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Last of the archives for now. A set of reels from the Last Nights Fun album. I did pipes, whistle and guitar on the last tune in the set. There's a live version of this up here too. This is the studio cut
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Sitting around in my shop a couple of days ago with the Goodall and the Zoom H4N. First time I've really messed with using the internal mics on the H4N in multitrack mode
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Recorded in 1990, this music brings together the alto sax of Carlos Ward, the late Tim Green on tenor, Louis Moholo on drums, and Paul Rogers on bass, along with Dallas trumpeter Dennis Gonzalez.
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The chorus is adapted from "O Death Rock Me Asleep", by Anne Boleyn, while imprisoned in the Tower of London, waiting for her execution.
(Tolar & Savigear 2010)
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I did this about 2 years ago and only found it the other day.
I think it sounds like something Robbie Williams would sing - and not really my style or cup of tea. It's a bit anthemic "come on and join in" (no thanks). Add to that I my singing…
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OgaNaMaster is a gerne of AfroHighlife written and sang by Benpinoz. it promot the African culture. so enjoy...
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Just another obscure saint. Not much known about him. Probably much more important and significant than any of us will ever realize.
Oh, yeah, and then there is Saint Simon. Same thing for him.
RIP Alex.
3 Congas, Vintage Bass Cocktail…
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Title track from the Scartaglen album of the same name. There is also a live version of this up here. Oddly enough the live version of the set actually has the tune called Last Nights Fun, but for some reason we couldn't get that to work in 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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The song tells of growing older while living in the suburban bliss of comfort and one day being alarmed at how much time has gone by yet we still have our dreams and childhood heart and the contrast it makes.
The Silence Addicts ©2014 Words…
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Also from the "Last Nights Fun" album. This tune was written by Mike Dugger who played mando and fiddle. I think we did a really nice job of arranging this tune in retrospect. Roger Landes on guitar in the first half. I think I did the bouzouki…
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Song by Nick Plagakis
Lyrics:
I don’t care for love and happiness
I got myself a yacht and a mansion
I don’t believe in God and religion
I got myself sixty four billion
Greed, greed, greed is what I need
Greed, greed, greed is what…
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Poetic reading of poem by GOING UP friend Tom...about going to school.
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With music written and performed by Aged Machine for the RPM Challenge, 2013.
Demo version.
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Solo acoustic finger picking thing I've been working on for a while. Sometime around 1968 I started studying with Mr. George Bennett who taught me the rudiments of finger picking. Later when we played some gigs together he also taught me the rudiments…
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Here is a latest genre ready to rejoice you with its melodious tone that will give a sensational effect on your ears. It has a very futuristic tone and the singer has got a very tuneful voice.
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Tried my hand at lead guitar on this one for a different flavor, Thanks to Norm for his percussion magic!
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There's a pretty good video for this song on YOUTUBE. We wrote this song years ago...90's in fact.
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Greg Connor added his amazing harp to the song. It really adds depth to it. I love Greg's playing on the song. Thanks so much, Greg! This is why Alonetone is great.
Lyrics & Music by Nick Plagakis
I count my blessings…
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Sadly, Annie and Allan are now divorced...
The games are over...
Annie & Allan
Annie and Allan were having a problem
Made a decision to go their own ways
Annie and Allan made an announcement
Not even knowing how it saddened…
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Here's a new one I've been working on for the last few weeks... time to say "done!"... Trying to push some of my limits again and try some new things. Hope you like it!
Reassurance
© 2015 Colleen Dillon
Sometimes we sigh, we cry
We fall…
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and you, again
a WAV format version of the album is available on soundcloud
https://soundcloud.com/brett-warren
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I was down at the station
Catch the Greyhound to Go My Way
And I heard the loudspeaker
We’ll be leaving some time today
You just Say no thank you
When I ask you to be mine
I’ll be looking for that green light
When I ask you the next…
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Caveat emptor: I did absolutely none of the drumming in this piece.
WORLD PREMIER! FIRST RECORDING OF THIS PATTERN - EVER!
My friend Kokou "Alex" Yemey called me a few days ago with some urgency in his voice: "I must record this before…
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What happened to the colors of expression in the arts? I miss the 60's and 70's. Enough said.
