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A simple little guitar/drum loop that is just an excuse to layer big fuzzy guitar parts in harmony. I added quite a bit of soup onto the harmonies too, and put some backward vocals... just for trippy fun.
The cleanish guitar is a Gibson ES…
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The lyrics were off the top of my head so if you're wondering how I really feel, or what I'm talking about... let's just say there's a lot of stupid out there right now and a lot of it has important jobs. Dig?
Kinda funky. Not bad. Maybe…
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We got motivated to write something a bit light hearted about our Covid-19 Times.... I hope you'll laugh and sing along with Roger , Colleen, Greg and Steve on this one... any maybe raise a glass of your personal moonshine!!!
https://www.youtube…
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Kansas City has some great steak houses
Kansas City blues bands are Texas twisted
Kansas City is OK
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A strat and a slow minor blues are a go to for an overheard cell phone call.
The tone is pure strat wiggly bar juju. Thanks Robert Cray
Blues lyrics are not required to be politically correct
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Here is a cover of Matt Ferrara's song "Obey" - Had this song stuck in my head for a good chunk of February, so I figured I would put it to tape. A little slower than the original with a similar feel.
I really wanted to see if I could record…
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Instrumental fusion of an Asian-flavored pentonic scale with a G minor-based American Blues scale. The Asian scale is a D 5th version of the Koto scale, performed using the Pan Flute setting on a Yamaha E313 KB, while the Blues scale is performed…
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This is an old song that I wrote a few years ago. I noticed it on my iPod this morning and thought it was fun to hear it again.
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I was passing by a darkened church this evening, as the wind danced through the trees, looking though the a window, i noticed a single candle lit, flickering on the alter step, casting a shadow within.. as i pressed an ear to the dusty glass…
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MrMudd&MrGold is a duo project with my friend from Brooklyn, Jim Goodin. Inspired by our common interest for acoustic improv and love for the music of Townes VanZandt and Steve Earle.
Improv with Jim on violin
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Maybe the last for 2012 Reg got the Acoustic out on this one and a touch of guitar fx for the vocal hope you enjoy.......Happy New Year....Although Reg is a miserable sod........
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The cupboards, of this old house
Don't close like they used to
And your mother, is just as old now
Wouldn't you say
The lanterns, you hung in your teeth when you were young,
Still light up the room
Yeah it's true,
If anything is true
I wish…
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A cover of the Blue Oyster Cult Classic, "Godzilla"
Lead vocal by Tony McNichol
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Its nice to hang up the car keys and put one foot in front of the other because lets face it all routes lead to the pub ha ha!
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A drone + some angry drunken guitar playing.
Trying to capture a feeling...
You have just had a fight/argument with a lover but you're drunk and your feelings are lost in a swimming haze.
Tech details:
Drone is two tracks, volume pedal…
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The deluxe version! Just one take noodling on my Boss Micro BR. Six full noodles :) Just a rant of my day...
Peace, guys!
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recorded on this day one year ago in geirs hut in porsgrunn norway.
met are: Geir (geir alfsen)Guitar
osckilo (tharek mokbul)guitar
flash harry (mike fife) bass guitar and homemade tambourine
oldrottenhead (jim higgins…
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Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night with just the coolest tiny idea? perhaps a musical dream? these small pieces are just that,, tiny little musical notes that just seem to break into my normal musical day,, one take suff
think…
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Poor old Reg he cant figure it out!! ........ since he's been listening to his self help tapes to stop drinking he has never got any money and he just doesn't understand it, he keeps working coming home relaxing to the tape........... then when…
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every moment
each day
searching
for something
someone
to feel
know
care
every face
each friend
rejection
and its too much
too much
too much
to bear
it's been a long
long
time coming
it's a long
long
way home
every moment
each inch of time…
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2010
I just got a phone call...
offhand liz loves america
though she often falls in love with places she's never been.
