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Reg has just finished reading the Sunday Times it's quite a read and he has decided he has had enough of bad news. So he is going to try something different to try to carry on getting his kicks before the whole shit-house falls down…
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Setting aside the harmonica, this is all MIDI.
I just realized there's no bass track. Duh!!
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from the album "In the Shadow Of the House Of the Demon" (2010) on Teagown Records.
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The piano track is a mangled version of the already-mangled piano from the previous song ("The Saucers Arrive").
The plan was to try to improvise in a way that was somehow rhythmically compatible with the skittering piano track. The guitar track…
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Reg has decided to write this song about an English serial killer known as the Crossbow killer to make those young trusting women well aware that some men are not always what they seem ................. as in the case of Stephen Griffiths who…
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Vocal excellence from girl named Sam... Do you really need any other reason to listen?
A Little Playing
Blue sky
Only getting clearer
Blue eyes
Like looking in a mirror
I can tell just what you're thinking
By that tiny little flicker…
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rpm 2011
You asked me where these rumors start.
"I don't know," I said and crossed my heart.
But I told you I did not hope to die.
You said you can't trust no more.
Why start now? You never did before.
Now I just have to pause and wonder…
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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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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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#4... a little behind schedule :D
Lyrics:
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My glass is not half full
Unless it's being filled
I seek
the world to see
and I search
for truth
I won't candy coat
atrocity
But I know a few, that would (you would)
// What…
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the sound in the intro, that carries through out the song, I made by taking a the sound of a saw cutting some metal and I warped it using processing effects. What resulted sounded like a bunch of androids marching.
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Ancient traditional, authored by King David. If only he had a Strat and an Axe Fx.
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The synths kind of wrote this one themselves.
Updated 16/1/2011.
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A serial improvisation in 12 equal setting Vachel Lindsay's 1931 reading of his poem "The Mysterious Cat" to musical accompaniment. Vachel Lindsay is considered the father of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are…
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Some people need to fall down every now and then.
LYRICS:
Won't you ever go away
cause I feel the same way too
Did you have your kicks and eat them too
Did you ever cross the line
I confess is undefined
Did you have your taste of…
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Piano written by Pneuman, which inspired the basic melody and the lyrics came at bedtime, originally with a bass line but left out here. Test it out on your whinging kids and let me know how well it works!
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Sluk - strat, Ede Fun - DX-7, B. Jones - skins & trumpet. Live in Princeton
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The song should bring back old memories of Long Long Ago....
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Recorded in 2005.
The keyboard sound in the second half is a backwards electric piano processed through a triggered filter (kind of like a Mutron III).
Muted the vocals cos I'm not too pleased with the lyrics or performance.
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Something i wrote after a few bad years in a relationship
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I also recorded this once through on the Martin and Zoom H-2 yesterday as well. One day I'll do a decent version of this, I promise. For now this is my modest Happy B-day to John.
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We Didn't Get Time to do this in Norway.
Geir put down great the Guitars.
I took the Vox and Lyrics...
This is called "Your Heart"
-Your Heart-
Your shout is silent now
It feels I’m missing out
This void is lasting evermore…
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THE LEAP
Well, a man took a walk down a trail with his buddies. Everybody came along.
And they came to a cravis with a pumas at the bottom and he was singing this song
"Well, you can go back or you can leap forward, or you can leave it up…
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The Final Version me thinks.
Charles Ives composition from 1906 arranged for Jazz Ensemble. a reference for Ives
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Track #2 of the "Someone Else's Hell" album.
Lyrics:
somebody else's hell shines through
dishonesty will break us all
how long can the walls last
the unclean masses wonder
i'm standing here with them
how long until...
//someone else's hell…
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The next step in the progression of this song... It still needs quite a bit of cleanup (and some extra arranging), but it's getting there.
Hey, everyone writes songs about falling in love (which for me was, like, seventeen years ago), so I thought…
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around....this is a straight up acoustic guitar track, with no tempo manipulation of any sort.
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i recorded myself on a tape recorder and threw it in
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For improv friday
This is part 2 - see Keys at Lowes for an explanation of what I'm trying to do.
Ok, another try using base frequencies of 0.1, 3, 10, 17, 33 and 48 Hz spread in stereo space plus some of the original mixed in. (additional…
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I hear you calling, calling
I know your sky, it must be falling
and you want me to get you straight
to the counterfeit you
You're feeling sloppy poppy
you want to be all 'happy' again
can I catch you up on 13th street
crazy from the…
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this instrumental is dedicated to brain separation techniques.
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I made this song, it's not really about Clyde in particular, just old tom-cats in general. (Such as myself...)
- Jack Merlot
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A cover of Biko by Peter Gabriel.
Vocal and Synth Pads:- Jim Higgins (OldRottenHead)
The rest:- Me
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A song about love finding you.
Love is Headed Your Way
Words and music by Demetrius P. Hill.
©2005 Demetrius P. Hill, All Rights Reserved.
