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This song features some of the worst performances I've ever allowed to make it online. Oh well. The vocals are terrible. The leads are handcuffed (my fingers hurt so much while recording this that I couldn't get them to do anything). The rhythm…
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Castaway. The Tom Hanks Movie.
* Disclaimer: I understand that most of the songs on this album are pitchy and hard to listen to. I recorded all of the vocals on Feb 27 and 28th as single takes. Most of them stream of conscience nonsense.
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A song to myself. I’ve often felt like an unnecessary appendage in the circles I end up in. I’ve had some real crazy experiences in my life, and I tend to exaggerate to try an instill the grandness I felt in each story. Sometimes, I’m annoying…
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If I had more of a pool of songs to chose from this year, then this puppy would be going straight to the dropped list. Can you say, "padding?" I feel like I could cut 75% out of this song. I like the chorus and I like the strummy guitar solos…
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Did you guys hear? There are SPY BALLOONS!!!!!
A view from above, floating so high
Watching as the world goes by
Silent and sleek, full of mystique
High altitude game of hide and seek
Flying high, floating in the air
You think you…
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Seven songs down for the RPM Challenge. It's February 27th and I have so much more to get through.
I liked this one as I was putting it together. The mood is very much fitting my frame of mind these days. I don't know if I like it as much…
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I asked to robots to help me write a song in the style of Tom Waits.
Riding on a train to the edge of town
Where the night has just begun
People on the street with nowhere to go
Living hard and having fun
Everywhere I go there’s a song…
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Don't let it be said that I've forgotten my love of R.E.M.
Dream of a life that’s never been seen
A world of possibilities, a place in between
A place of shadows, a place of light
A place of secrets, hiding in the night
Oblique, oblique…
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Sometimes you listen to a Peter Murphy song and then ask ChatGPT to help you write a song. Sometimes you end up with this. You wouldn't believe the lyrics I left out.
Goths on the beach, all dressed in black,
Heading for the waves, and…
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Yacht rock.
Every time I see your smile
I feel like I’ve come home
And every time you stay a while
Is the best day that I’ve known
You’re the one that lights my way
Brings brightness to my day
And I just have to say
Don’t want it…
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Six songs down for the 2023 RPM Challenge.
Jeff Beck died and I was gutted. It's hard to lose your heroes, but it's also odd to feel so emotional about the loss of someone you've never met. Life is weird, right?
I did not want to write…
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Five songs down. Somewhere between five and nine to go.
This one was fun to play. Both the rhythm guitar parts and the solos were just fun. I don't think anything is particularly good, I just enjoyed myself. That was a nice feeling. The…
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I like this one. I don't like much from this year's project, but this one works for me. I don't know if it's got "track 1" vibes or not. It's too slow and somber (I think I found my album title). Hopefully something with a little more pep…
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See Where it Lands is intended to be a bit of a rocking tune, this is close to a final mix, but I'll probably let it marinate for a few days to see if there are any other changes needed.
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Song 8# of my RPM Album. I love Persian scales and so I wanted to play with that a bit here. I managed to do my own finger snapping through the whole tune and didn't use a loop - I'm known for my rather loud snapping ability.
In another…
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If you don't love Vanadinite as much as I do, something is wrong with you.
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Prompt to chatGPT:
write a chord progression containing 24 or more sequential chords in the style of The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky
chatGPT said:
The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky is a complex and intricate piece of music…
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Draft recording, plan to add an acoustic at the beginning and possibly a melodica. The vocals will be re-recorded when I'm not sick. These were always intended to be a placeholder track.
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Song #2 for this year's RPM album....another one from the basement in the middle of the night. Experimenting with minimal lyrics and a lot of repetition. The song probably has something to do with how we left our home of many years last February…
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Was listening while making dinner to David Beardsley's 'The Forty Six Steps' which is in Just Intonation. I'm continually fascinated by this alternative approach of creative composition and have been trying to understand off/on for years. To…
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If this wasn't such a hot mess I'd be more ashamed of myself than I already am.
Use me up before I expire
Just read the label, the warning is dire
I'm Long past my best-by timer
Got a little bit of a rotten slimer
USE ME UP
Use…
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Been a while, lots of ups and downs...Glad to be back!
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4th song from my new album Modern Tradition Vol. 1. This is an instrumental composition. :)
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Collaboration with my friend JJ Rea; he supplied the vocals, drums and guitar solo.
I played the verse and bridge guitars, and the guitarrón bassline.
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Recorded live during a church service probably in the early 2000s.
