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A song that really crept out of nowhere and one that I don't entirely understand its meaning. Some things in the song I can pinpoint the origin, but some I haven't a clue. I'm really happy with the way it turned out - semi-ok vocal and all.
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A blatant attempt at exploiting the deep well of The Jesus and Mary Chain/Pixies/Raveonettes/House of Love. A lovingly loud, shiny and guitar-laden paean to those great bands.
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The Aliens are landing and a doomsaying prophet is declaring it the end of the world!
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Instrumental love song for a groovy space chick!
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*Memories, memories before the end.
Sounds like* **_David Sylvian_** *and* **_Fennesz._**
*Ambient guitar and vocals*
I remember sunshine
I remember you
I remember laughing
Do you remember
I do
I remember driving
I remember the…
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*The boat left without me.
Sounds like* **_David Sylvian, Fennesz, The Cure_**.
*Ambient guitar and vocals*
Stayed under too long
I guess
I lost track of time
Why didn’t you think to check
If I was alright?
There’s not too much sun…
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*My take on something like a* **_Neil Young_** *song ("After The Goldrush" meets "Revolution Blues"?)*
*Dark modern electronic guitar rock*
Well I woke in a cold sweat from a dreamless sleep
The winds were blowing papers through the empty…
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*Dark modern electronic guitar rock*
You can hear it just below the blowing wind
Feel it in the nerves beneath your skin
Catch a glimpse as you drift away at night
But you can’t decode the meaning inside
Distant shrieking sets your teeth…
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*"We all live in a little Village...your Village may be different from other people's Villages, but we are all prisoners." -* **_Patrick McGoohan_**
Modern electronic guitar rock.
One day you awaken in a different place
Where the names…
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A Bonus track for "Summer Twilight on Triton;" more of the same, but shorter.
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I read Carla Zilbersmith's blog, carlamuses.blogspot.com, which inspired the song. She's rather inspiring herself.
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A totally sheltered and unable to cope middle-class white kid screws up really badly and is on the run. I don't think he'll make it. Do you?
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from the RPM 2009 album, "Spilt Hony"
This was an experiment to write a song using one sentence. I ended up with 3 small ones.
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I was just imagining a morning at the Waits household.
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you tell me what you want
you tell what you need
i cant give you nothing honey
but this pretty little seed
where has the sun gone
and is it gone forever
will it come back someday
should we just give it some time
i ask you what…
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start here at the airport
feels like im going blind
middle of the day in a dark bar
1000 miles away from peace of mind
im tring to remember
when i was a kid
did the sun set in my back yard
i think it did
what comes before and goes on…
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Another attempt at a Carol Kaye-bassline, slightly more succesfull. I quite like how this turned out although it's kinda slick and not something I could really use in another context (it just sounds like I didn't make it myself which I quite like…
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This started sounding quite Nick Caveish and at the same time I wanted to do something with Joe Meek; so it's a murderballad-variation on Johnny Remember me. There's stylophone and theremin in there. The theremin is quite effective at some points…
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The Dutch painter Mondrian was apparantly a fervent dancer to Boogie Woogie and that image stuck because he seems such a stiff guy otherwise. So I thought that would make a funny subject for a dance-tune. Normally I wouldn't make a song about…
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Here the idea was that I was going to write from the viewpoint of someone who is paralyzed from the neck down and can through technology only watch other peoples life but not participate. It turned out a bit more general and ambiguous than that.
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1.Afsluitdijk
...is a Dutch word and it's the name of the dam/road going from the province Friesland to North-Holland (and Amsterdam) The lyrics are about a 15-year old boy who feels so trapped in the boring Frisian town he's living in that he…
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Lyrics:
I don't know what you want
when you treat me that way
I can't help being turned on
Is that what you want
Just to see what I would do
To see if I'm in love with you
I'm trying so hard
to sit here and ignore
the way that you…
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I'm not sleeping
I'm staring at the ceiling
My mind's a thousand miles away
I'm finding faces in the shapes
of plaster that was scraped on the ceiling
Killing time is not so bad
but when you're trapped inside your head…
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Hurtling towards oblivion thanks to a giant catapult owned by a foul-mouthed voodoo child, he sends a final lewd finger gesture back to the world he sought escape from.
