alonetone radio: Popular
Popular
Wrote this song today as my first in the RPM challenge! A universal theme that came to me as I drove across the beautiful Mississippi River this morning watching the sun come up.
Here are the lyrics:
Change Is Calling You
© 2015 Colleen…
Uploaded
A new song I've been working on with a message to love the most important person in your life... YOU! Thanks to Randy Cox for his beautiful piano.
Uploaded
The morning after JP Morgan Chase Bank donated $4.7 million to the NYCPD, police began terrorizing the OWS protesters, beginning with Officer Antonio Bologna macing an innocent woman. This song is about that event:
TONY BOLOGNA
Liberty Park…
Uploaded
Blues. Lyrics, vocals, harmonica and harpsichord by Greg Connor. All other instruments by Gene Eric Mann. Arrangement by Greg Connor and Gene Eric Mann.
Uploaded
Terrible recording due to my old studio set up dying, but a nice keepsake of just how bad things became before the rebuild.
Lyrics by Brent Kinder.
With piano by Igor Alexeev.
Uploaded
Remember that last level of old Nintendo games? Late at night stressed out screaming at the television just hoping you will beat the game? The stress? The anxiety?
Uploaded
Pièce pour guitare, en trois parties.
~Journaux de Paris~
Uploaded
Crow!!! i love em,we got loads of em at work,they make me laugh,thanks once again to the lovely Lady Jane for the backing crows :)
Uploaded
well this is a bit awkward, but i have been chatting with Nosda Cariad about the various plus and minus of sound settings ie reverb,,, sometimes i feel like i have used too much, as sort of a crutch. in this version the reverb has been toned down…
Uploaded
A bit of improv done yesterday with my newly refurbished fretless guitar. Finally got the midi pickup to track almost right! Part of the sounds were gotten by rubbing a teaspoon on the strings.
Uploaded
Just in time for the big 2012 election!
*** BANJO WARNING ***
Just me and me banjo.
Inspired by a story my journalist daughter in Moscow just published. She was too small when we moved to Russia to remember that politicians shaking hands…
Uploaded
This was the original version I recorded before I completely overhauled it (see version on "It takes a village album ). I wasnt crazy about it but hell I put time into it and completed it so why not post it up.
Uploaded
A song for whoever likes it. Erm, and it's not really what this life is all about - but don't ask me what it is about, or even why you want to know what it's all about....erm...rambling now.
Uploaded
Steven Seagal is the father of true justice - underseige 2.
Uploaded
Summer Sun
Sitting in the summer sun
The heat warms the soul
Sitting reminiscing
Got no particular place go
life is all around me
The motion of the birds and bees
Is like heaven to me
Heaven to me
I lay out in an open field
Making…
Uploaded
Hi folks - Uncle Paul is back at it after a 4 month hiatus from music.
Sometimes I just have to walk away from it. I'm sure most of you know what I'm talking about.
I forced myself through the 2012 RPM Challenge
and quit playing right after…
Uploaded
An as yet unused demo from RPM 2012... This was the last song I wrote in Feb 2012 & feel like it is a companion piece to the opening song, "You, Miles Away" -- a perfect little bookend, actually.
Where the Path Leaves the Road
--
I…
Uploaded
That feeling of being too in love to tell her..too afraid of the answer....but hell she can only say no.......Clear off you old !!$%*@£±......
Uploaded
Another 80's flashback
They say the laws of motion
Don't apply to emotions
But I say check your equation
You may not need so much persuasion
If you want to be the one
Who I take home tonight
You should get your back up off the wall
Some things…
Uploaded
The lyrics of this song,
as they pertain to plot,
are my exact memory of the event.
I had spoken to the kid maybe a minute before the "action" started about how the pressure of the water was very strong. He was nestled down with his back…
Uploaded
Well Reg couldn't end on a bad note tonight not after listening to Norms new track so here's a lovey dovey one to end the night in the hope that Reg can find true love ....it is possible isn't it?........Thanks Norm
Uploaded
Along with her magnificent harmonizing vocal tracks, Inge sent me one track which was crashed by her 2-year old son Willem. He pretty much takes over the whole operation at about 3:00.
