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Written and recorded as part of our family RPM project this year. :-D
13 year old Jasmine on vocals and ukulele.
We wrote and recorded 10 songs under the name Cattica. It was just the best month of lockdown imaginable.
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Can you hide in happiness
Can you disguise the sadness in your voice
Could you play only major chords
Can you hide in happiness
Choose a part of you to show
And no one around you can know
Just how deep the scars go
Can you hide in…
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Now with more awesomeness! Thank you to This Wretched Vessel Lead vocalist for adding in some Gang vocals to beef up the chorus. Also borrowing their percussionist for some tambourine to give the song some extra pop!
You know I can’t think…
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Recorded: December 2004
Guitar: EBEGAD
First track I ever recorded...
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Recorded way back (early '80s?) on open reel tape. The mumbly voices are from whatever was recorded on there before, as it was a former CBC Radio tape. The "instrument" is one of those little slicers for hard-boiled eggs. Submitted to Sound-In…
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A band version of this song
KC - guitar, vocals & mix
Bingsolex - lead guitar
Erwin B - bass, recording
Hans Nooitgedagt Jr - drums
They say that you are evil
They say that you are bad
They say you got me hooked
They say you drive…
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An older song that I remixed
About breaking up with someone
KC
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It was an evening in the fall
It was raining and cold as ice
I was driving home in the dark
Just looking for a glimpse of paradise
Refr…
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Now a decade old, I thought I would revisit this mix again. I have done this a few times as I continue to learn the craft. I thought it would be a good exercise to undertake as a start thinking about writing again for the next record.
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First new release in over 2 years...
This was originally inspired by a weird FX patch on my Blofeld, with the first couple minutes coming together in just a few days of work. It then sat untouched for the next two years, until I decided to…
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the submission for the sound-in event Groove--- I have taken my voice and some synth samples mixed them in novations iPad app LaunchPad- so as using the voice samples in loops not too groovin but anyway---
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A Pure Data patch that evolved in working with a hanning array to get cleaner playback in my loops. I used 4 loops of a previous loop and developed two noise parts that are either similating surf or wind or both. For this week's Sound-In event…
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these is a much slower and meditative version of be the groove song--- it is mostly different of course I designed the lauchpad app settings for groove type playing- :)
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Instrumental prog-metal inspired by my odometer.
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Master Version 2
Instincts- which were the memories of his ancestors become habits
Full audio available on Bandcamp Video available on Instagram and YouTube
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Guess I was feeling Folkie when I wrote this .......
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This is a song about everything happening in Nigeria
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Converting a picture of birds on wires to music. This is a version where I added some lo-fi effects and some off-kilter drums and bass to turn it into a track.
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Two days into a return to the UK to work in July 21 and I tested positive for COVID - happily I was asymptomatic but it meant 11 days in isolation which is where this tune was born. It started (as often my sketches do) with the bass riff that…
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drip by drip..
I did the guitar and bass tracks first, then procured my 10 year olds cello for the main bass line :) I also tried my luck playing cello with a bow on this track- which was a new experience.
The trumpet and violin bits are played…
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Trying out the new keyboard thanks for listening
We all dream with our eyes closed
Blind to where our dreams can go
Never to know what truly comes to us
Under that midnight glow
Under that midnight glow
Belief becomes from dream
That…
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My attempt at this super fun sea shanty!
This is an old New Zealand whaling song. The popular recent version was recorded a cappella by The Longest Johns. I'm using the chords suggested by Piotrek_G on ultimate-guitar.
Edit: re-uploaded…
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I play Lead guitar and sing on this song and Al-Fadista from France plays the rhythm Guitar. Just a fun song all around, Enjoy.
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When you C reach the Em point
When it’s F all in the rear view C mirror
And Am reflection is your G only point of C view G
You C feel it Em inside
When it F becomes so C clear
There’s Am nothing that G you can C do
F Hold on to G memories…
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2021 5090 song number 15.
There was a song I uploaded a couple of weeks ago that was called Calling that I am a little afraid to listen to back to back with this one because I think I wrote the same song twice again.
Are the rhythm guitars…
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Dedicated to my furry companion of eight years and counting!
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I stumbled across a sample I took of a cd skipping, which is the base rhythm/pulse track for this.
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minimalistic piece. Like the one as before. It was my sunshine today.
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A mash of tracks by James Bailey (Climbing the Rocky Path) and Jim Goodin (In Sine) for the Up! Sound-In weekly event. Mix by Kavin.
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seamless facade
an egg
birth arcade
So the sparrow does fly
then it leaves an arrow in the sky
(lost in the cold)
(lost in the code)
we're all browsers in a way
picture's fine in the daytime
but in the silence the charade it fades…
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guitar and ebow, extensive processing - maximum delay and reverb, plus octave trails etc.
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A song written and recorded for the Record Every Month challenge in July 2021
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My little Beaver Creek guitar was lonely, so I picked her up and this was the song we made.
