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Hello, I thought I'd upload a track from 1993's Strange Beauty today. It was reviewed by the WMR (Weekly Module Reviews) team (in 1996 I'm guessing.) These reviews were published on "uesnet" about music posts to the same system - Usenet is an…
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I just stood back and listened to Amy, along with everyone else.
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"A Whiff of an Epiphany"
A sharp burst of air
cuts through the fanfare
dries the idealized fantastic madness
and the layer of satirical political sadness
Release my hold on the dream
Melt the nightmare's frozen scream
The sum of it…
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Cosmic Personality
You and I set the night on fire
riding the lightning bullet-train high-wire
we have only one life
we have only one mind
that's not us
that's not our kind
Our love is the one great war to end all wars
The Big Bang's long-lost…
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I travel the synthesizer (two 5 minute tracks) and cymbal rooms at Guitar Center with my Zoom H2. Since I play in the same key more or less it works more or less. Thank you John Cage.
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I generally take my Zoom H2 portable digital recorder with me on my trips to music stores to record myself playing equipment I can’t afford to buy. This is one of today’s recordings. June 24th 2011
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They had a piano fight down the cellar last night Reg doesn't understand whats happening with all this violence i mean he's just a hippie at heart.....At least no-one got hurt......They just had fun this time!
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Calling
There ain't no future without a past
all of the promises that just won't last
I don't believe anymore
Just don't believe anymore
One became two in the sin of despair
beyond the moment where there was a care
I can't breath anymore
Just…
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Quiet
Quiet thoughts for quiet fights
Tumbled dry and folded rights
Wrapped up in a candied floss
Shrink-wrap now removed and lost
Curled, crunched into a ball
Out the window, into a wall
Bounce and twist and turn and spin
The truth is beaten…
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This is a composition that was realized by playing a Fender Mustang which has a divided pickup connected to a Roland GR-20 guitar to midi converter / synthesizer. The GR-20 generated piano and saxophone sounds (in two passes) which were re-tuned…
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An improvisation with my wife's Seagull acoustic guitar with Dean Markley soundhole pick up and AKG microphone with mastering.
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Good friends, family, my adorable pet--you all bring a smile to my face!!!
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Everybody who said we'd never last have broken up and here we are, still together!!!
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these are the dronishness effects going thru my mind at times..
I have the midi files saved if you would like them? although some of this is performance midi records If I can say that? ;)
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The millionaires are doing just fine, thanks---but the rest of us are barely getting by!!!!
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I'll lose control but maybe find love instead....
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I dedicated this song to my old friend, Ed Begley, Jr. and to all those who are working to make this a cleaner and better place to live!!!
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Is my future just to be....your ancient history?
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Here's a great way to keep some peace at home!!!
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She was mysterious, gorgeous...and we fell in love immediately...but her parents were against us being together and sent her back to their country, leaving me to search for her forever.
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A couple looks back nostalgically on the magical moment when they first met.
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Your lips are inches away but I've been hurt too badly too recently--and the last thing I want right now is to fall in love!!!
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Playing my wife's seagull and my yech singing
Improvised music, lyrics, vocals.
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5 string bass guitar solo.
Here is me and my 5 string bass, which I really, really like playing despite the pain in my pinky to make those stretches I hear in my mind. The name seems stupid - but way better than STE-018cn.
If you can add to…
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He overheard a couple breaking up--and it sounded a bit close to home for him...
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They broke up once before and he was miserable--and now that they're back together he wants to keep it that way!!!
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This is one song of mine I hope will some day be played at someone's wedding reception!!!
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I tried to catch some of the defiance, optimism and spirit of being young as told through the voice of someone who no longer is!!!
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Sometimes it's hard to imagine how to make it through a cold and lonely night.
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Art of Love #2 is the other side of piano moment #2
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watchdog
nervus rex, the dog king,
barking mad in the barking mud,
ex-watchdog turned home-brew technologist,
made the following observations:
ideology is a concave mirror;
there's no such thing as a clerical error;
only sidney poitier…
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A composition for 3 piece jazz band, tenor sax, fretless bass, and drums in 14 equal divisions of the octave and 5/4 time. This was realized using Garritan Jazz and Big Band sample set and Sonar X1.
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Reg the (Budding Novice) conductor......mmmmmmmmm........
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SIX OCLOCK SHADOWS
At six o'clock the windmill throws it's shadow on the grave
The cattle chew their cud and lowly low above the one we didn't save
The broken body buried there beneath the sod we carried there that day
And tho we hold each…
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Reg stood by the mirror and peered in at himself, he didn't recognise who he saw, the image that peered back out at him didn't resemble who he thought he was and it shook him to his core.............because he thought, he, the man he recognises…
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He's really must come down......................enoughs enough......isn't it?
