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for ImprovFriday 12/15-17/2011
improv in 11tet, then mixed with 10tet, then spectrally tweaked
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FANNIN COUNTY FAIR
Fannin county fair. Red River rhymes and riddles
And the Bois d' arc spread beneath the harvest moon
There I found her, and I crowned her
Queen of the Fannin County Fair
I told her I'd be rich. I told her I'd be famous…
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Barbara sings this... I wrote this song back about 1975.
I'D BE GLAD TO LET YOU LOVE ME
Key of G
G C G C
G
I’d be glad to let you love me
C
if you’ll just hold me for a while
D
You could take your time and linger
C G
I will not…
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From the Texas Water album TEXAS RAIN
Peggy sings this one.
OKLAHOMA NIGHTS - Capo @ 2
G F G
Carefully, the boats are tied up to the shore
C G F C D
And the fish are jumping in the night, in the night
B D G
And the wind has found…
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EASY ANSWERS
Easy answers, foggin' up my mind
Easy answers, takin' up my time
You tell me what I feel
What is right and what is real
What do you know?
You say, like all the rest
What is worst is what is best
What do you know?
Easy answers…
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Key - G
Texas Water might be the only trio besides The Browns to do this song in the later part of the twentieth century. By Jacque Brel via the Browns.
Here it is by There Browns:
https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+the+browns+three…
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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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This is the song that got me the job of writing all the music for the 1985 George Sluizer movie, Red Desert Penitentiary and a free trip to Amsterdam to work on the music with the editor.
Video at"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V23Be8kDiSs…
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JONAH
Jonah lives under the bridge
Jonah lives under the bridge
He's there, up off the ground
His world is looking down
Bicycles pass him by
Children ask parents, "Why
Jonah lives under the bridge."
Jonah lives under the bridge
No insurance…
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Her name was Rosemarie Jean and I have lost contact with her. She wrote the poem I turned into Beneath the August Moon.
I SAW ROSE AGAIN TODAY
I saw Rose again today
And I recognized the way
My heart reached out
With unturned fingers…
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My daughter, Wyn, sings
a song I wrote in 1977
while I was doing a gig
at the Ramada Inn in
Laredo.
Harmonies are by her mother,
Barbara Anne Taylor and step
mother, Peggy Ann Mitchell.
The guitar solo and keys are
by my son, Rabyn…
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I wrote this one lonely afternoon in San Anselmo, California at my friend, Eric's house. Missing Peggy.
NIGHT TIME DREAMS
It's a long way to Texas. Further to Tennessee
I'm out here in California with nobody but me
So, I'm thinkin' about…
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I wrote this after Brook drowned.
WELCOME TO THE CLUB
Well, you say that you're lonely. I see that you are.
Why do you think I'm standing here at the bar
Where have you been? Life ain't no play pen
Call it a bar. Call it a pub. Welcome…
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I wrote this song after planting and fertalizing a crop of sudan grass just to have the sun shine down with no relief on it for 100 days and no rain. We, Texas Water, were heading home one night AFTER A GIG at Gringo's in Grapevine when the…
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I was trying to write a Willie Nelson/Buddy Holly song. RaByn was 12 when he did the drums and bass on this. I think we did it on a Teac Porta Studio. 4 track cassette.
TEXAS SKIES Key A
Well, there was a time in Texas when the bars were…
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That's Peggy singing this song which was ironic because when all the stuff was going on around Brook's life and drowning she had been off in college hearing about it all from a distance...never thinking that someday she would be in the middle…
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THE CHILD WITH THE BEAUTIFUL NAME
(The story is @ iburymydead.com)
What remains of an eagle that's fallen
The roots of an oak tree now claim
To draw sap for the shade for the cattle
O're the child with the beautiful name
The law, it…
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by Poirier, Moshier, Hamilton, Sanderson, Sundstrom
conducted by Vaisvil
bahm
the far end of a forgotten street
lectured
script
steps
raw cymbal
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One publisher told me, after listening to this song, "I don't like songs about Texas." I responded, "This is not about Texas."