CREDITS:
Written by Project X and Tammy Borden
Project X: Bass
Scott Wilson: Lead guitar
Tim Thompson: Acoustic guitar, backing vocal
Craig LeMieux: Drums
Tammy Borden…
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"High Density" was a last minute addition to this album. Just messing around in my studio during the RPM Challenge and somehow this came out. My good friend and shredder, Stinky Pat, contributed the guitar leads and Cyclops Cow returns on vibraslap…
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I believe I came up with the initial riff for this one in 2017 and it slowly developed over a year and a half. Since it was already almost completely written, it was included in the 2019 RPM project. The intro was recorded in Mount Horeb, WI at…
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Quick and dirty cover version of the (in)famous (and questionably inappropriate) 1984 charity single, "Do They Know It's Christmas?" Recorded for the 2018 Holiday Challenge (I think).
"Do They Know It's Christmas" written by Geldolf/Ure.
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From our 2020 RPM album
Written by Damian Lethbridge
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As part of sound design for the Front Porch Players latest production “Let's Murder Marsha” I composed and recorded this theme song. It was recorded ‘in the box’ using MuseScore, iRealPro, and Reaper software.
The show continues next weekend…
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Recorded around a campfire on the banks of the Fremont River in Utah, early 1980s
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Recorded on Boulder mtn 1988 or so. Robert Leroy Parker, aka Butch Cassidy...just another homesick cowboy...
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I'll Tell Me Ma is a folk song in the Irish tradition. I recorded it with acoustic instruments, multiple vocal tracks, and spoons for the main percussion, to give it that kitchen party feel!
I did it in the key of C. Not exactly normal, but…
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I've been to hell and back
You might've seen me on my way
There ain't a damn thing you can pack
And it ain't no use to pray
I've seen the darkest night
Felt my life slip away
Almost given up the fight
But I'm still here today
I'm not…
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Standing in the sunlight
Trying to shade my eyes
A lonely child's spotlight
When you've got two strikes
A little piece of you dies
When a third sails by
Dancing in the moonlight
The fire in her eyes
If I play this just right
Maybe…
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Crap #3 of 4 that will be finished off and uploaded tonight. I did the rhythm guitar tracks for this twice because the chorus was so atrocious that I had to rewrite it on the fly. It's better now, but that's pretty much all this pig has going…
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Recorded September 2022 walking to get cat food from Gords No Frills
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A happy little tune about a long road trip my wife and I took this summer.
Lyrics:
Well we were young and we were free
And it was you and it was me
And we were out long after midnight
And the sun was shining all the night through…
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"Smalltown Boy" by Bronski/Somerville/Steinbachek
I dug up my old iPad Air (1st gen 2013) out of storage a few days ago. This was an exercise of what an old iPad with an old version of GarageBand can still do. It was actually fun to have limited…
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After much Anticipation The Baddest Hypeking Oshobaba Aba based port harcourt Hypeman, is back with this hot banging Mixtape ft Dj experience
This mixtape is done to welcome people to ember month
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Just an ambient song, about waiting. We are all waiting for something.
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𝐴𝐷𝐸𝐽𝑂𝑅𝑂 𝑂𝐿𝑈𝑊𝐴𝑇𝐼𝑀𝐼𝐿𝐸𝐻𝐼𝑁 𝑆𝑇𝐸𝑃𝐻𝐸𝑁 𝑝𝑜𝑝𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑎𝑠 𝑅𝐸𝐴𝐿 𝐷𝑅𝐸𝐴𝑀 𝐵𝑂𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑛 18／11／2001 𝑎𝑡 𝐼𝑗𝑢－𝑂𝑏𝑎𝑤𝑜𝑙𝑒，𝐼𝑓𝑎𝑘𝑜－𝐼𝑗𝑎𝑖𝑦𝑒， 𝐿𝑎𝑔𝑜𝑠 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒.
𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑟 2015 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝐴𝐿𝐵𝑈𝑀／𝐸𝑃 2022…
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Thought I'd share something from my latest project: Putting together instrumentals of public domain songs to use as intermission music for a community theater production. We got dinged for streaming copyrighted music in our previous production…
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Are we friends? Or are we lovers? Can't we be both?
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Dragged Jazzo away from her celebration cake to record this version of Bossa Nova Breeze by Gerald Schwertberger from her recent Trinity Grade 4 exam (which she aced).
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1st track from new album LOFI MOJO Vol. 1. A little blues to start it off!
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A new track I am writing. I am calling it 'Leaving the Bleak' for now.
Not sure where it is going but I like it so far. it's a song to symbolize leaving behind my past and focusing on the future.
Updated and added 2/3 of the bass guitar 7…
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Happy 43rd birthday to "Boys Don't Cry," released on June 15, 1979.
Here's a simple and dirty acoustic cover version, recorded somewhere between Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 (I think...). I wasn't feeling well at the time and my voice was shot…
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Another PD piece, new way of thinking, some new ideas that are evolving from interests in eurorack and other influences.
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this song has a video of me making this song -- it is processing at youtube I will post that video here mmmmm Now yeah I have the link just it will not play till some post processing future date --- is ok,.. like now this video is up-
https…
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Last Snow Strom for the Southern U S,
a lil porch tune here comes spring
we wish you some long awaited sunshine
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Digital Sea is an ambient generative music piece written in the Pure Data programming language. It is constantly changing, circulating, and flowing.
