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When a friend is diagnosed with cancer, or any life threatening illness, we want to say something. But what do we say? This is a meditation on transience and emptiness, two central zen buddhist teachings.
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Second song by Madeleine. About her experiences on speed (adderall). Definitely a Suicidal Tendencies influence here.
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Meditative piece. acoustic guitar, native american flute, middle eastern frame drum.
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This is our little bundle of joy now grown up to be 10 years old. She took up the flute this year at school and this is her first effort in front of my microphone.
She decided on the flute after watching some vids of Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull…
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This is the first tune I wrote using an actual loop pedal. I really like the rawness of its form. The sound is sharp, it kind of attacks your ear.. but then after it loops around a few times, it calms down and sinks in..
I expect that there will…
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another experimental piece. This time we each played our parts separately. I started out with wacked out guitar madness, then bass, then drums and finally some insanely spacey sound effects.
Enjoy...
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In episode 1, Rob beats a girl home and unloads his sack. Some content may not be suitable for younger listeners.
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Written and Recorded April 22, 2010
Buddah defined compassion as "a trembling of the heart."
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD/DADGAD Capo VII), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity.
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I'm not sure if I'll keep the song title. Anyway, this song is more about feeling I guess. At times the song feels happy, then creepy, then sad or dissonant. How does this song make you feel?! Thanks for listening!
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This is a collaboration with some tasty funkadelic percussion added by Norm. Guitars and Keys with some Fx's, I hope you like it,
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On youtube there's a short video clip of guitarist Shawn Lane (R.I.P) executing an extremely difficult chord voicing that requires extensive finger stretching, which Shawn calls "the hardest chord in the world." I altered the chord a little bit…
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All about finding it difficult to see an ex-partner move on with life and withy someone new whilst your still coming to terms with the break-up.
I watch you while you're seeing him
It's born a broken heart
To see you laugh as you pull away
Ohh…
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A song from a child point of view listening to their parents argue.
All these words are scaring me
They're giving me the creeps
When I hear what's going on
My heart drops to the floor
It's over all these problems
Money, kids and work
It always…
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Improvisation on congas and very fragile, clay Moroccan bongos (which my brother found for me from an African display at some zoo!). These bongos are basically clay pots with permanent, very thin goat skins stretched over the top - they can not…
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One day as I was turning into my driveway I saw Rita on her porch. She's a lot like me.
AL & RITA Capo @2 in C
C stepping down to F
Al was a smoker. He's dead now, of course
Al has Alzheimer's. Alcohol made it worse
D stepping down…
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Mixed a couple of free samples together from Robert Fripp's DGM Live website, added some delayed ebow.
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Another mini-suite, of sorts.
Diamond marimba, mazda marimba, bowed gourd
iPod apps: NLog synth, Bebot
Extremely altered guitar
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This song is about those of us who have been deployed, and our deep appreciation to our nation, our brothers, and fellow soldiers, airman, marines, and seamen. This is a song written by a troop.......Ive been in the Air Force for 7 years and…
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I've got perscription pills that turn us invisible, let's pop them when the dragons darken our sky...
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sometimes people say what you don't want to hear...
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you have to find the strength to carry on or leave...and sometimes that choice gets harder everyday
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Ok, so I'm just a percussionist, and if your only tool is a hammer, the entire world looks like a nail. I get it. And I also get that our songs are our children, so we should be very careful about whom we let them play with.
When I first heard…
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GMO took my piano solo and did wonderful things with it.
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First song by our band. Madeleine composed,wrote and sang it. First song she's composed that has lyrics. Madeleine chose to embrace her lack of skill and vocal talent and leave it messy. Angry, angsty, repetitive, droning. Mummbly.
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Loops, Dupes, Whoops, Ooops, and a bit of reverb.
Dedicated to South Dakota.
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20100415 Mansfield University concert choir performing for the participants of the 2010 Vocal Jazz Festival.
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In my pursuit of using music tools on the iPhone to create something resembling the perfect beauty of static. I have created this one of 10 tracks faux static album.
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A little heavy metal thing I recorded. All the guitars are by me but the drums are a drum machine.
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I finally got around to finishing the final track on my ep. This is my debut release one could say :)
I hope you enjoy it :)
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This is about somebody moving from an unhappy place to a happy place. The happy place happens to be a rain forest. This is a true story. The end.
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A friend of Gochii's laughed at the fact he didn't use paper and pencil to write his songs and that his method of storing his rhymes and was risky. Gochii response simply was my mind is a computer.
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4 stereo guitar tracks played out one at a time.
Another late night - early morning recording.
I like to keep a positive attitude about the things that haunt me, but sometimes dreams change course unexpectedly, and the worms creep in.
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Improvisation on Gon-Bops congas, while thinking of future days gone by.
4/4 180bpm.
LYRICS
A cool wind brings the fall
And the season starts to change.