(c) 1990 Royal T Music
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by Samarkand, Hamilton, Oldani, Sundstrom
conducted by Vaisvil
bahm
hymn d162011
sacred valley of the Inca
five minutes for christopher
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by Layton, Smith, Vaisvil, Samarkand
edgy
Ben Improv Dec 12 2011
fretless bass
manger
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by Smith, Samarkand
conducted by Vaisvil
Ben Improv Dec 15 2011
totter
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THE BUDS AND BLOSSOMS
I've been meaning to write you a letter
But I did not know what I would say
I've been thinking about you and your new love
And wishing that there was a way...
And the buds and the blossoms remind me of you today…
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A little something for my ma - actually a (super) late mother's day present!!!
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Slightly sinister take on the popular playground favourite. :) Never did catch 'er..
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SIX OCLOCK SHADOWS
At six p’clock the windmill throws it’s shadow on the grave
The cattle chew their cud and lowly low above the one we didn’t save
The broken body buried there beneath the sod we carried there that day
And tho we hold each…
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This originated as a poem sent to me by Rose Kampton, morning the loss of her father. I turned it into a prayer and put music to it. Then when Brook drowned it became something altogether else.
(c) 1990 Royal T Muaic
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My most requested song.
(c) 1990 Royal T Music
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(Snakeskin Sally)
Open E tuning - EBEGBE
She wears a snake skin belt that says SALLY
and she's working at the lumber yard
I know you're thinking, "With a job like that
the lady must be hard."
She cuts my glass. Threads my pipe.
She really…
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No im not happy and no im not sad, no im not good but i know im not bad. No i wont go there, but no i wont stay, no im not straight but no im not gay, no need to tell me i know im not right, no happy endings and no end in sight. I got no way of…
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TEXAS RAIN
They're stopping cars near Tyler
Just want to check your breath
They think they can prevent another death
And a skunk is eating June bugs beneath a light in Cedar Hill
Before day light, he's sure to get his fill
Texas nights…
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A remix of Hentai Improvising Orchestra's live set at Doc's Records with Chris Vaisvil's fretless bass improv thrown in.
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One Last Christmas 2011 – SKEEN
So this is our festive holiday,
A time for forgiveness, a time to pray…
You say that our future’s all but gone, mmm
Gone are the thoughts of our world as one
You say it’s all over; forget everyone, yeh
One…
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This song is my parody to tres delinquents. Just a comedy track i made about liking mexican food
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Stranger in paradise and stranger a lot of other places too.
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originally written and perfomed by Jeremy Messersmith
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originally written and performed by Stone Temple Pilots
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originally written and performed by Mason Jennings
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originally written and performed by Rural Alberta Advantage
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originally written and performed by The Rolling Stones
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originally written and recorded by the Foo Fighters
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Parts I and II originally written and performed by Neutral Milk Hotel
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originally written and performed by John Frusciante
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originally written by John Mercer and Henry Mancini
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Details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1913
(see the 2nd entry)
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Details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1913
(see the first entry)
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Its an old one. Written about 12 years ago. Its about a girl, and how I felt I was better for having known her even once she wasn't around any longer
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You can never regain what's gone down with the flood
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Watch out when opposites start attracting all the time
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Homer used to play music for a living and you know what that means
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Inspired by some surrealistic paintings from the 1930's.Imagine yourself exploring inside one of them. Added drumloops to give it a modern taste
While DeciBlanK0 added some new synth, sped it up, then shot out some major beats!
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originally written and performed by Jeremy Messersmith
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originally written and performed by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.
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FALSE FLAG
If you fall I will pick you up
If you're thirsty i will give you a drink
If you're hungry I will feed you
If you're lonely I will hold you
If you're slow I will slow down
If you're fast I will hurry
But I won't salute your…
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Evolution stew/Rising from the goo/Homo Insectus/Me or you?
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An Aggressively Electronic Sonic Barrage of Christmas Merriment!
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The first sound reminds me of my father's first electric piano that I play with when I was 5 years old. It's a simple beautiful thing! I tried to create a snapshot of simplicity that blossoms into a full blown "Christmas Extravaganza".
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The experience: First reaction - "This sound feels so wrong!". Second Reaction - "My eyes are opened!". Third Reaction - "This sound feels so right!".
