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Using the waltz beat from the 1958 record album "Rhythm Accompaniment", with the composer on all other instruments. The spoken bits are of xenophobic Utah State Senator Chris Buttars. Written and recorded in February 2009 for the RPM Challenge.
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Using the samba beat from the 1958 record album "Rhythm Accompaniment", with the composer on all other instruments. Written and recorded in February 2009 for the RPM Challenge.
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Using the fox trot beat from the 1958 record album "Rhythm Accompaniment", with the composer on all other instruments. Written and recorded in February 2009 for the RPM Challenge.
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Featuring Matt Podschweit on keyboards with the composer on tenor sax. Written and recorded in February 2009 for the RPM Challenge.
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Using cha cha and rhumba beats from the 1958 record album "Rhythm Accompaniment", with all other instruments played by the composer. Written and recorded in February 2009 for the RPM Challenge.
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Using the rock & roll and fox trot beats from the 1958 record album "Rhythm Accompaniment", with the composer playing all other instruments. Written and recorded in February 2009 for the RPM Challenge.
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You know when you're creating something and it comes out exactly how you wanted it, and then it becomes you favorite? This one is still my favorite and has not been dethroned yet.
The song is all by me - words, vocals, bass, the "guitar…
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driving that Infiniti all along the coast
doctor of divinity - I didn't mean to boast
with your strange affinity for whiskey & coke
and looking at the stars
brother Shawn, here's a disk for your collection
we're gonna go check out this here…
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Ghost Dobro
by Jack Merlot
copyright 2009 all rights reserved
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spider silk of the stars
heard me playing the ghost dobro
saw me slip through the bars
to quench my fevered glow
her allure was practiced and warm
and all the…
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My instrumental compositian for the great state of Louisiana.
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My song honoring the only man lost during the journey of the Corps of Discovery.
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My song about the hazards of the Missouri River.
A snag is an above water branch and a sawyer is a below water log or branch. Hence, "Tom Sawyer," from Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens).
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My story song about an indian site on the Missouri River near Boone county Mo.
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My story song in honor of Pierre Cruzatte, the one eyed fiddler of the Corps of Discovery.
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This song is a tribute to the space monkeys named Albert. They all died tragic deaths of various kinds during their forced service to the American space program.
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My best mate, Weaver, always used to tell me I wrote too many songs about women so here's a pop tune my sister might like!
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A trancy rock thang I wrote in french. Apologies to all french speakers as I used an online translator so it might not mean what I think it does.
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A techno/country tune about how I met my lady, Debs.
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Another bluegrassy tune. There really were loads of magpies around where I lived at the time.
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A punk/pop tune relating to my being a bit of a soap-dodger. Or so my lady says.
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A poptastic acknowledgement of some of the great qualities I love about Debbie, my fab lady. Recorded as part of RPM 09
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This is a live in the rehearsal studio recording direct to Zoom H2 of our band Airport Seven. See myspace. The "playa" refers to the desert where Burning Man happens. If that's news to you - google it and go.
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T Boudreau - Lyrics n Music
Bonehead - Vocals
Thunder Chris - Drums, B Vocs
Tim Hochadel - Bass, B Vocals
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T Boudreau - Lyrics / Music
Bonehead - Guitar, Vocals
Thunder Chris - Drums, B Vocs, Percussion
Tim Hochadel - Bass, B Vocals, Beer Bottles
John Young - Keys
JD Herzog - Sax
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T Boudreau - Lyrics / Music
Bonehead - Music and Vocals
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T Boudreau - Lyrics / Music
Bonehead - Guitar, Vocals
Thunder Chris - Drums, B Vocs
Tim Hochadel - Bass, B Vocals
John Young - Keys
Eddie Davis - Lead guitar
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jesse wrote this one and sings lead. basic guitar, vocal and banjo were recorded live with a room mic.
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sometimes when you listen to one musician exclusively for an extended period of time you try to write a song as if you were that musician.
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This was a total experimental piece about just making a soundscape. I played instruments I don't really play, and put some thru different effects just to experiment. The Bushisms add some color to what would otherwise just be some noise. I…
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This was written for RPM 2009, mostly in January and was inspired by from a mix of current events and personal journey.
Lyrics:
The Queen of Pearls is wearing diamonds
up and down her fingers
She holds the door to the castle
where memories…
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soundsoftheweak.com assignment #68: make a recording about a specific body part.
Featuring Miss MC Co Co Co Co Co Co Ro.
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The first version.
This is the first and only song I wrote on [arrsuarez](http://alonetone.com/arrsuarez)'s Christmas gift to me, a mbira that he lovingly crafted by hand.
 with the present.
Lyrics:
20 years running through time and I remember
all the magic lines
that in our younger days
we drew…
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The lyrics were co-written with Mike Novak. I sent him the music, and we worked from there. I've done that a bunch with friends from Canada (Me Man Jack - check them out) and its fun to collaborate..
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this song was inspired from an ee cummings poem. it was composed for rpm 2009.
lyrics:
i'll tell you a dream i had once
up in the sky blue everything
flying away a kite on a string
i didn't have anything
i was cool you were warm…
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This track is written and performed by my 12 year old son Zack. He really is coming along great as a musician, and I'm proud to include him in my RPM project for a second year!
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I'm working on a March RPM... it is "record per month" after all, is it not? So, this month I plan to expand on some ideas with glubotic... I hope to make the album a full hour.
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This is the finished version of Trance-Indental. the second half has come out very different to what I thought it would, but I like it. Give it time to build as it progresses.
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This was the first time I'd fired up my telecaster and amp for a recording and it felt like sitting in Sun Studios or something. Amazing sound after playing just acoustic instruments for a year. It's the first take and I loved it!
