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ditty #5 for the RPM Challenge. Alnitak is the left star in the belt of the Orion constellation. This is part 1 of the Orion's Belt Trilogy.
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Long live Lemmy,Motorhead and all who sail in her!
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I did this classic a little while back with Mike over at the cool lab and i'd forgotten to put it up.....one from the teenage mists of time.........
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“This Change”: (Richard Hardrick)
Everything change
oceans of life, fight against death (hum)
I'm only a shade (afraid)
I' m trying to find my own way to survive
I'm better hide away, far away.
I can't resist this change
sky or sea…
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This is my attempt at afro-pop... The video was produced by a friend of mine, Skot McCall, via online collaboration...
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playing with my eyes closed
rpm #4 2012
from about 2 min on it's a bit hot,, if anyone has some suggestions on how to balance the range, i would appreciate it r
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Some new material! This album is not yet complete but I thought I'd share this track. I'm very proud of this one. An aggressive start with an emotional end. Please share your thoughts. -Mike
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i suppose this one is a lullaby, two uke tracks and 1 vocal track lots of background noise including my sinuses.
as darkness falls
all around
is silent now
you settle down
and go to sleep
a darkness falls
sweet dreams
my little one
sweet dreams…
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This song is inspired by the struggles currently going on in Syria....here are the lyrics:
Out in the streets, an awakening has begun
You brandish posters, they point a gun
Scrawled on the pavement with blood and tears
Says we the people…
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Anyone who has been through a messy breakup can relate to this song.
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In the old days you could dodge the collectin man if your money wasn't right.Nowadays they can remotely shut off your lights,cable,internet-put your stuff out on the curb. So this is a bittersweet trip down nostalgia lane.
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#4 for the RPM Challenge.
Have you heard this melody before? This is one of those where I wonder if I've unconsciously "borrowed" something from someone. Translation: the Fly Boat, like the tourist boats that ply the river Seine and their bright…
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rpm #3,, from a future themed piece to be called "the dark doll house" a place where yellow orange light drifts through soft gray curtains,,far away a child's laugh echos down the stair case,,
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This one I might expand on after RPM. I think it could be good.
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A Midi slopfest. Kinda fun to do with the midi banjo thingy.
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This one could use a vocal or a surf's up lead guitar hook. Sounds like it could be in Kill Bill Vol. III. Midi nylon acoustic in this one.
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Interpretation of that we see comes from us, so, therefore, is not objective. Seems, there is no objectivity here, none at all. But then why do we try again and again to learn, to understand, to feel?
The question is still the same: who are…
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“While I Wait”: (Richard Hardrick)
I hear my steps from echoes
down in the street of time
van años en lo incierto
outside the shadow line
Silence in an empty sky
while I wait
God has not revealed yet
the truth of signs outside…
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We had to drag Elvis and the Big band out for this one.....hope you enjoy.......
All I Want Is Love (Lyrics)
Can’t you see what i need
Cant you see how i feel
All i what from you is love
Thats what i want
Want to feel
All i need
All…
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absolutely changed my rpm theme, if I actually had one to begin with. This song "Release" will actually land on my definite RPM 2012 Album "Standing Machine".
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Started off as a bit of a joke, but it's actually a good song. Here's a rock take on it...
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Began with the drum beat, added some guitar sounds, messed about with Revitar 2 and put them on top of the drums, did some experimenting with the lyrics, I looked up all the strains of weed and made a list of their names and made the song out…
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It's a small song about a blurred childhood memory of a night in the woods when a wild boar made us run home in panic.
The monster came through the ground
Across the glade we ran
There was a sense we felt again - never felt again.
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As it's coming up to Valentine's Day, I thought I'll upload this little ditty.
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Japanese Ghost House Boat was my contribution to the ImprovFriday “For Japan” earthquake relief CD release with proceeds donated to the Red Cross. It is in 17 notes per octave. Since its been about a year I thought I could release it now as…
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Frank Miller (phantasm777) added excellent vocals and drums - I like it much better this way - hope you do too! (still 17 equal tuning)
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1pm on Sunday. I'm not back in work until Tuesday. We've just had a delicious roast dinner that I cooked, and the glass of wine we had with it is helping it go down. As a crisp February sun twinkles through the window I realise that for the first…
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An old instrumental of mine, written when my daughter was a baby. I plan to re-record it with some better gear soon.
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I've got a lot of money
I've got a whole lot of nothing
I've got big ole stacks of loving
a briefcase full of dust
a leap of faith is in my trust ...
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And then Jim jumped up and sang this one with the house band down the cellar..........
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My second attempt at the RPM challenge 2012......
DO WE STAY OR DO WE GO (Lyrics)
I drink to try and resolve all the problems that i know
i try to find some kind of escape but i’m afraid that i’m just too late
all my thoughts they whirl around…
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I've now done 2 for the Rpm challenge but these were the easy ones.
