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Re-uploading a new version of this one. I think it's done now.
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Thought I'd share something from my latest project: Putting together instrumentals of public domain songs to use as intermission music for a community theater production. We got dinged for streaming copyrighted music in our previous production…
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Are we friends? Or are we lovers? Can't we be both?
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1st track from new album LOFI MOJO Vol. 1. A little blues to start it off!
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A new track I am writing. I am calling it 'Leaving the Bleak' for now.
Not sure where it is going but I like it so far. it's a song to symbolize leaving behind my past and focusing on the future.
Updated and added 2/3 of the bass guitar 7…
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Happy 43rd birthday to "Boys Don't Cry," released on June 15, 1979.
Here's a simple and dirty acoustic cover version, recorded somewhere between Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 (I think...). I wasn't feeling well at the time and my voice was shot…
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Rough DRAFT of a new Malignant Inceptions song
This song is written with two guitars in slightly different tuning. Not a huge difference but it’s been fun, and I think it sounds cool.
One 6 string tuned to D Standard(432Hz), and the other…
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Another PD piece, new way of thinking, some new ideas that are evolving from interests in eurorack and other influences.
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this song has a video of me making this song -- it is processing at youtube I will post that video here mmmmm Now yeah I have the link just it will not play till some post processing future date --- is ok,.. like now this video is up-
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This song sets a breathless pace. It's about a girl who dances everyone else under the table.
Lyrics:
Dancing through the crowded room
A silver band in her hair
Weaving, whirling, on her toes
There's music in the air
A lover taps his…
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Last Snow Strom for the Southern U S,
a lil porch tune here comes spring
we wish you some long awaited sunshine
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Digital Sea is an ambient generative music piece written in the Pure Data programming language. It is constantly changing, circulating, and flowing.
The program written to record this piece is capable of generating a unique, endless performance…
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The Feast - A A J Russe
Written 26th September 1985
Recorded 3rd March 2022
The Shoebox Demos Vol 1
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This one's been sticking out of the shoebox for a long long while. It always shows up in a list of maybes. And it did this time…
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Why are you starting with the LAST song on the album? What is wrong with you? Act like a normal human and go listen to track #1 "Broken Man" and then track #2 "Two sides to Every Story." Tracks 4 and 5 are untogether and are still works in progress…
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Sky is black as pitch now
Moon as blood is glowing
In this blood-soaked hellscape
As you might expect there is a presence
Out of the grave
Out of the night
Out of your mind
One’s a mass of maggots
One’s underwear’s showing
All of…
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Heard you spent a fortune making a
Return on investment - selling a
Book about a fortune making a
Said it nice
Heard about misfortune - frankly it
Soaked all my absorption - laying there
Furious misfortune - frankly it
Said it twice…
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And I build a rainbow
All our lights shimmering
All the time we share is true
All our hearts glimmering
Beats reverberating sound
Send a hope to the sky
Feel it echo back to you
Share a piece of your light
And I build a rainbow
We need…
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Lead guitar by the generous and amazing Antön Samförd. Thanks, Andy. All else performed by Demetrius Hill.
Broken Man
Music and Words by Demetrius Hill
©2017 Demetrius P. Hill, All Rights Reserved
Hey… I know a way to come back from the…
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Take him on
The scrabbling spree
Words like grotto
Ended month
Ending nowhere
Catch him up
We found the key
Last year’s motto
Brazen son
Ending nowhere
Enter the scene
You’re spoiling for a red nose battered
One two three
Say it…
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2022 RPM Challenge song number 19.
Go to the head of the class, dude. I said that song #18 was the best song of the bunch but now here is song #19 taking the title and squashing 18 like the proverbial grape.
In other words, I really like…
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2022 RPM Challenge song number 18.
I still have two more songs to mix but as of right now this is hands down my favorite of the batch (spoiler alert, I think I might be saying that about the two songs that are left as well). Usually when I…
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I wrote and recorded this song for RPM 2022.
It was the first song I wrote about Covid, inspired by my partner's office going down with the virus.
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2022 RPM Challenge song number 16.
This one is all right. I'm not quite ready to say it's a lock for making the final album but it's close. If nothing else, the rhythm guitar part is fun to play and the vocals are nice and shouty.
I used…
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The second song started for the 2022 RPM Challenge is the second song finished. I'm sort of working off a first in first out queue this year. I didn't plan it that way, but that's how it's going.
I'm disappointed in this one. It's not a…
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022**
Song number 14
Written Monday 21st February 2022
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This is it ... FAWM's all finished for me... time for a lie down now.
There's still nearly a week to go, but I'm done, 14 songs written in 16…
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Track 2 of my failed RPM... just a quiet acoustic ramble.
