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Art work by Stef http://artbystef.com/ferrets3.html
Norm's percussion and a couple guitar tracks by me.
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I'm obsessed with this tune (actually, just few notes, but...), and I cannot get rid of it, at least for today. At least for all these days...
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jqscutt posted the acoustic guitar track looking for ideas, not sure if it turned into the genre he was looking for :)
The auuuggga horn sound was another classic unplanned phone interruption during the vocal recording but it seems to fit in…
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For the daughters of two of my favorite people.
Bonfire Lullaby
Dannah studies my hands while I play
With heavy eyes at the end of a runaround day
Fading fast ‘neath a summer night’s sky
No need to wonder why
Time stands still in her…
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It'd be a single, if we ever stood a chance of being on the radio.
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12th track off of 2nd album "Hidden Inspiration"
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Cubase 5
EZDrummer DFH
Superior Drummer 2.0
Trilogy
Guitar Rig 4
Amplitube 3
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I heard M.T.C's Session 1 today and thought wow!!! so asked if it was ok if i could jump on for the ride..Jim said Ok! .......so here goes.........a song about loves dream being broken.........thanks again Jim...................based around these…
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Live in the Living Room cover of Hawkwind's Master of the Universe
Done for the Songcrafters.org fest Live in the Living Room, I made this recording in one take. Which isn't how I usually work. My guitar was put through fuzz and distortion…
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Publicado bajo autorizacion y sin animo de lucro. www.carranga.org
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guitar and piano jam over some loops and spoken words of "veins of evil" written by me
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Apologies to George and Ringo.
voice
12 str guitar
5 str bass
piano
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10 Earwigs Invasive is an synthesizer solo
which was created for the ImprovFriday “Creatures!” event.
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Photo by David Shankbone CC BY
Details here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1392
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Recorded for the Songcrafters.org fest, Live in the Living Room. Cover of the Doors classic, recorded live in the - uhh - bedroom. I played my Telecaster on neck pickup through my Danelectro Cool Cat V2 fuzz and my Biyang AD10 analogue delay.
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spontaneous looping madness with voice and quirky recording device.
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Duet nr. 02 on jew's harps: stevenstoop and danibal
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The original way it was written and originally written for my band, Nail of The Sun. A version showed up on my album demos for "Cryptical Condition" as the song "Transitions".
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Details here for the curious:
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1380
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Nowhere To Run, original composition. Nowhere to Run i'm pretty sure not hitting theaters and everywhere else 2012, hah, now is the time to PANIC.
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Reg adds much better vocals to the backing track.
I dreamed I met a Galilean;
A most amazing man.
He had that look you very rarely find:
The haunting, hunted kind.
I asked him to say what had happened,
How it all began.
I asked again…
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She hangs a little garden
so everyone can fit in her yard
when it's time to take tea
fills it up when they're walking about
they really knew how to twist and shout
and they're always going back that way again
rents a flat with his sister…
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Oh hai. This is Bryce!
I have a cold today, but on the brightside I conjured up a song!
Yes :3 I do realize the vocals are a tad quiet; I apologize for this! The next song will be better. I promise you that.
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Please see the blog page for the complete blow-by-blow description of this collaboration with drummer / composer Peter Thoegersen
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1361
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Left here smilin' but you came back mean
Ain't no need to tell me, I know where you've been
Ya tell me you love me, an' you really care
an' if you just had some more, you'd be happy to share
You came back wantin' once you'd lost in all…
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The passport, acapulco and finding out about the affair with Reg was the final straw ithe saga of Desirea and Reg is finally over Reg has drawn a line in the sand and stepped over it. It over and done he washes his hands of her. So he went out…
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I recorded this back in 2009, and shelved it because I wasn't sure I'd done the song justice. Here it is, mistakes and all.
Written by Nick Drake.
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heh... I guess I forgot to upload this one.
This track is basically a sort of Middle Eastern style rock, with flavors from the land of Termina. The song closes quite powerfully if I might add.
