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Inspired by a gorgeous recording on a wax cylinder by the composer, Tanburi Cemil Bey (1873-1916).
Performed on politiki lyra (classic kemençe), a small bowed fiddle from Istanbul.
Recorded at The Banff Centre, November 2008.
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A rambling stream of thought, focused on the long train ride from the center of the Ungava Peninsula to the Gulf of St. Lawrence...a track from the early archives.
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This was written and performed by Finn and Andrew
things we like:
1. Lemonade
2. Pancakes
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Mixed and Edited in Logic Pro ... Recorded Violin into the Modular (Clouds) with some Custom Percussion Samples the side to add to the Chaos
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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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Recently, I dreamed I was in heaven searching for my soul mate. When I found her, we couldn’t face each other. I gave her the gift of enlightenment because I had been there so long, that was all I had to give. I told her I didn’t need her anymore…
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Woke up dizzy like a spinning top
Your name's a whisper I can't stop
Is it magic or just the caffeine?
Heart's a drumline
Skipping beats unseen
Is it love or just a dream?
Is it real or what it seems?
Tell me now
Don't make me wait…
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A shadow in a crowded room,
No one saw the tears she wept.
She still kept her dreams inside.
Your story’s not forgettable,
The world was blind, but you still shined,
You are the proof, you are the flame.
I call your name
I call your…
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For all of those we love, future, present, and past.
Live with the dead (x4)
Before they are gone
And there is times
that I reach out for you
turn away
and you you’re gone…
Life is fleeting
and deceiving
hold out your hand
and…
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dimension
reflected
a nexus
internment
delirium
disorient
a rapid transit
itinerant
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I've walked myself in circles
where maps do not apply
I've met myself so many times
and all my doubles lie
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Samples:
(from Freesound…
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This one was originally written for the Record Every Month challenge last year. June 2023, I think. I liked it immediately and wanted to see if I could improve on it. I think I did, though marginally so. Even after spending a few months tinkering…
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This song is the highlight from the 2023 Record Every Month. I had a lot of fun with it when I originally wrote and recorded it, and then had a lot of fun with it again when I re-recorded it. It's simple and straightforward and it's kinda groovy…
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Four different tracks of Roland SE-02 controlled via MIDI by a Casio DH-100. Choosing different voices on the Casio causes settings to change on the Roland, which were then tweaked a little. Submitted to Sound-In "Roleplay Improv" for 1-8/2/2024.
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It's finally here
I gotta go up to them, they never come up to me
I gotta think of something to say before they walk away from me
When I walk in the room she starts to exit the room
When I take one breath she’s just left the room
When I…
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Recorded (very quickly and sloppily) on the evening of 4/28/2023 for the “30 Day Songs” project. Everything was recorded on one take. The acoustic guitar is out of time at some places, vocals are pitchy and terrible. I wanted so much for this…
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rpm 2023
Janette Salisbury vocals
sometime, tomorrow
leaving, leaving, leaving
fleeing, your sorrow
it’s tainted my soul
and heaven help me now
make me clean somehow
sometime, tomorrow
leaving, leaving, leaving
fleeing, your sorrow…
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The most non meta song on the record. This one is about a women I knew once. Sought the attention from everyone. Would burn you the moment you didn't agree with her. Her name happens to be Angie and really thought she was everyone's saviour…
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022**
Song number 5
Written Thursday 10th February 2022
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What can I say? Mrs R likes it.
I knew she would.
Scheduling-wise, songs per day, I've now caught up with having missed the first 5 days of…
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the fretless Chinese junk strat through the mothership board played lap style slidey
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Long backstory:
I was at a band practice and Greg the singer was telling a story about an acquaintance of his who had recently let it be known that he believed the Earth was flat. Seriously. We had a good laugh.
A day or two later my wife…
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I really wish I could sing.