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First track of my, now defunct EP RPM challenge effort. It has not gone well :)
Week 1 - road being resurfaced outside.... noise noise noise!
Week 2 - got some tracking done
Week 3 - Bad tooth infection needing extraction for week 4
Week…
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An epic song about bathroom remodeling. Written and recorded by request.
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So many things are going wrong
It’s been getting worse far too long
I cannot bear to look at you
You cannot do the things you used…
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"Begin Again" by Wilson Ng, written and recorded in February 2022 for the RPM Challenge.
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022**
Song number 12
Written Friday 18th February 2022
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I had NOTHING. I decided to rest today with so much time left and only 3 to do.
I had this title, but no... must... rest
However, Madame La…
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Some days I'm the preacher with my head up in a cloud
Some days I'm a gentleman who does my mama proud
But some days I'm the creature who just arrived from Mars
And some days I'm the futurist who drives electric cars
Some days I'm the…
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022**
Song number 6
Written Friday 11th February 2022
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I was meant to be resting and chilling.
In fact, I was resting and chilling.
But then I got a message from Lala saying she was listening to the…
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022**
Song number 5
Written Thursday 10th February 2022
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What can I say? Mrs R likes it.
I knew she would.
Scheduling-wise, songs per day, I've now caught up with having missed the first 5 days of…
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022**
Song number 3
Written Tuesday 8th February 2022
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So, here's today's little ditty.
(I don't know whether folks outside the UK would know what a Chelsea Bun is. I love them, they are extremely yum…
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Song 2 for the RPM Challenge. Wrote this at the piano and then had fun trying all sorts of spontaneous vocal harmonies. Switching time signatures for the chorus made for some challenging recording!
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Sunshine fill my soul
Let the blues be the first to go
Sunshine can’t complain
If life shows us a little rain
Chorus
Sunshine through the window
At first morning’s light
All the stars fade away
When sunshine gets so bright
When sunshine…
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Song 1 for the RPM Challenge. Wanted to feature an incessant base line inspired by The Smoke.
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The Quarantine Tunes thing is definitely scraping the bottom of the barrel. I am supposed to be pulling songs from old recording projects and updating and (theoretically) improving them. After five rounds there isn't a whole lot left to use…
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The unsuccessful RPM Challenge in 2009 had two songs that weren't disgustingly bad. I uploaded a version of one the other day. This is the other. Nothing really noteworthy here. I had a new harmony on the first chorus that I during the mix…
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It's getting silly now. I haven't finished Quarantine Tunes Volume 5 (actually, volume 50/90) and here I am uploading the first song for Volume 6. What a moron!
I am scraping the bottom of the barrel as far as the quality of songs to be re…
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I forgot about voice memos until Kavin did one. So here I take a snippet of Shane's synth idea and let Apple provide the backing.
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Second OP-1 track. Very much an experiment and practice, but I'll keep uploading them to keep a record, and force myself to be as thorough as I can.
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live at Ripy Fest 2021
Scott Price on electronically treated gong
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Live at RipyFest 2021
Scott Price on electronically treated gong
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For the Sound-In event Cold Rain and Snow..
Pray for our power grid
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Highway 75 runs north from Dallas up into Oklahoma and God knows where. I have ridden than highway many times on my Harley.
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Well this one goes straight to the garbage pile. It's not the worst song of the month but I would be pretty happy if I never heard it again as long as I live.
Unfortunately I have to hit 29:09 to qualify for National Solo Album Month and…
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Heres a story of a cold cold house
They walk by
Trying as they do to catch a glimpse, of life inside the cold, cold house
But the dark of the windows only reflect themselves
Their enquiry is rejected
The house keeps its secrets to it’s self…
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This is a cover of a song written by my songwriter friend Mike Miller. I always thought he brought a unique perception to his writing. He gave permission for me to cover the piece. You can check him out at:
https://www.facebook.com/steven…
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Another song for Quarantine Tunes Volume 50/90. I finished off the 2021 50/90 with a lot of crappy songs and a handful that I thought were worthy of a closer look. This one is fun. Nothing like bashing your head against some nice heavy rock…
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I found this Tangelwood guitar locally in a repair barn
its a parlor with 12 frets to the body
the top wood is cedar, this guitar can sing
I am sharing its beauty with you for free
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The story of Abel Blood's haunted grave. Some say on certain nights, the finger engraved on his headstone which normally points upward, will be pointing down. Is Abel inviting you to join him? Happy Halloween.
Recorded October 2021 - RPM Challenge…
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Bringing back a song from 2011 with a new twist. The song now has drums, bass, and an orchestral backend. This is hopefully part of a larger collection of me reworking older songs with orchestration.
