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As the song name implies, this is a piece for piano, cello and drum kit. I’m open to suggestions for a name.
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My medley arrangement of two American spirituals. Originally recorded in 1998, I used a synthesized choir for a demo - I call it my Martian choir. The problem with using the Martians is they can’t sing in English. So, as with “Ponder Gethsemane…
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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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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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As I have mentioned in other years, I am so very blessed to have some songs come to me in my dreams. Grace is one of them. The specific line "Grace, grace, grace! You don't have to be a lonely child" is what I retained in my waking moments so…
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Another one where the riff came first, on the last day of RPM 2020 actually. Before all the craziness struck. I thought to myself "Oh self! That's a good riff! I will need to revisit it next year for RPM 2021." So I did. It also has a call-back…
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Originally I had a Motown idea in mind, and I kept my stomping and clapping, but the song seemed to lend itself to a more spacey-synthey feel, so I ran with it. I also am hinting a tiny (very tiny) bit at Joe Jackson's band's backing vocal styles…
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She Cries Diamonds
Written By INT'L
She cries diamonds
Only when she’s sad
She cries diamonds
Only when she’s sad
She’s drowning in diamonds
Because everyday is so bad
She cries diamonds
When she's out in the rain
She cries diamonds…
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Sometimes That Feels Like Going Home
Written by INTNL
Love is a song that only angels have sung
We try to harmonize but no one ever does
We’ll just scream until we lose our voice
And sometimes that feels like going home...
Sometimes…
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Oleander Season
Written By Fictional Name
It’s oleander season
The cold is turning cool
The reeds are getting sharper
Lying in the pool
Millions of fireflies
Coming from the east
Songs of tomorrow
Songs of the beast
It’s oleander…
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Such A Bad Way
Written By Fictional Name
There’s some wine in the closet
There’s some beer in the fridge
Some people coming over
You know how it is
With all of the features
And of the fraud
Didn’t you miss me
Breaking all sorts of laws…
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Humanatee
Written by Fictional Name
I walked away
from the choices I made
I'm lucky I can get old every day
A surprising reminder
I wish I had been kinder
In the words I never chose to say
Just listen to suspicion
Just go and pack…
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Auto Machine
Written By Fictional Name
People there are machines
Same thing everyday
Slowly losing feeling
Until they get paid
But can't dare mention or question
What is a living wage?
And no emergency savings
To get out of this…
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Great band. My brother and I listened to them on KCRW when driving around LA in 2009. Give your leftover change from the ice cream savings away.
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Written and recorded for the 2021 RPM Challenge.
Wilson Ng - Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards.
Andy Samford - Guitars, Bass.
Brian Wood - Vocals, Guitars.
Gareth Banks - Drums.
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are cornflowers even a thing? i've driven past a hundred cornfields and never seen flowers in a color one might describe as "cornflower blue". i always ask when i play this song at open mics and someone once told me but i forgot exactly what he said.
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This is the 10th and final song for my RPM Challenge 2021. It is a long piece inspired by Tchaikovsky's The Sick Doll. It opens and closes with a modified piano version from the beginning of Tchaikovsky's piece and then twists and turns into…
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Before the War
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Do you remember
Those carefree years right before the war
God, we were so so sure
it would always stay this way
Do you remember
sweat from the ceiling and from the walls
we didn't have a care…
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Getting to know the Mother-32.
I go in though the out door
My only smile beneath a mask
Im just looking for a place to hide
Because I’m going nowhere fast
And home is where the heart is
To fortify these castle walls
You can’t…
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A "duet" between modular synth and the minimoog clone. I have a sequencer driving the melody on the modular while the clone fills the low end.
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Recorded late at night on two tracks with the modular synth. One track laying down the pad with the other creating the blips and beeps and later a "tweaked" melody performed by cranking the frequency knob on the oscillator.
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A solo performance on the modular synthesizer I built.
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Duet piece recorded between a Eurorack modular synthesizer I built and a Behringer Model D (minimoog clone). Tons of reverb and delay for added effect.
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Originally a simple Classical style piece.. Written on a GuitaleleI!
I never though much of this song, as it seemed a little obvious; but after purchasing a Midi Guitar - AKA a rock band controller - I transcribed this piece to Midi and arranged…
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Song #3 for the RPM Challenge 2021. A reflection on being an amateur musician and loving it. Thanks for listening. Onward!!!
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Written using a mix of Virtual and Analog instrumentation.
Arranged, Sequenced and Looped within Ableton Live.
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When my kids were babies, my Dad always used to hum a little tune when he was carrying them and trying to settle them down... it's the sweetest, lilting sound, I've hummed it all my life, always thinking of my Dad when it was in my head. I've…
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Ethereal synths and strings, glitchy bass, and drums. Made with UVI's PX Memories and pizzicato string plucks from Spitfire Audio's free LABS series.
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A sparse track with percussion, guitar, synth bass, and strings.
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My attempt at this super fun sea shanty!
