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The first track on the new FONTANELLE album.
HAPPY Key - Am
Happy is the anvil as the hammer strikes the blade (AM)
A fleeting spark that fades as the memory is made (G)
Happy is the spark when the hammer strikes the steel (F)
Before the…
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this is the conglomerate of the fifth song or first song from the mindtrip album that is about 4 min long and was stretched to 1 hr and 17 sec with the center cut out and posted here :) Thanks paul for the the stretch program.
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I have admit I don't like this song. I did a bad job with the vocals so I just mixed them down.
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A soundtrack for an upcoming episode of 'Get Lucid', an animated series by Dax Norman...
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Soundtrack for the animated series by Dax Norman called, 'Get Lucid'... This is episode 7...
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Third track from remix album, enjoy the hip hop flavor of loops carrying my vocals in a new direction.
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Unveiling of remix of "still strung out" for a remix album I'm releasing here on alonetone.
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Not sure what I was thinking when I recorded this one...
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for the "pure improvisation" theme at improv Friday. Synthstation and loop pedal.
http://improvfriday.com/forum/topics/improvfriday-event-for-april-19-21-2012
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A remake of an old song, this is my version as I wrote it. Going to get the Good wife to record her version. Fight, Fight !!! Looking back Imspired of course by the Good wife, also we had just saw The Jersey Boys on stage at the West End. What…
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If you can't guess where I got this one, well . . .
(c) 2012 T.A.Beckett
Do you know me?
No credit card have I.
You might not know my name
But look me in the eye.
Do you know me?
The Stones didn't sing about me.
Lucifer is not my name.
No…
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Howl 041412
I created this for the film DARK BLOOD.
The film River Phoenix was working on when he died.
Watch the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO2QpASUcIY
(C)2012 Royal T Music
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I edited the original because it was a bit long and it didn't need to be that length, so I chopped the 'crap' bits out, they had served their purpose.
The Vagrant Suite
Well the streets are always crowded
So I got myself a little place
All my…
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The Legend of Munga Brown lives on!! Andy has the idea to write a whole book about the Life of our friend Munga Brown. He sent me the lyrics and I wrote the music and recorded all instruments and vocals
Lyrics:
Munga dances down the street
dancing…
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My very first chicken song and probley my last!
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My contribution to ImprovFriday 5th - 7th of April. Spoken words are by Nightingale
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mezermetically sealed into the light of sounds.
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My first acrostic prompt, requiring the word "Hope" to be spelled out by the first letter of the lines. Found in the chorus:
Hands don't fail me now
Oh, just a little tighter
Please hold on, hold on to
Everything
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Not sure what inspired me to write this. It's about a rich lady who loses everything. It's not about anyone I know, I was just trying to write a song not about myself for once.
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A really drastic revamp of an old song. Crank it up I say !!!
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Title is a lyric by The Mars Volta (The Whip Hand). Seemed succinct as an intro track leading to Foreboding.
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i wrote this in 81 originally called - battlecry. but i updated it to a sci fi type armageddon story. a video would have went well with this but, maybe some day. all explosions, firepower, helicopter sounds and all battle sounds did on keys…
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A mashup with
Roger Sundström Guitar
Jude Cowan (Cauliflower)
Kawol Samarkand (secret factory)
Benjamin Smith (Ben.improv.Mar.17.2012)
for ImprovFriday 2012-03-24
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A 'night out' on my answering machine put to music.
Probably one of my most interesting lyrics, and I didn't have to write a single word!
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this was hard to find something different from the original which is perfect just the way it is. but i did it anyway, so there.
the original is here.
http://alonetone.com/colingarvey/tracks/still-raining
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“Second chance”: (Richard Hardrick)
I passed out.
The new journey will begin and I'm still here,
All for an angular brightness.
They try to wake me up.
I left the ground
floating and smiling with the bright light, al fin
in front of…
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Probably a self explanatory track. I'm anxious at times, but I seem to be doing OK.