This is now…
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An old time fiddle tune without the fiddle, or the tune, really, so the vocal has to carry it, and it has that lovely raw propulsion. Written and recorded in an hour.
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I'm not sure if this is rockabilly or late 40s jump R'n'B. Dance music though. I had fun with the lyrics and the backing vocals.
This is now a tidied up version 18/3/09
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A happy song about being left by your no-good spouse. There's a word for the attitude in this song but I can't think of it right now ...
this is now a tidied up version 18/3/09
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There's a whole mythology woven into this song, and hence into the album, and the weave is fine and warm.
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Remedies are funny things. You want to get better but you don't want to change.
This is now a minimally tidied up version of this track 18/3/09
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I watched as she walked back across the border. There was no one
waiting to question her. she turned back to look at me from the other
side of the fence. I couldn't decide which side of the wall I was on.
Goodbye my Penelope.
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I'm still sort of working on this and may upload a revised version
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I should mention I was thoroughly tanked on sangria when I made this one. It just seemed appropriate...
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A song all about the passing of time, the seasons, love and life
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Ambient. Electric Bass Guitar. Ebow + Acoustic Guitar
Sometimes a new instrument is all it takes to inspire a nice little piece.
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Bouncy, with ear candy. Wanted to do something different with this one, keep it from being too predictable. I think I succeeded. I also happen to really like my "squawk, squawk" gtr stabs in the verses.
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This is written by my friend Stuart Walker, and he gave me permission to record this for my RPM 2009 album. It reminded me of early Leonard Cohen so I took it in that direction with the finger picking and spookiness
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This is written by my friend Stuart Walker, and he gave me permission to record this for my RPM 2009 album. It seemed to be a meditation on everyday life so I decided that I'd whistle for the solo as it's the kind of thing I do when walking down…
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reading too much sci-fi makes you paranoid and using too many effects pedals can make your songs repetitive, loud, and long.
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i don't know. another paranoid delusion, i guess.
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loop pedal + fuzz pedal + wah-wah = instrumental noise madness.
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This is a random, ambient, minimal and free music.
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An instrumental track recorded for the RPM Challenge 2009.
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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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Folk waltz with great harmony
The video is live acoustic in my living room
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Created for the CHiLL is five compilation, 28 November 1999.
My first or second CHiLL release. I don't love it.
Ambient. Synthesizers.
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Created for the CHiLL release Resolutions, released 15 February 2004.
The Tunguska Event occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Russia on June 30, 1908. Experts generally agree it was caused by Nikola Tesla firing a prototype particle…
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Folky song about a mans life at sea. written a few years ago.
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This was done using a vocal track that Imogen Heap put up. This is my music to back that up. 90% of it was done using a roland guitar synth, the gr20
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Another song for the RPM 2009 Challenge. This is sort of an interlude that reminds me of Penguin Cafe Orchestra but with a sort of industrial edge. Vocoder is featured.
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A model of the Solar System which whirls and turns all the planets in their correct orbits at the correct relative speeds
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A classically-inspired track that totally does not fit in with the rest of the album. Incidentally, Ctesiphon was a capital of the Parthian Empire.
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I believe the recording in the background is from a spy station. The other is a Spanish sonnet.
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I could not turn off certain synthesizers while I was programing this one, so I kept it as it was. Desperate sounding, I thought.
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Tartessos (possibly the "Tarshish" of the Bible) was a fabulous city in Southern Spain that the Greeks and Phoenecians often visited. I wanted to evoke a sense of adventure.
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The first track begun, the last one finished. My attempto write a techno-middle eastern fugue!
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Aural and astral travel to fabled lands and back.
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this songs was written after robbie was left at a bar after a fight with his girlfriend and sounds like it too
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about a ex girlfriend pretending to be someone shes not
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A dark ambient/ritual track.
From the 2009 Alchemist Corpse Rite entry in the RPM Challenge: "A True and Faithful Relation"
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Goth/folk...Vocals and lyrics by Laura Aalto
This is a companion piece to "Vision in Gold"
From the 2009 Alchemist Corpse Rite entry in the RPM Challenge: "A True and Faithful Relation"
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Instrumental goth/industrial
From the 2009 Alchemist Corpse Rite entry in the RPM Challenge: "A True and Faithful Relation"
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A dark ambient/ritual track.
From the 2009 Alchemist Corpse Rite entry in the RPM Challenge: "A True and Faithful Relation"
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Instrumental goth/industrial
From the 2009 Alchemist Corpse Rite entry in the RPM Challenge: "A True and Faithful Relation"
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Instrumental goth/industrial
From the 2009 Alchemist Corpse Rite entry in the RPM Challenge: "A True and Faithful Relation"
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A dark ambient/ritual track.
From the 2009 Alchemist Corpse Rite entry in the RPM Challenge: "A True and Faithful Relation"
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Goth/folk...Vocals and lyrics by Laura Aalto
This is a companion piece to "Vision in Silver"
From the 2009 Alchemist Corpse Rite entry in the RPM Challenge: "A True and Faithful Relation"
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If David Bowie played lots of Legend of Zelda as a kid...
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i have replaced the old file with this as it is more compatible num
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Written and performed quickly (approx 2 hours) during a "dark day". This is not a political song but rather a song about the "helpless feeling" during the current strange economic times.
When I used to get down I'd put on an old song I loved…
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Dreamy instrumental with piano, middle eastern percussion, and deep bass. Inspired by William Orbit.
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Bluegrass banjo, southern rock drums, goofy synths, vocoded chorus, and DnB rhythms. Technically has a NSFW word in the lyrics, but probably not discernable.
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My re-imagining of a piece by kjwise as a Harold Budd/Brian Eno-ish collaboration.
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*Instrumental electronic hip-hop with electric piano*
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