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Anticipation.
(Leo)
The time is right.
(Isslene)
She creeps along the forest edge,
she says the light of day is too bright
so she waits, in anticipation
for the night to begin...
'Where do we start' said the boy -
beginning…
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Re-opened FL Studio after...years...loved it. This is an improv piece, with a few hiccups (started Edison/recording a bit late and had to put a fade-in, and still don't know proper side-chaining in the software, but not bad I guess :D
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My tribute to Levon Helm.
I pass the banks of the river
Trying to catch up with your life
The way you sang the weight, the shivers
Still run up and down my spine
Let us dance one last waltz
In the dimming of the day
Can you hear Anna Lee’s…
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Beginning or ending your journey...or just getting off.
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To listen when timelessness.
~The road to the heights of knowledge is never easy, but it exists~
Also:
"He was asleep when the boy looked in the door in the morning. It was blowing so hard that the drifting-boats would not be going out…
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Been a while, I'll admit it, lately I've just been turned away from making music. I blame lack of recording utility, and decent enough rig to handle big projects.
At the moment, all I can really pull are bits like these, and even still I have…
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An upbeat song about staying up far too late, featuring dueling stylophones!
Written & Performed by Rog Hildreth during February 2012.
Taken from "Rog Hildreth and The Enemies Of Progress".
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Another contender for my favourite on the album, featuring synths and ebow.
Written & Performed by Rog Hildreth during February 2012.
Taken from "Rog Hildreth and The Enemies Of Progress".
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Something new for ya. Had to piece this one together . . . wasn't much to go on since Nirvana was just messing around on this song, but that's part of the fun, extrapolating stuff.
For the record, I used the chords for the chorus that Nirvana…
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Another in my "music for drones" series.
This one started life as an "off cut" piano phrase imported into my Tukuramu Reaktor instrument and "played live" as I altered the pattern, grain length & density, filter cutoff, and delay feedback…
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Sitting On A Rainbow
Words and Music by Demetrius P. Hill ©2010 all rights reserved, August 10, 2009 additional lyrics February 22, 2011
Seated at a table. She looked unavailable
I was on the rebound. Just about to hit the ground.
Baby’s…
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It's difficult to think of riffs to go along with abstract synths, on the spot. A few stumbles here and there, but then again, there is the fun in it.
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With the flick of a switch when the light ran away
And the last scraps of daylight abandoned
Instead of feeling secure inside the cozy retreat
There were noises just outside on the landing
When the shadows crept through the deepening gloom
A twinkle…
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Semi-instrumental jam. Tracks started as intentional chaos, and then I edited them into sanity as best I could.
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Feels like a lifetime ago that I wrote this back in 2002; sometimes it's good to remember .
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Words and Music by Jana Persson
Additional musicians:
Janne Hedlund - drums
Hank Johnzon - pedal steel guitar
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One of a few tracks where I made use of a toy plastic guitar neck that emits a laser which you "strum" to play chords... So in all seriousness, I can say that I played air guitar on this album.
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Well, that didn’t help.
Gives me time to think more though. Seem to be standing in an endless grey mist, in puddles of water that don’t feel wet. Nothing good came of this.
You know those dreams you have, your ambitions of being the best, when…
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One of the first songs I ever wrote... When we bought our first house, we had a nice big back yard on a 1/3 acre lot... With the train tracks just on the other side of the back fence.
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Based on a cello wav I cut up. The rest is stock Pro Tools midi instruments including the Hip Hop Tool. Needs a rapper.
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My little version of Only Girl In The World. Hope you like it :)
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This was back in my day of "Effects are the best".
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My RPM challenge this year: acoustic guitar instrumental album with no more than three tracks on each tune (ok, maybe four!)
This one is a single track with no overdubs. On the 12 string, the 4th,5th and 6th string pairs are tuned a fourth apart.
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Live at The Eagle's Club Taylorville IL
Lyrics:
Sea of dust is where I spend my time
On a ship that sailed by powers of the mind
Neath the light of the crimson sun
Up and down the coast of the Forked Tongue
Stories and tales they echo…
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Years ago, when I had just started writing songs, I read a novel by Terry Pratchett (Equal Rites) that inspired me to write a song which I imagined as a soundtrack for a scene from the book where Grandma Weatherwax was riding on a broom stick…
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A cool little diddy about you know who. Music by Mike Giles. Lyrics by Tommy Lewis.
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A Traditional Christmas song, written by John Mason Neale and Thomas Helmore.
Performed by Rog Hildreth for the RPM Challenge 2011 Holiday LP 'Happy Mallidays'.
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I wrote this after Brook drowned.
WELCOME TO THE CLUB
Well, you say that you're lonely. I see that you are.
Why do you think I'm standing here at the bar
Where have you been? Life ain't no play pen
Call it a bar. Call it a pub. Welcome…
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SHE DIDN'T KNOW
Her flame wasn't orange. It was white.
The kind you can't see at the noon day bright.
Not the fickle flicker of a candle light
But a point miles off on a moonless night
She didn't know she was beautiful
Nobody told her…
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Peggy left in the winter of 2007.