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Dedicated to big fish in small ponds everywhere. Keep reaching for that rainbow!
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A Re-recording of a song I wrote 5 years ago, slowly but surely I'm getting through my old songs.....
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This is not a White Zombie rip-off. It's an homage to Mortal! Loving our new software!
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Part of American Irish experience, now mostly lost
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Original song kind of in response the Pussycat Dolls song.
I'd like to dedicate this to Eddie Van Halen, for being such a massive inspiration to a generation. If you're reading this Eddie, thanks. And please don't sue me for stealing your riffs.
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Apparently this song is the quintessential Gary Fox sound. That's probably because it's done with a special guitar with a special tuning. Anyway, my favorite part of the song is the mid-section. This is a "listen loud in the dark" sort of song.
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A rather flat version of an original instumental jam played live as a four piece in the studio.we played reserved compared to normal renditions. others wanted this on the album, i voted no. we made our 35 minutes. thank god!
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A song about not letting bastards get you down!
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Broken, stumbling, beat up, a bit detuned. Appropriate.
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After the tragic events of the last few days, I felt compelled to upload an old song I wrote in 2007.Tragically a young Soldier girl was killed in action in Iraq. She was just 19 years of age. I had to have a rant !!! I apologize in advance if…
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Random mischief. Ableton died halfway, so couldn't mix drums and bass properly. Ofcourse, then I rage and delete every Ableton file on the laptop. Heh, TMI.
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A remix of this tune by a guy who really knows how to mix tracks proper...Andy found a producer type guy that liked this song but thought the mix was really bad...so I sent him all the individual tracks and this is what he came up with I think…
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March, the beginning of spring. We have snow, frost and wind. Hope dies last. Or: don't dies at all *(underline your choice)*
Also:
Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest:
The soul, uneasy and confin…
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Dont try and dance to this,your'l break your neck!
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A song I wrote about my Granddaughter, Lola, about 4 years ago. Different music from the original, good old Open G tuning !!!
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Originalversionen af In This Age, skrevet af Alchemy, og senere genindspillet til Alchemy-pladen "Complacency Kills": http://spaendstigmusik.wordpress.com/bands/alchemy/complacency-kills/
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A song I wrote when I was about 19 years old. I never thought it was good enough to record. Maybe I was wrong!
I float around in a pool of slime
I can't be seen with the naked ey
You know it's gonna be lotsa fun
To munch out on a bacterium…
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Cover of the sinister Doors song.
I'm reading a biography of Jim Morrison at the moment, not the first I've read either.
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First verse rap cameo for Tribox Studios debut RPM album, The Quest For The Lost Album Title. Download the full album from here http://www.itstribox.co.uk/
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First attempt at trying out Ozone 5 for mastering.
Stuff used:
EZdrummer dfh
Superior Drummer 2.0
Ampeg SVX
TS-808/Poulin Solo/Poulin LeCab
Overloud TH2
EZMix
X-Cita
Re-recorded the guitars, dual tracked both rhythm tracks…
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I wrote this to be sung by a dear, now-departed friend who sadly committed suicide while working on a new album of very exciting material. I have a whole mess of "dead Kevin" songs which are in the wrong key, which I've been avoiding like the…
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About twenty billion years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and Roland's D50 was new, I found this patch called "spanisheart" and plunked down a new-agey tune. Which I promptly forgot about for years. Every now and then, I catch myself playing…
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Another really old song from the early 90s. My lyrics were very obtuse back then (or just plain nonsensical).
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A pop song about on-lane dating. Inspired by a friend, not auto-biographical. Not one of my best.
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The is a song a wrote a long time ago, circa 1993, before I know how to write songs. Recorded 1999.
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Naively conceived, written and published in February 2012 for "Contemporary Chamber Music" (vol.1), an RPM12 album.
The titles of the pieces in album are follow each other in a certain order - see album description.
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Naively conceived, written and published in February 2012 for "Contemporary Chamber Music" (vol.1), an RPM12 album.
