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An ambient anthemic piece.
The process:
- Start with a live take of me playing an iphone app called tonepad.
- add camelphat and camelspace
- add an Alchemy instance, find a big fat pad, work out a riff
- record a single take accompanying the…
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an emmotional storytelling through instrumentalism. a whistle transcends the feeling of an explosive bowel movement. a noisy arcane reduction of bass jagged jarring hook and pursed lipped vocals
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Standing, waiting, shivering, waiting, hoping, waiting, crying - all the while being cruelly mocked by the passage of time, and my analogue watch. It was not a very nice night.
Peter Fedofsky plays the piano on this song.
If you could…
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This provides a theory which ties together two of my key traits a) always tired b) terminally disappointed by peoples lack of courtesy - there's a link people!
Did you ever feel so down
That you didnt know up
Didnt recognise highs
And smiles…
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Bolero of Fire is another Fast travel tune that sounds dark and foreboding. Enjoy my heavy repetative pounder version.
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The first song I though my own sweet sexy voice into (lulz). I imagined a soft RnB kick to this as well, but I tried doing jazz, so who'd a thunk it.
Kakariko is a town frequently visited by our young Hylian hero, so I thought this was befitting…
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wonderland
what is the sound of the last few minutes of life
she said I wouldn't feel a thing, but women lie
what is the color of the last thing you'll ever see
frozen for all eternity
and these things inside my brain
tell a wicked tale
and…
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Being Jettisoned In A Sarcophagus Into The Deep,Dark Starless Void
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It's the "do no harm" mix.
Because, theoretically you won't hear any difference between this and "technique 43".
Which is sad really, given how many hours I spent on it. Hours spent on the oh-so-exciting put-everything-in-Logic step…
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Some experimentation that started with sandbags saying that he was looking for a wood sound. I responded with marimba plus monster reverb... and I quickly noodled together an ambient thing.
I wondered aloud whether I was done or should continue…
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1st of 10 "Off the cuff" songs I wrote just before the great flood.
I haven't really had a chance to work on any but this one. This is different than the rest of them. All I did was turn on a drum machine and played and sang what ever popped into…
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Lyrics for 'Wild and Free' came while looking at a painting of the head of a horse. Composed by Julie Day and Grant Duncan in 2007, this rock song has a swing element to it. Enjoy.
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hopelessness. if you succeed now, you'll fail later. i wrote this song on a banjo :) but never got it in the recording.
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A 12-string guitar instrumental in drop D tuning.
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Today's jamming of an old tune. Don't get to comfy: there's more.
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Reg has been searching the internet again he reads one article and believes it till he reads the next one that disagrees with it... now he's not sure on any of it ......
Fabricated Rubbish ?
Problems with no sleeping…
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Reg decided to go busking down on the subway....
On the subway
Stood on the subway playing my music
As the world rushes by
Lost in a world of my own making
I don’t get washed away in the tide
Its lonely out here where…
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Took the dobro tuned to D6 inside the Serra Vortex sculpture. With a little help from some schoolgirls passing thru.
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He walks through the city, the lights all aglow,
Faces rush past him, but none seem to know.
He whispers to shadows, he speaks to the skies,
Asking the night where his true love hides.
But the stars keep their silence, the moon turns away…
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(Disclosure: Despite the Aug Upload, these are no longer the demo versions I had. I just didn't want to lose my high listen count... very vain, I know...)
Verse One
I’ve walked past the alter like a ghost
With my hands in pocket afraid to…
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Darlin I been dreamin about the moon on the prairie
The way our voices carry, the song on the radio
Arm out the window, dipper in the sky
On a solstice night
Darlin I been dreamin about the breeze on the water
The mountain and her daughter…
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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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Prophet 12 Desk Module
Hydrasynth Explorer
u-he Diva
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[Verse 1]
Integrity integral to integers
Gibberish, that of the just natural, not detritus
Firmly wound around dignity
Sea quiet, limit speech, lips just sealed
These inhabitants free radicals
Training on battleground to stand your ground…
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As I look what’s here in front of me
I can’t quite believe what these eyes have seen
Mounds of sugar shit in the stupid pit
And all the while I smile ‘cause I’m the wunderkind inspired by nothing really
In an empty box just like Christmas…
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Hello, so I am speaking now in light of the recent Turkey/Syria earthquake
And there are officially confirmed dead around seventeen thousand people
With more to be confirmed dead probably soon in the coming days
And speaking now and generally…
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Get that oatmeal and put it in my bowl please and it’s
This Southern hick beat I’m gonna get down real quick, see I…
Get that chili, my special combination I’m making and then I plate it and then I a-a-ate it
Yo, pasta every once in…
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2022 RPM Challenge song number 19.