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A song that I wrote a few weeks ago
All instruments and vocals by me
KC
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You're in deep trouble
But you're in denial
I can see the pain
Covered by your smile
Refr: When you're coming down, I'll be there…
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This is an older song. featuring my friend Hans Nooitgedagt Sr on guitar
The rest is done by me.
Pretty dark lyrics, feeling much better now :-)
KC
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Parents of friends around me dying
And in the midst…
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Did this one in a different tuning: DADDAD
KC
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Sometimes I just feel
Like I'm totally lost
Sometimes I wonder
Is it all worth the cost
Sometimes I just feel
That I'm on the right track
But sometimes…
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Here's another new song
All instruments and vocals by me
KC
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All those internet desperado's
That you see online
With their keyboard bravado
I think they're crossing a line
It's so easy to rant and yell
At people…
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One of my latest songs
All instruments and voals by me
KC
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Sometimes I wonder : Can we go on like this?
Sometimes I wonder what it is that we miss
I'm getting bored with the way things go
We have to…
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Another new song
All instruments and vocals by me
KC
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So many thoughts that we will never know
So many feelings we will never show
So many things that we don't share
Sometimes I think that we just don't care…
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This is a second version of this song
Kept the lyrics but the music is new
All instruments and vocals by me
KC
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I was standing on the bank of the river
And I watched the sun go down
A gentle breeze…
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Taken from my Desert Rat album. Recorded live during a BBQ at my Torrey Utah homestead. Recorded on a Fostex cassette four track in 1985.
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In the early 70s I lived near Haight Ashbury, played music and was deeply involved in that scene. Wrote this song a few years later about those days. Recorded in one take at Rosewood studios..not bragging on the one take, we booked a full day…
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Intro
Ahhhh
It's alyricsagaino
Omo Iya Aladura oo
Chorus
Ori mi Jen lenu ope
eleda mi Jen re rin ayo
Ori mi Jen lenu ope
eleda mi Jen rerin Ayo
Bodun yi she n pari lo o
Maje kan fi iku demi mo
maje ki emi fiku lokiki
Bodun yi she…
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Yes, it's a fourth 35 minute experimental noise work from Skit and myself for Elling Lien and his RPM Challenge. After promising not to do another one, then doing it anyway, and a third the month after, we give up with such promises. This will…
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19 edo guitar, some effects, and trying to play through a hurting hand
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V1 I know it shouldn’t be this way
Oh what have i done
I wish i could see things differently
But Only see the answers with a gun
V2 Is this The reality in front of me
Maybe it is the proof , but
My Pen it never lies,
it just lays out…
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This track was released by Tribe Tapes, on a record that was cut into the bottom of a disc. Since it is now "sold out", the original track is now presented here.
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This was an interesting experience put together :)
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Wilson's Cover of my song. He did such a fantastic job on this and I love that he took the time to do this. It is such an honour to have someone take the time to learn one of your songs and record their own take on it. Thank you Wilsun!
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Tim's remix of Wilson's cover of my song. In case you were ever wondering what Wilson sounded like without the inhibitions of recording yourself, here it is with Tim behind the soundboard. Pushing the vocals out and adding some sweetness to the…
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Recorded with Classical Guitar, Irish Whistle and Fender Jazz Bass. I wrote this a few years ago and rerecorded it this week.
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Winter Solstice
Written by Greg Connor
When the G days are short, and the C…
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A combined collaboration project with Project-X (David Webster) & Nemo Marxism (my other self)
More to come...
Late night stars
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This is what it sounds like when every note has its own wah pedal...
The lower and higher harmonics come in first, with the inside ones filling in, harmonic by harmonic every 20ms. The result is a very human-ish Yaw sound on low notes (check…
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Been sat on this song for weeks and weeks, finally got the urge to record it ....
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Redone RPM track - Something to do with the state of the world, ecologically, politically... whatever. It is what it is ;)
Now I can turn my attention to something more fulfilling... maybe Hah!
There's a video version on my instagram - link…
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So the lyrics come from another age, but they sounded so relevant to the recent lockdown world, that I decided to stitch them into a completely different track.
So, there ya go!
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from the album xChange 2k18
written by Tess Savigear
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2009, having fun with Johnny Stone's awesome music.
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If you had a time machine, where would you go?
Updated: March 2024
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Wrote this during the covid lockdown. Recorded by my son Jim with Pauline on vocals...recorded July 2021
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8-string guitars rule. Instrumentals rule. Lydian mode rules.
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Brian wrote a song.
Wilsun covered it.
Wilsun gave me his Garageband file.
I teamed up with a robot orchestra and we made this.
Hopefully Brian and Wilsun will like it.
Wilsun's cover: https://alonetone.com/wng801/tracks/leave-me-alone…
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Based on a true story. I'm pretty sure my cat had barfed overnight, but I don't think I actually stepped in it...
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