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The wind roars. The night is pitch-black. The rails wet. Ideal.
I thought it would be harder. Perhaps it is only as hard as one deems it to be.
It approaches. I am terrified, but it needs to be done.
I let out everything that is human, as a…
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~for all the elves out of nowhere~
She dances, gracefully moving along a branch of the tree elf. She is dancing on the moon's path, alone...
Galadriel was proud, strong, and selfwilled... From her earliest years she had a marvellous gift of…
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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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Some days seem longer than others,no body phones,no body calls round,what do you do? write a song i guess!
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originally written and performed by Chris Cornell.
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“This Change”: (Richard Hardrick)
Everything change
oceans of life, fight against death (hum)
I'm only a shade (afraid)
I' m trying to find my own way to survive
I'm better hide away, far away.
I can't resist this change
sky or sea…
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This is my attempt at afro-pop... The video was produced by a friend of mine, Skot McCall, via online collaboration...
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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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#4 for the RPM Challenge.
Have you heard this melody before? This is one of those where I wonder if I've unconsciously "borrowed" something from someone. Translation: the Fly Boat, like the tourist boats that ply the river Seine and their bright…
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Interpretation of that we see comes from us, so, therefore, is not objective. Seems, there is no objectivity here, none at all. But then why do we try again and again to learn, to understand, to feel?
The question is still the same: who are…
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“While I Wait”: (Richard Hardrick)
I hear my steps from echoes
down in the street of time
van años en lo incierto
outside the shadow line
Silence in an empty sky
while I wait
God has not revealed yet
the truth of signs outside…
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It's a small song about a blurred childhood memory of a night in the woods when a wild boar made us run home in panic.
The monster came through the ground
Across the glade we ran
There was a sense we felt again - never felt again.
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As it's coming up to Valentine's Day, I thought I'll upload this little ditty.
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Japanese Ghost House Boat was my contribution to the ImprovFriday “For Japan” earthquake relief CD release with proceeds donated to the Red Cross. It is in 17 notes per octave. Since its been about a year I thought I could release it now as…
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An old instrumental of mine, written when my daughter was a baby. I plan to re-record it with some better gear soon.
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This is "Bright Eyes" written by Mike Batt and originally performed by Art Garfunkel. A song made famous by the film, 'watership down'.
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~In the middle of everyday life [and all this fuss] you stop for a moment and see yourself as if from the outside~
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Cowardly Lion: Courage! What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage…
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Act 2 Scene 3 - The Bedsit - Fool questions everything and falls into depression and drinks until he dies ... and it's OK
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Act 1 Scene 3 - A Night on the Town, a glimpse into Fool's social life which is ... going round to his mates and getting stoned, going to the pub and the disco in an attempt to get a girl, which he manages to do in the last song.
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Act 1 Scene 2 The Long Walk Home - where Fool is walking home from the disco, he debates the world around him as he's walking and dancing to music on his mp3 player then he takes shelter from the rain in a haunted house and meets a ghost, he…
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A rock song, in 17 notes per octave. Yes there is an echo of Buddy Holly... Lyrics, and chords and bass here http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=2071
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The old Blues man came down the cellar tonight and wanted to sing some Elvis and this is what we cam up with hope you enjoy......
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It seems these Blues Lessons might be starting to pay off ....oh i wish i had more time........Lead guitar Reg with his £16 special...Vocal Possession Jim & Reg transferred through Trevor......organ Reg.......Drums a loop ....Music and words…
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I Shall Tear off my Terrible Cap
(poem by harold pinter, 1951)
I in my straight jacket swung in the sun,
In a hostile pause in a no man's time.
The spring his green anchor had flung.
Around me only the walking brains,
And the plack of…
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A song I'd written long before I was in any band. Music and lyrics by Mike Giles.
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Another of the "Recipe Songs". Maybe not as successful as the first, but much better than the others, which I have omitted.
Originally Recorded on a Fostex 4-track cassette and remastered.
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sort of alice in wonderland or maybe you might read something else from it. that's up to you.
