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Taken from the album 'Reverse The Sun', recorded in February 2013 for the RPM Challenge.
Written and performed by Rog Hildreth.
A long one, something of a centrepiece for the record. Open tuning and ebow fun.
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Taken from the album 'Reverse The Sun', recorded in February 2013 for the RPM Challenge.
Written and performed by Rog Hildreth.
This is an experimental one, I recorded it mostly using Android synth apps.
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if my head were just a little bigger/ i might be able to fit a hat/ on the cold plains my microcephaly/ has proved most dangerously/ that i lack/ proper blood flow over the top of my skull/ hypothermic conditions\ my foolishness sets in....
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Only Vocals and beatbox front to back as always. There is a reason for every relationship we have both good and bad. This song is about recognizing that and moving on. Thanks!
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After Greg Connor wrote this for me a while back, I kept listening to it every time I was feeling tired of winter, which at this time of year is several times a day. Somehow every time I listened to it, it reminded me of my dad. I know he would…
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I'm a huge Adele fan and this is what was created during an improv session this eve. Here is "Someone Like You".
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Another Feb 2013 RPM tune - reading some history on the Commanches...music has a Peter Rowan influence
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Heres a collab with Johnnyrobbo from over on the Cool Lab he's one great guitarist as i'm sure you'll agree after listening.....
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Words by Will Gough and Jana Persson, music by Jana Persson.
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Some folks feel lonely... but there's an alternative.
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RPM 2013
I'm not who I was
don't judge me
on memories and dust
they're nothing
but footprints in my past
forgotten
never coming back
I've lost them
but I'm searching pretty hard
for new life
step out from the dark
into light…
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RPM 2013
see the bloodlust rise
in your watchful eyes
you're taking aim again
will you pull me close
to better reach my throat
you wolf in woolen skin
I know far too well
how you kiss and tell
you sing your siren song
but these…
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RPM 2013 feat. Gary Fox instrumentation collab
time trickles in
defenses wear thin
these holes in our armor
grow larger each day
steel-edged chills
come in close for the kill
the line in the sand
has been trampled away
it's so wrong…
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RPM 2013
I like the way your hair gets flipped
the way you curl your lip
when you're drinking a little bit too much
I like the way your eyes go wide
the smile you try to hide
when our fingers accidentally touch
and I know
that you…
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Every once in a while you gonna give in to the relentless badgering of the kids. This song sums up the experience.
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This track features my wife Nancy on lead vocal against Matt's lone acoustic guitar. A nice change-up that has prompted us to attempt another album in the summer under another monicker in some different genres with Nancy doing most of the lead…
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One of the last to be written, we wanted a funky groove with a simple message--"Fool with me, don't do it again!"
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every time i go to nudge a coffee cup across the counter, it tips over. argh! this one has cajon, vocal and acoustic piccolo bass guitar only. yep, no bass part!
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Digi wrote the riff and we flushed out a great rock jam!
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Probably the prettiest, most layered song I've ever done.
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Dismemberment...it happened to a guy. He was walking down the street, right into a machine!
Tom - vocals
Sean - vocals, drums, guitar
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The lead part was actually taken out at first so I could do vocals but I decided to flavor this track up a bit with the orginal improv lead on top.
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middle of side two of a tape made in 2002 more details after I get the tape out of the machine.. this is me on the supernova II os 1.4 the os before the upgrade. and on tape.. needs mixing but never did it.
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This is the 3.Song from the 4.4 Single from the SUB OUT RIPPER Collection 2.0
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Second side opener by Martin fox
This chord progression came to me in a pre-rpm jam and we instantly nailed the feel. The words came easy too. Another five piece number. The words are about my loved ones i have lost and my feelings about our…
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Finally got Amy to record this one!
So many questions
What can we offer?
What can we give?
How shall we answer?
How can we praise Him?
How shall we live?
No, no worldly treasure
No, no earthly measure
What does the Lord
want you to do?
What…
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Featuring Darren Hawe on vocals, guitar and bass. Written by Darren Hawe and Jarrett Osborn.
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After Chris recorded his guitar tracks for track two here - we jammed this little piece out direct to a Zoom H2 recorder with no overdubs or editing in post. Chris Cochrane is a gifted guitarist with a emotional and visceral approach to his instrument…
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Bryn dropped and alternative track in our box that was culled fro his previous elemnts but manipulated into a lurching schizoid glitch piece that I loved. So - I slowed it down and used noise removal in Audacity to add more strangeness to it…
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Yves Baar sent me a midi piano file from Belgium and I found that if I slowed it down 20% and converted the piano to trombone and french horns that I was able to work closely with the synth - doubling and countering his melody.