This one was written for the 2014 50/90. I remember it clearly. I set up with the intention of working on something else but plugged in my guitar and played this without thinking about it. Well, I guess I was…
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Hey there,
This is a song that has been in my head for a while now. I think it has an amazing content. It's originally for Violin Solo, but I made an arrangement for 2 Violas and 2 Violins. I added/changed perhaps 10 notes in total, it's crazy…
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What’s on your mind
Are you losing confidence
Someone’s been unkind
And caring becomes a consequence
Look for a reason to smile
The Sun will shine your way
Look for a reason to smile
And watch the clouds drift away
Feeling like you…
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A piece in a tangos flamencos form that i composed for "Mare Nostrum - Mystical music of Mediterranean" project. Here i play Iranian drum Zarb, Greek lute Bouzouki and Middle Eastern flute Ney. My friend Denis plays flamenco guitar.
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This one is still in progress, Jon the guitarist sent me a riff which i stuck together to get a kinda structure...so this is take 1....
I'm gonna kill a Mockingbird
That mockingbird mocks me with your name
I'm still not over you and it's causing…
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Released via CD Baby this past week. The full version is available to stream on my site: www.robertpalomo.com/corporation_blues
I'm embedding the video here below.
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I Know, I know, it take balls to cover Bono.
I adore him honestly.
This is just a vocal exercise for me during my RPM efforts.
I gave it hell though right?
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Apologies to George but I love the song. Its shocking to find out that Paul and John rejected it until George dragged Eric to the studio one day. Imagine the White Album without this...
no effects of any type on this for good or ill.
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Lyrics & music by Greg Connor. Lead and slide guitars by Gene Eric Mann. Copyright © 2012 Greg Connor.
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Rode A long way--is a spiritual quest that asks the question of God in one's life. (new 2014, from Farewell to Faded Blue)
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A drone piece recorded for this collection..
http://sound4good.bandcamp.com/album/i-no-longer-love-blue-skies
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Well it was Les that wanted to try this one and Reg agreed as long as he could do it his way so here it is....sorry for any hearing loss......
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A shorter, stripped down version of a drone piece I submitted for the ongoing Fukushima Drones project, which you will find here:
http://auralfilms.bandcamp.com/album/fukushima-drones
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Original comment by Andy Gupta:
A 70s hard rock jam style of track. With incredible parts by Billy, Steve and Marcel, capped off by a meaty mix by Steffen.
Thanks so much guys!!!
Pages Will Turn aka "Endless Spin" (Gupta/McAndrew/Playle/Offermann…
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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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gettin' some chicken bumps!
Get down and get funky!
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It was, and it was so bloody hot when i was recording this that i nearly melted!
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There's a story here. One day I'll share it.
G - D - Am7 - C
In the year of upheaval
Pick up and start a life anew
Stare down the possibilities
Wonder what I'm meant to do
Am I the one
Who will be king?
In the year of betrothal
Coming into…
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Tess Savage - composition, synth, strings, voice
Mr Sandbags - beats & reichatron samples
Deep in the night
I remember
Euphoria
(Savage 2012)
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A song of love, loss, and unrelenting hatred for those pin-striped S.O.B.'s.
WARNING: You might hear an occasional F-bomb.
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This is the third song from the Thomas - Lennon project.
A collaboration with Michael Thomas of Cave Street.
http://alonetone.com/cavestreet
Lyrics and vocals - Michael Thomas
Wildgeas Music - Paul Lennon
Enjoy!
Love is Free
as you let it…
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A tail-end edit from the Halloween Mega-track. Jeff Duke provided the ambient guitarscapes.
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Well it's hit poor old Reg hard today that it's finally over between him and Desirea so he's written a blues song to exorcise his pain........I've actually tried to put my own drum beat down on this one by using the keyboard as my drums and working…
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all vocal overdubs made in the studio on my first solo-CD in 2006, Ploing!
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First track I produced on my DAW...just tryin' to get the feel of thing at the time (no manual...well...a manual, but it's in Japanese...so same thing). Anyway, it's pretty simple...programmed a drum track, threw down a fretless dub line...threw…
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Another sample from Texas Tonefreak. Commercially available in the usual places. I play this much slower now, which is how it should be played.
