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God pity the poor sailer out in a night like this
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learned from the Carter family, that just about says it all.
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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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There is more than a few side tracks on the road to health and happyness
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I wrote this song, in hopes of drawing attention for the need to get better hourly wages for Americas working poor.
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...almost a love song ... - ish. deal with it, and don't come to expect it from here.
Scent
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I can smell your perfume on my body
*scent of the chase i need what i want, this is on
Invigorating my sense of taste for your world
Making…
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It was busy down the cellar tonight.....someone slipped something into Reg's and Jim's drink........now their out there trying to find the gold for the mind from the other side..........we tried to stop them but you know what their like when they…
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A stretch ode to my favorite guitarist. Those of you more familiar with him will understand the reference in the title. Fahey paulstretched and manipulated.
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11th track off of 2nd album "Hidden Inspiration"
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10th track off of 2nd album "Hidden Inspiration"
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2nd track off of 2nd album "Hidden Inspiration"d
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Reg has re-leaved his inner thespian tonight in another reading........... this time........... The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge...Done in one take mistakes and all ......he hadn't come across this one since his school…
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With Frank Miller on drums and bass as the band "2" - a rescue of a late 90's song grabbed from 4-track.
No Place
I'm lost, you're lost
Ships at sea
There is no place
We can be
I'm lost, you're lost
In this world
There is no…
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Well reg was down the cellar last night watching re runs of Saturday night Live http://www.videolog.tv/video.php?id=503192 that Chris and Norm had sent him and they gave Reg an idea which John who sat quietly watching approved off..........it…
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A homage to Steve Hackett (who wrote this piece)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Hackett
This is played using John O'Sullivan's Blue JI tuning. Pianoteq and Kontakt didn't play nice together so I had add 4.81 cents to all of the flute notes.
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Written by Rog Hildreth.
Copyright 2011.
All instruments/production by Rog Hildreth.
Taken from "Fox Shoots Man", recorded for the RPM Challenge, February 2011.
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This one is live from the cellar last night...Unplugged recorded with one mic..so close your eyes and imagine me here alone on a wet Monday night in Sheffield in the cellar alone as Elvis and Jim had heard about an Happy hour round the corner…
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Had some minor drama.
Afterwards, I made this.
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This was inspired by some recordings of people's dreams on the Olympia Dream Phone site (http://olympiadreamphone.tumblr.com/).
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Reg has done a reading from Edgar Allen Poe's work The Raven for you this evening in one take mistakes and all ....he hopes the words wash over you with some understanding....it was a bit of a tongue twister
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"Don't mind me. I'm just in love with you. I'll try to stay out of the way..."
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Choices (midnight)
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Words don't mean anything
I've watched so many words burn down
Passionate things like good intents
most take them to their graves
Everything I've ever loved
It's all gone away
If I don't love you…
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Ya know, online collaborating is the greatest thing going since the trans-Atlantic cable.
The next best thing at least to actually being there.
ORH on the lead vocal and synth strings. Hoop on electric guitars, bass, robo drums, backing…
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It's funny but Reg doesn't feel the same when he goes back to his old hometown....He feels a bit of a stranger not just to the folks but to himself it's like he doesn't recognise his old self anymore ..........so Reg discussed this over with Elvis…
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Waking up beside your best girlie for the first time. You celebrate by having sex in bed. Hence the dramatic climax at the end.
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...with light emerging among the old branches, and staring at the nought.
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Remastered from 4 track circa 1987. The backing track was shoved into one track (drum machine, casio CZ-101 synthesizer bass, rythmn guitar) - the vocals are buried because I wrote a song that was way way too high for my range. The backwards-ness…
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Written about a bar called Sobels in Richmond, Va about '96-'97. Many shots on a Sunday afternoon led to this tune which is really a description of the bar itself. I'm on vocals/acoustic, Justin Lineberry on keys, Forest Young on drums, Chris…
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Written with a buddy of mine Chris Clark in 1991. Initially he had a great guitar part and a harmony vocals part that was better than what I did here. This was recorded @ Halvorsound all parts performed by Hook.
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Written for my wife but she really didn't like it. I thought it was sweet she thought otherwise. Recorded @ Halvorsound all parts performed by Hook.
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This was written for my 2nd daughter Ember,shortly before she was born.I'm very proud of the production on this one. It was recorded @ Halvorsound, all parts performed by Hook.
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It's not funny 'cause it's true. God's a very busy man.
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George Gershwin in 1926 composed 3 preludes for piano. George synthesized American Jazz and European classical music to make a very recognizable musical voice.
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3 layered guitar tracks, basically all just playing around with an open D chord. Some accidentally pleasing solo-ing in the middle there.
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From what I remember this is a very out of tune uke, a harmonica, a spinning coin, an egg shaker and a bird call.
