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I'm really not this bleak... I was just looking for an excuse to use that VU/JAMC/The National drumbeat!
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A nasty little story wrapped in a very short country song.
When I took your tiny hand it struck me cold
And I though cool hands warm hands warm heart is what I've been
But I know that wasn't
When It came to one like you
So I signed that…
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Written for the "My First Sing-A-Long Dictionary" RPM 2010 project.
See myfirstdictionary.blogspot.com/
Daddy's away
Posted abroad
Sending home pay
All he can afford
Mummy pretends
But I notice that something has changed
The letters…
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En Francais.
English lyric:
I don't know why there is not another girl for me here
Or near here,
But over there are plenty of girls for him
What a shame - what a shame
Every day I watch the men and boys with girls on the beach…
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A song for/about Charles Manson.
If you think you've found an answer
Inside a 45
You need another needle and indeed you needed Beatles to realise
Speaking on the record
Backwards just to you
First the curses then perverted verses…
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For String Orchestra. First performed in Grassington in North Yorkshire, a place of outstanding natural beauty.
This version is computer generated I'm sorry but it sounds ok!
Thanks
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Lorelei reaches her breaking point after years of abuse — via a failed attempt at an homage to Ennio Morricone (had he been Mexican).
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From RPM 2010. It's entirely analog synthesizer, drum machine, and my voice. Effects, too, of course. It's pretty repetitive, but I find it kinda catchy.
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"bouncing pianos" - energetic piano/bass/drums tune
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This tune was totally brought to you by technology.
The variant in the piano chords came from quantizing some sloppy timing that led to some happy accidents.
The main piano line came…
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“my jetpack” a floaty, atmospheric type piece.
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I’m not thrilled with the strings (the part that only shows up once in the piece). I need to blend them more. They’re too abrupt.
I think the “percussion” may get too loud towards the end…
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Dang, everyone except Rob (and Laura) (and me) liked the previous version! (Cupid's Own Knife)
Only i did this with the lyrics so maybe one can be a bonus track ...
aargghh ... why didn't i write a *different* song?
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Written and Recorded: Feb 24-25, 2010
Details: Lap Steel (FCFFCF), Epiphone Les Paul (FBbEbAbCF), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, Audacity...all fingers, no picks.
Just never got this one sounding like I envisioned it…
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lullaby featuring piano (but of course!)
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Today I learned how to add an insert effect to the master channel. The song was way quiet so it got boosted via a limiter. Hurray.
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This is the most hopeful of the songs on the new album. I just decided one day to say "to hell with it, they're not gonna get me down!".
ER
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This is sort of a skeleton version of this song...I have an intro in mind, but don't have time to write it right now. So named because it's primarily in 7/4.
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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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Post RPM jammin'. I don't feel much like cleaning up after RPM. Not yet anyway. I think my little Casio took a beaten and went out of tune. I did this arrangement with just the Casio, guitars and
harmonica, hence the annoying piano and strings…
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How good it is when I feel whole, complete, not lacking anything at all.
And i feel this way when I am with you...
nothing needs to be said, i can just sit and be still.
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An instrumental piece featuring classical guitar and bass.
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Alternative grunge inspired, Alice in Chains like, about shitty pop music and how we can't get rid of it.
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I unleash my secret weapon!
Guest vocalist Shaka brings the icing to this rather haunted version of the first chapter of Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier!
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Welp... I didn't do a feckin' thing all weekend. No laundry, no nuthin'. So I figured I'd beat the living hell out of my Ibanez in order to make up for it.
A juvenile song at best, but I feel better now :)
One take in the MBR hole... I'll…
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Like Sade, only male, with a scratchy voice, and no breath control, and often off pitch... but other than that, Like Sade
Just trying to complete the RPM 2010 Challenge.
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A Song about peace......
Lyrics
T.Mokbul 2010
Know
Maybe it’s looking alright,
But we know........
Maybe it’s looking alright,
But we know........
We don’t Want War....
We don’t Want War.....
In this land where children…
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Two American classics, a custom acoustic guitar and reverb........Enjoy!
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it's like an onion bell forever ringing
angels demons laughing screaming
it's like an onion bell forever dreaming
children playing dancing singing
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In the morning, when we awoke, there was nothing. There were no ashes from the fires of the previous evening. The time for decisions was past. "Yes" was the answer to all questions; and none was the knowledge retained. Wisdom laughs at such folly…
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I guess I knew this would happen. Talk about creating one's own reality Sheeeeesh. End of the month and my pen has been re-fueled and I added some vox to this one, plus some lead guitar, and a bit of synth strings. I also took a shot at some…
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A folksy number inspired by the stories my nan told me many moons ago about her uncle Herbie..
Herein lies the story, of a man named Herbie Jones.
Not a million miles away from a man you might have known.