This is an old New Zealand whaling song. The popular recent version was recorded a cappella by The Longest Johns. I'm using the chords suggested by Piotrek_G on ultimate-guitar.
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THIS IS AN ICOMPOSITIONS COLLAB WITH CARLA AND MY SELF I WROTE THE MUSIC ON MY PIANO AND CAME UP WITH THE TITLE CARLA WROTE THE LYRICS AND VOCAL MELODY OVER THE PIANO PIECE I SENT TO HER
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Godin 5th Avenue Kingpin / kawol samarqandi
recorded and edited by kawol at 432den
December 31, 2020
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According to Greek legend, an evil race of Goblins, known as The Kallikantzaori, lurk underground until the 12 days of Christmas to wreak havoc across the country.
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Godin 5th Avenue Kingpin / kawol samarqandi
recorded and edited by kawol at 432den December 22, 2020
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I stole the title from Paul Mccartney's new album it's nothing like his but i mean if your gonna steal a title thats who you steal it from anyway the idea stemmmed from that ...Thanks for listening
The kiss of Venus it touched me so
Heat…
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Uploading something to get montgomeru off my back....
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well this will be kind of random for my listeners... but what the "hey" as they say!
In a bit of a writing desert lately, but had a lovely walk two days ago, and got inspired by the sounds coming from newly frozen ice with at least 1000 migrating…
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Not all house's are full of joy at Christmas ......This wasn't actually our house
CHRISTMAS TIME AT OUR HOUSE
It was Christmas time at our house sat round the table waiting
Waiting for our father to return from the pub where he‘d a been…
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Kari put this backer up on Songcrafters looking for a vocal so i jumped at the chance to collborate again with Kari...Thanks Kari
November’s song w/Redler
Autumn is over, it’s now the season of reflection
Autumn is done and winter is here…
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Thanks for listening .......
YOU ARE NOT LIKE ME
Some People don’t know they can’t control their dreams
They hold them back and watch them rip at the seams
If they could break away maybe one day they could see
that I am not like you…
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This isn't the best song I've ever written. I think that one is on the Quarantine Tunes Volume 1 playlist. No, it's not the best but... I'm pretty sure it's my favorite song I've ever written. Not because of the quality of the song, but because…
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A very soft cover of the Barenaked Ladies' hit, Brian Wilson. Their (excellent) tune is normally played with gusto. The live version on the Rock Spectacle album is dripping with energy, and that's usually how I like to play it. But today I thought…
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I like the theme music to the PBS/BBC mystery series Midsomer Murders with its use of a Theramin. So much so that it inspired me to purchase a Theramin and try my hand recording my version of it. The first thing I learned is, while the Theramin…
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Morning rush, Afternoon nap, evening crapped..
Rise and Repeat
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JUST LIKE ME - Capo 1 in G
G C G
How many people, each day, do you see
D G
You think to yourself, “Hey…
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no where to run
no starting gun
no near no far
no beating heart
home from work, i feel the same
roll(in) over –– reading all the work out plans
what could summon out my rage
easy does it with those god damn magazines
no high-way…
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Track 1 of 4, from Uncle Woe’s sophomore LP, Phantomescence
Released 23/10/2020
© 2020 Packard Black Productions
All Rights Reserved
Written by Rain Fice & Nicholas Wowk
Performed and recorded by Rain Fice and Nicholas Wowk, April to…
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When I was around three years old I first realized I was hearing music in my head, the sounds of which I could manipulate. I thought I was hearing the voices of an Angel choir singing with me. This is that tune, as best I can remember so many…
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So I got me a new geetar the other week.
Named her Lala, obviously. Seemed kind of appropriate - she wears a faded gold dress and is full of chunes and mischiefs.
This is our first effort together. It was meant…
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Ambient/Soundscape/Drone.....been messing around with my guitar-amp and some added sounds.
Hope you enjoy.
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They keep saying don't cross that line but the madness is real.
How many times did you slip on you own shoe laces?
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CATTAILS AND BUTTERFLIES capo @ 6 in C
C G repeat
There was a field around the corner
And a stream flowed cross the field
There were cat tails in the summer time
And monarch butterflies
And tadpoles sprouting wings
E…
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I was watching the breeze in the trees and it got me to thinking ........
Winter
I look into the trees and I see that the breeze is blowing and I’m beginning to freeze
Cause the wintertime is coming cause the leaves have started blowing…
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I really wish I could sing.
This one was written for the 2014 50/90. I remember it clearly. I set up with the intention of working on something else but plugged in my guitar and played this without thinking about it. Well, I guess I was…
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No bells or whistles on this, just one take. Any good ? Well it's out there now.
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The downside of writing about politics in February of 2016 is that it doesn't have any meaning in October of 2020. Oh well. This one and "Did I Offend You" were both written back to back on the last couple of days of the RPM Challenge and they…
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So, what do you think... could it use more wah-wah?
This was written for the 2014 RPM Challenge. The chromatic thing at the beginning had been rattling around in my head for years and years but had never found a home.