Go to the head of the class, dude. I said that song #18 was the best song of the bunch but now here is song #19 taking the title and squashing 18 like the proverbial grape.
In other words, I really like…
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If we take a moment Ignore what divides us two
Just take a moment What would we see
Would I see a brother Might I be your friend
Might there be more that binds us hand in hand
Between you and me are the same old songs
Between you and me…
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I developed a strong obsession with the building blocks of pop songs and tried to craft one. Unfortunately, I wrote it in a key that was high enough that the combination of the rapid-fire words and the pitch nearly made me pass out while singing…
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My cover of fellow RPMer Jarrett Osborn. I wanted to do something along the lines of Coheed and Cambria mixed with a Juliana Theory vibe. I ended up more straight out stealing from them but that is the beauty of covers. You can out right copy…
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Well the Cadillac was there when I left..........
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I can't find the words
for that which remains
unspoken mantras
lost on some page
they will remain words
and only words will remain
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This was the only song from the 2015 RPM Challenge that did anything for me at the time. I clearly remember that. What I didn't remember until I read the notes from that 2015 alonetone post (which I did about four minutes ago) was that the guitar…
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I think I need to take a day off. My ears are turning to mush. I really struggled mixing this and I can't even tell if it's worth keeping or not.
This song was written during my first attempt at doing anything in GarageBand. Prior August…
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The downside of writing about politics in February of 2016 is that it doesn't have any meaning in October of 2020. Oh well. This one and "Did I Offend You" were both written back to back on the last couple of days of the RPM Challenge and they…
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So, what do you think... could it use more wah-wah?
This was written for the 2014 RPM Challenge. The chromatic thing at the beginning had been rattling around in my head for years and years but had never found a home.
The lyrics here…
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This is my 2nd Piece that I "wrote" in a pretty simple fashion. I started with the 2 pizzicato tracks and then Improvised 3 voices on top of that. It started as a test if I can plug in my audiointerface into my phone and it kind of worked out…
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I'll admit it right up front . . . This is the result of an idle mind.
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I love surf music complete with Fender guitars dripping in lots of spring reverb. This one came out of the clear blue and somehow developed the double-naught spy thing in the process.
Matt plays lead. He's got the surf thing down pat!
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Another full band cover of an acoustic Kurt song. Apologies to KC for the guesswork.
LYRICS:
One less side of me
Wonder how I breathe
I know that I need
Just because
you want my seed
Seems to me that harvest’s overgrown
Step aside…
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Here's the second song I recently decided to do with a studio recording from one I wrote and posted here a while ago as a purely vocal version. It's one of my favorites.... I hope you'll enjoy it too
Singing In The Silence
Verse 1:
Singing…
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Inspired by Mark Hall of Casting Crowns, by his sensational testamony
He'll Take Me As I Am by Tom Brandow
Feeling busted, bruised and broken, sometimes barely hangin on
calling out, to my savior, keep me safe and strong
Jesus…
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I have been wanting to do some Cream covers for awhile now and with the passing of Jack Bruce it seemed an appropriate time to record some sort of tribute to him and the band.
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Since my baby left me
I found a new place to dwell
It's down the end of Lonely Street
At Heartbreak Hotel
You're makin' me so lonely, baby
I get so lonely, I get so lonely, I could die
Though it's always crowded
You still can find…
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ADAM’S PLAGUE
And those not killed by Adam’s Plague
Repented not the work at hand
Their search for truth was strangely vague
They spread their lies across the land
They clung to things of stone and wood
Which cannot see nor hear…
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Lyrics and vocals by Starry Nightmoth. Music by Gene Eric Mann.
