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Among the special guests are Horkmeijer Springtail and his lovely choir of snow fleas providing backing vocals and the very doomed John LaSala on lyrics and lead vocals.
Under shoes:
issued dire adieux.
Too few legs:
the world's new filthy…
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Among the special guests are Horkmeijer Springtail and his lovely choir of snow fleas providing backing vocals, the very doomed John LaSala on lead vocals, and the great King Bandit and his mommy, Kate providing additional vocals. The very doomed…
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Created and performed at the whim of the tyrant Michael John Keegan
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ITS Just So Funny. wait till the middle, thats when it really takes off heh heh
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Rough and Slow acoustic version of the more poppy [lifeline glu and sudara collaboration](http://alonetone.com/doublemeanings/tracks/lifeline).
If you like 4 minutes of the same 3 chords, you'll LOVE this song.
Now that I have two microphones…
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Another downtempo and minimalist track from our debut album, this one even has some percussion ;)
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This is the title song from our debut album (also called “In My Mind”, duh). It's probably the most experimental track on the album, featuring spoken rather than sung vocals.
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a short exploration of the fugal possibilities of a chinese musical mode....
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Dedicated to the victims of the 23 day assault on Gaza.
Copyright © 2009 Tiago Castro Henriques, some rights reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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Another fingerpicky gospel instrumental. From the old days.
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I composed this track as a demo of my sampling project "The First Bulgarian Virtual Choir" some time ago...
I invited the famous folk singer Katia Georgieva to perform the live lead vocal.
www.audiogrocery.com
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When I was fascinated to play Eastern music on my white el. violin....
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this one i wrote for my baby. yea her. i wasn't listening to the headphones when i did the vocals because i had a headache hence.....
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It's a part of a documentary 15min. movie, I recently produced. The title of the movie is "Parvomaistora" - "The Grand Master".
Finally, I could produce the film about my father, who was a great inventor and blacksmith master - Ilia Kovachev…
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More vocalizing and mashing for the soundtrack for my artist friend's film, "Pattern Pattern." This accompanies a scene of lights flashing in and out of sequence.
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What happened after too much time on youtube watching live vids of "voodoo chile" Noisy obnoxious and very cathartic for me! Live to 2tracks with the Jamman
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One of the first electric jam things I did after getting back into recording about the end of 2006
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this is about a love revolution in the world not a false revolution on grounds of hate and self-interest.
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this is about the gun crime in modern london and how cheap life can be.
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about a woman of 40 still trying to act like a teenager, but the song has compassion and is not scathing.
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punk song written on the russian beauties in london.
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Imagine a Mexican quintette playing a fast waltz. There are 3 melodies played in 3/4 time, in a sort of non-standard ABCABC format. The title is a photographic/geographic/melodic play on words. There is a merging of European waltz and Mexican…
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Copyright © 2009 Tiago Castro Henriques, some rights reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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This song was inspired by Imogen Heap's rendition of Hallelujah and was originally recorded by jeff buckley.
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Rod Webber, Joey Slliks and Luke & Aaron Bellamy bring you sounds of love and death straight through the chip in the back of your neck.
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Rod Webber, Joey Slliks and Luke & Aaron Bellamy bring you sounds of love and death straight through the chip in the back of your neck.
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This is the first 100% Liz-written song! Hooray!
It's about a shitty party I went to on New Year's Eve. It sucked really hard. My bandmate MK was on antibiotics and couldn't drink, and this guy kept passing us by way too close getting his ass…
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Another of my kinda ambient things. Goes on too long and needs a melody, but was fun to get lost in while doing it
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somehow I always end up singing about lost love...
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A test run with my new Line 6 DL4 delay pedal. Recorded with a handheld mp3 recorder, hence the ambient room noise. The DL4 was fed into a BOSS loop pedal also. No overdubs, all on the fly.
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It is created between the cracks. it is amplified. if you listen, you feel the space between time. it is created in a life without time. caught in a shadow of light. nothing can exist here. but this does. it is beautiful. it is ephemeral. it is gone.
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Traditional Irish Reel - Released on the companion CD to the book "Heart of a Mother." Guitar, penny whistle, accordion, drum loops.
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Trad (Reels) - a couple of session tunes. Mandolin, guitar, penny whistle.
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We are still working on making some words for this song. We like to make up silly titles for songs before we have the lyrics, so the title is just kind of random. Liz does everything on this track, with the help of Garageband.
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Spaghetti Party was our first foray into recording a complete song. MK came up with the idea of writing a song about her friend/co-worker who has "spaghetti parties" which involve him lying on his back on a couch in the basement by himself shoveling…
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From Alex B's Beat Tape Volume 1
www.alexbeats.com
www.1320records.com
www.myspace.com/pnuma
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its basically like putting cake in the toaster
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I thought the hand claps were a bit weird but I wasn't running this dog and pony show. See more notes under "red cowboy" and "I left my toothbrush in St. Louis".
