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Who's Mad ?? At the end of the day we're all Mad.......
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People have mangled the lyrics to this song more often than The Star Spangled Banner.
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time you hands hang at your side
you have no hold on me
you try in vain to put me in your box
but you can't put a lid on me
your chimes become a sparrows songs
your tic tic toc, the beating of my heart
run on, run on without me
run on...
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How do we bridge the gap between community/national platforms and the everyday common muslim? We learn countless things in institutes like Zaytuna and AlMaghrib, we have broad initiatives by the likes of MAS and ISNA; why then are our Islamic…
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Did this back around Halloween for the improvFriday "creature" event. Pukwudgie is a troll-like creature in NA folklore, kind of like an evil hobbit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pukwudgie
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Another one I'd forgotten about. Mysterious message from my answering machine at the beginning.
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Spun around like a seer's needle
A philosopher so lost in his riddle
Tries to speak but no longer able
Drifting in the deepest dream
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This one took me a while [years!] to complete - how did it come out?
Freesound samples used…
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This was a small remix by Radio. I remixed the mix they did of Blake Reary's excellent track.
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A rambling acoustic improvisation.
Recorded the day that the Curiosity rover was launched to Mars, hence the title.
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This is a reading of one of my favourite books, that I read for my children, they are always totally absorbed not only is the story superb but the artistry by Axel Scheffler is also fantastic. During the telling of the story i must cover every…
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Testing out some new recording gear. This is a collection of riffs that I thought I'd turn into a kind-of-sort-of-song.
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This song was done with an ex friend.defining a genre I like to cal gangstadust or gangstadustrial it is also an outdustrial song too. All the the screaming is done by me,2nd verse and of course the beat is too
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A song I'm working on. Two verses and a chorus.
Not very filled in, since all I have to work with is a guitar and a terrible drum loop. Think of it as a proof of concept until I get other musicians to help out with it.
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a song about people downing junkies and alcoholics
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part of a seven block series called progressions :) movies to come?
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yep blocks six in the progressions crx files of work.
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this has some neat dco's going on in the middle :)
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slow yet very quick and analytically inconsistent there of.
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most of these are sounds that you can ... can hear.
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I dreamt a piano
with just a few keys
With limitless chords
and one melody
Caught by a cloud
who cried its last tear
it fell on my window
it’s been falling for years
Ageless, weightless
nameless, shameless
Ageless, weightless
nameless, shameless…
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Had the lyrics for months just couldn't find any music for them, then, Hey Presto 4 simple chords popped out.
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She puts all the commas in the right places
Like she holds her breath, then continues with a sigh
She wraps her words up with empty spaces
Fills them with a kiss, then blinks an eye
She sets fire to full stops, tears down brackets
Every line’s…
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Cover of the Adam and the Ants song Young Parisians.
First outing for my new Ibanez Talman acoustic.
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about moving on and not letting people get to me
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One String Rock is a short, simple intro that leads into Productivity. The feeling this song gives me is kinda ambiguous.
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"No, just say it", she said.
I'll give you something to smile about.
I would fall into your arms, but since I can't I'm with someone else.
Don't say it. Don't say it..
Love come back,
I remember now, how it goes.
I left my heart…
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This is open to translation.
I wrote it about nurses and how I thought confused/sedated or just bonkers patients may view them.
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Just a silly song about a sad situation.
WHEN THE SUN SHINES THRU
The moon is a hole in a canopy blue
A hole in the sky where the sun shines thru
The sun shines thru, The sun shines thru
The scientist will tell you that I've got it all wrong…
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This is a short meditation by Eoin Scolard of the Irish School of Life. Relax, Let Go and Enjoy !
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You know how it is when you look around, trying to figure out what everyone is doing and how they lead their live, looking for an answer to how you should run your own ... don't ... otherwise, you'll wind up with a life that is just a cut-and…
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A story of a girl, growing up to be a woman, a wife, a mother ... but forgetting about herself ...
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When destruction hit ... what do you do? look back or build anew? in any case, I hope you're smiling ...
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Sometimes, reaching out and touching the stuff that's hidden deep down inside is the most rewarding hiking you can do.
