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This is a total remake of an earlier posting.
Lead vocals courtesy of fellow Alonetoner, Dana.
In the lyrics, I was trying to capture a sense in which there is something else beyond -
something which draws me as it were homeward. A son…
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The first of my 'one song every week' challenge
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Here I attempt to articulate a few distinct feelings of the home, or the affect of cultivating one's own space, or not.
Instrumentation: house keys, pots and pans, long bamboo flute, synth, drum programming, voice(s), and didgeridoo (a real…
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this ain't perfect, i've been working on it a while. the drums sound like shit, my vox are horid and the guitars suck balls, but i kinda like it.
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Sometimes magic happens. Sometimes it even happens to me.
Open D tuning (low to high D A D G A D). Just a practice session where I had the guts to press record.
No drugs. Just beer with dinner. Maybe they put something in the creme brule…
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so this one is in Portuguese. sorry for all u English speakers. but i hope u go ahead and listen to it anyway. i like it a little faster than this version. this is from a couple years ago.
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The song i wrote the night my daughter was born.
there was a special presence, a special grace...
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Created back in 1999 with the help of alonetoner K.Scot. I had translated the english lyrics into portuguese - then just decided to record both languages at the same time.
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This is another version of the same tune used in Dana's Song. I just changed the lyrics. It was created back in 1999 with the help of Alontoner K.Scot.
This is my own way of looking at a beautiful text - Psalm 139.
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This is part of a new body of work, centered more on guitar than synth, yet treating the guitar as I do the synth. This is still a work in progress, and I am open to input.
This is definitely an ambient piece, treating sound as a sculpture more…
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Joel The Custodian and I created this together...
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Created as a Free Download on www.zangproductions.co.uk
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From the album, "And Then It Is". Full album at http://www.alanamusic.co.nr
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I wrote this with two of my friends Diego (aka Mr. Napkinhead on alonetone) and Annie. an ode to pasta since my family is all about pasta. we had fun with the lyrics. wrote it in about 15 minutes, recorded it in an hour, and sang it that night…
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I don't remember what this is about. Whatez. I'll talk about it later.
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this one's rough around the edges. my boyfriend and i have been dating almost 3 years long distance. saying goodbye is something we do a lot.
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I love it when words sound cool in songs. Not the meaning of the words, just the way they sound. When they go along really well with the rhythm. So I wrote this song with only one purpose: to make the words sounds cool. I didn't care what I was…
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This is what happens when three friends get together on pasta making day.
Special thanks: Annie, for your voice; Dana, for your voice and your musical knowledge (she knew exactly what chords we needed).
Dana is a fellow alonetoner, you should…
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I'm dating a girl halfway across the country. One day I saw the moon and realized that even though we were so far away from each other, we could both see the moon at the same time. The seemed pretty cool when I first thought of it... it still…
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I wrote this song after my brother passed away a couple years ago. His girlfriend of 4 years asked me to write the music to a poem she wrote. This is what it turned out to be.
Lyrics by Annie Buller.
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I wrote the music to this song while playing around on the piano, thought it sounded nice. But for a long time i left it like that cus I couldn't think of how to develop it.
Then one day i was playing it, and i stopped and saw my dad's old guitar…
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From the album, "Damn You Jareth & Damn Me Too!". You can buy the full album at http://www.alanamusic.co.nr
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This original melody idea was jotted down in October 2003 in Harmony Assistant, and I had written it thinking that someday I'd make it a real song with lyrics. While playing the tune on the computer, my daughter came in and said she liked it…
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This is an instrumental celebration of numbers such as 4 and 650. If you do not like 4 and 650 you can pretend it's about your favorite numbers instead, I won't mind so long as you don't go around pretending that I wrote this piece for 33 or 550.
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I actually composed this entire song in a piece of guitar tab software called Guitar Pro. Then I exported it to MIDI, imported it into Reaper, and assigned better sounding VST instruments to each track. The purpose behind it was to see if someone…
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I wrote this for a small orchestra a few years ago. Its a tribute to Igor Stravinsky
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A cover of a song written by Glasgow musician Phil Campbell.
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These are 3 variations to the mexican "the cockroach" popular theme
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A spacey electronic number.
Part of my song a week project.
http://yelyah.com/song-a-week/
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I wrote this song for a musical Thanksgiving party that Sudara threw in Santa Fe back in 2002.
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At the end of 2003, I was recording a bunch of covers in my basement in Portland, Oregon. This was the only original recording from that time. I was pretty bummed out at the time...