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Impossibly simple tune comprising only two-fingered chords, aka the McCartney challenge. Conceived and recorded in an hour between two grueling sessions of hedge-clipping the massive (16ft tall, 35ft long) privet hedge in my backyard. I think…
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The part you solo over came out a measure short, had to improvise....
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performed by Randy Johnson.
from the album "Sunny, sorta..."
sunny sorta, in a twisted way
to see you praying all together
with your greedy little eyes
all staring at a prize
that is so very far away
sunny sorta on this ungrateful day…
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This is an improvisation I did live on ustream - but the audio quality was horrific - fortunately I had recorded everything in Sonar so I used Sony Vegas to make this into something listenable. Since the frame rate was messed up (you can see…
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This is my contribution to the Angie Fights Crime project titled "Sunny Sorta"...." It's 12 songs written by A.F.C. and performed by 12 different artists.
I chose Honky Tonk Prison because I knew it would rock and roll :)
So CRANK IT UP…
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Sometimes you need to stay up late to try to force yourself to dream.
When I wrote this song (and started singing it a bit), I knew that my voice could never give it what it needed... So I turned it over to one Sister Savage... And she did…
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I can't remember her name. I saw her at Kerrville back in 2005. A little blond that always wore a leather cowboy had, played keys and wrote music for movies. (Someone remind me.)
COULD SHE KNOW
Could she know I think about her
Thinking…
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Image from Katerina Art - click on image to view more work by this great graphics artist. If you follow the link you will see that she has dedicated this image to the victims of 9-11. Katerina of course owns all rights to her image and is not…
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The first of the next album!
Check out the video that features a bunch of equally disturbing imagery I drew.
Lyrics:
Darkness consumed me
All you need know
Darkness became me
It's all I ever grow
Darkness is me
All I seed and all I grow
Darkness…
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short drone piece for ImprovFriday APOD theme challenge (scoring an astronomy pic)
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Fuzz bass didn't sound too bad on this, original is mostly synth, but I really like the song.
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I had this mellow tune hanging around when I heard "Love is Life" by The Two Regs and thought I need to catch the other Reg while he's around.
Lucky for me he had the time, the voice, and the melody. We created this lovely tune.
I was electrified…
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I have loopitus. it's contagious so be careful.
I'm having fun with it. Like puking in the toilet and pretending I'm driving a school bus.
It's fun.......
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I just got myself a new toy called Maschine. Maschine is a "Groove Production Studio." So I guess that makes this my first groove product.
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possibly a full version for "pronounced : jez-my-us"...really love this band and like this song. It's just very far from the original. An adaptation so to say.
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i think the title says it all.....the easy ones from the Beatles music book........More Regged up beatles but no Elvis he has gone off in a sulk he never did like them and he thinks were doing too much of them.......
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ImprovFriday mash, 9/3 (feat. Vaisvil & Goodin)
something to do with the blues and the mystery.
be patient with it...
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Arrival is a song about charging into the breach. When you want something, you gotta go get it and sometimes this means going to places and seeing people who are more than willing to screw you over. So give as good as you get plus a little more…
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The opening track from the 2nd Xenharmonic Praxis Concert, Madonna, il poco dolce, written by Nicola Vicentino (1511-1572)in (31-tone extended meantone)
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Just a joke song we recorded back in 2004 for a friend...
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composed by Marji Gere
violin Marji Gere
kalimba Dan Sedgwick
vocal Ryan Stickney
fipple pipe Elizabeth Adams
The video below is the "official" video for the July concert from which this performance is taken. The larger August concert video…
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A solo electric guitar piece. Strat copy in 17 edo, Marshall amp, zoom H2 recorder.
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I'm a long-time fan of Imogen Heap. I particularly love the way she layers her vocals- harmonies and interlocking bits. I love trying to do the same in my music, but she owns it.
Anyway, I've been wanting to cover her for a while now but have…
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Backing track rough edit. Drum track is a modified ableton preset the rest consists of about 5 different layers that are all orignal.
