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Something I missed for many years was singing in a choir. Now that I have multitracking I don't miss it any more.
THE WINNOWING WIND
I feel the wind flow thru me
Oh, please, don't let it undo me.
Let it level and true me
The wind, the…
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Reg has been doing a bit of thinking about life and the way he's going to live what he has left.......
IT’S THE STORIES THAT LAST FOREVER
Life’s like a dream it will soon disappear
When you die it has gone forever
If you think about…
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A 7/8 improvisation on a set of 3 Bata drums, accented with afucha, tube shekere and cowbell.
The number 7 is a symbol for perfection or completeness: 7 colors in a rainbow, 7 musical notes in a scale, 7 days = a week, etc.
In Cuba, the…
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Jesmiaus version of Edwin Starr's "War" ...you know you've started singing along to this song now and then and maybe lots more again when you've heard it on the radio or such. heh
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like the rings of saturn
and the rings of toilet bowls
i've been flushed down the universe
but I've seen worse...
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Actually, it won't play for me.... maybe that's a good thing.
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My take on Hearts Of Mars song Net Negative Impact. I strongly recommend you go listen to there original version here on Alonetone.
Thanks for letting me cover it guys.
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Instrumental for now really picks up later in the song
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For that beautiful, faraway, lost and gone past time.
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What lurks there, in the shadows? This song was inspired after watching the sci-fi movie: The Thing (1982)....
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Not really a "Fun in the sun" Beach song. More like a Beach at midnight.
Still, there is a pretty big Beach Boys influence here, I think. The backing vocals were staggered to sound like waves breaking on the beach. Not 100% sure it worked…
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I don't write love songs very often. Because I'm not good at them. I liked the sort of bittersweet quality of this tune, though. If the RPM deadline had left me more time, I probably would have added a quick ascending bass line right before…
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The title is borrowed from a line from an old Simpsons episode, but there is no other lyrical connection, it's just a quickly-written ditty about the excitement that accompanied my first RPM. I hope to eventually do a full band arrangement of this.
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Kind of a Neil Young impression, I guess.
You know what's ironic? I think this was the only song on the album I didn't use a metronome to record.
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I'm not one to toot my own horn, but I think I did a good job of summoning up a mellow, trippy atmosphere with a relatively minimalist arrangement (acoustic guitar, two pianos, lead vocal, and a guitar solo).
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I'm not the best singer. In fact, I'm probably a contender for the WORST singer. But I'm also a huge Beach Boys fan, so I will sometimes do ambitious vocal arrangements like this.
I didn't notice the chorus' resemblance to Ben Folds Five's…
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Last piece recorded for RPM. On the last day. Mostly improvised.
The inspiration of last-minute panic. Pretty much how I got through college. Until I dropped out.
Hey, don't judge me. I'm back in school now. Gonna get my CPA. Accounting…
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I wrote, recorded, and mixed this in about an hour on the last day of the Challenge. It's a really basic chord progression (I think...I can't actually remember it. Something something D minor something something F something?), but I still like…
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I was consciously trying to do minimalist arrangements on this album. I suppose I must have felt that two guitars and a bass were necessary here.
The backing vocals came out pretty good on this one. And there's some nifty bass on verse 2.
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I'm not gonna lie to you: this isn't one of my best. It's RPM. It happens.
Try listening to "Beach". I think that one's pretty cool.
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A song that I have had for a while and never uploaded. There was always something that I didn't really like about this song... lol
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Zeitweis gibt’s Sochn, dasst sogst, na gibts des und zeitweis gibts Sochn de gibt’s jo gor ned. Zeitweis gibt’s Zeitn, dasst sogst, heast Zeit wird’s, dass ma in de Hapfn keman und zeit wird’s, dass ma si min Strick dahengan. Zeitn gibts…
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This song is a parody to the Austrians. Just how they talk, how they whine about everything.
It basically tells you to look at the bright side of life.
Lyrics:
Letztens hockta wieda amoi do und haut aus über´s Lem. Jo wos ned ois so schlecht…
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1776...a stalemate over Bostontown, Colonel Knox reminds General Washington of some cannon left at Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York and asks if he and some hearties could go fetch them so they could have half a chance against the British…
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This is for sure the thing that Reg is feeling it can't be anything else since he saw her in the park he's sure she is the one he is in love with ......................
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Lead & BG Vocals - Mimmo
Acoustic Guitars - Bill
Electric Guitar - Bobby
Bass - Preston
Drums - Bobby
"Strings" - Errol
Words & Music - Errol
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written on a Bad day with Chicken pox....
But Spent a Great Day with my Son who also had it.
