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It’s another theme song!
My recent theatrical sound gig was the Front Porch Players' production of "Murder by the Book"
https://www.rosemountarts.com/murder-by-the-book
As part of sound design for the production I composed and recorded…
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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 hide in corners where the light won’t stay
Your voice slips through the…
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Back to Basics .. Drum , Bass, Guitar add some Soft Synth backing .. Recorded, Mixed in Logic Pro .. Enjoy !!
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Spinning like the wheel
Painted on the temple
Does the wheel turn slowly
Or is it me that moves?
I can count the hours
And I can name the prophets
Kept like silver spoons
Struck like wooden matches
Should I call it sleep or divine…
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Lyrics:
Another morning
Such sorry days
Long hours working
No living wage
Oh how I long for
The life I crave
Sure begs the question
When the dam's gonna break
Oh watch out
Head down
Hush your mouth
Honey, don't stand…
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credits: samples music by Jordan River Banks, interpolates lyrics by Killah Priest
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2024 50/90 Challenge idea number seven becomes song number 18.
I just don't like this one. I don't even want to waste time thinking about how to improve it. I am just ready for it to go away.
All of the guitar tracks are my Les Paul Custom…
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All that land you use to feed animals
Could be used to grow crops to feed the malnourished, undernourished poor and famished
The starving, the world’s hungry
You didn’t have to kill the Amazon for hamburger
Or deplete our resources…
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"Economically minimalistic music"(EMM) can be understood as music that embodies both the principles of minimalism and economic efficiency. In this context, "economic" refers not only to financial resources but also to the efficient use of musical…
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Recorded for the compilation Passed Love on Passed Recordings. The full version of the song is available at https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/passed-love under the name Twilight Sleep.
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RPM CHALLENGE 2024
A MOOCH DOWN THE BOULIVARD IN NEW YORK
I walk these city streets alone
footsteps from behind dance out the time
Murmmers of truth hang in the air
As I roam down the Boulivard
Lost within the beat, echoing from the…
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RPM CHALLENGE 2024
THE BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS
I’ve tried to run, I’ve tried to hide
Ive tried someplace dark to disappear from time
I can’t find nowhere to hide from this heartache of mine
I’m just letting everything slide
Yeah I’m letting…
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RPM CHALLENGE 2024
THE DARKEND ROAD
You say its all my fault
But really you know
both of us got it wrong
Now both our dreams are broken in two
Now there gone
Looking back I can see
How it all went wrong
How we began to sing to separate…
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Music/Lyrics/Production: Rich Blenkinsopp
Vocals: Sheena
VERSE 1
the sun comes closer so they say
as the moon gets further away
you always leave - you're gone again without me
I'll wait for your return, one day
VERSE 2
the wind is…
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Teejay’s WRLD-ÈKÉLÉBÉ The Baddie Villain lyrics
Na Me Be The Man Wey Dey Por Hor Por Hor Bhad Mharn Tinz
If E No Be Craze (Democracy)
Why For Africa? (Democracy)
As Time Dey Go (Democracy)
Things Just Dey Bad (Democracy)
Dey Bad More…
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From the Grackle Live straw drawing jam
Stuart-modular synth
Kavin.-edrums,percussion,melodica
Rek-guitar,loops
Matt-bass
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2023 50/90 Challenge idea number 48 becomes finished song number 28.
We came home from a planned long weekend trip to Disney World early because my wife was sick. Turns out it was Covid. I was feeling fine though so I tried to do an album…
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2023 50/90 idea number 24 is finished song number 17... I think.
I kinda like this one. It's nothing special but it has a false start in the middle and I like that. It's also sorta groovy in a lame ass way.
Rhythm guitars are Les Paul…
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A guitar and dobro played simultaneously , sort of. Inspired by Debashish Battacharya
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Life Is More Than What What You Think It Is🌫
Life Is Blurry “Don’t Mention”🤫
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(interpolates lyrics from “Something” by The Beatles and “Back in the USSR” by The Beatles)
[Chorus 1]
Mother Nature really knocks me out
I leave the death behind
It’s how you move makes me scream and shout
And I don’t want to leave Her…
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samples "Reprise (Medley For A "V")" by DJ Quik
[Verse]
This is a quick one but a necessary one, much necessary
Gotta say this
Mother and father, my real ones, biological, mom and dad
Now I see a schism between me and you, a little different…
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There was this television show called Nature. One episode showed a man raising a bear cub to a juvenile bear. When it came time to release the bear into the wild, the man set a weak bear trap, designed to hurt, but not critically injure. He called…
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When deliverance is all you have And you’re waiting on revenge There’s a chrysalis that dies before It’s has the chance to begin Oh but what it means too off the mark Oh what it means you’ve failed again And picturing some great remark That I…
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I asked to robots to help me write a song in the style of Tom Waits.
