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This was the second track for my 2009 RPM Challenge album "Relative Polyphonic Mutiny. It was written and recorded in an hour and a half in the middle of the night. Also the first time I ever played keyboards of any sort and there was no time…
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This song was written and recorded for my 2009 RPM Challenge album "Relative Polyphonic Mutiny".
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This song was written in 2001 but never recorded. I recorded this for my 2009 RPM Challenge album "Relative Polyphonic Mutiny".
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This is a pop country song written in the mid 90's but never recorded and I recorded it for my 2009 RPM Challenge album "Relative Polyphonic Mutiny".
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This is my big production number from my 2009 RPM Challenge album "Relative Polyphonic Mutiny" that features Philly rapper Marvelous. It's a rockin uptempo affair that has a beat you can dance to.
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This little song was written and recorded for my 2009 RPM Challenge album "Relative Polyphonic Mutiny".
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This song was written and recorded for my 2009 RPM Challenge album "Relative Polyphonic Mutiny". There have been a lot of tributes to the funky soundtracks of 1970's porn, this is my homage to the tender side of 80's porn. Longing? Yeah, the well…
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This song was written and recorded for my 2009 RPM Challenge album "Relative Polyphonic Mutiny". It is a waltz about a moment in time at my Mother-in-Law's house in the style of an Irish Folk song. Rudy is her dog. With a name like Vincent Tomasso…
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This song was written in the mid 90's but never recorded so I recorded it for my 2009 RPM Challenge album "Relative Polyphonic Mutiny".
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This song was written and recorded for my 2009 RPM Challenge album "Relative Polyphonic Mutiny". I was watching a biography of Willie Nelson and so this was my attempt at something I thought he might do. I don't hate the song, but I freely admit…
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I thought porgamming would be a picnic, instead it was a zoo. Or a fairground.
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The moodiest of my attempts at writing music using programming instead of composing on manuscript.
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Have you ever felt like someone had a voodoo doll with your face and was abusing it? Well,this song is for you.
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Somewhere between Client and Psychedelic Furs. I think.
From my RPM 2009 album "Signal To Noise"
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this is "classical" and electronica it is an extended remix of gentle persuasion and gently orchestrated it was used at the inauguration of my friend claudias' art galley in Lisbon called #24 and the art displayed was by my other friend pi whose…
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A satsuma is similar to a tangerine.
Many musicians such as Tomita create pieces called "Fantasies".
A fantasy is a dream.
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The grandiflora rose, Shining Hour, is extremely floriferous with high-centered yellow blooms. The bush has good vigor with medium green, glossy foliage and an upright, dense habit.
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The 'Autumn Damask' rose is one of the earliest known roses. Of unknown parentage, the blooms are clear, medium pink. It has moderate fragrance, long vigorous 5-8 ft canes and double to semi-double blooms of 3-4".
The crusading knights brought…
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Perfect Moment features a unique yellow-based bloom with red tips. Its buds open in a slow spiral to show high-centered, heavy blooms that last well. The plant has dark green, leather-like foliage and excellent disease resistance.
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A Tomita-ish take on Charles Ives' wonderful composition.
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and static takes love's body, wipes it clean and gray. Waves of white sound break along a beach that isn't
there. And the tape ends.
Parker lies in darkness, recalling the thousand fragments of the hologram rose. A hologram has this quality…
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Remains lost, while creatures swim and live among the ruins
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One day you realize the world you live in is not what you think it is. They want to kill you for your discovery.
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Read the Stanislaw Lem novel. Memories sometimes have lives of their own. A vast, intelligent ocean.
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The mysterious planet of the machines from Dune. Features a 9-note scale.
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A signal propagating outwards into infinity, slowly fading away.
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The whole piece was 24 minutes long. It's a whole bunch of short poems that I wrote back in 1976, read one after the other, under which I added ambient sounds, playing some harmonica and banjo and using samples and effects of various types, synths…
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The whole piece was 24 minutes long. It's a whole bunch of short poems that I wrote back in 1976, read one after the other, under which I added ambient sounds, playing some harmonica and banjo and using samples and effects of various types, synths…
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The whole piece was 24 minutes long. It's a whole bunch of short poems that I wrote back in 1976, read one after the other, under which I added ambient sounds, playing some harmonica and banjo and using samples and effects of various types, synths…
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The whole piece was 24 minutes long. It's a whole bunch of short poems that I wrote back in 1976, read one after the other, under which I added ambient sounds, playing some harmonica and banjo and using samples and effects of various types, synths…
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A work in progress. I like singer songwriter ftuff but also like to play around with trance and the like.
This has a way to go yet but maybe you could give a little feedback
Thanks
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*Modern electronic rock. Guitar, synthesizer, samples, drums.*
*Sounds like **_Depeche Mode_** *and **_U2_**.
*Recorded at The Hive in 1997. Mixed with* **_Ken Kessie._**
*When you're depressed, nobody wants to see you.*
You all said…
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I was listening to Dinosaur Jr. on my commute one day. I tried to write the lyrics in the vocal style of J. Mascis. The first line of the chorus comes from a fortune cookie. Inspiration comes from everywhere, I guess.
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It started with the opening riff. I liked the sound of a twangy guitar riff over a heavy drum loop. The B section has an almost jazzy feel to it. I'm happiest with the bassline.
