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Instrumental version of track 7 for Gate, the 2nd Ankhaos album. Composition from ~2018-9, recorded on Musescore ~2019. Lyrics written & to be recorded.
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Instrumental version of track 1 for Gate, the 2nd Ankhaos album. Composition from 2012, recorded on Musescore ~2018. Lyrics written & to be recorded.
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bless yr daughters & yr wives
send yr sons to warmer climes
M16 & a carton of Camel Lights
we'll send him home for the holidays
call em Charlie, call you Sam
Minute Maid or Minute Man
Agent Orange or Agent Don't-Give-a-Damn-just…
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a manic ego trapped in a hall of mirrors
Uploaded Oct 17, 2014.
a manic ego trapped in a hall of mirrors is a composition that my collaborator Frank Miller (of “2”) built around my 20 edo guitar part. Frank wrote and performed the vocals…
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No Place
Uploaded Sep 18, 2011.
This is a song some 15 years in the making. The original 4-track cassette tape tracks laid down in 1997 - and this past year Frank added bass and drums. Its my fault on how there are still rough edges - that…
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tar pits - star ripper
Uploaded Sep 5, 2025
tarpits / star ripper sept 4, 2025
in the dark or light it’s the same sight
nothings right or wrong, come sing the song
mixed up in rhyme just about every time
i fail to see the relevance of…
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Starlight (working title Allegro)
Uploaded Aug 23, 2025
Starlight (working title Allegro)
Morning is older
I know where she is over
Tossing her hair back
ooo and her shoulder
oh the garden too
Starlight is tripping!
Golden my eyesight…
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BLARK Lagos ft OMO muda & dj mhein boi
It’s a KONTO new wave music
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Some say Cosmic Anxiety consists of two people, but maybe we're more than that? Maybe you're somehow involved too? Maybe this demo resonates with you? Or motivates you? Rise up!
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Agba awo is a cover to konga by konga it’s was singing and performed by OMO muda
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Het oude jaar staat in de gang
Met z’n jas nog aan
De klok tikt scheef, de radio kraakt
Er is iets blijven hangen
In de hoek van de kamer
Waar we nooit meer kijken
Een lijstje met goede voornemens
Op de achterkant van een bonnetje
We…
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Ik leun tegen de middag
Die te laat begon
De straat ademt namen
Die ik ooit verzon
Er ligt stof op je schouders
Van een andere tijd
Ik veeg het niet weg
Omdat het zo mooi blijft
Alsof ik oplos in geluid
Een stem in de muur
Die je altijd…
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Ik vond je naam op een bushokje,
geschreven met regen en tijd.
De stad ademt zacht in je jaszak,
alsof ze ons allebei kent.
We praten in omwegen,
laten zinnen liggen op straat.
Ik hoor je lachen achter muren,
alsof je me langzaam raakt…
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A great collaboration, Greg Connor blowing the Blues away ….
Video by Roger Harris:
https://youtu.be/jjRgh8282kY
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Putting my own stank on a cover from another mother. Jeff is brilliant and so is Stevie Wonder who wrote and George Martin who produced Jeff's Grammy winning version. What Greatness!
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Ok here's the whole enchiada. Consists of the tracks Alnilam,Alnitak and Mintaka.
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Syd was one of a kind. Recorded live with backing vocal added.
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Made it through another year
Still don’t know why I’m here
Make some music drink some beer
Sounds alright to me
Loved ones leave
Friends come then go
Everything can change so quick
Don’t let the bullshit bring you down
Just enjoy this…
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Draft arrangement of a favorite song.
Wurlitzer, Moog Model D, Banjo and some Rodney advice.
Thanks to Almut, Mars, Floss for vocal chorus help and Markus for the beautiful scratchy baroque violin.
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This is a fun idea Greg has, and I can't wait to hear more.
He sent me an acoustic and vocal track and asked me to complete it.
I stayed up most of the night jammin' it. :)
It's a bit loose around the edges because I didn't work anything…
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Hazy Memories, with voices and context. (I've had a lot of surgery; none of it cosmetic, I might add!)
Thanks Dr Jip!
Enjoy xox
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To the Wind baby!
Thanks for the vocal on this Mark bro!
You inspiered a band name....
(See Youtube Below)
This was Done on Logic.. Hope Y'all like it.
