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          My medley arrangement of two American spirituals.  Originally recorded in 1998, I used a synthesized choir for a demo - I call it my Martian choir. The problem with using the Martians is they can’t sing in English. So, as with “Ponder Gethsemane…
        
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          2009, having fun with Johnny Stone's awesome music.
        
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          We decided to give the kids an outlet that wasn’t pandemic or lockdown based this February, and made an album as a family for the RPM Challenge 2021. It was just the most precious, funny, brilliant month.
        
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          We decided to give the kids an outlet that wasn’t pandemic or lockdown based this February, and made an album as a family for the RPM Challenge 2021. It was just the most precious, funny, brilliant month.
        
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          We decided to give the kids an outlet that wasn’t pandemic or lockdown based this February, and made an album as a family for the RPM Challenge 2021. It was just the most precious, funny, brilliant month.
        
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          Track  10 of 2021 RPM Challenge.  NASA Public Domain Space sounds - “Chandra X-ray Observatory: Cassiopela A Blast Wave High Energy 
ans Parker Solar Probe: Whistler Mode Waves 2” used on intro/outro.
irealbook backing tracks for bass and drums…
        
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          Track 9 of 2021 RPM Challenge. iRealbook used to generate bass and drum backing.
All Keyboards Daniel Will 
        
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          All Keyboards: Daniel Will
iRealbook used for drum and bass backing tracks.
        
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          As I have mentioned in other years, I am so very blessed to have some songs come to me in my dreams. Grace is one of them. The specific line "Grace, grace, grace! You don't have to be a lonely child" is what I retained in my waking moments so…
        
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          Another one where the riff came first, on the last day of RPM 2020 actually. Before all the craziness struck. I thought to myself "Oh self! That's a good riff! I will need to revisit it next year for RPM 2021." So I did. It also has a call-back…
        
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          Originally I had a Motown idea in mind, and I kept my stomping and clapping, but the song seemed to lend itself to a more spacey-synthey feel, so I ran with it. I also am hinting a tiny (very tiny) bit at Joe Jackson's band's backing vocal styles…
        
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          She Cries Diamonds
Written By INT'L
She cries diamonds
Only when she’s sad
She cries diamonds 
Only when she’s sad
She’s drowning in diamonds 
Because everyday is so bad
She cries diamonds
When she's out in the rain
She cries diamonds…
        
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          Sometimes That Feels Like Going Home
Written by INTNL
Love is a song that only angels have sung
We try to harmonize but no one ever does
We’ll just scream until we lose our voice
And sometimes that feels like going home...
Sometimes…
        
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          Oleander Season
Written By Fictional Name
It’s oleander season
The cold is turning cool
The reeds are getting sharper
Lying in the pool
Millions of fireflies
Coming from the east
Songs of tomorrow
Songs of  the beast
It’s oleander…
        
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          Such A Bad Way
Written By Fictional Name
There’s some wine in the closet
There’s some beer in the fridge
Some people coming over
You know how it is
With all of the features
And of the fraud
Didn’t you miss me
Breaking all sorts of laws…
        
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          Humanatee
Written by Fictional Name
I walked away
from the choices I made
I'm lucky I can get old every day
A surprising reminder
I wish I had been kinder
In the words I never chose to say
Just listen to suspicion
Just go and pack…
        
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          Auto Machine
Written By Fictional Name 
People there are machines
Same thing everyday
Slowly losing feeling
Until they get paid 
But can't dare mention or question
What is a living wage?
And no emergency savings 
To get out of this…
        
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          Waiting is Living 
Written By Fictional Name
Wandering out of innocence, they look at you and lick their lips. I'm drunk as hell with shivers in my spine.
It could take awhile, feelings in aisles, forming lines for many miles. So, say things…
        
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          Great band. My brother and I listened to them on KCRW when driving around LA in 2009. Give your leftover change from the ice cream savings away. 
        