Jim Called later that day.
He added a vocal/Lyric the day after as my voice is shot...
This is a song about good times with your wee ones..
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Pillow head and eyelid skies, no dark thoughts beneath the shallow water.
But further out and deeper down sink the stories that you taught me.
Of horsemen and a dying land, and both of them become my masters.
Life was filled with guns and war…
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A little story of what the first few weeks of finding out I was going to be a daddy. Wan An means good night in Chinese.
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Alone for 3 days in the red desert was an amazing experience. I had and still have never again sat down and watched an entire day pass by and experience the profound deafening sound of solitude and silence.
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When Owen and Angela went to Taiwan for 2 months it was really hard on me. Owen, my little son was a big part of my life, and still is and being away from him was very difficult. I wrote this song to express how I wanted to hold my little boy…
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longlistening...
longlistening
is heard
through our faces
you and me...
beneath the din
of fearnoise
hopechild
still lives...
frame by frame
entwined within
the call call call
of theOne who knows
supply for need...
hear…
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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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A slower and perhaps dreamier version of the Simon and Garfunkel classic.
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Reg has been over to Songcrafters.org on the other side and found this little beauty a piece of music by Willi Wendon and he loved it so much he's put a vocal to it. Hope you like it Willie..........
IT'S A CRAZY WORLD
It’s a crazy world…
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..and for these dear ones, lost and bereaved (...well [well] after the headlines).
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pictureshow room
the wind blows chill
over harrison hill
but that's not what
they called it then
when you were young
with prospects so dim
made to ride
the fast flyer
down steep steep streets
were you left
to sink or swim
your eyes glow moon…
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Reg threw Norms 7th son in the Cellar tonight and it wasn't long before young Johny Cash had jumped all over it.................
Daddy didn’t love his 7th son
I was born when the storm really started rising
When the ships crashed the rocks…
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A single track of improvised chromatically tuned congas in 7/8, accented with clave, guiro, cajon and quinto.
(For those who may be interested in collaborating on this, the triplet phrasing of this groove may be most easily counted like this…
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You go and I stay.
Almost like before, I think.
Don't you notice now?
Always I lag behind you.
Stutter-step to notice me.
Shyness looks at tennis shoes,
Studies things you'll never see.
Will you ever see me?
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Something a little more serious this time. With everything that's going on in the world today, I sometimes need to know that someone is there for me.
ER
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Reg took a collaboration from Chris Vaisvil, Norm and threw it into the cellar last night and this is what was returned through Regs door this morning...... a tale from the old wild west.........................
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The title pretty much says it all. This show will emmerse both the audience and performers in the ambience of a tropical rain forest, with all of the elements of nature and wildlife whisking everyone away to a place other than our own suburban…
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short version different yet mixed from the same source performance is the one before this.. cut time down to let people glimpse what they are missing in the longer pieces :)
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One night this lady, unbeknownst to me, on the verge of suicide, asked me to write a happy song for her. Instead of killing herself, she left her husband. Now she's married to someone else and is acting very happy, herself.
UPDATE: She killed…
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Reg's little homage to Elizabeth Taylor who passed away today, the piano is a little dodgy and the lyrics and the singing in parts as i'm following my dodgy playing, it will have to be revisited but i thought i'd share anyway as i would forget…
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Drums - Steve Gardner
Lead & rhythm guitars - Norm
Bass - Mimmo
Words, music, vocals, piano & 'strings' - Errol
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a variation of the irish traditional song, "Siun Ni Dhuibnir"
susan o'dwyer
i walked out one morning
for market to buy and sell
as others before me
tis' thirsty, there i fell
and sat down to drink
with susan o'dwyer to tell
we drank…
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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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Evidencias:
He viajado desde el fin
traigo líneas nuevas sobre mi rostro
evidencio que las sombras me ataron
espero que ahora veas lo que he aprendido.
esta noche va a salir el sol
He reunido aquí las voces de mis sueños
cargo m…
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spanish version, over the vocal melody created by Bethan Mathis :)
"Náufrago"
El barco "Vidas" ya zarpó, me alejó de la costa
llamada "Libertad" por otros.
En olas me acerqué a vagos horizontes
Mudando piel y corazón.
Pero el mundo…
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"Ella":
Dioses vagan
en su morada eterna;
Hombres tratan
de alcanzar sus huellas
Ella, ella no fue así,
siempre supo que era única en la vida.
Ella
eterna en mi memoria
Ella
perfecta como un Dios,
real como mujer.