The titles of the pieces in album are follow each other in a certain order - see album description.
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Naively conceived, written and published in February 2012 for "Contemporary Chamber Music" (vol.1), an RPM12 album.
The titles of the pieces in album are follow each other in a certain order - see album description.
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Naively conceived, written and published in February 2012 for "Contemporary Chamber Music" (vol.1), an RPM12 album.
The titles of the pieces in album are follow each other in a certain order - see album description.
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Oh, more songs from my torrid past! Written about a very angry young woman who kept making excuses about her excuses.
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I wrote this about a very-now-ex-girlfriend somewhere back in the '90s. People seem to like it (actually, there's been a comparison to Duncan Sheik made several times by several people - I'll take it!) Essentially me being pissy :)
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My friend Vyv requested I write a song about penguins, so here it is. (well, it doesn't say much about penguins - but it does mention them!)
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rpm 2012 #3
no lie this was a ton of fun to make
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This is a song about questions, especially after experiencing the loss of someone special.....here are the lyrics:
Down past the bridge
By Saint Peter‘s church
She hums a prayer
Her eyes blue and bare
She’s longing for comfort…
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Special thanks to Dave Desoucey for the bass track.
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Part Of Kitchen Sink, the RPM 2012 album for AMUC.
It's technically "Tobias The Battery-Powered Hermit", but the field wasn't long enough. =)
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Part Of Kitchen Sink, the RPM 2012 album for AMUC.
It started out as a tribute to the old sci-fi movie, "The Quiet Earth", and became something else.
Freesound samples used:
42190__digifishmusic__siiiilence.wav
20765__radian__sorrysorry…
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From RPM 2012 album, "The Kitchen Sink"
First track - title comes from an unintended vocal sample.
2/26/12 MPT: I already uploaded a fresh copy. I wanted it to sound like a vocal ensemble in a dumpster, but I might have initially gone overkill…
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Revisiting this track too. For some unknown reason, the church across the street from my former abode occasionally rang their bell at 7:30 in the morning. Not every Sunday. Come to think, Sunday wasn't the exclusive day either. At any rate…
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Here's another little something that I somehow got sidetracked on posting.... Thanks for the jams Norm! One of these days I'll bounce something fresh your way....
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Re-recording of an old song I'd originally written for an even older band, Buckle. I think Buckle's been done now for almost eighteen years, so it may be safe to dust this off now and expose it to light again.
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from the dusty dance halls of the past a reverie
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You can watch the video related to this song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp1_NaAoiLU&list=UU6ZCGmT1WphdMDQbIZT0peg&index=1&feature=plcp
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will i ram/jesmiaus/cryptic meadow 's "mosquito summer killing" bye bye remix
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I'm not really sure how this came about, I borrowed some lyrics from Angie Fights Crime and added a reggae sound and a remix to "The Surreal Age of the Naked Lemon" which I'm doing for the Rmp challenge and this sort of popped out ...
The…
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The wind roars. The night is pitch-black. The rails wet. Ideal.
I thought it would be harder. Perhaps it is only as hard as one deems it to be.
It approaches. I am terrified, but it needs to be done.
I let out everything that is human, as a…
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~for all the elves out of nowhere~
She dances, gracefully moving along a branch of the tree elf. She is dancing on the moon's path, alone...
Galadriel was proud, strong, and selfwilled... From her earliest years she had a marvellous gift of…
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my tribute to a very underrated, underappreciated band. 40 yrs ago thier self titled lp came out, and i cover one from the lp as a tribute on thier 40th anniversary. im not a lead guitarist, and a new singer, so please bear with me on that.
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Some days seem longer than others,no body phones,no body calls round,what do you do? write a song i guess!
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originally written and performed by Chris Cornell.
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“This Change”: (Richard Hardrick)
Everything change
oceans of life, fight against death (hum)
I'm only a shade (afraid)
I' m trying to find my own way to survive
I'm better hide away, far away.
