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A song for a very special friend, and I'm glad she loved it. I hope I can soon post some songs of her and me together here.
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~Good things don't age. What about a man?~
I was a fan of easy listenings like Enoch Light, still love these sounds and light pleasure that they bring. Here so.
P.S. Night birds recorded in Berlin this April, silly whistling/theme is mine…
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Again a miniature. I hope you like and/or enjoy.
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Tracy posted a message which said, "If I could write a song about the way I feel right now, it would be a hit." So I grabbed my guitar and came up with this...
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Not being particularly religious, I still believe that the soul exists and that it does not die.
The prologue and epilogue of this piece were recorded in Basilique Sacre Coeur, Paris, on March, 11th 2011.
~For those who left and those who…
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this is one for the over fifties
we strolled along
lost avenues
with no regrets
and nonchalance
who's kidding who
so confident
so bold and full
of bravado
when we were young
we knew it all
with certainty
you couldn't tell
cos we couldn't hear…
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Acoustic tale of revenge. Recorded 2010 on a Boss BR1600CD.
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**The Knife - A A J Russe**
A dark and star-less night
Probably driving rain
That's what they think became of me
A foolish walk along the cliff when he was drunk…
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Inspired by our good friend Geir Alfsen , who wrote a song titled Oil , this highlights the plight of seabirds trapped in the recent oil spillages
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Final version
Every so often when i'm thinking of something else a western song pops up as if there is a soundtrack to a movie running in the back of my head. I might have to gather em all up into a playlist some day.
track nine, or at least…
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Probably the oddest recording I've ever made.
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A little bit A cappella Yeh Yeh Yeh Yeh Yerrrrr
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This one scare me a little :) Probably gonna come back and mess with the levels and eq a little more later...
Remixed: 12/17/2010
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Helplessly
But then sometimes in the colorless light of a hazy windy moonlit night, the feeling haunts you like you've known that you would always be alone.
But then sometimes in the sparkling sun, you think of things you should have done…
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Here's a version of a Bach piece I played at my sister's wedding! Enjoy!
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Children are still playing on the beach but the dark clouds are already gathering on the horizon... From album Nangilima.
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Body Disconnected (2002) was written to accompany choreography by Lauren Lutrell. The process included importing video clips of dance movements into the music programs I was using and scoring music to them as one might with a film soundtrack…
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two recorders and a flute get together in the back of a countryside English church late in the afternoon.....
NOTE --- you may need to turn up the volume a bit for this...
piece #6 of a cd i am writing of early music
comments about…
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When I wrote this it was a cold cloudy and dark winter night here in vancouver but I was sitting in my room and was just in a sunny state of mind. I then picked up my Uke and started fiddlin around searching for a breezy chord progression, then…
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Dead to the World
Just a shade
A specter, a ghost
No place amongst the society of perfect being!
Dead to the World
Alien, unwanted
Not here, unseen
Untagged, uncounted
Lost, unwanted, despised, no home, no place, no Soul!
Dead…
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This remix of an RPM09 tune features electric guitar by Chris Mitchell.
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CREEPY..MENTAL.. basically the same song as dronY but you never would have guessed that right? This is also an atmospheric room darkener. Sounds like the call of the wild zombie.
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based on the "clique" project first introduced in a long lost forum post on the RPM Challenge forums, the rules were to record a track that was in relation/response to the previous track before it. performers were: jazzsequence, Pugilistas, The…
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A cover of KLandry's 2010 RPM Challenge song, Fire Dancer, lyrics below:
Time to feed the fire
Throw another pallet on
Get it burning higher
The night’s still young
I love to watch you dancing
Your silhouette against the blaze
From…
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A typical folk song.
Written and recorded in about an hour for the 24 hour album (attempted on March 13th). Excuse roughness and vocal glitches, it was 2am and this was my first full take.
Thanks to montgomeru for his chord suggestions…
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Three years ago, I brought my two youngest up to the summit of a local mountain (actually, we went up Shelving Rock Mountain, but that song wouldn't be as good). Have a listen to see how that hike went.
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I came up with the main bass riff on my electric bass, but after recording it I was unhappy with the tone, so I used a sampled upright bass. On top of that is a layer of doodling "lead guitar" (played on my bass), a dreamy semi-harsh organ sound…
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I wanted to play more directly with noise of various kinds so this piece focuses less on techniques and fancy plugins and more on selection & arrangement of sounds.
I spent many hours going through Reaktor ensembles I've downloaded searching…
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A song about falling asleep on the couch, so there is no mystery to it! But the loose change is in the cushions, lights and tv are on, and the oven has been set to 350 for several hours :)
One vocal & acoustic take with a harmony and noodle…
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What Word came out of a play on 'what word is God' and Jesus is the word (John 1:1). It's a rough demo. I'm going to see if I can flesh it out later on. feedback/suggestions via private message would be greatly appreciated!
