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A fun little jam in my basement featuring my friend and colleague Roger Mann on guitar. Plus Aron Doyle on trumpet. I'm playing drums; keys and bass are sequenced.
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Ambient piece using the new Freeze pedal. For the ImprovFriday "Mars" themed event this weekend.
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From a few years back. Bill Pohl, Darrin Kobetich and I playing in the lounge at the Ridglea theater, in Fort Worth, Tx. Our first performance as "Strung, Drawn and Quartered". Notable because of my first use of live looping.
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solo piano in Raven tuning
http://www.johnsmusic7.com/
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Thanks for the epic guitars kavin, and the percussion bit!
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A new piano piece in a new tuning devised by John O'Sullivan http://www.johnsmusic7.com
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It's hot out there!
Guitar looping and Thumbjam app.
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Music by Billy Jack (song "Long 24th" from RPM2012 album), lyrics and vox by thetworegs.
The End of Love (Lyrics)
She said she was a dreamer
So why did she lie
She told me she loved me
I had to ask her why
She couldn't look me
straight in…
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THE GIRL HERE IN MY HEART by James Michael Taylor
If you ever see her tell her that I love her
She might not remember. She has found another
I you ever see her you will recognize her
The girl here in this picture.
She's the girl here in my heart…
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Demo track off hopeful forthcoming album "The Bloody Mile"
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The base track for an upcoming project. Not sure where we're going with this one. Enjoy.
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i dont want these chill tracks to give the wrong impression...but...
no need to breath deep, because your lungs are always full. the thought of death never enters the mind. the waves are only as high as you need them to be, and the wind blows…
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Railroad rightofways are often seeded with hemp as a soil erosion measure. Hiking the unused tracks are a delight in midsummer.
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A simple song about unrequited love...altogether now...ahhh. Thanks to The Reprobate for ace lead guitar.
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Some thoughts on the growth of social media....
E-E A-B
Thank you for telling me that your cat threw up on the rug today, and
Thank you for telling me that Starbucks didn't make your coffee the right way, and
Thank you for telling me that…
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Ghost in the machine,
Patterns from the soulless beast,
Speaking unto us.
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Made completely out of random public domain samples that i could find, using audacity portable. Didnt have my laptop but just wanted to make something, and it sounds arite
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This song is intended to reflect the ups and downs of a reulationship, and its sudden end.
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I'm a big fan of the volume swell or Slow Gear effect, and finally found a great opportunity to use it here.
Can't get to sleep, mind racing, can't get thoughts out of your head...
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A track I worked on for my band album, but it didn't match the overall mood so we decided to shelf it. But I still want to share it so here it is
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The Second Coming (Slouching Towards Bethlehem)
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and…
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Naively conceived, written and published in February 2012 for "Contemporary Chamber Music" (vol.1), an RPM12 album.
The titles of the pieces in album are follow each other in a certain order - see album description.
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releasing my inner ozzy and tony iommi. had lots of fun with this one. started as a little middle of jam practice thing at the end of january. boy it took off. the whole band live on this one! this song is dedicated to Moschell, who motivated…
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i can hear the digits in your digital audio
i feel the need to fidget with my mouse and my moby
i’m listless as i listen to prestigious presentations
of manipulated data and prestidigitation
i type unlisted numbers into my communicator
i'm dubious…
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End Game - W/M by OsCKilO
-Lyrics-
Love,
Rythem,
Life,
Rythem!
They said no masks on my way inside.
Love,
Rythem,
Life,
Rythem!
Eyes to the right as they fake a smile
Copy, paste selected.
Can't hear life over click tone.
Battle…
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Life comes Tumbling down (Lyrics)
I have the moon up there and the stars behind
got my thoughts in my head and my memories make me blue
living with those memories every day yeah they keep me alive inside
since my life came tumbling down
yeah…
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The title track for this year's RPM album. One mic. Live take. Please forgive the missed notes.
LETTERS
Writing while I drive with voices in my mind
Passed along by friends I’ve never met
Trying to stay alive in one place in time…
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Frank Miller (phantasm777) added excellent vocals and drums - I like it much better this way - hope you do too! (still 17 equal tuning)
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My second attempt at the RPM challenge 2012......
DO WE STAY OR DO WE GO (Lyrics)
I drink to try and resolve all the problems that i know
i try to find some kind of escape but i’m afraid that i’m just too late
all my thoughts they whirl around…
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Matter does matter - probably one of Asimov's strangest stories (personally speaking), even with it's emotional ending.
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This one sat around for quite a while collecting dust until I picked it up a couple days ago and started tinkering with it. I think I like it.
