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Thanks for listening to my album, "Love ZZZV"! This opening track is still my favourite of the nine because it features nothing I'd call a mistake and still leaves me in wonder just as to how I wrote it. The extended, classic tracker-style soloing…
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From the Chill Productions "Planets" project. What it feels like to fly through Saturn's rings, into its atmosphere, and back out.
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Chorus is NSFW. Inspired by responses to one of my Facebook status updates requesting suggestions for song ideas. I incorporated all of the ideas offered. Took less than 2 hours, start to finish, to write and record. I really like the synth melodies…
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I love the Commodore 64. Still have two of them. And a C-128. For me, this song captures the loony spirit of some of the Commodore games I loved playing.
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Inspired by a trip to Japan during which I needed to obtain another towel for my friend Dave so he could take a shower. All I really knew how to ask of the hotel staff was "Where is the bathroom?" Hilarity ensued.
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Distorted synths and drums, with some grit and an e. e. cummings poem read by the man himself. I am particularly fond of how this one came together, especially at the end.
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A dance sundae with some samples sprinkled on top. Not my favorite, but was fun to record.
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A lonely, slow, tune... with a forlorn and sometimes tense distorted guitar (actually my bass). Good music to listen to as you zone out and stare into space.
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Melodic, peaceful, and trance-inducing instrumental. Used a synth clav as the underlying thematic instrument, then layered a few other things on top. The "guitar" counter-melody at the end is me playing a bass in the upper registers.
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This is the first track I recorded for my 2009 RPM Challenge CD. The music was written in January, but the lyrics were written by a good friend of mine, Sparky Adams, in 1972 right after he returned from Vietnam. Check it out!
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Sample-based beat project. Incorporates some pre-made synth sounds as well as highly processed samples from a track called Dying Moon by a friends' band. Public domain audio clip of first moonwalk from archive.org
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Track 1 from the 2005 RMR release "Spoke Of Shadows".
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Track 2 from the 2005 RMR release "Spoke Of Shadows".
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Track 3 from the 2005 RMR release "Spoke Of Shadows".
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Track 7 from the 2005 RMR release "Spoke Of Shadows".
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Track 6 from the 2005 RMR release "Spoke Of Shadows".
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Track 5 from the 2005 RMR release "Spoke Of Shadows".
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Track 4 from the 2005 RMR release "Spoke Of Shadows".
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The danciest song this side of Dancytown! Please don't sue us, Junior and/or Senior.
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A brief moment of sincerity in a sea of ludicrousity.
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You know who to call when your secrets need service! I'm under cover... under YOUR covers. Boo yeah.
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A song about spies, Godzilla, zombies, Ms Pac Man, moustaches, and aliens... possibly with moustaches.
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If my surname were plural, I could have a five of my own.
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Beep. Boop. We are robots and we want to make babies!
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This was supposed to be a tribute to Daft Punk, the kings of the talking robots, but we ran out of time. Instead it's half a joke.
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This is a full joke. I apologize for saying that I want to hold your hair.
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music from the album Inside Words.
Instrumental and ambient sound
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piano dance music classical house trance breaks drum n bass
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It's actually a redo of one of my earlier songs. I changed the lyrics a bit, the title and rerecorded the whole thing. The original is called, "I've Changed."
I've got a really painful head cold right now. I thought between bouts of pain I would…
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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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2009 Record Production Month Challenge offering. Very pleased with the collective results. The title came from my friend Zane. His iced tea was in a damaged cup. Thus the title. There are various quotes in the song including some from Mishima…
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2009 Record Production Month Challenge offering. Very pleased with the collective results. This track was the first one completed for the RPM challenge this year.
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2009 Record Production Month Challenge offering. Very pleased with the collective results. I do have a green-ish sweater.
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2009 Record Production Month Challenge offering. Very pleased with the collective results. Jason Kruk said I should write a song called Funglebung. It sounded too dirty... so I changed it.
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2009 Record Production Month Challenge offering. Very pleased with the collective results. You know what I mean. You don't? Neither do I.
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2009 Record Production Month Challenge offering. Very pleased with the collective results. Sometimes we all need a landmark to guide us home.
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2009 Record Production Month Challenge offering. Very pleased with the collective results. Ode to girls in glasses. Love you all!
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2009 Record Production Month Challenge offering. Very pleased with the collective results. My favorite song from the album. Enjoy and repeat.
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2009 Record Production Month Challenge offering. Very pleased with the collective results. Epic folk song. That's my thought anyway.
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This is the first thing we recorded together as Oil On Canvas in July 2003. It was done live to 2-track with no edits, minimal gear and no preparation. We still adhere to the improvisational approach but have taken more care with the recording…
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Based on a Cambodian rock song from the early 1970s, title & author unknown. Carol & I listened to it until we heard them singing in English & transcribed what we heard. Greg helped arraign it & Marie helped Carol on vocal.
--From…
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From Risky Business, 2002 --This also features John Caruana on bass (note John & Greg have another band, a blues unit called BassBoards that is worth a listen.)
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We had a complex version of this, but towards the end of recording the 2009 RPM CD, The Zinacantan number, we just put the amp & a ribbon mic in the bathroom & recorded this in one pass.
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This, from the 2005 CD, Alan"s Trial, is a variation on a few measures from Lee Andrew's "Girl around the corner"
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O.K Here's the Deal: I was searchin for vocalz for usin on my latest Track but didnt really find anything matchin so I thougt why not throw it up on here and let you guys maybe try some vocalz? Download now - You can also find the loops to this…
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Sayonara Willow Tree
by Jack Merlot
copyright 2008 - all rights reserved
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I saw you at the Hippodrome
again at Camden Town alone
I know you been across the ocean
cuz you wear that crooked smile
Missionaries…
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Bohemian Bus
by Jack Merlot
copyright 2008 - all rights reserved
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Bohemian Bus
Tying knots inside of heads
imagine how to untie them
rag rugs and wood floors occupy my time
Too much time
too much time…
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copyright 2008 - all rights reserved
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Firefly
Flight flickers living light
through a translucent night
where the sky is unowned
by anything of flesh and bone
this Planet is punctured by lines
that define
what…
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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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