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Featuring a sweet reference to the Loretto Chapel's mysterious staircase and the most wonderful mylar balloon ever manufactured (with allusion to secret promise attached).
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Some Greek mythology 101 with a little incorporation of "All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett
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This instrumental song is about the rabbit in the moon. Fact: the ancient Aztecs measured drunkenness in number of rabbits. Like, "Oh, cheg out Bill, he's 300 rabbits." "Dude, I was like 230 rabbits last week and I got kicked out of the Florida…
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This is our summer fun jam. We wrote it in February, but that's just testament to our amazing imagination.
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Recording of birds and other aircraft from my backyard. Plus the National and borrowed mando.
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This song was inspired by the heavy rains of the past two days, and my wife and I biding our time waiting for them to subside a bit so we could leave the house. The guitar is my old Alvarez classical with a microphone, then run through my RP350…
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My first album «ZigZag» (2010) :
http://www.rhapsody.com/awe/zigzag
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/zigzag/id339433974
http://www.amazon.com/Zigzag/dp/B002X39FFI/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1263239993&sr=1-9
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HE'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU. We thought this instrumental was just dying to be in a horror flick. The producers went with DMX instead. Really? up in here?
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My attempt at one of Amelia's (The Missed Connections) songs. I think I darkened one of her few upbeat sounding songs.
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Of the whole album, this is the track I had most fun making. The instrumentation consists of accordion, beer bottle, work desk, toy keyboard, whistling, and scissors.
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So-named because it was a last minute addition to the album. I wish I could remember what effects I put on the accordion track to make it almost sound more like a synthesized sitar.
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I'm proud to say this is one of the weirdest songs I've ever done. I got some more use out of the beer bottle here, this time hitting it with a pencil instead of blowing on it.
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One of a few pieces composed on a battery operated toy keyboard that I nicknamed the Powersockey, due to the fact that the power socket was labeled that.
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The chorus is adapted from "O Death Rock Me Asleep", by Anne Boleyn, while imprisoned in the Tower of London, waiting for her execution.
(Tolar & Savigear 2010)
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our 2010 entry for the RPM Challenge. members included:
Minibar Madness - sound effects & noise,
Commoner - Amplifier worship, pedals, electrical guitar,
The Chaos Council - MicroMoog , alto sax, effects,
Tone the Destroyer - violin &…
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RPM 2009 entry. Has been described as sounding like Satan's Orchestra tuning up...
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A quick song about the Times paedophilia correspondent, Roger Boyes.
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We all live on one planet, and on this planet we ARE the indigenous peoples. The rest is just intellectual self petting if you know what I mean. When I'm feeling frustrated with the human race, I return to the roots. I read once in a novel on…
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Gothic-Doom metal from Russia, all the tracks in this album are instrumental.
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I used to cross over railway tracks on my way to the ballfield in college, and though I never knew why, I was always tempted to just start following them.
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A song written for a great girl who'll be getting married next year...
"You'll always be this young if love comes first
And you stay filled with life."
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I hope the emotional content will outweigh the technical deficiencies... this is the sound of me singing with a broken heart and a killer sinus infection. I guess this one is 8 or 9 years old by now; another one from the trunk-full of songs that…
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This track is an edit of an improv I did during one of those many TMY demo sessions.... We listened back, had a laugh & I never played it again! - Michael
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minimal, haunting drone...with a flavour at the end...
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I'm not sure if this is a song about the pointlessness of war, or about me getting turned down for a job at a local radio station....
Possibly both.
Guitar by Damien Taylor
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My cover of Sister Savage's Europa. I lovely little song about one of Jupiter's moons. I really enjoyed working with this.
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Gothic-Doom metal from Russia, all the tracks in this album are instrumental.
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Gothic-Doom metal from Russia, all the tracks in this album are instrumental.
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Housemate Tim (first verse, chorus) joined us for an attempt at a Bette Middler classic. AND THEN WE AUTOTUNED IT...
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Housemate Tim (first verse, chorus) joined us for this attempt at a Bette Middler classic. This is not autotuned.