Outside the sky's steel grey.
Inside my heart is too.
And I don't know how to…
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Just another cover of one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite musicians. Yes, the entire song is written in haiku. I'm not really sure how she does it, but Sam can make words dance.
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I'm very proud of this one, Especially the middle section where the melody drastically changes.
Yes, I know this is very short.. But this one, the 2 preceding it and the next few piano pieces, I use to learn how to compose for piano. After that…
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this one goes out to all the magnificent Mary mädels out there.
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This was a Track Created in around Two Hrs...
I Wrote the Music after daydreaming about going to The French Riviera....
Posted the Track on a Web site, and within minutes, an Awesome Musician from france, "Daniel DeSete(That I hadn't spoken…
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The Doors have always been one of my favoriates,, i would like to an entire cd of piano takes on their music,, this is my first take at cs
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A Poem about Fear....
-My friend Fear-
By Tharek Mokbul
My friend.... (!?) .....
You have controlled your tone....?!?!
Is this the first time I have truly known you?
The ever present protector....
Moderator of will....
I request that you know…
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Two-part tune. The first part is "Untitled," and the second part (based on the last bit of "Untitled") is "Sugar." We went for the slow version for the record. We also play "Punk Sugar" and have messed around with "Country Sugar" and "Reggae…
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Check out the quasi-reggae breakdown right in the middle. The chorus is in 7/8 with the exception of the last measure, which is 8/8. Mike does the backup vox.
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One of our two-part tunes. Bossa nova drums and bongos with middle-eastern-y guitars, followed by what's the heaviest ska tune you've ever heard, replete with some long double-kick runs.
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Faith is like food/It's necessary/Not when it's shoved down your throat/They look just like sheep herds/Following feeding and growing/Trying to fit in is IRRITATING
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very short piece for 4 horns, 3 trupets, 3 trombones and tuba.
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I ran into an orange fence night skiing once, a rather lethargic sounding tune, maybe i need more sleep.
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Just something written while I was bored. I tend to do this alot when I am bored. I should probably get rid of that minute of silence at the end...sorry about that.
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Performed by Benjamin Fingland (cl) and Sumire Kudo (vc); 28 March, 2010; Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, NY.
Notes on the work are found here: http://digressionsthirdman.blogspot.com/2010/03/etude-on-f-113-torino-jii9-qui-moult.html
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I Feel It (Lyrics)
Desperate thoughts of uncertainty
Keep on dancin’ in my head
And all these images of yesterday
And what I should have done instead
Oh, Oh, I feel it
Chorus:
I feel it, I feel it…
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Another one from the dusty special price bin! It started off as a Pilot cover, but it didn't end up that way.
Dave Berry added the excellent tele solos and the crazy cool noises at the end. Thanks bro, you rock!
I spent more time on this…
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by coheed n cambria .. got inspired my friend erinmarie .. www.alonetone.com/erinmarie
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I wanted to end this years record with a tune I could easily fall asleep to and I asked Peter Dematté to play sax over two alternating guitarchords I recorded. I really love what he came up with and have tried to built it into a stressfree track…
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This is something that needs more development and absolutely not finished yet. Thanks for listening
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Some Greek mythology 101 with a little incorporation of "All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett
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This instrumental song is about the rabbit in the moon. Fact: the ancient Aztecs measured drunkenness in number of rabbits. Like, "Oh, cheg out Bill, he's 300 rabbits." "Dude, I was like 230 rabbits last week and I got kicked out of the Florida…
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I was collecting 4th of July samples and recorded a jewel. By chance, I recorded my 4 year old girl, and you can hear her thought process...wondering how the fireworks were so high in the air - perhaps the fireworks were dropping from the sky…
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Because it's crucial not to forget to put sunscreen on!
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Norm played the percussion first, which is a Bembe pattern; I couldnt help playing a melody and creating lyrics for this perc track. Thanks for the listen, Enjoy!
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Played and Sung at the same Time.....
Recorded On One Track....
Words made up on the spot....
Was in Two Minds as to if I should Post it....
I aint Preaching in this.....
It is Just something which makes me, "me" that I want to…
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My first album «ZigZag» (2010) :
http://www.rhapsody.com/awe/zigzag
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/zigzag/id339433974
http://www.amazon.com/Zigzag/dp/B002X39FFI/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1263239993&sr=1-9
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HE'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU. We thought this instrumental was just dying to be in a horror flick. The producers went with DMX instead. Really? up in here?
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A Song About Choices......
Peace
Tharek and Geir
This Path
Tharek Mokbul and Geir Alfsen
It Started with Nothing
Now we walk this path
A road to the Journey where we’ll know well last....
Treading Through Fire and Jumping From Planes…
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So-named because it was a last minute addition to the album. I wish I could remember what effects I put on the accordion track to make it almost sound more like a synthesized sitar.
