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The Music tells the story. we all carry our true selves inside, and experience those who would tell us we are someone else. take this home, light a candle, dance widdershins, blow some smoke to the six directions.... and be free
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Recorded in Hawaii, acoustic guitar and early morning trades through the trees. Keyboards and Bass track added by my brother Greg in Durango Colorado. Took Tess's (Sister Savages) advice and removed the percussion!
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The cover I did off Uglifruit's 2010 RPM submission. The drums are a pair of hotrod sticks, that I made, hitting my keyboard table. The "kick drum is the stick hitting the pop screen while the mic was on.
I still need to fade...
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A love song for you.
The song is the musical rendition of a piece from my book, "PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings," which can be found here:
http://bit.ly/Pronoia
Credits…
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Getting back to some stuff that was on the shelf before rpm, dusting off an old acoustic instrumental here.
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I frequently go on training skates on a beach front trail. The parking lot is just off of a major highway bridge (the Burlington Skyway for those that know it). It's always an interesting sound there...
I recently acquired got a little Pocketrax…
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A blues number made using magix easy listening loops with Ardour software on Linux. This needs a lyric in the middle, but has instead been peppered here with almost random acoustic guitar jazz riffs. Had to use Audacity to take a chunk of the…
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Hey, this is my brand new song, The Static Heart. Listen and enjoy! Thanks so much for the support. Constructive criticism comments are encouraged.
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It was a rainy Sunday, so I decided to record a cover of one of my favorite songs from RPM2010 - Party by Gumbo.
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A tune I made on my first attempt on my wife's Magix Music Maker software. She was impressed about how quickly I picked it up! A slightly revised second edition and it is ready for publication. Caution - contains all Magix loops.
What really…
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you are lost
you gave yourself
for a great cause
at what cost
people need help
all your clothes
people you love most
time to make a toast
you are the host
make their hearts melt
got a story to tell
fasten your seat belt
wherever you are
now i…
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I was inspired by the music of a friend of mine, their band is called Aradhna and you might like to check them out. I've attempted to compose a song in the Hindi language and here it is.
The words are very simple
Union with Jesus
I desire union…
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cover song originally by tegan and sara (lyrics by Sara Quin).
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Song from 2007 when I went under the name Mantraversal.
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spent some time on this one. going for a trance dance feel. done with ableton and synths
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This one is for my Grandson, cause he loves to boogie!
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My first attempt at doing a songfight (songfight.org).
Though I've known what the title was for a week+, I finally decided to write the thing the night before it was due.
PROCRASTINATORS REPRESENT!
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the beats part is worked by my friend using fruityloops and the guitar part is done by me.ENJOY!!!!
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A taboo celebration of the rowdy miracles that assail us from all sides.
The song is the musical rendition of a piece from my book, "PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings," which…
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My first serious/non-serious effort on the [Everyday Looper iPhone app](http://www.mancingdolecules.com/everyday-looper/).
Stats:
* 100% recorded through the iPhone
* probably 95% iPhone headset mic, 5% internal mic
* 98% my voice, 2% my piano…
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My version of the fantastic Sister Savage/Gary Fox tune. Not as good as the original but I had fun! Thanks to Tess for helping out with the lyrics
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When your love leaves at Christmas never to return
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When your heart is broken and nothing makes sense anymore
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Well, hot summer night. Beautiful woman dancing in the moonlight, (the goddesses knew what they were doing, a man doesn't stand a chance against this), knees going weak.... hearts' pounding...head spinning = new song. (Love was already there…
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I was dreaming one night, and this song came, it was part of what I was going through in the dream. I woke up with the emotion, the words, and the melody still going. Got out of bed (Like 4AM! ugh!) went down to the studio and recorded the melody…
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final fantasy meets the wizard of oz in a steamy organ bar ' they have cheap midget bar xxx ' start a brawl ' then do some pcp ' walk home at sunrise
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This recording has been through hell, pretty much like I was when I wrote this: It was recorded written and played by me, on a fostex four track. At the time even true love had let me down, and decided its dreams "for" me were more important than…
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The first 6 min. of the set from Backbeat Cafe last night. My favorite part at a manageable listening length.
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A more thorough remix of a track from my Mutatis Mutandis album of 2004. Done in Reason.
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Downtempo groove with percussions make this spicy like Senegal? Zingy like Zimbabwe? Nice like Namibia!
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Soothing third world chillout with screaming violin, clanging galvanized iron roof shingles, and mutant radio signals being broadcast amidst the squalor.
Trust me, you don't want to hear V.1.
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The first track from our 2008 RPM album. Didn't make the cut for the final album, so you get to enjoy it here!
