First song of the *RPM Challenge 2013*

Created for the Sound-In event "F" theme, but also coinciding conceptually with Jim Goodin's delay project, Passing the Torch. fretless junk strat tuned FFCACF through DL4 delay modeler.

This is a Phil Keaggy tune. I swiped his original loop and then built my own thing on top of it. Might have been longer, but my volume swell effect keeps slipping out of sync with everything else. May work on it more at a later date

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.

This is a tune we did in 2011 and is featured in Ramen Music Issue 6. I wanted to upload it to my last collection of Wildgeas tunes. It's one of my favorite collaborations eveh! Suds mixed this version. It belongs here. Enjoy!

One of my personal favorite recordings from the 52 song MYTHOPOETICA demo collection, even though there’s a sound quality issue (the bass had a bit of a buzz). This was my first time using a wammy bar – I liked it! PLASTIC GIRL You can’t…

Blues. Lyrics, vocals, harmonica and harpsichord by Greg Connor. All other instruments by Gene Eric Mann. Arrangement by Greg Connor and Gene Eric Mann.

A Sea Shanty with a bit of Psychedelic seasoning. Guest artist Starry Nightmoth performs the “harmonica” on a Yamaha KB as the song fades out. 37 SAILS Thirty-seven sails be a full rigged ship Open up ye hatch and pour ye spirit down…

Kick the tires and light the fires.

cool, upload seems to work ok now. I did a jam along track.

LIFE The art of life, it lies between Hanging on and letting go I didn't ask to be alive It's the best life that I know So we are here, so let us be Adding to the gripping tale The universe can know itself As we journey on our…

Something more mellow. Got the idea from an Andy Aledort column in Guitar World magazine but can't remember which one and can't find the issue now. Thanks for listening.

for choir, bowed gamelan, bowed electric piano and percussion

Gene Eric Mann was kind enough to do noise removal for me. The hiss is all gone, which is awesome! The resulting track has an interesting ethereal quality. This might end up being rerecorded at some point, but this is an amazing improvement!

So 50/90 is an unnatural forcing of a crap ton of songs in a relatively short period of time. We're half way though and I've learned one thing. I've learned how easy it is to repeat something you've already done. This one sounds a LOT like…

New song. Wrote the guitar part first, lyrics came later. This is one of the first songs I've done more than one track on in quite a while, and also one that isn't dark (unusual for me). Anyway, enjoy!

we went for a few days holiday up to the lake district and stopped in a Wigwam by Coniston Lake the weather was great it was relaxing and being surrounded by beautiful scenery it was the perfect break.... i recorded this on the MBR and then had…

Not up to Avalon standards but I had fun making this. (for week 3)

This song represents the place where things got alarmingly repetitive for my 50/90 project. In another day or two I'll be posting a song that is musically very similar to this one. As I worked this one out, I had no memory of the previous attempt…

Testing turned to awesomness

Second side opener by Martin fox This chord progression came to me in a pre-rpm jam and we instantly nailed the feel. The words came easy too. Another five piece number. The words are about my loved ones i have lost and my feelings about our…

a star mangled spanner

mashed Roger Sundström (drums), Glenn Smith (bass) and added guitar noodles. Stir.

ambient experiment in audiomulch. I don't know what I'm writing about, what I do, wherever i am, but somehow, nowhere and nothing in the moment of impossibility, there is...something.

improv-based duo thing with snap circuits (Miles) and a toy melodica (me)

A tad ambitious but still a lot of fun playing Drums Bass and Keys...for the John Lennon Jukebox fest on the otherside...........

This one came really quick as I was working on another, completely different, idea. Lyric wise it's a simple little love song about the love of my life and I sticking it out. Usually I tend to match that type of lyric with something less dumb…

Added some delayed cigar box guitar to Jim Goodin's "Meteor", for our ongoing delay project.

A response to Jim Goodin's delay project.

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.

FEEL THE TIME Feel the time is rushing by, I feel the time is near Feel the time is crushing down, I feel the time is here That is how the world goes round, that is how it goes Just a question, when and how, and that no one knows…

#2 for RPM Challenge 2013

We forgot to mention that Reg visited Norm's place a little later and added some vocals. The video is a ride through the US state of Virginia. The Texas Tavern serves cheesy westerns (cheese, fried egg, burger, bun) in the downtown of Roanoke Va.