They've switched off all the lights
they're out to lunch
they've all gone to the party
they're having tea and scones
the hatter calls for silence…
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juno di cheap strat copy and recorded on the boss micro br sober.
well hallelujah
i don't believe it
it's so peculiar
it's so peculiar
well bless me jesus
i've not seen that before
our eyes decieve us
our eyes decieve us
when you…
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This song was inspired by a long walk....
Lyrics:
Down by the river, down by the shore we go
The moon above cast a beautiful glow
We walked around talking through the night
I can’t help but think how it felt right
Hey Constance, don’t you feel…
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Yeah, guess I have an inner Gershwin who likes to listen to Beethoven. Go figure.
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lo-tek eclektro version of 'a character disorder' by the nu psimians
I've got a character disorder
you know they say I've got a borderline
personality disorder
and I'm sick of taking orders
like a waiter or or a nun
I want to be…
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live in the kitchen vox + piano only no fx version
and i don’t know what you mean
about the things i haven’t seen
it isn’t easy being green
when all you ever say is mean
you know i tried to keep it clean but
you were messing up my scene…
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well ... it's not really the year of the monkey ... except for me :)
Recorded on my new Boss Micro BR80, vocals done in the car ;)
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yes my voice sucks and the lyrics are silly. But its all I have...
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Did you lock door? have you lost the key?
Laughter in the strangers eyes on a windy street
And it's not surprising Winter's always cold
Years like silent footsteps follow
Autumn leaves and blue skies fade to gray
Have you see a rainbow from…
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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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Psychological consequences of war.....written and performed by Nick Plagakis.....Lyrics:
Sixty seven shots ringing
Across the desert, heads are spinning
Bang, Bang Bang; is all I hear
Bang, Bang, Bang;…
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Angelos and I improvise on classical guitars tuned a quartertone apart.
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live at Avant Garden in Houston, Tx. 12/28/11
This edit contains the motifs Up the Chupacabra and Hymn.
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A bit too big but they let me slide! Thanks Alonetone!
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But the wind doesn't last forever.. and then we're all alone watching the leaves as they fall for a last time.
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Down the cellar this evening we were having a bit of fun with this old Elvis Classic ....he didn't seem to mind.....but Dr Nick had been in earlier.........with the one armed Banjo band backing...
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Jeff Prince and John Murphy add guitars and harmony.
(C) 2011 Royal T Music
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A Traditional Christmas song, written by John Mason Neale and Thomas Helmore.
Performed by Rog Hildreth for the RPM Challenge 2011 Holiday LP 'Happy Mallidays'.
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This is a 19 note per octave solo electric guitar improvisation played in classical guitar format recorded in Sonar X1 with Guitar rig and Lexicon reverberation. Makes it hard to classify for what audience would want to listen to it I guess. The…
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Written in the depths of the Bush Administration.
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working with the two machines into a cd recorder .. for these three pieces :)
earlier work from last week is this video.
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first published in 1933, this eighty year old song is still just as sweet.
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This originated as a poem sent to me by Rose Kampton, morning the loss of her father. I turned it into a prayer and put music to it. Then when Brook drowned it became something altogether else.
(c) 1990 Royal T Muaic
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CHOICES
"After my house burn down I was confuse.
Why are they burning down my house? My neighbor house..."
"We called it The American War."
My friend, John, said this about this bit of audio drama:
I had forgotten how painful I find…
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ACID TEARS
As the hours turn into days and the weeks turn into years
I am happy, but I'm always close to tears
Surely as the love that we share will last forever
Our bodies will die and our love will go on
And tho the thot that love will…
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OUT THERE SOMEWHERE
Her eyes were blurry. Her face was painted
Her hair was dyed black. Her purse was heavy
She said something. I asked her to repeat it
She said, “Stop the car. I thot I could trust you.”
I pulled it over and I waited…
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There was a movie Peggy and I were doing the location sound over in east Dallas: THE HOLDINGS OF THE HEART. If I remember right they put this song in the movie.
THE HOLDINGS OF THE HEART - in C
The heart can hold a lot of things: the sunshine…
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Peggy left in the winter of 2007.
Seems like yesterday. I dream of her
so often it seems that she is still
around here somewhere.