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This is a track from my abandoned "Weekend Follies" album, which was recorded in my parent's basement in Mercer Island, Washington during the summer of 2003.
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This is a track from my abandoned "Weekend Follies" album, which was recorded in my parent's basement in Mercer Island, Washington during the summer of 2003. This track was recorded during Seafair weekend. That's one of the "Blue Angels" flying…
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Recorded February 2003 - June 2003 in Sydney, Australia
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Recorded September 2002 - January 2003 in Los Angeles, CA
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this vocal arrangement only made the cutting room floor. full instrumentalized version forthcoming. i just wanted this arrangement its own chance at life!
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This is a cover of Sister Savage's (well, her daughter's) recent effort by the same name... ;-)
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This is a short teaser of my Electro-like remix that I entered into a contest organized by the Dutch radio station SlamFM.
I haven't uploaded the full thing because I don't want to get into copyright issues, so if you like the sound of the beat…
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Glu and Sister Savage bring you these remixes!
Original track by Sister Savage:
http://alonetone.com/sistersavage/tracks/little-england
This one is pure pop. Voice pitched 1/2 step up.
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Written today.
recorded on an iMac with the internal mic and no headphones (!) so it's probably going to be muddy as hell, but that feels about right for now.
LYRIC:
Fill up the glass, Bartender
Ply your art
Quench the fire in here, now…
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Warning: silliness ahead!
alloy (along with this months issue of MusicTech) got me into the creative possibility of gate and pitch shifting effects so I spent a happy morning playing with Logic's noise gate, vocal shifter, and ring shifter…
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a moody ethereal track. recorded straight from the laptop mic, so not the best, but had to capture it before it faded away.
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"dress of grey"
translation:
there is a field there,
earth and river - earth and rivers far away from everyone.
im between the trees,
watching you always,
dancing in the mud and swimming in its depths.
far far from every watching…
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The horn line came first, I started humming it in the garage one very cold morning in Feb. I was stuck for a title, until a friend used Kismet in a sentence. It's a fun bouncy number, though the mix is kind of bad.
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This song was me seeing where I could go with some various chord changes and voicing. I was going for a rainy day in summer in the English countryside circa '72 feel for it. I kind of got it down, at least, my memories of it, which are foggy now…
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Well, what can I say here? I knew I wanted to do this one with a pseudo dark, smoky old jazz club feel. I kind of pulled it off, but not completely. The song itself was a happy accident riff. I picked up my acoustic, threw a capo on for fun and…
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This is the third of my 3 dramatic pieces for piano
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late nights, thoughts, recordings. much black tea and mate.
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Had to reload this due to accidental deletion.
This is the first song I made all by myself - words, vocals, bass, and highly FXed guitar- since I don't really play. The drum-track is by Boss BR-1180.
The song is about someone in a crappy relationship…
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Based on the original Sudara/Glu collaboration
http://alonetone.com/sudara/tracks/back-to-the-cold-warm-mix
Surprise for Su!
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This song originally bored me. but i found out how to modulate and bend the sounds in a way that i enjoyed it. also listen for the appearance of my lovely Dumbek drum. :) enjoy
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this is the second electronic song that i've written. it feels short to me, at the same time i don't want to run the risk of "repetitive electronic music" stereotype. enjoy
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a slightly revamped version of this techno tune
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a slightly enhanced version of this breakbeat tune....
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I'm Learning MAO with Reason, this is my first track using this software :D
This is just a test, there's no real end to the track, the purpose was to get to understand the general process of compositing with Reason. ;)
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Slack key guitar and baritone ukulele.
Hula version.
Pauoa Liko Ka Lehua is about the beautiful flowers (Lehua) of Pauoa. The double entendre (kaona or hidden meaning) involves a girl with swaying hips.:)
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Written by [Mark Moschell](http://alonetone.com/moschell).
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Volume pedal plus digital delay equals drone.
come to me I love you
be with me for always
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part of an installation for Sound 1 class in Bolton Hill-Baltimore MD
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A cover of Iron Angel Forge's song from his 2009 RPM Challenge album, Not Forsaken. He is here at alonetone under the name IronAngel.
I haven't told him yet, though, so it's a surprise ;~)
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more bioelectrophilia... titi monkeys, sakis, toucans...
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Sudara says: Just found this on my iPod.
Basically it was the first full mix of the tune, before it passed back to glu and then back to Sudara for the "original" version.
