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Cuz who can ever get enough of Ghost in the Machine?
Lyrics: Stewart Copeland
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I trust this song is an encouragement to you...we are not alone.
There is an intimate Divine closeness that we are invited into...moment by moment.
I am so thankful for this...
You are with me now
You are with me now
Within this sacred moment…
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A bit of improv done yesterday with my newly refurbished fretless guitar. Finally got the midi pickup to track almost right! Part of the sounds were gotten by rubbing a teaspoon on the strings.
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This is like, hmm... like talking to a stranger on a train. First, it's nothing about, and then suddenly you discover that you're about to tell your life; or you listen to someone's story, seemingly intricate or simple (and therefore seemed familiar…
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Well Reg has just realised that he keep making the same mistakes with his relationships as he always has....the first song from the Newly built cellar.....Jim just had to jump o this one............
Hello pain my old friend it's so nice to see…
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Summer Sun
Sitting in the summer sun
The heat warms the soul
Sitting reminiscing
Got no particular place go
life is all around me
The motion of the birds and bees
Is like heaven to me
Heaven to me
I lay out in an open field
Making…
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I was listening to Jims beautiful instrumental and it struck a chord ...so here it is Thanks Jim.....
Shadow of a man (Lyrics)
As i look in the water i see a reflection of what i was
i see the strong man who could have done what ever he wants…
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This is the original version before I messed it up with Maxicraft :P
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Shows when you get fed up enough,you ain't afraid to raise hell and put a brick under it. (Icelandic national anthem-lyric)-...Oh, God of our country! Oh, our country's God!
We worship Thy name in its wonder sublime.
The suns of the heavens…
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in life, my foot print is my legacy...good or bad.... my existence is meaningless.
-a little on the chill side-
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K.G. made gold with this one. words are oh so good. J.H. broke away from his bass and added a very nice banjo part. i did a little clapton bending . i think this is a magical moment for our band. we all came together at the end and did it! i hope…
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from the album "Uniform"
she hides her heart under the pillow
waiting for the good fairy to come
replace this worn and broken thing
with a heart that can feel again
she's never sure which night will be her lucky one
but she anticipates…
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(Click the link above for a live studio version with many other musicians)
This is a solo acoustic version of my song Water Trees and Poison
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"After my house burn down I was confuse.
Why are they burning down my house? My neighbor house..."
"We called it The American War."
My friend, John, said this about this bit of audio drama:
I had forgotten how painful I find…
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The lyrics of this song,
as they pertain to plot,
are my exact memory of the event.
I had spoken to the kid maybe a minute before the "action" started about how the pressure of the water was very strong. He was nestled down with his back…
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This is my cover of Geir Alfsons song, like a fool , i did this as a tribute to him on songcrafters music forum
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Hanging out in the living room with one of my sons, just making stuff up. I wish I'd had the recorder closer to him - whistle too loud, guitar too soft.
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It's not funny 'cause it's true. God's a very busy man.
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Mario... what can I say about our lovable Nintendo mascot. He's short... chubby... fights reptiles of many shapes and sizes.
The music is deffinitely fitting for our Plumber's adventures into the Mushroomy, Mushroom Kingdom. Maybe he'll get…
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Sometime yesterday, sandbags posted "In the Ocean of Night".
Fuelled by a lovely walk and some pints, I was inspired to make some additions.
Technical/process details:
Guitar was my Michael Kelly going into GT-10 which had compressor, delay…
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Along with her magnificent harmonizing vocal tracks, Inge sent me one track which was crashed by her 2-year old son Willem. He pretty much takes over the whole operation at about 3:00.
In the background you can hear the original rough vocals…
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Nirvana - the perfect state of bliss from pain & suffering.
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This traditional Cuban rhythm is the well established "go-to" pattern for 4/4 songs. It is perhaps the most commonly heard conga pattern in 4/4 music. The bongo pattern that accompanies the congas is referred to as "martillo" (the hammer…
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Cover of the Joy Division classic, with a little drum'n'bass thrown into the mix
This version from September 2010
The youtube version is my original recording going back to 1997.
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This is a Ralph Mctell song , a very underated British singer / songwriter , probably famous for one song , The Streets of London , but in fact wrote many great songs , he wrote this while working on a building site before he was signed by a record…
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11 notes per octave (11 edo) has been a tuning that has generated a lot of music later. Not wanting to be left out I decided to take some time to compose a piece in 11 edo using Garritan Personal Orchestra. As a subject matter suitable for…
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It's been a long time since Bethesda released smash hit The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, so I thought I'd make a little something commemorating that. The song starts off note for note and finishes, then plays through again with my tweaks. I…
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A test track of sorts.