Notes from my rock and roll music theory class...
Find a riff and milk it! Check .
Find a four chord bed of lettuce to put that wonderful salad…
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The Boogieman
tboudreau
I just might be hiding behind your bedroom door
you might find me lying under your bed, down on the floor
You swear you hear the creekin' coming up the stairs
you got your eye on the peep-hole and nobody's there…
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Volcano was one of the first tracks that the Proods uploaded to Alonetone, it was fun because it features the Prood gals who aren't always available to jam.
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Imagining my band imaginary band in my head on one of those 60's type music shows. Just having fun with this one nothing too serious lyrically like solving world peace or finding high consciousness ..although it really is a true story.
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Well the MN songwriters were in my living room tonight. We all shared our contributions to the "glass" songwriting challenge. Here's the live version of Poorly Blown Glass with Greg Connor on Guitar, Scott Zosel on Mandolin, Colin Walterson…
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from the Poisonous EP
wait for the worry lines, the worry lines
to disappear
they get me every time, me every time
that you are near
won’t let you get inside, this heart of mine
i must be strong
you knew you’d get to me, you’d get to…
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from the Poisonous EP
look at that face in the mirror
same one you had before
harder to recognize these days
time has not been kind
still a ways to go
better hurry up
don’t let it slip away
ok is not enough
you gotta take a chance…
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Chris sent me over this track and i got to wondering what i could do to add to it. The tragedy of the Russian plane flying back from Egypt came to mind .....
CHAOS
The chaos of our time
rules our minds
The crazy
trust in chaos
Chaos will…
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from the Poisonous EP
the thought of it makes me cry
i’d like to be friends
with all of my enemies tonight
i see her in tattered rags
i’m blinded by what she once was
and now there are no more to say
i’m empty, there’s nothing left…
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Penny Wise ©2015 Words and music by Jeff Cole
Winter's solstice is on to you
In a week you’ll be looking where to hide
The mercy you called shy
In faith so penny wise
Slowly watch the tide
The love you had to pine
In faith so penny wise…
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First track of 2015...
mega shimmery verbs + beat + funky gated guitar = this
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African beauty by NY is a song to praise and appreciates the beauty of African women
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Title track from the album I'm Your Geography Teacher.
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This is my submission for the "write something about glass" challenge.... It battled me a bit, and I ended up with a fairly spare arrangement, but it's simple like GLASS!
Poorly Blown Glass
© 2015 Colleen Dillon
Verse 1:
Your love was…
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Last year friends and family seemed to be dieing right, left and centre. Part of my RPM 2015 effort
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A track coming off my new Mixtape "Sounds of an Unknown Stoner" that is prod. and written by myself! I basically speak on how unfair the police can be and how I just want to be chill and high.
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Jesus Christ Lives,this shows that we don't serve a dead God,Our God is surely alive,Living in the inside,ruling like a lion!
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A friend of Gochii's laughed at the fact he didn't use paper and pencil to write his songs and that his method of storing his rhymes and was risky. Gochii response simply was my mind is a computer.
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Its a slow groovy song that expresses some basic reasons for love. "Ja Lo Jo is a yoruba native word which means "let's go & dance"
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This song is just talking about the money,the women and the hustle.
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Boys goin in hard on a dope beat from engr.bings! Enjoy this!
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Just wanted to capture the freshness of rain this morning.. I don't think this song would evolve into anything, but it sounds kinda neat!(MAN, that right midtom is sticking out too much!!)
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7.10.2015
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here's a practice room recording of our attempt at the Massive Attack cover. rough.
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My nephew Spencer or (SZC) as he goes by wrote this song entirely as we were talking about the sad news of Robin Williams passing in a conversation last year and how it felt. So he asked me to do the vocals and guitar.. He will be joining alonetone…
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Boy meets girl and folds like a lawn chair in a hurricane. She makes him want to be a better man. The End.
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One of the first songs I did in the psychedelic phase.
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This song will touch your heart, once. Its composition is so well. One of my friend sent me this song. She made me perk up with this song. Its wordings are not only remarkable but unforgettable. Let me know your opinion for this song.