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microtonal piano improvisation
it was pointed out to me at 2:54 you can hear Mary Had a Little Lamb - totally unintentional and in a completely foreign tuning to boot!
details
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1991
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Ain't there always one
Ain't it always me
I could tell in her eyes
She wanted to lie
Aint there always one
Ain't it always been me
I could tell in her eyes
She wanted to lie
But wasn't about to
She said you know the truth
as well as I do.
And…
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The experience: First reaction - "This sound feels so wrong!". Second Reaction - "My eyes are opened!". Third Reaction - "This sound feels so right!".
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My daughter, Wyn, sings
a song I wrote in 1977
while I was doing a gig
at the Ramada Inn in
Laredo.
Harmonies are by her mother,
Barbara Anne Taylor and step
mother, Peggy Ann Mitchell.
The guitar solo and keys are
by my son, Rabyn…
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My dad asked me to record this song long before someone put it on line so I could learn it. I was so surprised: the story was so unlike what I was expecting. In fact the song doesn't make any sense to me even now.
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JUST A CAT
It looks like someone taped a firecracker to him and blew it off.
"Firecracker?"
He's just a cat. Just a cat. A raggedy old cat.
So why are we crying?
The world is on fire.
Light the fuse. It's a firecracker
"Firecracker…
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THERE IS A LOVE
There is a love that withers. There is a love that fades
The kind of love that makes you wanna hide behind the door
Pull down all the shades
There is a love that makes me wanna tell you
About how good I feel
There is a…
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Wasting Time // a Collaboration with Steve Krell
Steve Krell - Electric Guitar Magic
http://alonetone.com/slkrell
Greg Connor - Guitar, Harmonica, Bass
Lyrics & Chords
Wasting Time
Capo II and play in A
G It’s a C medley of G changes…
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HOEDOWN
Hey now. Hoe now. Hey now. Hoe now.
Chop that cotton. row now. Oh. Oh.
...two, three, four. Hoe now. Hey now.
What you got to say, now? Tell me what you
said. What’s in your pretty head now.
Swing your partner. Oh. Allemande right…
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I’M STILL HERE Key D
D A D D A D
I’M STILL HERE. I’m feeling kind of shoddy. I’M STILL HERE in mind and body
D…
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MAMMA
My mamma taught me to make my bed
Mamma taught me to iron my shirt
Mamma taught me to put a pillow in a pillow case
To wash and dry the dishes and that orange doesn't go with red
She said, "It's busy.'
My mamma taught me to brush…
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THE RING IN THE ASH TRAY
Capo @ 3 in G
G
There's a ring in the ash tray of a blue '95 Bronco
C G
In a driveway with a sign that says FOR SALE
D…
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She danced in my eyes and to my surprise
Her intentions were clearly defined
She danced with the band and the pen in my hand
Danced with her as she danced in my eyes
Portland, Oregon. She was drunk. She thot I was James Taylor.
Flower…
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Sung by my Friend, Roz McCormick. Woman loses her lover at war.
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I won't tell you how many chords there are in this one but listen until the end.
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'Blue Shade Shadow,
Rearranging all the night,
We slept within,
But now well crawl out of sight,
Dont try to,
Hypnotize me,
You keep failing to see,
The spread of my disease,
Ill come to you,
In the worst time I could,
Cause it will…
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from the album "Que Vive!"
night falling don’t want to sleep
my dreams don’t feel like me
falling, failing, twist all around
my world turned upside down
crash over, drown in the sea
crush under, darkness inside of me
failing harder, like a…
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A quick tune for the late poet Wilmer Mills, who recently passed away at 41 from liver cancer. He was an active musician, woodworker, and baker. The title from this track comes from the name he gave his wood-fired oven, "Companis," which translates…
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With Frank Miller on drums and bass as the band "2" - a rescue of a late 90's song grabbed from 4-track.
No Place
I'm lost, you're lost
Ships at sea
There is no place
We can be
I'm lost, you're lost
In this world
There is no…
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Ya know, online collaborating is the greatest thing going since the trans-Atlantic cable.
The next best thing at least to actually being there.
ORH on the lead vocal and synth strings. Hoop on electric guitars, bass, robo drums, backing…
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This is the original version of one of the tracks from my new project… rerecordings of some of my early solo recordings.
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A remix of Departing Crystaline Vision, added percussion and electric guitar.
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Guess who came down the cellar last night Reg and Elvis got up and did this one for him...........
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I'm a long-time fan of Imogen Heap. I particularly love the way she layers her vocals- harmonies and interlocking bits. I love trying to do the same in my music, but she owns it.
Anyway, I've been wanting to cover her for a while now but have…
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Jazz & trance piece with vocal
Whisky Ran Dry
Original
Well it's late in the evening
And the whisky ran dry
I'm still here writing this letter
With a tear in my eye
But the words don't come
And there's nothing
Nothing to do…
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I wrote this after much experimentation, rewriting and scrapping complete sketches. It took a very very long time to do and many scrapped edits :)
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When nostalgia and regret collide, we get "Bright Lights Shine".....