The program written to record this piece is capable of generating a unique, endless performance…
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The Feast - A A J Russe
Written 26th September 1985
Recorded 3rd March 2022
The Shoebox Demos Vol 1
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This one's been sticking out of the shoebox for a long long while. It always shows up in a list of maybes. And it did this time…
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Why are you starting with the LAST song on the album? What is wrong with you? Act like a normal human and go listen to track #1 "Broken Man" and then track #2 "Two sides to Every Story." Tracks 4 and 5 are untogether and are still works in progress…
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Sky is black as pitch now
Moon as blood is glowing
In this blood-soaked hellscape
As you might expect there is a presence
Out of the grave
Out of the night
Out of your mind
One’s a mass of maggots
One’s underwear’s showing
All of…
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Heard you spent a fortune making a
Return on investment - selling a
Book about a fortune making a
Said it nice
Heard about misfortune - frankly it
Soaked all my absorption - laying there
Furious misfortune - frankly it
Said it twice…
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And I build a rainbow
All our lights shimmering
All the time we share is true
All our hearts glimmering
Beats reverberating sound
Send a hope to the sky
Feel it echo back to you
Share a piece of your light
And I build a rainbow
We need…
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Lead guitar by the generous and amazing Antön Samförd. Thanks, Andy. All else performed by Demetrius Hill.
Broken Man
Music and Words by Demetrius Hill
©2017 Demetrius P. Hill, All Rights Reserved
Hey… I know a way to come back from the…
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Take him on
The scrabbling spree
Words like grotto
Ended month
Ending nowhere
Catch him up
We found the key
Last year’s motto
Brazen son
Ending nowhere
Enter the scene
You’re spoiling for a red nose battered
One two three
Say it…
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There’s a place where we all go
When darkness hits
When you’re feeling low
That secret place where sadness is
A place we all know
We all know, and oh…
There’s a turn on that winding road
And when it comes
Better take it slow
Cause…
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When the morning sun is
On the horizon
And the birds sing softly
From the trees
As the new day dawns
It welcomes me
And I breathe the air
Of a brand-new day
Well, it’s because I’m in love
In love and sharing life with you
As…
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2022 RPM Challenge song number 19.
Go to the head of the class, dude. I said that song #18 was the best song of the bunch but now here is song #19 taking the title and squashing 18 like the proverbial grape.
In other words, I really like…
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2022 RPM Challenge song number 18.
I still have two more songs to mix but as of right now this is hands down my favorite of the batch (spoiler alert, I think I might be saying that about the two songs that are left as well). Usually when I…
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2022 RPM Challenge song number 16.
This one is all right. I'm not quite ready to say it's a lock for making the final album but it's close. If nothing else, the rhythm guitar part is fun to play and the vocals are nice and shouty.
I used…
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The second song started for the 2022 RPM Challenge is the second song finished. I'm sort of working off a first in first out queue this year. I didn't plan it that way, but that's how it's going.
I'm disappointed in this one. It's not a…
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Track 2 of my failed RPM... just a quiet acoustic ramble.
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First track of my, now defunct EP RPM challenge effort. It has not gone well :)
Week 1 - road being resurfaced outside.... noise noise noise!
Week 2 - got some tracking done
Week 3 - Bad tooth infection needing extraction for week 4
Week…
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This is a story about the Ojibwa migration to Chequamegon Bay area in Wisconsin. Inspired by a vision, the Anishinabeg (Original People) or Anishinabe (Refering to One Person) migrated west to where the food grew on the water (wild rice) and…
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"Begin Again" by Wilson Ng, written and recorded in February 2022 for the RPM Challenge.
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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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Some days I'm the preacher with my head up in a cloud
Some days I'm a gentleman who does my mama proud
But some days I'm the creature who just arrived from Mars
And some days I'm the futurist who drives electric cars
Some days I'm the…
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022**
Song number 6
Written Friday 11th February 2022
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I was meant to be resting and chilling.
In fact, I was resting and chilling.
But then I got a message from Lala saying she was listening to the…
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022**
Song number 5
Written Thursday 10th February 2022
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What can I say? Mrs R likes it.
I knew she would.
Scheduling-wise, songs per day, I've now caught up with having missed the first 5 days of…
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022**
Song number 3
Written Tuesday 8th February 2022
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So, here's today's little ditty.
(I don't know whether folks outside the UK would know what a Chelsea Bun is. I love them, they are extremely yum…
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022**
Song number 1
Written Sunday 6th February 2022
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OK, this is a bit of a departure for me - posting songwriting demos.
This is a one mic recording made this morning in the living room, touch of reverbs…
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Recorded out in Capitol Reef Natonal Park with a portable cassette in 1986
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Song 1 for the RPM Challenge. Wanted to feature an incessant base line inspired by The Smoke.
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