When Peggy comes home I’ll have the dishes put away
The floors will be swept and all the bills will be paid…
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One day Connie Ramsey called and let it slip
that she was writing a rocking chair song. I thot that was a good subject for a song so I wrote one too.
Rocking Chair
Well, I got one on the porch and one in the den
And just enough umph for…
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where I cut out the seven layers to make the monkey songs Mon-Key is the album :) well this is what was left after the lifting off of seven layers.
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I DO - capo @ 3 in C
C Dm
You made the stars disappear
G C G
You said the words that I most feared
C stepping down to G...C
Why in the world…
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When I wrote this, 50 years ago,
I was afraid it would seem like nothing happened.
BALI HI
Bali Hi, at 6th and Broadway
Just a little place where people go
To have a quiet drink,
Listen to the band and think.
Maybe meet a friend…
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JEREMY'S DAUGHTER - Am
Last night I had a dream so real.
A dream inside my dream.
I fell asleep in the dream inside my dream
And in my dream I saw a face
This dream inside my dream
I saw a face inside the dream inside my dream
Whose…
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I sang this live few times until
it became clear that it was a joke to the
audience and less and less so for me. Actually a song expressing my deepest anguish.
LIFE GOES ON Key C
C F
When…
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PEGGY’S GONE Capo @ 5 Key C
C G
PEGGY’S GONE after twenty nine years
Am F
Three grown children. What am I doing…
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HE MOVED ON
capo @ 7 in C positions
C G Am Em
Jenny left her husband many years ago
F C G
She got lost in menopause and found herself…
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IF I WRITE A LETTER TO YOU - Key of G
If I write a letter to you
Tell me who will I write to
A lover, a friend,
A beginning, an end
If I write a letter to you
If I send a flower to you
Tell me who would not go to
A friend or a foe…
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Wrote this while playing the part of Saul Gibbs in the movie WILD BILL.
The moon shone like diamonds on mirrors in puddles shaped like horse's feet
Deadwood was quiet. The smoke had all settled. The blood was dry.
Young Jack McCall sat awake…
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Local musos friend Darryl Wood remixed a live Witch's Night Out piece.
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just a little dirty blues, to cleans the pallet so to speak. "Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch." --Robert Orben
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This is a remix of an improvised track I did for our first RPM album. For this new mix, I got rid of the vocals & added a most excellent electric guitar part by our good friend, Chris Mitchell. He listened to the track just once and proceeded…
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No idea where this came from, all I know is, it was hard work and a late night !! And hard to work the next day !!
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Mozart's famous "Alla Turca" Sonata #11 in A major with period tuning and period pianoforte and period diapason of A4 = 415 Hz. Details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1837
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The 11th Corridor of Tritave is an ambient piece performed originally on an M-Audio 88es with pianoteq in 11 edt, edited slightly and then ported over to four 11 edt instances of Z3TA+ 2.1 in Sonar X1.
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Thanksgiving Day
11/28/11
Its cold like November in the autumn of my life
Too far to remember my subtle suicide
And your words came and swept me away
And i woke up on this Thanksgiving Day
I was lost like a child in a secondhand store…
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Electronic Dream #1 was made for the Internet Movie Project in 2002 that fell apart as I remember. All but the initial bright sweep which comes from the CZ-101 is from the Korg MS2000 analog modeling synthesizer. Excepting the Casio sample this…
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Something i wrote and quickly recorded on Thanksgiving 2011. It will turn into something but it seems i must add two songs to make a playlist public? or something? i dont really know. but this is WIP, definitely.
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I'd never played a U2 song before this one. Tried to give it a bit of a Reggae feel.
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For details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1678
It is a bit jarring - on purpose but you've been warned.
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Hook sent me two mix's and i couldn't decide which sounded better so i thought i'd put both up and let you decide....this one has a bit of age to it and i love how the Banjo and the Piano work together....let me know what you decide.....thanks…
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Solo guitar with effects.
picture credit
http://heranush.deviantart.com/art/ssswf-cast-your-demons-away-158702821
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The full monty
http://alonetone.com/charlieferret/tracks/after-the-worms-ate-into-my-brain
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