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I'm proud to say this is one of the weirdest songs I've ever done. I got some more use out of the beer bottle here, this time hitting it with a pencil instead of blowing on it.
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Possibly my personal favorite of everything I've written so far. I will admit that I can barely play guitar and this is the result of a lot of looping and editing.
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As you can probably tell, I had a lot of fun with gratuitous panning and weird vocal effects on this album.
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I'll admit I completely ripped off the rhythm of "Closer" by NIN here.
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One of a few pieces composed on a battery operated toy keyboard that I nicknamed the Powersockey, due to the fact that the power socket was labeled that.
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One of a few pieces composed on a battery operated toy keyboard that I nicknamed the Powersockey, due to the fact that the power socket was labeled that.
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One of a few songs on the album where the percussion is a loop of myself hitting my computer desk with my hands. I think I got a nice hypnotic vibe going with this one.
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One of a few pieces composed on a battery operated toy keyboard that I nicknamed the Powersockey, due to the fact that the power socket was labeled that.
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The chorus is adapted from "O Death Rock Me Asleep", by Anne Boleyn, while imprisoned in the Tower of London, waiting for her execution.
(Tolar & Savigear 2010)
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our 2010 entry for the RPM Challenge. members included:
Minibar Madness - sound effects & noise,
Commoner - Amplifier worship, pedals, electrical guitar,
The Chaos Council - MicroMoog , alto sax, effects,
Tone the Destroyer - violin &…
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based on the "clique" project first introduced in a long lost forum post on the RPM Challenge forums, the rules were to record a track that was in relation/response to the previous track before it. performers were: jazzsequence, Pugilistas, The…
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the method was to record a percussive track (or not) at 110 bpm. it was not required that your track be percussive, but if it was, it needed to be 110 bpm. participants included jazzsequence, Pugilistas and project was orchestrated by The Chaos…
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A quick song about the Times paedophilia correspondent, Roger Boyes.
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We all live on one planet, and on this planet we ARE the indigenous peoples. The rest is just intellectual self petting if you know what I mean. When I'm feeling frustrated with the human race, I return to the roots. I read once in a novel on…
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I used to cross over railway tracks on my way to the ballfield in college, and though I never knew why, I was always tempted to just start following them.
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I hope the emotional content will outweigh the technical deficiencies... this is the sound of me singing with a broken heart and a killer sinus infection. I guess this one is 8 or 9 years old by now; another one from the trunk-full of songs that…
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This track is an edit of an improv I did during one of those many TMY demo sessions.... We listened back, had a laugh & I never played it again! - Michael
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minimal, haunting drone...with a flavour at the end...
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light piano...drone...then i allowed the drums to take over the song...
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This is me in 'funk story rant' mode.
Guitars by Damien Taylor
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I'm not sure if this is a song about the pointlessness of war, or about me getting turned down for a job at a local radio station....
Possibly both.
Guitar by Damien Taylor
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Another in the iPod series.
Apps used:
Sound Pallete
NLog synth
Bebot
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Housemate Tim (first verse, chorus) joined us for an attempt at a Bette Middler classic. AND THEN WE AUTOTUNED IT...
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Housemate Tim (first verse, chorus) joined us for this attempt at a Bette Middler classic. This is not autotuned.
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The Music tells the story. we all carry our true selves inside, and experience those who would tell us we are someone else. take this home, light a candle, dance widdershins, blow some smoke to the six directions.... and be free
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Recorded in Hawaii, acoustic guitar and early morning trades through the trees. Keyboards and Bass track added by my brother Greg in Durango Colorado. Took Tess's (Sister Savages) advice and removed the percussion!
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The cover I did off Uglifruit's 2010 RPM submission. The drums are a pair of hotrod sticks, that I made, hitting my keyboard table. The "kick drum is the stick hitting the pop screen while the mic was on.
I still need to fade...
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On a cold and lonely trip through hyperspace, our protagonist wonders whether he'll ever see the sunrise on Ganymede again. (All sounds produced acoustically!)
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Written August 29, 2009 and Recorded March 22, 2010
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD, Capo III), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, Audacity...all fingers, no picks.
I don't normally repeat myself, but when I sat down tonight…
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Written and sung by Tangmo. Arranged and performed by Phil Close. Additional guitars by Karl Cutruff.
Hey everybody, come out in the streets now
Hey everybody, let's have a good time
Bring along your cooler, there's good food to eat now…
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Getting back to some stuff that was on the shelf before rpm, dusting off an old acoustic instrumental here.
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I frequently go on training skates on a beach front trail. The parking lot is just off of a major highway bridge (the Burlington Skyway for those that know it). It's always an interesting sound there...
I recently acquired got a little Pocketrax…
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A blues number made using magix easy listening loops with Ardour software on Linux. This needs a lyric in the middle, but has instead been peppered here with almost random acoustic guitar jazz riffs. Had to use Audacity to take a chunk of the…
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