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A rare live performance by The Sextet. Recorded live February 29 1961 at The End Times Cafe.
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I think I had just hiked at, or was planning on hiking at, Rattlesnake Ledge when I wrote this, so...there you go. Tuned to DADGAD.
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measured meaning of a form of structured thoughts
i know it is twenty minutes long if it does not "grab" you in the first say 30 sec stop listening because it probably will not grab you by minute 20 :)
the video is unreal so just watch ,, it…
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Acoustic, pysechedelic pop from a dark forest ;)
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Says exactly what it does on the label. Having said that "You have been warned!"
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from the album the Vulnerary Songs
porcelain figure, with a pain in the head
isn’t feeling so well
better give it some air
this warning is clear, that’s a frown not a smile
isn’t turning around
better give it some space
there are rules in this…
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This carries on the theme from the the first song Carshalton Girls , done with a hint of Rocky Horror
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Here's another from the cellar...........lets hope John & George arn't turning in their grave......and Paul & Ringo don't sue.........
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Phantasm777 on bass
Me on guitar and vocals
Steve on organ
Moeshan on drums
I hope this fixes the error
a truly vintage recording - 1975 sometime...
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This a song for the lenten season, contemplating what it must have been like for Jesus during His 40 days in the desert after being baptized by St. John, His cousin.
Forty Days
To the desert Jesus Christ was led
And for forty…
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the first iteration of AFC was supposed to be this group, my old band American Catastrophe and singer Janette Salsbury singing. We had a couple practices, but never played live or recorded anything. The songs we played wound up on the first…
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A bit a space there for vocals whoever wants to take a shot at it.
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This Guy's In Love With You Skeen Remix 120728(Burt Bacharach)
You say, this guy, this guy's in love with you
Yes I'm in love, who looks at you the way I do?
When you smile, I can tell we know each other, very well
How can, I show…
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Song about a hundred years old. and for to many life still sucks.
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Founded in Manchester, New Hampshire in 1976, long-running post-punk outfit Carnival Weasel have over 100 studio albums to their name, with vocalist John F. Mason as their only constant member.
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Another rnr track sans vocals. On the plus side, there are actually lyrics for this one.
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this is a remix of my original song "If You Were A Song." Hope you enjoy it as much as i enjoyed making it!!
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A moment in the time of my mind, captured for eternity.
With thanks to Marci Shimoff and Albert Einstein for their inspiring 'lyrics' :)
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SEASONS
Midnight rendezvous. Window to her room.
Teenaged lovers under cover.
masquerade of sound: Thunder from the sky.
Train passing by. Wind howlin’ strong.
The world is their song.
Don your winter down. Snow falls all around
This…
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The first track on the new FONTANELLE album.
HAPPY Key - Am
Happy is the anvil as the hammer strikes the blade (AM)
A fleeting spark that fades as the memory is made (G)
Happy is the spark when the hammer strikes the steel (F)
Before the…
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sunday afternoon and a little time to my self .......hope you enjoy........ i did.........
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I think this was the first Blues I wrote, about 5 years ago.Changed the tempo & got my mate Dave to play harmonica on it. Thanks Dave.Listening to the old version, couldn't remember what I played so had to revamp it, old age!!! DOH !!!!!
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have you ever been going about your business, and you get sucked into a brightly colored, blocky realm? it seems you can not die, when mortally wounded you just come back to where you were like 5 minutes ago...you master this 8 bit realm and become…
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Speech samples by acclivity over at freesound.org
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A protest against the conditions of poverty in the developing world .
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details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=2193
NOTE: meantone refers to a tuning method, not the guitar tone.
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in 11/8 meter at 176 BPM if you are so inclined to add to this..
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When you sat in all the cheap seats
With the money that you paid
I recall the optimism
Then the contempt that you displayed
I had nothing to say to you
On the day you lied
When they had to clear the harbour
To drain the sewage that was there…
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Don't really remember the story for this...written smack dab in the middle of Feb in RPM madness...it happenened, then I moved on and I let go of it...Mike Novak on egg...another song where I waited for a drummer friend to show up that never did...
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I never managed to get this one to work before.
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i'll take bizarre transitions for $500 alex
this musical faux pas is best executed when doing an all nighter to finish RPM
what is mood whiplash alex
rpm 2012 #5
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Part Of Kitchen Sink, the RPM 2012 album for AMUC.
Freesound Samples Used:
18451_zippi1_sound_singing4.wav
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RPM2012 Preview ... drop D tuning ... this time I started with a click track so I was able to add some synth ... enjoy ... lyrics:
The cat's in the yard
The flowers in bloom
The sunshine is out
The boys in their rooms …
Can they tell where…
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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…
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This is a short cover I did of Polly, by Nirvana. I made it to closely resemble the studio version.