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This is a rough mix of a piece I created during some 4-track recorder experimentation.
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Just came out from out the blue after the first four words popped out from the old grey matter...
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Some men just don't know how good they got it.....
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This is a minor blues I wrote for the quintet Equilibrium in 2010. I wrote it to impress my red headed girlfriend who I had just started dating at the time.
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a little piece of whats left of the other Reg.......
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A song about conspiracy theorists. They bug me with their wingeing. "Wah wah wah, it's not fair" - well do something about it then, instead of claiming some kind of superiority and secret knowledge like we give a damn! Rant over, lol.
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This is a recording of me performing with Boom Bits at Spike Hill in Williamsburg on 11-21-11. We play every third Wednesday at Shrine in Harlem.
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In the spring of 2011, I was recovering from a serious medical issue and, in addition to the support of family and colleagues, that rather dark time was lightened by two happy occurrences. The first was connecting with Elise Pittenger, one of…
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curiosity - black sabbath in 17 notes per octave.
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HP9's 1st hardware-only composition! Computer only employed for sample editing activities.
This was formerly titled (As Good As It Gets).
Instruments:
EMu-MP7
Casio VZ-1
Akai S6000
Korg DSS-1
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Demo of the 1st Hollow Point Nine composition. Instruments: Akai S6000, Kawai K3
Lyrically this song is all about the IRS.
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This was made for an EMUfest a year ago ... played on my really old Rolan D10 and the robot-voice is me through a vocal patch on my boss BR800.
Have fun :D
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Organ in 15 Porcupine - I'm not very happy with this. I've fussed with it for a couple hours and it still sounds like disembodied phrases thrown together haphazardly to me. YMMV
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My first song composition. Simple, short, yet beautiful and to-the-point.
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earth they tell you
has a problem
they suggest us
to be monsters
i don't believe
their theories
too many lies
scaremongering
let me tell you
we will be fine
space for courage
drop the pressure
drop the pressure
drop the pressure
drop the pressure…
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I composed this tune in 2009. I wrote part of the melody after a European vacation back in 2006 and didn't complete the piece until a few years later. It's named after the first town I visited in Sicily on the outskirts of Palermo. It used to…
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Slick is a nick name that my friend Charles coined for me that has stuck amongst a niche of my friends. Presumably it's representative to the way my hair is usually styled, however it could be any number of reasons. I never really questioned it…
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I wrote this tune while studying with Jim Rotondi. That was the first time in my career as a musician where I started to feel like I was making some real headway and actually creating something of my own. The title is representative of the long…
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I wrote Watts in dedication to my former jazz teacher Judd Watts, who passed away in 2005. I started studying with Judd early in high school. He spent many hours teaching me about the music that I have spent my life trying to learn. It's based…
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Um arranjo de uma música natalina com ritmo e acordes de bossa pra os meus amigos brasileiros. Um feliz ano 2012 pra todos.
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O menino Rei (What child is this)
Dm7 Cdim CM7 Am7
A crian…
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Open Concept coming with an original laid back slow jam using ONLY Vocals and Beatbox. A great compliment to the previously released original 'Light This Up'. Enjoy and thanks for listening!
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i've started to take some Blues lessons from the Reverend over on Cool-Lab and this is the first attempt over his backer in Am and i couldn't help myself i had to sing along as well....hope you like the first effort...BB watch out!!
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microtonal piano improvisation
it was pointed out to me at 2:54 you can hear Mary Had a Little Lamb - totally unintentional and in a completely foreign tuning to boot!
details
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1991
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Nothing special... Time to make this 2 hours and 30 mins
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The beat was made by Brainpain...the lyrics were written and sung by me. I have. Dillusions sometimes cause I'm mentally ill. So the songs about thinking everyone is demons and I'm in hell. That I died the night my heart stopped.
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Sometimes the best attention you get give someone is to leave him alone for while ...
Lyrics:
You've been away, you took your time
You lost your mind, now you are mine ...
Locked in a basement of a house you never been to
... I'll be kind…
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NLog synth app running on iPhone/Synthstation thru a Line 6 DL4 for looping.
