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Can you hide in happiness
Can you disguise the sadness in your voice
Could you play only major chords
Can you hide in happiness
Choose a part of you to show
And no one around you can know
Just how deep the scars go
Can you hide in…
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2021 50/90 song number 16 of 50.
I like this one. I think I screwed up the guitar part in the chorus about a thousand and two times before I finally had a useable take. I think it was probably worth it.
The guitars are a Les Paul standard…
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2021 5090 song number 15.
There was a song I uploaded a couple of weeks ago that was called Calling that I am a little afraid to listen to back to back with this one because I think I wrote the same song twice again.
Are the rhythm guitars…
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a cover of the Low song
Kat: Keys/Vocals
Tom: Guitar/Vocals
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using droneo on the ipad --- I created this drone then put it thru effects in ipad garageband then equalized it and remixed the whole 13 minute work into this 3:40 minute work--- here changing the length of the segments divided by sound levels…
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Something a little different for me here....one of the good lady's favourite songs is the theme to the Sky drama, Big Little Lies....by Michael Kiwanuka. Here is my orchestral/classical take on this haunting theme......she found it all rather…
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Instrumental prog-metal inspired by my odometer.
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Take me now back through the years
Until the light of day
Watch me fall opon the rocks
Like a tv expose
Its nothing like the minute
Never time to wait
Pushing to the front of queues
Before the closing gate
Like a cloud without a lining…
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It's hard to define perfection
It's such an elusive idea
But I only have to look at you
To know I have it here
Like like looking at a van gogh
Or a sculpture by Roden
Or even a super hero
Like spider or superman
It's easy to see…
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Pure Data beats and Yamaha TX81Z synth driven through the Pure Data patch. Created for my first day of vacation, current Sound-In event, cat Jake and a future EP.
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Trying out the new keyboard thanks for listening
We all dream with our eyes closed
Blind to where our dreams can go
Never to know what truly comes to us
Under that midnight glow
Under that midnight glow
Belief becomes from dream
That…
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I was so impressed with this --- https://alonetone.com/breakinglight/tracks/tala-thread that I set up a thumbjam tabla mix with slide guitar- :)
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Music composed by Elisabeth Roberts, my lyrics, vocals by Chris Hierro
Sea of Life
2020© by John Schofield
Under skies of faded denim
On a sea of sparkling green
My little sailboat brought me here
From where it was I’d been
The journal…
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Scars
He gives his scorpion shakes
And sobs until the tears he makes
The only other sound's the break,
Of distant waves and birds awake.
But he has promises to keep,
Until then he shall not sleep.
He rises from his bitter bed,
With…
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Updated from an early '80s recording, as per the request for Sound-In event "Through the Past Darkly", 29/7 - 5/8/2021.
The title comes from the three segments that make up the piece. At the beginning, and running throughout towards the left…
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"We Would Love To"
Instrumental Space Rock
albinoSQUIRRELmusic (c)
Guitar, Synths, and Bass by me
Drums are from loops
Enjoy!
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He wrote me a letter one day it said
Im sorry i have to go
I didn’t understand the significance
But i was only 6 you know
V He said son be a brave boy
Look after your mum for me
This sickness has a hold now
So what will be will be…
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2021 50/90 song number 14 of 50.
A 12-bar blues I noodled together on my iPad late one night when I thought I was going to get shut out for the day. It was the very definition of a throw away and yet somehow I kinda like it. I really like…
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All for Naught
Its a been long time you’ll find
since i exorcised my mind
And Sang for the choir
Just Got higher and higher
Looking around corners
Like unwilling performers
Looking for a dollar
Looking for someone to follow
Id sell…
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You put me in a spin
You changed my world around
You raise me higher
My feet don’t touch the ground
Im in a different place
My life has had a lift
You are my missing link
You are my gift
You turn me upside down
You turn me inside…
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Jam track or for meditation.
Trying out the iTabla app, added bass and guitar to the tabla/tanpura loop.