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apologies to the fab four
scored for orchestral percussion, harp, harpsichord, dbl bass, string ensemble, men's choir and flute.
Interesting aside...
This is the only Beatles song covered by The Residents - because it is the only Beatles song…
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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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A tune by my friend Darrin Kobetich, I added some electric guitar. Check out Darrin's stuff, available in all the usual places.
http://www.reverbnation.com/darrinkobetich
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A friend of mine wrote a poem and asked me to make lyrics out of them. The lyrics are... [Intro] "The fading embers of the fire, which once burned in my heart, are slowly dying. And they will blow in the wind." [Chorus] "The flames have died…
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Come as you are, as you were,
As I want you to be
As a friend, as a friend, ‘cause I want you with me.
Take your time, but hurry up
The choice is yours, don't be late.
Take a rest, as a friend, for a warm memoria
Memoria [x3]
Come to…
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Reg has nipped down the cellar tonight to contemplate the big question...this is what he came up with ...he could be wrong who knows...and now he's going for a nice hot bath...............
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As usual an improvised live recording using a 2009 Custom Shop Stratocaster
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old skool but still dope new ACTiVE for ya ear!!!
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Oh bright morning star
Draw me to your light
How far do I have to travel
How many lonely nights
I don’t know where I’m heading
Just don’t lead me astray
In my search for tomorrow
Or for a better day
Oh bright morning star
Draw me to your light…
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stared out
feet of glass
they told me to forget
I looked outside for offering
and I still haven't lost you yet
and I still haven't lost you yet...
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Sea planes and the space race, dreams and destinies.
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This is a song I have just recently finished recorded over the summer in my basement using all live recordings of real instruments (intro vocals were recorded literally on a cliffside), and this is the first of more to come. It's a song about…
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recorded on this day one year ago in geirs hut in porsgrunn norway.
met are: Geir (geir alfsen)Guitar
osckilo (tharek mokbul)guitar
flash harry (mike fife) bass guitar and homemade tambourine
oldrottenhead (jim higgins…
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Song about jealousy and weakness
Lyrics
He's here again, still hanging around
He's getting closer, [this] new friend that you've found
You tell me to cool it, don't over-react
I'm finding it hard, with the men you attract
I've seen…
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I've been thinking about lost time and if you can make up for it...
LYRICS:
Hey there
How do you do?
Allow me to introduce myself
Before
I think I knew you
Wondered if you were doing well
The things we left behind
were never led astray…
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Reg will just not listen not only have Chris and Norm told him but Elvis Jim and Louie all had the same advice..Forget her....move on but he is going against all the advice. He just can't get Desirea out of his mind, he loves her. He's trying…
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Third of possibly four songs written either just before or during Hurricane Irene's visit to New England. This one seems a little too busy and the mix feels funny, but I think it would be fun to play live if I ever get myself back into a band.
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This is a song some 15 years in the making. The original 4-track cassette tape tracks laid down in 1997 - and this past year Frank added bass and drums. Its my fault on how there are still rough edges - that is the result of how I did things…
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The trees turned blue
And the sky outside is yellow
I hear you sigh
While you dream of purple cellos
I don’t in dream in colors baby
nor in black and white
and I can’t tell what’s up or down
or wrong and right
You turned blonde
When I thought…
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Geas sent me this tune for National talk like a pirate a day so we took it down the cellar and luckily Robert Newton was down there so we got him up on the stage and got him to do this little number......Hoping Yee enjoy eye arrh…
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Chris sent me the the track this afternoon and i took to it straight away and threw it down the cellar to see what would happen and Frankie Zee quickly scribbled the lyrics and Reg sang it or should i say spoke it straight in one take because…
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There are 3 styles of the Rumba Guáguánco pattern: this one originates from the Cuban province of Matanzas (to the east of Havana).
“Rumba” is a Spanish term for a gathering of musicians, singers & dancers (what West Africans refer to…
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Just a very rough demo of a song I wrote for some friends.
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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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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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Composed by Debussy, arranged by me for
bowed piano
2 hang drums
2 harps
timpani
snare drum
cymbals
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Smile on the inside 101025 ERA s/h
Intro:
When it comes, down to it, only love can hold the answer
When it comes, down to it, only peace can set you free
I like to, smile on the inside, now that, everything’s groovy
I like to, smile…
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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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This one has caused quite a bit of discussion between us on how it should be mixed. Has anyone got an opinion because we would like to know how you would have mixed it, where would you have put the bass, piano, drums, voice, guitar etc. Any constructive…
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Tom came down the cellar this morning so Reg Regged up one of his tunes....... Straight out of the Micro Br i'm still trying to figure it out but it's coming..............
