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This started sounding quite Nick Caveish and at the same time I wanted to do something with Joe Meek; so it's a murderballad-variation on Johnny Remember me. There's stylophone and theremin in there. The theremin is quite effective at some points…
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1.Afsluitdijk
...is a Dutch word and it's the name of the dam/road going from the province Friesland to North-Holland (and Amsterdam) The lyrics are about a 15-year old boy who feels so trapped in the boring Frisian town he's living in that he…
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I don't know what you want
when you treat me that way
I can't help being turned on
Is that what you want
Just to see what I would do
To see if I'm in love with you
I'm trying so hard
to sit here and ignore
the way that you…
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I'm not sleeping
I'm staring at the ceiling
My mind's a thousand miles away
I'm finding faces in the shapes
of plaster that was scraped on the ceiling
Killing time is not so bad
but when you're trapped inside your head…
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A lazy hound lying on the couch
sleeping the day away
The sunlight comes pushing through the curtains
warming the old dog's face
The savory smell from a wood burning stove
holds you while you awake
Brew some tea while others emerge…
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Hurtling towards oblivion thanks to a giant catapult owned by a foul-mouthed voodoo child, he sends a final lewd finger gesture back to the world he sought escape from.
Unbeknownst to him, Voodoo Boy may have a vested interest in using him…
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The final version of this track:
When escaping events that are falling apart, be leery of strangers offering gifts - particularly when they look like something out of Children Of The Corn and they offer to lob you into orbit with a giant catapult…
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The monitors of the omniverse are bored out of their mind, and wish something would happen to break the monotony.
There are some things that transcend the laws of physics - Murphy's Law is one of those things.
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May be a little soft for…
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Oh crap - somebody broke the multiverse. I should have known those #?%! black holes were a serious security flaw.
We were really meaning to fix that, but never got around to it. (It would have cut into our golf time.)
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Even the cosmos needs system maintenance. When its IT department decides to delete something, sometimes that something doesn't want to go without a fight. Even computer viruses will do what they can to avoid the reaping hand of a virus checker…
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somewhere around 3 minutes you should here the sound of people chopping down a tree in the Peruvian Amazon turn into the beat of the song. This song was somewhat influenced by Kim Hiorthøy.
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Rough sketch of a proposed dreamy 12 string piece that I couldn't pull off on the 12 string so did this quick electric version with vocal pads. Not sure of the recording quality- sounds OK in my cans and kinda crappy on my monitors. Recorded march…
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An instrumental song about happiness and puppies and vampires and possibly vampire puppies.
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From the RPM Challenge 2009 album - "Like A Dark Mirror Keeping Its Secrets":
Native American Industrial?
Sample credits will appear with album info once posted.
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sung by my family for my mum's upcoming birthday
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Written while awaiting a CD from one of the artists who participated in the 08 version of RPM.
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lyrics:
The silence sometimes
is all you have to say and I believe it, and you
and everything surrounding the skin beneath your eyes
Time's without a shield or an attack against the sight
of a lifetime that was burning you by
And I may…
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An ambulance ride through the poor side of town; a delivery of self and social status
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The outside was a barren wasteland;
dilapidated houses
garbage on the ground
And the buildings' aging faces
echoed the sirens
and her pain across…
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a state of denial/hope
lyrics:
I don't care what bad boys say
with their little white lies to keep themselves safe
drown themselves in fermentations
all good girls go to heaven
I don't care what bad boys say
with their little white…
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From your parents you will learn everything and nothing without even realizing
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Don't look in the mirror, your skin will never seem as soft
Don't wait in the middle when your mind is already made up
Just make it home, please…
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One of my best melodies, but I can't seem to get the vocals right. Would welcome any one else who might want to take a crack at it.
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Sequoia Memories...Capo @ 5
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Off the coast of California
Where the dolphins ride the waves
We stood and watched them from the cliffs above
Until the sunlight went away
Then we slept in ancient shadows
Underneath the redwood trees…
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Fun little tune about the evils of strong drink.
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Guitar and vocals. Kind of the opposite of last years 'Honey, Why You Stay With Me'.
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10 – Strictly Rehearsed. Written 13th Feb. Recorded 13th/14th Feb.
More upbeat shenanigans, this time attacking someone’s who’s off the cuff remarks are pre-prepared (and written as crib notes on their cuffs).
Info and lyrics at www.butterflypolite…
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08 – Feeling Confuzzzed. Written 19th/20th Feb. Recorded 20th Feb.
Come on Wembley, let’s see those hands in the air. As poppy as they come, including plenty of la la las to sing along with. I was very pleased with my Harrison-style slide…
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05 – Officer’s Mess (March). Written and recorded 2nd Feb.
This is as close to beat-boxing as I am able to do. I can only apologise for the smutty pun.
Info and lyrics at www.butterflypolite.com/uglifruit
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03 – Meteorites. Written 2nd/3rd Feb. Recorded 3rd Feb.
