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          Yeah, this "no more 35 minute ear-bleeders" promise we made; let's be honest, it's not happening, is it? Third monthly piece we've done for the RPM Challenge, third 35 minute ear-bleeder. Okay, this one isn't a complete sonic barrage, it has troughs…
        
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          Why choose anywhere else when you can CHOOSE THE PARK!
        
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          The RPM Challenge's Record Every Month (REM) challenge lives.  April has a song.  I wrote it and recorded it all in the last week of the month but who cares, it's done.
For a challenge within the challenge within the challenge, I decided to…
        
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          A song written and recorded for the REM challenge in April 2021
        
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          Don't you forget to 
feed the machine
It's why you're here
You're here to serve 
not to be seen
You are replaceable
You won't be missed
Some day it will be as if you
Never did exist
You're here to feel
A little joy
You're here to…
        
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          WIP version of https://alonetone.com/Lacrymology/tracks/barba-angelical
 with some drums by Volca Drum
        
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          Broken Crystal Blues
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Once I was a crystal, and they admired my facets and the sun's rays through me, twisting me in their hands this way and that. Now splintered, they think I'm just a bunch of broken glass. Although look - it's me, the…
        
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          Squarp Pyramid, Moog Mother 32, and reverb. Lot's of reverb. Almost exclusively reverb, if I'm to be honest.
        
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          An improv on the resonator recorded during a virtual open mike
        
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          Lyrically it's about the time I had a 'proper' job and how (despite the fact that I liked my immediate team and my role) I could not adapt to the nonsense involved in climbing the greasy pole in a corporate world.
Initially I wasn't sure about…
        
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          This is a song about my first date. It was pretty awful. 
This song also contains a Wayne's World reference. Party on! 
I wrote it in October 2020 as part of a song-a-day project on Instagram and used part of April 2021 to turn it into a full…
        
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Freesound (https://freesound.org/)
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          I was inspired to do a new piece in Pure Data recently.  The title and feeling were keeping in mind of the Sound-In Event Earth Apr 22-29, 2021.  I captured a screen recording of the performance which is here https://youtu.be/5Q-rlrx3VsY
        
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          ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO FRESHA BEATS PRODUCTIONS
LAKESHA L.WMS
THE CONVERSATION 
        
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          Prompt Day 5  Cloud of Smoke it is!  Me and the Washburn
Cloud of Smoke
V1 Anodyne clouds glaze my eyes
I watch the mist surround me
My vision going in and out
Still searching for the key
V2 kaleidoscope views move in an out
Like…
        
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          Rewind to Summer 2019... I put the bones of this song together in the UK; the lyric reflects the absolute positivity I was feeling at the time (lots of diverse work, travel, great weather, BBQs in the garden) etc.
The melody was lifted from…
        
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          prompt 4   quickly used my akai mpk mini mk3 to make some music  Concrete Jungle
        
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          https://youtu.be/qIyTFE-nCsA
the video of this -- high speed so very fast and layered with video effects-
        
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          from the middle of the second set of mind of spirits work number 15 of 23 and set 1 had 7 works--- might upload the whole set mmmm maybe--- OH it is here for you --- if you want more of these sounds
https://archive.org/details/with-an-idea-in…
        
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          A fun little mandolin reel I did, inspired by the pub music playalongs from the online academy of irish music on youtube.
        
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          One of those pieces that starts off short and simple, then after going through various modifications ends up like this. Original sounds are from a Roland SE-02 of a randomly varying repeated pattern; the mono sound file was copied exactly and…
        
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          An instrumental electronic/synthwave track.
Gear:
Prophet 6, Prophet Rev 2, Moog Grandmother, iMac 27" 2017, Logic Pro X
        
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          Day 2 Prompt Fearless   -  Key in the mailbox   My Title   The Key
V 1You changed your views
Like leaves change colour
But without you 
Life's so much duller
V2 My minds still more tangled
Than grandmas yarn
And My heart has a hole…
        
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          I have mashed Shane Cadman and Chris Vaisvil and myself.  this is a neat mix -- I took Shane Cadman's song here and then with Chris's mandolin work I stretched it out to match the length of Shane's Song as well as doing the same with two drum…
        
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          This is another re-recorded song, but there is a little twist this time.  
In 2016's RPM Challenge there are two songs that were supposed to be an argument between a flat earther and a non-mentally defective human.  They were The Flat Earth…
        
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          .. Well that sort of Blues got me but with a Funky twist
        
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          This is dedicated to my wonder yellow box , GP 10!  A box with a lot of colors inside but yellow on the outside. All instruments played come from GP10
        
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          Raindrops are tears from the sky. Tears are raindrops from our minds.
        