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Black Cat
Words and Music by Tharek Mokbul ( OsCKilO )
My heart will miss a beat
Each time
I see your pain
I know this is the end
But I
Will fight this tide
The battle is complete
Both sides
Have won this time
I will remember you
So proud…
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Lyrics
The Good Lifeless has Become Boundless
such that it is written,
went where and windly
with pentacles of pie
like know our way
down the screem
when we find what it
is that can been and be we of their
2 tracks of hobnox…
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Theme song for a new board game being published called "Inevitable."
http://www.inevitablethegame.com/content/about-0
Do you want to live in a hard drive?
Immortality can be achieved in a tangle of wires
The chance for divinity is in…
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A 4 movement piece for piano loosely a sonata.
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A little scratch track from a few months ago. A song about the trials and tribulations of being 11 years old. Watching Six Million Dollar Man, dodging bullies and pretending our bicycles were Harleys.
I was at a friends house and saw a little…
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One night I was seated in a lounge chair in my back yard when the thought ocurred to me. This is nice, but is this all there is? Is this the reason I work? Is this the reason I pay bills and worry about the future and make sure my kids do their…
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Great Texas Blues song.I like the fact that a classic blues tune like this was written right here in East Texas.These songs are truly part of the history of this area, trains still run the tracks, but not nearly as important nowadays to the people…
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A little instrumental collaboration with John MacDonald on guitar.
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Ableton Live Light improvisation, with guitar, bass and sax
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We haven't been this excited about a track in a while.
Yeah, we're a little bit angst-y I'm afraid...musically anyway.\A special hello to our Alonetone friends from the grand production days...so glad to see y'all are still making music!
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It was 3 degrees this morning and with a new/used dulcimer in the house, well, the only thing to do is write a song.
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As I wake up to a cold winter morning
Frosty windows receive the sunshine…
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For this I changed my approach to orchestral EDM. This time I first wrote the orchestral part and then tried to transfer that core melody to the EDM Part where I began to iterate with different synth patches. I think this approach makes the track…
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My fav track from my latest release, released on September 9th, 2025!
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Burnt Knob a hill in a park where I pretty much grew up. It's the highest point in the county, and there's a nice scenic overlook where you can take in the vista of the lovely city (such as it is) and the surrounding suburbs. As a child, my best…
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SHINY THINGS
Like the shiny things a crow stashes
Crumpled napkins and cold ashes
Like broken pieces when the bottle smashes
My tears don't mean anything at all
Like the golden rings around your fingers
The forgotten songs by unknown…
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A psychedelic/Ambient pink floyd mike oldfield inspired piece i had cooking for the past few days. Enjoy:)
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Things are going spectacular, and it’s because of what I eat
I only eat grass
I’m just kidding, but I only eat plants
Compared to me, you eat trash, akin to a dead man and the piss and shit that comes out of his ass
I eat manna, and it’s fantastic…
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[Chorus]
Good riddance, America, you fucking cunt
Have a dick come in you with spunk
Then blow it out like you no want
Good riddance, you whore
I no want to live inside you no more
Find another boy
Or take that baby in you, abort
[Verse…
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[Verse 1]
Too many people make too many useless procedures
Things are onerous, complicated, every trade is, extended dayshifts
They did away with extended vacations, hiatuses
Pressure’s on, population ascending too long
Jobs can’t keep up…
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022**
Song number 2
Written Monday 7th February 2022
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I wrote this one a couple of hours ago.
I set up for recording, and busted a string on the Martin... GAH!!!
I tried a big ole dreadnought thing…
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It's been a long absence from a regular daily practice of song writing. Covid and a major change in the family has distracted me for well over a year. Recently I've been lucky enough to drift back into old familiar things like wine soaked evenings…
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The RPM Challenge site's Record Every Month Challenge has an entry for June. This one started out in May but it was just the chords from the chorus in the little music memo file on my iPhone. It didn't actually become a song until June. It…
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I wrote this song as a way to process some of the feelings of sadness, dismay, anger, fear and love that were brewing inside my heart this past week. I live in Minneapolis, where the terrible killing of George Floyd occurred, and the subsequent…
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Found an old one, guess I posted it on my other account, but can't access that one, forgotten password syndrome ..........