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Started this track the last week in February in the middle of hurrying around, trying to finish the challenge. I put a complete backing track together and it seemed to fit the album as an instrumental. If anyone wants to contribute lyrics or…
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I recorded a demo of this in 2006 with a friend of mine. Never being satisfied with it, I've worked at it on and off over the last couple of years. I used my friends original vocal (which I ran through a vocoder) and rebuilt the backing tracks…
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I wrote a surf instrumental in 2006 called 'Gansett Wave (Part 1). I always intended to write a part 2 for a single, but never had the motivation. I used the chord progression from part 1, put it to an electronic beat and used an E-Bow for the…
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I started writing this to submit to the song fight challenge. I decided to put it on the album instead.
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A jam written when I was trying to finish the verse for It's Crazy.
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The title and lyrics come from a spam email I received.
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A surf instrumental written during a snowstorm.
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I've been listening to early '70's era Eric Clapton quite a bit lately, came up with a riff and tried to write a song that sounds like it could be an outtake from Derek and the Dominoes or 461 Ocean Boulevard.
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An instrumental track recorded for the RPM Challenge 2009.
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An instrumental track recorded for the RPM Challenge 2009.
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An instrumental track recorded for the RPM Challenge 2009.
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An instrumental track recorded for the RPM Challenge 2009.
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An instrumental track recorded for the RPM Challenge 2009.
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i don't know. another paranoid delusion, i guess.
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This is a song for my RPM 2009 album. An echoey ambient piece with Tibetan bells and piano in deep space
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Eerie, mournful, beautiful, but so, so lonely.
These are the words of a friend listening to it. When you make a conscious choice as to who you should be, what you were meant to be, what you have failed to be, until now...
This one is meant…
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This is a track of serendipity (is that how you spell that?) I was hours from deadline, lots of mixing left to do, and this track was FAR from done. I love the congas in this one. In general, this is a fun one for me. For once I actually don't…
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I am Ironman.
With this one, I purposely kept it stripped down. I could have lavished it up, but I wanted the tone to match the stark clarity of realization. Sometimes this one sounds thin to me, but stark clarity sometimes has the same: "That…
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Wanted to make this one drive. It's meant to be listened to as loud as possible.
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The closing track of Dearly Departed. I will come back, but I don't know where or when. Open, ethereal, a departure in terms of tone, and for me.
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Stripped down, I almost did this one as a live, one take vox and gtr "on-mike" bit. I did the song, kind of liked, but decided to do a tracked version, just to see what it would sound like. Ended up liking it more.
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This song sounds best if you can drive through Hollywood Hills, or anywhere in Southern CA. Funny how I happen to live in NH, eh? Another song that came from a simple gtr line (the intro).
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A chance gtr line turns into a big production. This is a song I wrote for myself, meaning it's probably too long, it probably has too many parts and it probably has too much going on in it. YET, I don't care. I wrote it for me. Oh, and I am very…
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Written by D. Oettinger, this performance by Helen Sventitsky is different from any version we'd recorded --& is better
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A song about the insecurity of a relationship.
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The darkness was all encoumpassing in the west fork of Oak Creek
Canyon. The party cougar visited us that first night. He drank all of
our whiskey and stole all of our women. The party cougar cares only
about himself.
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walter had just turned 71. He had made his fortune through his robot
factory. His favorite had been the one created that he called Bobby.
He was one of a kind.
'Bobby, be a friend and make an old man happy. My eyes are growing
dim. Take me to…
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The e-mail was quick in explaining all details. They had married as
soon as he found out he was being shipped out. They had less than a
month together.
She explained that his father had pushed him towards military service.
That he was told that…
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She sat across from me on a couch. It was Paris at 2:00am. Among the
beauty of the french women, her homelyness stood out.
'do you find me attractive?' she asked.
'no' I replied.
'the feeling is mutual'
I got up to leave.
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We finally got back to my car at about 8:00am. We fell asleep in
separate seats. When I woke up I checked my wallet. The budget for the
entire trip was gone in one night.
'I think I gave that driver a hundred,' I said.
You just groaned and…
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'Everyone I touch turns to dust.'
'Like Midas!'
'No idiot, that was gold. At least that would have been useful'
Of course I thought she was crazy. I asked her to prove it. She had no
problem. She reached out and touched my hand...
I cannot…
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I looked around at the dark store fronts as we made the long trek back
to her car. It was errie.
was thos really going to happen again? As we approached her car my
heart was pounding against my ribcage.
I led her towards the backseat and kissed…
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It was the briefest of looks, but from that moment (in that
discustingly dirty kitchen, no less) it was a certainty that you would
be mine.
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'All dinosaurs for all time will know of your shame. They will tell
stories of your transgressions. They will tell their children of your
sins but from this point on, no one will ever speak your name again.'
With that, the giant stone was rolled…
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she turned to me and asked in her broken english, 'How old are you?'
'25'
She made a motion of a plane taking off with her hand.
'Your plane has already left'
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Accompanied by Jim Bouchard on Slide Guitar, this is "the way my people does". The unsung heroes.
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Banjo and Guitar and Vocal. Sometimes you don't want to look back.
this si now a tidied up version of this track 18/3/09
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Those stark Moonlit nights have something of a reputation, but there are other things lurking in the moonlight.
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It's about getting lost in the big city, about knowing the way through, and about the Last Chance Saloon.
This is now a tidied up version 18/3/09
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A grief song. You know this place. If you don't then move on while you still can. Seriously. Don't click ..
This is a tidied up version, I managed to get rid of some of th noise and rebalance the vocals 18/3/09
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