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          It's raining hard and ... you need the sun, the waves and the sea.. and dancing on the beach
        
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          Experimenting with polychords and harmony I found the fifth dimension thanks to VG99 capabilities.
        
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          Imagine running barefoot over a green bed of wet grass
        
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          Get closer in search of life but not too close.
        
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          Day 1 prompt  Fearless  -  Prompt was "Sweet and low".
I've really tried to please you
You say all things are fine
But why is i cant help feeling
That really you’re not mine
I can see by your look
There's something just not said
I wish…
        
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          I think a full year of writing and recording and re-recording might have burned me out a bit but I still have stuff I want to do and finishing the last few songs from teh fourth round of Quarantine Tunes is on the agenda (so is remixing volume…
        
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          Straight outta Roland. The SE-02 to be precise. The result of a lot of knob-twiddling and switch-flipping. Two separate tracks spread 60%from centre each.
        
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          The Fires alight
Operator number please
I close my eyes every night and I dream I have a hold of you 
You take me in hand with your crooked wand  
And Make me feel so blue
The night gets dark and starts to bleed it’s emotion over me
My…
        
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          Two lines of octave mandolin, line of modified mandocello and drums.
        
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          Written during lockdown in 2020.  Cheesy commercial AM radio ballad.
        
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          Well the Cadillac was there when I left..........
        
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          (A song from a parent to a child)
You get yourself a brand new lifetime
I tried to give you a compass and a map
Nothing in life feels so good as your learner’s permit
Something that makes you so happy
Maybe it shouldn’t be allowed
You…
        
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          Tuned the lyra to a G ionian scale and tried to make something actually harmonic, like, with chords and what not. There's some II-V-I, and IV-V-I there and all. And.. then there's the lyra, doing what it does best.
        
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          Experiment, on the same tuning as the G scape track. There's no much more interest here except it shows more of what madness lies (very nearby) beneath the lyra's surface
        
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          I appear to have lightened the mood a little with this one... If this song wore a hat it would be tipped at a jaunty angle... This one came together relatively quickly - The chorus was based on two bass riffs I had rattling around my head. I like…
        
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          This is one I wrote a few years back but didn’t really get anywhere with. Its quite jolly. The starting point was the idea of rolling down a hill and hitting a flint, picking it up and keeping it.
Lyrics
Headlong down the hill, I hit a stone…
        
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          This one was started a couple of years ago – but it needed a substantial bit of rewriting to make it actually singable. It ended up about an elemental nature spirit looking after its minions. However the original inspiration was getting up in…
        
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          This was an attempt to tame the Lyra. I just set it to some nice tuning and ended up with the notes for the intro to Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 by accident, so I played with that motif 
        
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          I’m up ealy couldn’t sleep so i’m down the cellar with an alternative tuning in D and another Zeppy sounding tune …Thanks for listening
The sun hits the blue sky
And the clouds wave on by
It’s another day in paradise is here
to touch
To…
        
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          Again a quick one before putting the boys to bed with the Gibson in alternate C tuning again a bit Zeppy.....Thanks for listenning
Do you want to be king
Some people want all they can see
They want you and they want me 
they want to keep…
        
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          I have posted far too many wafty and generally pleasant songs. Time for something a bit more dark and malevolent - back to the dark side......
Lyrics:
I’m gonna wait until you are happy again And be waiting for you
I’m gonna wait until…
        
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          Total bit of fanciful fairy-tale fantasy - water nymph probably.  Anyway - it doesn't go too well for her.  See you should never mix mortal with the immortal...
Lyrics:
If you see me floating in the water
reach me down a hand and pull me…
        
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          A silly one that I needed to get out of my system ......
        
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          Came up with this one tonight while the kids were at horse riding lessons just me and my Gibson ..... hope you enjoy ......Thanks for listening
You burn but your soul lives on
The days of youth pass by quickly 
Like a dagger of truth they…
        
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          Aaaaaaar - har har me hearties!! A swashbuckling adventure on the high seas....!!  The BBC Symphony Orchestra to the fore again....such a pleasure to compose with.....
        
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          I wanted to go down a different path with this one and try a new vibe altogether; no guitars at all and the bass guitar (my new Fender Mustang) only appears at the end of the song
        
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          Hormid zegiske is inspired to me by the Holy spirit.
Its a multilingual song comprising of Zuru (C'lela), English, Yoruba and Hausa
I see power changing hands as you open your heart and allow the spirit of God to  come upon you today.
 Shalom!
        
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