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Here is another remix. A surprise for Sudara when he wakes up tomorrow.
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The closer of the album. It only felt fair to give the guitar a turn with the tune.
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Down To The Bridge
D G/D D(add11) D
Down to the bridge I hurry
G D sus4 D
On the valley's well-worn path
D G/D D(add11) D
Eyes to the sky in wonder
G D Asus4 D
And on the…
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A nice a soothing Drone Mix of Ambient Electronic Music for a lovely September of Sound and Colour .. Created for the Record Every Month 2024
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My mom
What you love most is being our mom
Forces against it seem to pull you down
Out the nest, we still needed our mom
You said I loved to cuddle
I love you more than the stars
Know when you slip away, you’ll never leave where we are…
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Hanalynn (H): Deon, thanks for coming in, been really busy, and I just want to get the simple reviews done first
Deon (D): Okay, sounds good
H: So for the most part, you’ve been going very much above and beyond, and everyone is happy that…
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Castaway. The Tom Hanks Movie.
* Disclaimer: I understand that most of the songs on this album are pitchy and hard to listen to. I recorded all of the vocals on Feb 27 and 28th as single takes. Most of them stream of conscience nonsense.
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I stole part of the chord sequence ,anyone guess which classic its from ? Anyway just getting over a bout of flu and ventured down to the cellar and this one came out....Thanks for listening
You are who you are
No one can answer all the…
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Sometimes life tends to repeat itself if you're not careful.... Good to find a moment to recognize old patterns and shake them off.
Great help on this one from the MN Coffee Table Gang - Greg Connor on guitar and vocals, and Mark Lofgren…
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Field recording modified by using the entire recording as a template for noise reduction. The remaining sound was surprisingly melodic, and includes birdsong (mourning dove and sparrows most prominent), passing light aircraft, emergency siren…
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Track 2 of my failed RPM... just a quiet acoustic ramble.
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2021 50/90 song number 16 of 50.
I like this one. I think I screwed up the guitar part in the chorus about a thousand and two times before I finally had a useable take. I think it was probably worth it.
The guitars are a Les Paul standard…
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This is what I got when I used the exact song structure from "Yesterday".
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Been working a lot since getting back to work a few weeks back, haven't had much time to focus on music or anything mind-relaxing. This is something i had cooking in the back log burner for a while...
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A reliable source of funny since at least 2011.
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When I was young we lived opposite a big play area - lots of grass and trees and bushes to rampage around - and in the middle a tarmac playground with the "amusements" - a witches hat (aka umbrella), a long rocking horse with saddles along its…
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We decided to give the kids an outlet that wasn’t pandemic or lockdown based this February, and made an album as a family for the RPM Challenge 2021. It was just the most precious, funny, brilliant month.
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Augenschmaus - is something what is good looking. Ohrenschmaus is a pleasure for your ears. Cheers.
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from the album 50
vocals Alejandro Olivares
lead guitar Dan Upton
search for so long to belong a place to go thats my own where everything is real the walls are never cold tell you how I feel while I am growing old and I am coming home to…
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Nothing special about this one except that it broke my one songwriting challenge rule: I rewrote part of it. The lyrics. I wrote the melody and a set of lyrics that fit late one night and even before I conked out for the night I knew it was…
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This is the Sinner's Prayer or the Jesus Prayer sung in Latin. I have an acoustic version uploaded and this version a cappella. I've sung this in the key of F, one step lower than the acoustic version.
"Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy…
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You can take the red head out of the 80's, but you can't take the 80's out of the red head... I guess. I didn't like anything current when I was growing up during the 80's. Well, almost anything.
This one was originally written during the…
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Well the virus has my friend and music partner in Krakow Poland sheltering in place but we are using the time to write and record..here is our latest...we tried to write in the style of Motown...check it out ... all music and production by Art…
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Finally I have completed a track on this, for me, a very uninspiring year, musically speaking.
Lyrics come from the inexhaustible weirdness of my dreams.
