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Downtempo groove with percussions make this spicy like Senegal? Zingy like Zimbabwe? Nice like Namibia!
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Soothing third world chillout with screaming violin, clanging galvanized iron roof shingles, and mutant radio signals being broadcast amidst the squalor.
Trust me, you don't want to hear V.1.
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The first track from our 2008 RPM album. Didn't make the cut for the final album, so you get to enjoy it here!
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zoozaza its all a brujaja ha hahahahahaha/
the bands width is not a cummerbund/ words to squeeze out the imperfect/ bright lites fandango oh so fun/ where is the allah/ messiah/ the jah?
as a species/ we fall to peaces/ our pretense, provoked…
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This is a feeble attempt to play some classical Spanish guitar. It took two takes, to make one guitar part, haha. I am no Tommy Emmanuel, and that will be obvious when you listen to this one.
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From my 2006 RPM album,, I am working on eventually producing a collection of mystic/sufi, inspired pieces,,, for which this will be one
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This is a collaboration with a wonderful young artist - Craig Mathieson. Craig is a tremendous talent, a great guitar player, and just an all around good guy. His album just dropped and you can hear more of his music at the following:
http…
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A cover of The Missed Connections off her 2010 RPM CD.
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Second of the songs with a movie clip from 1955.
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This is probably to personal, to raw to put here, but I've been listening to some pretty courageous stuff here in alonetone. This is more of an occurence, a onetime performance, more of a memorial, than a recording. My dad had died recently, I…
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Wisians are those strange foreign people with odd customs, and funny hats. They love to party. Have you seen one recently?
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Cthulahoop recording commenced after a peculiarly strong dream. Uses samples of a friend's digerido run through an analog filter. Definitely dream state.
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Cthulahoop recording. Monkey, the base element of the human alchemy.
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At the beginning of a Himitsu jam session we had an impromptu trio of guitar, theremin, and electronic drums doing a snippet of this classic theme.
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Himitsu jam piece. I am responsible for the synth slide trombone here.
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A special song for a very special lady and her son
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More of theat life stuff that happens to us all at some point!
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"Senses" is all about Spring where all our senses are sharpened and we look at all the beautyful things that rises before our eyes.
Watch the video from Second Life too...very well made by Soundr Productions;o)
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This Lovin’ Cup- I was watching the idiot box and just holding my guitar when this little vamp on a B chord came out of nowhere. Using the same recorder, I recorded about 20 seconds of the riff. The lyrical idea came on the trip to Chicago, while…
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Allelujiah-This was supposed to be a completely different song, but this one just wrote itself instead. It’s almost all first take, except for the bass, which took a while to get straight so that it wouldn’t overwhelm the song. It has this tone…
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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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your 4x4 is my four post bed/ the ruffles and patterns really effed up yer head/in a world of strip malls and choreographed tv brawls/ we grow like a wayward chia/ im so happy to see ya/ the texting is no touching/ and heavy petting means no munching…
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i actually got to kidnap a real live drunk sax player for this instrumental kick in the face of traditional arrangement.
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OK we lost power at a critical point in recording for RPM. This one was written and recorded the day I had to pack up all my recording gear and borrow a room at a local public business which was on a different power grid. The wind had caused some…
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Inspiration for this quick fun one came from Uncommon Ritual and other works by Edgar Meyer: I wanted to take a run of notes across multiple instruments just to have fun!
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We play even number of games of backgammon and sometimes it ends in a...
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But don't answer yet, we will DOUBLE the offer if you call right now...
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Written with thoughts for Nodar Kumaritashvili who died at the 2010 Olympics. It was a one in a million chance...
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I figure if I keep trying long enough, I'll start channeling the great Django Reinhardt. Perhaps it's like squeezing blood from a stone but if I get a drop or two, I'm happy with that!
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Named after a painting which was named after a lovely little daily ritual I share with my best friend.
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Sometimes a tune pops up right to left field. This is one of em! I backed it up with a stand-up bass track which I was intending to re-record before RPM submission but ran outta time.
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The title came to me when I saw what impending maelstrom was headed our way on satellite imagry. Lots of space in this tune...
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A reggae version of my country/pop tune. From 2008 album Do What I Gotta Do
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Haitian rhythm bed with kalimba and Ney and synthflute. Rejected for its original purpose as being 'too jazzy' ;)
The rhythmns and kalimba were old favorites that I had not adapted to anything. Added flute and textures for a website project…
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Tried to capture the spirit of the e.e. Cummings poem, didn't quite make it.