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This solo studio dub jam was created and recorded in about 8 hours of play time one day. As usual, it starts with a simple drum machine track, then fretless bass, then keys, guitar, then a Balinese kecak drum and a tbilat drum and finally melodica…
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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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i've decided to be an infectious disease.
i've decided to be the answer,
the reconstructor.
reanimating that which is dead inside of you.
and if i pretended that i must have a holistic cleansing,
i have proven that it cannot be,
change must spread…
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The other night a few of Elvis's friends came over to see him and the thetworegs were listening in by the ventilation shaft from the cellar and they took a liking to a jam that was happening with a man called Diamond Neil doing the Vocals. This…
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rpm 2011
If I scream louder
Could you understand
If I scream louder
Will I be a man
If I scream louder
Would it become more clear
If I scream louder
Would it ease your fears
Screaming at the top of my lungs
If I scream louder
Will my point get…
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I love playing bass with Norm's beats. This is a one take jam with Stealing Pumpkins.
Warmin' up for RPM........
Enjoy!
Thanks Norm. More Cowbells!!!!
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For everyone who lives in a bright sunny place. Got lots of snow in the mountains today.
On days like these, there are only 4 things to do:
1)start fire
2)shovel snow
3)Make music (inside, not on deck)
4)access EWABS (emergency wine and beer…
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Here's to insignificance my friend. May you never be squashed like a bug.
Instruments used: Kontakt, LoopShifter, Stylus RMX
Effects used: Eos, DubStation, Replicant, Augustus Loop
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WARNING! ADULT CONTENT or goofy great........
After a week of computer crashes, I finally got my gear all back to normal. I got my drum kit hooked up yesterday and did a test run which led to this bit of Saturday morning fun that only
proves…
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Here's an instrumental track I put together a while ago, bit of a rough around the edges demo, but you get the idea!
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Take some words, do some numerology and then some math, take the riff of the numbers that came from the numerological words and then apply some Pi functions to the volume steps inside a tablature program then mess around some more inside fruity…
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This composition is a remix/reincarnation of a [previous tune](http://alonetone.com/gcd/tracks/seven-flavors-of-milk) I wrote a while back. I wasn't ever quite satisfied with it and had neglected to incorporate a nifty additional bit of melodic…
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Here is the "more complete" track I promised with backing vocals.
A song about loving the real me...who do i see when i look in the mirror? Do I love what I see?....i really want to.
your wooden fingers have felt before
and now they…
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Yes, I am dark sometimes. Aren't we all? Don't listen to closely, just turn this one up and lose yourself in the tones.
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MODERN MEDICINE DJ-Set
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INSIDE:
(Emilie Simon, Kronos Quartet, Modern Medicine, NIN, The Columbus Academy Children's Choir, Beth Gibbons, Sneaker Pimps, Blue States, Vetiver etc.)
Disclaimer…
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Another one without lyrics. The title was my workingtitle. And I just thought it was a funny title (I think Rage Against the Machine is kind of silly) I quite like some of the sounds on this one (it's a Poly 800 through an Electro Harmonix Big…
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Imagine that you are that lump of enchanted wood on the workbench.... and instead of Pinocchio you can be anything... maybe even a stratavarious... thanx to my friend Dave Edwards for the real violin trax
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[glu](http://alonetone.com/glu) and [Sudara](http://alonetone.com/sudara) pop you one new skool. Their second collaboration. The first was ['back to the cold'](http://alonetone.com/sudara/tracks/back-to-the-cold-warm-mix).
Remix it! The source…
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This song was written for a festival of Peace that took place in St. Catharines, On, in June of 2008
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Well, there was this Spectrasonics contest... and songs had to be submitted by June 30th... so we finally started working on this one on the evening of the 29th. Yeah. We procrastinate.
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We haven't been this excited about a track in a while.
Yeah, we're a little bit angst-y I'm afraid...musically anyway.\A special hello to our Alonetone friends from the grand production days...so glad to see y'all are still making music!
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This is a song by our guitarist Keith. He doesn't get a chance to jam with us as much since he moved to New York. He and I had a lot of fun working on this simple tune, and it makes me miss times long gone.
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sources:
Maritunes Music Sound-In Solstice mashup, Breaking Light dream05724, Dobrinka Tabakova- Insight
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A tune that was in my head when I woke up the other day. Decided to do a recording. I first imagined it as a fiddle tune, but I quite like it as a mandolin tune.