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Just another lost boy
Playing on delay
Looking for my last hit
Starting on the runaway
Brooklyn nights are shining
Im on the raz with Jed
Still not easy though
To get you out my head
Looking for the real truth
Fed up with all the…
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Mash of sound files from January '15. For the soundIn event
Through The Past Darkly
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This song is sung from someone else's viewpoint.
Another Record Every Month submission.
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minimalistic piece. Like the one as before. It was my sunshine today.
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guitar and ebow, extensive processing - maximum delay and reverb, plus octave trails etc.
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Seems I kept on driving
Even knowing the bridge was out
Seems I had no brakes
Didn't wanna try another route
Seems I kept going
Even if the signs said turn around
Seems I had no knowledge
And wouldn't go anywhere but down
Chorus
Will…
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A song written and recorded for the Record Every Month challenge in July 2021
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Extracted 3, 8 second sections from an acoustic piece I did in Mar of this year. Remixed those 3 sections randomly in Pure Data with some live sythn passing through. Created for Jul 29/30/31 Sound-In.
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I've been accumulating video games since the 80s, and my backlog of unplayed games is ridiculous.
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Ayomi Spanky is here again with a new vibe!
After the successful single he released for his fans some months ago he decided to dish out another single tittle "Call me" download and enjoy the wonderful song mix by Spankymix
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So, we'd hit the RPM Challenge (and more specifically, the 'every month' variety thereof) with four consecutive months of 35 minute power tool wipeouts, we figured it was time for a change. Well, I did, Skit wanted to do power tools again. But…
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We are the Saviours of the art
Our emotions are off the chart
I'll play all day
Up your way
Then Go back to the start
It's time to tell you why
Its now that i should fly
I know its rough
But its just not enough
So For now it is goodbye…
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Pop another pill today
Up to your happy place
Away from disliked reality
Mind put on erase
One pill to make you smile
One to stop the lonesome creep
One to get you through the day
And help make you sleep
One to pep you up
And one…
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Completely fell out of the sky to me this evening with a Steve Reich groove. 3 table cells or loops created in Pure Data which I've been working a lot with this week in installing a old (now new) Ubuntu machine. The loops captured live from…
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A mash of tracks by James Bailey (Climbing the Rocky Path) and Jim Goodin (In Sine) for the Up! Sound-In weekly event. Mix by Kavin.
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This song is about feeling safe in your own body and having your own back.
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Verse 1
And I know how much you love me
And I know how much you care
Now im just dreaming of you
The answer to my prayer
Pre-Chorus
Love comes around,
With the beating of,two hearts
like burning desire
Like fated sweethearts
Chorus…
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Recorded way back (early '80s?) on open reel tape. The mumbly voices are from whatever was recorded on there before, as it was a former CBC Radio tape. The "instrument" is one of those little slicers for hard-boiled eggs. Submitted to Sound-In…
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I am Calm and smart
I wonder at Science
I Howl at the moon
I see Ghosts
I need more
I want your love
But i am Compromised
Compromised, compromised
I pretend to be Happy
I seem real Cool
I touch the sky
I laugh out loud
But worry…
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Continuing to work with sine waves in Pure Data
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V 1And i think maybe
You know that someday
I'll be a shaker and a mover
V 2 Well i hear you say,
Its just all a dream
Ill always just be a loser
V 3You are still the very best
That i ever had
Not sure why you didn’t stay
V4 Guess…
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2021 5090 Song Number 13 of 50 (hopefully).
I like the verses. I kinda like the half tempo breaks. I don't like the chorus. If you listen closely during the guitar solos you may be able to hear the shower running in the next room. I am…
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Do the crime and do the time
But love don't pay the rent
We are still all searching
For enlightenment
Pray to the god of rock n roll
Play guitar like jimi
Like the smoke that leaves the room
Straight and up the chimney
Keep the beat…
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2021 5090 Song Number 12.
Is it a requirement for one of these goofy writing/recording internet challenges to write something ballady in 6/8 time? If it is then mark me as done.
I keep saying this, but the songs feel very overly simple…
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Good morning kooka
Nice to see you here
Are you bringing rain to day
Or just here for atmosphere
Are you bringing friends today
Bringing the stormy cloud
Are you going to sit and watch
Or sing your song out loud
Oh koookaburra sing…
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Guess I was feeling Folkie when I wrote this .......