In the background you can hear the original rough vocals…
Uploaded
it finally happened the guys from jemima's kite got together for a gig in otley yorkshire, with geir and osckilo joining in the festivities.
this was a wee practice before the event, with me on vocals and greeny on guitar and backing vox live…
Uploaded
Lyrics: Mike Graszyk
Vocals: John Newman
Bass: Jim Bryan
Drums: Dean Wuksta
Composed, arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
===============================================
WHO CAN CHEER A CLOWN?
This is the ring where I learned…
Uploaded
This traditional Cuban rhythm is the well established "go-to" pattern for 4/4 songs. It is perhaps the most commonly heard conga pattern in 4/4 music. The bongo pattern that accompanies the congas is referred to as "martillo" (the hammer…
Uploaded
This is a Ralph Mctell song , a very underated British singer / songwriter , probably famous for one song , The Streets of London , but in fact wrote many great songs , he wrote this while working on a building site before he was signed by a record…
Uploaded
I only recently heard the Howlin' Wolf version and I've been playing this riff for years.
Uploaded
11 notes per octave (11 edo) has been a tuning that has generated a lot of music later. Not wanting to be left out I decided to take some time to compose a piece in 11 edo using Garritan Personal Orchestra. As a subject matter suitable for…
Uploaded
RPM 2011
You say the world is too complicated
You say close your eyes forget it all
Nobody sold me a bridge in the desert
Nobody remembers with our eyes closed tight
You say somedays just a point of view
You say someones not much different
Nobody…
Uploaded
A test track of sorts.
I typically mix a track, bounce it out to my ipod and then go for a drive. The stereo in my truck is kind of boomy and if I get the bass wrong, I'll hear about it. This has been a matter of a certain amount of guesswork…
Uploaded
for ImprovFriday
PES'd guitar improv - and softsynths ARP2600, Albino, Hellix, Absynth, Cameleon5000 in Sonar 8.5
Uploaded
You know who you are :)
3rd outing for Le Boîte Diaboliqué.
Accompanied by Timeless 2, Augustus Loop, and Valhalla Shimmer.
Samples used:
* ["Swiss balcony" from Freesound](http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=59723…
Uploaded
Really wanted to try and learn what i would consider one of the best lead guitar solos of all time, recorded this in early 2010 and it's my effort at learning the solo. Hope you enjoy it.
Uploaded
Recorded in 2001.
Tom Higgins - vocals
Joe Silence - guitars
Mark Cook - fretless bass and beats
This track sounds kinda fuzzoid for a reason: It was originally recorded to a Roland VS-880 hard disk recorder, but then mixed to cassette…
Uploaded
This song is dedicated to my van...the Pumpkin.
She took me all the way from Winnipeg to St. John's, Newfoundland. On the way home she died on the 40 East between Quebec City and Montreal where i had to let her go.
Oh Pumpkin you have been good…
Uploaded
... again ... for Randy.
Memories of old magazines gathering dust on the shelves with things you never could let go of.
Dirty chess sets hardly touched. Empty bottles of cheap scotch you never could get enough of.
And it's a shameful world…
Uploaded
Drive cleaning....
This is a lost instrumental. I have no interest.
Uploaded
My Gon-Bops congas getting to know my new space.
180bpm.
Gated & Phased. As in phased-out.
Uploaded
Year: 2009
Album: brave new world
This morning coffee cup upload.
Artist's description: Performed synth composition with samples added
Contributors:
Patrick Trotter painted the song icon
Please support the visual artist by visiting…
Uploaded
For Mom because she liked the harmonica.
We love you and miss you.
Uploaded
You live long enough... you take some real hits. And the only way to get on, is, to, "Pick myself up, walk down the long long road". Lifes real easy when it's all theoretical, but it's never been lived until the theories and philosophies are trashed…
Uploaded
There are a bunch of bass tracks going on here. Headphones help pick out what's going on. This one came to me leaving Taos on the drive back to Phoenix, coming down out of the canyon. I suddenly became conscious of a disturbing dream from the…
Uploaded
A little fun with a looper and an e-bow.
