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The sound of a creaking door closing very, very slowly.
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In memory of my dog, Pablo, who died a few years ago (no, he's not the dog in the photo - although he's buried not far from where I found that skeleton).
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Recording from Viste, Randaberg december 2009.
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Jonathan Thomas looks at the last part of Jesus' prayer and opens up the issue of unity
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If at a want for lyrics, why not start reading the labels of the objects around you... Thanks to Mike Brown for providing the slide parts.
Meet my old time friend
He is the seventh branded man
Jack x2
And back in Tennessee
He was the…
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Just letting out my frustration at 'people' in general again.. nice to be able to vent it in a more pleasant way (for those interested in how I used to do it, please see http://alonetone.com/boynamedsu) :)
Lo and behold now holy guacamole if…
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Admital - the main guitar part for this was written and recorded for last RPM (shock horror!)but I had to give up on it when the file corrupted. Managed to salvage the audio though so rebuilt it around that. This year I managed to mix down just…
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This provides a theory which ties together two of my key traits a) always tired b) terminally disappointed by peoples lack of courtesy - there's a link people!
Did you ever feel so down
That you didnt know up
Didnt recognise highs
And smiles…
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A folksy number inspired by the stories my nan told me many moons ago about her uncle Herbie..
Herein lies the story, of a man named Herbie Jones.
Not a million miles away from a man you might have known.
A miner in the twenties, blue scars…
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After being in a war you understand what the Flag means and stands for. Thats Why the song is called
She Stands Because she stands for much more than people ever think about.
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A love song that shows love can cross mountains, water, and travel through time a Treasure Box
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I have touched and I have known
the memories of stone
And echoes of the oceans
are etched upon my bones
My body's of the earth
and my spirit's of the sky
My mind is of the matter
these memories will never die
So let's go down below…
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This is a bit out of my comfort zone, but I gave it a shot.
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Featuring Otis Maly on Organ.
Maybe it’s a trick of the light
The way your eyes shine at me
I don’t want to fight and I can’t take flight
Somethin’ tells me I’m gonna see
Just what spell you put on me
I can’t let you out of my sight…
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Enjoy Retirment it's the new begining of the rest of your life make it the best half of living.......just have as much fun as you can
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The sounds recorded for this piece represent some of the oldest known musical vibrations combined with some of the most modern electronics: the iPhone.
Featuring Mark Treefrog
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In the morning, when we awoke, there was nothing. There were no ashes from the fires of the previous evening. The time for decisions was past. "Yes" was the answer to all questions; and none was the knowledge retained. Wisdom laughs at such folly…
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This one features Treefrog "playing the wind" on a talking drum...
She’s like the wind
that moves through the night chasing ghosts
She sees the lights,
she sees the shadows and she knows
There is a difference
between the day and night…
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Dedicated to my friend Paul Lennon.
Once You asked me
If I could see the end
It's okay to tell the truth
I don't want you to pretend
And I said I would not lie
But I don't believe it ends
It goes on And on Forever Forever
It goes on…
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it's like an onion bell forever ringing
angels demons laughing screaming
it's like an onion bell forever dreaming
children playing dancing singing
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Two American classics, a custom acoustic guitar and reverb........Enjoy!
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It was originally written for 4 guitars to be played in the classical style... It was called "Violões que Choram 1", something like "Crying Guitars"... As my friends didn't want to play it (maybe because it is to much syncopated...) I made an…
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Dedicated to the great Jack Rose, who left last December.
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An ebow strained thru octave pedal and pitch shifter.
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Welp... I didn't do a feckin' thing all weekend. No laundry, no nuthin'. So I figured I'd beat the living hell out of my Ibanez in order to make up for it.
A juvenile song at best, but I feel better now :)
One take in the MBR hole... I'll…
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Nothing to do with Wiccans. I can't remember why I called it 'Pentangle' - probably the first word that entered my head when it came time to save. I like to go with whatever bubbles up from the subconscious.
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My first rock song. Yay.
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Don't tell me you want flowers
Don't tell me what to do
You're special and you know it
So here's what I got you
It's another god damn love song
Another chance for me
To woo you
You're outta my league and you know…
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I unleash my secret weapon!
Guest vocalist Shaka brings the icing to this rather haunted version of the first chapter of Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier!
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Alternative grunge inspired, Alice in Chains like, about shitty pop music and how we can't get rid of it.
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About a failing relationship where one person is the pilot of a metaphorical aircraft(relationship) that is going down.
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About landing on an alien planet. re-recorded from my acoustic rpm of 2009.
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i think a lot about the responsibility we have to our descendants, but then i usually stop when i think about how annoying most people are... this song is both a cynical and a positive take on the human species.
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well its been a while this is a divertion from my usual even "singing".... (not really happy but after about 100 takes i gave up and will go on to do something else n see if it gets better with time.....
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Moody, ambient track with a bit of clicky rhythm to it. This is what happens when I compose music when I've got a headache.
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Love is a slippery beast.
Just when you think you've got a firm hold of it, it squirts out of your hands like a piece of wet soap and ends up somewhere in India on a spiritual quest for an obscure guru.
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This is a good place for me to be....it does me good to remember this.
God around me
God within me
there's nothing i need to fear
always remember you're here
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“Donar”, a title that’s an obscure shoutout to the German Reason users.