This is heavier, more energy, less fraility, and in Sudara's opinion a…
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2 tablas, acoustic guitar, bamboo flute, tambourine, spanish lyrics.. thanks Hardrick for the help!
english translation:
title: everything goes away
we have been watching the great collapse
everything falls... everything falls…
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just jamming on tabla, acoustic guitar, a bamboo flute, and singing some sexual lyrics in spanish ;)
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My cover of Gumbo Stu's (Stuart Walker) Blind In One Eye. Originally on his 2009 RPM Challenge Album, and available here on alonetone. Thanks Stu!
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Little Guy Demo Ep
Self-Released
http://www.erikino.com
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Little Guy Demo Ep
Self-Released
http://www.erikino.com
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Little Guy Demo Ep
Self-Released
http://www.erikino.com
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So, I did multiple demos of this in my bathroom (for the echo) in the days before recording it. It is fun to play on acoustic. I record the real thing and it just screamed string quartet (or the Fox version of said quartet) I had never done strings…
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The events in this song took place on and around an interstate outside of Detroit, MI named Seven Mile Highway.
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A more technical aspect of sex.
Voice sample taken from: [Overboard](http://ccmixter.org/files/shannonsongs/15136) by Shannon Hurley.
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Another one written by Dennis Coble. He plays my 12 string, I'm doing the lead bits.
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A song written by my good friend Dennis Coble. Glenn Milam on some scorching lead guitar.
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The instrument tracks were all recorded before I even attempted to sing this song, which was not a good idea as I cannot sing very well in the key of E major. Thus, this song does not exactly feature a good vocal part.
"This indie song is not…
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MODERN MEDICINE DJ-Set
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INSIDE:
(Emilie Simon, Kronos Quartet, Modern Medicine, NIN, The Columbus Academy Children's Choir, Beth Gibbons, Sneaker Pimps, Blue States, Vetiver etc.)
Disclaimer…
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Little Guy Demo Ep
Self-Released
http://www.erikino.com
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Little Guy Demo Ep
Self-Released
http://www.erikino.com
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Little Guy Demo Ep
Self-Released
http://www.erikino.com
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Little Guy Demo Ep
Self-Released
http://www.erikino.com
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I have a 3 years old little child and she watches the Barney video a million times a day! so I decided to make some variations to the Barney's theme "I love you and you love me..."
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on the old plum tree
blossom by blossom
the spring thaw is born
-- Hattori Ransetsu (1654-1707)
pure white plum blossoms
slowly begin to turn
the color of dawn
-- Buson Yosa (1715-1783)
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This song was written after a childhood friend of mine was killed in Iraq.
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Lyrics to "Hide & Seek"
The television a one trick pony
The same routine of talking heads
I know you’d tell me, I should get some sleep
I just can’t remember…
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This song was recorded a short time prior to a very messy break-up.
Hope you can feel me, it's hard to put this out there.
- Jack
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Dragon Child
by Jack Merlot
copyright 2009 some rights reserved
it's been years since…
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This is a live recording of a set I did with guitarist Mike Levine on a University of New Hampshire radio show. This is one of the 'songs' we did. It is a 5-tune Irish fiddle set that was previously done by the great Irish fiddle player Martin…
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Slightly twisted, odd. I like this one a lot...I think I'll do something more with it.
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This is one from the album "Hide" (2003)I Hope you enjoy it :)
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LIGHTS, CAMERA.. ACTION!
Ha, Ha, Ha
As she goes
All legs, she knows
Lives like the ways of Rome
She don’t wanna be a stay at home
She wanna make her name
That thing gave her fame
Sex Fame
Sex Fame
That thing
Streaming $19.95, she’s yo’s
An…
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This recording is live from our practice space and was featured on our two song demo "Lightning Demo" in May 2008.
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This is my version of Alex Moody's "Of A Child" from his album Make Do & Mend...recorded for the RPM cover swap project.
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This is actually a combo of three pieces: Shreya's song "Cry of the Banshee", my song "Strange High House In The Mist", and some open mic poetry under the title "The Skull."
Needs a bit of cleaning up, maybe, but I think I did a good job channeling…
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by Jack Merlot
copyright 2008 - all rights reserved
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When we had finally captured the raven
Caught the raptor and made her our pawn
We headed out of that No Man's Land
and traveled straight through until dawn
but the shrapnel…
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Queens Over Aces
by Jack Merlot
copyright 2009 some rights reserved
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one hand clapping in the sycamore trees
while you're out mapping the coast
won't you come back, brother, oh please
I swear that I miss you the most
the Pacific…
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This is from our album, "When I Was Your Age," recorded entirely in the month of February for our third year participating in the RPM Challenge. "When I Was Your Age" is a collection of 13 songs looking back at when we were kids.
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