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Tried to capture the spirit of the e.e. Cummings poem, didn't quite make it.
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This is for the couple that sat behind me while i was eating and were referring to everyone going into the Target next door as "sheeple".
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My attempt at a happy love song, the name is borrowed from an old tv show.
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A tribute to the man, inspired by a line in Bob Seger's Rock and Roll Never Forgets.
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A song about roads not taken, regrets, and a girl I knew in junior high school.
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I know, you think I've completely lost it. This is actually a cover tune. Originally done by Wall of Voodoo around 1979. I did it from memory and ear, so I'm not sure if I got the notes or the Key right. It don't matter though, It was fun.
I…
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A Dennis song.
Thanks to Mike for playing Drums.
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This is a gospel blues feel that evokes the emotion of the title.
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I recently bought the Imperfect Samples [Braunschweig Upright](http://www.imperfectsamples.com/website/samples/braunschweig/braunschweiguprightpiano.php) (Pro) sampled piano for Kontakt after falling in love with the sound of the demos.
I have…
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After hearing people day in and day out wish for the weekend, I felt the need to write a song to remind them that they were essentially wishing their life away. This music is funk/blues with a Meters feel.
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There was a time, when I stood in one place, and time, space, and place... stretched in all directions, and could be walked, or traveled. Returning to here I found, getting on with it, was completely different. After enlightenment, there is the…
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“Melodious compositions in dancing style for YOU!” - A.W.E.
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…
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Opening and preferred track for our 2010 RPM Challenge record (self-titled).
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This is the first song that was completed with vocals by Vinyette. It is inspired by a dream or nightmare really. The scene is set in purgatory, which happens to be a dark subway train running at full tilt into an abyss of track lighting. The…
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A tale of the lonely soul who is desperate to feel connection. The Asterisk Zero is the child who opens fire on fellow school children, with no understanding of the depth and complexity of the pain they are causing. This song is a soul searching…
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Some shun or dare not partake in the discussion of passing on from this life. Many search for meaning and fanciful places to reside, after their earthly shells have been left behind. This song is sweet reminder that ignoring and falsifying of…
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A fun romp in the toughest of neighborhoods. Follow the young girl who thrives on the dangerous and the powerful. This is for all the people who need to get into trouble to entertain themselves and get their adrenaline flowing. This song is…
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Paper Girls is one of those tracks which I wrote based on my experiences that I hope others can relate to in their own way. Soft, breathy vocals courtesy of Anezka Piska.
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The album kicks off with one of the gritter, darker songs. The amazing, gravely voice you hear is that of Linda Harrison.
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We move miles away from Bristol trip-hop and take a trip to Paris. This Daft Punk-inspire piece really allowed me to lighten up a bit during the lonely production stages.
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Once of City Steve and the Neon Lights. this was my first cover.
This song is done in the style of "the rake Song" by the decemberist. yeah. that just happened.
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The musician's anthem! This song hits on a Beatnik Turtle theme about not wanting to work (see our first RPM album: All In A Day's Work). Instead, all you want to do is bang on the drums all day. And yet, work, life, and the inevitable day job…
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This song's about that guy in the band who really can't play and just doesn't get any better, but pays for studio time, buys the gear, springs for beer, and owns the van. You always have to think twice about kicking the guy out with all the money!
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"There's a dude from Indiana rockin' real hard to Carlos Santana!" If you've ever been to Indiana, you'll know where this came from.
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This song's about getting reacquainted with your ol' guitar after neglecting it for a few years.
Back in 2006 our band started working on writing and recording music for our project, TheSongOfTheDay.com where we released one song for each…
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Inspired by the book Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks. An earworm (or brainworm as Sacks espouses) is that catchy melody that sticks in your brain that you just can't shake.
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I haven’t written something that was pure piano since the 18th.
I went into today’s session with the intention of writing something solely on piano, since I’ve had a couple of really draining sessions lately (mostly due to the fact that I managed…
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Track 1 on Tarbosaurus Antagonist. Written and recorded from February 2009- January 2010.
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it seems this is a year for trying new stuff(for me anyway) so here is a sort of jazy breaks thingy (jaz with one z cos its not quite jazz)
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The execution is not perfect, but the concept works.
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This Track is Part of an Anti Gang/knife Crime initiative that is running in an East London School.
The Pupils will make tracks Similar to this during the course, to try and send a message out..
To stop Youth Violence......
Wish us luck
Peace…
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Post RPM Challenge song about one of my favorite drinks to whatever lyrics I wrote that was written after rpm 2009 but never recorded. Recorded guitars one day and added vocals the next. Cool tuning of B-A-D-G-B-D.
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Sometimes you just look at your capo and think... hey, I aint used you for a while - its rough and sloppy but hey... just like me!