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3hird Sunday Grackle Improv Jam
Mark-guitar
Miguel-percussion,charango,Peruvian flutes
Kavin-Bass VI, percussion,loops,vocals
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Teejay’s WRLD - Top Member Lyrics
Bhad Mharn Tinz
On a long run, the journey though man no fit just stop
Nnkan taba Rii lama je, na who get money Dey get food store
Gbo gbo aso waa loti kobo, ani ona Mhii, we no get options
Sheybi…
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In My Heart
Intro: Dsus2 D / / Bm11 Bm / A /
Bm11 Bm / Em (G6 Gma7) / A //
D(6) / ://
D
Your word is in my head
D
And written in my heart
Em G(6) D A7sus4
And I don't want to lose you now
D
No longer will I thirst
Bm7
No longer…
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Pure Data patch, lap steel, DIY Arduino midi controller, lap steel triggering.
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A Richard Serra memorial performance by the tribe inside the Serra sculpture Vortex at the Fort Worth Modern Art Museum. A passerby provided some vocals.
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Trial run after rearranging some electronic doodads on my side desk, most notably the pictured Drone Stack and HypnoDrone from Kaiser Electrical Instruments in lovely Duluth, MN. Recorded at the end of a rare week-long ice event in north Alabama.
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(interpolates lyrics from "I Will" by The Beatles)
[Chorus 1]
Who knows how long I’ve loved you
You know I love you still
Will I make it to your hometown?
‘cause you want me to I will
When I first had seen you, I didn’t catch your name…
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[Verse]
I feel the floor beneath my feet
Steady from my toes up to my peak
Speak with a slow and gradual stream
Chest out, shoulders back, proper physique
Head up, eyes open—close them? Not in your dreams, only in mine but only asleep away…
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I'm sick of those wise guys that lead us ....
Wise Guys
I tell you I want something I need it right now
Something to take me whey up above the clouds
I want to get high I want to learn how to fly
So I can get away from all these wise guys…
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Raised on vinyl and a needle that rides
To a paper circle at the end of both sides
Between the speakers, cover in hand
Sit in silence after Jungleland
I will not trade one bit of my soul for their pieces of gold
I've seen a world they'll…
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Cover of one of my favourite RPMers. Tried to just make it different and have fun with it. This was definitely one of the stand out tunes this year. Didn't even want to touch it as a cover but I could not help myself. Hope Wilsun likes it…
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I like this song, and I've recorded it twice now, but I don't think either recording lives up to its potential. I've been in Covid lock down for nine months now so I might just be crazy. Who can tell?
I cut a little out of the original…
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I know I should be working on National Solo Album Month, but I'm two timing this month and working on more re-recordings as well. This is the first song for volume three.
I wrote this in 2016 during my June album in a month project. I had…
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MAYBE YOU G capo @ 3
Em C
I've been told that girls like boys
G D
that already have a girl
Em C
I wanna know
Em C
If it’s true that girls like boys…
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The pages of the book were leaking into the dream
Wading through waters of time, an unconscious stream
Eyes begin to flicker, getting heavier with sleep
Takes you by force into the deep
Cobras hood like an open sail
Eternity tries to…
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I kissed an activist...
now Uncle Sam is pissed!
She goes around...
tryin' to burn things down.
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Track 1 for the RPM 2015 album Cold Ground Was My Bed
No man is a prophet in his own home
No man is a prophet in his own
You can do just what you want, in the end you stand alone
No man is a prophet in his own
Don’t want no cryin’ when…
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YOUR CHEATIN' HEART by Hank Williams Sr.
Your cheatin' heart will make you weep
You'll cry and cry and try to sleep
But sleep won't come the whole night through
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you
- When tears come down like fallin…
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OK, so it’s a creepish song about Death, but how about my happening bass lines? This Psych Folk funeral dirge features Starry Nightmoth on KBs.
LOOK
Look in the mirror
See me standing there
Look out the window
See me everywhere…
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I feel so small.
I feel so weak
I feel so small
© 2014 ROYAL T MUSIC
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This was done in the aftermath of an evening out with Lady Jane,The two Regs and Jip 1965 which left me in a state i may never recover from and come to think of it may never remember haha
Anyway thanks for a great evening in and out and......until…
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Not penned by The Beatles but a nice little tune :)
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Found this little chappie while I was preparing my latest original for loading.
It was a quick demo recorded on my Boss Micro BR sometime in October or so last year (2011) while I was working on Shine.
It was a sort of "blow the cobwebs out…
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