The lyrics here…
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Haven't done a lengthy experimental track in quite a while. In light of Halloween and the times we're living in i thought the page needed a solid turn.
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I found this one while I was digging through the shoe-box for the 1994 songs. Apparently I wrote it on 10th November 1995.
Foolishly, I thought it would only take a week or so to record... I was originally expecting…
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This was just a twisted and warped little extra I threw on to "The Dark Side of the Moo." Another remix because the original was not the greatest.
Some people will sit down at a piano and duet on "Heart and Soul." In our high school and college…
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I wrote this one in response to a song writing challenge from the Minnesota Association of Songwriters. The title had to be Mississippi Moon and it had to have a I V VI I II chord progression somewhere in the song. Over 20 writers have signed…
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Jumping letters are so distracting.
Rashi can't take the feedback:)
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The song of appreciation to God almighty for everything He Has done! Nagode is hausa spoken word from the northern part of Nigeria which Means 'Thank You ".
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Now here's a bit of an oldie - the second song I ever wrote. In... 1978!
I think I played it once, or maybe twice, at school assemblies. My musical peers and colleagues back then dismissed it as corny/rancid pop music…
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A story about an interesting Character i recently met.
True Story.
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THE TIDE POOLS OF CALIFORNIA
capo @ 5 in C. 4/6 time…
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OK, let's delve once more into the magical shoebox of unused songs...
I've already recorded several that were written in 1994 (Sleeping with the Ghost, Elizabeth's Room, With Mum Again, If You Knew, A Hundred and…
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No Matter what,
Believe u can,
Believe in ur seff,
never relen.
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The Ecstasy and the Hawk
You can see how it almost ended
(Crashing in the same three walls)
You can see how it almost started
(Retribution for the deed)
There’s so much you do inside a moment
I don’t answer you
You can see how…
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Another silly little tune, this time about the world's favourite stout! (Edit: uploaded a new version. Fixed a few mistakes.)
Lyrics:
When the sun is up high, in a bright blue sky
And you're walking around in Dublin town
You got nothing…
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It a motivational track
From TEEJAY ADIX BHAD MHARN.
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In Lockdown, I have really been inspired to return to my more classical roots, and have enjoyed playing around with the idea of epic style movie or cinematic themes/trailers. I have imaginatively named them Lockdown Orchestrations No. 1, No…
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No more covid songs....
Time to write about other things
This one's for my muse
I had uploaded an earlier version, but didn't like the mix
here's another version
KC
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So many years we've been…
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Steve developed this beautiful track with his ukulele and I added some lyrics to make a "positive message" song for the times we are in.... Hope it makes you smile too...
It Won’t Be Like This Forever
Sitting here on my front steps
Listening…
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Here's the very latest from the broom-cupboard.
I wrote it one dark night over 23 years ago.
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**All I Have To Do - A A J Russe**
There isn’t much time to get this out
You won’t hear me if I have to…
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A duet for piano and upright bass.
I had composed and recorded this about ten years ago; given the current situation, seems like a good time to release it. One of these days I’ll figure out how to adequately record the upright bass; it’s again…
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empty club smokey Sunday afternoon t bone style blues
starring the greatest Harp player I know Mark Imsdahl.
Thank you Mark
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Okies, so I'm working on some other thing and it's taking a while... drums to do and wotnot. But in the middle of it I'm digging how my Martin acoustic is working out. You probs won't even be able to hear it amongst…
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from the album "the Machine"
nothings wrong with me
it's all in your mind
everything's ok
and I am feeling fine
must be some mistake
or you've misunderstood
whatever you might think
everything is good, so good
the power is still on…
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from the album "the Machine"
it's hard without a heart
pretending to care
watching with greed and spite
you're unaware
you'll never see the ghost inside the machine
you're weak and all alone
that's why you fail
programmed to fix the…
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On a resent group meeting of musicians , I was reminded of the love of Latin rhythms. Thank you Bethan.
This is a tune dedicated to a los angeles luthier family ,Candelas, who build old style classic guitars. My fist real guitar was one of…
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doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
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A joint Collaboration effort with Wrinkled Shirt.
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Written for the April 2020 RPM mini-challenge. I hoped for an EP and ended up with a single song. The song is largely recorded on a T25 mic I built for Brian of A Beautiful Scene as a means to test the mic. It's pretty solid if you ask me…
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I wrote this over a year ago and could not get it. the groove was too slow and so were my hands. well tzars better.
the concept came from a friend comparing his new love with a ten round boxing match . I could not resist.
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My dad used to play the beginning riff of this song when he could still play guitar. I've always wanted to do something with it. The message in this song is to stay positive even in times of turmoil. And that it is ok to do nice things for others…
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A story that is all too common. Healthcare tied to work is crazy! If you can't work because you are sick, you lose your job, and healthcare! How can that work!?
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Heres one I found on my Hard drive an experiment with Igor 2016 part of a project called mmmm I believe (Hi Igor its been a while...) anyway hope you enjoy
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