Lyrics:
Drove six hours, landed in Pittsburgh
Cold and tired, by the Alleghany…
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Mr Smith and the Old Grey Wolf Ltd Co. Thanks to thetworegs for the vocals.
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Prog rock instromental with Marios Marcou on clarinet.
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Together with a few guitaresque pieces (some are presented here, "Lettres 'D Amour" or "Mar Adentro" for example), this one was my "swan song" in already so distant 2009.
~Sign Of Hope~
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i posted a solo version of this song earlier, with just me on the juno. but on the day before i wrote and recorded it, i had been speaking to an old collaborator marcello prive from argentina and he said send me something anything, so when i recorded…
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almost forgotten because while i did this in may of 2009, i forgot about it until just today may 2011,,i was walking out my studio door, when i noticed an old cd with a marking pen title,, brought it with me in the car and took a listen,, not…
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A collection of four improvisations on 19 note per octave electric guitar.
Sucralose
Aspartame
Cyclamate
Saccharin
The title is a play on artificial sweeteners and a collection of songs being a suite.
Per wikipedia "In music, a suite…
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Ferryman - Vocals (slightly re-imagined lyrics), bass, rhythm guitar
Dave Berry - guitar fills (r&l), lead solo, harmonica.
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This song goes all the way back to my roots of writing music mostly on acoustic guitar and recording/playing all the instruments myself. Also my first 'proper' recording in my new studio space. Thanks for listening!
(lyrics)
Awake me from my…
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Song from mid ninties, for the Trawler tapes collection. I do plan to make a new version of this when I get around to it.
The YouTube vid is rudimentary
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From the album WHO'S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD MOTH ? [Malice In Sunderland Records, 2009].
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Originally on my [24-hour album](http://alonetone.com/colingarvey/playlists/24-hours-of-aargh) back in 2008, I've added an invisible rhythm section and remixed it.
I may do this with a few more old tracks I didn't quite get right first time round.
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You gotta love Bob Dylan!
I LOVE Bob Dylan!
Here's one of my favorites of his....
LG - Lead Vox & guitar
Wayne 2nd Vox & guitar
Background noise - family & friends
LG
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Don't try and slap me around, I know what I'm doing, I'm constructing a tiny Ark for the Insects in my garden. No rain has been forecast for a few days....
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Julie Kathryn and Anthony Cekay perform Leonard Cohen's popular song live.
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Recorded for RPM 2011 (http://rpmchallenge.com). Recorded in February 2011 in Tempe, AZ.
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gave her the sandy gritt treatement.or maybe the ole catmandonk.
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from the album Spherical Harmonics/RPM Challenge 2011.
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An arrival. A hint of things to come... Tones generated from Self oscillating feedback devices, analog delay, 9v modulators, and foot controlled filters powered by tube driven, high powered amplifiers.
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A song I wrote a little more than a year ago to a very good friend of mine.
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Inspired by a band that I have joined called 'Rumble Fish', they are a blues/funk band from Brisbane, Australia.
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america is a state of micro-managed fascism.
its many laws are the product of overpaid lawyer, judges, politicians, police, and pundits.
compulsory schooling streamlines personality traits,
departmentalized careers collapse cognition.
CIAFBIDHSNSALPD…
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One more to go and I'm slapping them together.
This is 3 layered drum loops. Some dupes and some play along.
I've managed to grow a huge beard this RPM.
I think I'm starting to look like Gandolf. :)
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Well, about six months ago, I uploaded a rough study called "Songwriting Day One." I wasn't sure where the song would go, but words came in January just in time for this year's RPM album... And before I forget... Curse you Bm!!!
GENEVIEVE…
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Sometimes it's easier to run with the flawed routines we're familiar with than to turn over a new leaf..
Compare to "Firecracker" and "Livewire" from RPM 2010 and 2009 respectively.
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Now I don't know which song is Rotten Log. Probably the other one. Thanks anonymous commenter :). This is not from Prozac's one multitrack recording session as I had originally thought. What sounds like overdubbed guitars is simply psychic…
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Got my 70's on...lots of cool loops from Garageband and various effects on my acoustic guitar... Sit back and enjoy!
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#4... a little behind schedule :D
Lyrics:
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My glass is not half full
Unless it's being filled
I seek
the world to see
and I search
for truth
I won't candy coat
atrocity
But I know a few, that would (you would)
// What…
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Second pretty little interlude.. this time, the light, the hope!
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First of 24 new song I have written. This one is cute, about unrequited love no doubt. #:)
When I say 24 new songs not all will make the cut but most of them will. I will be busy for a good long time!!
Using pointless picks of course.
See my…
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