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William Ramsey (me) - guitars and synths
J Shermer - drums
some loops added too
funkrock with a mad hip hop beat
I can see this one growing ever so huge later.
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This is a composition for Jazz Quartet – Tenor Sax (sorry for the unrealistic stray notes), fretless bass, piano, and drums. All but the drums were preformed on my Fender Mustang + GR-20 retuned on the fly by Fractal Tune Smithy.
The tuning…
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Here comes the rush
You feel it in your bones
And when your bones are crushed
You feel it in your soul
You just cant escape it
Its everywhere you go
Turn round and face it
Tell everyone you know
Ah, the rush
You've missed so much
Here comes…
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This is a video I made that uses heavily modified voice samples from the human lattice at the xenharmonic praxis summer camp and video footage from a cave I visited in Virginia. The piece is in JI since that was the point of forming a human lattice…
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Samples used in this tune from the NY subway this summer. Inspired by Dave Dunseath
3-12, just uploaded a new version of this with guitar- and some other changes
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After almost 3 months of work (collectively throughout this entire year) I've been working on something, really really working on something. I mean REALLY working. Now... a few months AFTER the 25th anniversary, I give you, The Legend of Zelda…
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I purchased a Simmons drum pad today - I'm not a real drummer - please be kind. It was on sale at Guitar Center $180 + extended warranty + sticks http://www.simmonsdrums.net/sdmp1/
The synth is my Fender Mustang + GR-20
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A mashup of microtonally processed music created by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen called imp_08_1 with video and video sound tracks by Chris Vaisvil
Jukka-Pekka's original
http://heliumheal.wippiespace.com/mp3/imp_08_1.mp3
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details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1086
Norm, I finally used my china cymbals like... cymbals. :-)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiprotonic_helium
Tuning:
Harmonic six-star, group A, from Fokker
16/15 6/5 32/25 4/3 3/2 8/5 48/25 2/1
A string composition played on Fender Mustang driving a Roland GR-20 that was re-tuned on the fly
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Alee- own - ee - rection.
It's got a mind of its own.
And when it comes, its gonna be the death of you all.
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This piece is composed in a mode of 15 equal notes per octave with scale steps:
2 2 2 3 2 2 2 (formal name) Fifteen-tone Miller's Porcupine-7
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And another one I didn't share from the same day. I must of been in a funk where it all sounded really bad. This improvisation concentrates more on melodic aspects of 22 edo though there are some harmonies.
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Here is something I had laying around that I forgot I did. A 9 edo improvisation with my Roland GR-20 + Fender Mustang combination. This will probably sound pretty foreign and / or out of tune. To me it sounds oddly funky in places like at 0:22
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I've been trying to think of some lyrics for this riff for ages.
Then along come Super Bethan, who also gave me the melody.
Many, many thanks.
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STEELY DANK DRUM IN THE SUN
AND THE TEMPERATURE IS GETTING HOTTER
GETTING HOTTER AND HOTTER...
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Further evidence of a creative dark patch. This is a mess. I like it, but its a big bloody mess.
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I wrote this after much experimentation, rewriting and scrapping complete sketches. It took a very very long time to do and many scrapped edits :)
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It Regs birthday tomorrow and he's in party mood already getting it on in the cellar....with James and the crew....ooooh yeahhhh!!!!!!
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I do have video of Jacob playing the udderbot with the band - but right now I'm still putting together my gear from storage and this was the best I could do with Windows Live movie maker on my laptop.
So for now - enjoy the sound of Jacob jamming…
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I took a week off work to do some music, and what with the riots, and a huge alcoholic binge having massively negative effects on my hedmeds, I haven't felt an ounce of creativity/positivity. rather pure misery. so i didnt even bother trying Monday…
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We forgot to mention that Reg visited Norm's place a little later and added some vocals. The video is a ride through the US state of Virginia. The Texas Tavern serves cheesy westerns (cheese, fried egg, burger, bun) in the downtown of Roanoke Va.
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Well, screw the metronome, damn the torpedoes, and grab a capo!
