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I wrote this about a very-now-ex-girlfriend somewhere back in the '90s. People seem to like it (actually, there's been a comparison to Duncan Sheik made several times by several people - I'll take it!) Essentially me being pissy :)
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My friend Vyv requested I write a song about penguins, so here it is. (well, it doesn't say much about penguins - but it does mention them!)
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This is a song about questions, especially after experiencing the loss of someone special.....here are the lyrics:
Down past the bridge
By Saint Peter‘s church
She hums a prayer
Her eyes blue and bare
She’s longing for comfort…
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A HOUSE CALLED BROKEN
youre in a house and your wasting away
youre in a house and its long long lonely day
youre in a house that you cant wait to forget
youre in a house all broken a little lie you tell yourself
but when it falls to pieces…
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Written in 2002; played to death 2003-4; retired in 2005. Feels good to bring this one back from the dead.
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were all going to be dead one day ...... what do we care?................
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Part of The Kitchen Sink, AMUC's RPM 2012 album.
If you like what you hear, you can also find the entire Kitchen Sink album as a playlist, with everything in the correct order.
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Part Of Kitchen Sink, the RPM 2012 album for AMUC.
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Part Of Kitchen Sink, the RPM 2012 album for AMUC.
It's technically "Tobias The Battery-Powered Hermit", but the field wasn't long enough. =)
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Part Of Kitchen Sink, the RPM 2012 album for AMUC.
It started out as a tribute to the old sci-fi movie, "The Quiet Earth", and became something else.
Freesound samples used:
42190__digifishmusic__siiiilence.wav
20765__radian__sorrysorry…
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From RPM 2012 album, "The Kitchen Sink"
First track - title comes from an unintended vocal sample.
2/26/12 MPT: I already uploaded a fresh copy. I wanted it to sound like a vocal ensemble in a dumpster, but I might have initially gone overkill…
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Revisiting this track too. For some unknown reason, the church across the street from my former abode occasionally rang their bell at 7:30 in the morning. Not every Sunday. Come to think, Sunday wasn't the exclusive day either. At any rate…
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Re-recording of an old song I'd originally written for an even older band, Buckle. I think Buckle's been done now for almost eighteen years, so it may be safe to dust this off now and expose it to light again.
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from the dusty dance halls of the past a reverie
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played on my PS3 guitar midi controller
details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=2161
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#6 on my rpm 2012 cd "American Impressionist"
sort of my take on what might happen if Bach met the Fonzz
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a riff idea for the title track to "Standing Machine"
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Apocrypha is a progressive rock song in the sense of Rush more than ELP or Yes. I had come up with the guitar and via my GR-20 the strings - everything else you hear was performed by my long time collaborator Frank Miller (Phantasm777) - so that…
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Blah, Blah, blah, - (pause) Blah, blah, blah, blah!!
I can't take it no mo'. I'm buggin' out.
Oooooo! look at all the pretty colors.
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You can watch the video related to this song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp1_NaAoiLU&list=UU6ZCGmT1WphdMDQbIZT0peg&index=1&feature=plcp
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I've never felt such a need to apologize for a track as this one. Take that as a warning.
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You know I'm diggin' and scratchin' when I start
sounding like Jimmy Buffet elevator musak :)
Oooooo the delightful chaos of RPM
This has 2 percussion loops, midi drums, midi fretless bass, some midi strings, synths, and piano, 2 gallons of…
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no11 in my ukelele songs and the album is done the other 11 are here
http://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=14378.0
the cracks begin to show
fault lines appearing
what once lay below
has come to the surface
shake rattle and roll…
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I could have sworn I uploaded this here before but... I sure can't find it.
4 track cassette
fender mustang
MXR distortion+
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tell no one a story or describe this music for this is the inner depths of a wormhole in a sleep pyramid
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I'm not really sure how this came about, I borrowed some lyrics from Angie Fights Crime and added a reggae sound and a remix to "The Surreal Age of the Naked Lemon" which I'm doing for the Rmp challenge and this sort of popped out ...
The…
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The wind roars. The night is pitch-black. The rails wet. Ideal.
I thought it would be harder. Perhaps it is only as hard as one deems it to be.
It approaches. I am terrified, but it needs to be done.
I let out everything that is human, as a…
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~for all the elves out of nowhere~
She dances, gracefully moving along a branch of the tree elf. She is dancing on the moon's path, alone...
Galadriel was proud, strong, and selfwilled... From her earliest years she had a marvellous gift of…
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I found one of these for $6 at Goodwill and used it with pianoteq to improvise Just a Moment
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Some days seem longer than others,no body phones,no body calls round,what do you do? write a song i guess!
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ditty #5 for the RPM Challenge. Alnitak is the left star in the belt of the Orion constellation. This is part 1 of the Orion's Belt Trilogy.
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Long live Lemmy,Motorhead and all who sail in her!
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I did this classic a little while back with Mike over at the cool lab and i'd forgotten to put it up.....one from the teenage mists of time.........
