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This is a demo recording that I made for our Muskegon-area Neighborhood
Bluegrass group to practice with. It will sound a lot better after it's re-recorded
with the group actually playing and singing their parts.
Soon to have our own Muskegon…
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I don't care for all the cash
I only wrote it
I sing purely: no trash
That's me on tv
Tell people I like pizza and the local char-i-dee
Then I check my likes
Please follow me
I'm a celebrity
I'm a pop star
I'm going to win the race…
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It's summer time, I'm at a cottage, I've been listening to a lot of weird electronic music and thinking about the world burning up. I'm playing around with layering vocals - something I love. Thanks to anyone who listens even for a few seconds…
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slightly longer version
--i might take a break from music for some time, maybe i just upload when i feel like it--
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Thrown around town
Wind in your face
Picking up discards, push handcarts
In this town
Jump overboard
You're pushed overboard
There clearly is a difference: you're flotsam lost or jetsam cold
Jump overboard
You're pushed overboard…
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Someone's at the door. I'm not expecting anyone, and I just can't deal with this right now.
Quick and dirty video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2RX46VnKec
Infernal howls and screaming by Mitri, Felix, Pteri, and Rosa.
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(samples "Don't Know Why" by Norah Jones and "Real Love" by The Beatles)
[Lyrics]
Back before Eminem was Slim Shady
This is how the kids would get crazy
After Kool Herc made the first loops out of breakbeats from the vinyl
Then Bam and…
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A song about the break up of a love affair, my lyrics performed by Gordon Todd.
Lyrics:
Bitter Taste
2023©JohnSchofield
Memories flutter like sun-kissed leaves
In the gentle breeze of summer days
Love may die but the echoes linger
And…
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Two things triggered the genesis of this one - firstly an enforced absence from work due to a nasty medical 'thing'... and discovering a really nice piano loop that I then chopped around by changing the key and adding some different melodies…
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this is just the audio for a new video I just made ... this song is from thumbjam and release premiered on sound-in event "What are songs made for?"
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“Homesick” written and recorded on the evening of 8/10/2023, for August's 30 Day Songs challenge (30daysongs.com).
“Homesick” is also being submitted to August’s REM Challenge (via RPM Challenge).
I've been displaced from home for more…
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“Geisha Boys and Temple Girls/Let Me Go” acoustic Heaven 17 medley, recorded on the evening of 8/10/2023.
“Geisha Boys and Temple Girls” and "Let Me Go" written by Gregory/Marsh/Ware, originally by Heaven 17.
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Another excerpt from the Electric Eclectics sonic intervention by James Bailey and Matt Rogalsky; after the gong went silent, but the electrobeat remained, plus chatter from passers-by.
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A short excerpt from a recording made by Matt Rogalsky of the two of us playing in a field at the Electric Eclectics (http://electric-eclectics.com/) festival near Meaford ON, at 1a.m. on August 6th. I played a Gakken SX 150 Mk II and he played…
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using the midi from logic for spaghetti illusions I remapped the instruments in musescore 4...
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Spaghetti illusions 2 midi file put into musescore 4 and remapped
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first spaghetti illusion from the ipad piano thing in garageband.
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something I made on the ipad with a keyboard thing on garageband .. and remapped the midi notes into new instruments in logic 10.
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A track from the album "Letting Go".
https://jeffsampson.bandcamp.com/album/letting-go
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voice and live action effects. Blooper, Habit, Mood II in that order. And a touch from Live.
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more effects that distort the words really heavily ---
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The most stripped-down Rush cover in existence. Or, as Tom describes: 'Indigo Girls does Rush.' (<3 Neal)
Tom: guitar
Kat: vocals, harmony
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Cover by Trentemoller feat. Low. (<3 Mimi)
Tom: guitar
Kat: vocals, harmony, keys
Niandra Simone McMurderfeet: backing meows
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Chip Withrow performs my lyrics....
I bumped into my past
It was standing in my way
I couldn’t get around it
It said I had to pay
I said what toll is this
You’re demanding that I pay?
It’s for your misdemeanours
Is all my past would…
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Starting off sounding much different, this has undergone considerable transformation in Audacity to reach the form in which you hear it now. Drone from a window a/c unit and more jackhammering from the other side of our building.
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Ali on Glass (Totally Drunken Monkey Mix)
Created 08012023
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This piece is somewhat programmatic, somewhat expressive. I wanted to tell a story of moving from a dark place of drudgery and powerlessness to finding courage, strength, purpose, and joy.
Created for the Record Every Month challenge for July…
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The "Drunken Monkey Approach" always
2 tracks of the Octatrack
stem from Ali
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July 2023 REM (record every month) .. Challenging month for music ... My Hospitalization didn't help ... hopefully back on track .. with more tunes .. check my YT channel for video.. Thanks for listening
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Mashup of two faves: Here Comes the Rain Again by the Eurythmics and The Sun Always Shines on TV by a-ha.
Tom on guitar, Kat on vocals
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Cover by Low (<3 Mimi).
Tom: guitar and vocals; Kat: vocals, harmony
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Hohner chromatic harmonica and melodica, snare cajon, Koala app
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monochromatic harmonica, melodica, snare cajon, sampled and manipulated with Koala app
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The B-side for my July 30DaySongs submission is a cover of a tune I've loved since it came out way back in 1982. Wilsun has been having a rough go if it lately and I recorded this to hopefully cheer him up for a bit.
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Sometimes a joke gets out of hand. This one is some combination of many many MANY inside jokes from the group on the RPMChallenge slack group, aka Conference of Mayors or Church of England, depending on the project.
The shortest version is that…
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From the Wikipedia: "Hummus (/ˈhʊməs/, /ˈhʌməs/; Arabic: حُمُّص ḥummuṣ, "chickpeas"), also spelled hommus or houmous, is a dip of Arab origin, spread, or savory dish made from cooked, mashed chickpeas blended with tahini, lemon juice, and garlic…
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Time was when I used to see you hiding
Your face so clear amongst the crowd
Time was I could sense you in the same room
As if you'd called my name out loud
Don't kid yourself, you've not got ESP
Your face so clear amongst the crowd
I'd…
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Finally got around to connecting several electronic items on my side desk - Kawai R-50e drum machine from around 1995, Fostex X-18 4-track tape recorder from a couple of years earlier than that (I think), a Korg volca keys from 2021, and a handful…
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Another lovely song from Leum. He's prolific, that one is!
It was fun to collaborate on lyrical tweaks for this one, working together to tighten up a solid draft into a rich, compact song.
For recording, we used a couple of condenser mics…
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Mike's fun rockabilly follow-up to Scammers, Spammers, and Cons from a previous RPM Challenge.
We recorded the drums, bass, one rhythm guitar track, and a scratch vocal take live off the floor, then added the other guitar tracks and a clean…
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Song idea number 12 becomes finished mix number ten of 50 for the 2023 50/90 challenge.
I don't hate it, but the lyrics are laughably bad and there are some really bad pitches in the vocals in the chorus that were copied and pasted all over…
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Song idea number 10 becomes finished song number nine of 50 for the 2023 50/90 challenge.
Nothing special here other than the time signature being 15/8. I want to play with time in ways other than the normal 7/8 and 5/4 this year, and here…
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