Too much rubbish (in the pockets of our lives)
Spend half your life waiting for a train
Now you get to thinking that you should have caught the bus
So your waiting at the station…
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up and stoned at midnight to record my first recording for the 2012 rpm challenge, an instrumental :)
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~In the middle of everyday life [and all this fuss] you stop for a moment and see yourself as if from the outside~
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Cowardly Lion: Courage! What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage…
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Act 2 Scene 3 - The Bedsit - Fool questions everything and falls into depression and drinks until he dies ... and it's OK
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so intense i have still not stopped listening to this when at all possible.
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A weird little song that I came up with ... do not try to dance to this ;)
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Act 1 Scene 3 - A Night on the Town, a glimpse into Fool's social life which is ... going round to his mates and getting stoned, going to the pub and the disco in an attempt to get a girl, which he manages to do in the last song.
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got a new ukelele still trying to tame it.
recorded 3 tracks of uke and one of vox on micro br using onboard mic, still trying to tame the onboard mic.
i shouldn't happen in a month of sundays
but i can see it coming straight towards me
i stand…
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This is the original version of WILD BILL
that I submitted to Production back in '95
when I was working on the film. It got set aside
when the music was forwarded from Ry Cooter to Van Dyke Parks.
One day I came in from work and Peggy…
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A rock song, in 17 notes per octave. Yes there is an echo of Buddy Holly... Lyrics, and chords and bass here http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=2071
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The old Blues man came down the cellar tonight and wanted to sing some Elvis and this is what we cam up with hope you enjoy......
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Had an hour or so this evening spare so i dragged the £16 special out and joined Elvis down the cellar and we got down to this one a Regged up version of the Elvis Classic ....
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Like a work of Art
Can I take you out? coz you look so nice
To a place where we can satisfy our
needy greedy selfish hearts
Shall we cast our souls in the shadows like a work of art
Would you like a drink at a rip-off price
In a long tall glass…
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A Galaxy Teeming With Life is a composition made by manipulating a Hubble space telescope picture, manipulating a sample of Francesca from 8Dio and creating a new tuning that is 256 harmonics of every odd harmonic from 3 without reducing to an…
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Osckilo challenged me : "record a song with a uke about a monkey in a bikini on a beach..."
I forgot about the ukulele :)
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It seems these Blues Lessons might be starting to pay off ....oh i wish i had more time........Lead guitar Reg with his £16 special...Vocal Possession Jim & Reg transferred through Trevor......organ Reg.......Drums a loop ....Music and words…
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This is a classical finger picked blues / classical guitar solo hybrid with lexicon reverberation and freeze pedal. There is some sloppiness. The idea was to push myself in playing and what I was playing melodically and harmonically.
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just an idea in my mind that slipped out into time and space right surrounding your face in those ears pulling the levers and the gears till it falls like a building with poor foundation till it sweeps the nation that this idea came from my imagination…
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Written at a bit of a dark time in my life. Just thought I'd commit it to mp3.
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A song I'd written long before I was in any band. Music and lyrics by Mike Giles.
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Freeform with På Mé Fritt
Roger Sundström Guitar
Tommy Holmgren Trummor
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I attempt a song from Living in the Past by Jethro Tull.
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Another of the "Recipe Songs". Maybe not as successful as the first, but much better than the others, which I have omitted.
Originally Recorded on a Fostex 4-track cassette and remastered.
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sort of alice in wonderland or maybe you might read something else from it. that's up to you.
They've switched off all the lights
they're out to lunch
they've all gone to the party
they're having tea and scones
the hatter calls for silence…
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Recorded from an Android Phone to my youtube channel back to my pc hard drive to export in a cover medly of :
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away - The Beatles
Garden's Tale (English Only) - Volbeat
Sympathy - Rare Bird
i'm still practicing these…
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~Essence of a musical box with the ballerina spinning around and around~ /as Bethan said/
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Calm the night, unstirring,
And the air so clear
Pearls of dew uncurling,
Moonlight rays unfurling
’Cross the glassy mere.
Dulcet waves appeasing…
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I posted this song a few days ago and Bethan liked the music so much she wrote her own words. Here it is, a co-write across the Atlantic.
SITTING BY THE WINDOW, NOTHING TO DO
WAITING FOR THE TIME WHEN THE SUN SHINES THROUGH
THE SUN SHINES…
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I kinda started off with a synthpop sound in mind, and it became a really fun collection of various synth sounds.
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Memories long in music sleeping,
No more sleeping,
No more dumb:
Delicate phantoms softly creeping
Softly back from the old-world come.
Faintest odours around them straying,
Suddenly straying
In chambers dim;
Whispering silks in order…
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A mashup with
Roger Sundström Fieldrecording,Soundscaping
Paul Muller (Moonset)
Kawol Samarkind (before dawn)
Steve Layton (I could see through the Earth, through the Sky)
J.C. Combs (Hey Jude Variation)
for ImprovFriday 2012-01-15
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juno di cheap strat copy and recorded on the boss micro br sober.
well hallelujah
i don't believe it
it's so peculiar
it's so peculiar
well bless me jesus
i've not seen that before
our eyes decieve us
our eyes decieve us
when you…
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A mashup with
Roger Sundström Soundscaping,Keyboard
Steve Moyes (A Forecast)
Benjamin Smith (Ben.improv.Jan.9.2012)
Kawol Samarkind (Cindy's blues #1)
Bruce Hamilton (rhombo)
for ImprovFriday 2012-01-14
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I was practicing my scale and found the waw waw Fx so played with that too along with the bass then Elvis in soul mode stepped with a request.....
