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We decided to give the kids an outlet that wasn’t pandemic or lockdown based this February, and made an album as a family for the RPM Challenge 2021. It was just the most precious, funny, brilliant month.
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We decided to give the kids an outlet that wasn’t pandemic or lockdown based this February, and made an album as a family for the RPM Challenge 2021. It was just the most precious, funny, brilliant month.
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All Keyboards: Daniel Will
iRealbook used for drum and bass backing tracks.
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So here is the more melodic 2nd movement to my 1st Piano Concerto in C Minor.....
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Ok, this one has a journey for its creation. The original riff actually came to me in the heat of late August 2013. I still remember when it came to me. It was in a different key, with a slight different resolution. It felt like a hot summer's…
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What else can be said of the last 12 months? Everybody wants a piece of my time. Get in line.
The riff came first and I walked around for days just banging it out non-stop. Hammer-ons for fun and pleasure...
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Originally I had a Motown idea in mind, and I kept my stomping and clapping, but the song seemed to lend itself to a more spacey-synthey feel, so I ran with it. I also am hinting a tiny (very tiny) bit at Joe Jackson's band's backing vocal styles…
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This has been updated since my initial upload. It's an ode to the pandemic.
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This is a bonustrack. It's a leftover from my failed RPM 2019 when my laptop started breaking down halfway through February. I lost all the multitracks but could save some mp3-mixdowns.
Club Arcadia (2019)
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Walk…
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Walk Away
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walk away
go your own way
walk away
vote with your feet
there's no reason to stay
don't grant them your power
don't give them control
don't let them fool you
just say no and go
walk away
go your…
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I changed the title of this track. Because I couldn't get lyrics and vocal done in time I added the vocal melody I had in mind but in a comically dramatic sounding sound from the Arp Odyssey.
This morning listening back it reminded me of that…
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No new normal
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Whoever asked for a new normal
Who put you in command?
I don't like what you've planned
Back off
Back off
Back off!
Just let me be
with my autonomy
without the WE
F sociopaths
lording…
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Wrote and recorded in roughly an hour just before dawn last day of Feb (the 4:00 AM mentioned in the lyric)
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Through the air
There’s the ground
No control
Now just a minute
Who here begin it
Now just a minute
Who here begin it
Speak your piece
Fool us all
Show the priest
To the wall
Now just a minute
Who here begin it
Now just a minute…
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rpm 2021
Vocals - Ben Parks, Violin - Laurel Morgan Parks, Solo Guitar - Stan Jones
the air is sweet and clear
the clouds are dots against the sky
the evergreens behind us
and now it's just you and I
another sip of water…
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Written and recorded for the 2021 RPM Challenge.
Wilson Ng - Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards.
Andy Samford - Guitars, Bass.
Brian Wood - Vocals, Guitars.
Gareth Banks - Drums.
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You’re feeling that you’re broken
And your door’s no longer open
Don’t you ever, ever give up
For all the words unspoken
And the thoughts that were provoking
Don’t you ever, ever give up
But tonight, you have it right
So, get out there…
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They do it all the time
Prey upon your fears
Hang around them long enough
They’ll Play you like their fool
Play you like the lottery
Time and time again
You see things never change
You’re nothing but their fool
Do it once or do it…
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My second attempt with chill Lo-Fi music. You may hear sounds of water, fire, birds. Several synths. Sit back, relax and enjoy the beat :)
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I aimed to produce a 30 minute EP for RPM 2021 and made this 3 minute beat instead. The plan was to get as many songs early in the month without being slowed down by detail, instead I spent a month tweaking inaudible drum parameters.
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ten, ten, ten, ten for everything, everything, everything, everything.
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This is the 20th and final song for the 2021 RPM Challenge. Nothing left to do now but to sort the songs into the album that gets submitted and the leftovers album that doesn't. This one's on the bubble. I expect it to go into the leftovers…
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I've had these lyrics around a while - an older version of this song, just called "Casual Sin", is also available on the "Experimental Dandelion Farm" compilation.
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I figured I needed a social distance song. I mean is it even quarantine if you don't write a social distance song?
This was from my January album in a month fail. At one point I thought that maybe I could write 10 songs with swing grooves…
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Written and recorded as part of our family RPM project this year. :-D
13 year old Jasmine on vocals and ukulele.
We wrote and recorded 10 songs under the name Cattica. It was just the best month of lockdown imaginable.
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John wrote this somewhere around 1972 or 1973. This is pretty much a song about the conflict of self vs. what you think is expected of you and the casualties that are impacted along the way. There was probably a lot of James Taylor influence…
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This is a song about someone John met when he moved to Arizona in 1975. A brief encounter that left inspiration for a song.
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Ocean / Soul
C. Maiorano
Waves of adoration crash on the rocks of you
The cruel tide drags affections down
Deep below the surface of the cold steel blue
The unsettled sea tries to swallow and drown
Were you a sandy beach, welcoming…
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I started writing this one in January and finished it and recorded it in February. Now in hindsight I'm thinking I should probably have left it in January. I like the chorus. I kinda like the two guitars trading 8's and the guitarmonies. Otherwise…
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This was the third song I started working on this month and it's the 15th song finished. What does that tell you?
