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Believe what you like. Or don't. It's your choice.
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TRAIL OF TEARS was not a metaphor. It was an American Holocaust. Michael Jeffrey helped me with this track.
TRAIL OF TEARS
Am Bm/A C/A Am C/A Bm (3) E
A
CHORUS - Well, the trees…
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Reg had sat listening to the Wrinkled Shirts track and decided it was time to tell you the story of how he found his Mojo. it was a time way back when, to far back to remember. when he was just a young man. when he had decided to fast-forward…
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A remix of a performance by laptop/guitar duo Wasp and Pear. Remixed with iPod touch and Filtatron app.
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A tribute to the late great bassist/multi-instrumentalist Mick Karn.
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A friend of mine sent me a poem and asked me to put music to it. I took the liberty to mangle a bit of the lyric.
MANGO
I like a mango. I like a mango.
Well, I like mangos mornin' noon 'n night
I like's in the dark. I like 'em in the light…
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With his lottery money Reg has invested in becoming a funk star. The other reg came up with the tune and Reg jumped all over the thing......come and get funky with thetwoReg
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A mini-miniature conceived last night, some hours ago... as the result of a discussion.
Enjoy.
Edit: new record.
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And in this warm up, Dave used an insane sustain distortion to show case his mad skills. Check out our band's page on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/kolombour
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Another backing track but at my bad memory it wasn't the Irish penny flute sound I used but a patch called Changer Winds inside Alchemy with two different arpegiators. One with rhythmic steps and another one set to minor pentatonic scale.
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A love song to my wife........ if you listen carefully you can hear the children running around outside the door......
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This is supposed to be played in sync with the opening credits of War of the Worlds. I did it as a piece of coursework for film scoring. I had to do 2 versions of contrasting styles, this is the more contemporary version, the other one is a more…
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There is a small flicker of faith that he will make it through. He has found himself in the market place surrounded by people, looking for compassion. There is none. He feels invisible, centered on his own problems but that small flicker of faith…
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A live recording (guitar and vocal) written and recorded one afternoon while I had the house to myself. Cajon and bg vocal added.
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12 string improv experiment with stereo mic setup and dual capos to get a Csus open tuning.
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This one is more of a reading set to music of part of a piece i wrote about a place i used to live. We used to walk most days down into the valley and i long to be back there, hopefully one day i will ...
There are a few fluffs in the reading…
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A very quick recording of this fresh composition. I'm really busy these days! I hope you like and/or enjoy this desperated one.
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Well poor old Reg was left by his love so he decided to write a song. Here it is another brokenhearted rendition....................
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Here's a "live" thing, if it can be called that, if one performs in a public place and there's no audience, can you call it "live"...?
If you'd like to hear the rest of the set, go here:
http://soundcloud.com/breaking-light/sets/no-audience…
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the deep blue sea rose up
and the devil came to play
she rose up and she began to say
why do little men take with my name
such a foolish game to play
hath be the devil be thy name
hath beezlebub have a grain of salt
so never look back upon
you…
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This one is about remembering the feelings of watching Tv as a child in England when we only had three channels but everyone watched them .......
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It's Wednesday night lets all get F................
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Calculated Electron Orbitals
I have been exploring Sonar X1 and one of the ideas on my list was to apply the apreggiator to a piece of music that was classical and used the harmonic series – just sounded like a good idea. Well, here is the…
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Yeh!! He is back from the black. Let's celebrate........
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I'm surprised I forgot to post this collaboration with Norm and Char.
Char performs the reading
Norm performs the percussion
Chris did choir, sax, bass, FXs
Poem - Edgar Allen Poe
Annabel Lee
It was many and many a year ago…
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First Song Idea Demo of unveiling my next album.
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consider this a microcosm of the final work that might just happen ,, yes a complete Klingon Orchestrated Opera :) (feeling shameful that it was Chris's idea first.) (this is a mire raw example of an outproduced work.>
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Guess where I dreamed up something like this? When the choir members started walking up the aisle in a cadence of the Monastic Walk (3 steps forward followed by one step back, followed by a brief pause), the backbeat appeared in my mind. I worked…
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Combined two separate segments from the performance for this remix. I'm posting live recordings on Soundcloud now. To hear the rest of the set go here and bookmark:
http://soundcloud.com/breaking-light/sets/no-audience-breaking-light-live
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Doodling around with Moog Filtatron app just to see what it can do. Quite a bit!