Peace
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Still learning the keys.
This will be the last cover for some long while. It just seemed like something fun to practice on since everything that appears in my head is usually slow and sad. Now I can practice on something fast and sad!
I…
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Reg is feeling lonely...he needs to feel some love...he wants to be surrounded by love.... the loneliness is getting unbearable for him........
i want love
i need it now
i want love
to take me over right now
i want love
i want love
i want…
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Oh yet another nostalgic blast from the past. I found this unbelievable backing track surfing the web some years ago. I usually never use backing tracks because they usually suck bad . But this one is like having mitch and noel at your side. I…
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i was listening to a post of this Beatles cover by oldrottenhead this morning,,it is a really great song, so this evening i sort of just sort of sat down an let it happen,,i didn't even really know the song as much as i might like,, but i find…
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Norm's Percussion inspired this one. Great audio clips of Duke Kahanamoku and his polar opposite, Miki Dora (Da Cat)
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The longing is authentic. What more can I say.
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I uploaded this one earlier in the month with a rough track. Colin W. and Greg Connor helped me improve the arrangement and we recorded it at Winterland Studios this past week with some amazing equipment and awesome sound mixing support from…
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Hold The Nighttime
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Hold the nighttime just as close as you can. Get to know it. Yeah, make it your friend. Taste the darkness and you'll understand. The moon reflects the light on the land. But not everything is what it seems... in this dream…
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Track 4 on Paper Planes and Pencil Shavings
Thanks Jim for getting me back in the studio. 6 months from my last AT post, Jeeeeeze!
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Final version
Guitar, mandolin and voice.
this doesn't fit with my rpm project AT ALL so i may not use it but i like the way it came out. I recorded the music for Bethan Mathis' RPM project but she didn't have time to use it (her album is…
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This is a little piece dedicated to the lost world island of Socotra that grabs a lot of instrumentation from across Asia with little discrimination - the melodic instruments use Afshari with the exception of the Jaw harps which use 9-tET Sorog.
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I realize now that any song with the word "cathartic" in the lyrics has flow issues...
Cheers!
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This is a special request by Sister.
It's kinda sloppy. Frankly, because I suck at it :)
I'm not much of a cover musician but I gave it hell.
It's mostly analog. MIDI drums, DB33 organ patch,
strat leads, and Ibanez chords, Dean bass…
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This song was inspired by t.v. commercials featuring actor William Devane, who has spent the last few years trying to convince Americans to buy gold.
Lyrics-
The lonely days of summer made me think of you
And I remember good times we have…
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I've been messing about with my virtual keyboard this week, in preparation of an amazing collaboration I'll be working on soon :)
Beat and sax are from Mixcraft.
Enjoy! xox
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i was trying to work on a piece for a shark video of mine, but this is what came out instead,, my piano moments collections are the small musical threads that emerge amongst/while i am working/thinking about other things,,,
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Landry/Garn
When I sent this song off to Jim, he sent back tracks for a second rhythm guitar, lead guitar, and drums. Bass soon followed, and Kavin's slide dropped in nicely. Just thought I'd let y'all have a listen to what came back to me…
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So I'm back at Caffe Lena on Thursday night gearing up for my two songs and a band called "Driftwood" takes the stage (banjo, acoustic guitar, fiddle) and blows everyone away.
Kinda gets me thinking...
And writing...
"Driftwood"
Coming down…
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About a place in the world that is very special.
But It would be just another bit of rock if it wasn't for the people I shared it with....
This one is called “Stoneâ€...
Peace
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Vocal and Lyrics by Jim Higgins
we raced…
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Perhaps you could use a little fatherly advice? Well here it is!
Chording improvisation on 7 different conga drums tuned to an octave and set to 3-2 rumba clave.
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Lookie here hot-shot: a silent fool is half a wise-man
And there…
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Here's another tune from the Wild and Wacky world of Rubber.
Special thanks to Erin - The Panes for lending us her magnificent voice.
As usual, we tore it up and turned it up side down.
Thanks again Erin.
http://alonetone.com/thepanes
Enjoy!
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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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Our sun is in a long, cool, quiet period right now. But average ocean temps are the highest ever, and polar ice and glaciers are melting at an alarming rate. Something is going on here.
