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An experiment in simplicity. Back to the basics. It's the only counter to stagnation. Don't over think!
This was pieced together quickly while in front of the microphone. Revisiting the editing/mastering process was fun.
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Similar in feel to the other Fragile Moment track. Mostly acoustic guitars recorded sitting in my shop on the H4N and then finished up in Cubase just this morning. September 9 09. Maybe a nice one for bedtime
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Another "jazzy" little number from the basement archives. Someone call the smooth jazz police before I ever do this again...
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The Hollow Men
Sad Hippie Thing
1993
Greg Melvin: Vocals, Rhythm Guitars, Keyboards
Doug Sparling: Lead Guitars
David Albrecht: Bass
Terry Adams: Drum Kit
All songs written by Greg Melvin
Arrangements by Greg Melvin and The Hollow Men
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Just a spontaneous (and very rough) two hour tune. Written and recorded yesterday, edited and mixed today. I might as well get it uploaded now because I'll be spending the next two weeks preparing to move across the country.
Lyrics:
We…
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For our beautiful son Willem, in French Guillaume.
recorded in my livingroom, 16-7-2009.
I called the song Guillaume before because of the beautiful sound.
Since 2012 I changed the title of the song into : Willem.
Because that makes much…
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Our dear friend Lynda is in hospice; we wanted to do a song for her - for all she has done for us. This is that song. k & w
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Recorded August 28, 2009
Details: Martin D1 (DADFGC - capo II), Shure SM57, Audacity, Sound Forge.
After digging this tune up really I really wanted to try it again on acoustic (which I don't play much). This is a second take recorded in…
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Solo acoustic finger picking thing I've been working on for a while. Sometime around 1968 I started studying with Mr. George Bennett who taught me the rudiments of finger picking. Later when we played some gigs together he also taught me the rudiments…
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This song was made by two different piano samples (both
from Sudara):
1. One was recorded by Sudara (and gang?) axing away at a hapless old piano in New Mexico.
2. today, I convinced Sudara to noodle on the piano and send it over to me…
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my entry into the 2008 Sidedown Christmas challenge.
I tried the original Mel Torme chords and version and it just didn't fit for me, so i came up with my own chords and arrangement.
this was done around the same time as g=gone so it's a…
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An 8-bit groove recorded from the NESynth iPhone application and a little love from GarageBand and the Mac text-to-speech tools. Here are the lyrics:
Thought over capacity
I cannot achieve
Maximum velocity
Digital heart racing
Multiplexing
Enumerating…
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The psyche is a weird place, I'll just talk about it musically.
The piece begins with the sounds of Sudara's autoharp, the weeping woodwind sounds of the clarinetist from Megafauna Lacrymosa , and a low kick-like percussive sound, which is…
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Episode One:
Sandbags allowed me to use his mad rhythms- see here for an explanation: http://alonetone.com/sandbags/tracks/my-name-is-harry-palmer Sudara lent me some samples of him playing chords from his new autoharp, an ebow against piano…
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just over three minutes of circular breathing (breathing in and out simultaneously) on the didgeridoo, a single take.
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So i sat in my room one day incense burning, with my $100 pawn shop 2nd hand bass guitar which i painted white with the same paint as my walls and i turned the reverb on full and started doing volume swells with the knob on my guitar.. i sat for…
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This is just an untitled electronic/dance/house thing I started a couple weeks ago and a little stuck on what to do next with it. Any ideas? Also uploaded to Kompoz.com to see if there's anyone out there that would like to add to it.
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A song about how I don't follow, or care about, fashion or trends.
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OK it's the morning after the party at the China Quay, and our hero is waking up. What has happened?
Influenced by about 6 different doowop tunes (great for hangovers!)
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Recorded by Ger in our manky cellar at the end of May 2005
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Wrote this little piece from 7/14/09 to 7/15/09. A lot more metal than I'm used to playing. Played on my broken-neck Epiphone semi-hollow.
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A quick transitional piece - sort of a hybrid of ambient drone and louder rock.
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So, I start playing my Guild acoustic. However, the strings were new and had gone all slackish, meaning down a few tones. I liked what it sounded like and took them all off. I then restrung the gtr with super heavy guage acoustic strings. I then…
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Here is another quick glimpse at ideas from my huge "Fractal Serenity" music video project, still in progress. This particular music-video is a "character study" of one of the strange plants that grows in this dream... the "Glass Orchid…
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Started as an "Off the cuff" song that only changed a little from the original.
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My first new song on Alonetone in over a year! A short, simple surf tune, nothing more.