Inspired by the film ‘Stardust’ where our hero meets a (literal) fallen star. The painful low vocals were particularly fun, and their emotional cracking was acting rather than the fact…
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02 – Falling Down Again. Written 17th/18th Feb. Recorded 17th/18th/19th Feb.
A slightly schizophrenic pop song, with a vocal section that also betrays me wanting to be a Beach Boy. Worryingly there is actually a red sticky trickle that seeps…
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01 – My Prayer. Written and recorded 16th Feb.
Paying homage to ‘Our Prayer’, the opening of SMiLE – the Beach Boy’s album that never was. An extended version of this song appears on ‘28 seconds later’, an album on which each song is exactly…
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[Thanks to Helen and Colin for coming to my aid with the warblings! :) ]
When You Least Expect It
And you're out to dry
And its all too hectic
Thats when it comes x 2
And it feels electric
And you feel alive
Cos when you least expect…
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You never let me smile
You never let me out of sight
You never let me live
You never learned you had to give
I'm taking it away x 2
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Let me introduce to you
Every woman child and man
The place I did my growing up
Raised by grandma's hand
I think you'll find
That folks are kind
They're sure to ask you in
Enter the warmth
Close the door
And my story will begin…
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Can i get a little whisky in this water said John
The day the world stopped being fair
I didnt know what to say so I said yeah.
I poured a double whisky and I placed it in his hand
And said friend, only true friends understand
He said friend…
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I was a babe
You was a man and i was a child.
Oh and the pain
You was a man and I was a child.
You shifted the blame
Onto the child
I never forgave
And if you were here you'd see a man gone wild.
Through the eyes of a child. x3…
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Tell me can you teach me bout your finely written poetry
Dont care about the content I just want to make em notice me
Such a fine hand they'd say wooo, study it closely
Been practicing all day I think I'm ready least I aughta be.
Caligraphy…
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It aint like no ones done this before
But how can you tire of beautiful chords
In the fifties
In Tenessee
Where my love
was born
Two young men upped and
crossed the yard
both cold cos it was rainin hard.
One of them turned said…
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This song always puts you in a weird mood...forcibly sways your emotional state. There’s some kind of weird juju laced in that song that screws with your emotions no matter how you're feeling.
This song uses a lot of layers for bass along with…
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This is a serious idea. Gives a good feeling of what this can become.
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‘Cut Up’ was a very challenging song for writing bass parts. The guitars in that song are rhythmically dominating. The pay off was a dense piece of music.
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We've scrapped many songs but 'Murray' is the oldest song that has survived the test of time.
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This was written while living in the studio. For some reason this song seems like music appropriate for a chase scene. This is all bass and drums...no guitars yet. Vic's working on it.
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Track 6 of "There's No Justice...Just Us".
Daniel Parkhill - Vocals, Guitars, Drums
Joe Neff - Bass, Solo
Lyrics by Daniel Parkhill, Music by Daniel Parkhill and Joe Neff, 2009
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sample based song... basically just messing around on Reason, I still haven't quite figured it out.
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smooth chillout track ... something to relax with a little bit edge ...
peace, rei
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Documentary sound piece for sound 1, remix of Ingrid Burrington's speech
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A tribute to all the beautiful ladies in Sweden...
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"Slow Build Gamelan" is based on three Indonesian Gongs from FreeSound.org: 24615__anamorphosis__GMB_Jegog_1.wav, 24613__anamorphosis__GMB_Gong_Lanang.wav & 24612__anamorphosis__GMB_Gong_Kempur.wav. I took the three recordings & strung…
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so pleased to meet me now please, just go away
no introductions needed, i've got nothing left to say
so many stories that i really don't need to know
this conversation's over, and i really wish you'd go
oh please, go away, save yourself
i…
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shame I make the same mistakes each time
adding up, piling on this list of my crimes
the biggest to the smallest weigh the same to me
buried beneath of mountain with no hope of getting free
holding on to my broken dreams
shame I have no…
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you used to be a person in your shell
now you're just a shell
so big inside your home
the turrets face the lowly masses
so big inside your home
obvlious to the world as it cries out
and the sun begins to shine upon our tiny world
and…
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A laid-back funk instrumental. My habitual place-holder while I work out what else to put up.
Music, Guitars & Baritone Guitar - Me!
Percussion - DrumsOnDemand
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This one was inspired by Wen's mom; and is therefore dedicated to all those musicians doing RPM, and all musicians who toil away at home to make their music despite what their friends & co-workers might think of their efforts.
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Cover of original track by Beaus of Beethoven.
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Cover of original track by The All-Night Workers (early song co-written by Lou Reed and JJ Cale).
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You will be asked to take a small survey regarding your feelings at the exit.
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Self-esteem to the xtreme.
An instrumental track I've redone from scratch from a 2006 version, but still want to completely redo someday.
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So, I'm picking up the pace now! Hope the quality is not too ropey...
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Yeah, that's a mellotron cello sample. I knew you'd recognize it!