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          Begin to see me, worthy Sailor, navigator
Living on the ocean for days
The spirit of the sea lies below us
Above us, dark skies of gray
I just can’t let it go
The search for the grail has gone cold
But a wreck of a ship lies below us…
        
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          This is the 10th and final song for my RPM Challenge 2021.  It is a long piece inspired by Tchaikovsky's The Sick Doll.  It opens and closes with a modified piano version from the beginning of Tchaikovsky's piece and then twists and turns into…
        
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          Before the War
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Do you remember
Those carefree years right before the war
God, we were so so sure
it would always stay this way
Do you remember
sweat from the ceiling and from the walls
we didn't have a care…
        
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          Getting to know the Mother-32.
I go in though the out door 
My only smile beneath a mask 
Im just looking for a place to hide 
Because I’m going nowhere fast 
And home is where the heart is 
To fortify these castle walls 
You can’t…
        
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          A "duet" between modular synth and the minimoog clone. I have a sequencer driving the melody on the modular while the clone fills the low end. 
        
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          Recorded late at night on two tracks with the modular synth. One track laying down the pad with the other creating the blips and beeps and later a "tweaked" melody performed by cranking the frequency knob on the oscillator. 
        
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          A solo performance on the modular synthesizer I built.
        
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          Duet piece recorded between a Eurorack modular synthesizer I built and a Behringer Model D (minimoog clone). Tons of reverb and delay for added effect. 
        
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          Originally a simple Classical style piece.. Written on a GuitaleleI!
I never though much of this song, as it seemed a little obvious; but after purchasing a Midi Guitar - AKA a rock band controller - I transcribed this piece to Midi and arranged…
        
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          Song #3 for the RPM Challenge 2021.  A reflection on being an amateur musician and loving it.  Thanks for listening.  Onward!!! 
        
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          Written using a mix of Virtual and Analog instrumentation. 
Arranged, Sequenced and Looped within Ableton Live.
        
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          When my kids were babies,  my Dad always used to hum a little tune when he was carrying them and trying to settle them down... it's the sweetest, lilting sound, I've hummed it all my life, always thinking of my Dad when it was in my head.  I've…
        
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          Ethereal synths and strings, glitchy bass, and drums. Made with UVI's PX Memories and pizzicato string plucks from Spitfire Audio's free LABS series.
        
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          A sparse track with percussion, guitar, synth bass, and strings.
        
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          My attempt at this super fun sea shanty! 
This is an old New Zealand whaling song. The popular recent version was recorded a cappella by The Longest Johns. I'm using the chords suggested by Piotrek_G on ultimate-guitar. 
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          THIS IS AN ICOMPOSITIONS COLLAB WITH CARLA AND MY SELF  I WROTE THE MUSIC ON MY PIANO  AND CAME UP WITH THE TITLE    CARLA  WROTE THE LYRICS AND VOCAL MELODY  OVER THE  PIANO PIECE I SENT TO HER
        
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          Godin 5th Avenue Kingpin / kawol samarqandi 
recorded and edited by kawol at 432den 
December 31, 2020 
        
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          According to Greek legend, an evil race of Goblins, known as The Kallikantzaori, lurk underground until the 12 days of Christmas to wreak havoc across the country. 
        
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          Godin 5th Avenue Kingpin / kawol samarqandi 
recorded and edited by kawol at 432den December 22, 2020 
        
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          I stole the title from Paul Mccartney's new album it's nothing like his but i mean if your gonna steal a title thats who you steal it from anyway the idea stemmmed from that ...Thanks for listening 
The kiss of Venus it touched me so  
Heat…
        
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          Uploading something to get montgomeru off my back.... 
        
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          well this will be kind of random for my listeners... but what the "hey" as they say!
In a bit of a writing desert lately, but had a lovely walk two days ago, and got inspired by the sounds coming from newly frozen ice with at least 1000 migrating…
        
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          Not all house's are full of joy at Christmas ......This wasn't actually our house 
CHRISTMAS TIME AT OUR HOUSE
It was Christmas time at our house sat round  the table waiting
Waiting for our father to return from the pub  where he‘d a been…
        
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          Kari put this backer up on Songcrafters looking for a vocal so i jumped at the chance to collborate again with Kari...Thanks Kari
November’s song w/Redler
Autumn is over, it’s now the season of reflection
Autumn is done and winter is here…
        
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          Thanks for listening .......
YOU ARE NOT LIKE ME 
Some People don’t know they can’t control their   dreams 
They hold them back and watch them rip at the seams 
If they could break away maybe one day they could see
that I  am not like you…
        