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This is Blues lesson 2.2 but again couldn't resist singing a song over it .....as well as practice my blues lead..might get a rollicking for using the effect but i found it and liked it so if i do i deserve it....it's meant to be clean....hope…
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we fought the moon and the moon came back
we fought the sun and the sun came back
we fought the moon and the moon came back
we fought the sun and the sun rose up
we sought the lord and dance, said he
we saved the word and preach it on the sabbath…
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My Blues Lesson 2 redone the lead with less notes which i think is more what teach wanted than the first one........and wrote a different song to the tune
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2nd track recorded on my new Boss MicroBR-80
A quite happy track with a tad darker lyrics than the music would let on .....
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This song was inspired by a long walk....
Lyrics:
Down by the river, down by the shore we go
The moon above cast a beautiful glow
We walked around talking through the night
I can’t help but think how it felt right
Hey Constance, don’t you feel…
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i had a lot of inspiration for this, it just started as a degraded drum loop, then came the synths, then the strings, I guess it just formed it's self!
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anagram play on words, you guess
A Ladder to the lamp fire
a raven roam hunting through light
a blurred vision cut on self and wit
white fangs do sink they sank and sunk into reds
count the slain'ed, left pale and hated
ruse do vary, once…
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The other Reg has got the Blues too the Folsom kind......
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Version 2 of Cable Tie frets.
details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=2008
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Featuring my son Kellan on guitar and vocals.
recorded entirely in my kitchen with kitchen stuff.
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Yeah, guess I have an inner Gershwin who likes to listen to Beethoven. Go figure.
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Radio 1 is an aleatoric composition. I did this in the late 90's - thus the 486SX laptop and soundcard attached to the LPT (printer) port.
It was generated through the Cakeawalk Pro Audio “extract rhythm” function performed on radio static…
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Poor Reg's mate Ronald lost his job in the Government cuts now this whole world is caving in..... he has the bailiffs pounding at his door and he can't take anymore........he has lost his pension....soon to lose his house ......he's already lost…
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The riff came from Bad Boyz. The story came from my life experience.
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Did my second Blues lesson last night and couldn't resist writing another song to another of the Reverend Mikes Backers....but was a bit naughty as i was supposed to use the least notes possible....but whats life if it's not for being a little…
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lo-tek eclektro version of 'a character disorder' by the nu psimians
I've got a character disorder
you know they say I've got a borderline
personality disorder
and I'm sick of taking orders
like a waiter or or a nun
I want to be…
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live in the kitchen vox + piano only no fx version
and i don’t know what you mean
about the things i haven’t seen
it isn’t easy being green
when all you ever say is mean
you know i tried to keep it clean but
you were messing up my scene…
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ambient music warning....
details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1995
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ambient music warning....
details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1995
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Sunrizer XS synth app running on iPhone/Synthstation
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Uncle Reg has yet another story for you children ....so now stay sat and be quite....... you can criticise after you've listened.......
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Uncle Reg has another story for you children ....now sit still.....and listen....i know its a music site but you may like a story........ i know my children do
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We join our friends from the cellar on their annual camping trip into the middle of nowhere...they decide to have a little fun and sing a song round the campfire to stop the arguing........if you know the song why not join in…
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Reg has been practising the Am Blues scale and thinking of politicians this evening...........
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well ... it's not really the year of the monkey ... except for me :)
Recorded on my new Boss Micro BR80, vocals done in the car ;)
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yes my voice sucks and the lyrics are silly. But its all I have...
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Well....the lead in the background and the main is done by a vocal Fx ......no guitars were harmed ......the rest of the music was my trusty M-audio Pro keys ......i sent it over to the other Reg as an example of what i wanted him to do with…
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Did you lock door? have you lost the key?
Laughter in the strangers eyes on a windy street
And it's not surprising Winter's always cold
Years like silent footsteps follow
Autumn leaves and blue skies fade to gray
Have you see a rainbow from…
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The rhythm is a little off here and there. I'm not used to playing a keyboard.
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Sarangi, Tambura, and Sitar (samples)
details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1983
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This track was a bit slow and had a sort of "plucked" instrument. I added synth and gave it a bit of Eastern and Western tastes.
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a little remix of a song by Fuego96 & ft. Miku Hatsune
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Psychological consequences of war.....written and performed by Nick Plagakis.....Lyrics:
Sixty seven shots ringing
Across the desert, heads are spinning
Bang, Bang Bang; is all I hear
Bang, Bang, Bang;…
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Neither Had I is an improvised duet for 19 edo guitar (Angelos Quetzalcoatl) and fretless guitar (Chris Vaisvil).
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2011 according to Regs research was pretty shit for most apart from the couple from England......it thought i would use a Chinese theme to the music being that they own it and it was the year they were able to buy most of it cheap.....note to…
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