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Featuring a digital heartbeat, the emulation of an old rhodes piano, and real vocals.
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The track is based on an actual 911 call a hacker made to police in Colorado Springs to "punish" the father of a girl who had spurned his advances. I played the call against a short distorted heartbeat-like rhythm run through a Mutron and several…
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A track using Creative Commons licensed sounds or ones I created from scratch myself. From the freesound Project I used WHALECRY 2 by mkoenig, and bamboo wind chimes by jppi_Stu.
I took 20 copies of the whale song, stretched & chopped them…
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Quick and Dirty memo to self.
Crunchy lofi guitar + voice.
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A track made while warming up for the RPM Challenge 2009; Created from the sample 42544_ERH_long_string_su_51 from The FreeSound Project.
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"NATO (Whisky Tango Foxtrot)," is a Noise piece that's made up of a combination of a Phased noise underbed, liquid, vowel-like sounds, and sprightly chiming tones.
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lyrics:
i got a hot date
and you know i don't wanna be late
i need a ride
to the bowling alley
get ready cuz here i come
put my new skirt on
chewing peppermint gum
did my eyebrows fresh
white musk on my neck
part my hair to the right
cuz its…
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A great driving song . please check out the video as well
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Disco funk character assassination!
From my RPM 2009 album "Signal To Noise"
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can you say 妈麻马骂? Can you fit a squared peg in a round hole?
Copyright © 2009 Tiago Castro Henriques, some rights reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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One of the few songs we've made so far that has a beat :)
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recorded on a mini disc with a stereo mic in a rehearsal studio in brighton uk
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recorded on a mini disc with a stereo mic in a rehearsal studio in brighton uk
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too many woman have been abused, mostly by people they know.
This song is for them.
Eyes and ears have been shut for to long now.
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this was the 2nd piece of music again using live called next cos i didn't know what else to call it...
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I wanted to do a sort of homage to cheesy 50's sci-fi movies. This is kind of an ambient/experimental dubby track that was a lot of fun to make.
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That didn't stop her.
Main vocals/bleeps by Shreya, keys and backing vocals by me. Actually, my baby daughter was in my arms while I was doing those vocals and she started crying. Even though I cropped that part, I didn't use any noise reduction…
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This song was inspired by the Life of Pi...and yes, i feel like a drifter at times, floating, going no where.
I've been drifting
i've been drifting for days
going no where
being driven by the waves
driven mad by the wind and her voices…
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Sitting in the Denver airport; watching people walk on by...
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The first of 9 demos I recorded in Jan. 2009 for the upcoming Spooky Garcia album that Rob and I are recording for RPM '09.
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Don't cry over spilt milk, it is nothing, there's more in the fridge.
From December 2007.
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Work in progress!
Inspired by all the awesome people I know in my cryptology class. I was writing an email and just... had to compose something. There's going to be gitz in this somewhere... but for now, only basic synths and an unfiltered…
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i have sampled an artist called unicornicopia from new york for the first project. (Sound I)
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A very minimalist song from our “In My Mind” album.
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This work is dedicated to Andy Jaffe, jazz composer, pianist, arranger and teacher. I studied with Andy at Williams College from 1988 to 1992, and his approach to music-making and teaching has influenced everything all my work since. He once related…
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an instrumental track.
the voices/screaming/giggling in the back are Melissa Akkurt being tickled by Buddy Fick.
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one of the songs i'm most content with on this album. written along with several in the bowling alley (aka basment) of my highschool dorm.
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i didn't intentionally sound like i was dying. i just lost my voice around the time we had to record vocals...and it was a pretty high range for me...so i decided to belt it out.
Peter Hochstedler did some background yelling towards the end…
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simple song. i believe this was the original recording of it. originally a track off of the 21 grams album, "Identities". Peter Hochstedler played a beautiful lead guitar on it.
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this song was later featured on T.M.T.F.'s album "For Tomorrow", it was a Kandern Billboard Top 5. first taste of fame. hehe.
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"Pizza: The Rock Opera" is Beatnik Turtle's 10-minute opus chronicling one man's struggle to order pizza. From TheSongOfTheDay.com and their album, November available on CD Baby, "the iTunes" and other fine digital retailers.
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Among the special guests are the corpse of Jeff LaSala (as animated by six thousand yellow jackets and a colony of Africanized honey bees) providing lead vocals and sundry items. His very doomed brother, John LaSala, also sings lead.
Lyrics…
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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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More testing. An improv demo for the Breaking Light project for the RPM Challenge.
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ITS Just So Funny. wait till the middle, thats when it really takes off heh heh
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This is actually the first song we produced, and the one that started the whole project. It's based around a sequence from the good old Korg Wavestation.
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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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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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I have to give credit to my baby daughter Amelia for inspiring the basic groove of this song. No vocals yet.
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This one varies between having a rock-ambient feel and more playful as well. It's long, but you have to stick around for a fun part at the end!
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