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This is a lil tune I had written over fifteen years ago. It is one of my favorite progressions and I figure in the near future to record a full band arrangement with vocals. This is just a ruff take working out a melody over the changes.
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Ready or Not laid down some quick recordings of covers on June 24th, 2012.
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Written by Zabler/Thompson.
WTF you ask??? Squirty Tuna is a play on the Italian word "scordatura", which is a term for music played on a stringed instrument that has been detuned to non-standard pitches.
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Broken (momentum)
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i wake up every morning with a look upon my face
it's called disgust
And we're all here to blame
i wake up every morning with something caught
in my throat
it's called hate
maybe it's just your name…
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Veejay and I wanted to do something special for our dad for Father's Day in 2012, so we took one of the songs that he wrote when he was much younger and covered it. In a way, we are recognizing our genetic musical heritage.
Joseph Andres: lyrics…
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With this song, I was challenging myself as a producer, seeing if I could sample the song, 'Vocalise' by Rachmaninov... You tell me if I got it right!
Words by CMOR
Sample by Rachmaninov
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As 6LA8 & MMI, from Final Wanderings: http://6la8.bandcamp.com/album/final-wanderings-an-improvisation-session
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Download "Doctor, Doctor" by Girl From Winter Jargon in a higher quality format... please visit: http://winterjargon.bandcamp.com/track/doctor-doctor-live-40512
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An intro the the Girl From Winter Jargon song "Dust beneath my feet" created with a looper and an ebow.
Download "Intro to Dust Beneath My Feet" by Girl From Winter Jargon in a higher quality format... please visit: http://winterjargon.bandcamp…
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Every sat in a room and sulked a little....and thought i"m not giving in this time......and then reason hits home..........
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Third track from remix album, enjoy the hip hop flavor of loops carrying my vocals in a new direction.
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Unveiling of remix of "still strung out" for a remix album I'm releasing here on alonetone.
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...a Black Keys cover I did at a local open mic
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Pulbicado bajo autorizacion y sin animo de lucro. www.carranga.org
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Gorilla Glue can, and will, kill your pets. Make them listen to this song.
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language and communication
john lydon told me
the written word is a lie
so likewise
the recorded sung or spoken word say i
on the table
there sat a cat or a telephone
-what shape was the table?
-what was the name of the cat…
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Formerly montgomerucson. Creating an album for this song to nestle into was a primary motivation for this project.
Special thanks to Ben Montgomery for the trumpet tracks.
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Recorded at an oceanography meeting in Salt Lake City this February (2012). The Ekman Spiral is a phenomena that describes the vertical change in ocean current from wind at the surface, which is in a spiral decreasing with depth. The spoken…
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from the album "Uniform"
she hides her heart under the pillow
waiting for the good fairy to come
replace this worn and broken thing
with a heart that can feel again
she's never sure which night will be her lucky one
but she anticipates…
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my tribute to a very underrated, underappreciated band. 40 yrs ago thier self titled lp came out, and i cover one from the lp as a tribute on thier 40th anniversary. im not a lead guitarist, and a new singer, so please bear with me on that.
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Words and music by me.
Lyrics:
Love is trying to find a way around,
Somebody else who's laying down,
Right in the way of where I want to go.
These words have many meanings.
I'm not just walking blindly any more.
And if you'd lend…
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This song is inspired by the struggles currently going on in Syria....here are the lyrics:
Out in the streets, an awakening has begun
You brandish posters, they point a gun
Scrawled on the pavement with blood and tears
Says we the people…
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Snow has covered the branches
The warm sun sets red through the trees
There’s a crow on the rooftop
And a magpie that eavesdrops
Behind the window in front of me
Smoke rises up from the chimney
The world looks so peaceful, serene
My footprints…
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I'm not sure how I came up with the name for this one.
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These walls which surround me
No longer protect
They obsess and they haunt me
And no longer connect
The door, once an entry
Now broken and wrecked
In the parlour, the pantry
The windows are cracked
Home has no boundaries
But I’m chained to these…
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I came up with a nice melody on my guitar so I decided to make a little song with it. Sounds kinda like something you could start your day with.
