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Inspired by those “music everyday” iphone commercials.
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Well, I play this in Fokker 7-limit Just Intonation on the piano and I didn't attempt to try to sing as high as Robert. So that makes the vocals hard to nail right there. And I played it over many times the past 3 days and my voice got worn out…
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Poem by Francis Duggan
Poem selected and recited by Bethan Mathis
Music composed by Chris Vaisvil
Selected for the ANDREAS N°15 – 14?-?18 First World War – FRACTION STUDIO COMPILATION
details / poem
http://chrisvaisvil.com/along-the-war-avenue…
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THE WALK
I drove 400 miles that night
East of Dallas to Abilene
And the hopes that I held in my headlights
Were hopes like I'd never seen
She called me from work that afternoon
She said she'd be off about 2 AM
Said it would be nice…
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Written recorded 28th/29th March 2013.
A little something, just cos I was in the mood.
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After a comment, I had to do a quick version of this - includes harmonica sol (but, not so low so that you can't hear it - sorry!)
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LadyJane (Moonchild) and Jip messing about with a medaeval type song. Saucy ending. lol x
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Ok, this is the full length version, so far, until the new tweaks have been done, but it's a nice reminder of cool things that can come from improv and jamming. Bass (Pete Burke, i.e. myself) and drums (Marty Boot) recorded from a jam to level…
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Imagine the open road, stretching out before you, your bike or hotrod rolling over the hot pavement as the sun beats down. Times couldn't be any better. Until the engine starts to cough and shudder. Fortunately, you roll into the shade of an…
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jam at the Apartment above Oona's. Sounds like we were trying out old jam material we had not hit in a while.
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This was an RPM track back in the day, and I've been playing it various ways to find a setting for it within the band repertoire. This doesn't sound much like our band would do it but it came out nicely, so i thought i'd share it.
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No excuse here.... I just love the Good Wife's voice on this one. From my point of view I tried to get a 50's/60's feel to the song.....
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A first alonetone collab! (thats not MMI), featuring amazing guitars by Movement to Contact.
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In 2001 my most recent band, Hoss Williams, recorded a four-song demo, and each of the four bandmembers contributed one song to it. This was mine. It's loosely about growing up in the country and being a teenager ripping around in clapped-out…
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Title track of my new project, as my other group? The Seven Spiders. This song is experimental dub influenced chamber music, I am exploring the possibilities of humour in music trying to make the music itself amusing ... if that makes any sense…
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I detest groups. It removes individualism from thoughts, and adds a false sense of comfort and ultimately dependence. They might be essential, for efficiency, for communication, but they should not be celebrated as much. Or maybe it’s just misanthropy…
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from the album "Que Vive!"
which is circumstance and which is fate
the child with nothing or the one with hate
one may see wrong from right
but the line is hard to follow
even with the right design
where do miracles go when the world’s in…
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In memory of my cousin Mike, nicknamed Shovel Head, because of the Harley Davidson Shovel Head motorcycle he drove.
Lyrics
I can feel the wind blow
Lean into that winding road
Setting Sun against my skin
Shift into that high gear
Get…
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Lyrics and music by Brian Vaughn.
Guitar co-written with Karl Ridgeway.
I can feel her slowing down.
She turns her head to me, and I know her mind.
No words are said as I lay down.
We'll be safe together here.
It's all I have.
Can't you…
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A song for a wet day in Sheffield Thanks Johnny.......another one for the Zep album.........I will have to sort out that first verse..........but i hope you enjoy..........
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After the damp squib of a start to the party it eventually got started and what a party it was........you should have been there....the whisky started to flow......it must have been the most debauched night down the cellar yet…
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i have been listening to some wonderful music this morning here on AT, and it has inspired me to post once again
this is the sister to piano moment #4
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Often I am asked about the difference between "normal" 12 equal tuning and microtonal tuning.