Riding on a train to the edge of town
Where the night has just begun
People on the street with nowhere to go
Living hard and having fun
Everywhere I go there’s a song…
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Track 3 of this years Rpm challenge 2023 covering the concept of age and the effect on poor old Reg...
There once was a time I could shake it all
Baby you got to believe
I was the man in front of the crowd who could dance
Oh mani was fast…
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Track 5 of this years Rpm challenge 2023 covering the concept of age and the effect on poor old Reg...
Somedays are sent to test us to figure it out
Somedays are lonely
Somedays I’m switched on
Somedays I don’t understand what the hells going…
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A dangerous game of "How Many Synthesizers Can I Use Before The Computer Catches On Fire?"
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Finally, I have something to submit for RPM's Record Every Month. Sure, it's crap but I've had a tough few months.
I had stomach surgery almost five months ago and I couldn't play for the first month as I recovered. Then when I started slowly…
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Twisted manipulation in Pure Data sampling and breaking up a 30min recording I did last year called Shiver. The patch samples an audio file somewhat randomly of which I was capturing the edit in another buffer.
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Now with an anti-climatic nonentity orchestral thought void.
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Gates Of Heaven - A A J Russe
Written 15th January 1988
Recorded 6th March 2022
The Shoebox Demos Vol 1
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This is about as naked as I can get.
This is how I wrote it. It's never had any accompaniment.
I was a bit young to sing…
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RPM 2k22
you can't remember anything tonight
cause you lost the feeling, lost the feeling
the tide is turning, the shoreline is in sight
but you've lost the feeling, lost the feeling
whenever all seems hopeless try
to remember all…
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RPM 2k22
it's all you know
so why don't you show me
just how it's done
i'm mesmerized
the way that you lie
mostly to yourself
as if you're someone else
it's killing you
these things that you do to
simply remain
not breaking ground…
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In 2014 I finished the RPM Challenge at the end of February and then did another album in a month in March... and in April... and so on for the rest of the year. This was from April (I think) and I was literally asking myself what the hell I…
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Just straight-up acoustic guitar, with no trickery. Submitted to Sound-In Christmas event 23-30/12/2021.
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From one extreme to another. Living on the edge.
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A collaboration with Chris Vaisvil! I'm so jazzed he took a Thumbjam sketch of an idea and ran with it. Either an alternate Star Wars imperial march or Amon Duul jamming with Mahavishnu, don't know which.
Chris Vaisvil: guitars
Kavin.: Synths…
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As I have mentioned in other years, I am so very blessed to have some songs come to me in my dreams. Grace is one of them. The specific line "Grace, grace, grace! You don't have to be a lonely child" is what I retained in my waking moments so…
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She Cries Diamonds
Written By INT'L
She cries diamonds
Only when she’s sad
She cries diamonds
Only when she’s sad
She’s drowning in diamonds
Because everyday is so bad
She cries diamonds
When she's out in the rain
She cries diamonds…
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Fourth song from RPM 2021 is about when I realised that clothes are important and that whilst "expressing yourself" is a bit of a naff phrase it's actually quite important for your wellbeing.
Dan Markland plays guitars on this track and I…
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Parts of this song were inspired by life in general.
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When my kids were babies, my Dad always used to hum a little tune when he was carrying them and trying to settle them down... it's the sweetest, lilting sound, I've hummed it all my life, always thinking of my Dad when it was in my head. I've…
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I've been doing this too much lately....
On another, happier note, I finally got around to adding guitar to a track...