Unbeknownst to him, Voodoo Boy may have a vested interest in using him…
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The final version of this track:
When escaping events that are falling apart, be leery of strangers offering gifts - particularly when they look like something out of Children Of The Corn and they offer to lob you into orbit with a giant catapult…
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The monitors of the omniverse are bored out of their mind, and wish something would happen to break the monotony.
There are some things that transcend the laws of physics - Murphy's Law is one of those things.
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May be a little soft for…
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Oh crap - somebody broke the multiverse. I should have known those #?%! black holes were a serious security flaw.
We were really meaning to fix that, but never got around to it. (It would have cut into our golf time.)
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Even the cosmos needs system maintenance. When its IT department decides to delete something, sometimes that something doesn't want to go without a fight. Even computer viruses will do what they can to avoid the reaping hand of a virus checker…
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Just under the wire (it's Feb 28, 23:47 in my timezone)... last track for RPM09
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From the RPM Challenge 2009 album - "Like A Dark Mirror Keeping Its Secrets":
Native American Industrial?
Sample credits will appear with album info once posted.
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Written while awaiting a CD from one of the artists who participated in the 08 version of RPM.
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lyrics:
The silence sometimes
is all you have to say and I believe it, and you
and everything surrounding the skin beneath your eyes
Time's without a shield or an attack against the sight
of a lifetime that was burning you by
And I may…
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a state of denial/hope
lyrics:
I don't care what bad boys say
with their little white lies to keep themselves safe
drown themselves in fermentations
all good girls go to heaven
I don't care what bad boys say
with their little white…
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From your parents you will learn everything and nothing without even realizing
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Don't look in the mirror, your skin will never seem as soft
Don't wait in the middle when your mind is already made up
Just make it home, please…
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One of my best melodies, but I can't seem to get the vocals right. Would welcome any one else who might want to take a crack at it.
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Sequoia Memories...Capo @ 5
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Off the coast of California
Where the dolphins ride the waves
We stood and watched them from the cliffs above
Until the sunlight went away
Then we slept in ancient shadows
Underneath the redwood trees…
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Fun little tune about the evils of strong drink.
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Title track to my RPM09 album.
Mostly ukulele and vocal, with a few other things thrown in.
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So many people today want to be the musician they idolize; be somebody that they will never be. This song is for them.
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10 – Strictly Rehearsed. Written 13th Feb. Recorded 13th/14th Feb.
More upbeat shenanigans, this time attacking someone’s who’s off the cuff remarks are pre-prepared (and written as crib notes on their cuffs).
Info and lyrics at www.butterflypolite…
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08 – Feeling Confuzzzed. Written 19th/20th Feb. Recorded 20th Feb.
Come on Wembley, let’s see those hands in the air. As poppy as they come, including plenty of la la las to sing along with. I was very pleased with my Harrison-style slide…
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05 – Officer’s Mess (March). Written and recorded 2nd Feb.
This is as close to beat-boxing as I am able to do. I can only apologise for the smutty pun.
Info and lyrics at www.butterflypolite.com/uglifruit
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03 – Meteorites. Written 2nd/3rd Feb. Recorded 3rd Feb.
Inspired by the film ‘Stardust’ where our hero meets a (literal) fallen star. The painful low vocals were particularly fun, and their emotional cracking was acting rather than the fact…
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02 – Falling Down Again. Written 17th/18th Feb. Recorded 17th/18th/19th Feb.
A slightly schizophrenic pop song, with a vocal section that also betrays me wanting to be a Beach Boy. Worryingly there is actually a red sticky trickle that seeps…
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[Thanks to Helen and Colin for coming to my aid with the warblings! :) ]
When You Least Expect It
And you're out to dry
And its all too hectic
Thats when it comes x 2
And it feels electric
And you feel alive
Cos when you least expect…
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I heard a story about you
I didnt want it to be true
But it felt like it might
You, well it was all about you
and how the things that you do
Seem strangely undone
And life doesnt help out the weak
A lifetime tends to bring you some…
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Can i get a little whisky in this water said John
The day the world stopped being fair
I didnt know what to say so I said yeah.