A miner in the twenties, blue scars…
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Recording from Viste, Randaberg december 2009.
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This song displays some of Barry Morgan's work on the keys. Mixed and mastered in his home studio.
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A jazz tune featuring flute, sax, and one slightly out of whack Fender. All instruments played by Barry Morgan and the song was mixed and mastered in his home studio.
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this is a song about zombies and zombie movies...this is also a rough demo version and its unfinished we are taking a different approach to recording it this time. if you are interested in seeing us live and live in or around chicago, look us…
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Kind of a chillout, lullaby type tune.
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I think the shaker comes in too strong. I think the intro goes on for probably 1 or 2 more phrases than it should.
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Second single off of Palettes to Burn, also featuring the lovely vocals of Vancouver artist Adaline.
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First track off my upcoming album Palettes To Burn, out March 5th! A remix of the song Ever Since ft. Michael Ackhurst.
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Transient texture experiment; also reverb envelopes. RPM number 10.
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I get to say that it borders on hip-hop because there’s a hip hop drum loop and a hip hop drum kit on it. I have no idea what to call it other than “electronic”. With a piano.
This is my second song using Record.
I was going through a book on…
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Have no idea where this one came from. I was strumming away and the words just came out. Seems to be about some kind of wrongdoing in the past. May have been possessed. Thanks again to Gary for helping out on lead..
In sleepy towns through…
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A little something I recorded on a Zoom H4n, acoustic was recorded from built in condensors, strat was recorded plugged into bottom jack using only onboard effects, mixed in Reaper and mastered in Soundforge.
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Gear used: Dark Energy, Micron and Dr.202
I post the lyrics as well as they are probably hard to understand:
earth they tell you
has a problem
they suggest us
to be monsters
i don't believe
their theories
too many lies
scaremongering…
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An RPM demo for the Love Light Shine project.
Daughter Brit turned 13 on 9/9/09, this song is for her.
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Endless picking up the needle and putting it down on Yes's Steve Howe in the 70's got me this far!
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I suppose this is an "ambient chill" piece. It was mainly an excuse to use a marimba sample and an analog synthy sound from my Roland Juno-106.
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An acoustic guitar instrumental inspired by the sound of a rainy day.
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here's a song about food.
the extravagantly long and noisy intro doesn't really fit the subject matter, or the tone of the last minute, but hey, it's my song. i'll do what i want. :)
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Flying above the buildings and trees feeling free.
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A folky ballad about the trials and tribulations that happen during home recording, in this particular case using a Boss microBR.
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Let me tell you all a story, most of it is true,
a strange and twisted…
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A prog-rock style song about trying to figure it all out before it is too late.
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A prog-rock style tale of a deep-space rescue mission and amnesia, that sorta thing.
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That's the way it goes some days.
I'm very very sorry.
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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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This track is inspired by the movie "Seven Pounds".
Gear used: Alesis Micron, Dr202, Mic
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Happy Valentine's Day Everyone.
I think this song has grown on me in the last few
days. I'm diggin' it. I hope you all do too. I
wanted to hurry up and get the demo out for
Valentine's Day. Finished at 3:05am. Wha whoooo!
I need to…
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Not to sell this piece short, but after yesterday's grueling session, I'm just happy to have written anything at all today.
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Dizzy Gillespy wrote this a long time ago. Later Jimmy Smith did his own version of it. This is a version by me which is based on Jimmy's version. This was all hand sequenced in the matrix editor in Logic Pro except for me on guitar. Just wanted…
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An intrumental Track I put together when Thinking about my family.
One Guitar represents my son, one my wife and one me......
Two Versions with Vox (Jim Higgins and Geir Alfsen) are also in existance.. not sure how to link to this site…
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one of those 'it was written even before i started' songs that just rolls out like magic
i tried to keep it simple so as not to destroy the vibe
first finished (if unmixed) track for RPM 2010
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This Valentine’s Day, sing this song to your SO and there’s a good chance they’ll turn into your ex.
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Oy. About 6 hours of work:
1.5 hours to write the lyrics/melody first thing in the morning
1.5 hours figuring out the harmonic progression…
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couple beers, 6 lonely strings, and an electric noise quicker-picker-upper.
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Lyrics
Dies ist meine Lebenarbeit
Es muss geschutzt werden
Meine Leben arbeiten
Meine ganzen Kampfe, Meine Ideen.
There is no life in the Arcades,
Just turtles walking people on chains.
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I know it's been a while since I last uploaded, but I have been dealing with alot of stress recently. but, here it is.
AcId is the name of one of my Table Top RPG games that I run with a few of the guys. It's a Post-Apocalyptic set game that…
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this is a song about the train yards in sulphur springs Ky. back in the day .
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The first song (with vocals) I've recorded for RPM month, for the Love Light Shine project.
A depressing tale of redneck angst.
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