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          Rough draft Gustav Holst's In the Bleak Midwinter. Debating whether to ruin this with a vocal part or not.
        
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          acapella vocal loop
In the bleak midwinter
Frosty wind made moan
Earth stood hard as iron
Water turned to stone
Snow had fallen
Snow on snow on snow
In the bleak midwinter
Long, long ago
- Christina Rossetti  1872
        
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          For my contribution to the RPM this year i thought i'd tell a little story......
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For those of us who think it impossible to stop these full throttle hands. 
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(STRANGE DAYS) Thetworegs
The Blue sky in my dreams…
        
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          In a parallel universe by late 1968 the band began to become more solo in their writing. One of the final tracks of the Telethon album shows the soul numbing social and cultural norms of grinding out a living while also trying to remain positive…
        
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          Track 2 for the RPM 2015 album Cold Ground Was My Bed
"Yesterday was a den of sorrow, today is a bright mystery, the future a dim dream or ancient history"
        
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          You're always on my mind 
Gotta take you with me 
Can't leave you behind
Blind to circumstance 
If I can get a little more 
Gotta take the chance
Flyin' high again 
It's do or die 
There's no need to pretend
Runnin' from wall to…
        
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          It's been so long since I've made any music I've kind of forgotten how. I was just noodling about and thought I had a sound I liked so I bounced it out quite quickly.
This one is all made with Reaktor and Boscomac's Air Piano ensemble, plus…
        
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          song#2 for RPMC2016
Expiration date
A rough month for rock stars
All the good ones are leaving
It's about that time
Just the songs remain and 
Public grieving
I read the news today oh no
When you died they wrote you up
Counted your…
        
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          Probably not the final title!
My first song RPM2016, written/recorded evening of 3rd Feb.
        
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          A poppy song, written and recorded on Feb 12th/13th 2016 as part of the RPM Challenge.
Of moderate interest, I first wrote and recorded (and basically finished) the music, although not the structure. After that I started work on the top-line…
        
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          from the sMallWavesEp
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…
        
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          where ever you happen to be
she's not so far behind you
looking for your apology
she knows she'll never find it
it's the same song that she sings
and it drowns out everything
as she's chasing after you in rain
all the wrong ways that I…
        
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          wait for the worry lines, the worry lines
to disappear
they get me everytime, me everytime
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 me
but you were wrong
never…
        
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          the bed and the goldfish are all that remain
the bed has got fleas and the goldfish is floating
face down in the water the bowl on the floor
I'm just gonna stare for one moment longer
sit down in the dust where the coach used to be
clutching…
        
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          look at that face in the mirror
it's the same one you had before
but it's harder to recognize these days
cause 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
before…
        
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          Track 9 for RPMX album Cold Ground Was My Bed
Those boots that you're wearing black and high
Reach almost up to your thigh
High heels and leather
Tight as a drum
They would even look good on your mum
Black Boots
Wear them with fishnets…
        
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          Live looped vocals. Track 10 for Kavin.s Acoustic Church's RPM Challenge album Cold Ground Was My Bed.
        
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          Track 5 from my RPMX album Cold Ground Was My Bed
Inspired by Salvador Dali. Mostly.
Gravity failing 
Cats float flailing 
Furniture in midair 
Salvador smiling 
Rainbows crying 
Clocks melting everywhere 
Pachyderms stilted 
Lovers…
        
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          RPMX track 4
Skin of silk, tungsten steel
Machine of lust, seems unreal
Simple chores are what you’re for
I remade you for so much more
My love is gone forever now
But you will do, 'cos I know how
To modify you’re software now
Will…
        
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          Track 1 for the RPM 2015 album Cold Ground Was My Bed
No man is a prophet in his own home
No man is a prophet in his own
You can do just what you want, in the end you stand alone
No man is a prophet in his own
Don’t want no cryin’ when…
        
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          4 bass lines. 4 bass tracks :D
and a little CrUnCh!
        
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          What would RPM be without a little heavy spaghetti?
        
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          This is my cover of the Twin Peaks Theme, "Falling."
I've always adored the vibe of this series. This is my attempt to capture how it makes me feel. The original has music by Angelo Badalamenti and lyrics by David Lynch.
You'll have to be…
        
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          This song has a host of contributors, including myself.  When the lead singer heard the pattern I was playing on keys, she started singing, "Do Do Doot..." and shortly we began working on the lyrics. I said, "What if we didn't write words to the…
        
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          I wrote this song over 10 years ago about a woman a can't remember and recorded it with a band I formed back then.  I tried to resurrect it a few times and it almost made it on our last studio release but was cut at the last minute.  This is the…
        
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          Here's my Bowie tribute....finally..Like a dog with a bone i carried on with this trying to play and sing hopefully i haven't chewed it up too much.....All recorded on the one track live in the cellar....so no going back....
        
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          .using my old Acoustic with my Chrimbo Prezzie woody Seymore Duncan pickup on....This one started as live in the Cellar...... i've just added some backing here and there as it seemed a bit sparse so i'm still classing it as a kind off LiTC…
        
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          TAKE THAT TRAIN
Vocals, Lyrics: Kim Noble
Drums: Alex Zulaika
Bass: Alberto P.
Guitars: Frank Zax
Music & Production: Steffen Offermann
        
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          track 03
everything by Will I Ram
Lyrics : 
yip yip yip yip yip
nerp nerp ...
        
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          we're nature's little whores....we can't close the door
        
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          lyrics : 
there are black doors 
out of here
they are blocked off
from our fears"
        
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          8th will i ram demo track for rpm challenge 2016 featuring Kenny Kerr on an small percussion set
        
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          The words for this song are not my own but are by A. A. Milne from his book, "Winnie the Pooh". The tune is my own. 
        
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          Because it sounds like a cat and a woodpecker :D
        
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          Happy little trees. Unused track from the recording of AM Fever. remixed, chopped up, backwards... mildly salvaged.
        
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          Piano Numbers
Proves I am not much of a composer 
        
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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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          This song's going on 32 years old...
Some 12 years older than I was when I wrote it!!
I borrowed the title from one of my favourite madrigals, The Silver Swan by Orlando Gibbons:
"The silver swan who living hath no note, when death approached…
        
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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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          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
        
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          Working out the song, this was the best in a series of takes.
        
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          I heard Vaisvil's Track earlier and had a bit of time so i thought i'd add a vocal....so thanks Chris for letting me play.........
Drama in the cheap Hotel room 52 (Lyrics)
I’m in room 52 
and i honestly don’t know what to do
you’ve taken…
        
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          Recorded this Townes VanZandt cover during preparation/equipment testing for RPM challenge.
        
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          I got bored with the music on Super Mario Galaxy, and wrote my own tune to jam while I Wii my brain into 8bit mush.
        
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