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I decided to focus by timeboxing the amount of time I spent on drums, bass and lead into 30 min sections based on the pomodoro technique. The idea was to spend 5 mins picking the sound for each part, then 25 mins making some loops with it to arrange…
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A Prog Rock instrumental with guitar and keyboard melodies and solos. Three parts to this song. Depicting peace and joy on The Path of Light. A cross between Yes and jam band music. Randal Pflum, all instruments except drums.
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A collaboration between me, Randal Pflum and Dayton Neely. Comparisons made by reviewers on Garageband.com to Rush, King Crimson, Yes and even Mike Oldfield, you will have to listen to the whole thing to hear the last one.
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For this I wanted to create some longing sounding atmosphere. To create the (somewhat annoying) guitar part in the second half I used an ebow.
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you stand a long time at the door
observe the lighting on the floor
you are not welcome anymore
no…
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Wade Hampton High School (WHHS) Singers:
Conductor: Warren C. Martin
Spring 1993
(School Year 92-93):
Track 8
Notes: This is our alumni song.
This version is not introduced by Mr. Martin
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Wade Hampton High School (WHHS) Singers:
Conductor: Warren C. Martin
Spring 1993
(School Year 92-93):
Track 8
Notes: This is our alumni song.
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Wade Hampton High School (WHHS) Singers:
Conductor: Warren C. Martin
Spring 1993
(School Year 92-93):
Track 1
Notes: We began each concert singing the first song around the walls of the auditorium. The miraculous part was that the place sucked…
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Something completely different- Uilleann pipes(Irish bagpipes) and synth. I wrote this tune over 20 years ago in the style of traditional Irish slow airs. It was recorded way back in 1991 for an album that's been out of print for over 15 years…
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This is a little riff I've been carrying around for a few years from my Nozomi Phoenix days in NYC. A dreamy sequence, that reminds me of a Grimm tale.
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Background music for a fun father/daughter YouTube video editing collaboration/experiment (embedded here.) My daughter and I filmed and edited the movie, and I wrote the music after hearing some video-game music my daughter wanted me to emulate…
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[2006] The Radian's Threshold - Emotional Response
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Guess who's reading a Tom Waits biography - he gets in yer soul I says!
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For my friend and coworker, because he certainly deserves it.
This song is friends with [song for themcgruff](http://alonetone.com/sudara/tracks/song-for-themcgruff)
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Little instrumental bluesy number at request of Tess and Bethan... later the backdrop to comedy/blushes
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Wade Hampton High School (WHHS) Singers:
Conductor: Warren C. Martin
Winter 1993
(School Year 93-94):
Track 3
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Close your eyes, and come with me. It is a warm Autumn eve in the Black Forest. There are ancient folk tales about this magical wood... how late at night it comes to life with mischievious fairies and wood nymphs. Any mortal who hears the unusual…
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wrote this song while i was all alone in the middle of a nameless creek in the amazon jungle - beautiful spot!
This is from 2006 - the only song in this album that is more recent. Here I tried to use bossa chords and a modified bossa beat to…
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this dates back to my earlier songwriting, back to 1984. To those anxious days before the wedding vows...
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This is another version of the same tune used in Dana's Song. I just changed the lyrics. It was created back in 1999 with the help of Alontoner K.Scot.
This is my own way of looking at a beautiful text - Psalm 139.
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This is what happens when three friends get together on pasta making day.
Special thanks: Annie, for your voice; Dana, for your voice and your musical knowledge (she knew exactly what chords we needed).
Dana is a fellow alonetoner, you should…
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I'm dating a girl halfway across the country. One day I saw the moon and realized that even though we were so far away from each other, we could both see the moon at the same time. The seemed pretty cool when I first thought of it... it still…
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I wrote the music to this song while playing around on the piano, thought it sounded nice. But for a long time i left it like that cus I couldn't think of how to develop it.
Then one day i was playing it, and i stopped and saw my dad's old guitar…
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If Berlioz would've heard this piece.. he probably would have said that it was too vulgar (lol) too much percussion... but oh well I got very excited when I made this one... the tempos are not very well because its very hard!!!
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so..I decided to take those 2 previous tracks and see what would happen if i mixed em. some parts dont really mesh well - but before i delete this mix, i wanted to know if it works in some strange way for anyone?
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this is a lick that i really dont know what to do with. Any suggestions as to where it should go from here?
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This original melody idea was jotted down in October 2003 in Harmony Assistant, and I had written it thinking that someday I'd make it a real song with lyrics. While playing the tune on the computer, my daughter came in and said she liked it…
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I wrote this song for a musical Thanksgiving party that Sudara threw in Santa Fe back in 2002.
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This is a track from my abandoned "Weekend Follies" album, which was recorded in my parent's basement in Mercer Island, Washington during the summer of 2003. This track was recorded during Seafair weekend. That's one of the "Blue Angels" flying…
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Recorded February 2003 - June 2003 in Sydney, Australia
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Recorded September 2002 - January 2003 in Los Angeles, CA
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Recorded September 2002 - January 2003 in Los Angeles, CA
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Recorded September 2002 - January 2003 in Los Angeles, CA
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First draft.