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“This Change”: (Richard Hardrick)
Everything change
oceans of life, fight against death (hum)
I'm only a shade (afraid)
I' m trying to find my own way to survive
I'm better hide away, far away.
I can't resist this change
sky or sea…
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This is my attempt at afro-pop... The video was produced by a friend of mine, Skot McCall, via online collaboration...
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playing with my eyes closed
rpm #4 2012
from about 2 min on it's a bit hot,, if anyone has some suggestions on how to balance the range, i would appreciate it r
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Some new material! This album is not yet complete but I thought I'd share this track. I'm very proud of this one. An aggressive start with an emotional end. Please share your thoughts. -Mike
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i suppose this one is a lullaby, two uke tracks and 1 vocal track lots of background noise including my sinuses.
as darkness falls
all around
is silent now
you settle down
and go to sleep
a darkness falls
sweet dreams
my little one
sweet dreams…
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This song is inspired by the struggles currently going on in Syria....here are the lyrics:
Out in the streets, an awakening has begun
You brandish posters, they point a gun
Scrawled on the pavement with blood and tears
Says we the people…
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Anyone who has been through a messy breakup can relate to this song.
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In the old days you could dodge the collectin man if your money wasn't right.Nowadays they can remotely shut off your lights,cable,internet-put your stuff out on the curb. So this is a bittersweet trip down nostalgia lane.
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#4 for the RPM Challenge.
Have you heard this melody before? This is one of those where I wonder if I've unconsciously "borrowed" something from someone. Translation: the Fly Boat, like the tourist boats that ply the river Seine and their bright…
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rpm #3,, from a future themed piece to be called "the dark doll house" a place where yellow orange light drifts through soft gray curtains,,far away a child's laugh echos down the stair case,,
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This one I might expand on after RPM. I think it could be good.
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A Midi slopfest. Kinda fun to do with the midi banjo thingy.
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This one could use a vocal or a surf's up lead guitar hook. Sounds like it could be in Kill Bill Vol. III. Midi nylon acoustic in this one.
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Interpretation of that we see comes from us, so, therefore, is not objective. Seems, there is no objectivity here, none at all. But then why do we try again and again to learn, to understand, to feel?
The question is still the same: who are…
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“While I Wait”: (Richard Hardrick)
I hear my steps from echoes
down in the street of time
van años en lo incierto
outside the shadow line
Silence in an empty sky
while I wait
God has not revealed yet
the truth of signs outside…
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We had to drag Elvis and the Big band out for this one.....hope you enjoy.......
All I Want Is Love (Lyrics)
Can’t you see what i need
Cant you see how i feel
All i what from you is love
Thats what i want
Want to feel
All i need
All…
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absolutely changed my rpm theme, if I actually had one to begin with. This song "Release" will actually land on my definite RPM 2012 Album "Standing Machine".
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Started off as a bit of a joke, but it's actually a good song. Here's a rock take on it...
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Began with the drum beat, added some guitar sounds, messed about with Revitar 2 and put them on top of the drums, did some experimenting with the lyrics, I looked up all the strains of weed and made a list of their names and made the song out…
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It's a small song about a blurred childhood memory of a night in the woods when a wild boar made us run home in panic.
The monster came through the ground
Across the glade we ran
There was a sense we felt again - never felt again.
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As it's coming up to Valentine's Day, I thought I'll upload this little ditty.
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Japanese Ghost House Boat was my contribution to the ImprovFriday “For Japan” earthquake relief CD release with proceeds donated to the Red Cross. It is in 17 notes per octave. Since its been about a year I thought I could release it now as…
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Frank Miller (phantasm777) added excellent vocals and drums - I like it much better this way - hope you do too! (still 17 equal tuning)
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1pm on Sunday. I'm not back in work until Tuesday. We've just had a delicious roast dinner that I cooked, and the glass of wine we had with it is helping it go down. As a crisp February sun twinkles through the window I realise that for the first…
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An old instrumental of mine, written when my daughter was a baby. I plan to re-record it with some better gear soon.
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I've got a lot of money
I've got a whole lot of nothing
I've got big ole stacks of loving
a briefcase full of dust
a leap of faith is in my trust ...
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And then Jim jumped up and sang this one with the house band down the cellar..........
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My second attempt at the RPM challenge 2012......
DO WE STAY OR DO WE GO (Lyrics)
I drink to try and resolve all the problems that i know
i try to find some kind of escape but i’m afraid that i’m just too late
all my thoughts they whirl around…
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I've now done 2 for the Rpm challenge but these were the easy ones.
Too much rubbish (in the pockets of our lives)
Spend half your life waiting for a train
Now you get to thinking that you should have caught the bus
So your waiting at the station…
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up and stoned at midnight to record my first recording for the 2012 rpm challenge, an instrumental :)
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~In the middle of everyday life [and all this fuss] you stop for a moment and see yourself as if from the outside~
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Cowardly Lion: Courage! What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage…
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Act 2 Scene 3 - The Bedsit - Fool questions everything and falls into depression and drinks until he dies ... and it's OK
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so intense i have still not stopped listening to this when at all possible.