FIRE
Firefly --
Who invited you bright bug?
Who said your friends could come?
Who brought down the stars?
Who danced all night long
Around my burning house?
Firebug…
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*Here’s another one*
Verse 1:
I beat myself up ‘cause rap
We cuss, I don’t care about that
Coping mechanism, coping medicine
so obsession will hook me since I was in
high school, I listened to rappers buzzing
I moved myself too because…
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Wrote this after hearing on the radio of a bloke who ran off to France with his underage girlfriend and guess what? he's doing time (asshole) Thanks to Lady Jane for backing vocals
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It started again tonight....the haunting of Big E ....he wouldn't leave me alone until i played him this one.....i said to him...i said "now Elvis i'm not quite the guitar man yet but give me time ....20 years or so"...He said don't give me no…
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Just messing with a few chords and extended it a bit. Could do with some words, but can't think of any - feel free if you can add something) cheers
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A sample of the duo version of Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Additional Accordion, toy piano, and vocals
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Couldn't think of anything to write about so i wrote about that!
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Reverie by Claude Debussy arranged for piano, violins, and violas.
Reverie may refer to:
A daydream
A dreamy state of mind.
reverie, an instrumental composition of a vague and dreamy character
“Rêverie”, a solo piano piece by Claude Debussy
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...the Bunker-Bar has been re-stocked...just in time for a visit from an old friend. Ladies and Gentlemen Mr Dean "Reg" Martin...
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According to John this lyric was inspired by the weird visions of a former sports reporter who now thinks the people in high political places are actually lizard men from space. :D
Lyrics: John Williams
Composed by: Andy Gupta
Vocals: George…
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THE TABLE by Jeff Prince
Funny, running into you this way after all these years
You hardly aged a single day except those lines around your eyes when you smile. She laughs as she recalls the girl that she was and the boy who chased her around…
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The Lament of Saint Patrick’s Snakes is an ambient piece using a home made instrument of six guitar strings stretched over a 28? by 3? by 1/2? oak board tuned with zither pins by ear to a JI open chord. The instrument is then bowed with a viola…
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I ended up using so much of the Chef's Surprise track by MMI that I wouldn't feel right without putting the name in the title as well :)
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Apparently this song is the quintessential Gary Fox sound. That's probably because it's done with a special guitar with a special tuning. Anyway, my favorite part of the song is the mid-section. This is a "listen loud in the dark" sort of song.
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Featuring Mark Hubbard & Duma, on didj & percussion respectively, this one begins as the most traditionally structured piece on the album. But don't get used to it, it doesn't last long... just enough to ease you into the formlessness…
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All first take improvisations. 8 tracks of madness for your enjoyment. Ear goggles will put you inside this piece. Not recommended for the faint of heart!
Recorded between 9AM - 7PM on the 26th of February.
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i tell K.G. that this one is like the allman brothers and bruce springsteen doing a tune together. another kick ass K.G. tune. we played this thing alot and nailed this take live!
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i have been afield for a while,, this is my first contribution RPM 2012
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Sometimes society gets wrapped up in their own routine, failing to notice the sheer beauty that surrounds them on a daily basis, until a moment of chance changes everything.
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A track I did as part of an ImprovFriday tribute for Richard Lainhart who passed away recently.
Guitar, fx, live loops
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Wouldn't it be great if I could just finish one song one day and have it last longer than 2 minutes, but not today and maybe not tomorrow either.
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Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free
'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
When true simplicity…
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Recorded live during the last days of the Red Blood Club in Dallas, this Dennis Gonzalez Yells At Eels song features Stefan Gonzalez (drums), Aaron Gonzalez (contrabass), and Dennis Gonzalez (treated trumpet).
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A jive-era feel, with lyrics about working hard to get what you want!
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this is definitely not accoustic. my room mate and good friend dave diesel sings on this track.
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