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This was a sort of vignette of the various ways we might travel across the United States: automobile, trains, and planes.
Composed for winter percussion - the indoor percussion equivalent of marching band, with a dash of theatrics.
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Flow is all around us, and sometimes there is a lack of flow. This show explored the different facets and associations of flow.
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the most awesome thing ever recorded by anyone, anywhere, at anytime in the entire history of recorded things. It's true.
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this is a song by my niece Clara. She's 4. the lalalala's are Noah's (6) contribution.
Recorded Christmas day 2008.
Happy New Year all alonetoners!
glad to be here.
t.
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A simple 3-part "round" or canon with variations, showing my children how you can devise a melody that can stack on top of itself like offset puzzle pieces, which will then make its own harmony (with a nod to the master of rounds and fugues, J…
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This song was written to celebrate freedom, actually, (the Russian at the end is one of the dudes from Freesound.com saying "sound should be free!") after a decade when I wasn't. Props to Shreya, who apparently is like me and will just not go…
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This was the first song Shreya played me, and she said it came to her in a dream, and I believe it. It's flooring, and her vocals/acoustic guitar are relatively untouched. I added the other virtual instruments, and if you listen carefully, you…
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The sad part of a violent robot operetta. SPOILER: the robot dies.
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this is a poem by Herman Hesse.
its a pretty simple poem but it means a lot to me.
its my first song in another language.
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More of a demo of an idea than a finished song, here it is nonetheless.
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there are two reasons that i decided the cover this song of peters.
A. its easy B. it has a wonderful sense of irony
the strong things of this earth will be made foolish.
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their aren't many things that take "it puts me to sleep" as a complement. i think this song takes it wonderfully.
thanks jason for making music and letting me give it a try.
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This piece is my original almost-fugue-sounding arrangement of my favorite Ukranian “Christmas Carol”, Carol of the Bells, as if J.S. Bach had written it. Ingredients: Warmth, depth, complexity, eternal romance. Dedicated to my Belle. This was…
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Drive slowly and plan your route to ram into each of them.
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Alternate title: Gratuitous Love Scene
Just hacking around with these chords; added some stuff and before I knew it I had one of those bits of cheesy music that accompanies those gratuitous sex scenes...
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Answering the question of whether or not overdone reverb has been uncool for so long that it is now cool again. The answer: no, still uncool.
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This is a short prelude for piano and cello I wrote for my son
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A very old song that I should have heeded long ago.
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Another thanks to Desoto for giving this song some necessary atmosphere.
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After I finished collecting and mixing all the trumpet tracks from Montgomeru, I was no longer sure which one of us actually wrote this song.
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More Montgomeru on trumpet. The lyrics for this song were written by myself and Mike Connor back when we were Sloth House.
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a musical landscape,made of the noble sarod,played with bottleneck,and absynth..
passing from the known to other shores....
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for any one who has a friend or loved one that makes you hope for the best, and fear the worst... this song is for a friend that I have had a long dialog with(years)... he's very self destructive... you don’t care about winning the argument, you…
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it is a winter blanket of snow. it smothers life. it attempts to silence all sound. however, small ghosts of music escape. they always find each other. every winter they dance together. they are the notes of christmas past. 0x0
hw: quicksilver…
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This is the first real attempt at recording this properly and its got some way to go. It needs a guitar solo and vocoders and so on. But this is some of what I did in my 24 hour slot. I battled with my vocoders and lost :(
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The third installment of a series of reports I did for KUSC taking a closer look at the recording industry from a classical music perspective. A profile of the LA-based Yarlung Records.
Interviews with: Bob Attiyeh (Yarlung Records founder…
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One night after three month of no rain, as we were driving home from singing at Gringos in Grapevine a splash of water hit the windshield.
I said to myself, "Sweet Rain."
I went home and wrote the song. It's on the soundtrack of a movie called…
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...after reading John Steinbeck's IN DUBIOUS BATTLE and watching the John Ford movie of GRAPES OF WRATH. The opening and closing statements are quotes from the Preacher in the movie.
A friend said he wanted to do a video of this track. I…
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tomorrow i have sold my soul
i saw you, you were alone
i saw me, white as a bone
can we feel the distance as much as the empty hearts?
it wasn't too easy yesterday
i tried to talk to you, but my mouth was so sore
it burned with words that…
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one of 5 songs written in July 2005 re: an old bandmate coming to visit after moving away to Indiana. this is a true story.
remember me
when I slept with your wife
and you didn't kill me
remember me
when we played in that band
and toured…
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some think urkel was funny or stupid.
i know the truth.
he was living in pain.
now the world can know too.
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Just messing around with some amp tremolo and a drum loop.
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it is perhaps of Oriental origins. however, the pentatonic music becomes dysfunctional as it begins to fixate on two notes. it is almost humorous. it was considered a failed experiment. however, it is retrieved from the waste bin, as version 0x01…
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This is another song snippet from my experimentations with Reason 4.