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A brief visit back to the hemisphere should be accompanied by a brief visit ti ye ole alonetone. So here it is. Hi.
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The rhythm is a little off here and there. I'm not used to playing a keyboard.
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BAND AIDS
Words won't heal what's wrong with me
and I suspect it's true
all these band aids made of words
won't heal what's wrong with you.
(C) 2011 Royal T Music
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JONAH
Jonah lives under the bridge
Jonah lives under the bridge
He's there, up off the ground
His world is looking down
Bicycles pass him by
Children ask parents, "Why
Jonah lives under the bridge."
Jonah lives under the bridge
No insurance…
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This is the song that got me the job of writing all the music for the 1985 George Sluizer movie, Red Desert Penitentiary and a free trip to Amsterdam to work on the music with the editor.
Video at"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V23Be8kDiSs…
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Key - G
Texas Water might be the only trio besides The Browns to do this song in the later part of the twentieth century. By Jacque Brel via the Browns.
Here it is by There Browns:
https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+the+browns+three…
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Homer has paid his debt to the female mystery and is tired
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CEDRICK Key G Open G tuning (GGDGBD)
He gave me 2 rings. Silver with turquoise insets. That was 1974. We were moving from Oregon to Texas in an old Dodge school bus. Towing the Chevy Van behind it. Unhitched the van when we stopped in Albuquerque…
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BUTTER MOON
I heard this kid say the moon looked like a tortilla
Some people say they can see a man in the moon
But I know, if you look just right, you can see the face of Marylin Monroe
Yeah, when the moon first comes up it looks like a…
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When this happened I couldn't get home before I had the song half written. What a lonely feeling.
NOBODY KNOW ME IN TOWN ANY MORE Key of G
G Em
There’s a bird in the gutter that…
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by James Michael Taylor
I have a brain that I must keep busy
I have a heart with too many hurts
And I have a house with too many memories
My life is broken but somehow it still works
And I have a dream that wakes me up crying
I feel…
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... just found this cover of "Doll Parts" i recorded a few years back and thought I'd share!
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Written and Recorded on 04/12/11 in Otley, Yorkshire.
We were all in the same room for a change. Lol
"Dont Mind The Rain"
By Jim Higgins, Tharek Mokbul and Mike Fife
Met UK
Well what you say
let's get together
and do it all again
i've packed…
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These tight and easy 151bpm beats just to show off for some reason like yeah I can do this but so what , ever.
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This comes from a Steppenwolf song from back when. It has always been one of the most powerful statements of protest for me.
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OK,there's three sides to every story. Yours. Mine. And the cold hard truth. So- let's just tell it like it is.
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Mt Sad was 80 acres of old timberground cleared to be farmed. So named by my dad to describe the difficulties involved in farming it......
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This piece was played entirely on the Fairlight CMI iPad app, and mixed in Ableton Live.
Jean Michel Jarre eat your heart out!
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I've always liked the word "wireless" instead of "radio". There is something wonderfully archaic about it.
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I spent my time in this secondary
sunrise
Far away from your shelter in a contemplative and persistent
Silence
I´m thinking I'll leave everything...
Tu me manques
The wind is silent and I have listened my dreams
who yearn your being…
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This is just a really simple string/piano piece that resulted from two years of half-hearted tinkering. As of now the cello is too loud and the snare sounds too sample-y, but I'd appreciate any other criticism.
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One of the first songs we finished on this album.
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1. ?? - Hello
2. Something About Us (Love Theme From Interstella 5555)
3. ??-??? ??
4. ???- ? ???
5. ???? - ??? (Feat. ???)
6. ???- ???
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She often inclined to borrow somebody's dreams,
But nothing will ever make sense again.
~For Molly, at 5~
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Autumn again ... It falls every time, I would say, of a sudden. I knew it will, but...
~for Steve~
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3 layered guitar tracks, basically all just playing around with an open D chord. Some accidentally pleasing solo-ing in the middle there.