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I know, you think I've completely lost it. This is actually a cover tune. Originally done by Wall of Voodoo around 1979. I did it from memory and ear, so I'm not sure if I got the notes or the Key right. It don't matter though, It was fun.
I…
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This is a filler piece for this cool new CD I'm working on. I got this Clint movie thing working pretty good :) Think of it as our hero horsebackin' it across the plains in the land of the big sky.
I think the piano has a bit of Robert Nichols…
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From the Himitsu jam sessions. Electronic punk jazz or almost anything else. A group of 3 to 5 musicians meeting weekly to just play. All improvisation, no planning or themes, just what you bring.
Heavy use of Kaos Pad and vocoders, as a…
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two quotes off some TCM-movie and an edited Lady Gaga interview pretty much make up the vocal portion of the track. the rest was born from the fat beats i started out with.
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From the Himitsu jam sessions. Electronic punk jazz or almost anything else. A group of 3 to 5 musicians meeting weekly to just play. All improvisation, no planning or themes, just what you bring.
Our guitarist led this 5 player piece, though…
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I wrote this song after living in Milwaukee for awhile. The ghetto is a hard place to grow up and live. Things become normal there that shouldn't be normal. It's quite sad.
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I wrote this song for a singer that used to be with the band. After you listen to it, you'll get a good feel for her. This is a Delta Blues feel.
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I have lived in Milwaukee for six years now and I felt I had to write a song for the city. This has a Muddy Waters feel with harmonica.
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I had a falling out with a long time friend when I wrote this song. It has a Ray Charles/Aretha Franklin gospel/blues feel.
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After hearing people day in and day out wish for the weekend, I felt the need to write a song to remind them that they were essentially wishing their life away. This music is funk/blues with a Meters feel.
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A cover of a 2010 RPM Challenge song by A Beautiful Scene. Lyrics:
Pouring Rain by A Beautiful Scene
This year I thought of you, far too many times
And it’s made me think
Of things that’ve become over there and they…
And how do I know…
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still ain't done, but wanted to share progress. really grateful for the feedback. thanks!
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“Melodious compositions in dancing style for YOU!” - A.W.E.
My first album «ZigZag» (2010) :
http://www.rhapsody.com/awe/zigzag
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/zigzag/id339433974
http://www.amazon.com/Zigzag/dp/B002X39FFI/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8…
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Opening and preferred track for our 2010 RPM Challenge record (self-titled).
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This is the first song that was completed with vocals by Vinyette. It is inspired by a dream or nightmare really. The scene is set in purgatory, which happens to be a dark subway train running at full tilt into an abyss of track lighting. The…
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A tale of the lonely soul who is desperate to feel connection. The Asterisk Zero is the child who opens fire on fellow school children, with no understanding of the depth and complexity of the pain they are causing. This song is a soul searching…
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Some shun or dare not partake in the discussion of passing on from this life. Many search for meaning and fanciful places to reside, after their earthly shells have been left behind. This song is sweet reminder that ignoring and falsifying of…
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This is the centrepiece of the album; my self-confessed preferred track to RPM HQ. Powerful vocals by Jen Gibbons and heavy beats supplied by Chris Thomas. The drum track was heavily overdriven to crispen it up and the kick was given a lot of…
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Paper Girls is one of those tracks which I wrote based on my experiences that I hope others can relate to in their own way. Soft, breathy vocals courtesy of Anezka Piska.
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The album kicks off with one of the gritter, darker songs. The amazing, gravely voice you hear is that of Linda Harrison.
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We move miles away from Bristol trip-hop and take a trip to Paris. This Daft Punk-inspire piece really allowed me to lighten up a bit during the lonely production stages.
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Self-explanatory. Sorry if it breaks your speakers :)
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The obligatory ambient piece. I really wanted to experiment with balancing the bass and treble; it seems to have worked quite well. Bonus marks if you can identify any of the samples.
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Lyrics:
Well there ain't nothing, nothing you could ever do to break my heart again...
You lied and oh you cheated.
You hung me out to dry.
Left me standing in the cold
beneath the pale gray sky.
There ain't nothing, nothing you could…
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Lyrics:
Les animaux du cheveux faux,
Les animaux du cheveux faux,
adieu, adieu, mes animaux...
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Lyrics:
Babe, if I may be so bold
I swear that you don’t look that old
In fact I’d say you look alright.
