sister Savage and Mr Sandbags collaborated on the original of this wonderful heartbreaker of a song. I've been playing it on the guitar the last few days and it always seemed to come out with a grittier tone, so i asked…
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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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this ain't perfect, i've been working on it a while. the drums sound like shit, my vox are horid and the guitars suck balls, but i kinda like it.
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A moody solo acoustic thing that I came up with playing in a long forgotten tuning. Just got a new Zoom H4N, so this was recorded in my shop sitting at my reedmaking bench may 12 2009
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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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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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More searching for new sounds. Same setup as the last one. Experimented a bit with paulstretch on the fadeout
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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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I wrote this for my girlfriend, but she'll never hear it because Travis Twitt is the earth moon and sun.
It's not really that good anyway :)
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With music written and performed by Aged Machine for the RPM Challenge, 2013.
Demo version.
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Been a long while, hoping to get back into making music for you folks again!
This track is supposed to be the vocals of the Performer Nayru from The Legend of Zelda Oracle of Seasons. Nayru, as you probably already know is one of the fabled…
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Sometimes you need to stay up late to try to force yourself to dream.
When I wrote this song (and started singing it a bit), I knew that my voice could never give it what it needed... So I turned it over to one Sister Savage... And she did…
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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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Based on a Yoruba Obàtálá pattern, which I hope Greg doesn't find underhanded.
Congas and cowbell.
4/4 160bpm.
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Live at Hip Pocket Theater last night. Crowd laughter,crickets and all. An edit from an hour long set.
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Searching for new sounds. The Goodall, Boss OC3,DL4 and stereo Jamman
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I got up nice and early this morning thanks to Seb ....so i got the acoustic out and came up with this one ....Don't ask me why....
the innocence of a lie
the reason behind the why
the sigh of regret
at that moment of death
why
why
oh…
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One of my favorite songs of all time and one of my favorite voices.
Thanks M.T.
My Skin
Some days I’m fine
Yeah some days I feel sublime
All the time
But then there’s days
I wanna crawl out of my skin
And leave it in
A…
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This was written after an incident in the early morning hours as I was waking. It wasn't really a dream but the whole thing came to me as the lyrics tell.
MARY'S GARDEN (TIME OF MERCY)
Hail Mary, full of grace
Hail Mary, Guardian of the…
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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 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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Got a lot of bad news this week and this came out.......
i want to see the sunshine
come out through the pouring rain
i want to see the clouds break
i want to see this day start again
oh i’m gonna get down on my knees get down on my knees…
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This is a song that I did with Bethan Mathis a while back. She has recently removed her account, but has give me permission to place this song on my pages. She did such a wonderful job of singing this that I think it deserves to be heard.
It…
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This track was made for collaborative purposes. Looking for a slow build of layers. If you hear anything that you would like to add...feel free to do so, and send it back to me...or post it and let me know that you did. TANKS!
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Tempest Fero Lives again!
My first real band was called Tempest Fero. We shoulda rethought that name. Anyway, this was one of the first four or five songs we wrote. There should be keyboard, but I don't have the skill or the patience to…
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Seagull Acoustic, Les Paul (Guitar tuning: Double Drop D)
Ipad for all Keyboards and bass
BR-1200 for drums and recording
lyrics/music Dave Berry
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This is my cover of 'Lady Killigrew'. This song was originally done by Sister Savage, and Bethan Mathis, and can be found on either of their alonetone pages. I highly recommend their version. They sing prettier... probably look prettier too…
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This is a cover of a song by Sister Savage, from her kickin' 2010 RPM Challenge album, Juped 2k10. It also introduces the genre of acoustic crossdressed spacecheese (these damn kids today with their flying cars and their hyperspecialized genres…
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Cover of Sister Savage's original, awesome tune.
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Mach sent me this backer over and asked me to add some keys and a vocla he sent over the lyrics which i have played with a little ...hope you enjoy!!
DRIP DROP
I’m no Don Jaun by any means
i’m only James Bond in my dreams
when i saw you dance…
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Just messing around with some ideas. 1/2 Step down standard tuning.
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Last-n-found from the “Long Farewells” recording session. Recorded live, one-by-one, in one of endless winter evening.
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http://adneonlux.bandcamp.com/album/long-farewells
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from the album xChange
original words & music by Tess Savigear
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I told the [good Sister](http://alonetone.com/sistersavage) that I wanted to try using vocals in a track and she offered to do me some abstract, stylized, vocals that I could play with and this little number is the result.