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Written for Minnesota Homebrew Radio Show's current songwriting challenge, "write a song with two words in the title starting with P".
The term 'pseudo' means 'false' or 'pretend.' Pseudo-psychology, therefore, refers to a psychological practice…
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Having some fun with a little Gary Clark Jr/ Hendrix riffage....
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For Gene's challenge. Keeping always in mind the K.I.S.S. principle. (Keep It Simple, Stupid!)
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A collab with LJ. You may have heard it with a Burnley accent. This is a softer version.
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I was going through my song ideas folder and stumbled across this lyric that I wrote ages ago... so long ago I have no clue what inspired it. Certainly long before I ever thought up my "Banjo-centric" schtick. But this is a tune that needs a banjo…
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Written for Mick's RPM Holiday Challenge...
Anyone who's experienced "Black Friday" against their will should find this entertaining.
YOU MIGHT HAVE A SHITTY CHRISTMAS
Waking up at 3:00 a.m.
Why the hell did I try to sleep at all…
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My first rejected Ramen Music submission.
Too Much
I wrote you a letter but I never sent it
I was afraid you might never get it
or what if you did and I lived to regret it
and it was just too much for me to take
now its four in the morning…
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Summer Grass- I didn’t originally intend for this to be the title track, but since most, though not all, of the songs on this album sound like summer to me, I decided, why not? The guitar even sounds humid and warm, but in that nice July way…
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I'm a complete idiot when it comes to all things midi related. Recently got myself a midi keyboard though and came up with this short piece just messing with sounds in Proteus. Really looking forward to the possibilities of combining this sort…
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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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A blended cover of two separate Angie Fights Crime songs, joining the compilation group with my good friends from the #RPM Challenge. Recorded in 2016, I thought I would add it to the two other cover tracks in this profile from last year during…
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(Remastered 22/10/2021)
I found this one while I was digging through the shoe-box for the 1994 songs. Apparently I wrote it on 10th November 1995.
Foolishly, I thought it would only take a week or so to record... I was originally expecting…
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Paul Lennon and I got our "Irish up" after our last collaboration and did one more to share with everyone. Hope you all have a wonderful St. Patrick's Day! Here are the lyrics:
The Land We Call Tara
© 2015 Lyrics - Colleen Dillon, Music…
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COME TOGETHER
Here come old flattop, he come groovin' up slowly
He got joo-joo eyeball, he one holy roller
He got hair down to his knee
Got to be a joker he just do what he please
He wear no shoeshine, he got toe-jam football
He got…
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I got me a new mic and a pre-amp and I picked up the Jumbo Eko (I'll do this again when my fingertips have recovered). I tried to do finger picking when I was a teen, but didn't pursue it as it seemed like too much hard work at the time. Today…
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A song about, well, s**t happens, but all in all, it's alright. Thanks to TwoRegs (singing), Freight Drive Reprobate (singing and harmonica)and Lady Jane (Singing in posh mode). Hope you like.
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Well Johnny kindly bought Rock n Roll down the cellar tonight and Bon decided to jump up and give this beauty his best it was a hell of a time and Johnny nearly blew his amps up. The whole cellar was shaking and so was Bon when he finished singing…
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A single track of improvised chromatically tuned congas in 7/8, accented with clave, guiro, cajon and quinto.
(For those who may be interested in collaborating on this, the triplet phrasing of this groove may be most easily counted like this…
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My take on Gumbo's Keep Your Eye On The Spot, one of many excellent tracks from his RPM2011 album 'Cat's Moustache'. It's something of a departure from the original, though I was trying to retain an element of the gospel so hopefully its soul…
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"High Life" is a musical genre that originated in Ghana in the 1900s and spread to Sierra Leone, Nigeria and other West African countries by 1920. My friends from that part of the world consider this be the "go-to" rhythm for just about anything…
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I mostly wanted to make music with a funky clav line I'd come up with, so this is it. For the voiceover, I unabashedly used an awesome monologue by Ken Nordine.
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A short unfinished jazzy kinda thing from the end of 2006
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I know, not really a raga.
Darrin Kobetich on mandolin.
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This is not the same ponderous endless time being that was mentioned by someone, somewhere. But rather I touch the water lightly and expecting the circles to disappear. And again.