I typically mix a track, bounce it out to my ipod and then go for a drive. The stereo in my truck is kind of boomy and if I get the bass wrong, I'll hear about it. This has been a matter of a certain amount of guesswork…
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Really wanted to try and learn what i would consider one of the best lead guitar solos of all time, recorded this in early 2010 and it's my effort at learning the solo. Hope you enjoy it.
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... again ... for Randy.
Memories of old magazines gathering dust on the shelves with things you never could let go of.
Dirty chess sets hardly touched. Empty bottles of cheap scotch you never could get enough of.
And it's a shameful world…
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I wrote this after seeing the film "I'm Not There" about all them Bob Dylans. The early acoustic take of the song was much more nasaly.
©2010 Sandy Gritt
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My Gon-Bops congas getting to know my new space.
180bpm.
Gated & Phased. As in phased-out.
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So, I was just funnin' around. Mostly from the ambient menus, plus, I added some Zippo slide guitar with lots of FX. Then I added the internet porn queen wav file.
Lyrics:
Aaah Oooooo!!!
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Another song from the archive... Written about a friend who somehow seemed to come out of her general sad manner... Thoughts go back to a lunar eclipse when the girl I was standing next to to watch it (way back in college) disappeared from sight…
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Another wacky production from the stretchy, bouncy, and elastic world of Rubber. Special thanks to Mark (Launched) for writing this one for us.
We had a whole bunch of fun with this song and you will too.
Enjoy!
Flies in my lunchbox
(Help…
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warning!!! this is a long 10+ min instrumental
It's a piece about 4 years old that was my first attempt at using synth voices,, I am still looking for a good one,, if anyone knows.
The music itself is a tone poem, loosely dedicated to a children…
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I'm not sure if I'm happy with how the mastering came out but I figured it's time to let this one fly and get some feedback on it. I recorded the 'robot' voice using Audio Hijack Pro to record my Apple's system voice and then added some effects…
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Guitar, $300... Folding chair, $30... Firewood, free... Labor Day, priceless.
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It's kinda nasty, kinda funny, kinda sad but kinda true.
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I imagine this music playing in a bar sometime in the future, probably in the background while cybernetic bar patrons interface with one another in full view of the world's sensor network.
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A little fun with a looper and an e-bow.
Unmastered.
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Trying to stay awake...to get it down...without going down...for the night.
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White Light was written in June along with 10 other "Off the cuff" tunes. Just before the great flood in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Our house was flooded and slowly being rebuilt. This is 4th of the 10 to be recorded.
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I composed this track as a demo of my sampling project "The First Bulgarian Virtual Choir" some time ago...
I invited the famous folk singer Katia Georgieva to perform the live lead vocal.
www.audiogrocery.com
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I went into the studio to record something I wrote... I came out to find out that 32 students had been gunned down... I already had the mandolin song and melody with a writing direction... and this senseless evil really derailed the whole thing…
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The guitarist started this one out as a love song, but it became something much different.
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Written and recorded for the Record Every Month Challenge in September 2025
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[Intro]
Why you push away my fyah? Fyah
[Verse 1]
2024
They’re still only out for money
Every message you receive
Is so that you give up your green
And give it to thieves
And the info you get
Is for you to return it to them
All of…
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Another song from the 2021 RPM Challenge (I think?) that has been re-recorded for the Quarantine Tunes Volume Seven project. This song sort of rocks. I changed the arrangement a little and rethought the way the harmony vocals were structured…
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Tworegs visited and we couldn't help but get at least one colaboration song done in the studio. I wish we would have had time to get some other songs he wrote in SF recorded in my studio but I was out of town during part of his stay, and to be…
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This song is dedicated to my wife Karen, remembering back to when first we danced.
This is our submission to the March 2022 Record Every Month (REM) Challenge.
Dan Will - Keyboards
David True - Bass
Tony Gallo - Percussion
Written…
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2022 RPM Challenge song number 18.
I still have two more songs to mix but as of right now this is hands down my favorite of the batch (spoiler alert, I think I might be saying that about the two songs that are left as well). Usually when I…
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2009, having fun with Johnny Stone's awesome music.
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well after listening to the mixers on alone tone I decided to do some apple loops.
I had a great time with it , so here is a jazz tune on the positive side
ive had it with sad tunes
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A New Year ...... a new song .... Happy New Year Alonetoners
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An original guitar arrangement by Movement to Contact stirred this dormant memory from a long slumber.
Enjoy!