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A blues rock piece for Fender Mustang with Guitar Rig 4, GR-20 Piano, GR-20 driven bass and drums and Absynth.
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A Progressive Jazz piece for Fender Mustang, GR-20 Piano, GR-20 driven bass and drums.
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Reg is addicted to this new lady who has started to frequent down at the cellar she appears as if by magic late in the evening and then seems to disappear before Reg can get close.....
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chopped into a ten minute special work for sites needing small sized pieces.. the video is in process :)
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Reg is still clean but he's getting doubt's.................
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Well Reg is a touch concerned about his new love Lorraine who has been missing for last two days and she's not answering his calls and his getting a little touchy about it ....a little insecure to be truthful........................
Who do…
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Reg has added some lyrics to the Slowdown piece.....Reg has just realized that its ok! to get clean, but now he's got to stay like it the rest of his life ...................and that's a long time to be sober...............
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Reg has been trying to learn the art of slowing down, relaxing under the pressure of abstinence.......................it seems to be going well .............
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Audience laughed because I was introducing my netbook as "my band." The track was made using "band-in-the-box" since I don't have any real music-programming or multi-instrumentalist skills. :) Got my 12-yr old daughter to join us on this one…
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it finally happened the guys from jemima's kite got together for a gig in otley yorkshire, with geir and osckilo joining in the festivities.
this was a wee practice before the event, with me on vocals and greeny on guitar and backing vox live…
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During the fight for Bataan in WWII Poor old Forrest took a knap and became a prisoner of the Japanese..............
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the collaboration team
Norm percussion
Reefwalker bass and voices
Chris 12 string and vocal
john lennon wrote it - coda by paul
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Scares me...sometimes there is no escape. Some things are for life. Maybe more.
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Worshiping at an abandoned alter...
Let my breaths be as long as her legs
Let my breaths be as smooth as her back
Let my breaths be as cool as her hips
Let my heart be as still as her tongue
Let my mind be as bright as her skin
Let my…
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I used about half of the tones produced in my stop sign video as samples looped in Kontakt and improvised on an 88 key controller in 17 equal notes per octave. Not something you'd listen to for enjoyment.
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Last one to upload today (probably)
Year: 1977
Album:
Classical Clones
Artist's description:
Something I found on tape - the best of the 6 pieces.
Me preforming a Villa Lobos piece about 1977 - a recording made while preparing for a recital…
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In 2009 I ran an internet contest where contestants had to use one or more of the samples provided in their piece. Here I put together a number of the samples I provided into one piece.
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Hammer Dulcimer in Harmonic Series Tuning, processed into 7 streams. Field recording, processed. Details here http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=911
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Fulfilling a request by Acid
The video is the whole point / show here. Please put into the comment section what you think the occupants of the car you see at 1:00 where thinking. Or alternately the kid on the bike at 1:20.
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a totally spontaneous improvisation Debbie and I made with the violin and hammer dulcimer tuned to harmonic series starting at G.
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One could use this to compare the changes I made to accommodate the change in tuning because this is the Centaur tuned piece but I changed the master tuning back to "standard" 12 equal.
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Well, I should give some background. Sometimes, for me, the difference in tunings are hard to discern - I don't have perfect or even good relative pitch discrimination. So I can get fooled. The Prelude for a Centaur tuned piano was actually composed…
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Can't Stop Myself by Chris (Vaisvil) and the Clones - Gothic Techno-industrial metal - ISDN stereo => from 1996
Can't Stop Myself
the thoughts they in my head
spinning around
the thoughts they eat my head
and rip me down
they want me to do…
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Jean Jaques Burnel is one of my bass heroes. This song is the second I recorded with the new Squier bass. I kept the other instruments secondary to show off the bass
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This is a combination of field recording, slicing up a guitar performance into loops, using loops and effects that came with Sonar X1 in Sonar's matrix view with a bit of editing of the matrix performance.
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I wanted to see how much "music" I could get out of one chord and four notes. Sorry that it has a sort of cheesy 80s sound at times, but that's when I started playing guitar and it's hard to reprogram your brain. The chord is Bsus2 and the solo…
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Full picture of the guitarron body - it sounded great - nicely deep.
The guitarron is fretless with a very short neck which reminds me of a giant Oud - the wikipedia article will give you an idea of just how huge this thing really is…
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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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The time will come and our grand-grand-grandchildren will not know how open and easy we (at least some of us) were. How we was loved, grieve, fought-then-reconciled. ...and again, again.
~vintage synths do not tolerate midi/programming/planning…
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From my RPM Challenge 2011 effort. Originally this wasn't an instrumental, but the time pressures of RPM changed that.