I poured a double whisky and I placed it in his hand
And said friend, only true friends understand
He said friend…
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Tell me can you teach me bout your finely written poetry
Dont care about the content I just want to make em notice me
Such a fine hand they'd say wooo, study it closely
Been practicing all day I think I'm ready least I aughta be.
Caligraphy…
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Well I been playing the blues for so long
Kinda feel like playing jazz x 2
I dig the random instrumentation.
Play this in eight over three and a half
I been playing the blues for so long, make me feel like tryna rap x 2
I think I'll call…
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The first beat I ever made, first song I produced :) Please forgive the ill advised symbol.
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This song always puts you in a weird mood...forcibly sways your emotional state. There’s some kind of weird juju laced in that song that screws with your emotions no matter how you're feeling.
This song uses a lot of layers for bass along with…
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This is a serious idea. Gives a good feeling of what this can become.
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‘Cut Up’ was a very challenging song for writing bass parts. The guitars in that song are rhythmically dominating. The pay off was a dense piece of music.
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We've scrapped many songs but 'Murray' is the oldest song that has survived the test of time.
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This was written while living in the studio. For some reason this song seems like music appropriate for a chase scene. This is all bass and drums...no guitars yet. Vic's working on it.
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sample based song... basically just messing around on Reason, I still haven't quite figured it out.
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smooth chillout track ... something to relax with a little bit edge ...
peace, rei
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Documentary sound piece for sound 1, remix of Ingrid Burrington's speech
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A tribute to all the beautiful ladies in Sweden...
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"Slow Build Gamelan" is based on three Indonesian Gongs from FreeSound.org: 24615__anamorphosis__GMB_Jegog_1.wav, 24613__anamorphosis__GMB_Gong_Lanang.wav & 24612__anamorphosis__GMB_Gong_Kempur.wav. I took the three recordings & strung…
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so pleased to meet me now please, just go away
no introductions needed, i've got nothing left to say
so many stories that i really don't need to know
this conversation's over, and i really wish you'd go
oh please, go away, save yourself
i…
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This one was inspired by Wen's mom; and is therefore dedicated to all those musicians doing RPM, and all musicians who toil away at home to make their music despite what their friends & co-workers might think of their efforts.
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Cover of original track by Beaus of Beethoven.
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Cover of original track by The All-Night Workers (early song co-written by Lou Reed and JJ Cale).
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You will be asked to take a small survey regarding your feelings at the exit.
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Self-esteem to the xtreme.
An instrumental track I've redone from scratch from a 2006 version, but still want to completely redo someday.
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The track is based on an actual 911 call a hacker made to police in Colorado Springs to "punish" the father of a girl who had spurned his advances. I played the call against a short distorted heartbeat-like rhythm run through a Mutron and several…
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A track using Creative Commons licensed sounds or ones I created from scratch myself. From the freesound Project I used WHALECRY 2 by mkoenig, and bamboo wind chimes by jppi_Stu.
I took 20 copies of the whale song, stretched & chopped them…
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Quick and Dirty memo to self.
Crunchy lofi guitar + voice.
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A track made while warming up for the RPM Challenge 2009; Created from the sample 42544_ERH_long_string_su_51 from The FreeSound Project.
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"NATO (Whisky Tango Foxtrot)," is a Noise piece that's made up of a combination of a Phased noise underbed, liquid, vowel-like sounds, and sprightly chiming tones.
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lyrics:
i got a hot date
and you know i don't wanna be late
i need a ride
to the bowling alley
get ready cuz here i come
put my new skirt on
chewing peppermint gum
did my eyebrows fresh
white musk on my neck
part my hair to the right
cuz its…
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can you say 妈麻马骂? Can you fit a squared peg in a round hole?