I liked it a lot when I first came up with the idea. When I put the rhythm guitars down it started to feel like it wasn't meeting…
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CloudTravel
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Now you can travel anywhere
from the comfort of your own home
you may never want to leave
your house again
all in virtual reality
in the highest resolution
with binaural sound
and optional smells…
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BROKEN COOKIES AND DAY_OLD BREAD
Broken cookies and day-old bread
Ain't no different, my mamma said
Save a ten. Spend a fiver instead
Broken cookies and day-old bred
(C) 2021 Royal T music
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sometimes i make something i'm proud of
and sometimes i just make something
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This was the 12th song started this month and it's the 14th song finished. It's important in that it officially makes me a winner for FAWM this year, but it's unimportant for the RPM Challenge as this puppy goes straight to the dropped song list…
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This is the 13th song finished. It was both the 15th and the 20th song started. It's a long story.
I was in the car recording vocals and it started raining. When I finished the tracks I needed to finish I pointed the microphone at the sun…
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Carl was inspired by Bruce Springsteen's "Western Stars" album and wrote this song. As with other of his songs, I imported his recording of him playing guitar and singing and then added a few other things. There is a lot in the words here.
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Stay cool & be prepared
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we'll stock up on supplies
and build a bunker in the yard
we'll have freedom here
and BBQ and beer
and a swimming pool
we'll do our own thing
we'll set up our own…
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The Memoryhole
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Here was my house
here used to be our shop
now this is all that's left
of the world
where I grew up
They changed the names of streets
and squares and buildings
and parks and statues were…
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Okay... there's a lot to talk about with this goof ball.
The first song I did this year had a drone-like fuzzy guitar. I did it again here but I wanted the song I put around it to be different than the other one, even though the changes are…
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This one seems destined for the dropped list. It's just kinda blah. The verses remind me of a King Crimson Projekct song and I can't remember the title. Something from Scarcity of Miracles (great album, by the way). The choruses remind me…
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Another song, another faux trippy ending. I should change the name of the album to Faux Trippy Endings. What do you think?
Lyrically I think this song is just about the last year.
When I recorded the rhythm guitars I was pretty stoked…
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Oh Butterfly
Come Out Of Your Cocoon
Or You're Sure To Die
Oh Butterfly
Why Are You
Always Hiding?
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John has carried this story with him since his early days in college. He worked at a place called "Moore's Foodland and Laundromat" and delivered groceries and laundry to their customers. One in particular was a woman named Dixie. She had and…
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The second song started is the sixth song finished. Not terrible, though there are a lot of bad guitar sounds. The rhythm tone is kinda sloppy. The playing is sloppy too, but the tone itself is more noticeable this time. The lead sounds flubby…
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Hmm...Now where have I seen someone getting hassled by someone who should just mind their own business? Where indeed!
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RPM CHALLENGE
NEWFOUNDLAND COUNTRY
PENSION TIME
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RPM CHALLENGE
NEWFOUNDLAND COUNTRY
MAN OF MY DREAMS
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Carl wrote this song somewhere around July of 2020. Back in the 80's we had a song we wrote/performed called "Louisa". I don't know if the subject matter is related. Carl recorded the song with just him and his guitar. I imported into my Tascam…
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RPM CHALLENGE
NEWFOUNDLAND COUNTRY
TELL ME HE LIED
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This song is about my Grandparent's farm that was in West Virginia. The name "Naugatuck" is derived from an Algonquian term meaning "lone tree by the fishing place". The rich memories I have of the place are from when I was just shy of my sixth…
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John wrote this in 1972. 9 years earlier, as an 8th grader living in West Virginia, he knew the day would come when he would "set sail" to other parts of the country/world. That day came in 1975 with a journey that ultimately landed him in New…
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The Echochamber
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I'm not
what you see
in me
your enemy
I don't want to be
I don't want to be
words lost their meaning
I cannot reach you anymore
you're stuck and
now we can't even talk
repeat…
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Well this is number 10 and the last for my RPM 2021 Album about the Tv program Bride at first sight Australia and complications involved in marrying a bride at first sight. This one is about trying to end such a marriage and they won't have it…
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Where it all began.
THE PERFECT CRIME
When you told me you'd be leaving
Without even telling him goodbye
I couldn't stop smiling all that evening
The closest I've been to being high
Now you've got my poor mind racing
Trying to keep…
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Another for the RPM Album ....Thanks for listening
Well the day finally came I was nervous and afraid
This was a blind date going all the way
I wish the night before I’d prayed
For that perfect women to take my heart away
We were heading…
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So, thought it was time to try something a tad more substantial - hence embarked on a Piano Concerto....here is the first movement of my first, in C minor.......
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Another for the RPM .....
This is war
the war for lust
This war
The war for love
The battle of words
Fought with lies
The war
The war Oo love
He wants mine
I want yours
The deceit of love once more till the end of time
He wants…
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