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I plugged my Fender Mustang directly into the Zoom H2 and monitored with head phones while sitting on my bed and played around. This is a compressed version of one of the things I did. I've been pretty sick the past few days but I needed to…
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it's deafening to walk around
to walk around with no sound
it's calm before the storm they say
but I still hear you cursing your style and you way
and were waiting
waiting
waiting for the wayward song to begin
waiting
waiting for the wayward…
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This is a musical setting of Bruce Andrew’s poem “jjj†from his book “Moebius†thanks to PennSound archive.
To create the music I hijacked Norm Harris’ Y Class Steam Locomotive Bell sample and his percussion piece Ilesa and added…
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Flinch
I'm guilty
I took the bait again
And here I am again
Always with the same stupid grin
And I didn't go as planned
Few things do I've learned
From the top I pulled it
but I didn't see how far you'd go
didn't I see you flinch…
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i posted a solo version of this song earlier, with just me on the juno. but on the day before i wrote and recorded it, i had been speaking to an old collaborator marcello prive from argentina and he said send me something anything, so when i recorded…
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The audio uses all of the audio from that night I bowed the stop sign processed and not.
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The music in the video is the harmonic series from the lowest E on the piano, 41.2 Hz, and the 16 harmonics above it. No other pitch is allowed. I used Paul Stretch's filtering and compression to accomplish this BUT the piece was not stretched…
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after a few listens and a good naan bread pizza I feel tripped out listening to this :-)
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A collection of four improvisations on 19 note per octave electric guitar.
Sucralose
Aspartame
Cyclamate
Saccharin
The title is a play on artificial sweeteners and a collection of songs being a suite.
Per wikipedia "In music, a suite…
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The story of how I did this is here http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=871
goodnight.
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whats better than bass? 2 Basses, one untouched and one flanged played higher w/some minor rapping tid bit in there. The Return Of The Pig Show, will most likely end up on the new haystack album.
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19 note per equal guitar, loopstation, sonar X1, processing.
Impressions Of Francois-Marie Arouet (De Voltaire) written and read by Ezra Pound
III
To Madame Lullin
You’ll wonder that an old man of eighty
Can go on writing you verses…
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I wrote these lyrics last year. And I've been meaning to put them to music, but, if it ain't one thing it's another, and here we are....
Well, this here started out as a recording from an old cassette tape recorder of a jam we did some 6 or 7…
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Picture and information here:
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=859
Line up:
2 tracks (right and left) of hammer dulcimer, fretless bass, and cameo appearances for both fretless guitar and electric psaltery.
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Well last night none other that the headbanger Byron turned up at the cellar well him and Debussey got together and came up with little beauty............
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A track from the RPM Challenge 2011 album. "Foggy Bottom Stomp" is a straight forward rolling groove that goes well with a brisk walk around the neighborhood.
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playing some guitar to my favorite e.e. cummings poem.
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I like this Ezra Pound poem and wanted to put some music to it.
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I heard this beat of Norms this morning bright and early an had to jump all over ilesa in my mind she was her instead of a town it was fun but it didn't last.....the same old story.....it was her fault she was too hot.......What can i say
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Ambient video and audio improvisation with my 19 notes per octave guitar, loopstation, Marshall amplifier, Zoom H2 and post-processing.
on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGO0R381HQs
full quality video
http://clones.soonlabel.com/public…
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mixed today with the feeds fed into it the others.
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The radio play episode 1 is introducing Thetworegs with Reg as writer performer, musician, and producer as the budget was rather low.......... They have just set sail for Germany it was time for them to leave England before they were caught…
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i did this one for the localfest at www.songcrafters.org. is a cover of the blue nile song over the hillside.
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for choir, percussion, piano, hang drum and prisoners.
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a "rehearsal" outtake. Guitar/loops/ebow/iPod synth/cassette recorder.
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Here's my version of Katy Perry's ET. Check out the video link for a live performance of sorts!
All music performed by me and recorded in my home studio.
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Well Reg got up to answer the phone and all of a sudden...............
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Reg was feeling a little sentimental in the cellar last night when everybody had left and started to wonder................
Yesterday i had a dream (Lyrics)
Yesterday i had a dream
It seemed so real
I could touch it
I could feel
But the door…
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Year: 2011
Album:
Voiced Thoughts
Artist's description:
A musical setting for an excerpt of The Book of Frank as written and recited by CA Conrad
The piece uses a rock ensemble of guitar, two bass guitars, 2 pianos, 2 synthesizers…
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added some bass and added some drums took a guitar part out and had lots of fun all around this track.
