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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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It is all about love, isn't it?
Lyrics @ http://wave.transmit-music.com/loveengine3.html
Wave 2010 (RPM)
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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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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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Today's jamming of an old tune. Don't get to comfy: there's more.
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I'm human....I bleed. I guess i need to remember that....I'm not superhuman and I won't save the world. The opposite usually occurs...I am swept away in the bleeding of my mind, the bleeding of my heart, my desperate needs and unholy wants…
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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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This is a song I wrote on returning to the place I used to live.
I tried to record it in the 'dream pop' style as suggested for the optional theme on this month's REM Challenge.
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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
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Prophet 12 Desk Module
Hydrasynth Explorer
u-he Diva
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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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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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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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The sound of an old Remington typewriter, sampled, looped, and run through a vocoder.
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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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“The king of melody Jaywon returns with a brand new hit after delivering a lovely video of Tana Wole featuring Reminisce.
JAYWON who is currently on a 15 city tour in Europe teams up with OY production to dish out this hot tune titled FIRE…
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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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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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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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After lots of chirpy, upbeat stuff coming from me and Jip, here's some misery - oh yes, and some rapping - oh! and a little bit of swearing! Well, there wasn't much else I could do with it.
Enjoy, as much as you can, and I'll get back to…
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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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Well Reg decided to go out Dancing down the Disco to see if there were any young ladies about........he shouldn't drink!!!
So Wrong(Lyrics)
It was a magnet that drew me too her
But the polarity must have been wrong
She drew me in while I repelled…
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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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Apocrypha is a progressive rock song in the sense of Rush more than ELP or Yes. I had come up with the guitar and via my GR-20 the strings - everything else you hear was performed by my long time collaborator Frank Miller (Phantasm777) - so that…
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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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Written and performed by Rog Hildreth.
Taken from 'The September Tapes EP (A)', which features acoustic songs recorded between September 2007-September 2010. (Finally mixed/mastered September/October 2011)
Artwork by Jen & Rog
Copyright 2011
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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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I used Paul’s Extreme Stretch (PES) to take a hammer dulcimer + violin improvisation and divide it into seven streams based on just intonation relationships to A at 55 Hz…
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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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when you wake up
and it feels like its further away
you get discouraged
could it have really gone unnoticed
what you're tryin to find
isn't so black or so white
it's more rooted in faith and less in fate
what you're tryin to find
isn't so gift…
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This is a blues riff I've been playing with for a while. I wanted to start with a slow style blues. I'm working on a sped up dance version. So I threw down some rough lyrics and did a quick demo recording, added a solo and a small vocal backup…
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A light classical solo piano piece with a touch of humor.
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~Decrepit shadow of a piano in the shadows of former visitors~
I've played in such a cafe, a long time ago, for a meal/drink, thru the night. Surreal it was; second life. Yeah ...
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Performed on Fender Mustang, Casio CZ-101 (keys, bass, percussion), vocal. Recorded via overdubbing on two cassette decks with 4 mono input radio shack mixer with radio shack 10 band graphic equalizer. Written in the years of Ronald Reagen's…
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thought,, id try doing something for valentines day so i chose two Beatles tunes,, amazingly (or not) i found them very difficult for me to personalize, ,,hope all you lovers have a good day and enjoy
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Thoughtless
w/m: Tharek & Geir
Guitars /Music : Tharek
Vocals/Lyrics: Geir
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A simple mind
not evil or unkind
had lost it's sight
of anything but it's spot in the night
the words should have been unsaid
what they did can't be undone…
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A cover of the Cure's minimalist alt-rock classic, an old favorite of mine.
keywords: instrumental, chill, the cure, clock watching, lucky time
Remixed: 12/18/2010
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(a setting of) The Conqueror Worm by Edgar Allen Poe
LO! 't is a gala night
Within the lonesome latter years.
An angel throng, bewinged, bedight
In veils, and drowned in tears,
Sit in a theatre to see
A play of hopes and fears,
While the orchestra…
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My performance on video (see "more") at the odd music convergence with words by Evan Harrington and myself.
Details are available here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=68
The full quality 230 meg video is available here: http://clones.soonlabel…
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Friend of my put some lyrics to this one about his father. Hence the title.
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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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A collaboration that involved 5 musicians over several parts of the world. A crazy stalker tune - Has a soft/hard/soft format. Recorded with The Boss Micro BR(MBR), Mixed with Audacity and then mastered with the MBR.
More details in the Youtube…
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The first WildGeas and Cave Street collaboration
There ain't nothin' I could buy
that can ever calm me down
So I leave my money at home
when I go into town
I put on my fightin' hat
an' I wear my dancin' shoes
An' if I miss my ride…
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From Music for MOBA: a collection of pieces inspired by paintings from The Museum of Bad Art.
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You know those people who like to break out the family photos or something of that sort with which to bore their guests? This is my version of that.
Most of what makes this song special to me is for all the same reasons that you won't share…
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