Unmastered.
Uploaded
Trying to stay awake...to get it down...without going down...for the night.
Uploaded
I really was carrying the ash from the fire out in the dark and looking at the stars and thinking how weird that was - to be throwing the ashes out in the middle of the night and pitch black and everything
Uploaded
I hereby name this the "bridge to nowhere" mix since it was the musical content of the bridge that I spent the most time on.
If you've heard the song before, I've provided a shortcut video that plays the bridge from last night's version vs. tonight…
Uploaded
words fail me right now, so I will just include the music.
fretless bass, electric and acoustic guitars, tambourine, fake drums, emotions.
Uploaded
This is another guitar heavy piece, however there are three synth parts, but they further back in the mix. The name is from a dream of moving back to Vancouver BC.
This is also definitely an ambient piece, treating sound as a sculpture more than…
Uploaded
White Light was written in June along with 10 other "Off the cuff" tunes. Just before the great flood in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Our house was flooded and slowly being rebuilt. This is 4th of the 10 to be recorded.
Uploaded
1.Afsluitdijk
...is a Dutch word and it's the name of the dam/road going from the province Friesland to North-Holland (and Amsterdam) The lyrics are about a 15-year old boy who feels so trapped in the boring Frisian town he's living in that he…
Uploaded
Guitar and vocals. Kind of the opposite of last years 'Honey, Why You Stay With Me'.
Uploaded
Quick and Dirty memo to self.
Crunchy lofi guitar + voice.
Uploaded
Rod Webber, Joey Slliks and Luke & Aaron Bellamy bring you sounds of love and death straight through the chip in the back of your neck.
Uploaded
fom 3thrd Sunday Grackle improv jam 11/16/25
Miguel- percussion
Kavin.- fretless Chinese junk strat
added Bass Vi after the fact Jack
Uploaded
Still having fun learning keyboard, and sticking to a determination to never write another sad song. This is just a practice ditty, but it's part of the angry phase of writing which might last a few decades. All of the noise is from the keyboard…
Uploaded
I read this article and wrote this song.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09413-0
Lyrics:
I feel like synthesizing
Another little copy of me
To lay right here beside me
On the beautiful martian sea
Iron redox reaction…
Uploaded
credits: interpolates lyrics by Ahmad, Kanye West
Uploaded
(interpolates lyrics by Nas and samples music by L.E.S. and Trackmasters)
[Man 1] Hello?
[Man 2] What’s up, man?
[M1] Nothing really, my girl just left, she’s geeking out, talking ‘bout big house and kids, Norman Rockwell shit again
[M2…
Uploaded
(samples music sampled/produced by Dr. Dre from Labi Siffre's "I Got The..." for the song "My Name Is" by Eminem)
Freestyle, relax, relax, listen ‘cause I’m not gonna repeat myself
[Verse 1]
It’s not that I hate you
It’s just I don’t like…
Uploaded
Were you guys aware that I'm a Beatles fan? Because, well.... I am.
I don't want you to come too close
I don’t need you to break the rules
Don't try to play my game
It’s not what you should do
I don’t think we can be friends
I don…
Uploaded
Since you’ve gone
It’s all gone south
The dunces took over
Stupidity rules
They open their mouth
To prove they’re fools
You didn’t believe in god
And made me wonder how
If there was one
How could he allow
What evil has been done…
Uploaded
This song is dedicated to my wife Karen, remembering back to when first we danced.
This is our submission to the March 2022 Record Every Month (REM) Challenge.
Dan Will - Keyboards
David True - Bass
Tony Gallo - Percussion
Written…
Uploaded
2022 RPM Challenge song number 18.
I still have two more songs to mix but as of right now this is hands down my favorite of the batch (spoiler alert, I think I might be saying that about the two songs that are left as well). Usually when I…
Uploaded
Another late night session in a dark blue-ish cloud.