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The Music tells the story. we all carry our true selves inside, and experience those who would tell us we are someone else. take this home, light a candle, dance widdershins, blow some smoke to the six directions.... and be free
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The cover I did off Uglifruit's 2010 RPM submission. The drums are a pair of hotrod sticks, that I made, hitting my keyboard table. The "kick drum is the stick hitting the pop screen while the mic was on.
I still need to fade...
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A love song for you.
The song is the musical rendition of a piece from my book, "PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings," which can be found here:
http://bit.ly/Pronoia
Credits…
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Getting back to some stuff that was on the shelf before rpm, dusting off an old acoustic instrumental here.
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I frequently go on training skates on a beach front trail. The parking lot is just off of a major highway bridge (the Burlington Skyway for those that know it). It's always an interesting sound there...
I recently acquired got a little Pocketrax…
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A blues number made using magix easy listening loops with Ardour software on Linux. This needs a lyric in the middle, but has instead been peppered here with almost random acoustic guitar jazz riffs. Had to use Audacity to take a chunk of the…
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Hey, this is my brand new song, The Static Heart. Listen and enjoy! Thanks so much for the support. Constructive criticism comments are encouraged.
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It was a rainy Sunday, so I decided to record a cover of one of my favorite songs from RPM2010 - Party by Gumbo.
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A tune I made on my first attempt on my wife's Magix Music Maker software. She was impressed about how quickly I picked it up! A slightly revised second edition and it is ready for publication. Caution - contains all Magix loops.
What really…
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you are lost
you gave yourself
for a great cause
at what cost
people need help
all your clothes
people you love most
time to make a toast
you are the host
make their hearts melt
got a story to tell
fasten your seat belt
wherever you are
now i…
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I was inspired by the music of a friend of mine, their band is called Aradhna and you might like to check them out. I've attempted to compose a song in the Hindi language and here it is.
The words are very simple
Union with Jesus
I desire union…
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cover song originally by tegan and sara (lyrics by Sara Quin).
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spent some time on this one. going for a trance dance feel. done with ableton and synths
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This one is for my Grandson, cause he loves to boogie!
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My first attempt at doing a songfight (songfight.org).
Though I've known what the title was for a week+, I finally decided to write the thing the night before it was due.
PROCRASTINATORS REPRESENT!
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the beats part is worked by my friend using fruityloops and the guitar part is done by me.ENJOY!!!!
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A taboo celebration of the rowdy miracles that assail us from all sides.
The song is the musical rendition of a piece from my book, "PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings," which…
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My first serious/non-serious effort on the [Everyday Looper iPhone app](http://www.mancingdolecules.com/everyday-looper/).
Stats:
* 100% recorded through the iPhone
* probably 95% iPhone headset mic, 5% internal mic
* 98% my voice, 2% my piano…
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My version of the fantastic Sister Savage/Gary Fox tune. Not as good as the original but I had fun! Thanks to Tess for helping out with the lyrics
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When your love leaves at Christmas never to return
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When your heart is broken and nothing makes sense anymore
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Well, hot summer night. Beautiful woman dancing in the moonlight, (the goddesses knew what they were doing, a man doesn't stand a chance against this), knees going weak.... hearts' pounding...head spinning = new song. (Love was already there…
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I was dreaming one night, and this song came, it was part of what I was going through in the dream. I woke up with the emotion, the words, and the melody still going. Got out of bed (Like 4AM! ugh!) went down to the studio and recorded the melody…
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final fantasy meets the wizard of oz in a steamy organ bar ' they have cheap midget bar xxx ' start a brawl ' then do some pcp ' walk home at sunrise
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This recording has been through hell, pretty much like I was when I wrote this: It was recorded written and played by me, on a fostex four track. At the time even true love had let me down, and decided its dreams "for" me were more important than…
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The first 6 min. of the set from Backbeat Cafe last night. My favorite part at a manageable listening length.
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A more thorough remix of a track from my Mutatis Mutandis album of 2004. Done in Reason.
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Downtempo groove with percussions make this spicy like Senegal? Zingy like Zimbabwe? Nice like Namibia!
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Soothing third world chillout with screaming violin, clanging galvanized iron roof shingles, and mutant radio signals being broadcast amidst the squalor.
Trust me, you don't want to hear V.1.
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The first track from our 2008 RPM album. Didn't make the cut for the final album, so you get to enjoy it here!