Seems like yesterday. I dream of her
so often it seems that she is still
around here somewhere.
When Peggy comes home I’ll have the dishes put away
The floors will be swept and all the bills will be paid…
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DIAMONDS AND WATER
You wear diamonds on your fingers
You wear diamonds on your ears
and you wear diamonds on your necklace
You wear diamonds to the party
You wear diamonds to the banquet
You wear diamonds to the opera
But I’ll take a…
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SLAUGHTER MOUNTAIN
My mom’s dad was a coal miner. Her mother died of TB when she was a kid. When she was twelve, her dad, dying of black lung, slit his throat with a butcher knife. That left her with a cripple little brother to take care of…
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Woods acoustic 6 str recorded by a Zoom H2 x 2 with a touch of lexicon reverberation.
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We are exploding Dogs techno nintendocore Nova explode Super Disco Safari Adventure. Fire Fresh & Fabulous Muscles of sculpted gold Third-Right Appendage locust swarm
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This is a band I helped record doing a cover song. And then I remixed it. I am also responsible for the screamy vocals.
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Electric guitar improvisation with live looping.
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Light, to which thou goest; to which you fly like a moth. Once it was real.
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Written and performed by Rog Hildreth.
Taken from 'The September Tapes EP (A)', which features acoustic songs recorded between September 2007-September 2010. (Finally mixed/mastered September/October 2011)
Artwork by Jen & Rog
Copyright 2011
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Composed, performed, produced by Alex Jenkins, aka Gasserpe, April 2011. BMI Okeechobee, FL USA
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Here I am playing a Republic resonophonic acoustic steel guitar
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From the album MORE SONGS ABOUT ELVES & FLOWERS [2010].
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peter gunn theme played by a sax section + bass in 9 et
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Written by Rog Hildreth.
Copyright 2011.
All instruments/production by Rog Hildreth.
Taken from "Fox Shoots Man", recorded for the RPM Challenge, February 2011.
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From the album MORE SONGS ABOUT ELVES & FLOWERS [2010]
Yes, its very short. Although from another point of view its exactly as long as it needs to be.
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This is an instrumental, really 2 songs. The 1st part is funky with Tom Pecard on sax. The 2nd part is a carnival, polka thing inspired by Wisconsin. Hope you dig it.
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From the album JOE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH
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just me messing around with a clip of a song i made awhile ago.
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Absolute power corrupts absolutely....
Lyrics:
One cloudless night, freedom's candle was snuffed
Kicked and punched, gagged and cuffed
They took him away, for what he's not
Then cracked his skull, as a gesture for his…
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Written by Rog Hildreth.
Copyright 2010.
All instruments/production by Rog Hildreth.
Taken from "The Anxiety Bomb".
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Written by Rog Hildreth.
Copyright 2010.
All instruments/production by Rog Hildreth.
Backing vocals by Jen Howell.
Video: Filmed in Amsterdam, 2010.
Taken from "The Anxiety Bomb".
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Track 3 of the 'Space Opera' EP.
Download the EP here:
http://www.archive.org/details/SpaceOperaem123
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tracked 7 years ago, in the same vein as "A Brain Haemorrhage Would Be A Birthday Present".
-modified toy keyboard into a resonant filter with LFO mod into a Boss DD-3 DDL pedal, all tweaked as part of the performance.
-beat is from an old…
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This is my cover of "Blown Away" by Shiny Toy Guns: www.shinytoyguns.com
If you like it at all, I recommend checking them out. They're great.
All instruments, vocals, mixing, etc. performed by me.
Lyrics, for those who like them:
Days…
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I hate you when you breathe. Could you stop?
Waking up is hard to do when sleep never comes
But your ugly faces woke me up...
Callous sycophants
I know you too well to rest again
I'll stay up forever. I'll be ready
I've seen…
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It's the little things about you that I'll always remember--and love!!!
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A favorite style of my wife... like Kris Kristofferson, in a way. Maybe more folk than Outlaw Country...? The song has great meaning for me.
Hope you like it!
Doug
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I need to be better next time
I want to be someone you can't do this to
I need to be untouchable by you
I will learn to be everything actually worse than all of you
I know what makes your kind hate me, I'll be worse than that…
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Another more serious track. This is an ode to all the excuses I've ever made.
ER
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Another one created by bouncing tracks between 2 ordinary cassette recorders. Includes some of my earliest samples [made on cassette], not to mention chanting Buddhist monks and the voice of T.S. Eliot reading from 'Four Quartets'. Tried to fit…
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"The expression that there is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express." (From Samuel Beckett, Three Dialogues, "Tal Coat")
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Another from the RAWHEAD & BLOODYBONES album. The lyrics were "found" in some travel article in a magazine.
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That one song from Passager that nobody liked! Death of a Salesman... from hell! Another day in the life of those 'Stopadvertising' folks.
I have always set a little bit
off to the side to help the family
though I currently have five of…
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One summer afternoon Me & Holdempok in his garage,
We already had a few beers and we had run thru our songs.... So we were free to simply create - to jam!
I took the resulting jam and ran it thru Audacity and added the storm sound effects…
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