Niños…
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weightless
you flew in my life
and unexpected high flyer
oh such a beautiful kite
all your colors shining light
so high...i followed you up
to where the daytime turns night
then we circled the sun
weightless with laughter
so joyous...kids on…
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A friend of mine, a drummer named Don Landry, put this together and I just added voices. He didn't ask me to but he said he likes what I did. Also, I gave it a different title.
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For a short clip of of a video of this:
https://vimeo.com/214337550/f68cc0c21b
This song made me a professional songwriter when George Sluizer, the director of THE VANISHING, put it in the movie by that name.
SWEET RAIN Key G
G…
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Again a miniature. I hope you like and/or enjoy.
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People are dying every day in the street
People are dying every day
People are dying every day in the street
Just for being people in the street
Peace, when's it coming, coming for the people in the street
Peace, you can sing it
Sing it for the…
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This is 3 way colaboration with my good friends, Nick Coward and Mark Drozdz.
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coffee shop song...
kenya time
hear the cracklin' paper
as you test the basil mayo
when you pull apart the cheese
and tip your brown beer bottle
smell the grinding coffee beans
set by tatooed arms to motion
near the burlap-bag topped…
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Julie Kathryn and Anthony Cekay perform Leonard Cohen's popular song live.
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Trying, and failing, to get through the last Pink Floyd song that means something to me.
Sorry. ;(
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From the 2011 RPM album "AscenDance"
this is the official 'unauthorized version' of the song, remixed and blenderized from the song of the same name written by Daniel Montoya.
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From the 2011 RPM album "AscenDance"
lyric from the poem "The Rich Man and the Beggar" by Tony Lane
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Recorded 1981
The Ulstafarians were a rock/reggae/R&B band from New Paltz, NY, USA in the early 1980s.
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(C) 2011 Royal T Music.
LET IT GO 032011 Key - G
I do a lot of walkin' so I find a lot of stuff
I fill my pockets up with bolts and nuts
Once upon a while I find a diamond in the ruff
But mostly dimes and nickels in the ruts…
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in memory of ben keith
man of steel
heard your sound
as i roamed
in early days
of wonder
time was right
cast that spell
ever since
i've been under
bendin' notes
waves of air
all colors
of emotion
dark and light
deeply stirred…
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Poor old Mary lived in the anonymous council flats near Reg, he didn't know her he just read about her in the paper....Thanks Henwrench
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This was my very first attempt at recording , done on two tracks , me picking and vox , AK rhythm , then me adding a harmony vocal , a bit basic but a Traffic song i've allways loved
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This is not a serious attempt at a song, it's just a dare. One of my coworkers challenged me to cover the Rebecca Black song and I like a good challenge.
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Reg has been reading the papers this afternoon and his a little worried about the big wide world so he's gone down cellar to have a chat with Elvis and between the two of them they came up with this little number......It's what they had to do…
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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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Reg went to a funeral of an old friend the other day. He then went for a drink in the cellar and got chatting with Vincent Price and Elvis about life being just a game that you couldn't win no matter how well you played . Reg started jamming over…
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This one was so much fun to do its over run a bit and wore poor old Reg out so much they have had to call an ambulance to the cellar to get him ..... His two friends worry about him on the way home.....................hope his ok?
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bleed
the father's gun is loaded
his eyes bleed with revenge
his child lay body broken
his life torn limb from limb
darkness seems to travel
so much faster than the light
the fathere's gun is loaded
hear it fire...
in the night…
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I strapped on my acoustic and had a go with this great song. Recorded in one go straight into my Boss microBR built in mic. No fussing around wit this one.
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Arrived early to band practice, started playing a bass riff, made something of it a few days later!
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This song was written by a guy called Bert Sommer , and perforormed at the Woodstock Festival , he was also in the musical Hair , its said he wrote the song about Jennifer Warnes ( who was also in Hair ), if this song had been included on the…
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Fast forward time, 9 years to the day, and I am in a check-out lane.
You're standing there 3 or 4 feet away, pretending not to notice.
You look so beautiful in the winter,
Just like I remember.
Nothing really changes when it comes to the…
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http://improvfriday.ning.com/
recorded for the Japan benefit happening this weekend (right now) over at improvFriday. Stop by and help or just give a listen.
My father brought a koto back from Japan after WWII, I thought this might be a good time…
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Sam did a great job on this song. Both the lead and backing vocals are hers. The song could use a little editing, but I thought you'd all like to hear it anyway.
Enjoy.
ER
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.......if there not the one,should you keep looking, if so for how long...........well Reg threw Henwrench's music into the cellar and what bounced out was a song he wasn't suspecting....
Love me tender
I've been alone now seems to long…
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