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It's kind of funny how you can intend to create electronica, and then end up blindly wandering into a different sub-genre. The end result almost sounds like it wanted to be stoner rock.
For more on the song title, look up "Ganzfeld Effect…
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For 2011 RPM Challenge album John the Resonator
A Sword and Sorcery parody. With Elvis.
Daughter Brit sang the vocal in the middle part.
Elvis was the mountain king
Who ruled the land of El-Karyaang
His wife Priscilla lady fair
Was taken…
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This was based on a flying dream I had months ago.
(Actually, more like a crashing dream, since while I was able to pilot myself into the heavens, I guess I forgot to turn off gravity.)
The fellow described appeared in the dream, casting…
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This RPM Challenge album had a bit of a ying-yang vibe to it. Compare "Marbles" to "Constellations" and "Fisher In The Sky" to "Tied By The Lies".
This wasn't planned - it just sort of happened.
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Keys by John Blythm. Bass and Drums by Jon Ruse. Engineering by Deaf (in One Ear) Willie Lee Harlot.
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Some people measure things by inches and miles,
gallons and quarts and sometimes smiles, but I got a measure that I made up: I measure my orange juice by the "blub, blub, blub.".
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jazzsequence - bass, mix mangler
daedae - spacey, acoustic guitar
Jahn - Electric Guitar Analog Effects
Commoner - Found and common percussion
jesmiaus - flpitchervocals
Uncle Tompa - Percussion and Ambient Synth
Ronny Wærnes - contact mic feedback…
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Story came out of my current situation of commuting Mondays to my job 200 miles out of town and then back on Fridays. Been doing it 8 months now. Trying to sell a house, it aint fun.
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Song came out of a chord progression I had had for awhile and finally had some lyrics come that fit it. Might be on the RPM cd might not.
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A live improvised recording for the RPM Challenge 2011
recorded 2/19/11 at Dunn Bros. Coffee in Keller, Tx.
Kavin.: guitar, loops
Michelangelo: buzz guitar
Ross Reitzammer: flute
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A live improvised recording for the RPM Challenge 2011
recorded 2/19/11 at Dunn Bros. Coffee in Keller, Tx.
Michelangelo: didjeridu
Kavin.: guitar, loops
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This is a piece written for a small ensemble of Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Flute, French Horn and Percussion in harmonic series tuning using a section from harmonic 12 to 30 reduced to an octave tuning of 15 steps.
This piece is…
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Just a little song about another hopeless romantic. Actually, I just really like the name Svetlana.
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A live improvised recording for the RPM Challenge 2011
recorded 2/19/11 at Dunn Bros. Coffee in Keller, Tx.
Kavin.: guitars, loops
Michelangelo: buzz guitar
Ross Reitzammer: flute
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A live improvised recording for the RPM Challenge 2011
recorded 2/19/11 at Dunn Bros. Coffee in Keller, Tx.
Mick was playing a teapot sized steel drum thingie (which was actually plastic) with small mallets. I looped that, and also manipulated…
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A live improvised recording for the RPM Challenge 2011
recorded 2/19/11 at Dunn Bros. Coffee in Keller, Tx.
I was looping Mick's wooden flute and I diddled some delayed guitar.
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That's right...354. He's working the jazz circuit now. Blythm and Ruse on the Five. Lipless (on The Top) Willie Lee Harlot on the Four.
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screw the phone. we's jammin!
i don't know when i recorded this.
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#7 for the RPM this year
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i know
what this means
i know now
meaning is only found in meaningless
The path to knowledge is convoluted
often self destructive
ingrained in our souls is a
nihilistic ending to all your…
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Was Reg daydreaming had Robert Plant really just come down the cellar bar to visit Elvis and sang while he played. He shook his head and resumed playing .....................
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Reg has seriously got the blues and can't seem to leave the empty bar, there is just him and Elvis in there. The strange thing is that the tables and chairs are there, the bar and the stools but there is no booze behind the bar just empty glasses…
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A track from my RPM 2011 album 'Glass Wall'.
It was created entirely on my iPad using a DAW app called 'Music Studio'. The title comes from a line in the song 'Bodhisattva' by Steely Dan:
"Can you show me the shine of your japan, the sparkle…
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Dedicated to our friends at the Ministry. Blythm on keys, Ruse on guitar and bass, and special guest, Blind (in One Eye) WIllie Lee Harlot on drums.
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Got my 70's on...lots of cool loops from Garageband and various effects on my acoustic guitar... Sit back and enjoy!
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This is like a mission for the Doom Patrol
I need a robot body for my brain
Miss Callas calls
the dopamine exhanges
the sound of down
And there is danger everywhere
the scissor men are coming
House of icons
Felt like cards
The brilliant…
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We all make our own destiny. Collectively we make the destiny of humanity. So the story goes...on and on to infinity. When we limit others we become limited. the watch dog gets only fitful slumber. Conversely freedom extends itself to all. With…
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Recorded this as an affirmation that no matter what may transpire I will still want the love of those dear to me. Even in my darkest hour I still recognize that there is a light within all that reminds us of love!
