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The first song I wrote for RPM2017, and the first one on this 'album'. It was witten on Ukulele with two whole chords (Chord one is a barre at the second fret, and chord two is all of the strings open). Whilst not the most musically sophisticated…
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Written/recorded for RPM2017 (album in a month).
The last song I wrote for RPM2017 (being entirely written and recorded on 26th and 28th Feb). It should be obvious that this is a tribute to George Harrison - I'd listened to the album "Brainwashed…
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Written for the RPM2017 (album in a month) challenge.
The 70s vibe should be obvious, and this was written on electric piano, (unusually for me). The opening keys riff is one of the only moderately funky sounding things I can play. I am not…
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Written/recorded for RPM2017 (album in a month).
This one was written on Ukulele, (well that opening section was), and built upon that. The tongue in cheek lyric, is somewhat inspired by a friend who has recently become single, and isn't all…
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Written/Recorded for RPM2017 (album in a month).
A bit of a weird song, written on guitar (and it shows). A slightly unsettling chord movement which fights the prettiness at points, I think. The backwards guitar and wailing at the end was…
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Written/Recorded for RPM2017 (album in a month).
I won't pretend this isn't a weird one. The rhythms right with one another, the harmony is unsettling, and towards the end it points towards the next song on the album, in a quite electronic…
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Written/Recorded for RPM2017 (album in a month).
An instrumental, and quite a bit different to much of more RPM output. This stylistically is an area I sometimes work in when making music for media.
The reference points when listening should…
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Written/Recorded for RPM2017 (album in a month).
This one had a backing track written on Piano, and sounded somewhat 'Elton John', before the lyric and vocal melody joined the party. The stripping out of the piano at the start has made this…
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Very quick to write and record. Basically done from start to finish in about an hour and a half (I look at the clock).
Despite it's brevity, there's quite a lot going on (especially in how exact I've tried to be with the harmonies, and double…
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There is a lot that I like about this one. There is one thing that annoys the shit out of me.
On about half of this year's songs I tried to write the melody ahead of writing the lyrics. I noodled a piano melody and recorded it, then wrote…
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Double tracked Wah-Wah. Pretty much the high point of awesomeness.
Les Paul through a Fulltone Clyde Deluxe wah into a Fender Bassbreaker.
Give it up now
Everything
that you care about
trade it in for
make believe
and fairy tails…
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If a Uni-Vibe pedal modulates the pitch, how do you double track with one? The answer? Very carefully. Actually, I just did it. I used the same settings on both guitar tracks and panned them both hard to one side. The effect was a kinda groovy…
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The slow to mid-tempo ideas came hot and heavy toward the end this year. All the up tempo stuff was started within the first week or so. After that it was all funeral marches. I'm on the fence on whether or not I like this one. I had planned…
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I don't hate this one, which is high praise this year. It's okay.
The rhythm guitar is an ES-335 through a Joyo Vintage Phase pedal. The lead is a Les Paul through an EHX Soul Food pedal. The amp is a Fender Bassbreaker.
Don’t know what…
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Unraveling the lies, that's all we hear
We tear away those trappings that we hold too dear
Outdated props for another age
Yes and by all means it was on your stage
‘Cause we're a broken people we’re broke in different ways
We Never seem…
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telling me you're sinking under the waves
Is just another way to say you would drown me
When you're sitting pretty on the powder keg
And keep lighting the fuse
you say I needed you in ways I didn't know
And you helped me beyond my care…
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Hiding to be left alone
But I don't think you fare well when you're left there on their own
Your only mistake, yes your initial sin
Was to talk to me about it, the way you’ve never been
I thought I was a rebel, and fighting you I failed…
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That’s when the circling repeats its the same
That's When i'm pulled from love again
The face of familial exhaustion how it grabs traction
it freezes
repetition is so insincere
And flattery the faker’s veneer
And reputation’s advance…
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Background garbage noise. I think someone was playing Overwatch back there.