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Features freesounds.com: 69606__Redhouse91__hiphoppiano0186bpm
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Last of the archives for now. A set of reels from the Last Nights Fun album. I did pipes, whistle and guitar on the last tune in the set. There's a live version of this up here too. This is the studio cut
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With Or Without You
Try to get along but it takes two
It’s a Whole lot of me and not much you
Working myself right to the bone
Thinking that I am all alone
Just like a monkey up in the tree
Throwing your feces straight…
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An Irish slow air played on a Sindt A pennywhistle
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A not so traditional cover by one of my favs, Led Zeppelin
Shaking the covers out for springtime :)
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Just sat down with my new Big Baby Taylor , this was the first song that came into my head , recorded live using the onboard mics on the BR-800
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Lady Jane's one woman band! No loops today - I got all my instruments out - all being guitar (played with plectrum in neck without realising - oops!), bongos, rain stick, ting sha bells, tibetan singing bowl and tinkly bell thing from my miniature…
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Long drum solos aren't for everyone - I get it. Just do what many at Grateful Dead concerts did and look at it as an opportunity to go get another beer. On the other hand, if you are the sort of person who cheers at the fireworks show, I hope…
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More of this sweet little song... cleaned up and arranged!
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This is our little bundle of joy now grown up to be 10 years old. She took up the flute this year at school and this is her first effort in front of my microphone.
She decided on the flute after watching some vids of Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull…
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Here it is in all of its glory...
THIS is the song that Mrs R and I had decided was a suitable response to a request to "Upload something HAPPY, stat!!!!!!!!!"
I tried to record it back in 2013 when I wrote it…
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It was about time I got on with musical expression. This song is about our interconnectedness. Our identity. Serious mystic stuff eh? Yeah - wait until you hear it - haha.
Said the snail to the bird how's your flight?
If I had your wings I…
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Bob Dylan tune, but this is the George Harrison version.
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This is the first tune of a collab project with Movement to Contact..Had a great time crafting songs back and forth with Jim over the last few weeks.
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So MTC put out [this wonderfully sparse instrumental piece](http://alonetone.com/mtcband/tracks/shadow-of-myself) and a vocal line just jumped out at me. Then some harmonies jumped out as well.
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DREAMS OF THE OCEAN
Your kids'll be waking up in the morning
Just a couple of hours after mine have gone to bed
I've got the coffee warming
While dreams of the ocean are in your daughters' heads
I taught them all 'bout it late last evening…
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24 hours of music making for 2008.
Yup. This is a "Gaiman variation" which means that I stopped at 24 hours and this is what I've got. Not 24 min, but it is a "Noble Failure"
You can see my 2007 album [here](http://alonetone.com/sudara…
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This one's a bit of a ponderous beastie.
It can be whatever you want it to be. For me, it's got a lot to do with Sunday 18th June 1815.
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**Cold - A A J Russe**
Your wagon-train
Is out of danger
And of course you never lie
Not…
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A collab with K.Davidsen, Dave Berry and Speed Demon (Gene) that I never put up but it's a cool tune and these guys rock so I floated it up to the cloud!
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Have a problem with TV evangelists? You won’t have a problem with this number! This Psych Folk tune features Starry Nightmoth on church organ. The rhythm/drum track was generated using a Yamaha E313 KB, the rest is my fault.
COME UNTO ME…
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The berimbau is a Brazilian instrument associated with Capoeira, which is a Brazilian art form that combines elements of martial arts, sports, and music. It was created in Brazil mainly by descendants of African slaves with Brazilian native…
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Fathers Day on Sunday....
Thought I'd write a song for my son.
Here you go lad...
As the Sun shines....Lyrics
And my boy.....
You Smile so wide as the sun shines.
But you will keep your joy as the clouds try,
to stop our light…
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This is one stereo track of 6 conga drums tuned, by ear, to roughly a chromatic scale (I don't know which one - perhaps I've gone micro-tonal!) coupled with a single track of ad-lib quinto (the high drum) and a "shuffle" groove on trap-set…
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Remedies are funny things. You want to get better but you don't want to change.
This is now a minimally tidied up version of this track 18/3/09
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I wrote this little ditty back in May, did an acoustic demo and then played it to one or two people. I always meant to do something a bit more, er, "expansive" with the thing... So I stuck it in the corner for a bit and forgot about it.