Thanks to a retuning by Gene Ward Smith to meantone tuning (I don't know which) you can compare this famous piece of music in the familiar 12 equal…
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Reg took a collaboration from Chris Vaisvil, Norm and threw it into the cellar last night and this is what was returned through Regs door this morning...... a tale from the old wild west.........................
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instrumental written by michael mcguane (reliablebowmusic)
John Fuller : piano/synth
Michael McGuane : guitar
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Over the weekend Reg had gone back to his home town where he come from and met up with a few of his friends from whey back when. He found that he seemed like stranger. He was sitting telling Elvis about his weekend. Elvis felt sorry for Reg because…
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If Ennio Morricone and Dr. Dre smoked a buttload of crack and decided to collaborate, except that one of them thought he was writing a soundtrack for the Godfather Part 11, and the other for Phantom of the Opera, Part 2, The Unwanted Sequel…
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Written by Errol Chugg (music & lyric)
Vocals: Error Chugg
Guitar: Mike Woodford
Organ: Swansong
Drum programming, steel drums, synths: Steffen Offermann
Arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
A "I wish Winter was over"-song by…
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Finally going to end this RPM with a slop fest.
Pretty disgusted with my efforts. I did have some fun though.
I feel like I just gave birth to a full set of Ludwigs.
High gloss black of course.
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A tale of keeping your head above the water, or not...
Recorded Jan-Feb 2011.
I wrote it many years ago, never thought I'd ever do anything with it.
I intended to record this with just an acoustic and my new EDB (electric upright bass…
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I had a go at channeling Ray Charles for this one, I just forgot to channel his talent.
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Well, you are not going to often hear a 70′s metal piece from me. I have to plead affection for genre as it is what I grew up with in my garage band days. In this piece I put to use my stratocaster copy strung up with “Not Even Slinky…
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This time paying homage to grandpa. Did I miss any dead folks out this album?
I often stop and think of William
Up on Skinners Ridge
He passed me on his way back down
As I passed from being a kid
A shame you’d say
But aint that the way
Things…
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2010
Depeche Mode lite
I was going to hire Meatloaf for the ending but it turns out he will NOT work for pancakes... which is what I had heard.
This is one of the prime examples of (early on) being WAY more ambitious than what my ability…
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details here if you want them http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=350
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A cello improvisation with live looping, recorded after hearing of the passing of a great composer.
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This song was inspired by Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani's (1884-1920) painting with the same title.
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Original song I wrote with the goal of the Louisville Cardinal's football team coming on to the field to it. Go Cards!!
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My performance on video (see "more") at the odd music convergence with words by Evan Harrington and myself.
Details are available here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=68
The full quality 230 meg video is available here: http://clones.soonlabel…
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Written and Recorded April 10/11, 2010
Inspired a bit by a painting I saw today: http://gowalla.com/checkins/6575047
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (EBEGAD/BBEGAD, Capo II), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, Audacity.
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I used to cross over railway tracks on my way to the ballfield in college, and though I never knew why, I was always tempted to just start following them.
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Gothic-Doom metal from Russia, all the tracks in this album are instrumental.
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Don’t Talk Much- Perhaps it’s time you got over your big, bad self and moved on.
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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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A good take on a middleeastern style theme. Sounds refreshing and with the reiterations of a Middleeastern prayer, it makes itself right at home. I've always wanted to do one song like this.
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Slack key guitar and baritone ukulele.
Before modern Honolulu, there was a small 700 foot wooded island often populated with musicians and people with romance on their minds. Progress has overtaken the scenic island, but it is remembered in…
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And oldie, probably recorded around 2003-2004. All instruments played by P. Brown.
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We all know someone like this. Sometimes I'm like this. Anyway, recorded using my Epiphone semi-hollowbody. I love the gtr sound on this one. Again, it's older, so the sonic quality isn't anywhere near what I do now.
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A joint we made by switching instruments in the band. All live except vocals (one take) and additional keys.