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A weird little song that I came up with ... do not try to dance to this ;)
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Act 1 Scene 3 - A Night on the Town, a glimpse into Fool's social life which is ... going round to his mates and getting stoned, going to the pub and the disco in an attempt to get a girl, which he manages to do in the last song.
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got a new ukelele still trying to tame it.
recorded 3 tracks of uke and one of vox on micro br using onboard mic, still trying to tame the onboard mic.
i shouldn't happen in a month of sundays
but i can see it coming straight towards me
i stand…
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This is the original version of WILD BILL
that I submitted to Production back in '95
when I was working on the film. It got set aside
when the music was forwarded from Ry Cooter to Van Dyke Parks.
One day I came in from work and Peggy…
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A rock song, in 17 notes per octave. Yes there is an echo of Buddy Holly... Lyrics, and chords and bass here http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=2071
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The old Blues man came down the cellar tonight and wanted to sing some Elvis and this is what we cam up with hope you enjoy......
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Had an hour or so this evening spare so i dragged the £16 special out and joined Elvis down the cellar and we got down to this one a Regged up version of the Elvis Classic ....
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Like a work of Art
Can I take you out? coz you look so nice
To a place where we can satisfy our
needy greedy selfish hearts
Shall we cast our souls in the shadows like a work of art
Would you like a drink at a rip-off price
In a long tall glass…
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A Galaxy Teeming With Life is a composition made by manipulating a Hubble space telescope picture, manipulating a sample of Francesca from 8Dio and creating a new tuning that is 256 harmonics of every odd harmonic from 3 without reducing to an…
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Osckilo challenged me : "record a song with a uke about a monkey in a bikini on a beach..."
I forgot about the ukulele :)
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It seems these Blues Lessons might be starting to pay off ....oh i wish i had more time........Lead guitar Reg with his £16 special...Vocal Possession Jim & Reg transferred through Trevor......organ Reg.......Drums a loop ....Music and words…
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This is a classical finger picked blues / classical guitar solo hybrid with lexicon reverberation and freeze pedal. There is some sloppiness. The idea was to push myself in playing and what I was playing melodically and harmonically.
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just an idea in my mind that slipped out into time and space right surrounding your face in those ears pulling the levers and the gears till it falls like a building with poor foundation till it sweeps the nation that this idea came from my imagination…
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Written at a bit of a dark time in my life. Just thought I'd commit it to mp3.
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A song I'd written long before I was in any band. Music and lyrics by Mike Giles.
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Freeform with På Mé Fritt
Roger Sundström Guitar
Tommy Holmgren Trummor
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I attempt a song from Living in the Past by Jethro Tull.
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Another of the "Recipe Songs". Maybe not as successful as the first, but much better than the others, which I have omitted.
Originally Recorded on a Fostex 4-track cassette and remastered.
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sort of alice in wonderland or maybe you might read something else from it. that's up to you.
They've switched off all the lights
they're out to lunch
they've all gone to the party
they're having tea and scones
the hatter calls for silence…
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Recorded from an Android Phone to my youtube channel back to my pc hard drive to export in a cover medly of :
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away - The Beatles
Garden's Tale (English Only) - Volbeat
Sympathy - Rare Bird
i'm still practicing these…
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~Essence of a musical box with the ballerina spinning around and around~ /as Bethan said/
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Calm the night, unstirring,
And the air so clear
Pearls of dew uncurling,
Moonlight rays unfurling
’Cross the glassy mere.
Dulcet waves appeasing…
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I posted this song a few days ago and Bethan liked the music so much she wrote her own words. Here it is, a co-write across the Atlantic.
SITTING BY THE WINDOW, NOTHING TO DO
WAITING FOR THE TIME WHEN THE SUN SHINES THROUGH
THE SUN SHINES…
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I kinda started off with a synthpop sound in mind, and it became a really fun collection of various synth sounds.
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Memories long in music sleeping,
No more sleeping,
No more dumb:
Delicate phantoms softly creeping
Softly back from the old-world come.
Faintest odours around them straying,
Suddenly straying
In chambers dim;
Whispering silks in order…
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A mashup with
Roger Sundström Fieldrecording,Soundscaping
Paul Muller (Moonset)
Kawol Samarkind (before dawn)
Steve Layton (I could see through the Earth, through the Sky)
J.C. Combs (Hey Jude Variation)
for ImprovFriday 2012-01-15
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juno di cheap strat copy and recorded on the boss micro br sober.
well hallelujah
i don't believe it
it's so peculiar
it's so peculiar
well bless me jesus
i've not seen that before
our eyes decieve us
our eyes decieve us
when you…
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A mashup with
Roger Sundström Soundscaping,Keyboard
Steve Moyes (A Forecast)
Benjamin Smith (Ben.improv.Jan.9.2012)
Kawol Samarkind (Cindy's blues #1)
Bruce Hamilton (rhombo)
for ImprovFriday 2012-01-14
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I was practicing my scale and found the waw waw Fx so played with that too along with the bass then Elvis in soul mode stepped with a request.....
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