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This track is the result of putting Kavin's excellent track [Propitiation](http://alonetone.com/kavin/tracks/propitiation) through my Steve Reich style phased looper.
It's a beautiful piece but also quite a sparse sound which lead me to think…
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This is the title track and was written in the 90s to a boss who resisted change and it's obvious benefits.
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Traditional Irish - Arranged by Doug Sparling
Based on a recording by Na Casaidigh.
Played late at night, as a lullaby of sorts. Now go to sleep, little child...
Guitar players - check out my GuitarNoise.com lesson for this tune: http://www…
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A song by the Furey Brothers about stealing away.
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something i found on my pc that i never put bass to, never sorted out the clipping samples on, and that I now no longer have in any form bar this file. shame
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Another experiment.
Today Eos was released. In trying it out, I found 7 random synth clips in my library (not entirely random but they might as well have been). These are fed for somewhat random durations and order through 4 Eos reverbs in…
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This is a track from my abandoned "Weekend Follies" album, which was recorded in my parent's basement in Mercer Island, Washington during the summer of 2003. This track was recorded during Seafair weekend. That's one of the "Blue Angels" flying…
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Another track made with John MacDonald back in Philly.
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This is from our album, "When I Was Your Age," recorded entirely in the month of February for our third year participating in the RPM Challenge. "When I Was Your Age" is a collection of 13 songs looking back at when we were kids.
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George Brown - Music & Lyrics
Brett Picknell - Bass
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*The boat left without me.
Sounds like* **_David Sylvian, Fennesz, The Cure_**.
*Ambient guitar and vocals*
Stayed under too long
I guess
I lost track of time
Why didn’t you think to check
If I was alright?
There’s not too much sun…
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"Pizza: The Rock Opera" is Beatnik Turtle's 10-minute opus chronicling one man's struggle to order pizza. From TheSongOfTheDay.com and their album, November available on CD Baby, "the iTunes" and other fine digital retailers.
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This is the same piece recorded once with octava mikes and then with AKG mikes as a final for the protools class
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this is the first song I wrote for my wife. it is an actually step by step of our first date.
she opened the door and stood there smiling
this exchange between us lasted forever
so i took her in my car and went to eat some vietnamese food…
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One Freesound sample here:
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about a circus that self destructs and the damage left in it's wake. Yes, it's a weird and/or dark subject but as the lyrics are unintelligible it probably won't upset anybody.
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Has a guitar rock with a slightly dark militant feel with melodic overtones. Comments most welcome
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Ithaca College Percussion Ensemble with Dr. Spangler on turntables, December 2005. Scratches with Morton Subotnick's "Silver Apples of the Moon" and John Cage vinyl.
Composition inspired by the glacier formation of the Finger Lakes of NY.
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Palimpsest: A Composition of Maps (an isentropic semaphore on the Name of Asmira Woodward-Page) is part of an ongoing series of soggetto cavato pieces the I have written, in this case on the name and at the commission of violinist Asmira Woodward…
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2. It's easier when you don't care
How true! Based on a blogpost-title by my favourite RPMer. I recorded the guitar and bass-parts this year through a Vox Pathfinderamp at relatively neighbourfriendly levels. That worked surprisingly well here…
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Funny story about the ending: my MacBook froze up while recording but I decided to keep hitting keys, and when it recovered I had that sparkly sound. It's probably my favourite thing I've ever accidentally created.
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Instrumental version of track 24 for Gate, the 2nd Ankhaos album. Composed 2014, recorded on Musescore 2015. Probably will have lyrics at some point.
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Volcano was one of the first tracks that the Proods uploaded to Alonetone, it was fun because it features the Prood gals who aren't always available to jam.
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white wizard / philosopher's stone
Uploaded Jul 25, 2014
white wizard / philosopher’s stone Guitars by Chris, all else by Frank Miller
white wizard © frank miller
how many times
does it take to get it right
how many minds
have sought…
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Thank you to everyone that listen to the demos, these are now the newly recorded tracks!
Verse One
I’m burning out, I’m feeling down
I can’t explain when You’re not around
Every breath is a paper cut
I sleep in wreckage just to feel enough…
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This is another song for my Hyperphantasia album, dealing with dreams, daydreams, fantasies, and imagination. The inspiration was a challenge in the Deluge synth discord group to make a song using a single kit. I compiled a bunch of sounds from…
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interpolates lyrics by American Hi-Fi and O'hene Savant
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2024 50/90 Challenge idea number 11 becomes finished song number 1.
One song down, 49 to go, but at least I won't be shut out this year.