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A serial improvisation in 12 equal setting Vachel Lindsay's 1931 reading of his poem "The Mysterious Cat" to musical accompaniment. Vachel Lindsay is considered the father of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are…
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Some people need to fall down every now and then.
LYRICS:
Won't you ever go away
cause I feel the same way too
Did you have your kicks and eat them too
Did you ever cross the line
I confess is undefined
Did you have your taste of…
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A little bit A cappella Yeh Yeh Yeh Yeh Yerrrrr
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Ok, this is another of my few blues (late 90 i guess..). I was playing it today and recorded several times. I don't think this one is the best one, but it has something that i really like. This record is the plane rythmic guitar. Later i was playing…
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She's left, your drunk and on the floor not able to see a future, your friend is trying to help, your not listening, he obviously doesn't understand you need the drink..........
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And, yes.. another miniature. But this is a fresh one.
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(WATCH THE VIDEO, it'll make more sense)
The third installment of the graphic novel/video/song project I am working on with Rich Gibbs (an amazing artist and friend).
Lyrics:
Narrator:
"You're always late
Why do we wait?
Why do we…
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This an improvisation in 17 notes per octave with layered software synthesizers. Specifically, various percussion ensembles, french horn, piano, and two synthesizers. At one point I forgot what in the world I was doing because I transposed the…
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Well, I love this song...
I hope you like and/or enjoy. Cheers!
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this is my January challenge song for RPM.
my movie song theme was "mental breakdown"
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1/1/11; took bits from two of Mark's tracks from Pleasure Listening (2002) and improvised in Max with them, then mixed in DP. a mellow vibe for the new year.
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In a number of significant ways, I have written Vox Sanguinaria twice. The first time was centered around my charismatic friend Cara Reynolds and an important event in her life. When I went to learn the actor's part for the counter)induction concert…
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He had a troubled young life and regretted the man he became, but what could he do, apart from try and understand why..................
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just continued work with the new microkorg :)
youtube work is being processed as I type.
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Made entirely of copies of "Water Drop.wav Sound Effect" from http://free-loops.com/8117-water-drop.html
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Reg told her it all, then he had to leave. His new flat has a bit of a gloom about it on this morning when he wakes to the Buzz of the Tv....................
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Well, some today's 'afternoon-to-evening' stuff... very simple, but i like it. I hope you like and/or enjoy!
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This song is not for everyone but I like it because its a live recording with a single instrument using infinity delay FX. (I turned on the loop delay at :09 after the guitar was flat on the floor.)
All the sounds are made with an acoustic bass…
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This is another of my miniatures, kind of 'baroque' style. It's from 1998, and I consider it my best guitar composition. Not a good interpretation here, but it took me a lot to play it this way after all these years. I hope you like and/or enjoy…
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The complete "how to" article and online play back is on my blog http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=404
Yesterday I was able to capture the Fractal Tune Smithy midi stream of an "on the fly" relay re-tuned performance in Sonar 8.5 by use of LoopBe1…
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Well, this is a single minute of music around this wonderfull 'Angel Eyes' song. I hope you like and/or enjoy this miniature. Have a great 2011 alonetoners!
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A layered improvisation on a M-Audio 88es
Korg MS2000 * 2 (duplicated the midi track and recorded the MS2k with two different voices serially)
Pianoteq
Absynth
Reading of his poem "We're on the Brink of Utter Befuddlement, Yellow Hanky Style…
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This piece is for solo viola. No electronics or processing were used. The fantastic technicolor performance is by Jessica Meyer.
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This one seems to be a favorite among my friends. Maybe it hits close to home.
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I decided to go full-punk here, while desperately trying to avoid the obvious rhyme words.
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I promise I am not really this creepy. I actually used a 12-sided die to figure the chord-riff here.