Copyright © 2009 Tiago Castro Henriques, some rights reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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One of the few songs we've made so far that has a beat :)
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recorded on a mini disc with a stereo mic in a rehearsal studio in brighton uk
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recorded on a mini disc with a stereo mic in a rehearsal studio in brighton uk
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this was the 2nd piece of music again using live called next cos i didn't know what else to call it...
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I wanted to do a sort of homage to cheesy 50's sci-fi movies. This is kind of an ambient/experimental dubby track that was a lot of fun to make.
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That didn't stop her.
Main vocals/bleeps by Shreya, keys and backing vocals by me. Actually, my baby daughter was in my arms while I was doing those vocals and she started crying. Even though I cropped that part, I didn't use any noise reduction…
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This song was inspired by the Life of Pi...and yes, i feel like a drifter at times, floating, going no where.
I've been drifting
i've been drifting for days
going no where
being driven by the waves
driven mad by the wind and her voices…
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Sitting in the Denver airport; watching people walk on by...
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The first of 9 demos I recorded in Jan. 2009 for the upcoming Spooky Garcia album that Rob and I are recording for RPM '09.
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Don't cry over spilt milk, it is nothing, there's more in the fridge.
From December 2007.
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Work in progress!
Inspired by all the awesome people I know in my cryptology class. I was writing an email and just... had to compose something. There's going to be gitz in this somewhere... but for now, only basic synths and an unfiltered…
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A very minimalist song from our “In My Mind” album.
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This work is dedicated to Andy Jaffe, jazz composer, pianist, arranger and teacher. I studied with Andy at Williams College from 1988 to 1992, and his approach to music-making and teaching has influenced everything all my work since. He once related…
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one of the songs i'm most content with on this album. written along with several in the bowling alley (aka basment) of my highschool dorm.
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i didn't intentionally sound like i was dying. i just lost my voice around the time we had to record vocals...and it was a pretty high range for me...so i decided to belt it out.
Peter Hochstedler did some background yelling towards the end…
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simple song. i believe this was the original recording of it. originally a track off of the 21 grams album, "Identities". Peter Hochstedler played a beautiful lead guitar on it.
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"Pizza: The Rock Opera" is Beatnik Turtle's 10-minute opus chronicling one man's struggle to order pizza. From TheSongOfTheDay.com and their album, November available on CD Baby, "the iTunes" and other fine digital retailers.
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Among the special guests are the corpse of Jeff LaSala (as animated by six thousand yellow jackets and a colony of Africanized honey bees) providing lead vocals and sundry items. His very doomed brother, John LaSala, also sings lead.
Lyrics…
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Among the special guests are Horkmeijer Springtail and his lovely choir of snow fleas providing backing vocals and the very doomed John LaSala on lyrics and lead vocals.
Under shoes:
issued dire adieux.
Too few legs:
the world's new filthy…
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Among the special guests are Horkmeijer Springtail and his lovely choir of snow fleas providing backing vocals, the very doomed John LaSala on lead vocals, and the great King Bandit and his mommy, Kate providing additional vocals. The very doomed…
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Created and performed at the whim of the tyrant Michael John Keegan
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ITS Just So Funny. wait till the middle, thats when it really takes off heh heh
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Rough and Slow acoustic version of the more poppy [lifeline glu and sudara collaboration](http://alonetone.com/doublemeanings/tracks/lifeline).
If you like 4 minutes of the same 3 chords, you'll LOVE this song.
Now that I have two microphones…
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Another downtempo and minimalist track from our debut album, this one even has some percussion ;)
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This is the title song from our debut album (also called “In My Mind”, duh). It's probably the most experimental track on the album, featuring spoken rather than sung vocals.
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a short exploration of the fugal possibilities of a chinese musical mode....
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Dedicated to the victims of the 23 day assault on Gaza.
Copyright © 2009 Tiago Castro Henriques, some rights reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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Another fingerpicky gospel instrumental. From the old days.
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I composed this track as a demo of my sampling project "The First Bulgarian Virtual Choir" some time ago...
I invited the famous folk singer Katia Georgieva to perform the live lead vocal.
www.audiogrocery.com
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When I was fascinated to play Eastern music on my white el. violin....
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