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Background music for a fun father/daughter YouTube video editing collaboration/experiment (embedded here.) My daughter and I filmed and edited the movie, and I wrote the music after hearing some video-game music my daughter wanted me to emulate…
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Sudara sent me a guitar piece he was working on... So I added a song. And it didn't turn out at all as I expected.
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A cautionary tale.
Tune shamelessly stolen from "All About You" by McFly.
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Sudara says: Just found this on my iPod.
Basically it was the first full mix of the tune, before it passed back to glu and then back to Sudara for the "original" version.
This is heavier, more energy, less fraility, and in Sudara's opinion a…
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this song was inspired from an ee cummings poem. it was composed for rpm 2009.
lyrics:
i'll tell you a dream i had once
up in the sky blue everything
flying away a kite on a string
i didn't have anything
i was cool you were warm…
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The title comes from reading "The Willows in Winter" to my son Maurice, which is the sequel to "The Wind in The Willows" and thinking of Toad and the sort of idyllic natural landscape. While messing around in Logic, I ended up creating a "Drag…
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a chill digital beach, whipped up in a 10 minute jam challenge on an autumn afternoon
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streets are empty
phantom skyline
it dreams of people
missing in time
(where did they all go?)
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Track built around these Creative Common 0 samples found on Freesound :
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Travel back with us to 1962…the Place, the shores of the River Mersey.
Umbrella Book is a song about a book….eh, I’m not gonna explain it to y’all.
Slap on a pair of drainies and some Italian heeled boots and you’re on your way to some nostalgic…
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Bass, guitar, drums, electric mandolin with sitar emulation pedal.
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You’ve got a way to be
all around the island
falling in sound
talking ends here
when the number’s unknown
you’ve got to let go
I’m not on a dollar….
Down on the dock or the field
Falling in step
what we learned is the odds we’ve sown…
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On any other day than this I might recall, the words to make you feel better
and spin the waves of the record known by heart
I’ve tried to fool myself to sleep so many nights I fear I may never wake up
A moonlight trance
I drank the drink…
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Teejay’s WRLD_-_Down In The Dump’s (Déjà vu)
“Am Always Happy When I See My Mom Smile’s”
(A Feeling Of Déjà vu)
Bhad Mharn Tinz
To me everyday life is a mess
I only pray for better days just to feel bless
I do my thing my way, I really…
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[Verse]
Get that oatmeal and put it in my bowl please and it’s
This Southern hick beat I’m gonna get down real quick, see I…
Get that chili, my special combination I’m making and then I plate it and then I a-a-ate it
Yo, pasta every once in…
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This started off with a play around on Edie the acoustic and then I got carried away.....Thanks for listening
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Written with John Bennett - Find more John Bennett music here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB8kZ_1SeK4wsNtEoYwlEzCbGVt0XA6ny
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Walking On A Winter’s Day
Sunlight glistening on freshly fallen…
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This an old, old one from way back, Merry Christmas to everyone
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Improv on baritone ukulele. Inspired by Ralph Towner recently.
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RPM 2k22
down goes the champion
disappear into the past
his glory fading out
know it would never last
faced with reality
just a shell remains
nothing to fall upon
and no one else to blame
raise your white flag
and hope that you get…
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Based on the show "The Great" on Hulu. Yeah, I know. You've never heard of it...
Lead guitar by Anton Samford
Backing Vox by Megan Kleven https://megankleven.bandcamp.com
You got the moves, you carry the cachet
Always used to having…
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022**
Song number 14
Written Monday 21st February 2022
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This is it ... FAWM's all finished for me... time for a lie down now.