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have a little cognitive dissonance, on me, merry christmas!
http://current.com/news/92885943_earth-the-insane-asylum.htm
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another track from "duopoly", a recently released album of duos on spectropol records.
http://spectropolrecords.bandcamp.com/
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HYSTERIA
poem by: T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved
in her laughter and being part of it, until her
teeth were only accidental stars with a talent
for squad-drill. I was drawn in by short gasps…
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Another composition from nineties, the favourite of my friends. Kind of medieval sound, i guess..
I hope you enjoy this one!
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This is a composition from July's '96, and it could be said that it belongs to a period in which i was listening to, and composing, in a kind of 'baroque' style, very influenced by J. S. Bach. I hope you like and/or enjoy it.
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Well, this is a blues I've composed about ten years ago, just before I stopped playing guitar untill now. I hope you like and/or enjoy it.
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Vocal, fretless electric guitar, rhodes (Dimension Pro), tenor sax (Dimension Pro), and drums (Session 3 drummer). All but the drums are live performances.
The words by T. S. Elliot used:
(Orestes:)
You don’t see them, you don…
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after the ocean of possibilities,there is a plateau covered in rain and storms,where curious angels sing,after which,there is a lake,surrounded by weeping willows and eucalyptus trees,across this lake,coracles pass,carrying the sacred flame to…
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This is an improvisation (with a bit of editing where my timing got off by a lot) for this week’s ImprovFriday event
I used my M-Audio 88es to drive:
Korg MS2000
ARP 2600 V soft synth
Absynth 5 soft synth
Session 3 drummer soft synth
Pianoteq…
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A punked up version of a Daniel Johnston song from the album "1990" The original version is mainly just his voice and piano.
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The second track on my Everybody Loves Funk album.
There are no lyrics or vocals, but in my head I like to think I can hear the story of Evaline, the girl every guy wants to know, but who always seems just a little aloof and out of reach...lol
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Sad, sweet holiday tune from The Brian True Project, N40 Records. Please spread the cheer.
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Used some neat synthesizer manipulation trick on 3 samples that involved using granular stretching almost all the way down to very slow and then adding modulation to an LFO on the position that the sample was played to "replay" as if it were kinda…
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Just a little prog-Alt.country-folk-rock kinda song about being who you are and not letting anybody tell you different.
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For Improv Friday
I improvised this guitar track and recorded audio and midi (Fender Mustang + GR-20) feel free to add to this
After some editing I came up with "And No One Listens"
I used Guitar Rig 4, Kontakt (bass), hyperwave synth, True…
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I can't decide whether this is horribly nihilistic and defeatist or just funny.
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2010 Young Men's Choral Festival @ Mansfield University. Me as recording engineer.
Unfortunately, the brothers performed from a spot not anticipated by me, with regards to mic placement.
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2010 Young Men's Choral Festival @ Mansfield University. Me as recording engineer.
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2010 Young Men's Choral Festival @ Mansfield University. Me as recording engineer.
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I think it was in 1995 - a convergence of stars that created what would look like the "brightest star" in 2000 years. Maybe something like what the shepherds might have seen. Anyway, this led to my musing.
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One of my favorites. It was recorded a long long time ago while I was a freshman at Queens College, NY. If you like it, check out my page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Boris.Shpitalnik
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Ever look in the mirror and not been sure who you are looking at?
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...more of a dramatic reading than a song per say...
It's a poem from the book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll. I recorded this around 4 years ago when I was messing around with some recording equipment I had just bought.
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You saw her. You realised it was a Love thing you were feeling...................
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snippets from a live jam pasted over a bleep!Box beat with some Paulstretch at the end.
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I realised that i hadn't put up the full version as i am still finding my way around the new software so here it is......
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This is my first recording using new software logic pro 9.
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describe everyone or Tell this music a story for us
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from the album "the Hardest Blow" featuring vocalist Marc Poirier
There are no promises to keep, whisper through
Telling secrets in my sleep, whisper through
Revelations sounds a whole lot meaner than it is
And I can tell you get impressed…
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have yourself a merry little christmas except it's not.
2010 christmas challenge song.