Many thanks to Brian of A Beautiful Scene…
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Another one from the archives! Collab with glu from 2009 - I took his original guitar track and added vocals, then he remixed and made about four more versions, but this is my fave.
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Written July 2021
Recorded July-September 2021
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There are too many battles to fight in life, sometimes it's best to just walk away.
Written & recorded Aug 2021 as part of the RPM Challenge: Record Every Month Challenge
Remixed: Sept 25, 2021
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A live track, originally 37 minutes long, folded in over itself, with one half time stretched a bit.
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Can you hide in happiness
Can you disguise the sadness in your voice
Could you play only major chords
Can you hide in happiness
Choose a part of you to show
And no one around you can know
Just how deep the scars go
Can you hide in…
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I dreamed this song a while ago. Sort of a music circle in a pub. Lots of instruments and percussion and what not. I quite like it :)
(Bass, lyre, bodhran, bongos, shaker, 2 mandolin tracks, multiple clap tracks)
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Jam track or for meditation.
Trying out the iTabla app, added bass and guitar to the tabla/tanpura loop.
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Brian wrote a song.
Wilsun covered it.
Wilsun gave me his Garageband file.
I teamed up with a robot orchestra and we made this.
Hopefully Brian and Wilsun will like it.
Wilsun's cover: https://alonetone.com/wng801/tracks/leave-me-alone…
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Wrote this during the covid lockdown. Recorded by my son Jim with Pauline on vocals...recorded July 2021
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First new release in over 2 years...
This was originally inspired by a weird FX patch on my Blofeld, with the first couple minutes coming together in just a few days of work. It then sat untouched for the next two years, until I decided to…
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Cover version of the song “Leave Me Alone pt. II” by the excellent A Beautiful Scene, off their 2021 RPM album A Long Night of Radio Drama.
https://alonetone.com/abeautifulscene/playlists/a-long-night-of-radio-drama/06-leave-me-alone-pt-ii…
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Cover version of "Might Be a Sign" by the wonderful Keith Landry from his 2014 RPM album Objects in the Mirror.
https://alonetone.com/keithlandryacoustic/playlists/objects-in-the-mirror/might-be-a-sign
Go check out his original version.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jindalee_Operational_Radar_Network
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Live at GrackleLive!fest
Mark Cook - MC505, Warr guitar
Kavin. - guitar
Mike McGary - keyboards
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After many months, the return of the Grackle Live Straw Drawing improv jam!
Darrin: percussion,gtr
Mark: 7 string gtr
Kavin: gtr, percussion
Rek: acoustic gtr, percussion
Matt: percussion
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After many months, the return of the Grackle Live Straw Drawing improv jam!
Darrin: percussion,gtr
Mark: 7 string gtr
Kavin: gtr, percussion
Rek: acoustic gtr, percussion
Matt: percussion
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Me and Mrs Rottenhead nearly parted our ways, but we pulled through stronger than ever. Phew!
When you pull at that thread
And watch the world unfurl
Around you
Please don’t pick at that scab
Leave it well alone
Or it will never mend…
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Moog Subharmonicon
Drummer From Another Mother
Microcosm
As usual, one take, very little mixing.
(NOTE: this ended up not being the REM 2021-05 submission, came up with something I liked better)
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I lived in the Red River area of north Texas just south of Lake Texoma for many years. It's a growing area, like most of Texas now, but at one time it was the best kept secret in the state. Also the latest addition to the Cheap Peavey Blues.
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This is a single mono synth, in one take, doing everything at the same time (plus some external effects, also recorded live).
Just an experiment, first jam on the instrument, so it's a bit poor, but promising, IMO.
(EDIT: eq-d out the worst…
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RECLINER
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There's nothing much sadder
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Than an old brown recliner
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Waiting by the road in the rain...
(C) 2021 Royal T Music
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MISS HER
I hardly know her
But I miss her more each day...
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A real, real old one ........... from another Time & Space .......
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Back to the tremolo pedal for some seasonal melancholy
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Some stylistic things borrowed from AJFA, hat tip to the golden progression (Unforgiven, Fade to Black) with reference to James' fondness of harmony guitar. Lots of Guitars by Sean S.; Vox/drum machine/bass by Tom; Solo Guitar by Sean H)
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A collab with K.Davidsen, Dave Berry and Speed Demon (Gene) that I never put up but it's a cool tune and these guys rock so I floated it up to the cloud!
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I'll be honest... I was somewhat disappointed with my RPM Challenge 2021 effort, so I took it down.
I've remixed, and heavily re-edited this track, as it used to be a tortuous 13 minutes long.
I'm redoing another track as I was a bit slapdash…
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