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zoozaza its all a brujaja ha hahahahahaha/
the bands width is not a cummerbund/ words to squeeze out the imperfect/ bright lites fandango oh so fun/ where is the allah/ messiah/ the jah?
as a species/ we fall to peaces/ our pretense, provoked…
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This is a feeble attempt to play some classical Spanish guitar. It took two takes, to make one guitar part, haha. I am no Tommy Emmanuel, and that will be obvious when you listen to this one.
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From my 2006 RPM album,, I am working on eventually producing a collection of mystic/sufi, inspired pieces,,, for which this will be one
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This is a collaboration with a wonderful young artist - Craig Mathieson. Craig is a tremendous talent, a great guitar player, and just an all around good guy. His album just dropped and you can hear more of his music at the following:
http…
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A cover of The Missed Connections off her 2010 RPM CD.
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Second of the songs with a movie clip from 1955.
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This is probably to personal, to raw to put here, but I've been listening to some pretty courageous stuff here in alonetone. This is more of an occurence, a onetime performance, more of a memorial, than a recording. My dad had died recently, I…
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Wisians are those strange foreign people with odd customs, and funny hats. They love to party. Have you seen one recently?
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Cthulahoop recording commenced after a peculiarly strong dream. Uses samples of a friend's digerido run through an analog filter. Definitely dream state.
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Cthulahoop recording. Monkey, the base element of the human alchemy.
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At the beginning of a Himitsu jam session we had an impromptu trio of guitar, theremin, and electronic drums doing a snippet of this classic theme.
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Himitsu jam piece. I am responsible for the synth slide trombone here.
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A special song for a very special lady and her son
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More of theat life stuff that happens to us all at some point!
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"Senses" is all about Spring where all our senses are sharpened and we look at all the beautyful things that rises before our eyes.
Watch the video from Second Life too...very well made by Soundr Productions;o)
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This Lovin’ Cup- I was watching the idiot box and just holding my guitar when this little vamp on a B chord came out of nowhere. Using the same recorder, I recorded about 20 seconds of the riff. The lyrical idea came on the trip to Chicago, while…
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Allelujiah-This was supposed to be a completely different song, but this one just wrote itself instead. It’s almost all first take, except for the bass, which took a while to get straight so that it wouldn’t overwhelm the song. It has this tone…
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your 4x4 is my four post bed/ the ruffles and patterns really effed up yer head/in a world of strip malls and choreographed tv brawls/ we grow like a wayward chia/ im so happy to see ya/ the texting is no touching/ and heavy petting means no munching…
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i actually got to kidnap a real live drunk sax player for this instrumental kick in the face of traditional arrangement.
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OK we lost power at a critical point in recording for RPM. This one was written and recorded the day I had to pack up all my recording gear and borrow a room at a local public business which was on a different power grid. The wind had caused some…
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Inspiration for this quick fun one came from Uncommon Ritual and other works by Edgar Meyer: I wanted to take a run of notes across multiple instruments just to have fun!
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We play even number of games of backgammon and sometimes it ends in a...
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But don't answer yet, we will DOUBLE the offer if you call right now...
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Written with thoughts for Nodar Kumaritashvili who died at the 2010 Olympics. It was a one in a million chance...
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I figure if I keep trying long enough, I'll start channeling the great Django Reinhardt. Perhaps it's like squeezing blood from a stone but if I get a drop or two, I'm happy with that!
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Named after a painting which was named after a lovely little daily ritual I share with my best friend.
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Sometimes a tune pops up right to left field. This is one of em! I backed it up with a stand-up bass track which I was intending to re-record before RPM submission but ran outta time.
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The title came to me when I saw what impending maelstrom was headed our way on satellite imagry. Lots of space in this tune...
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A reggae version of my country/pop tune. From 2008 album Do What I Gotta Do
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Haitian rhythm bed with kalimba and Ney and synthflute. Rejected for its original purpose as being 'too jazzy' ;)
The rhythmns and kalimba were old favorites that I had not adapted to anything. Added flute and textures for a website project…
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All right, so one of those silly songs needed to find its way onto the album. In an effort to teach the students on my middle school team about rhythm in poetry, I wrote this little bit of foolishness about a fictional character (so yes, you…
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