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a shrill shit
a shrill shit shatters the moonlit midnight air
despair distorts the dreamy darkness
twists its fluid form into a gloomy dankness
looming like malignant vapours
over stagnant pools
you are surrounded by fools
grounded by…
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here at southend-on-sea
where we used to walk with you
on the sand & the mud & the clay
that an ancient science
said we were all made out of
and here at southend-on-sea
my old man
old man river
old father thames
and old father…
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I played a few parts of Cliff's Anesthesia bass solo and added some parts of my own. I used my son's Fender Precision Bass, and later in the jam I doubled the bass parts with electric guitar.
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This is the fourth song from the Thomas - Lennon project.
A collaboration with Michael Thomas of Cave Street.
http://alonetone.com/cavestreet
Michael and I always have something going on, So I'm sure there will be more.
Lyrics and…
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FORTY YEAR BARN
words by Jacque Shelton and JMT (I wrote the chorus.)
I had a dream as a little boy
Not a policeman, a fireman or even a toy
I picked cotton, I waitered
My sox need darned
But all that I dreamed was my Forty Year Barn…
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LISA MAKES APPOINTMENTS
Capo @ 3 in C
C stepping down G
Lisa makes appointments for her friends to come and cry
She’s got a comfy shoulder and an empathetic sigh
Am. F. Am. F
Lisa’s…
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About no one in particular, just a figment of my imagination.
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This is the edited version; with violin sound... i kindda like it..
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Song for my daughter. Last verse shows the tragedy of life
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No idea where this came from, all I know is, it was hard work and a late night !! And hard to work the next day !!
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inside, i feel so strange
but who am i to complain
inside, i feel alive
something died in my heart again tonight
...tonight
why are you everywhere?
you've poisoned everything i know.
your poisoned hearts, I drank them all
as you ask me why…
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WILD BILL Key C
C Bass F# Am Bass G Bass F Bass C
The moon shone like diamonds on mirrors in puddles shaped like horse’s feet
Dm Dm - Dm…
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A Version of Moonlight Sonata Performed by OsCKilO as part of the "Cities Festival" on SongCrafters.org.
Guitar and strings.
The arrangement was marred by the recent disorder in London. It is with a sadness that this set of events has made…
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Okay...so Godzilla comes to YOUR town and wants to get funky. What does it sound like?
When I first came to Japan, there was a time when I spent three months homeless and living out of a coin-locker at Shibuya station. Eventually, I got out of…
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Reg got to wondering...What does happen when the money runs out......how many people are going to be homeless through this recession, the people who are going to lose it all and end up on the streets.......and also the ones already out there…
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Composed, performed, produced by Alex Jenkins. From the Omega Jam Sessions. BMI
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A setting of a sonnet by Walter Lowenfels to music.
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The first of the next album!
Check out the video that features a bunch of equally disturbing imagery I drew.
Lyrics:
Darkness consumed me
All you need know
Darkness became me
It's all I ever grow
Darkness is me
All I seed and all I grow
Darkness…
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so yes, I got the Vocaloid 2 program. Pretty cool, a little convoluted, but it has its knacks.
Of course I had to deal with using the Japanese android diva, Hatsune Miku, so the song is in Japanese. (broken if nothing else, my japanese sucks…
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This is one of my earlier compositions. Both clarinet parts are played live by me.
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Driving South on a two lane interstate in Pennsylvania at 1:00am can be hazardous to your health. Just saying. The leads on this one used an actual amplifier instead of a headphone amp. My crybaby pedal needs to be cleaned, as you can hear.
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"Winston's Black Dog"
I could have made a great Prime Minister
Just need a good reason to be sinister
Give me an army, an enemy,
a great war --
and I'll deliver
Put me in the middle of nowhere
In the wilderness I'll survive
But in an air-conditioned…
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"Fighters Inside"
I didn't always see myself from three feet away
Now my alter ego shadows me all day
There is no war out here tonight
All the fighters are inside
Disaster is apparently a natural state
The winner's tactic is to defy fate
Screaming…
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The Sailor gets a part time job in late-nite data entry-ing now that the offworld fishing industry is on the fritz...
how could I ever leave my poor little scuttlebug
so careless and free, she's my little scuttlebug
when the lights turning…
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This is a piece using Garritan World Sample Set (Tibet singing bowls and Tibet bells) and pianoteq. It also uses a non-octave tuning that is an infinite stack of just major seconds (scala file below).
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Berceuse (means cradle song - or lullaby) by Chopin Op. 57 midi recorded by Ron Lubetsky, M.D. in 1997. And indeed I can tell from the midi file this was a real performance. I ran it through pianoteq in Sonar X1. I hope you enjoy it.
http…
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After a month long break, here are some more home studio recordings of our repertoire. Still in Russian, but the beautiful melodies are sure to make you feel good :)
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Reg has been trying to learn the art of slowing down, relaxing under the pressure of abstinence.......................it seems to be going well .............
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From the album of the same name, this track really was recorded on a dark and stormy night, just to see if any of the elemental turmoil going on outside would lend its ambience to the proceedings. The thunder claps came from a sound effects album…
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One could use this to compare the changes I made to accommodate the change in tuning because this is the Centaur tuned piece but I changed the master tuning back to "standard" 12 equal.
