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Come into the light my dear
You know that theres not much to fear
Accept of course what you keep inside!
Face wet from too many tears
Like the sand that reappears
Before the regular receding Tide
Come to me sweet Sarah jane
I will shelter…
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The latest and greatest grooverider jam, maybe 🤔
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these is a much slower and meditative version of be the groove song--- it is mostly different of course I designed the lauchpad app settings for groove type playing- :)
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the submission for the sound-in event Groove--- I have taken my voice and some synth samples mixed them in novations iPad app LaunchPad- so as using the voice samples in loops not too groovin but anyway---
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A Pure Data patch that evolved in working with a hanning array to get cleaner playback in my loops. I used 4 loops of a previous loop and developed two noise parts that are either similating surf or wind or both. For this week's Sound-In event…
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2021 5090 Song Number 21
70-75 beats per minute is sort of my happy place. My groove's comfort zone if you will. If I didn't stop myself, I'd write everything at that tempo. This summer I have done a pretty good job avoiding it. So much…
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Come on people lets save the world ........
Disbeliever can you not see
The worlds on fire and its so much in need
Take notice and don’t ignore
Natures cries can’’t be ignored anymore
The crash of thunder that lighting strike
The floods…
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Dirt roads
Its different on dirt roads
Theres stuff you leave behind
You see the difference everywhere
Its not just in your mind
Its not just about the tar
Its deep down in the heart
Something different happens out here
But thats only…
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2021 5090 Song Number 20.
This one isn't too bad. I think it's the only song for this project so far that I wrote the melody first. I've had mixed results with that method (I'm definitely a music first guy) but this one works.
The guitarmonies…
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Its easy to get carried by a moment
Create what isn’t there
Hope that we can make things right
But life is rarely fair
But when we dug down real deep
We saw no guiding light
And in this simple reality
We had nothing but the night…
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My little maltese somehow contracted a botfly. Poor thing!
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An updated version. Again, for Laura (and Neal Peart)
Don’t judge the lifetime by the ending
or the song by the beginning
you say you’ve got it all together
until you feel like something’s missing
Can’t seem to find motivation
outside…
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Nothing is stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself. - HG
Inspired by Hannah Gadspy. What seeds are you sowing in the world? What do you hope grows? Seeds are doubts, but seeds can be activism. Keep our stories alive.
I’ve come…
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Gifted by the universe. My 15 min song.
Forward, backward,
stalling for answers
Take this pain that I got,
write a song in the Walmart parking lot
Keyboard on batteries and resting on my knees
Do you see what I see?
A world gone half…
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Inspired by Figuring by Maria Popova. Still working on it.
Wish you were here cause I got something to show you
I was never one to describe things very well
It’s not enough to just memorize the moment when it
feels like a crime to keep…
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Converting a picture of birds on wires to music. This is a version where I added some lo-fi effects and some off-kilter drums and bass to turn it into a track.
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Converting a picture of birds on wires to music. This is just purely the notes with no modifications.
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Made with a few crackles from the embers of a little fire that I revived at a firepit in a local park. Much modification has taken place since the initial recording. Submitted to Sound-In for 5-12/8/2021.
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2021 5090 Song Number 19.
How about the vocals in the verse sections, huh? Pitchy much? Holy crap! I promise you all that I spent a lot of time working on getting the vocals right and when I was tracking them I swear I left them at a place…
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2021 50/90 Challenge song number 18.
Major keys? Oh come on. That's not rock and roll! At least it's in 5/4 time so I can pretend it has a little prog cred.
I was sure I was going to end up hating this one. So much so that I sat on it…
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Two days into a return to the UK to work in July 21 and I tested positive for COVID - happily I was asymptomatic but it meant 11 days in isolation which is where this tune was born. It started (as often my sketches do) with the bass riff that…
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Down on the bayou, waiting forthe night
See the sun set in the west, waiting for the car headlight
Waiting for the boysand girls to come
Bringing the moonshine down
And all those other shades of fun
Moonshine fever its haunting me
Moonshine…
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High in the mountains
Above the falls and fountains
In the rarified air
You know ill care
Just for you, just for you
In the blue fiords
Seeking no rewards
In the darkest caves
My loves across the waves
Just for you, just for you…
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Master Version 2
Instincts- which were the memories of his ancestors become habits
Full audio available on Bandcamp Video available on Instagram and YouTube
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2021 50/90 Challenge song number 17.
Noteworthy to no one but me that this is the first song started and finished within the month of August. So it counts for the RPM Challenge's Record Every Month thing. I haven't submitted a song to the…
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This started with a drum track then the idea came alive ....Thanks for listening
They say what you don’t know won’t hurt you
but the truth is doubt will make you burn
You’ll pull into question your very being
When your love is overturned…
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I play Lead guitar and sing on this song and Al-Fadista from France plays the rhythm Guitar. Just a fun song all around, Enjoy.