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Track 12 from my 2010 RPM Challenge Album "King Astro" written and recorded entirely in February.
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Track 11 from my 2010 RPM Challenge Album "King Astro" written and recorded entirely in February.
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Track 9 from my 2010 RPM Challenge Album "King Astro" written and recorded entirely in February.
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In 5/4-time, in case you're wondering what's wrong with it.
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Archtop Guitar, electric guitar and Roland vocoder. Drums are BFD2 and a tabla I picked up that week at a thrift shop.
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Last song of RPM album. I'm particularly fond of the last ten seconds. :D
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Lyrics by Brian McCloskey in somewhat of a suprise collab. Musically a kind of feel-good soul-pop. I quite like how this turned out, and nominated it my prefered RPM-track this year.
New version uploaded 12 Dec 2010.
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A song celebrating the animator for The Teller of the Tale. Music is post-avantgarde neo-progressive rock.
New version uploaded 12 Dec 2010
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This is the 3rd of the trio of UU auction songs. A love song was requested, so I wrote one based on my wife's favorite china pattern.
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i just want to push through
but i keep seeing your favorite foods.
i can't get you out of my head
so i bring up some sweet epitaph
and when i said i would love you forever i meant it
but now i also love someone else
and i need to stop living…
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life is always better with a little bit of tension.
i think that we will make good friends
because my life’s complex
and you’re already taken.
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I wrote it for a friend of a friend. It was originally about a woman, but although I liked the music a lot, the words didn't quite satisfy me. On a whim, I changed a pronoun here and there, and the song became a story.
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i sat and i thought and i'm blocked
how did anyone ever put up with my arrogance
i sat and i thought and i'm blocked
i hope you got something positive out of this
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I was thinking about Haiti...
i don't know what to say
i don't know how to feel
when i'm way over here
and things are going well
my house is standing still
my friends are still alive
the smell of spring is in the air
and i just can't connect…
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Publicado bajo autorizacion y sin animo de lucro. www.carranga.org
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One of only two tracks on the album where loops were used more than instruments, or at least as much.
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Publicado bajo autorizacion y sin animo de lucro.
www.carranga.org
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Publicado bajo autorizacion y sin animo de lucro. www.carranga.org
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3rd track for 2010 RPM Challenge. This song has been kicking around for well over a decade but was never recorded.
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One night I was seated in a lounge chair in my back yard when the thought ocurred to me. This is nice, but is this all there is? Is this the reason I work? Is this the reason I pay bills and worry about the future and make sure my kids do their…
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Album: The End of Happy Endings
Year: 2010 (RPM)
Written by: Marc Poirier
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An instrumental that sits in the middle where your grandfather would have been turning the LP over to play side 2
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Men don't collect dolls. They collect action figures.
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This was made with the help of the dinosaur-obsessed Laura Turner who wrote the lyrics, and Chris Harrison who played the blistering guitar solo \m/
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written and recorded for rpm 2010. cute boy - ally.
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A song about my friend's daughter, who knows how to get my attention. She's a real gem.
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Like a Persian rug, only less cosy on the feet. Watch out for shamanic encroachings!
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Inspired by a perfect day in Clevedon, North Somerset.
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One serious track. It's not like me at all, but there it is.
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another lullaby type piece
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It seems that any time I feel confident about being able to continue doing a song a day, I jinx my next day.
Like last night, I made it known that I was probably going to continue with song a day in March, whilst…
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A billboard is no place for advertising some sort of spiritual message. I call it thieves in the temple if you ask me.
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This is one of the tracks that ties into the theme from my RPM 2009 album [Like A Dark Mirror Keeping Its Secrets].
A fall from grace. Every up has its down. Every down has its up. There's definitely a "ying and yang" thing at work here.
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"Jenny Blue" was originally supposed to be the album closer, but this track seemed like a nice outro.
(Definitely Tangerine Dream worship on my part.)
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Sprachgeist is a German term meaning the "spirit of language".
This one ties into the theme from 2009's RPM Challenge Album. (Like A Dark Mirror Keeping Its Secrets).
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Full name is "The Morphing Architecture Of The New England Vatican". This is another RPM 2010 track.
I have weird dreams where your average New England city is juxtaposed with some holy Old World locale. The music and lyrics arose from that…
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A Song About an old Saying......
Sh*t Happens......
Lyrics
T.Mokbul 2010
-In A Day-
Half a Glass of Gasoline
Mixed with Some Kerosene
Stirred in with Coffee
Laced with amphetamine
All That it Takes in A Day
To get by…
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Low-frills bass and piano piece. Not my usual fare (whatever that is), but still fun to create.