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from the album "A440" vocals by Wilsun
feel, the weight
as faith falls apart
know, the truth
that lies inside your heart
trade, the fear
for hope inside of you
cause this is real
the touch of something new
wake up from this fairy tale…
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The 1916 Rebellion was a sad time in Irish history. The public outcry after the execution of the leaders of the rebellion led to the War of Independence resulting in the creation of the Irish Free state in 1922. While Independence was achieved…
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Runway Lights (in 128) was the solo I performed at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem North Carolina on the 26th of September 2015. The recording you hear is from the University mics. The title is actually a misnomer – a mistake on my…
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I am learning a bit more each day about how to write/compose for guitar ,, quite fun. This RPM piece is dedicated for our 16 and 1/2 year old mini red Dachshund,, Howie.. though blind and mostly deaf, and recovering from illness, he still…
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A tune from my back catalog which i thought needed a little overhaul
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From the CD
FONTANELLE II by GHOST OF JOHN MURPHY
Formerly unknown as FONTANELLE
© 2013 Royal T Music
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from the album xChange
performed by AM/FM Dreams
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But maybe I should have been...
12 string n vocal improvisation
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rough mix (midi) of new work for piano, vibes & computer
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i just played some simple triads that matched the basic chord progression to Pachelbel's Canon in D(didn't try to play the original melody or anything), then improvised a few solos, hope you like it.
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I put up a wren house in the trees and garden where I was living and surprisingly a house wren moved in. Every day he sang his song in a repeating pattern ... a natural loop. I held a mic out the window one morning and taped his beautiful repetitive…
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Just in time for the big 2012 election!
*** BANJO WARNING ***
Just me and me banjo.
Inspired by a story my journalist daughter in Moscow just published. She was too small when we moved to Russia to remember that politicians shaking hands…
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Waiting for something that would be: familiar feeling, isn't it? We look forward to when she comes back, look forward to when the morning comes; waiting to stop the rain (or when will finally rain...).
Life itself is a... waiting?
Note…
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Had to cover this one,why?......it's got alcohol in it ha ha ha!
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Well if it was a dream Reg would have met his wife on the Dance floor but as it was'nt he met her at the Bar ...of course.....and if Reg was a musician instead of a singer it may have been in time too......
G7 Em7 G7 Em7 C D
I think I love…
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(Featuring Jim Goodin fretless guitar, Chris Vaisvil fretless bass)
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This song is about a friend of ours back in 2009. A lot of people called it very strange because she lost her 2 children, Husband, Mother and Father all in one week and they died of natural causes. One night she couldn't take it anymore she was…
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A mando improv for Doc Watson, who left this week. For the improvFriday event "blues" theme.
http://www.docsguitar.com/
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You may be shocked to learn that I own a Rickenbacker 360 and I love R.E.M.
Intro/verses: G-C-Am7-Cmaj7
Chorus: Em-G-C-D
Bridge: Fmaj7-C/G-Em
What if you found you had
Your own time bomb
Never sure if and when
It could go off
Safe again
At…
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This one features a backwards sample of one of my older songs, something I've been meaning to try for a while now.
Written & Performed by Rog Hildreth during February 2012.
Taken from "Rog Hildreth and The Enemies Of Progress".
More of…
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Naively conceived, written and published in February 2012 for "Contemporary Chamber Music" (vol.1), an RPM12 album.
The titles of the pieces in album are follow each other in a certain order - see album description.
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Recorded this a few years back,needed something to blow my harp too. Didnt know all the words so i made the last couple of versus up.
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It's the strangest thing
Must be a waking dream
The strangest thing
Or the latest invention
Reflections
Holographic projections
Some cruel trick
Or pharmaceutical deception
Through the downtown crowds in the rainy streets
You were walking around…
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Song #2 for the RPMC. My goal is to have 12 short tunes (1-3 minutes long), so I need to pick up the pace.
Again, quartal tuning on the top 3 unison pairs of the 12 string. I've been listening to Ralph Towner's Blue Sun, hence the title.
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Here's one....an Easyrider classic ......with the music thanks to Gene and the 70's rock vocal from Reg....hope you enjoy it was a lot of fun to do......
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New Computer - Just testing to see if everything works
Lyrics:
One kiss leads to another
Down the road we go
In each other’s arms
Love struck, drive me crazy
Hoping that you recognize
My charms
One kiss leads to love
One kiss…
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This one seems very apt for today's financial climate..........
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This cut was made right after operation Shock and Awe started. I wanted to try and capture the feel of being an innocent civilian caught in the middle of it with helicopters flying around...gun-fire swirling around, etc. It's particularly a tribute…
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It'd be a single, if we ever stood a chance of being on the radio.