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zoozaza its all a brujaja ha hahahahahaha/
the bands width is not a cummerbund/ words to squeeze out the imperfect/ bright lites fandango oh so fun/ where is the allah/ messiah/ the jah?
as a species/ we fall to peaces/ our pretense, provoked…
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This is a feeble attempt to play some classical Spanish guitar. It took two takes, to make one guitar part, haha. I am no Tommy Emmanuel, and that will be obvious when you listen to this one.
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From my 2006 RPM album,, I am working on eventually producing a collection of mystic/sufi, inspired pieces,,, for which this will be one
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This is a collaboration with a wonderful young artist - Craig Mathieson. Craig is a tremendous talent, a great guitar player, and just an all around good guy. His album just dropped and you can hear more of his music at the following:
http…
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A cover of The Missed Connections off her 2010 RPM CD.
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Second of the songs with a movie clip from 1955.
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This is probably to personal, to raw to put here, but I've been listening to some pretty courageous stuff here in alonetone. This is more of an occurence, a onetime performance, more of a memorial, than a recording. My dad had died recently, I…
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Wisians are those strange foreign people with odd customs, and funny hats. They love to party. Have you seen one recently?
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Cthulahoop recording commenced after a peculiarly strong dream. Uses samples of a friend's digerido run through an analog filter. Definitely dream state.
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Cthulahoop recording. Monkey, the base element of the human alchemy.
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At the beginning of a Himitsu jam session we had an impromptu trio of guitar, theremin, and electronic drums doing a snippet of this classic theme.
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Himitsu jam piece. I am responsible for the synth slide trombone here.
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A special song for a very special lady and her son
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More of theat life stuff that happens to us all at some point!
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"Senses" is all about Spring where all our senses are sharpened and we look at all the beautyful things that rises before our eyes.
Watch the video from Second Life too...very well made by Soundr Productions;o)
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This Lovin’ Cup- I was watching the idiot box and just holding my guitar when this little vamp on a B chord came out of nowhere. Using the same recorder, I recorded about 20 seconds of the riff. The lyrical idea came on the trip to Chicago, while…
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Allelujiah-This was supposed to be a completely different song, but this one just wrote itself instead. It’s almost all first take, except for the bass, which took a while to get straight so that it wouldn’t overwhelm the song. It has this tone…
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your 4x4 is my four post bed/ the ruffles and patterns really effed up yer head/in a world of strip malls and choreographed tv brawls/ we grow like a wayward chia/ im so happy to see ya/ the texting is no touching/ and heavy petting means no munching…
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i actually got to kidnap a real live drunk sax player for this instrumental kick in the face of traditional arrangement.
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i lay my head down on my pillow
outside i can see the evening sky
you are just over that Western horizon
and i dream that i can fly
the earth shakes '
my water breaks
we have given birth to something new
i see you standing hear before me
we…
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OK we lost power at a critical point in recording for RPM. This one was written and recorded the day I had to pack up all my recording gear and borrow a room at a local public business which was on a different power grid. The wind had caused some…
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Inspiration for this quick fun one came from Uncommon Ritual and other works by Edgar Meyer: I wanted to take a run of notes across multiple instruments just to have fun!
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We play even number of games of backgammon and sometimes it ends in a...
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But don't answer yet, we will DOUBLE the offer if you call right now...
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Written with thoughts for Nodar Kumaritashvili who died at the 2010 Olympics. It was a one in a million chance...
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I figure if I keep trying long enough, I'll start channeling the great Django Reinhardt. Perhaps it's like squeezing blood from a stone but if I get a drop or two, I'm happy with that!
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Named after a painting which was named after a lovely little daily ritual I share with my best friend.
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Sometimes a tune pops up right to left field. This is one of em! I backed it up with a stand-up bass track which I was intending to re-record before RPM submission but ran outta time.
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The title came to me when I saw what impending maelstrom was headed our way on satellite imagry. Lots of space in this tune...
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A reggae version of my country/pop tune. From 2008 album Do What I Gotta Do
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Haitian rhythm bed with kalimba and Ney and synthflute. Rejected for its original purpose as being 'too jazzy' ;)
The rhythmns and kalimba were old favorites that I had not adapted to anything. Added flute and textures for a website project…
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All right, so one of those silly songs needed to find its way onto the album. In an effort to teach the students on my middle school team about rhythm in poetry, I wrote this little bit of foolishness about a fictional character (so yes, you…
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Tried to capture the spirit of the e.e. Cummings poem, didn't quite make it.
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I know, you think I've completely lost it. This is actually a cover tune. Originally done by Wall of Voodoo around 1979. I did it from memory and ear, so I'm not sure if I got the notes or the Key right. It don't matter though, It was fun.