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The "chorus" riff started off with me trying to rip off "Shallow" by Porcupine Tree. Don't think I'm really in PT territory anymore though.
Track 7 from "They Are Killers"
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Not originally intended as an acoustic song...but I couldn't get the big riff at the end to sound right with big distorted guitars, and then I realized on acoustics it might sound like it had a little Days Of The New influence.
Track 9 from…
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A track for a relaxation CD that evolved into something just a little different.
Thanks to Sue Yencken for her lovely voice.
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Lyrics @ http://wave.transmit-music.com/removemysoulsdecay.html
Wave 2010 (RPM)
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Lyrics @ http://wave.transmit-music.com/seethrough.html
Wave 2010 (RPM)
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I mostly wanted to make music with a funky clav line I'd come up with, so this is it. For the voiceover, I unabashedly used an awesome monologue by Ken Nordine.
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An instrumental piece featuring classical guitar and bass.
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How good it is when I feel whole, complete, not lacking anything at all.
And i feel this way when I am with you...
nothing needs to be said, i can just sit and be still.
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This is track 8 of 8 from my RPM project, 222: Improvisations for 6 Instruments. I recorded an 8:38 improvisation on six instruments, and then deconstructed it into 8 separate tracks featuring subsets of those instruments. This is the track that…
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Unaccompanied Bebot. What is Bebot, you ask? It's an iPhone app, and a great one at that!
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That's as in Metheny and Mays, of course. And they I am not. But I still give it a go. These are the first two instrument tracks I recorded in this improv extravaganza: electric piano and electric guitar.
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This time around it's the unique combination of bass clarinet and Bebot, the iPhone synthesizer.
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This is what the music majors do in their spare time. Electric piano, bass clarinet and djembe.
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Not an upright bass or, if you prefer, bass viol. This is two instruments: electric bass and bass clarinet. Not electric bass clarinet.
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This is where the adventure began: the unaccompanied electric piano part I recorded first.
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Post RPM jammin'. I don't feel much like cleaning up after RPM. Not yet anyway. I think my little Casio took a beaten and went out of tune. I did this arrangement with just the Casio, guitars and
harmonica, hence the annoying piano and strings…
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Emotions get the best of me sometimes and this is what comes of it....
Gotta pour out my heart.
i loved you i did
but i had to let you go
and i chose again and again
to let it die
i died again and again
a love so strong
a pain so…
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One of a series of 4 pieces exploring the possibilities of creating texture and colour in music.
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One of a series of 4 pieces exploring the possibilities of creating texture and colour in music.
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One of a series of 4 pieces exploring the possibilities of creating texture and colour in music.
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A heartbroken man wonders where his lover has gone in this epic synth explosion.
Lyrics:
I got a letter
In the mail
From my lover
Well I don't know where she went
And I must find her, find her
I have found her
She was fine
But my…
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Toughest thing to mix on the entire album. Synthesizer music for the attention-impaired.
If you don't like the current melody, wait five seconds.
Song name comes from my workplace addiction - I was going through a bag of cough drops weekly…
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It is all about love, isn't it?
Lyrics @ http://wave.transmit-music.com/loveengine3.html
Wave 2010 (RPM)
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Well i gues i was just sitting bored at home in new years even and i came up with the hook , then just worked on it on and off, and ended up with this.
Hope you enjoy it :)
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get the album here
http://emorej.bandcamp.com/album/stars
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This is sort of a skeleton version of this song...I have an intro in mind, but don't have time to write it right now. So named because it's primarily in 7/4.
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This is the most hopeful of the songs on the new album. I just decided one day to say "to hell with it, they're not gonna get me down!".
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I came up with the main bass riff on my electric bass, but after recording it I was unhappy with the tone, so I used a sampled upright bass. On top of that is a layer of doodling "lead guitar" (played on my bass), a dreamy semi-harsh organ sound…
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This is a bonus track as it didn't make the album
For those of you who know my stuff - does this sound like it works? or is it too much like filler - the vocals are effected, there's a drum loop - the guitar is just chopped out of a jam - i…
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lullaby featuring piano (but of course!)
Notes:
Today I learned how to add an insert effect to the master channel. The song was way quiet so it got boosted via a limiter. Hurray.
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Lyrics @ http://wave.transmit-music.com/softlikeyou.html
Wave 2010 (RPM)
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Trying the distorted/clean guitar pairing... track 10 from "They Are Killers"
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Written and Recorded: Feb 24-25, 2010
Details: Lap Steel (FCFFCF), Epiphone Les Paul (FBbEbAbCF), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, Audacity...all fingers, no picks.
Just never got this one sounding like I envisioned it…
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A Halloween collab we did last fall that I thought was pretty cool. Designed to scare old ladies and make babies cry :) I love the way the song peters off in the end.
All tracks recorded with the Boss Micro BR, mixed with Audacity and mastered…
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Dang, everyone except Rob (and Laura) (and me) liked the previous version! (Cupid's Own Knife)
Only i did this with the lyrics so maybe one can be a bonus track ...
aargghh ... why didn't i write a *different* song?
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Track 11... I have to stop writing parts that I can't cleanly play.
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Track 12 from "They Are Killers" ... originally to be #11, but I decided this was a better one to go out on.
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One of my favorite and most interesting songs I've ever written. The last have of the song is exclusively synths, and one of the first times that I did not write it on guitar.
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