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This is the first piece that I recorded - just after midnite on Feb. 1st. with Anne Cozean in mind as vocalist. Anne and I have worked together before and she delivered a great performance across two tracks. I was thinking Portishead going in…
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Frequent collaborator Bryn Corbett aka Particledots sent me manipulated electric piano tracks and I a returned a mix and stems with multiple Pro-One tracks from which he created the final mix. He wields a mean blender.
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From our RPM 2013 album "Something Into Nothing"
written by Damian Lethbridge
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From our RPM 2013 album "Something Into Nothing"
written by Damian Lethbridge
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From our RPM 2013 album "Something Into Nothing"
written by Damian Lethbridge
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Fourth song by Martin Fox
My first shot at really going for it on vocals. dont know if i quite hit the bullseye. this song is a modern internet love/revenge tale .
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Second song by Martin Fox
Was on a Pete Townshend kick lately. this one came to me as i was listening to the random recordings on my phone. still not happy with the vocal mix. we spent a lot of time tweaking too.
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My attempt at writing a bluegrass tune and an opportunity to try my hand at some flat pickin'
... loosely based on a friends experiences growing up in a small town in the prairies ... where everything is flat ... you know, a place where you can…
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a song that just evolved during RPM 2013...it was my new RPM strategy - record what happens, try to build it, move on, don't think too much about it...keep moving! It was a different approach for me this year...
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written during one of the several blizzards/snow storms to hit New Hampshire in Feb 2013 - for RPM...
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Honest Man
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I went down to the riverside
Way on down where the water's deep and wide
I stripped right down to my naked skin
I jumped in the river and hoped I'd learn to swim
Cause I knew the river would take me
or I'd learn
And whether I live…
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pictures in a magazine
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pictures from a magazine (floating)
more questions than answers (posing)
a whole lot of nothing (showing)
spaces for rent (free for owning)
brimming with treasure (hidden)
Surprises crucial (owing)
this is just…
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So named because it reminded me of something I might hear on a PBS special or other documentary about national parks, and Tuolumne (from Yosemite NP) was the first word that came to mind. Also wins for weirdest tuning: CGDGAC
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I think I had just hiked at, or was planning on hiking at, Rattlesnake Ledge when I wrote this, so...there you go. Tuned to DADGAD.
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First song written this year... and the closest thing to a reasonable but non-standard tuning I used (just drop D)
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Country/Folk with just my acoustic guitar and my voice. An ode to my home state, North Dakota. This is a rough draft. Any helpful criticism is welcome.
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#RPM Challenge 2013#
"Under Watchful Eyes" is my 10th song for the RPM Challenge 2013. Thank you for taking the time to listen.
The adjoining video was filmed February 6, 2013 along the Mississippi River near Red Wing Minnesota (approximately…
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i just played some simple triads that matched the basic chord progression to Pachelbel's Canon in D(didn't try to play the original melody or anything), then improvised a few solos, hope you like it.
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***Lyrics***
"and as Tarzan, Will I Ram
finds himself wearing a
animal skin cloth
he's fear and loathing in the jungle
debating on weather with a gigantic moth
and as he plucks the hallucinogenic mushroom
from the ground, there's a short…
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a small quiet piece for a Sunday evening,, all four string sections are present here,, violin, viola,cello and contrabass,,it's kind of fun to try to mix, and pass the various themes around,,
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Dystopia
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will you cut off my arms, in this animal farm
can you rip out my tongue in this bleak '84
bring silence to their ears, and quell all their fears
big brother, won't you cut out my heart
before i see this ripped apart
as i watch…
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Instrumental track -- imagine if Tool gave up being rock stars to program video game music for the Super Nintendo console.
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I suffered an orbital fracture on 2/12/2013
this is an attempt to recreate the scene of the injury
***minus*** - the cursing
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dedicated to our "cold hearted orb that rules the night",, bassoon and french horn exchange glances with one another, cross a web of strings with a little timpani,in for the flavor,,, i have been trying to figure a bassoon into my work, so here…
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I've hidden from you for no reason at all
No context at all, just my habit, my fault
Just my habit to blame, no reason at all
Not earnest at all, just a pretext to thought
Your wish for peace, it's drowning down the well
That's where…
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LadyJane (Moonchild) and Jip messing about with a medaeval type song. Saucy ending. lol x
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A noodle that turned into a doodle which turned into a song....thats what you get when you watch David Attenborough's Africa on TV................