Uploaded
Recorded way back (early '80s?) on open reel tape. The mumbly voices are from whatever was recorded on there before, as it was a former CBC Radio tape. The "instrument" is one of those little slicers for hard-boiled eggs. Submitted to Sound-In…
Uploaded
A little dark......
I stand at the junction between life & death
As the count begins to rise
The darkened moon weeps but is blind to the grief
Of the ones left behind
We weep but we can not hide
Daytime nighttime the hunt for…
Uploaded
A New Year ...... a new song .... Happy New Year Alonetoners
Uploaded
Happy Halloween. Or should I say, Happy Covid-ween. Har Har.
Another song from 2007's failed RPM Challenge that wasn't finished until 2011. This was also on my short list of songs to re-record when I first thought of this whole silly project…
Uploaded
Another in an endless string of recordings that would have been saved by a competent singer. Maybe. I like the individual pieces of this song, but I don't think I like the song as a whole. Okay... maybe I don't like the chorus at all. I don…
Uploaded
10 Year Anniversary: Remastered
This track for me defines the name Movement To Contact as well as how I like to write music. The silent build of a wave and then the peaceful slide onto the shore once it has passed.
Uploaded
Yah its going to be Fat Tuesday, king cake,
Green Purple and Gold and all Carnival.
see you all dancing on Canal Street
Uploaded
Shout out to Tom Waits, one of my favs. Rumor has it, he has had a similar problem with his piano.
I didnt think I would make it signing this way to the end of the song, lol.
Throat lozenge anyone??
Uploaded
A bit of a blue one live from the cellar.....
Time Please Fly Away
time has that way of healing pain
it can can turn a madman back to sane
long ago a dream was made
but like my thoughts that dream has strayed
now i’m lost on a dark…
Uploaded
One of my first experiments with DADGAD tuning. I was hoping to get a dark,droning sound. I lived in Missouri for a lot of years and this sounds like what it feels like to be out in the sticks there.
Uploaded
Ambient, building electric guitar instrumental, something like a cross between the late great Gary Moore and some softer stuff by Allan Holdsworth.
Imagine your spacecraft nearing a black hole, and the strain it puts on your vessel. Then, as…
Uploaded
I am learning a bit more each day about how to write/compose for guitar ,, quite fun. This RPM piece is dedicated for our 16 and 1/2 year old mini red Dachshund,, Howie.. though blind and mostly deaf, and recovering from illness, he still…
Uploaded
Here's me and the old Joanna live in the cellar for the John Lennon Jukebox ...i surprised myself on this one ....only a couple of fluffs on the piano..which with only three takes and reading the lyrics from the ipad is the surprise....hope you…
Uploaded
From the CD
FONTANELLE II by GHOST OF JOHN MURPHY
Formerly unknown as FONTANELLE
© 2013 Royal T Music
Uploaded
Two bass tracks and vocals...playing around with a Fender Jazz bass that I rented a while back.
I'm more a cat person but if I had a dog...
Uploaded
rough mix (midi) of new work for piano, vibes & computer
Uploaded
More ambient experimentation with my fretless guitar and Roland GR20. This time I used some sounds from the magnetic pickups as well as the midi pickup. Kind of a cheesy synth patch I know, but it was working for me!
Uploaded
Cuz who can ever get enough of Ghost in the Machine?
Lyrics: Stewart Copeland
Uploaded
I trust this song is an encouragement to you...we are not alone.
There is an intimate Divine closeness that we are invited into...moment by moment.
I am so thankful for this...
You are with me now
You are with me now
Within this sacred moment…
Uploaded
I've posted this "Naked" version because Mrs Russe wanted me to... :-)
It wasn't "finished" in my mind - there was a certain amount of "orchestration" to come.
But I ended up liking the starkness of this version.
The original intention…
Uploaded
another Buggered Classic from the cellar of Reg.......
Uploaded
Well Reg has just realised that he keep making the same mistakes with his relationships as he always has....the first song from the Newly built cellar.....Jim just had to jump o this one............
Hello pain my old friend it's so nice to see…
Uploaded
I was listening to Jims beautiful instrumental and it struck a chord ...so here it is Thanks Jim.....