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You don't even know me - Skeen Remix 120611
Met you in a cocktail bar
That look you gave me from afar
Made me wonder if we'd share
A little fun and some Alpine air
Made me wonder if we'd share a lifetime
You're my life-line
I'd like…
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I bought a thing called an irig for the I pad and an app Amplitude ...i used the onboard mic on the ipad......the song is my version of take it easy baby it's been Regged.... I still have to work out how to mix it .........I did this while sitting…
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Back in December of 2009 I sequenced a number of tracks from Bill (http://alonetone.com/acid ) and didn't release this alternate mix. If you like ambient you may enjoy this. Creative content by Bill, production by me.
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the day just got a little bit different from the day before. it's all going to hell in a hand basket and whoopee! we are all gonna die!
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Revolution in their minds - the children start to march
Against the world in which they have to live
and all the hate that's in their hearts
They're tired of being pushed around
and told just what to do
They'll fight the world until they've…
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My first attempt to write a song for the autoharp, and of course play it on the autoharp.
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A quickie improv on the Taylor.
DGDGBD capo II
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Otherwise known as the Permian-Triassic extinction event.
reference
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2002/28jan_extinction/
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Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free
'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
When true simplicity…
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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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Well, I sent this simple little arrangement off to Jana to see what he thought it needed. When he suggested a uke, I said "Go for it!"
He was right... Can't thank him enough for his contribution.
HERE WE ARE TODAY
How can it be so…
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Well Reg has been singing this one with Elvis and he has turned the classic Beatles song into a lullaby......hope you enjoy......... if you stay awake that is.................
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Well, I switched the mic to high sensitivity instead of low. It actually sounds as it did when I played it. But looking at the waveform it resembles a sausage. I had to drop the volume 6 Db because it was *way* loud. Clipping tends to make…
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This is my first take on my song 'The Winds Of Change'. I have been listening to it as of late.
And, I believe i prefer it to my take 2...
So I'm putting it on my new cd 'What?'.
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Guess who came down the cellar last night Reg and Elvis got up and did this one for him...........
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Reg is feeling a bit uneasy about his new love......is she getting too close too quickly......only time will tell....should he stay and feel the love?............
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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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Reg had a bit of tiff with the Mrs so he stormed down the cellar to release his anguish with Elvis and turned it into this little beauty .....now he feels a lot better and is making Mrs Reg a nice cup of tea to say sorry....because lets face it…
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Jazz & trance piece with vocal
Whisky Ran Dry
Original
Well it's late in the evening
And the whisky ran dry
I'm still here writing this letter
With a tear in my eye
But the words don't come
And there's nothing
Nothing to do…
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Queer as in "strange". A few multi-tracked apps. There's a short sample of a Chris Vaisvil guitar piece in there somewhere,see if you can spot it.
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Now listen
She knows where to go
She makes me glad
Takes my hand
Oh, on my way
Now she's mad
No, She's not mad
She states fact
as I lack
Oh, on my way
She lifts me up
Now I'm on my own
I'm home
She sits aside
I go inside
Long gone
This listless…
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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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Well it's a rainy day and Reg is feeling lonely..........
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Some kind of rap-music. Made with a little bit tongue in cheek approach. I've filtered the rap artists voice so much that i'd rather leave his name unpublished.
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I declare my ADAT 8-track to officially be a dinosaur. Welcome to the 21st Century.
This is the first completed song written and recorded entirely in GarageBand. I started it last night and finished it this morning. The rhythm guitar is my…
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Apologies to Peter and the rest of Genesis - from back when they were good - 1974
And the lamb lies down on Broadway.
Early morning Manhattan,
Ocean winds blow on the land.
The Movie-Palace is now undone,
The all-night watchmen have had their…
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I give up! I totally bit off more than I was willing to chew. Three things. One, I wanted a song to hit 10 minutes. Two, I wanted to record a song in sections and then edit them together later. Three, I wanted to program something in 7/8…
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This is about everyone in my family being on the same page about how to go about dealing with some scary health symptoms a loved one was showing.
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The rhythm guitar is a scratch track. Can't you tell?
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The rhythm guitar is a scratch track. Can't you tell?
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This is an expirement. I started this song during my first RPM Challenge attempt in 2007. All I had recorded was the rhythm guitar, bass, and the drum program. I want to start using garageband for my recording but I had never gotten around…
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Another one from my ambient crackpot series.
This features two instances of my new instrument the Novaphone 340 Imperial. A grand name for a grand instrument (Xylo just didn't do it justice).
The first Novaphone is playing three samples…
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I wrote this song as a class project for "Quantum Reality and the Spiritual Quest" at the U of A. My basic idea behind it was to try and relay the wave/particle duality of light through musical terms.
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latest mix, still needs another guitar line and vocals, but almost there.
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I stole this corny song from some kid on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b751fEPnYg
I had to get it out of my head. Now hit pause and go play the real corny song by some kid on youtube. Then it will be stuck in your head and you…
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