No Rain (Lyrics)
The earth was scorched as dry as stone
nothing anywhere wanted to grow
the Devil…
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As if I was a tree,
And would stand in the woods,
Taking the rain and the snow.
As if I was a tree,
Standing in the field,
Looking at the eternal movement of the clouds.
As if I was,
as if ...
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Jeff's tone on this and another one of our trax remind me of Adrian Belew's Rhinoscirus. kOss pHactor is a NinJam based trio of Jeff Duke, Ray Istorico and Jim Goodin, fusing electronics and improvisation in to their sound canvases.
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A lil rocker influenced by some of my faves, Springsteen, Petty etc.. well i left my home and family
and made my way out west
i lost my job at the steel mill
im a hoping for the best
in this life
for my kids and wife
just outside of Davenport…
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This tune was created using two tracks of guitar I had recorded and then "mashed" together in Sony Acid :) I used this for the soundtrack for the video submitted to the 3rd Annual Sound-In Film Festival http://sound-in.org
Video at http://youtu…
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Harmony by [Tess Savigear](https://soundcloud.com/peppermintsky).
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I've gone a bit Bluesy on this one i got the French Horns out i blame watching BBC4...anyway hope you enjoy....
Counterfeit(Lyrics)
The night outside was as Black as coal
Her heart was made of stone
i couldn’t find no place to go
God did…
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A special "thank you" to the lovely and beautiful Itabit, for lending me some guest backup vocals for this song :)
9. Lot's Hospitality Will Save Us
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the vote was held, and by presidential order; the populace…
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Chapter 1 on a short story in concept album form.
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Andy Samford kicking ass on guitar, Brian Martin on bass, and Jim Garn (MTC) on drums... A song that was assembled bass-ackwards.
I'M FIGHTING TIME
Sitting in the movies back in 1985
The first long weekend in July
With Doc and Einstein…
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LOST IN THE GRAY
Never ran into the water on a summer day
Never had the time to find a better word to say
Never tried anyway
Never thought I'd ever try to find another way
Never even thought I'd ever really want to stay
Never knew how…
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DANCING IN THE LIGHT
Got you on my mind
Like every other day
From now until the end of time
I haven’t found a way
To take you dancing in the light
And take you running in the night
I’m thinking you just might
Like to go dancing, dancing…
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JUST AS WELL
Why is youth so beautiful
And why’s it always wasted on the young
When did my days go flying by
So many passes of the sun
There’s so much I could tell you
So much I’d like to say
It might be just as well
You never heard…
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Title Track - RPM 2013
we all clap our hands to the beat as the beat goes by
jazz & poetry in the fifties almost died
Rock n roll became the goal as people slicked back there hair
Rock, Rock and roll , the parent were in despair
Elvis was…
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Entry #4 RPM 2013
The Man
There he stands, shaking hands
smiling wide with his joker smile
promises spew out of his mouth
do you believe
all he wants to do is steal the breath that feeds your child
he don’t care
he don’t give a dam
he’s…
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"The Word is near you, on your lips and in your heart" Romans 10:8
The Word is near you
On your lips and in your heart
The Lord will hear you
He will meet you where you are
Wherever you are
Will you confess Him
Will you call upon His name
He…
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Wrote this for Amy's cousin. We sang it for the processional (we also did "Love Is All Around" and.. yes... "I Got You Babe" - and I just had Amy sing the whole thing so I wouldn't have to do my Sonny Bono voice!)
Blessed are they
who find love…
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Something we forgot about. Tucked away…until now, again.
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a wee short one
A long time has passed since we last met
I hope that life’s been treating you well
And what are you up to these days
Are you with somebody else
And do you see any of the old crowd
I wonder where they all are now
The years…
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Entry #5 RPM 2013
Pain of Loss
I’m sure i can hear a whisper, calling out the answers in the distance
the voices of a thousand men who have passed this way before
The path has been wandered a million times then they have walked through the…
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Entry #2 RPM 2013
Mama Please
She falls flat on her face
she’s totally spaced
she has no disgrace
her life is a waste
she has no respect
she’s so full of hate
she drinks from morning till it’s very late
she’s living in hell
she’s trapped…
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Music stems from the pic of my little girl at Biltmore. Lyrics from an intoxicated evening w/ some imagination which were written in 2010-11 in Nashville, TN and Jacksonville, FL under the influence of V...the life force...
The Words:
Sometimes…
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Thank you, Fox News, for letting me borrow some of your broadcast from the state of the union in this... song...ish...thing.
i.e. please don't sue me :)
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