I know, someone searches for me
And I've been, waiting patiently.
Well…
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xenharmonic keyboard transforms into dronescape.
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Sunday Afternoon in Suburbia or Ice Scream
Ice cream van music (first)
A regular military drum beat spoken in a low voice.
It was Sunday afternoon in Suburbia when that man mowing the lawn watched you take all your clothes off and throw them…
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When I was a child,
I was a white bird – but I was caged.
One day escaped,
I shared the rich fruit of freedom,
with birds of more ordinary colours.
These were wise birds,
They believed I would not survive,
Outside of my cage,
So they…
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The first single from The Destructo Disk! Smooth club style beat under witty, laid back vocals. Good song
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such a clusterflock
clarification of title.
in America, we do not have a 'justice' system
we have a 'legal' system. know the difference.
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Keyboards: Doug Sparling
Composer: Doug Sparling
Written/Recorded: 2006
Another short piece I threw together when I had access to a keyboard. If I ever have any extra money, I need to get a keyboard. Though I'm technically inclined, sometimes…
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norm, brian, me - needs leads. My hand is hurting and I need to perform tomorrow - handing this off.
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Guitars/Keyboards/Shaker: Doug Sparling
Composer: Doug Sparling
Recorded: 2005
I believe there's a demo version of this tune that I've already uploaded to alonetone. Originally written as a piano piece.
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Over at improvFriday Bruce Hamilton took my piece and mashed it up, also featuring Shane Cadman.
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Guess I've been away a while - something a little difference - distinct parts in harmony, perhaps... or just me experimenting ;-)
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This is the song that's responsible for the creation of this band in the first place. It was originally intended to be used with another band of mine, but kept growing and changing, until it no longer suited that band.
Since then, I have a full…
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Written and Recorded June 7, 2010
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD, Capo VII), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity.
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More Garageband compositions... just nice to play while the kids are doing homework.
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Written & recorded in February 2010. Featuring live bass and acoustic guitar by Mr. Marc Halikas.
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Hokey! It's a silly song. But it was still fun to put together.
I hope you enjoy it.
Thanks for stopping by!
Doug
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This one has been sitting around for a while but I feel it's the best or most interesting of my most recent posts. The inspiration came from listening to an old CD I have of a great band from the 90's. If anybody can name the band that I gained…
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got a sound hole pickup finally. no more lo-fi!
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A song that has it all. Two chords, great energy, positive lyrics and a punk meets reggae vibe. This is a cover of Stiff Little Fingers version. Original was written by Bunny Wailer after he left Bob Marley's Wailers.
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another sneak peek at my next album which I'm thinking will be titled "Cryptical Condition"
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Dark, moody and a little weird - German indie artist Black Henbanbe with his version of the mother of all English folk songs. Recommended if you like the song, drone low vocals, gothic folk ambience and psychedelic gimmicks.
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Partial lyrics from a song I wrote for my band, Nail of The Sun thats (not on alonetone)along to some Phil Collins like music and of course the commentary on phil in general. HAH.
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my second vocal track...i am really happy with the way this came out...its just about forgetting to breathe when that special someone is around...
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Is this years' fillertrack. I had started this backingtrack to fit with a lyricidea I had but I decided against the lyric and turned it into an instrumental. I needed an extra tune since two other tunes I put quite a lot of time in were going…
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The Music tells the story. we all carry our true selves inside, and experience those who would tell us we are someone else. take this home, light a candle, dance widdershins, blow some smoke to the six directions.... and be free
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instrumental . notes drawn on a chalkboard then lightly erased . gentle decimated guitar . rather pretty in that me sort of way
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A song for my daughter.
My blue-eyed girl
Living in your blue-sky world
I'll do my best to keep the clouds away
Life is better on a sunny day
Smooth the road out where you go
Let your light shine and watch you grow
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Hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park, the opening melodies to this song found their way into my head... A song of hiking, love, and life... Won't you come with me on the trail?
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this song is a wild ride out of key. very accoustic rythmyc, and mysterious...
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another lively instrumental with mirth and subversion.
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This one is named after the resident cat who loved me dearly when I was a visitor. Now that I've moved in I'm pretty much only good for adminstering food and occasional petting- on the cat's terms of course!
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My first ever GarageBand experiment. Not a good mix. Contains a sample of Bob Baker - please don't sue me! From 2008 album Do What I Gotta Do
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Believe it or not, this song was written while swimming laps in the high school pool (I had to have the life-guard kid write down lines for me every time I returned from the deep end). Oddly enough, the first line I came up with was "Swimming…
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Track 12 on Tarbosaurus Antagonist. Written and recorded from February 2009- January 2010.
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This song is about George Washington, and how politicians in the *cough* future world this album inhabits *cough* could perhaps use a bit of his character.
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A song about the five stages of grieving, as devised by the (late) Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. Unfortunately knowing these stages does not help you get over them.
You've been managing expectations
Consultations end in tears
Even if you're optimistic…
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Second piece for RPM.
This is my RPM preferred track!
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