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green means go
and green grows mean
green glows with a hint of yellow
when your a green kind of fellow
dreaming that your tall and lean
while your eating your pillow
while your bodys feeling like jello
before you wake up soft and mellow
gelatinous…
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Reg was out for a stroll in town and met Jed who was homeless sitting on the pavement with his hat out in front of him. Reg stopped to have a chat with him to see if he could help. Reg expected him to have a sad story but to his surprise he hadn…
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if you are interested in windy dialog about the music go here:
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=838
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All playing by me, Roland HD-1 (drums), godin xtSA, Epi Sheraton, bass, keys. Recorded/mastered on Boss BR-1200.
Twilight turns into a psychedelic sunrise
The vision has me right between my eyes
Everything is glowing with a strange light…
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written to calm myself after getting frustrated with my girlfriend, lyrics kinda work on different levels as well :
I am not a machine
god make make me a perfect machine
so I can please those from above
who forget about love
I am not a glove…
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SongCrafter's website is running a Psych-Fest, and well it has been too long since anyone has covered Napoleon XIV anyway, so why not? Why not, I ask?
You drove me outta my stinkin' mind, you mangy mutt!!!!
So, ...... well, have a listen
LG
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fun with loops - some I made - some I didn't - most I messed with - some may be recognized from my other work.
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Reg was flying last night he was on a real high when he bumped into Debussy down in the cellar and they came up with this little beauty...................
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19 note per octave electric guitar, Marshall amp, zoom H2, some footage I shot today and Sony Vegas. Created for ImprovFriday
Download the full quality video (191 MB)
http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/video/19_improvfridays.wmv
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Departing - leave. Do not believe. And don't say words of farewell. All told. Love can't go back...
~Echoes~
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The Regs have decided to have another crack at this Reg classic we hope you will enjoy the new approach ..............
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a video of my performance complete with dancing ferrets. Full quality video http://micro.soonlabel.com/canon/canon_harmonics.wmv
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not nearly as nice as the original
http://alonetone.com/richardlaceves/tracks/piano-moment-7
nonetheless I'm hopelessly in love with the flatted 5th theme.
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This was more of an experiment that somehow worked it's way into a song.
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Minamisoma was a city in Japan that was destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami of 3/11/2011. The Angels of Minamisoma is a memorial piece for flute and vibraphone written in free tonality that is driven by melodic and harmonic tendencies that…
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Take me back to ole Virginia Lord, he's pluggin' in a mic.
I dig the cheesy Farfisa Rotary patch......
Here's a song to sing
a fairy tale
no mountain high
or oceans to sail
no darken nights
in the belly of a whale
no hammer's throne
or red…
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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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Pictured about is my new 19 note per octave guitar which was used extensively for this piece. For more production information http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=800
The text is from an interview with a Japanese woman after the 3/11/2011 earthquake…
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had to stretch the song to fit the video but I will not be able to post the video till it is rendered and uploaded :
these latest expriments are with both the vocoders going into the other from the mixed outs of both.,
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Frank has turned up at Reg's cellar with Louis and the Duke with a tune that Frank is claiming to be about his latest love affair, so naturally Reg switched on his tape recorder........
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After Creation is an entry into the Vox Novus 15 Minutes of Fame competition for flute and marimba duet. Unfortunately the entry was not accepted for performance but undeterred I present to you a performance of the score rendered by Garritan…
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The story is at www.iburymydead.com
THE CHILD WITH THE BEAUTIFUL NAME
What remains of an eagle that's fallen
The roots of an oak tree now claim
To draw sap for the shade for the cattle
O're the child with the beautiful name
The law…
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Vocals: Domenico Mercurio, Canada
Lyrics: Mike Graczyk, USA
Saxophone: Kay Hoeksema, Germany
Guitar: Bobby Clohessy, Ireland
Composed, arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann (Stoman), Germany…
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Too much whiskey can warp the thought in the mind and the desert is probably the best place for Reg when he feels like this........................
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It was in the garden of the house of help that Reg walked and tried to decipher his problems .................everything seemed to have a similar beat and it was causing him some confusion.....................
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I thought a microtonal piece almost completely in absynth would be a decent goal. So, I improvised bass, lead, chords, effects in 19 notes per octave against a sequence of drum loops run through effects. Then - just to see the difference I took…
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> First there was Spring Time. Then there was Summer.
> Then there was Autumn.
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> And then there was Winter. Her daddy mowed lawns
> She was a smart little doll
> River loved Winter. His dad was a singer
> But River…
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This is simple test of East-West symphonic choirs solo soprano voice and East-West Hollywood strings contra-bass. I feel its a bit reminiscent of Lord of the Rings - of course, your mileage may vary - it is a very simple and direct arrangement…
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We have just uploaded another brand new original Wetband song. On this one, Jethro asks that you hop aboard the 'Train Of Dreams' and live out your fantasy celebrity encounter. The song features Woody playing guitar, banjo, and harmonica. And…
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From the album WHO'S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD MOTH ? [Malice In Sunderland Records, 2009].
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