This was an RPM track back in the day, and I've been playing it various ways to find a setting for it within the band repertoire. This doesn't sound much like our band would do it but it came out nicely, so i thought i'd share it.

This is the lite version. I have a real heavy version of this one still on the presses. I'm not sure which one I like better. Crunchy guitars and stuff :) Cool Hammond patch right? It's yours if you want to jam on it. Feel free…

STEPPIN' ON SOME TOES Key - Em and E Em Well, some folks got big noses Some folks got big hats Some folks stand out in the aisle Make it hard to pass Am Some folks they got money Em They…

Well, I'm almost on a roll now - this little love song was written, arranged, and recorded in just a week. I've been meaning to attempt something like this for years, just never got round to it. I'd actually settled down to finally record a…

I wrote this song while out hiking some awesome trails in Zion National Park... gave me some excellent inspiration. I also tried some different stuff with the mixing and using my keyboard... so trying to push a few of my envelopes... Here…

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…

This is my second piece for the RPM challenge... And it's a big milestone for me... the first time I ever played my own instrument along with it! It's rough, but you gotta keep trying and start somewhere, right? Greg Connor... you'll understand…

Inspired by a gorgeous recording on a wax cylinder by the composer, Tanburi Cemil Bey (1873-1916). Performed on politiki lyra (classic kemençe), a small bowed fiddle from Istanbul. Recorded at The Banff Centre, November 2008.

I had a wish to sing along with Greg, so he offered me a piece of his Cherry Pie to sing along with... I added a few other bits here and there as well. Thanks Greg!!! This was a fun one for me... added some piano and a teeny bit of percussion....

#RPM Challenge 2015#

One from Bethan's 2015 RPM. Enjoy!

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…

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…

RPMX track 3 I was pissed off. Still am.

The kids at their best. Jessica on flute, Rebecca on saxophone, Amelia on clarinet.

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 was a write it and record it in one session song challenge that my songwriting friends and I came up with this week. Lions and Lambs was started thinking of spring, but it turned into a song about relationships... as they often do. Greg…

a tune i been messing with.

It's all yours if you can use it. Feel Free. I'm open to changes.

from the album "ZERO" featuring Tess Savigear on vox seems like I felt this way before but my memory is not to be trusted so many things flashing through my brain was it real or a dream or something else you're staring at me like a criminal…

and yet another for the Basic Zep project....

A song about a friend of mine who by day is a postman and by night is one crazy dude..........

I'm channeling my inner Johnny Cash here, for this quick and dirty demo of a song I wrote for my musical "Lashing Of Ginger Beer". The lyric is rather more dark than the music might suggest. All the world is changing It never stays the…

These tunes have been in the pipeline for almost 8 months now. I think I'm done with them :) I'm looking for Rappers, Freestylers, and hip-hop artists to turn these beats into songs. Let me know if anything turns you on. I would be…

'idus martii' - that day julius caesar was stabbed in the senate of rome ... ambient soundscapes - double bass improvisations reworked.

and yet another for the project basic Zep

Entropic Sculpture is an accidental interpenetration of a post-modern sculptural art genre created from analog synthesizer settings my son left for me and then I used and eventually mutated. I ran this mix out of Sonar pretty hot and generated…

A Facebook Friend posted a picture of a sign hanging on a tree that had the words to the first verse. I couldn't leave well enough alone...I Googled the verse and found it was written by Dallas Clayton. MESSAGE ON A TREE “She blew…

Another for the back to basics Zep album....Thanks Andy R for suggesting it...........

Thumbjam app flute

Gene sent me this one over and i jumped all over it ...what a great backer.. Hope you enjoy!!

Bits and Pieces

Back to basics Zep

another in the back to basics Zep......

another back to basics Zep this one goes out to Martin where ever he is ...he died getting on for 14 years ago but he's not forgotten ...Happy birthday for tomorrow man.....

Looks like a great year for more fishing /guitar playing /beer drinking /.Cheers

Piano that I have not played in ages a bit rough.

Based on a Yoruba Obàtálá pattern, which I hope Greg doesn't find underhanded. Congas and cowbell. 4/4 160bpm.

first for rpm 2014 This summer my wife and i traveled to Europe! our first time across the pond..what a wonderful time of adventure we had from Paris to Roma. each morning i would rise before dawn to watch as the early morning sun painted the…

Wrote this song today as my first in the RPM challenge! A universal theme that came to me as I drove across the beautiful Mississippi River this morning watching the sun come up. Here are the lyrics: Change Is Calling You © 2015 Colleen…

March 2015 (multi-track)

Feb 2015 (multi-track)

Jan 2015 (multi-track)

wind farm in 19 equal temperament is a pseudo raga played on a 19 equal guitar using slide for the melody and the same guitar plus synthesizers for the drone. The video and stills of a wind farm was taken by me during a recent trip.

PRETTY GIRL Pretty girl, pretty dress Well, I must confess my heart is in a mess Pretty girl Some guys can walk up to a girl Say, "Hey! I love you They make it look like something So easy to do Pretty girl, pretty dress Well, I…

This song pretty much sums up my life right now. No direction and no ambition. Maybe because it's SpringTime and Love is in the air. In keeping with the romantic nature of the season, it features: BANJO . . . . . The instrument made…

Mandatory Funk Number

Piano Jazz

Jazz Piano

Track 8 for the RPM 2015 album Cold Ground Was My Bed For the great Joni Mitchell of course.

These tunes have been in the pipeline for almost 8 months now. I think I'm done with them :) I'm looking for Rappers, Freestylers, and hip-hop artists to turn these beats into songs. Let me know if anything turns you on. I would be…

It's all yours if you want it. I'm open to changes.

Bits and Pieces

Bits and Pieces

A whole lotta love the zep classic taken back to the blues

Bits and Pieces

From the album: How To Spot A Communist

This is actually a joke based on the old SEGA commercial)) You know, the one about BLAST PROCESSING?) Lyrics are as follows: Hey there, Processing, No need to be BLAST today, Turn on your feet and Press rewind.. The second part is…

Recorded Oct 2010. It was meant to be a full band pop-rock song. But I started overdubbing on the original exploratory demo I'd done to work out the arrangement (with no click track). I kept coming back to it intending to start afresh... but…

THIS OLD HOUSE Key C - capo @ 2 C F C This old house has a mushroom on the lawn F C This old house is a raincoat I put on G…