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seamless facade
an egg
birth arcade
So the sparrow does fly
then it leaves an arrow in the sky
(lost in the cold)
(lost in the code)
we're all browsers in a way
picture's fine in the daytime
but in the silence the charade it fades…
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V1 Weeds are growing higher
The buildings unkempt
The windows are al broken
The signals are bent
V2 Its shadow of its heyday
Slowly dying alone
It has many stories to tell
And most are now unknown
C Once oh yes once
It all happened…
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I am playing the bass part at Mass so I though recording the bass and melody was a good way to brush up. Thanks to COVID its been a while. Yeah, some mistakes. But it never does me good to over do it.
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An older song that I remixed
About breaking up with someone
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It was an evening in the fall
It was raining and cold as ice
I was driving home in the dark
Just looking for a glimpse of paradise
Refr…
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This is an older song. featuring my friend Hans Nooitgedagt Sr on guitar
The rest is done by me.
Pretty dark lyrics, feeling much better now :-)
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Parents of friends around me dying
And in the midst…
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Did this one in a different tuning: DADDAD
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Sometimes I just feel
Like I'm totally lost
Sometimes I wonder
Is it all worth the cost
Sometimes I just feel
That I'm on the right track
But sometimes…
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5090 Song number 11 out of 50.
I like this one. I am kinda enjoying it's groove. Have you caught on to the gimmick in the lyrics yet? It's something I want to do semi regularly this summer and I think this is the second song I posted that…
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5090 Song number 10 of 50. I'm 20% complete.
Another 12 bar blues. This is the second one I've worked on so far. Expect 30 more. At least.
Nothing much to speak of about this one except that "forecast calls for ending it all" might be…
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Now a decade old, I thought I would revisit this mix again. I have done this a few times as I continue to learn the craft. I thought it would be a good exercise to undertake as a start thinking about writing again for the next record.
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5090 song number nine out of 50.
Lots of gimmicks here. Guitarmonies. Drum solo. Four part vocal harmonies singing a minor seventh chord with tons of effects and buried in the mix. Yup, all the standbyes.
The guitars are all Les Paul…
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What I hear when I imagine riding in a VW bus with my feet propped up on the dashboard.
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V1 We shine so brightly
Like an Indigo Flame
But the downs they get lower
And There is no one else to blame
V2 Love and hate are allies
In relationships like this
Can we seek redemption
Or just an armistice
C Our Love tanks are empty…
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This track was released by Tribe Tapes, on a record that was cut into the bottom of a disc. Since it is now "sold out", the original track is now presented here.
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V1 I know it shouldn’t be this way
Oh what have i done
I wish i could see things differently
But Only see the answers with a gun
V2 Is this The reality in front of me
Maybe it is the proof , but
My Pen it never lies,
it just lays out…
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19 edo guitar, some effects, and trying to play through a hurting hand
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I remember those days
Through a smokey haze
And an everlasting party
Music playing everywhere
Everyone with flowing hair
And everything oh so very arty
Summer of love and flowers
Everything around was ours
Seemed like it was a brand…
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50/90 Song number eight of 50.
In my defense, I did give you seven whole songs before sharing the one with the 24 measures of backwards guitar solo buried under 700 tons of delay and a rotary speaker. I didn't drop this soupy mess onto you…
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50/90 Challenge song Seven of 50.
Eh. I don't think I like this one. The vocal melody I came up with was a tad too much for my meager singing skills. It wasn't too bad, just not that good. Oh well. The groove is kinda fun to solo over…
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50/90 song number six.
A couple of experimental type things (for me, at least) on this song.
First: I mixed this through actual speakers. I feel a little giddy just typing that. I don't think I've mixed anything through speakers since…
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I know things are not what it seems
But not sure what it means
All that is hidden deep down inside
Stop the drinking
Tell me what you’re thinking
Why oh why why wont you confide
Its only time it buys
Those gentle subtle lies
How and…
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50/90 Challenge song number five of 50.