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Standing, waiting, shivering, waiting, hoping, waiting, crying - all the while being cruelly mocked by the passage of time, and my analogue watch. It was not a very nice night.
Peter Fedofsky plays the piano on this song.
If you could…
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Part 2 - Courtroom and Sentencing.
Courtroom.
In which Angela cross examines the accused and his accomplice.
Sentencing.
In which Judgement is passed.
Call the first witness
Make you take the stand
Raise up your right hand…
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Jess wrote the lyrics for this one, and unlike when I write lyrics, they speak for themselves.
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This song is a meditation on the concept of freedom.
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This is from the live recording last night, which will comprise my submission for the RPM Challenge.
Ross Reitzammer, flute
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For String Orchestra. First performed in Grassington in North Yorkshire, a place of outstanding natural beauty.
This version is computer generated I'm sorry but it sounds ok!
Thanks
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Lorelei reaches her breaking point after years of abuse — via a failed attempt at an homage to Ennio Morricone (had he been Mexican).
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TRACK 7-Sudden Death---(instrumental) The sound of the utter chaos that can no longer be filtered from his thought process.
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“my jetpack” a floaty, atmospheric type piece.
Notes:
I’m not thrilled with the strings (the part that only shows up once in the piece). I need to blend them more. They’re too abrupt.
I think the “percussion” may get too loud towards the end…
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Track 12 from "They Are Killers" ... originally to be #11, but I decided this was a better one to go out on.
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Track 11... I have to stop writing parts that I can't cleanly play.
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A Halloween collab we did last fall that I thought was pretty cool. Designed to scare old ladies and make babies cry :) I love the way the song peters off in the end.
All tracks recorded with the Boss Micro BR, mixed with Audacity and mastered…
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Trying the distorted/clean guitar pairing... track 10 from "They Are Killers"
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Lyrics @ http://wave.transmit-music.com/softlikeyou.html
Wave 2010 (RPM)
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lullaby featuring piano (but of course!)
Notes:
Today I learned how to add an insert effect to the master channel. The song was way quiet so it got boosted via a limiter. Hurray.
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This is sort of a skeleton version of this song...I have an intro in mind, but don't have time to write it right now. So named because it's primarily in 7/4.
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It is all about love, isn't it?
Lyrics @ http://wave.transmit-music.com/loveengine3.html
Wave 2010 (RPM)
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That's as in Metheny and Mays, of course. And they I am not. But I still give it a go. These are the first two instrument tracks I recorded in this improv extravaganza: electric piano and electric guitar.
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How good it is when I feel whole, complete, not lacking anything at all.
And i feel this way when I am with you...
nothing needs to be said, i can just sit and be still.
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Not originally intended as an acoustic song...but I couldn't get the big riff at the end to sound right with big distorted guitars, and then I realized on acoustics it might sound like it had a little Days Of The New influence.
Track 9 from…
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The "chorus" riff started off with me trying to rip off "Shallow" by Porcupine Tree. Don't think I'm really in PT territory anymore though.
Track 7 from "They Are Killers"
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This one could use re-mixing, but I'm going to leave it as is for now. This should be track 6 on "They Are Killers."
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“Donar”, a title that’s an obscure shoutout to the German Reason users.
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This is a good place for me to be....it does me good to remember this.
God around me
God within me
there's nothing i need to fear
always remember you're here
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Love is a slippery beast.
Just when you think you've got a firm hold of it, it squirts out of your hands like a piece of wet soap and ends up somewhere in India on a spiritual quest for an obscure guru.
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well its been a while this is a divertion from my usual even "singing".... (not really happy but after about 100 takes i gave up and will go on to do something else n see if it gets better with time.....
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i think a lot about the responsibility we have to our descendants, but then i usually stop when i think about how annoying most people are... this song is both a cynical and a positive take on the human species.
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The last track from my RPM Challenge album, "The Loudest Silence".
The story is loosely based on something I read, but there's a lot of poetic interpretation involved. It deals with people who spend a lot of time staring at the stars - like the…
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An ebow strained thru octave pedal and pitch shifter.
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A Song about peace......
Lyrics
T.Mokbul 2010
Know
Maybe it’s looking alright,
But we know........
Maybe it’s looking alright,
But we know........
We don’t Want War....
We don’t Want War.....
In this land where children…
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Dedicated to my friend Paul Lennon.
Once You asked me
If I could see the end
It's okay to tell the truth
I don't want you to pretend
And I said I would not lie
But I don't believe it ends
It goes on And on Forever Forever
It goes on…
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This one features Treefrog "playing the wind" on a talking drum...
She’s like the wind
that moves through the night chasing ghosts
She sees the lights,
she sees the shadows and she knows
There is a difference
between the day and night…
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