Working with wet (pre…
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Small class project - "Add your own sound track to an existing commercial ad in the real world. It must contain two different tempos." Click View More to see the outcome.
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Reg has this recurring dream of his fantasy women but she is always out of reach...........Thanks to Tess for letting me play with her tune.
Space Gypsy with Sister Savage
She roams in and out of my world
I’m Lost I am lost without…
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My version of the fantastic Sister Savage/Gary Fox tune. Not as good as the original but I had fun! Thanks to Tess for helping out with the lyrics
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Love like a salt river washing away
Love's like sunshine evaporate
Love like floating candles blowing away
Watch out for the way you'll compensate
When I've seen all you have to give
When I'm still hungry
I need more than this
Tell me how…
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Title track from "Spirit Dwelling" 2005 -- a lot more acoustic work going on then. 8 track recording.
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DREAMS OF THE OCEAN
Your kids'll be waking up in the morning
Just a couple of hours after mine have gone to bed
I've got the coffee warming
While dreams of the ocean are in your daughters' heads
I taught them all 'bout it late last evening…
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John has done a beauty of a backer for this lesser known Zep song of the BBC Sessions album....hope you enjoy i did doing it Thanks John for such a pro backer and mix..........
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An attempt at carnival shoegaze. Yes, Violet, it's a freakout.
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A mashup with
Roger Sundström Guitar, Drums, Toys, Soundscapes, Mix
Paul Mimlitsch (61214cbc)
James Bailey (A Journey Through the Asteroid Belt)
Steve Layton (Sharp Sad Line)
Benjamin Smith (Ben.improv.Jun.13.2014)
for Sound-In 2014-06-14
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jam inspired by the Buckethead song of the same name.
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A little more acl-style Baroque 'N Roll. (Actually, it's more like Renaissance 'N Roll - but that just not as catchy...)
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Just a simple Garageband drop and drag composition... No lyrics, just an exercise in background music.
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Cover of the Led Zeppelin song from III. WIth this I've now covered all the songs on sie 1 and will put a Playlist together when I get around to it.
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This is a collaboration between Endicott Road and Sister Savage. Hope you enjoy it.
ER
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The opening to a new little ditty... More to come as it progresses.
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Roland 501 Chorus Echo and Piano.
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Lyrics: traditional. Music by Nicolas and Shawn. From the _It Rises_ album by Strawberry Moth, ca. 1992. Rhythm guitar and vocals by Nicolas. Other guitar and vocals by Shawn.
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I've had a bit of a love/hate relationship with this one.
I enjoyed making the beats and think that part came out pretty good but everything after that felt rather haphazard and didn't feel right to me.
I was close to abandoning the track…
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Inspired by a picture of my sister at the top of the Estes Cone (I was too out of shape to get up there myself... something I need to do when I return to RMNP).
From the Top of the World
On the top of the world
Nothing 'round 'cept mountain…
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RPM 2014
Acoustics are done on an 8" android pad.
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My contribution to the Aural Films Robots! compilation, available here: http://auralfilms.bandcamp.com/album/robots
From Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality series of stories, the Manshonyagger (from the German Menschenjäger, meaning hunter of…
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Tell me can you teach me bout your finely written poetry
Dont care about the content I just want to make em notice me
Such a fine hand they'd say wooo, study it closely
Been practicing all day I think I'm ready least I aughta be.
Caligraphy…
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Go check out the original: http://alonetone.com/ironangel/tracks/07-goth-song
Synth - The wife
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Those stark Moonlit nights have something of a reputation, but there are other things lurking in the moonlight.
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Fun little tune about the evils of strong drink.
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Just a little ditty in Open A tuning. Seems apt on a glorious summers day !!!!!
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Men don't collect dolls. They collect action figures.
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Keyboards: Doug Sparling
Composer: Doug Sparling
Written/Recorded: 2006
Old music library track. I recorded this with a cheap Yamaha keyboard my step-father gave me. Wish I would have add little more to the repeat of the melody, but I think I…
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Live looping, room recording of gig rehearsal, so a little rough.
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This is an exert from the Two regs Radio program on C.U.N.T. fm . The Regs are in the middle of re-write of their new book and this exert and others like it are hoped to be used as background for the Audio book. You can hear a lot more from the…
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