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Busking at the market on the hottest day EVER - just had to be commemorated and enshrined in song. The song contains snippets from the market day, some memories from the hot summers of youth, and most vitally the four horsemen of the apocalypse…
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Can you hide in happiness
Can you disguise the sadness in your voice
Could you play only major chords
Can you hide in happiness
Choose a part of you to show
And no one around you can know
Just how deep the scars go
Can you hide in…
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2021 50/90 song number 16 of 50.
I like this one. I think I screwed up the guitar part in the chorus about a thousand and two times before I finally had a useable take. I think it was probably worth it.
The guitars are a Les Paul standard…
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2021 5090 song number 15.
There was a song I uploaded a couple of weeks ago that was called Calling that I am a little afraid to listen to back to back with this one because I think I wrote the same song twice again.
Are the rhythm guitars…
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a cover of the Low song
Kat: Keys/Vocals
Tom: Guitar/Vocals
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using droneo on the ipad --- I created this drone then put it thru effects in ipad garageband then equalized it and remixed the whole 13 minute work into this 3:40 minute work--- here changing the length of the segments divided by sound levels…
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Something a little different for me here....one of the good lady's favourite songs is the theme to the Sky drama, Big Little Lies....by Michael Kiwanuka. Here is my orchestral/classical take on this haunting theme......she found it all rather…
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Instrumental prog-metal inspired by my odometer.
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Take me now back through the years
Until the light of day
Watch me fall opon the rocks
Like a tv expose
Its nothing like the minute
Never time to wait
Pushing to the front of queues
Before the closing gate
Like a cloud without a lining…
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It's hard to define perfection
It's such an elusive idea
But I only have to look at you
To know I have it here
Like like looking at a van gogh
Or a sculpture by Roden
Or even a super hero
Like spider or superman
It's easy to see…
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Pure Data beats and Yamaha TX81Z synth driven through the Pure Data patch. Created for my first day of vacation, current Sound-In event, cat Jake and a future EP.
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Trying out the new keyboard thanks for listening
We all dream with our eyes closed
Blind to where our dreams can go
Never to know what truly comes to us
Under that midnight glow
Under that midnight glow
Belief becomes from dream
That…
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I was so impressed with this --- https://alonetone.com/breakinglight/tracks/tala-thread that I set up a thumbjam tabla mix with slide guitar- :)
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Music composed by Elisabeth Roberts, my lyrics, vocals by Chris Hierro
Sea of Life
2020© by John Schofield
Under skies of faded denim
On a sea of sparkling green
My little sailboat brought me here
From where it was I’d been
The journal…
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Scars
He gives his scorpion shakes
And sobs until the tears he makes
The only other sound's the break,
Of distant waves and birds awake.
But he has promises to keep,
Until then he shall not sleep.
He rises from his bitter bed,
With…
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Updated from an early '80s recording, as per the request for Sound-In event "Through the Past Darkly", 29/7 - 5/8/2021.
The title comes from the three segments that make up the piece. At the beginning, and running throughout towards the left…
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"We Would Love To"
Instrumental Space Rock
albinoSQUIRRELmusic (c)
Guitar, Synths, and Bass by me
Drums are from loops
Enjoy!
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He wrote me a letter one day it said
Im sorry i have to go
I didn’t understand the significance
But i was only 6 you know
V He said son be a brave boy
Look after your mum for me
This sickness has a hold now
So what will be will be…
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2021 50/90 song number 14 of 50.
A 12-bar blues I noodled together on my iPad late one night when I thought I was going to get shut out for the day. It was the very definition of a throw away and yet somehow I kinda like it. I really like…
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All for Naught
Its a been long time you’ll find
since i exorcised my mind
And Sang for the choir
Just Got higher and higher
Looking around corners
Like unwilling performers
Looking for a dollar
Looking for someone to follow
Id sell…
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You put me in a spin
You changed my world around
You raise me higher
My feet don’t touch the ground
Im in a different place
My life has had a lift
You are my missing link
You are my gift
You turn me upside down
You turn me inside…
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Jam track or for meditation.
Trying out the iTabla app, added bass and guitar to the tabla/tanpura loop.
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Just another lost boy
Playing on delay
Looking for my last hit
Starting on the runaway
Brooklyn nights are shining
Im on the raz with Jed
Still not easy though
To get you out my head
Looking for the real truth
Fed up with all the…
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Mash of sound files from January '15. For the soundIn event
Through The Past Darkly
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This song is sung from someone else's viewpoint.
Another Record Every Month submission.
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minimalistic piece. Like the one as before. It was my sunshine today.
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guitar and ebow, extensive processing - maximum delay and reverb, plus octave trails etc.
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Seems I kept on driving
Even knowing the bridge was out
Seems I had no brakes
Didn't wanna try another route
Seems I kept going
Even if the signs said turn around
Seems I had no knowledge
And wouldn't go anywhere but down
Chorus
Will…
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A song written and recorded for the Record Every Month challenge in July 2021
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Extracted 3, 8 second sections from an acoustic piece I did in Mar of this year. Remixed those 3 sections randomly in Pure Data with some live sythn passing through. Created for Jul 29/30/31 Sound-In.