This song is overly simple. The vocals are pretty bad and the lead playing is worse, but it's a decent…
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Yet another casserole thrown together at the last minute! Added a homebrewed percussion loop and some Hainbach drum loops to the second half of a guitar and bass jam that Dan and Kevin had recorded previously, then ran all that through some AudioThing…
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A very rough demo of another song that didn't make the cut. Drums need to be re-recorded and then everything mixed.
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One of the first true playing collabs between us.
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A title wave entertainment
All custom to order
I forget the times where we all shared hope
You wore that record out
I hear the needle coming down
We’re waiting for the kings to take their crown
The stories became a movement
The Clash…
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As February and the RPM Challenge approached, Margaret was surprised to find herself gravitating toward country music this time around, but she rolled with it and finished the lyrics in time for us to lay down some scratch tracks on 2/10. Over…
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It's summer time, I'm at a cottage, I've been listening to a lot of weird electronic music and thinking about the world burning up. I'm playing around with layering vocals - something I love. Thanks to anyone who listens even for a few seconds…
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This is on the short list for my June 2023 Record Every Month Challenge submission, but I think the mix is going to make me go with something else this time. The song was purposely super easy, but I think I made it a smidge too busy in the mix…
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[Verse]
Now I can’t overemphasize the importance of starch
For your heart, good kinds
Popcorn, no butter or oil of course, air-popped
I make it in the pan just like that
And brown rice, sounds nice, or rice mix
Spice it up (iodized salt…
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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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A guitar is a guitar but you can play trumpets with it. However, you are Miles Away from Miles :-)
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Sometimes life knocks you down and decides to kick a few times for good measure. It can be hard to push though at times, but it’s important to persevere because it can and will get better. This is a song about staying strong and remaining hopeful…
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Percussing a bunch of plastic objects, destined for the recycling bin but making one more contribution before they go. Played with a pair of disposable wooden chopsticks, until the dropping of one brought the piece to a somewhat premature end…
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live at Ripy Fest 2021
Scott Price on electronically treated gong
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A cold wet night, a couple of hours to get to the airport to catch a flight, cars swishing past, and waiting for that airport shuttle...thinking back....
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for the Sound-In Unheard Improv event. Real time mixing drone and Steve Tibbetts loops without monitoring.
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Master Version 2
Instincts- which were the memories of his ancestors become habits
Full audio available on Bandcamp Video available on Instagram and YouTube
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2021 50/90 Challenge, song #2.
I started this at midnight on July 4, 2021. The very minute the 50/90 challenge started. I'm 90% sure I've used almost exactly the same melody before, and I'm 99.999% sure I've used exactly the same guitar and…
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Blues done with my pals on wikiloops.com. Love Wade's saxaphone!
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This is another re-recorded song, but there is a little twist this time.
In 2016's RPM Challenge there are two songs that were supposed to be an argument between a flat earther and a non-mentally defective human. They were The Flat Earth…
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Ocean / Soul
C. Maiorano
Waves of adoration crash on the rocks of you
The cruel tide drags affections down
Deep below the surface of the cold steel blue
The unsettled sea tries to swallow and drown
Were you a sandy beach, welcoming…
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the stems to these mixes x-y-z-w are here
https://soundcloud.com/h92o/sets/stems-from-the-w-x-y-z-song-construction-mixes
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Last skirmish of this years 50/90. Great prompt: "Wonder"
A1:
The days
The Days of Wonder
Are they gone
Gone forever
It makes me sad
I thought I'd never
I'd hoped my hard-nosed nature was a fad
With blinders on
Can't see the beauty…
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But the Sun
I close the curtains
To shut out the darkness
I shut the window
To keep out the cold
But the Sun is shining
Somewhere, I know.
(C) 2020 Royal T Music
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It's Lonely on the Moon ©2020 words and music Jeff Cole
A nostalgic memory of youth in the 70's suburban bliss.
Swimming in our giant pool
made of aluminum.
to be that cool
to know again
You'll never see a bluer sky
or smell a greener…
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The Interstate Highway system was started in the mid-50s at the height of the Baby Boom era. It was a virgin ribbon of highway stretching out in all directions. We couldn't wait to explore it.
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I kinda like this one. The melody in the hook is kinda fun, and having the guitar play a melody of its own was something fun that I don't do often. The lyrics are stream of conscious garbage, meaning they are probably about the idiot in the…
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a live in the cellar production in need of some lead
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I don't say this often... if you go through the ton of songs I've uploaded here you can probably count the number of times I said this on one hand and have some fingers left over...
I really like this one. Literally everything about it. If…
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Antoinette plays keys, Anonymous plays drums, Evan is guitar left, Chris is guitar right (sorry I was a jerk and too loud) - This dates from 1977 when I was a classical major and Antoinette a piano major. Even though this improvisation was from…
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Lockdown 2020. Recorded, mixed and mastered at home by me & Billy.
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