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Homer's songs are inside your little phones all having a good time
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The middle verses are a poem written in the thirteenth century by William the Clerk
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This was originally meant to be part of my national solo album month project in November. I did worse on that deal than I usually do on my RPMs. The more I listen to this one the less I like it. In fact, I kinda don't like it at all anymore…
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A fun little tune. Made all the synths from scratch.
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Loosely based on Stone Temple Pilots "Song for the Sleeping"
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Loosely based on John Frusciante's "Forever Away"
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first published in 1933, this eighty year old song is still just as sweet.
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Fourth track on the Thunderstorms EP available now.
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Something new that I'm working with the Omnisphere. A slower pace,a few different sounds... a little dub,some hip hop & as always a little something else!
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working with the two machines into a cd recorder .. for these three pieces :)
earlier work from last week is this video.
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part two of the mister mixture series :)
the video is again from a work done last week listening to both is allowed oooooo
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part three and these will be the sources one two and three for the final mix parts four a b and c.
more so the video is just to look at and hear as a layer or so.
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mixed from the mister mix album all the first three songs from that are put together here in this song. :) did i say song :) HAAHAHHAHAHA
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This is a response to a terrific biography by Fawn Brodie called 'No Man Knows My History.'
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Written in the depths of the Bush Administration.
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Threw together 3 famous carols as a Merry Christmas to everyone
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Lyrics Brandon
Piano arranged and played by Erin Lee
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I wrote this song as the theme for the Jason Bailey feature film of the same name; Tom Page and I created the entire score. The song is sung here by the film's female lead, Becky Lathrop. I play organ and sing backup; Page plays all guitars and…
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A friend told me a story of a rich man who bought all the products from a failing hardware store and kept it in his tool shed in the backyard. When my friend was instructed to grab a tool from the tool shed he was taken back by the amount of unopened…
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The audio from my phone that I took during our Black Box collab with Big Rig up in Denton on 12.16.2011 and 12.17.2011.
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Improvisation using zither, elephant bells and Crossfade Loop Synth.
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Improvisation using zither, elephant bells and Crossfade Loop Synth.
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just some messings around from last febuary.never really finished. kind of trippy i guess. gearing up for this RPM and looking foward to getting together with the band.
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A cover of the Teenage Fanclub song 'Verisimilitude', written by Raymond McGinley.
This featured on the 2011 LP 'What You Do To Me - A Teenage Fanclub Messageboard Tribute'.
(Please let me know if there is a copyright issue here and I will…
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This is a cover of the Wings song 'Bluebird', written by Paul & Linda McCartney and recorded by me back in 2009.
(Please let me know if there is a copyright issue here and I will happily remove the track. Thanks.)
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Another festive cover, this was recorded in December 2010.
Written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan.
(Please let me know if there is a copyright issue here and I will happily remove the track. Thanks.)
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A Traditional Christmas song, written by John Mason Neale and Thomas Helmore.
Performed by Rog Hildreth for the RPM Challenge 2011 Holiday LP 'Happy Mallidays'.
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Written & Performed by Rog Hildreth, 2011.
Original version taken from the RPM Challenge LP 'Fox Shoots Man'.
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From BAH ! HUMBUG !, a 2003 Xmas album of sorts. Watctch this space over the next week or so for more seasonal deconstructions.
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This is whats in my head when i'm drunkenly mooching around
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Songcrafters.org did a "Live in the living room "festival recently...
The only music I can play in my living room these days is the odd lot of contemplative classical guitar, as anything else would wake up the family at night... :)
Here is…
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this song i forgot i had here but it wasnt done, i guess i'll just upload it type of thing
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another just lying around thought hmm nothing else to do enjoy!
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A song aleisha omeasoo (my girlfriend) and I wrote this summer.
it isnt finished yet but if i ever do get around to it i'll post the finished song haha
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Instantaneously Yours is an internet collaboration between excellent percussionist Norm Harris and myself. I added 12 string, fretless bass and fretless ebowed guitar to Norm's Groove for Saint Ambrose. Since this was done for fun as a serial…
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Conversations with friends as we cross the Brooklyn Bridge in November 17th. This audio has information on what David Horvitz had for dinner in November 16th at Moma opening, as well as Jackqueline Frost talking about Empire and resistance. Jack…
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