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I've been accumulating video games since the 80s, and my backlog of unplayed games is ridiculous.
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Ayomi Spanky is here again with a new vibe!
After the successful single he released for his fans some months ago he decided to dish out another single tittle "Call me" download and enjoy the wonderful song mix by Spankymix
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So, we'd hit the RPM Challenge (and more specifically, the 'every month' variety thereof) with four consecutive months of 35 minute power tool wipeouts, we figured it was time for a change. Well, I did, Skit wanted to do power tools again. But…
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We are the Saviours of the art
Our emotions are off the chart
I'll play all day
Up your way
Then Go back to the start
It's time to tell you why
Its now that i should fly
I know its rough
But its just not enough
So For now it is goodbye…
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Pop another pill today
Up to your happy place
Away from disliked reality
Mind put on erase
One pill to make you smile
One to stop the lonesome creep
One to get you through the day
And help make you sleep
One to pep you up
And one…
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Completely fell out of the sky to me this evening with a Steve Reich groove. 3 table cells or loops created in Pure Data which I've been working a lot with this week in installing a old (now new) Ubuntu machine. The loops captured live from…
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A mash of tracks by James Bailey (Climbing the Rocky Path) and Jim Goodin (In Sine) for the Up! Sound-In weekly event. Mix by Kavin.
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This song is about feeling safe in your own body and having your own back.
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Verse 1
And I know how much you love me
And I know how much you care
Now im just dreaming of you
The answer to my prayer
Pre-Chorus
Love comes around,
With the beating of,two hearts
like burning desire
Like fated sweethearts
Chorus…
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Recorded way back (early '80s?) on open reel tape. The mumbly voices are from whatever was recorded on there before, as it was a former CBC Radio tape. The "instrument" is one of those little slicers for hard-boiled eggs. Submitted to Sound-In…
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I am Calm and smart
I wonder at Science
I Howl at the moon
I see Ghosts
I need more
I want your love
But i am Compromised
Compromised, compromised
I pretend to be Happy
I seem real Cool
I touch the sky
I laugh out loud
But worry…
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Continuing to work with sine waves in Pure Data
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V 1And i think maybe
You know that someday
I'll be a shaker and a mover
V 2 Well i hear you say,
Its just all a dream
Ill always just be a loser
V 3You are still the very best
That i ever had
Not sure why you didn’t stay
V4 Guess…
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2021 5090 Song Number 13 of 50 (hopefully).
I like the verses. I kinda like the half tempo breaks. I don't like the chorus. If you listen closely during the guitar solos you may be able to hear the shower running in the next room. I am…
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Do the crime and do the time
But love don't pay the rent
We are still all searching
For enlightenment
Pray to the god of rock n roll
Play guitar like jimi
Like the smoke that leaves the room
Straight and up the chimney
Keep the beat…
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2021 5090 Song Number 12.
Is it a requirement for one of these goofy writing/recording internet challenges to write something ballady in 6/8 time? If it is then mark me as done.
I keep saying this, but the songs feel very overly simple…
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Good morning kooka
Nice to see you here
Are you bringing rain to day
Or just here for atmosphere
Are you bringing friends today
Bringing the stormy cloud
Are you going to sit and watch
Or sing your song out loud
Oh koookaburra sing…
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Guess I was feeling Folkie when I wrote this .......
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seamless facade
an egg
birth arcade
So the sparrow does fly
then it leaves an arrow in the sky
(lost in the cold)
(lost in the code)
we're all browsers in a way
picture's fine in the daytime
but in the silence the charade it fades…
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V1 Weeds are growing higher
The buildings unkempt
The windows are al broken
The signals are bent
V2 Its shadow of its heyday
Slowly dying alone
It has many stories to tell
And most are now unknown
C Once oh yes once
It all happened…
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I am playing the bass part at Mass so I though recording the bass and melody was a good way to brush up. Thanks to COVID its been a while. Yeah, some mistakes. But it never does me good to over do it.
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An older song that I remixed
About breaking up with someone
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It was an evening in the fall
It was raining and cold as ice
I was driving home in the dark
Just looking for a glimpse of paradise
Refr…
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This is an older song. featuring my friend Hans Nooitgedagt Sr on guitar
The rest is done by me.
Pretty dark lyrics, feeling much better now :-)
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Parents of friends around me dying
And in the midst…
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Did this one in a different tuning: DADDAD
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Sometimes I just feel
Like I'm totally lost
Sometimes I wonder
Is it all worth the cost
Sometimes I just feel
That I'm on the right track
But sometimes…
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5090 Song number 11 out of 50.
I like this one. I am kinda enjoying it's groove. Have you caught on to the gimmick in the lyrics yet? It's something I want to do semi regularly this summer and I think this is the second song I posted that…
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