Sometimes the best versions are the ones played fast and loose. Hope you enjoy this song adapted from one of my all-time favorite poems (I'm a bit biased since my dad wrote it…
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Norm and I in a room at his house. See the video for the reason for the name.
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I was inspired by my friend's film project who is a film producer. She told me about an amazing woman in Thailand that has an elephant sanctuary caring for abused animals, even though she's being harrassed by the mob(underground ivory-trade industry…
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Other layers may or may not be in the works, but I thought I'd let everyone have a listen so far.
HERE WE ARE TODAY
How can it be so clear
In my mind
The first night you were here
Like going back in time
Sweet as summer wine
Your whisper…
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With a little help from some of the lyrics of the Doors descriptions of the uncertainty of the 60's Reg has decided to do a kind of Punk song from both sides about the trouble in England which seems to be igniting the youth to set light and loot…
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WE ARE JOY DIVISION HEADS SAME OL DISC MAN IN THE CORNER CANT PLAY FOR SHIT BUT WE CAN SHADOWPLAY CLOSER TO 50 THAN 49YRSOLD CHRIST I WISH PUBS LENT MONEY?
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Reg heard this collab (Quarter of a 60th Djörk (M.T.C.) and thought it brilliant, the music made it so easy to put the words to, a story of holiday romance.......with a bit of Tom Jonesing going on..........Thanks Djork and M.T.C for letting…
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Hard rock song about losing faith....
Lyrics:
I'M GOING DOWN
Sedate it with barbiturates
Inject it with a needle
Calm this stirring anger
That I always feel
Lord, where are you
You've mocked my every prayer
Everything around…
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Funny song about women who chase the thug life they see in music videos.
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Loop idea recorded during gig rehearsal. Room miked so you can hear me stomping on pedals.
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Dark dreams and long stretches of road separated us from our loved ones. We broke hearts and had our hearts handed to us in fragments. Win or lose it, in the soul, love is long.
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Well, it IS!
lyrics for my Italian friends:
We're gonna be there in your wake
mending the seams when they start to break
make you do what you said that you would
and other words that rhyme with good
once so close why let it go, baby…
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Hey friends, it's been awhile! I just got back from Alpharetta, where I managed to get a few short hours hanging with my good friend Treefrog. We recorded a whole bunch of weird noises & then decided to do at least one "real" song. This is…
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the most evil piece of jew's harp you have ever heard! one take recording with Szilagyi in F with distortion over a tiny guitar speaker.
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this soundpoem found his way as a ringtone of a mobile phone. still very awkward to hear your voice from the pocket of a friend.
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This song was not recorded on an acoustic guitar.
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you the listener/s have all the description in your ears this time.
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A collaboration of my original music
with Geoff Judges re lyrics and vocals
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plokken is a very quiet and groovy piece of jew's harp music with. you cn nearly taste the saliva.
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jew's harp duet with dutch jew's harp maker Steven Stoop. www.jewsharper.com
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a bit techno-like jew's harping. i like this stile of playing because it shows the instruments strength in rythmical patterns and ancient synthesized music.
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live @ Cafestival, Kargadoor, Utrecht, NL Jan 2011
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Live impro @ Cafestival, Kargadoor, Utrecht, NL Jan 2011
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very old track (1999), one of my first jew's harp tracks
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Inspired by the infamous video of Bangladesh Ambassador to Oman's speech.
Original video here:
http://unheardvoice.net/blog/2011/07/28/our-ambassador/
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Just messin' around with some sound
Noah and the Guardians of the Sky is a Wildgeas Sci-Fi ambient project.
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re-done this one, now titled from make me perfect to "Perfect Machines" for upcoming slew of demos for the new album "pronounced : jez-my-us"
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johny o;keith verses death at the pit when it was alright to drink n drive????
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normally would try to upload something like this to my Wizard of Drams account, but here it is on my original Jesmiaus account.
I remember listening to the vocal track after I recorded it and thinking wow I really do sound like I am singing…
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