Happy Halloween... if that's a thing :)
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The song is about a recursive process of practicing and returning again and again. Through practice and concentration, time seems to slow down to the point where intentional action becomes easier and thus more natural. I think of the example…
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a bit of doodling turned into this .....
The clock strikes midnight and Jennys heading home
Peter, makes do with bus and he sits there on his alone
He’s Watching the streets fill with people as the the raindrops form to the glass
the falling…
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SOME PEOPLE - G
GCG GDG
Some people have someone to hold them when they are lonely
Some people have someone to call their one and only
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Some folks miss the boat, or get a boat that won’t float
Or get a goat that eats their grass
GCG…
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Playing over a superb backing track with companion youtube vid to boot!
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Pack a bag and head out west
Change of clothes and leave the rest
Northern skin needs a little sun
Sunshine can cure anyone
Slow it down to a steady pace
Forget about the human race
All I need is what’s inside
Take the rest and let it…
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RPM 2016 is underway! This was written on an iPad on Tuesday 2/16 and recorded and mixed on Wednesday 2/17. It is just a looped 8-bar bass line with a change added somewhere on each iteration.
The lyrics consist of one verse repeated forever…
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This was a song I wrote last year, and haven't recorded until last night. We had a jam session at my place, so you'll hear some folks you know on this live recording.. Feels like a old time sing-a-long as I listened again this morning.
Colleen…
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A twist on the popular story of a wolf and three pigs.
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Last year friends and family seemed to be dieing right, left and centre. Part of my RPM 2015 effort
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Bill got with Wayne and they made this... with a moxf6 yamaha and novation supernova II mixed together as counterpoint microtonal 22edo guitar bound the tones together. :)
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RPM Holiday Challenge 2014
recorded entirely in Garageband on my IPad mini
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Yes, yes I know. The guitar melody sounds a lot like the jazz standard "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat." I understand and I'm sorry, but it's so rare that I come up with an instrumental melody that I just have to run with it when I get one.
The vocals…
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This demo recording turned out particularly well, especially when compared to how most of my MYTHOPOETICA recordings sound. The lead guitar employs an Eastern Folk scale and style of picking, greased with GEM-style Blues butter.
SUPER YOU…
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I keep pushing the pedal down and nothing is happening....
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Evan tries his hand at horseback riding. The steed gets away from him at one point and runs until it is exhausted.
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2010 24 hour challenge. Record a 24 minute song in less then 24 hours.
Work has been so crazy music has been taking a back seat. I might have to try this concept again to get anything done on the creative side of things. :)
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A song about Cindy punching Steve in the face because he probably deserved it.
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I actually wrote this awhile back, but I've wanted to re-arrange it and record it with better quality, so here it is. Everything is me except the drums which are loops.
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TURN ROUND
All your turns
All your pain
Lessons learned
Will remain
Hiding in the silence of a footstep
Some familiar sound
Walking toward the east before the sunset
Turn round
Lost in thought
Troubled mind
All you’ve fought…
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A cover of Warren Haynes "Soulshine"with the music from Taylors Lament (Mike & Paul) from over at the cool lab and Reg on the vocal hope you enjoy..............
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Trampled
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A quickly improvised tune with some stream-of-consciousness lyrics. Written/recorded hastily in the dead of night on Tuesday 11/27 with a short overdub session on Thursday 11/29, when I should have been sleeping.
All basic tracks…
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This is my first song ever. An original production with the collaboration Mr Joe Funktastic.
My soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/papigalaxy
Enjoy
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Well Reg has taken this one from the cellar to the West End ........
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I ruin it again - but in a different way.
This is the harpsichord that was sampled.
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Vox-Lyrics by thetworegs, music by Billy Jack
HARD DRIVE HOME
the clouds form
the sun has gone
the rain begins to falls
what was it
what did it i do
what turned our love into stone
what makes me listen to the love songs on the radio…
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We've all met them! Haha. Got a bit of a rocky head on doing this.
"I ain't gonna love her like I said I would, coz my friends were all quite right - she's no good."
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this song is a happy acoustic song. it will get stuck in your head just like she does. enjoy.