Been…
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So Radiohead and Tortoise walked into a bar...
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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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STEPPIN' ON SOME TOES Key - Em and E
Em
Well, some folks got big noses
Some folks got big hats
Some folks stand out in the aisle
Make it hard to pass
Am
Some folks they got money
Em
They…
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This song has been sat on the marvellous mechanical mouse organ in the broom-cupboard for well over a year.
A few weeks ago I got a bit of a scare - the mouse organ nearly broke down (in the middle of sorting out Delta Dawn). While I was fixing…
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I'm calling this my Halloween track, but really it's just one of my more noisy experiments that I never intended to release! I actually can't remember now how I got part of these sounds, but it's all the Taylor and a floor full of toys, and a…
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I can't quite believe that I'm posting this, or that I've even recorded it. But I've played it like this sat on the sofa in the living room for many years, and I needed something to check out how to record a live "one vocal and one guitar" song…
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This is a recording of Norm and me playing together a few months ago. I didnt have any percussion instruments so Norm was on a Roland electric trap set and I had a cello. I looped some of the stuff we did that night, and retrofitted the rest…
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This Track is Part of an Anti Gang/knife Crime initiative that is running in an East London School.
The Pupils will make tracks Similar to this during the course, to try and send a message out..
To stop Youth Violence......
Wish us luck
Peace…
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022**
Song number 12
Written Friday 18th February 2022
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I had NOTHING. I decided to rest today with so much time left and only 3 to do.
I had this title, but no... must... rest
However, Madame La…
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This is a song I wrote this week, trying to capture that strange emotion you sometimes feel during times of great milestones in your life - good things happening, changes, moving on. Joy and melancholy all at the same time. Everyone feels it…
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A quick lil uptempo shuffle I put together. Thru down a bass line and a some guitar utilizing the split coil JB-1 humbucker in the bridge position.
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Requires work. Would be the first thing to say.. not least the bloody clipping. Just wanted to post something to prove im not dead.
The song is inspired by my counselor kindly allowing me to leave my guilt with her last time i saw her. i told…
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It seems a lot of you record with open mics and can relate. I record 1 track at a time with usually 4 or 5 tracks. So, Im only asking for about 15 minutes of Silence...IS THIS TOO MUCH TO ASK??? Anyway, my house is so loud, I get a lot of bloopers…
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Features Gary Essex on slide guitar and is but an instrumental of the full song that is Blues Blues - please check it out and love it as though it were your own...
Please note that this particular version is dedicated to the wonderfully talented…
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Quick recording of a new set of pipes I'm working on. Long winded explanation- prior to the late 19nth century most Irish pipes featured very small bores and finger holes and were pitched well below modern concert pitch. I've always loved them…
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This track is actually 99.583333% M.T.C. But, I needed an easy project for July, since I didn't have a lot of time last month. He had published it as a "B-Side" called "Quarter of a 60th Spanish." For fun, I just added a few subtle twists. Probably…
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3 tracks with my strat copy + NI guitar rig
1 track with my Washburn bass + NI guitar rig
1 vocal clip I made and tortured
1 Korg MS200 track
1 Pianoteq track
session drummer 3
Sonar 8.5 used to put it all together
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Archival stuff from my distant past with former bandmates in Scartaglen. A set of traditional Irish tunes. Rescued from a cassette tape done at a concert back in the early 90's. Myself on Uilleann pipes and whistle. Mike dugger on guitar and fiddle…
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If you have the fever and the only cure is more tambourine, here it is.
MORE TAMBOURINE SOLOS!! (But you should probably wait until you have the house to yourself...)
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Piano Sonata One -- the Mexican Sonata
1st movment here
2nd finished -- but waiting its turn
3rd in concept form (much to think about)
Dedicated to Ralph who passed away last year during the RPM month of February,, The slower middle section…
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photo & artwork by GMO.
(if you want to know more about musette musics src.wikipedia)
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Conversations I had with your Dad in the pub.
GB News is the UK's equivalent to Fox News in the US.
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My first completed 2013 RPM track. Thanks to Kavin for turning a simple acoustic song into what you hear today.
ONE LAST DANCE
I never got to tell you what's been on my mind
It might be just as well now that we're running out of time…
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