Shadow of a man (Lyrics)
As i look in the water i see a reflection of what i was
i see the strong man who could have done what ever he wants…
Uploaded
This is the original version before I messed it up with Maxicraft :P
Uploaded
Shows when you get fed up enough,you ain't afraid to raise hell and put a brick under it. (Icelandic national anthem-lyric)-...Oh, God of our country! Oh, our country's God!
We worship Thy name in its wonder sublime.
The suns of the heavens…
Uploaded
if i had enough $$$ for a gold watch, id buy something else...yep,
Uploaded
in life, my foot print is my legacy...good or bad.... my existence is meaningless.
-a little on the chill side-
Uploaded
K.G. made gold with this one. words are oh so good. J.H. broke away from his bass and added a very nice banjo part. i did a little clapton bending . i think this is a magical moment for our band. we all came together at the end and did it! i hope…
Uploaded
from the album "Uniform"
she hides her heart under the pillow
waiting for the good fairy to come
replace this worn and broken thing
with a heart that can feel again
she's never sure which night will be her lucky one
but she anticipates…
Uploaded
It's the strangest thing
Must be a waking dream
The strangest thing
Or the latest invention
Reflections
Holographic projections
Some cruel trick
Or pharmaceutical deception
Through the downtown crowds in the rainy streets
You were walking around…
Uploaded
CHOICES
"After my house burn down I was confuse.
Why are they burning down my house? My neighbor house..."
"We called it The American War."
My friend, John, said this about this bit of audio drama:
I had forgotten how painful I find…
Uploaded
This is my cover of Geir Alfsons song, like a fool , i did this as a tribute to him on songcrafters music forum
Uploaded
It'd be a single, if we ever stood a chance of being on the radio.
Uploaded
It's not funny 'cause it's true. God's a very busy man.
Uploaded
I had a little time this evening to noodle about so i noodled with the Zep...i've Regged another one another classic i had to take down the cellar and Reg over ....i'm gonna revisit this so class it as a work in progress ....Hope you like it...i do
Uploaded
Mario... what can I say about our lovable Nintendo mascot. He's short... chubby... fights reptiles of many shapes and sizes.
The music is deffinitely fitting for our Plumber's adventures into the Mushroomy, Mushroom Kingdom. Maybe he'll get…
Uploaded
Lionel the hermit crab - Skeen Remix 120607
Lionel the hermit crab lives by the sea, oh yeh
He looks a little bit like you, a little bit like me,
Lionel the hermit crab doesn't have no friends, oh no
He'll live his life alone in his shell…
Uploaded
A manipulated ambient-ish piece
Sound sources, 5 string bass, 18" and 14" china cymbal, cornet, mixed tuning, 6 edo, 12 edo, unconstrained pitch.
kudos for anyone who listens to the whole thing.
Uploaded
Nirvana - the perfect state of bliss from pain & suffering.
Uploaded
Cover of the Joy Division classic, with a little drum'n'bass thrown into the mix
This version from September 2010
The youtube version is my original recording going back to 1997.
Uploaded
~images of bygone days~
This was 2009, and it was a photo contest to provide seven pictures of a story and all that. I, together with other, more talented photographers, was in.
In parallel with the images I have written short seven neo…
Uploaded
Final version
An unaccompanied song about bedtime. Not a lullaby though. Oh no!
What does anyone think of the 'cat's moustache' line - it seems like that's a make or break call right there and i like it when i read it but it's hard to sing without…
Uploaded
If you've been waitingfor me to post a remix for some time now, wait no further, I've done a side project with many more to come.
In memory of Mr. Kubo, I will be making a few remixes of Pokemon game music, such as what is heard in Pokemon…
Uploaded
Well poor old Reg was left by his love so he decided to write a song. Here it is another brokenhearted rendition....................
Uploaded
It's been a long time since Bethesda released smash hit The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, so I thought I'd make a little something commemorating that. The song starts off note for note and finishes, then plays through again with my tweaks. I…
Uploaded