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Expostion of the Carapace
Oh I told you not to worry so much
These things have a way of making you worse
Underneath I can tell you're a smarter person than that
What you're trying to sell, Only makes it worse
Only makes it worse for you.
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It gets lost in the middle. But so did Ireland.
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Started out as a 300bpm song, theme song for an Evil Character.
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A "re-composition"
Father's voice on a Relativistic Train
I abused the following ImprovFriday composers:
Fathers Voice by Adam Kondor
Heard Through Walls by Jim Goodin and Steve Moyes
IF - Winter by Andrew McCance
Piece 112610 by Shane W…
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A Ken & Dave Production
music : Ken & Dave
lyrics/vocals : Dave
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Classic Jazz ballad we recorded 2 years ago with my former jazz quartet. Enjoy and check out my page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Boris.Shpitalnik
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As bad as the repetition of songs played throughout the season, this was always my favorite.
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recorded with my nylon strings guitar, and the kit mic-phones to chat hahahaha ;)
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Lyrics:
I am what I need to be
To survive, to thrive, to die
I am simply alive
I am simply myself again
// I lust, I lust so much... not enough
// I hurt
// I breathe, you breed, I break, I am alive
I am what I need to be
To survive the thieves…
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The first song we recorded a couple years ago for our band which went under Cryptic Nothings until we found out there was another band of the same name. Name changed to Nail of The Sun (i think) though we don't do shit together anymore.
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a very simple GR-20 Composition in "Blue" temperament
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hollywood strings and Requiem and Kontakt 4 - improv edited to fix notes and add percs
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Another cover I did quite some time ago. Johnny Cash has always been one of my personal heroes -- RIP.
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First demo of this new track. Recorded -again :P - with the mic of the web phones kit ;)
still sounds funny
:)
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Randy Brown and I did a little co-write this evening and this is what we came up with...
I MISTOOK IT FOR THE MOON Capo @ 2 Key D (Play in C positions)
I was coasting across West Texas/Had my top down, it was late at night
I caught a coyote…
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recorded in 2005
Joe Silence - guitars, beats, synths, vocals
Mark Cook - bass
bridge vocal by Tom Higgins.
this is no longer the final mix.
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Lyrics:
Something broke loose in life
Something is wrong inside
Everyday is the same. I don't know why I lie to myself. I don't know what my life devoid of content serves, just that I'm still here. Still falling. Still waiting for you to…
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An improv playing with son Eric's Pod XT board. Some live looping and ebow also of course.
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Finally found what to do with this riff I had in my head.
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loose xenharmonic blues keyboard improv on a modified arabic scale
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A cover by other Reg of " Help me make it through the Night". Kriss Kristofferson. On his late radio show (The Dead Cowboys) that can be heard on C.U.N.T.FM 66-69 fm on Weds evenings at 5pm
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Wish how I remembered how I played these leads and once I figure em out again this song is in dear need of expansion.
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For improvfriday I recorded me improvising on my wife's seagull acoustic on a zoom H-2
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This is a solo piano piece performed on a M-Audio 88es driving pianoteq which was re-tuned to Gene Ward Smith's 17 per octave equal beating dwarf(<17 27 40|). The piece was originally recorded in pianoteq using the standalone mode and then…
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Have you ever tried hitching a lift home after a goodnight out and nobody has stopped.....
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... had to re-mix this thing, the version I posted last night was cr*p!
Lyrics:
Everything is gone now
I don't know why you had to kill this
Break it down Break me down
Bring everything down
please...
Stop
I can't take this flood of sh…
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This is for today's Improvfriday. Being all a first pass improvisation against a drum beat - there are mistakes. I did go back and spiced up the drums just a bit. everything but the drums is my Roland GR-20
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I guess you could say I had second thoughts . . .
(And then second thoughts about the song . . .)*
*UPDATED 2-20-12
LYRICS:
Never inside you again
unless you promise to pretend
What happens next all depends
on if
you change your…
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This is a cover of the song, "Happiness," originally written/performed by Michael Stipe and River Phoenix and featured on the not-so-happy movie under the same title.
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Whew! Been a while.........I'm a bit rusty around the edges :)
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