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What is a suicide chicken? Listen to this tale of shock and awe and find out! Tom Pecard on bass and bg vocals.
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Ditty #9 for the RPMC album "Bones".
I'd had this rolling around in my head for about a year now, and even played it live with the SD&Q trio. Didn't quite turn out as planned, which is not unusual.
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Blah, Blah, blah, - (pause) Blah, blah, blah, blah!!
I can't take it no mo'. I'm buggin' out.
Oooooo! look at all the pretty colors.
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You know I'm diggin' and scratchin' when I start
sounding like Jimmy Buffet elevator musak :)
Oooooo the delightful chaos of RPM
This has 2 percussion loops, midi drums, midi fretless bass, some midi strings, synths, and piano, 2 gallons of…
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This is a reading of one of my favourite books, that I read for my children, they are always totally absorbed not only is the story superb but the artistry by Axel Scheffler is also fantastic. During the telling of the story i must cover every…
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The inner layers encaged and squirming. The layers beneath, beyond any obviousness.
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come away, come away
away from trouble
away from care
come away, come away
away from sorrow
away from fear
may the cool wind find you
through a thousand thoughts unsaid
gather you in
weary day behind you
and you can lay your head…
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.Written shortly after the Egyptian uprising that over threw the Mobaric regime.
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Vaisvil sent me this great Blues tune and so i threw it down the cellar and Reg jumped all over it with his point of view on love being a Four letter word..........
FOUR LETTER WORD (Lyrics)
Love
oh Love
it's not just a four letter word…
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With The Elder Scrolls Skyrim releasing in a little over a month, I thought I'd put together a remaster of one of my older tracks. Using the basic bones of The elder SCrolls III track, I devised a wonderous ochestra with a lead trumpet that would…
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A little something I've been toying with based on one of the chords from Free's "It's Alright Now".
Apologies for my rusty recording mojo...
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Well, I should give some background. Sometimes, for me, the difference in tunings are hard to discern - I don't have perfect or even good relative pitch discrimination. So I can get fooled. The Prelude for a Centaur tuned piano was actually composed…
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Do you see that girl? Do you see that boy?
Walking hand in hand? They're on top of the world.
Can you see that boy? Can you see that girl?
Kissing in the park. They're on top of the world.
I can see that girl. I can see that boy.
Walking…
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A guy I know never shuts up long enough to listen to what I have to say. He is singing it, I'm playing it.
Love you Jim.
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The story of a workplace experience. And an ultimate fighting match.
Killer bassline by Ian Tanner. Drums by Grant Muller. Backing vocals by Clarke McMurray.
Hey there Mr. Flashy Pants
Hey there voice of thunder
As you lie there flat on…
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More Original song than cover, I think.
A re-imagining of the AC/DC story.
My Rosie is a bolemia sufferer and is in a coma in hospital. The story is told by the concerned partner...
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Whole Lotta Rosie
Never met a woman
Never…
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Lyrics: Paul Dempsey
Guitar: Billy Playle
Bass: Andy Gupta
Drums: Alex Zulaika
Composed by Steffen Offermann & Tricia Dovidio
Arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
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Bookending the "Late December" CD, this song about my little girls on Christmas morning holds a special place in my heart. Thanks to Sam and Mick for making it perfect.
One Perfect Day
Go to sleep my blue-eyed girl
The sun is on its…
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You never would have caught me playing this genre a few years ago. WHat the hell happened ??
All the instruments were recorded with an open mic at my house. Which, as you know is always a chaotic place to record :) If you listen hard enough…
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Nine cans of Guinness....
One beaten up old Guitar.....
An MBR....
A Great night out...
Then Some time time my self...
This is the result...
Peace
T(OsCKilO)
All Boiled Down
Words and Music:Tharek Mokbul
Maybe it’s Something…
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rpm 2011
I don't want to wake up
Don't want to watch tv
Don't want to go to work
No desire to read
Don't want to take out the trash
Don't want to take off my shades
Don't want to mow the yard
I've got better things to do
Surfin round…
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Based on Norm Harris' Percussion Solo Moonbathing http://alonetone.com/norm/tracks/moonbathing this piece uses bass pictured above after conversion to fretless and uses my fretless Fender Squire through the metallurgy 3 demo effect.