So if you want to write my number down
I could show you all around this town
And show you what we do at night.
Well you look like…
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There are a bunch of bass tracks going on here. Headphones help pick out what's going on. This one came to me leaving Taos on the drive back to Phoenix, coming down out of the canyon. I suddenly became conscious of a disturbing dream from the…
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Track 5 from A Half An Hour In the Dark. Nirvana cover.
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Track 3 on Tarbosaurus Antagonist. Written and recorded from February 2009- January 2010.
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The execution is not perfect, but the concept works.
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The lyrics continue the theme of the previous track, if you care about that sort of thing.
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I guess this would be the "centerpiece" of the album. Like the rest of the album it really stumbles along the line between droney and simply repetitive, and it needs a bit of a reworking to reach its potential.
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these 2 "new" songs are a test to see if I now have what I need to successfully upload material. These 2 songs were recorded 20 years ago on a Tascam 4-track. The band is the Riptiles.
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2010 RPM Challenge Track. Lyrics are below:
No one explains it to you
When you offer to take the blame
When no one rails against you
All their comforting words are the same
Does it upset you Enough to awake you
Or will you repeat so…
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This is a cover of a song by Sister Savage, from her kickin' 2010 RPM Challenge album, Juped 2k10. It also introduces the genre of acoustic crossdressed spacecheese (these damn kids today with their flying cars and their hyperspecialized genres…
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Cave Street posted a track recently, their contribution to the Woody Guthrie Project, organised by Akron Family.
http://akronfamily.com/woodyproject/W.G.A..html
I wanted to take a shot at this too, so here's my demo. It was really just half…
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Sometimes you just look at your capo and think... hey, I aint used you for a while - its rough and sloppy but hey... just like me!
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Track 6 from my 2010 RPM Challenge Album "King Astro" written and recorded entirely in February.
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With this special offer, you, too, can be the bomb.
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If you're a businessman or a politician, mosh to this song.
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The anthem of my musical career. I'm joking. I hope.
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Relate if you can. Rock your ass off if you can't.
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This is what happens when you try to write a love song at 2AM for someone who doesn't exist.
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Aren't you?
As requested, here are the lyrics...
"Homeless"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
As I walk around downtown, and I see city drown around me,
I wonder how this happens to someone like you and me.
This city has a way of…
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I lived through a tornado. In a car. I don't recommend it.
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Professions fall into one's lap like a leaf in the fall.
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Archtop Guitar, electric guitar and Roland vocoder. Drums are BFD2 and a tabla I picked up that week at a thrift shop.
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Started with a little guitar riff on the archtop, Played roland rs9 string synth through tremolo amp. Also has my tenor steel pan played live.
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Archtop song... usually I play this faster... Vocoder for the lyrics... Drums BFD2.
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Vocoder song about AI, strange loops and consciousness. Synths. E. Guitar.
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Started with three blind mice clav bassline. Added RS9 strings, vocoder. same strange loops...
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Ha.. slowed down a punk song I wrote and added some anthem synth line for a indie rock feel I guess.
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Last song of RPM album. I'm particularly fond of the last ten seconds. :D
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Soothing and sad, a synthesized tune for the lovelorn and loveless. And just those with a perennial tear in their eyes.
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A song celebrating the animator for The Teller of the Tale. Music is post-avantgarde neo-progressive rock.
New version uploaded 12 Dec 2010
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This is the 3rd of the trio of UU auction songs. A love song was requested, so I wrote one based on my wife's favorite china pattern.
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No, not those kind of angels. Hope in the dark.
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There is a whole class of songs by singer songwriters who gush in various ways about taking the big chance, following your bliss, following your heart, living your dreams, yada yada. These songs are ALL from the point of view of those who are…
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Another downer, what can I say? Oddly enough though, it makes me smile.
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Probably the single saddest song I ever wrote. This album is kind of a combination of hope and longing and loss. This one is definitely about loss.
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This song is musically and thematically related to an earlier tune from an older album called "house of strangers." That song was a plea from one partner to another about a marriage that was failing. This song comes when it becomes obvious that…
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i just want to push through
but i keep seeing your favorite foods.
i can't get you out of my head
so i bring up some sweet epitaph
and when i said i would love you forever i meant it
but now i also love someone else
and i need to stop living…
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life is always better with a little bit of tension.
i think that we will make good friends
because my life’s complex
and you’re already taken.
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