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Brian from A Beautiful Scene sent me the lyrics to his song and said "Do what you want." The lyrics really intrigued me, and I wanted the song to have the rainbow tone palette of colors and sounds that I suspect is the backdrop mentally to his…
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After several bottles of wine, thetworegs and I were able to coerce Elvis and a few others down in regs basement to come out for a long overdue collab. After all, isn't October collab month?
Thanks again for the great vox!!
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Well it's been awhile for me. Busy summer and a bit of creative block all around. I'm happy to share a song I wrote this weekend to reflect on how tough change can be when you're in the midst of it. So many in my life are in the midst of personal…
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Updated (final?) version. Added some 12 string accents.
Bach's Jesu, Joy Man's Desiring
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This is a newly recorded version of a song I originally wrote and recorded in 2005 which can be heard o nthe playlist/album Songs Of The Heart. I re-did this for my son, Aidan's wedding as it seems really appriate for a wedding song.
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Music: Vaisvil
Vocals/Lyrics: TheTwoRegs
Percussion: Norm
DEMOCRACY
If I could ask for some calm please!
Can everybody just settle down calm down please?
You must vote to separate the wheat from the chaff.
The wheat from the…
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I wrote these lyrics in response to the tragedy that happened in Paris this week and i put them up in a response to a song by Geo's (Dobrodaddy) track in memory of slain innocence and Geo responded with voice and guitar, i added a backing vocal…
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This a primer melody for this lyric, so feel free to tweak it ( for the collaboration four)<<..lyrics>>>.The transmission started slipping on the way home from work today...Man I sure could stand a little raise in pay. no talking…
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Thanks to Robert Palomo for giving this a little sound engineering. Robert said " I mixed thru my mastering plugin (Ozone 5).
WordsMightBethe Weapon ToCreateThePerfect Crime
If I had a dollar for everything I done
To help you through…
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Lyrics, music and male vocals by Gene Eric Mann. Female vocals by Starry Nightmoth.
DUSK AND DAWN
No extreme is where I’m standing
Dusk and dawn twix day and night
Dusk and dawn
Yes, I’m not a Saint Terrisa
All I Have I will not…
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#RPM Challenge 2013#
Written for Robert Palomo, who probably endures more winter than any of us. Check out Robert's Music:
http://alonetone.com/1rubanjoguy/tracks
Flowers Under The Snow - Written By Greg Connor
These G late winter…
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rough idea, I think I had a movie in my head, the main character is on the move. No vocals
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FDR emerged from his cave one morning and took a stroll,it was a blustery day and his ears blew back like two streamers in the wind. He went down into the woods and there in the dappled sunshine he saw something gleaming through the…
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I was finally able to finish this one up over this past week. Like always I am never satisfied but I have come to a point where I just tell myself enuff is enuff and move on to the next song...pheww! Hopefully it sounds good on everyone elses…
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I've got the cellar choir together for this interpretation of this Doors Classic......
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this song is about my inner voice letting me down. i think i shorted it a verse or two. kinda hamming it up on vocals. a bit rag tag, but fun.
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I did this classic a little while back with Mike over at the cool lab and i'd forgotten to put it up.....one from the teenage mists of time.........
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Instantaneously Yours is an internet collaboration between excellent percussionist Norm Harris and myself. I added 12 string, fretless bass and fretless ebowed guitar to Norm's Groove for Saint Ambrose. Since this was done for fun as a serial…
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Alone On Christmas
Once upon the end of every year well there
Comes a time when we forget our fears
And a childs face will light up for no reason
Ho ho well it must be Christmas season
Its been so long since i've seen your face it must…
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She hangs a little garden
so everyone can fit in her yard
when it's time to take tea
fills it up when they're walking about
they really knew how to twist and shout
and they're always going back that way again
rents a flat with his sister…
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I heard MTC's track Rusty nail and just had to add a vocal Thanks Movement for letting me play.......