Dedicated to my mother on her birthday.
In the outro: Trombone, Horns, Clarinets, Mouthpiece buzz by Andy Hentz (arrsuarez) and organic drum related sounds by Glu.
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this vocal arrangement only made the cutting room floor. full instrumentalized version forthcoming. i just wanted this arrangement its own chance at life!
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'Time' is an ambient piece; which is said to reflect human nature from one point of view. This is a slow melodic new age/world genre short song. Someone who listened said it would best serve in pre-meditative scenarious.
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From a poem Julie wrote at age nine, "The Whispering Wind", comes a song composed in collaboration with Grant Duncan. This is rock, pop with a blustery story.
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Written today.
recorded on an iMac with the internal mic and no headphones (!) so it's probably going to be muddy as hell, but that feels about right for now.
LYRIC:
Fill up the glass, Bartender
Ply your art
Quench the fire in here, now…
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This is the third of my 3 dramatic pieces for piano
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Cover of Sister Savage's original, awesome tune.
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Written by [Mark Moschell](http://alonetone.com/moschell).
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from Live at KXCI Tucson, AZ studio session:
When I was in the 7th grade, I used to skip school on Wednesday mornings so that I could watch the Nat King Cole show on PBS. I was mesmerized by his music. I could feel his vocal influence as I wrote…
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"I am hypnotized by the TV weekdays at 5:30. They wash my mind on Eastern Standard Time. You know my mind runs on commercial puns. Oh, I can't think for myself anymore..."
Yeah, I can't help watching TV alot. Well I can, but I choose not to. This…
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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 have a 3 years old little child and she watches the Barney video a million times a day! so I decided to make some variations to the Barney's theme "I love you and you love me..."
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a track entirely made from a fieldrecording of birds that i took in the yard.
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Slightly twisted, odd. I like this one a lot...I think I'll do something more with it.
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I am awkward at speaking French. This song talks about it, and shows it. Good. I had to record the vocals on a computer mic, so they are pretty bad and rushed.
"J'essaye de parler francais, mais il semble habituellement errone. Yes, I try to…
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This is one of my first ambient tracks, and it's been made up largely of sounds I've captured on a handheld recorder over the last five or so years.
Dark, and more than a little creepy.
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Groovy feel with great Lyrics. Done for the Radio Star contest last year '08
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Protest song about the war in Iraq. Very Incubus influenced from the Light Grenades album
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RPM 2009
Song 3 - Our main character meets a human girl aboard the alien craft.
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An RPM 2009 song. Well, this was a personal story for me that came about when your past intersects (briefly) with the present.
Lyrics:
20 years running through time and I remember
all the magic lines
that in our younger days
we drew…
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This is a random, ambient, minimal and free music.
Random serie 1 contains some early works named 'beauty'.
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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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She sat across from me on a couch. It was Paris at 2:00am. Among the
beauty of the french women, her homelyness stood out.
'do you find me attractive?' she asked.
'no' I replied.
'the feeling is mutual'
I got up to leave.
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The darkness was all encoumpassing in the west fork of Oak Creek
Canyon. The party cougar visited us that first night. He drank all of
our whiskey and stole all of our women. The party cougar cares only
about himself.
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This is a random, ambient, minimal and free music.
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This is a pop country song written in the mid 90's but never recorded and I recorded it for my 2009 RPM Challenge album "Relative Polyphonic Mutiny".
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From France: the jogging theme from "Punch-Out"
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(4 of 5 in "Tree Haus" cycle) That's an ASCII picture of a Kuriboh, those lovable, useless fluffballs from Yu-Gi-Oh. I don't watch the show but I played some of the games for the GBA and the things's just so cute.
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(3 of 5 of "Tree Haus" cycle) This was meant to be a 30 second interlude but grew into a song of its own; now I find it one of the two "perfect" tracks on the album.
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(2 of 5 in "Tree Haus" cycle) I wrote this song, originally to be called "Tree House", years and years ago, piece by piece, just by jamming away on my keyboard and wailing. It never acquired lyrics, but then, the only thing I find less important…
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A very simple experiment with layered electric guitars and some laidback beats.
Copyright © 2009 Tiago Castro Henriques, some rights reserved (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/).
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George Brown - Music & Lyrics, Guitars
Brett Picknell - Bass, Drum Programming
Jim Tyrrell - Keyboards
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My Clique-contribution with some added ambientsound recorded from my window. This is partly the traditional filler-track but I quite like the ambientsound. If I do a record next year (I probably won't) it will most likely be just 35 minutes of…
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