I can't resist this change
sky or sea…
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This is my attempt at afro-pop... The video was produced by a friend of mine, Skot McCall, via online collaboration...
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playing with my eyes closed
rpm #4 2012
from about 2 min on it's a bit hot,, if anyone has some suggestions on how to balance the range, i would appreciate it r
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i suppose this one is a lullaby, two uke tracks and 1 vocal track lots of background noise including my sinuses.
as darkness falls
all around
is silent now
you settle down
and go to sleep
a darkness falls
sweet dreams
my little one
sweet dreams…
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This song is inspired by the struggles currently going on in Syria....here are the lyrics:
Out in the streets, an awakening has begun
You brandish posters, they point a gun
Scrawled on the pavement with blood and tears
Says we the people…
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#4 for the RPM Challenge.
Have you heard this melody before? This is one of those where I wonder if I've unconsciously "borrowed" something from someone. Translation: the Fly Boat, like the tourist boats that ply the river Seine and their bright…
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Interpretation of that we see comes from us, so, therefore, is not objective. Seems, there is no objectivity here, none at all. But then why do we try again and again to learn, to understand, to feel?
The question is still the same: who are…
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“While I Wait”: (Richard Hardrick)
I hear my steps from echoes
down in the street of time
van años en lo incierto
outside the shadow line
Silence in an empty sky
while I wait
God has not revealed yet
the truth of signs outside…
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It's a small song about a blurred childhood memory of a night in the woods when a wild boar made us run home in panic.
The monster came through the ground
Across the glade we ran
There was a sense we felt again - never felt again.
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As it's coming up to Valentine's Day, I thought I'll upload this little ditty.
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Japanese Ghost House Boat was my contribution to the ImprovFriday “For Japan” earthquake relief CD release with proceeds donated to the Red Cross. It is in 17 notes per octave. Since its been about a year I thought I could release it now as…
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An old instrumental of mine, written when my daughter was a baby. I plan to re-record it with some better gear soon.
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This is "Bright Eyes" written by Mike Batt and originally performed by Art Garfunkel. A song made famous by the film, 'watership down'.
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~In the middle of everyday life [and all this fuss] you stop for a moment and see yourself as if from the outside~
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Cowardly Lion: Courage! What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage…
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Act 2 Scene 3 - The Bedsit - Fool questions everything and falls into depression and drinks until he dies ... and it's OK
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Act 1 Scene 3 - A Night on the Town, a glimpse into Fool's social life which is ... going round to his mates and getting stoned, going to the pub and the disco in an attempt to get a girl, which he manages to do in the last song.
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Act 1 Scene 2 The Long Walk Home - where Fool is walking home from the disco, he debates the world around him as he's walking and dancing to music on his mp3 player then he takes shelter from the rain in a haunted house and meets a ghost, he…
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A rock song, in 17 notes per octave. Yes there is an echo of Buddy Holly... Lyrics, and chords and bass here http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=2071
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The old Blues man came down the cellar tonight and wanted to sing some Elvis and this is what we cam up with hope you enjoy......
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It seems these Blues Lessons might be starting to pay off ....oh i wish i had more time........Lead guitar Reg with his £16 special...Vocal Possession Jim & Reg transferred through Trevor......organ Reg.......Drums a loop ....Music and words…
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Written at a bit of a dark time in my life. Just thought I'd commit it to mp3.
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I Shall Tear off my Terrible Cap
(poem by harold pinter, 1951)
I in my straight jacket swung in the sun,
In a hostile pause in a no man's time.
The spring his green anchor had flung.
Around me only the walking brains,
And the plack of…
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A song I'd written long before I was in any band. Music and lyrics by Mike Giles.
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Another of the "Recipe Songs". Maybe not as successful as the first, but much better than the others, which I have omitted.
Originally Recorded on a Fostex 4-track cassette and remastered.
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sort of alice in wonderland or maybe you might read something else from it. that's up to you.
They've switched off all the lights
they're out to lunch
they've all gone to the party
they're having tea and scones
the hatter calls for silence…
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