SINGING TO ANOTHER MANS SONG (Lyrics)
I walk in the front door and i hear the back door slam
I know its the back door man
I walk blind…
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This was a collab i heard today on Songcrafters and was wondering wether to ask to have a go at it vocally when Tharek sent me message asking me to have a go so Thanks Tharek and Dave, i am more than pleased to give it a go. i loved this music…
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I Got the Idea for this tune when I left Geir at Stanstead Airport.
Recorded it Last night after a Gig....
For the Folk Fest...
Pretty PennyWords and Music by Tharek Mokbul
-Lyrics-
Pretty Pennies sing about the troubles in the way.
Tells…
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An improv in a found tuning. E and A strings tuned WAY down so they're slapping the neck:
A(low) E(low) C# E A C#
Super full moon tonight! (View More for video)
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Sloane did me a favor & played an electric guitar part on this one. I had hoped to work with her more on this project, but she wound up leaving town to help take care for a recovering family member.
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Seventeen thousand…
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I don’t need you and I can do this. Life is dead batteries and pockets full of lint, but I do what I want. Me and O'Connor can eat dinner at a fancy restaurant. On and off, nonchalant, tied in knots, hope I’m not on my way to insanity. I watched…
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There is a small flicker of faith that he will make it through. He has found himself in the market place surrounded by people, looking for compassion. There is none. He feels invisible, centered on his own problems but that small flicker of faith…
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This is part of a microtonal tuning survey. for those of a stout constitution all of the options follow:
These are playable online here:
http://notonlymusic.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=749&start=0
Here is the original harpsichord…
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This is an improvisation (with a bit of editing where my timing got off by a lot) for this week’s ImprovFriday event
I used my M-Audio 88es to drive:
Korg MS2000
ARP 2600 V soft synth
Absynth 5 soft synth
Session 3 drummer soft synth
Pianoteq…
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Okay this is one for the serious noise freaks only.
This is three instances of Loop Shifter that I played in real time using my Novation Launchpad.
Turns out the launchpad makes a great keyboard for loop shifter, better than a real keyboard…
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I have issues at my house, sometimes they manifest themselves in my tracks. In this case, the bassoon and oboe represent the mouse. The guitar is the peanut-butter.
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This is a microtonal Jazz-ish piece produced with some newly developed techniques.
Norm Harris provides the excellent percussion. I probably could have made it easier on myself by not being so chromatic… but there it is.
The piano, bass…
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I recorded this one to a dimming flashlight on the 25th after a windstorm took out my power. I couldn't see the lyrics anymore so I ad libbed and hummed the rest out. My recording device is battery operated, which is cool.
This predicament…
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Featuring Otis Maly on Organ.
Maybe it’s a trick of the light
The way your eyes shine at me
I don’t want to fight and I can’t take flight
Somethin’ tells me I’m gonna see
Just what spell you put on me
I can’t let you out of my sight…
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So one too many coffee's and I have insomnia, I decided to mess about with my prototype sequencer Rytme and one of the Logic piano presets (Piano Motion).
I came up with this piece (in the key of A Major) which is rather repetitive (a quality…
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Lyrics:
I'm not sleeping
I'm staring at the ceiling
My mind's a thousand miles away
I'm finding faces in the shapes
of plaster that was scraped on the ceiling
Killing time is not so bad
but when you're trapped inside your head…
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too many woman have been abused, mostly by people they know.
This song is for them.
Eyes and ears have been shut for to long now.
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Recorded: December 19, 2008
Guitars: CGDGBD, CGCGCE
Lap Steel: EBEG#BE
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an exposition,traditional,of the raga ,bilaskani todi,transformed into a slightly dark ambient piece of music,exploring musical landscapes,inspired by a scenario,as if for a film,which my music normallt is.
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