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I'm afraid I'm learning conventions
That lead me to untenable positions
I create to calculate
A fatal fault of these walls
A controlled insulation
Truth be told
you can Take back your broken heart
to Make a more imperfect art
Truth…
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It's the short con-
I'm the musical veto
Taking names with a memorandum
Of misunderstanding it's so random
Cause my moneymaker only shakes,
with apple pay engaged,
It's got my thumb stickin in places
only plumbed by cherry pickin…
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Another weekend working the franchises no surprises here
We’re the disaffected mass you can’t excise, get excited
From the beat, from your weak mistakes
We demand the right to claim
No excuses, no surprises that history beats on, that…
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I've got nothing there
Nothing here to share either
Plenty of ideas
But nothing ripe enough to root down
I'm grounded
And nothing flys
Nothing flys by me (2x)
I recognize that tank's empty
In a pool of fuel
But the thoughts I accuse…
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I can't criticize
So we belong in free fall
Will I be attacked
I can't stand to be wrong
I keep on running down
the older avenues of shame
Keep finding something new
Like meaning in the blame
Free play
All bonus from here
I can…
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2nd song of 2017. Thrash it up and enjoy! \m/ \m/
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I was a prog rock fan for years when suddenly in high school I got really into what would eventually be called Alternative. It was so weird to me that music so uncomplicated could be so good. Some songs were even made up of one phrase repeated…
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I like this one, but at the same time... I don't. It's just not quite good enough. Not as good as I was hoping at least. I dropped it from the RPM album.
The amp is a Fender Bassbreaker. The rhythm guitar is an ES-335. The lead is a…
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Part of the plan this year was to use a real amplifier and real effects pedals on all of the guitar parts. Recently I have been becoming obsessed with uni-vibe style pedals. I used one on this song, a cheap thing called a Shaky Jimi. I used…
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I had this thought this year that maybe I will try and come up with drum parts that don't sound very traditional. Sort of like mid-80's Neil Peart kinda things. In the end there were only a few songs that I attempted something. This is one…
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When you are hunting someone in the desert, sometimes things don't work out so great.
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Weezer, but tired. Really tired. Really drowsy.
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Basically "Ode to Electric Six II: It's Addressed to More People This Time"
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Accidentally recorded this a step up from where I really wanted it. Bah.
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Big Cliche was on "Psychic Sperm vs. the Profits." We made a sound check file this year and Sean Sheehan put killer keyboards on it so here it is.
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I think all of our blues rock (and probably the other ones, too) would be vastly improved if sung by Neil Fallon of Clutch. Here's my sad approximation of his bluesy singing.
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Back from their Google Maps tour of the Punjab, Udon Noodles sheepishly present you "Shahi Paneer for the Devil"
Who had the extra poppadoms??
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Well obviously it was meant to be a song but I ran out of time.
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Features freesounds.com: 69606__Redhouse91__hiphoppiano0186bpm
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An ode to forests.
The verse lyrics are based on the poem "Aston Hall" by my friend, Natalie Doig.
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With music by Geoffrey Armes, written and recorded for RPM 2017.
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Drums by Seb James.
Backing vocals by Roisin Johnston.
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Drums by Seb James.
My take on the old crossroads myth.
I was always more interested in the guy who tried to sell his soul to the devil but failed.
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Drums by Seb James.
Electric guitar and backing vocal by Graham Iddon.
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This song was on my very first RPM album back in 2008.
It's changed so much I decided to record it again.
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First tune for the "Music for the Time Beings". this was done for the RPM Challenge '17
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A muscle session in a gym and a movement session on the ground or your home, for instance, http://fmhonestreviews.com/ are very different from each other. Both of these ways produce effective results. However, it is definitely the movement methods…
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Matt Ferrara: Guitar, Bass, Keys, Vocals
Brent Kinder: Drums
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Matt Ferrara: Guitar, Bass, Ukulele, Keys, Vocals
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Track from my 2017 RPM Challenge inspired by the one and only Tom Waits. Ripped from a Facebook Live broadcast on 02-27-2017.
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from the album "2017"
featuring Madeleine Koestner on vocals
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from the album "2017"
featuring Madeleine Koestner on vocals
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from the album "2017"
featuring Madeleine Koestner on vocals
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from the album "2017"
featuring Madeleine Koestner on vocals
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by John Densmore, Robert Krieger, Raymond Manzarek, and Jim Morrison
sax - the one and only Stuart Matthewman
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by Cab Calloway, Irving Mills, and Clarence Gaskill, Copyright Emi Mills Music Inc and Emi Entertainment World Obo HiDeHo Man Music
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by Marion Sunshine, Copyright Bughouse Music Obo Fred Ahlert Music Group
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My cover of Klandry's song, "Seven Weeks." I took some liberties due to the frustrations of my technical limitations.
I’ve been living like a poor man
Lying on my back day after day
Waking up wearing the same old clothes
Lying on my…
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