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A remix my girlfriend Dionne came up with.
Part of “The big crash of '07” album. Which is a collection of mostly prototypes of songs that are lost because of a harddrive failure. C'est la vie.
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A mashup of “Bodyrox - Yeah yeah (Ramirez remix)” and “Bucky Done Gun - M.I.A.”
Part of “The big crash of '07” album. Which is a collection of mostly prototypes of songs that are lost because of a harddrive failure. C'est la vie.
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A failed attempt to sing a song of the glorious banana breakfasts served by P.P. in "Gravity's Rainbow"
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Pedal steel dreamscape and silly panic from the answering machine.
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24 hours of music making for 2008.
Yup. This is a "Gaiman variation" which means that I stopped at 24 hours and this is what I've got. Not 24 min, but it is a "Noble Failure"
You can see my 2007 album [here](http://alonetone.com/sudara…
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this is the first thing I've ever recorded on guitar. (or mountain dulcimer).
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The second installment of a series of reports I did for KUSC taking a closer look at the recording industry from a classical music perspective. A profile of the French/LA-based record label Harmonia Mundi.
Interviews with: Rene Goiffon (Harmonia…
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The first installment of a series of reports I did for KUSC taking a closer look at the recording industry from a classical music perspective. A couple of experts weigh in on the state of affairs in the classical record industry. How bad are…
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A rare interview with British composer Thomas Ades I did for Classical KUSC, Los Angeles.
Originally aired: 11/15/2008
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an exposition,traditional of the raga,bilaskani todi,transformed into a slightly ,dark ambient piece of music,exploring musical landscapes,with a scenario,as if for film music,which my pieces normally are.
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I do three things after waking up these days: I shower. I make coffee. I play this song and drink my coffee.
Nothing complicated. Nothing fancy. Just some basic fingerpicking to test my motor skills and bring some aural sunshine into my day.
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I was hesitant about uploading this one. It's really old and I hadn't listened to it in at least 10 years. I remember that at the time of recording it didn't come out the way I wanted but that I was ok (sort of) with the results. The vocals were…
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this was just a little doodle that was fun. someday i'll buy a mandolin and actually learn how to play it.
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MUSIC:
MR FUNKYMONK
LYRICS, VOCALS, MIX: Anne
YOU'VE GOT GIRLS
i told you once
i told you twice
you'd have to go
if you couldn't play nice
so tell me
have you been good
let's chat
i told you before
i made it clear
you keep on actin that way…
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One wonders what the source of fuel would be..
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The first track I built, back when I was still full of hope for this exercise. I'm not convinced the hope survived it :)
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There was a director who was so happy to show off his lead singer to the playwrite... she was young and beautiful and a talented singer... when he finally got to present her to the playwrite... the playwrite nodded, and smiled.. he told the director…
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This is it. The final shiny genuine complete done version of the Rob and Steve's Christmas single, Christmas On My Face (A Terrible Case Of Xmas).
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Just a funky song about the world, economy, what we want, what we have.
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While living in Seattle I knew a guy named Larry. Larry was one of the "pretty" people of the world and had most women drooling over him. He met and married Denise... Also one of the "pretty" people of the world. But Denise could not seem to…
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This is maybe the first track written entirely by This Caustic Autumn as a group effort. I'd been to see Sigur Ros play at Massey Hall in Toronto the night before we wrote this, so that's where the idea for the bowed Les Paul came from. Other…
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Just to set the record straight I wrote this song before the movie Wall-E came out. If you've watched the movie Wall-E my song is basically along the same lines of how humans have messed up Earth. It's not a happy song if that's what you are…
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The harder remix of a song I did together with my sister.
It's called the dirty mix because I have started working on it again after the crash, which means I'm layering on top of some mp3 bounces I had lying around :-)
I'm still aiming for a good…
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This one I might redo if I can ever find the spirit…
It wasn't that much work though, so it should be doable.
PS: Yeah that's me on the mic :-)
Part of “The big crash of '07” album. Which is a collection of mostly prototypes of songs that are…
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A fun song my brother, girlfriend and I made after hearing our sister in a musical singing about “the key to my heart”.
Part of “The big crash of '07” album. Which is a collection of mostly prototypes of songs that are lost because of a harddrive…
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"Vanishing Point" was an attempt to force myself to write a full song. I had been playing in Break Even for about a year and found myself completely unable to write music. I had just set up a nice little 8-track studio (sort of) at home and I…
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This is a clip from our show on Friday 28th November. It's just a taster of what the Rob and Steve Christmas song might end up sounding like. There are a few wayward vocals and off-beat bell-jangles, but you get the idea. It's called "Christmas…
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This fantasy was composed for a guitar several years ago. Later I arranged it for an orchestra. I tried to reach the baroque sound.
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