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This is a song i always wanted to have a go at and it wasn't until Johnny let me have a go on his representation of it i got my chance. Thanks Johnny for letting me have a go, may you rest in peace............
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If your movie needs an 80's montage song, perhaps you should consider this one... :)
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Voice & Text(je ne parle): Ivan1984
guitar(looking for a voice): Davy Hamburgers
making sense out of dis'ordre
making sense out of dat'ordre
feeling like a ghost tied
to a railway track
the screaming never stops
i am driven through
with…
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something from tonight I edited together after a long record.
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from the new album "the Hardest Blow" featuring vocals from Melissa Childers
You see the lights in the sky of a trillion shining stars
Image yourself, just one of them
You see a field full of flowers and everyone's the same
That's what I…
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A live recording done in our studio in Tucson, AZ. This is one of the first songs that Kit and Chris ever wrote together.
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Gary has very kindly allowed me to add a bit of bass to this rather niffty number.
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Alister Flint and myself collaborated on this. Released January 2010 as a SoOn release.
This is edited just a bit for AT.
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So there I was, trying hard to complete a big production that I've been working on for ages, and I was getting nowhere. In frustration I started composing this little thing, and it quickly evolved into a nice piece of music all of its own. Funny…
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This is a piece Norm and I collaborated on last year. We hope you will enjoy it.
two improvised 12 string guitar lines
bass line ( I took a few takes)
improvised piano
Norm's percussion in Tumbao rhythm
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Year: 1984
Album:
Singles
Artist's description:
From the primitive days of using two cassette decks and a 4 pot mixer (no panning, RRLL). I found one of the original double tracking tapes - this sounds complete but is 1st generation unlike…
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Believe it or not, this track was written as a pretty tame little song... Then I put new strings on the guitar and it simply refused to be played slow. Enjoy it for the drive and energy. Listen to the lyrics. For whatever reason, I hope you…
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still ain't done, but wanted to share progress. really grateful for the feedback. thanks!
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An ebow strained thru octave pedal and pitch shifter.
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Filler track just in case. This too, will be shorter in the final mix. If it makes it at all.
All Synth.
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I created this tune to be one of the Demos of my "Bulgarian Voices" sample project which hope to release soon in www.audiogrocery.com
It will be a Mega sample pack which will offer EXS and Ni Kontakt format samples of Bulgarian choirs, single…
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Not a song I'm particularly proud of from a lyrical standpoint. But, I've always like the arrangement, so, I decided to ask for feedback here.
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Episode One:
Sandbags allowed me to use his mad rhythms- see here for an explanation: http://alonetone.com/sandbags/tracks/my-name-is-harry-palmer Sudara lent me some samples of him playing chords from his new autoharp, an ebow against piano…
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"Bee-Dubb In His Original Anger, Is Lyrical Danger, And I Don't Give A Fuck What's Gangsta" Flu gave me da beat, I went in to do a track with Show, but when I laid the first verse, he was like "you gotta finish dat"... So I did. From The Underground…
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So this track was purely for the fun of it. I was messing about in Omnisphere and came across this wonderful sound that reminded me of the guild highliners in Dune.
I built a beat around in using Stylus, Ricochet, and Dubstation. Then added more…
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A track that I put on hold for the RPM Challenge.
Of course, now I can't really remember where I was going with it... but to have used it in the challenge would have been cheating.
What I do remember was that I had just discovered and fallen…
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and you didn't even have to spend the night to get it.
another one from the morning sessions...
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[2003] Full Scale Nature of Equanimity & Inner Trepidation
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uncle-nephew collaboration:
My nephew banged on the guitar, I found a few usable loops in there. I had him sing" the people in the city are runnin' 'cause the robots in the…
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Album: How the Aviator Sees the Rainbow
Year: 2008 (RPM Challenge album)
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