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The passport, acapulco and finding out about the affair with Reg was the final straw ithe saga of Desirea and Reg is finally over Reg has drawn a line in the sand and stepped over it. It over and done he washes his hands of her. So he went out…
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Lionel the hermit crab - Skeen Remix 120607
Lionel the hermit crab lives by the sea, oh yeh
He looks a little bit like you, a little bit like me,
Lionel the hermit crab doesn't have no friends, oh no
He'll live his life alone in his shell…
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The intro here is a fuzzed up guitar harmonic and a harmonica. I'd like to take that idea to another level.
Enjoy!
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Acoustic improv. Top 3 pairs of strings tuned a 4th apart on 11 string guitar. And a touch of synth.
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For Dave.
Blues Man and Capt'n Beefhearts Long Lost Brother.
Passed away from Cancer on Friday the 4th of March 2011, aged 62.
You Were a Great friend and taught me alot about music and life.
Peace be Upon you Bro....
See you and your…
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This is a collaboration with a prolific chap called James Higgins (oldrottenhead on songcrafters.org), based on an instrumental of mine from a couple of years ago: http://alonetone.com/andyr/tracks/muletide
I was quietly minding my own business…
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Mancera is an spanish Fortress build about 500 years ago in an island with the same name, in the south of Chile.
Off course it has a lot of history, i used to go there when i was a kid and i have big memories of it, been in the big dungeon, where…
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Recorded in 2001.
Tom Higgins - vocals
Joe Silence - guitars
Mark Cook - fretless bass and beats
This track sounds kinda fuzzoid for a reason: It was originally recorded to a Roland VS-880 hard disk recorder, but then mixed to cassette…
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Ömer Faruk Tekbilek (born 1951, Adana, Turkey), also known as Omar Faruk Tekbilek, is a Turkish virtuoso flautist. He is known for his performances with the ney in a Sufi style. He also plays the Oud, Saz, Zurna and sings in many of his recorded…
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Fasten your seatbelts, this jeep is going deep into the heart of the jungle! Sound clips cut and pasted against Norm's Fat Baby Bembe.
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From the Angie Fights Crime/AM FM Dreams split album "Faiths" (2010)
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Well, it's like I went down town last night to see Guthrie playing with Ray and I came home with a song.
NOBODY KNOW ME IN TOWN ANY MORE Capo @ 1 in G
There’s a bird in the gutter that’s so sound asleep
He can’t hear the music that’s sweeping…
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a percussive instrumental, featuring a bell sounding wood stove, yes that is a burning instrument.
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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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I lost a friend. This is how I feel.
The tech:
Just my guitar and the GT-10 (looper, delay, reverb, etc).
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A very special love song.
Featuring Ewan Crossan on guitar.
One touch
Can make you do anything
Your light shows me everything
Please know i'll carry you everywhere
I go, my plaything
Chorus:
And i knew i'd have you
moment my eyes…
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A happy song about being left by your no-good spouse. There's a word for the attitude in this song but I can't think of it right now ...
this is now a tidied up version 18/3/09
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Rod Webber, Joey Slliks and Luke & Aaron Bellamy bring you sounds of love and death straight through the chip in the back of your neck.
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There was a director who was so happy to show off his lead singer to the playwrite... she was young and beautiful and a talented singer... when he finally got to present her to the playwrite... the playwrite nodded, and smiled.. he told the director…
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kimono rose, is that feeling/thing/person you always long for
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Hey gang! It’s us again, The Proods…thousands of followers worldwide!
Here’s another track by Brian…channeling his inner heavy-metal lover….
It was fun working on this, though I prefer the OTHER version that we did. A groovy 1960’s styled version…
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Well she's left him it wasn't even a week he's not sure he didn't just dream it...
It was only you
i stumble from my bed
my life lived is lived like a dream
Nothing going wrong
Nothing too extreme…
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Getting lost in the maze from time to time is just part of life
The maze of misfortune
I get one step forward and three steps back
Can’t see where I’m going
Lifes so dark and black
Looking ahead seems stupid and pretty…
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He looks into a maelstrom of fragmented thoughts and half-remembered faces. The dust claims it all in the end, leaving just incomplete remnants of indecipherable emotion.
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Freesound Sample Used (and it's buried deep, deep in there…
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This song/hymn consists of lines lifted from Psalm 34. I had written it in April of 2024 but didn't record it until March of 2025. I would play and sing it often through the year trying to perfect the guitar arrangement of it, and then I eventually…
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credits: interpolates lyrics by Ahmad, Kanye West
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she's beckoned by the turnstiles
she prays they'll let her in
a token that she's missing
for a dream that may begin
she hops across the banister
and darts down darkened halls
mad humming of the terminal
reverberates the walls
do you…
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