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Created this with my new Imperfect Samples Fazioli Grand Piano, Omnisphere and Cinematic Strings. Just a test.
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ahhhh so interesting these sounds that have yet to be developed in to what might be considered .... song or musics there of. :)
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something done with the Experimental scene sequencer sorta like buzz but made for 64 bit processors :)
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A track written by Alex over 10 years ago and yet the lyrics seem more relevant today than they even were back then. Recorded and mixed by other Spencer sibling, Tomas.
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Written by Ross ... you might have heard this somewhere before ...! Stay tuned for a duet version of this one day.
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A rough demo of a song co-written by Alex and her friend Millay. The song is a gift for Millay's sister, and although Millay is not a musician and has her difficulties keeping a tune, she bravely sang harmonies on the chorus. Also recorded and…
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Lyrics by Thomas Hardy in 1928, put to music by Alex in 2010. Rough demo.
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Written for a good friend. Rough demo jammed along with by the folk who were around during the recording.
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an acoustic guitar ditty, that is so brilliant, you might miss it. :)
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bedtime for bonzo - recorded in glorious 4-trak at lotek studios in the '90s
well i came home today
and i turned on the television
and i tried all 17 channels
and there was nothing on any of them
except trained monkeys
trained monkeys…
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Opinion is divided as to whether Simeon (also sometimes referred to by some sources as "Simeon the True" and by others as "Simeon the Pretender" was the agent of the Psimians, entrusted with the sound engineering of the ancient songs according…
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--- W. H. Auden, The Two---
You are the town and we are the clock.
We are the guardians of the gate in the rock
The Two
On your left and on your right
In the day and in the night,
We are watching you.
Wiser not to ask just what has occurred…
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I know you’re stuck in that circle
In that line without end
You want to break free, but
the straight lines won’t bend
Single words may confuse you
Sentences without sense
When it feels I’ve deserted you
I’ll be there again and again, again
When…
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Digitech RP-50 turned loose on a Civil War era melody.
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This is another take of the HBD song...the inconsistent tempo is intentional... kind of feel good during the play...kind of weird when listened to again....hahaha.
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An old song re-recorded.
Roger : Guitars
Roger : Banjo sort off !!
Roger : Vocals
Fran : Vocals
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Sometimes you long to go back home only to be reminded that it's not.
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Another little snippet of music I've been kicking around. Two verses. Not too sure what to do about a chorus and the mix is pretty rough, but it was done fast and is a good starting place for when I meet with some potential band mates later this…
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Inspired by the "Metal for Life" Column in the Guitar World Feb 2012 issue, I stuck to the original etude probably only 80% or so and changed the arrangement, plus added an extra solo section in the middle.
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A funky sort of thing I created with GarageBand.
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An example of a live performance of myself and Paul Mimlitsch at Michelangelo's in Denver, CO on December 4th 2011. As always it's completely improvised with minimal processing.
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Jim Wearne added some lyrics to our local Hurling song, and I had the privilege of playing it with him when he came over from America last year.
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I'm not sure this is 'done'. I may hear a melody, but it may still just be in my head. Anyways, it came out nicely as a sketch and if YOUR ears can hear a lead or definite melody line, I'm wide open to collab.
Jon Blythm on keys. John Ruse…
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A track I did as part of an ImprovFriday tribute for Richard Lainhart who passed away recently.
Guitar, fx, live loops
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My first experiment with home recording. Dubbing over myself, I created a short clarinet ditty, which can be used for a ring tone or something.
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Cover version of the 1979 Telex song. This is the French language version because it's the only one I know - didn't even know there was an English language version till I went looking for the lyrics.
The drums are programmed on my BOSS DR…
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A song from a 1996 band redone with myself on guitars and Shaun Barter on vocals. Written By me, Shaun, Tommy Lewis and Roy Sample.
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A remake from a 1996 band I was in. Shaun Barter on vocals. Music and Lyrics by Mike Giles
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A RPM 2012 warm-up, using Angie Fights Crime's words:
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…
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I don't know what else to call it. It was just a fully improvised jam without any particular plan.
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