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Just a short single guitar track that I never got around to working into something a little more full, but still one of my favorite scraps.
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More live in Evergreen with Paul Mimlitsch, Richard Ball and myself. This piece feature Paul and myself on guitar and Richard playing his arsenal of wind and brass instruments.
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The poem by Tennyson. Recording made with the Amberola.
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Another Lover - SKEEN 110204
Skeen Remix 120608
How I wish I could tell, why my heart seems to swell into a restless state of worry,
But it seems right now, there's just no way how,
It's impossible to say I'm sorry..
There's a look in your…
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Back in December of 2009 I sequenced a number of tracks from Bill (http://alonetone.com/acid ) and didn't release this alternate mix. If you like ambient you may enjoy this. Creative content by Bill, production by me.
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i think the title says it all.....the easy ones from the Beatles music book........More Regged up beatles but no Elvis he has gone off in a sulk he never did like them and he thinks were doing too much of them.......
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Part 2 - this time with a jazz vibe. Still in 7/8
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Some kind of rap-music. Made with a little bit tongue in cheek approach. I've filtered the rap artists voice so much that i'd rather leave his name unpublished.
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jew's harp duet with dutch jew's harp maker Steven Stoop. www.jewsharper.com
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"Imaginary Friend"
Perplexed and perturbed
downright disturbed
After decades of fighting
my lone war in this world
lo and behold -- she's returned
When I stopped believing in you
I stopped believing in me
Could you have been true
a premonition…
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Hymn written by Thomas Kelly.
JV- vocals
Stricken, smitten, and afflicted,
See Him dying on the tree!
'Tis the Christ by man rejected;
Yes, my soul, 'tis He, 'tis He!
'Tis the long expected prophet,
David's Son, yet David's Lord;…
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Recorded live at the Light House Media Centre, Wolverhampton
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dedicated to a pretty girl I know... :P
also note there is a meager attempt at video for this song!
Lyrics:
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smile for me, pretty girl
smile for me, please
i'd do anything you want
to get you to acknowledge me
but i breathe…
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Jean Jaques Burnel is one of my bass heroes. This song is the second I recorded with the new Squier bass. I kept the other instruments secondary to show off the bass
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Good news/bad news joke:
Sean and Seamus were great baseball fans. They pledged that whoever died first would contact the other from the afterlife to report on whether or not there was baseball in heaven. Sean was first to depart this life…
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This song is about all the Austin bands that tried to make a living with their original music in the Austin, TX area in 1991. Lots of Austin bands got their start playing at the Black Cat Club on 6th street in Austin playing for the door. This…
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Lyrics by Steve Davenport, who also wrote the lyrics for "The Sestina Has Been Drinking" (on "Arthur Unknown").
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Year: 1999
Album:
Land of the Lost
Artist's description:
I don't remember where I got the drum set from but there is a custom percussion loop thanks to HammerHead.
The voice is mine suitably modified.
That is not a sequencer…
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Dioses:
Voy a confiar
En la remota esperanza
De abrirte a verdades
Tomadas de un sol arcano y sus hijos
(del sol y sus hijos)
Transita entre eras
Guiado por fuerzas distantes
Los ciclos le esperan, abre la puerta.
Abre tu mente y…
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Mostly Monotron (yep, that little thing I'm holding up in front of my face). Vocal, clarinet, soprano recorder, and acoustic guitar. The percussion is also Monotron.
I decided to make this a tribute to the late, great Mick Karn after realizing…
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The story of a car crash.
Had the dream again this morning
Pictured just how it would be
Saw it moving in slow motion
Felt it rushing up to me
And suddenly it's happening
I can't seem to make myself believe
Clench my fists
Lose my…
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Track 9 / Band: The Anchorage Drift / Album: The Anchorage Drift (2010)
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from the album "In the Shadow Of the House Of the Demon" (2010) on Teagown Records.
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Also nearly unchanged from the demo version, although it still needs a bit of revision. Kept the title this time.
5 tracks guitar
1 bass
1 Indian toy/souvenir bowed instrument of unknown name
Sorry for killing the comments when I deleted…
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