There's still nearly a week to go, but I'm done, 14 songs written in 16…
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If I told you how well I know you
Would you tell me it's not true
Have you got yourself believing
No one could know you like I do
I know it's been a long time coming
So many others you thought would treat you right
But I'm gonna show you…
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Heres a story of a cold cold house
They walk by
Trying as they do to catch a glimpse, of life inside the cold, cold house
But the dark of the windows only reflect themselves
Their enquiry is rejected
The house keeps its secrets to it’s self…
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Written July 2021
Recorded July-September 2021
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I've been musically idle for about 3 months having been focusing on another muse from the past, photography in the 'film' sense. This week I had several things leading me to want to give time to an improv the current Sound-In Facebook group…
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I recorded the Gibson straight with the SE Magneto condenser mic into the Scarlet and then vocal on seperate track you may hear the bloody dryer in the background if you listen carefully but this one had to be done there and then or i'd forget…
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The Freedom Of The Moon
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Poem by Robert Frost
I've tried the new moon tilted in the air
Above a hazy tree-and-farmhouse cluster
As you might try a jewel in your hair.
I've tried it fine with little breadth of luster,
Alone, or in one…
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Now that the October album in a month thingie is finished I can get back to the better (not necessarily good) stuff. The Quarantine Tunes, volume 2.
This song is wicked old. I wrote it for the 2020 RPM Challenge, all of nine months ago…
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Reg was reading the Sunday papers today and he's finally had enough he's going to get a shovel and dig himself a big hole and dissapear into it he's had enough of their silly games ....all of them he's off..being him....being the thespian that…
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I guess you can call that a religious experience:)
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Well this is from a challenge,' write one with the word glass seems simple -straight away.
THE PROBLEM WAS THE VOCAL . TOO SHY TO SING!
MY friend on alonealonetone told me just sing it dummy
so I did that. Thank You you know who…
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This one came to me as I was sleeping on a plane, delayed on a tarmac. I dreamt that McCartney was singing this, sort of. I came out of the dream abruptly when the pilot said we were finally cleared to take off. I racked my brain to figure out…
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Making a Mashup I took TR2 August 3, 2019 IV by Paul H. Muller and mixed it into Chris Vaisvil sequence just posted.. by into I mean I snipped the end of of Paul's and then condensed the rest to fit the size of Chris's work which was already…
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Reflecting back on where you started and how far you've come over many years; enjoying it with that someone special. The bar in question was knocked down many years ago and is now the home of a self service car wash.
Recorded: Feb 2018
Remixed…
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Hey Guys check out this mad jam from your own personal home boy and rapper. First Nigerian GRIME Artist Shun Hybrid. This Song Is Titled "Mans Now Hot" a cover of Big ShaQ's hot and trending music "Mans Not Hot". This song is actually a Diss Reply…
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Another recent song somehow not posted to AT (?) cleaning house this weekend.
Had the privilege of playing around with a cello in the house.
Dont know how to play the damn thing but too fun not adding it in the mix
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Miles Away is a very simple guitar riff and lyrics that match, but it's a song that came from the heart of one of the band's members. It's kind of a tune about a newly married couple...like most Prood songs it was recorded after one or two rehearsals…
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Blew out a fav pair of tennies. Looked like they had a million miles on them.
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"Danny Boy" is a ballad written by English songwriter Frederic Weatherly. It is considered to be an unofficial signature song, particularly by Irish Americans and Irish Canadians. Here's my version...
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RPM 2014
been so long since I’ve been out of the city
maybe even longer than I can remember
tried to leave many times, oh what a pity
there’s no around anymore to take me away
should I be a hermit in a barrel
under the brush creek bridge…
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On Wikipedia I read this about the great jazz pianist Bud Powell: "...his solos could be heard to emulate the horn players' attack — with the use of frequent arpeggios punctuated by chromaticism," so the first thing you hear is a lick that uses…
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This a song about St. Joseph, the foster father of Jesus. It is a prayer to ask him to intercede for us.
Papa Joseph
Guitar: Capo 5th fret:
G----------------------------------------- C-------
Papa Joseph, the foster father of Jesus…
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Recorded for the 2013 [NaSoAlMo challenge.](http://www.nasoalmo.org/)
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In the mean time
In an alleyway downtown
In the mean time
In Afganistan
In the mean time
In your back yard
In the mean time
Knockin' at your door
It could…
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