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          This isn't the best song I've ever written.  I think that one is on the Quarantine Tunes Volume 1 playlist.  No, it's not the best but... I'm pretty sure it's my favorite song I've ever written.  Not because of the quality of the song, but because…
        
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          A very soft cover of the Barenaked Ladies' hit, Brian Wilson. Their (excellent) tune is normally played with gusto. The live version on the Rock Spectacle album is dripping with energy, and that's usually how I like to play it. But today I thought…
        
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          I like the theme music to the PBS/BBC mystery series Midsomer Murders with its use of a Theramin. So much so that it inspired me to purchase a Theramin and try my hand recording my version of it. The first thing I learned is, while the Theramin…
        
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          Morning rush, Afternoon nap, evening crapped..
Rise and Repeat 
        
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          JUST LIKE ME - Capo 1 in G
G                                          C                    G
How many people, each day, do you see
                                                                   D       G
You think to yourself, “Hey…
        
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          no where to run
no starting gun
no near no far 
no beating heart 
home from work, i feel the same
roll(in) over ––  reading all the work out plans
what could summon out my rage
easy does it with those god damn magazines
no high-way…
        
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          Track 1 of 4, from Uncle Woe’s sophomore LP, Phantomescence
Released 23/10/2020
© 2020 Packard Black Productions
All Rights Reserved
Written by Rain Fice & Nicholas Wowk
Performed and recorded by Rain Fice and Nicholas Wowk, April to…
        
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          From the 2019 RPM Challenge LP “Lacking The Good Sense To Overcome”
        
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          When I was around three years old I first realized I was hearing music in my head, the sounds of which I could manipulate. I thought I was hearing the voices of an Angel choir singing with me. This is that tune, as best I can remember so many…
        
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          (Remastered 22/10/2021)
So I got me a new geetar the other week.
Named her Lala, obviously. Seemed kind of appropriate - she wears a faded gold dress and is full of chunes and mischiefs.
This is our first effort together. It was meant…
        
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          Ambient/Soundscape/Drone.....been messing around with my guitar-amp and some added sounds. 
Hope you enjoy. 
        
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          They keep saying don't cross that line but the madness is real. 
How many times did you slip on you own shoe laces? 
        
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          CATTAILS AND BUTTERFLIES capo @ 6 in C
C G repeat
There was a field around the corner 
And a stream flowed cross the field 
There were cat tails in the summer time 
And monarch butterflies 
And tadpoles sprouting wings 
         E…
        
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          I was watching the breeze in the trees and it got me to thinking ........
Winter
I look into the trees and I see that the breeze is blowing and I’m beginning to freeze
Cause the wintertime is coming cause the leaves have started blowing…
        
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          I really wish I could sing.
This one was written for the 2014 50/90.  I remember it clearly.  I set up with the intention of working on something else but plugged in my guitar and played this without thinking about it.  Well, I guess I was…
        
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          The downside of writing about politics in February of 2016 is that it doesn't have any meaning in October of 2020.  Oh well.  This one and "Did I Offend You" were both written back to back on the last couple of days of the RPM Challenge and they…
        
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          So, what do you think... could it use more wah-wah?  
This was written for the 2014 RPM Challenge.  The chromatic thing at the beginning had been rattling around in my head for years and years but had never found a home. 
The lyrics here…
        
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          Haven't done a lengthy experimental track in quite a while. In light of Halloween and the times we're living in i thought the page needed a solid turn. 
        
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I found this one while I was digging through the shoe-box for the 1994 songs. Apparently I wrote it on 10th November 1995.
Foolishly, I thought it would only take a week or so to record... I was originally expecting…
        
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          This was just a twisted and warped little extra I threw on to "The Dark Side of the Moo." Another remix because the original was not the greatest.
Some people will sit down at a piano and duet on "Heart and Soul." In our high school and college…
        
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          I wrote this one in response to a song writing challenge from the Minnesota Association of Songwriters.   The title had to be Mississippi Moon and it had to have a I V VI I II chord progression somewhere in the song.  Over 20 writers have signed…
        
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          Jumping letters are so distracting.
Rashi can't take the feedback:) 
        
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And here's another song from 1994, with a sparkling new "Andrew Russe Band" arrangement fresh from the broom-cupboard.
Like most of my songs, it was written with an acoustic guitar, a pen, and an A4 pad. The ones…
        
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