I feel like most of what I am coming up with right now is overly simplistic. Is that a conscious thing or not? I don't know. This one has the benefit of being a blues in A minor in 3/4 time. A waltzing…
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This was an interesting experience put together :)
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In the early 70s I lived near Haight Ashbury, played music and was deeply involved in that scene. Wrote this song a few years later about those days. Recorded in one take at Rosewood studios..not bragging on the one take, we booked a full day…
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Taken from my Desert Rat album. Recorded live during a BBQ at my Torrey Utah homestead. Recorded on a Fostex cassette four track in 1985.
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V1 Unaccustomed to acts of courage
Disbelieve in the coincidental
live coiled in shells of loneliness
High in the holy temple
V2 Listen to the music
Played by the drum and fife
Reality comes into sight
to liberate our life.
C but you…
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Now with more awesomeness! Thank you to This Wretched Vessel Lead vocalist for adding in some Gang vocals to beef up the chorus. Also borrowing their percussionist for some tambourine to give the song some extra pop!
You know I can’t think…
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Tim's remix of Wilson's cover of my song. In case you were ever wondering what Wilson sounded like without the inhibitions of recording yourself, here it is with Tim behind the soundboard. Pushing the vocals out and adding some sweetness to the…
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Wilson's Cover of my song. He did such a fantastic job on this and I love that he took the time to do this. It is such an honour to have someone take the time to learn one of your songs and record their own take on it. Thank you Wilsun!
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From the monthly Straw Drawing improv jam
Mark - bass
Kavin - guitar, percussion
Matt - kalimba
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2021 5090 #4.
This one is okay. It feels a little too... mathy? Is that a thing? I feel like maybe there needs to be more going on in the chorus, but it has three part vocal harmony so there's that. Subconsciously the whole point of this…
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Three down, 47 to go.
I like this one even though there is nothing to it. I threw the bass line together on a Friday evening. It was late and I wanted to get something down before I went to sleep. It was a simple little nothing.
On Saturday…
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fearless against the prompt - Cant stop Long
All for Naught
Its a been long time you’ll find
since i exorcised my mind
And Sang for the choir
Just Got higher and higher
Looking around corners
Like unwilling performers
Looking for…
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V1 My temperature is rising
The mercury is high
The feelings i have
Just terrify
V2 Never felt like this
In all of my years
But now with anticipation
Comes all of my fears
PC If you think you can see flames
You’ll know its genuine…
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A combined collaboration project with Project-X (David Webster) & Nemo Marxism (my other self)
More to come...
Late night stars
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This is what it sounds like when every note has its own wah pedal...
The lower and higher harmonics come in first, with the inside ones filling in, harmonic by harmonic every 20ms. The result is a very human-ish Yaw sound on low notes (check…
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We ride into the future
On the heels of kings
Never looking backwards
Excited by what it brings
The key to life is easy
No need to be savant
Its wanting what you get
not getting what you want
We are lovers not toreadors
Thats no bull…
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From the monthly Straw Drawing improv jam
Mark - bass
Kavin - guitar, percussion
Matt - kalimba
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From the monthly Straw Drawing improv jam
Mark - bass
Kavin - guitar, percussion
Matt - kalimba
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Been experimenting with an old, cheap, Peavey guitar and amp I rescued from a dusty old barn.
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Created in VCV Rack @432-hz. One of the first pieces I've done ever with a 'beat' in a percussion sense. I need some sleep :)
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V1 When the long last day goes by
And you ask yourself why
sinking faster than an ebb tide
And you want to get off of this ride
V2 I’m taking when i should just borrow
The old wild restless sorrow
breaking from my hiding place
Sliding…
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If you had a time machine, where would you go?
Updated: March 2024
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Intro
Ahhhh
It's alyricsagaino
Omo Iya Aladura oo
Chorus
Ori mi Jen lenu ope
eleda mi Jen re rin ayo
Ori mi Jen lenu ope
eleda mi Jen rerin Ayo
Bodun yi she n pari lo o
Maje kan fi iku demi mo
maje ki emi fiku lokiki
Bodun yi she…
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