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Here is my contribution to the latest song writing challenge offered by the Minnesota Songwriters.
(Write a song using the topic: GLASS) Everyone is welcome to participate.
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STAINED GLASS…
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Recorded 9 Aug 2015, the first anniversary of the killing of Michael Brown
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Copyright © 2014 John 'Buck' Erpestad
Rather than taking a nap after Thanksgiving meal I played around and came up with instead of dessert. Thanks for paying a little attention. Buck
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Released via CD Baby this past week. The full version is available to stream on my site: www.robertpalomo.com/corporation_blues
I'm embedding the video here below.
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Udon Noodles; back from prison, reform school, hospital, psychiatric and respite care; bring us a new noodle, obviously unfinished and with an instruction of how to dance to it included in the title…..
with apologies FFFO/UN-MUSIC
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Another (probably the last) track for Rhythm & Hues.
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A different kind of experiment..Had some visual images of empty buildings, scare forests and dark highways in my mind.Hope you enjoy it!
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A piece for symphonic orchestra and chinese drum,
inspired by James Clavell's novel "Tai-Pan".
Thanks to user subtyrant from freesound.org for seashore sound sample.
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I wrote the lyrics and melody to this song a week or so ago when I was feeling that unsettling disconnected feeling we all get from time to time when we're missing the people we love.... Then I gave myself the challenge to try a few things with…
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My favorite song by Jane Bowers
She was still alive back when I 1st learned
this song from the Kingston Trio.
I didn't know, back then, that I could have met her.
WHEN I WAS YOUNG by Jane Bowers
When I was young and dreams were new…
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I just picked up a Roland JP-08, thought I'd take it for a spin!
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Please be gracious on this one friends. It was co-written by my teenage son Tom, who really does dream of peace...and a million just like him.
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Soundtracks for ghosts song part VI.(10 songs in total)
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Written to be played at a funeral...was the final track written in the Joesphine era (1994). Definitely a song about the end. Lyrics are gone...probably a good thing :)
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The new album will be up in a few weeks! I just finished the vocals in this one and was pretty pleased with the unexpected results. So yeah, sneak peek.
Lyrics:
Lay me on a slab
State the time and date
Describe what you see
Measurements…
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I didn't realize how much time these school projects would take. I promise the new album will be posted as soon as I get a little free time to finish it.
Anyways:
The four movements are
Allegro 0:00
Adagio con rubato 4:02
Scherzo…
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The guitarist started this one out as a love song, but it became something much different.
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The sun in my mouth
the leaf on my back
the crown on my tree
forever let alone
in reverie
can't you see her
a WAV format version of the album is available on soundcloud
https://soundcloud.com/brett-warren
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Having a lil fun with one. Changed the melody up a bit and removed the horn sections at the end.
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i started this song in may, finaly got it done. much too much going on in my life.
the big thing is i will be moving out of state. packing everyday and no longer have
any time nor access to my music or instruments. this one was done but sitting…
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For a fabric act that closed out the show.
From the soundtrack to The Green Fairy Cabaret, a joint production of the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts and the Philadelphia International Festival for the Arts.
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Commissioned as a gift for a friend moving to a new city. The person who paid for the commission chose the title; I'm not sure I will ever know what it means.
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This one is still in progress, Jon the guitarist sent me a riff which i stuck together to get a kinda structure...so this is take 1....
I'm gonna kill a Mockingbird
That mockingbird mocks me with your name
I'm still not over you and it's causing…
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Maybe I missed a career scoring for no budget spaghetti westerns, because this is what this reminds me of. Done live a couple weeks ago with the Taylor and a floor full of toys and loopers.
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A mid-tempo blues shuffle with a few twists & turns. Played on a guitar bought from £25 in a charity shop.
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Runway Lights (in 128) was the solo I performed at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem North Carolina on the 26th of September 2015. The recording you hear is from the University mics. The title is actually a misnomer – a mistake on my…
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Caveat emptor: I did absolutely none of the drumming in this piece.
ANOTHER WORLD PREMIER! FIRST RECORDING OF THIS PATTERN - EVER!
My friend Kokou "Alex" Yemey delighted me with another visit this evening. He played "Aju" - all 5 tracks…
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