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Oh its a good time to go to Mexico
lots of sun and tequila fish tacos
Dont forget to come back now
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Kari put this backer up on Songcrafters looking for a vocal so i jumped at the chance to collborate again with Kari...Thanks Kari
November’s song w/Redler
Autumn is over, it’s now the season of reflection
Autumn is done and winter is here…
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A dark one for you ......Reg was reading the paper and the story of a cold case, about a murder of a Prostitute Wendy Robinson finally being solved after 22 years, her family had almost given up hope of ever catching the perpertrator got him to…
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Superskirmish L - one hour write (except I went over by 15 minutes) - prompt: "The Road Ahead"
A1:
I Can't See the Road Ahead
We're in the kind of storm I dread
Driving slower so I might find
A speed where I won't feel so blind
This feeling…
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a layered song in "normal" tuning but strange modes in a band format.
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OK, so after the Lockdown Orchestrations project, I have moved to a new series of pieces I am calling Fusion Soundscapes. What I am trying to do here is paint a picture using some sound effects, and with a mix of orchestral and electric/rock…
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Overall this one seems okay to me. The performance is pretty awful, but this song is all right. I don't like the transition from the first hook into the first verse. It feels awkward, but the second time seems better. Weird. Is it just a…
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just like it says
I moved my headphones and the wires connecting them to the mixer .. the wires in turn turned down the sound on the headphones to nothing.. --- I was fumbling with the settings the power the levels the plugs where they were…
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3 tracks of prophet 12 desk module with effects in harmonic series tuning
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This one is all gimmick but I like it. I think it has album track one potential, but I'm not sure yet.
The last few projects I've done have seen me writing melodies out on a keyboard, then writing lyrics to fit the melody, then recording the…
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Another one driven by several bass riffs I had in my head - The vibe in places reminds of 'Witchita Lineman'!
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(Remastered 22/10/2021)
I wasn't even sure the recording machine was still going to work after nearly five years... Certainly, bits of me don't work anymore... But, surprisingly, I got this done in 24 hours, start to finish... Strange old world…
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Part of the Brandy Brothers' Shoebox Songs project. Word of the month was "Column". First time I've ever done this style of music. It was fun!
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This is about depression, or just sadness. Guitar and midi guitar
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Lyrics from Old Testament. Basically complaining to God.
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Something that never got lyrics...
Recorded for the 2020 RPM Challenge
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It is pretty unusual for me to play in Eb. But here it is thanks to a bass line I was practicing. The guitar only has an echo of the actually melody. I'm sure you can find the original on youtube if you so desire. Just bass and guitar with a touch…
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https://soundcloud.com/h92o/strings-for-charlene-2
charlene on piano and I am on strings in a way.
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Had a lot of fun with this..
Break out your dancing shoes...
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This song is more fun than substance. Recorded at the end of the evening featuring the glow of an empty bottle of wine.
Mark Lofgren, Colleen Dillon, Mike Rudquist, Greg Connor
We’re still short a few lyrics, so feel free to suggest some.
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I recently retired and for the past 4 months I've been telling people "All that's left are the stories". There will be no more of the glamor and prestige.
When I saw the May songwriting challenge offered by Minnesota Homebrew Radio Show…
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Combination of two recordings: A one-string instrument constructed from an old wooden crutch processed through a Creamware Mini-Max, and wind blowing through a not-quite-completely-sealed window. Submitted to Sound-In for 11-13/4/2019.
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Pharmakeus & I teamed up on icompositions many years ago and made around 30-40 songs and this is one of them. My old 1970's Kasuga dreadnought sounds amazing and so does Pharmakeus voice and harmonica , enjoy :)
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Jessie Smith is out with a new song after a short break, an afro/ Hip Hop fused song titled "Koko" and he features 2017 Abia Music Awards female music award winner and "Bad Girl" Crooner, Oluchi.
The song "Koko" was produced by Babe.
Stream…
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How many miles must Guillermo walk?
Before all my good intentions are more that just talk...
How many shoes must his toe wear thru?
How many miles must Guillermo walk?
Thursday afternoon and the bridge is a mess
No chance to pull over so…
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C w Capo @ 5
C G C G
Thirty one years in this city.
C G C G
Thirty one years on this street
Fighting in the morning. Fighting at night.
This place has the smell of defeat…
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Just a couple of different vocal choices so the vocal drop between the verses and the chorus isn't so drastic...
LAYING LOW THIS CHRISTMAS
Times are still tough this December
And money, it don't grow on trees
I've watched 'em all fall…
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In 2016, after more than 40 years, my mom sold the house I grew up in.
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