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A ska/reggae version of "Aurora" by Nova, a synth hit from the 80's!
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Ilesa is a city located in the south west of Nigeria. This is a traditional rhythm pattern of the same name - but I'm not sure of the significance of the name.
I played on 3 congas, accented with bell clave, block and cowbell, of course…
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a "rehearsal" outtake. Guitar/loops/ebow/iPod synth/cassette recorder.
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I wrote this one when the woman I was with started seeing someone else before we split up
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This one is, again, from the early 90's, and was originally a bass line. So imagine it an octave down.
I hope you like and/or enjoy.
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'm doing a course in Mandarin Chinese and mamahuhu is one of my favourite words. It means so-so (literally horsehorsetigertiger); "not so good". In this lyric I just allowed myself to whine about my situation; get it over with. I like the harmony…
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A few years back (when I lived it Texas), I drove out to an open field to watch the Geminids meteor shower... I really need to remember to look up at the night sky more often.
The Showers of December
Lying flat on my back
Looking…
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Lyrics/Vocals - OldRottenHead (over at Soundcrafters.org). Music - Dave Berry. Recorded on Boss BR-1200, Epi Sheraton, Bass, Synth. Drums are played by me on my new Roland HD-1 (I have had it two weeks, timing is a little shaky, bloody hard this…
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RPM 2011
Used to feel the same as me
So warm inside
Used to care too much to see
The other side
You’re so far outside the lines
Your shapes distorted, undefined
Your color choices too
A wash and blurry, through and through
Visualize, love saves…
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Lyrics
Take the lift and your half way up....
Reach the top and your half way up...
You didn’t see your rise, and Lost your way.....
Looking down on the world your tears fall...
You Missed the Beauty of the climb.
And now you’re…
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More on the "Freak" end of the Orphans and Freaks designation. Most of the time I'm making music for myself, and this one just makes me happy, no matter how hard I try to resist.
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I once met Juliet sitting in the dark after just losing her Romeo ...............
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Well, this is a single minute of music around this wonderfull 'Angel Eyes' song. I hope you like and/or enjoy this miniature. Have a great 2011 alonetoners!
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Musical piece about the fairy adventures of toys on and around the Christmas tree, and all that.
For us, the boring adults realists, such a story is ridiculous, but not for them - for children who listen to tales with bated breath. For them…
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About a very strange individual indeed............
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Another classic recorded "back in the day" when I was just a tiny little freshman fry.. Check out my page on facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/Boris.Shpitalnik
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Check out the video, it'll make more sense that way.
This is the first part to a collaborative project I am conducting with an old friend who happens to be an amazing artist, Mr. Rich Gibbs. He is putting together a story through comics that…
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a field recording/sound collage from last Saturday at the Fort Worth MOMA. Sounds inside the Serra sculpture Vortex, and the African percussion/dance ensemble Jumbie.
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This track was my attempted submission for Ramen Music #001. I finally got around to uploading it here.
It was made using several instances of the Max for Live instrument "Loop Shifter" that I played in real-time using my Novation Launchpad…
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Randy Brown and I did a little co-write this evening and this is what we came up with...
I MISTOOK IT FOR THE MOON Capo @ 2 Key D (Play in C positions)
I was coasting across West Texas/Had my top down, it was late at night
I caught a coyote…
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from the album "orange"
I’ve become, the same old song
I’ve become, a headless drum
I’ve become, a different son
I’ve become, the complacent one
Place your bets, it’s the end of regret, oh
Don’t blame me cause I hardly matter…
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MIRACLE POWER OF FASTING PT3 BY PASTOR WINSTON CUFFIE ...22\O8\2010
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Swinging in a secret garden of childhood where the time almost stops...
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Originally meant as tribute to a (still unreleased) VA album about the Roswell Incident. Now released as Ilut on the FraxurY album
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i recorded this song a few months ago. i didn't add any other instrumentation at request of my wife who wanted it just guitar and singing.
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JV Andres - vocals, guitar, clock
Veejay Andres - vocals, piano
Spirit be the sieve
That filters out my thoughts
Uphold me and remind me of
How much this life has cost
Each flight, I feel like I'm taking a hard right
From you
In…
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I had been choosing songs to perform during communion in my church's Sunday services. One Saturday night I was having trouble finding a song that had the themes that I wanted to address, so I wrote one.
JV Andres - guitar, vocals
Veejay Andres…
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pleasant, dom7/mixo+nuances; upbeat road music
no apologies ;-)
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i am not that guy at the beach.
the first slolo in this song is played on a half scale guitar with four strings. The second part after the pause is played on my accursed 1, theofficial nomenclature for that being lost, it is a full scale, but…
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Are you a sex laugher with rapture in your compassion?
Are you a virtuoso of love with a genius for generosity?
The song is part of the soundtrack from my book, "PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower…
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I was working on one of my ethno 2 demos and needed a break so I made an improvisation on a series of major 7ths using only the Ethno 2 package.
All of the pitched instruments use the included Werckmeister temperament tuning.
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