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I wrote this because It seemed like the proper thing to do. I had considered casting it into the abyss, but thought better of it when I heard angelic voices emanating from within its belly.
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Lyrics are a "thought collage" ie small pieces of different issues that went through my head at the time.
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this gets loud at minute 3 and never settles down. wawoots. :) till about minute 7.5 then it quite outs.. then the end just kills me and yes I know I performed that but still it kills me LOL
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Something I'm working on for RPM 2011. I think this is a really pretty tune, just wish I had the kind of voice for singing it.
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spoof, "no one gives a shiiiiiit about my rpm album"
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EDIT final version now posted and the page turning is gone but i left this intro as is in case anyone is reading the comments. Does anyone read the comments? or the intro?
i turn a page somewhere in the middle of all this - you'd think i would…
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A live improvised recording for the RPM Challenge 2011
recorded 2/19/11 at Dunn Bros. Coffee in Keller, Tx.
ebow loop
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Thinking of summer.........original guitar composition.........by Dave Berry
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A live improvised recording for the RPM Challenge 2011
recorded 2/19/11 at Dunn Bros. Coffee in Keller, Tx.
Kavin:guitar, loops and iPod Touch
Michelangelo:guitar,didjeridoo,wood flute,
percussions
Ross Reitzammer: Concert flute,recorder
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A playful tune made up on the spot as a studio demonstration. Really quite silly! If you listen closely you can hear my wife questioning the use of the small diaphragm mic on the vocal track.
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I wrote this for a friend of mine who was very special to me. It chronicles a period of time in which we both were quite innocent and learning about ourselves. This one bounced around inside of me for many years...This is a just a shadow of what…
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This started as a homegrown piano loop. I cut it to 40 seconds, pasted 4 times, then I added 2 cups of confectioner's sugar, and a dash of salt.
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I heard a great song by a songwriter from the island of Java while eating at an Ethiopian restaurant once. The feel of the song struck a chord in me and several weeks later this song poured out as a response to his beautiful island music.
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This was one of several songs I recorded in a session on the night of my 29th birthday. I had decided to just start playing and see how many tunes I could write straight through without stopping. My only rule was that these tunes had to be totally…
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Reg is still in the empty bar but this time he decides to sing along and let his Blues out..........he wakes.......
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Reg is in the empty bar, its three in the morning and he sits down and plays the blues...............
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This is a tune I wrote to illustrate how silly the state of world affairs had become. Or maybe I was reading too many old story books...who knows...
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Off Series but on Topic, Sammy Davies looking at the work of the Spirit bearing fruit in the life of a Christian. Galatians 5:13-26. 20th February 2011. Sammy Davies
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Final version
I wanted to have a banjo fiddle tune but i still haven't learnt to play either instrument, so this is my famous 1 string banjo technique, with mandolin and guitar. It's style is inspired by meeting Morgan O'Kane and Ferd 4 last…
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I wrote this song when my mother was ill with cancer. it has lyrics, but this version is just me messing around on the guitar over the instrument bed...
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I wrote this song for my girl in 2001. This is a very rough recording. Really just a sketch...
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A track from my RPM 2011 album 'Glass Wall'.
I just whipped this up in Garage Band using a loop called 'Exotic Sarod' for the main melodic theme (hence the title). The Sarod is an Indian stringed instrument. 'Sarod' means 'beautiful sound' in…
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I created "This is life" in a bad mood. I just picked a nice drumloop and started to improvise on my keyboard and I'm very happy with the harmonies arised from my mind or hands :)
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I wrote this song as one in a series of potential songs to be performed at a friends wedding. I liked this one so much that I modified the lyrics and recorded this version as part of my "Transition" album.
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This song was inspired by a melody my then 2 year old daughter was playing on the harmonica one day back in 2004. I picked up my guitar and strummed along....I kept playing around with it and "Caught in the Rain" was born.
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I recorded this as a demo in 2004. The song was one of several that I wrote just jamming and singing along. Hope you enjoy it!
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Written & Recorded: Feb 19, 2011
DADGAD, Capo II
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another hastily made RPM track ;)
Lyrics:
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// dead flowers
// grow from my heart
// grow from the compost of my dreams
// dead flowers
// grow from my wings
// from the compost of my dreams
I just wanted something
something that could…
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Track 1 from the HOMUNCULUS EP (2008)
Download the EP here:
http://www.archive.org/details/Homunculus_419
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OMG. It's on! Are you ready?
All phrases were recorded in about 30 minutes. *Way too much* time was used on the arrangement and fine tuning. ")
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I'm sill looking for better lyrics for this but i like listening to it. EDIT i found them - see v2
It's been up at the Challenge site for a few days so i thought it ought to be up here too
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I wrote this for a friend. He wanted something similar to the Tron soundtrack. It took me about 3 hours to create.
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