I…
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This is a filler piece for this cool new CD I'm working on. I got this Clint movie thing working pretty good :) Think of it as our hero horsebackin' it across the plains in the land of the big sky.
I think the piano has a bit of Robert Nichols…
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From the Himitsu jam sessions. Electronic punk jazz or almost anything else. A group of 3 to 5 musicians meeting weekly to just play. All improvisation, no planning or themes, just what you bring.
Heavy use of Kaos Pad and vocoders, as a…
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two quotes off some TCM-movie and an edited Lady Gaga interview pretty much make up the vocal portion of the track. the rest was born from the fat beats i started out with.
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From the Himitsu jam sessions. Electronic punk jazz or almost anything else. A group of 3 to 5 musicians meeting weekly to just play. All improvisation, no planning or themes, just what you bring.
Our guitarist led this 5 player piece, though…
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I wrote this song after living in Milwaukee for awhile. The ghetto is a hard place to grow up and live. Things become normal there that shouldn't be normal. It's quite sad.
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I wrote this song for a singer that used to be with the band. After you listen to it, you'll get a good feel for her. This is a Delta Blues feel.
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I have lived in Milwaukee for six years now and I felt I had to write a song for the city. This has a Muddy Waters feel with harmonica.
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I had a falling out with a long time friend when I wrote this song. It has a Ray Charles/Aretha Franklin gospel/blues feel.
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After hearing people day in and day out wish for the weekend, I felt the need to write a song to remind them that they were essentially wishing their life away. This music is funk/blues with a Meters feel.
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A cover of a 2010 RPM Challenge song by A Beautiful Scene. Lyrics:
Pouring Rain by A Beautiful Scene
This year I thought of you, far too many times
And it’s made me think
Of things that’ve become over there and they…
And how do I know…
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still ain't done, but wanted to share progress. really grateful for the feedback. thanks!
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“Melodious compositions in dancing style for YOU!” - A.W.E.
My first album «ZigZag» (2010) :
http://www.rhapsody.com/awe/zigzag
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/zigzag/id339433974
http://www.amazon.com/Zigzag/dp/B002X39FFI/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8…
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Opening and preferred track for our 2010 RPM Challenge record (self-titled).
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This is the first song that was completed with vocals by Vinyette. It is inspired by a dream or nightmare really. The scene is set in purgatory, which happens to be a dark subway train running at full tilt into an abyss of track lighting. The…
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A tale of the lonely soul who is desperate to feel connection. The Asterisk Zero is the child who opens fire on fellow school children, with no understanding of the depth and complexity of the pain they are causing. This song is a soul searching…
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Some shun or dare not partake in the discussion of passing on from this life. Many search for meaning and fanciful places to reside, after their earthly shells have been left behind. This song is sweet reminder that ignoring and falsifying of…
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This is the centrepiece of the album; my self-confessed preferred track to RPM HQ. Powerful vocals by Jen Gibbons and heavy beats supplied by Chris Thomas. The drum track was heavily overdriven to crispen it up and the kick was given a lot of…
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Paper Girls is one of those tracks which I wrote based on my experiences that I hope others can relate to in their own way. Soft, breathy vocals courtesy of Anezka Piska.
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The album kicks off with one of the gritter, darker songs. The amazing, gravely voice you hear is that of Linda Harrison.
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Lyrics:
Well there ain't nothing, nothing you could ever do to break my heart again...
You lied and oh you cheated.
You hung me out to dry.
Left me standing in the cold
beneath the pale gray sky.
There ain't nothing, nothing you could…
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Lyrics:
Les animaux du cheveux faux,
Les animaux du cheveux faux,
adieu, adieu, mes animaux...
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Lyrics:
Babe, if I may be so bold
I swear that you don’t look that old
In fact I’d say you look alright.
So if you want to write my number down
I could show you all around this town
And show you what we do at night.
Well you look like…
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There are a bunch of bass tracks going on here. Headphones help pick out what's going on. This one came to me leaving Taos on the drive back to Phoenix, coming down out of the canyon. I suddenly became conscious of a disturbing dream from the…
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Track 5 from A Half An Hour In the Dark. Nirvana cover.
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Track 3 on Tarbosaurus Antagonist. Written and recorded from February 2009- January 2010.
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The execution is not perfect, but the concept works.
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The lyrics continue the theme of the previous track, if you care about that sort of thing.
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I guess this would be the "centerpiece" of the album. Like the rest of the album it really stumbles along the line between droney and simply repetitive, and it needs a bit of a reworking to reach its potential.
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these 2 "new" songs are a test to see if I now have what I need to successfully upload material. These 2 songs were recorded 20 years ago on a Tascam 4-track. The band is the Riptiles.
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Post RPM Challenge song about one of my favorite drinks to whatever lyrics I wrote that was written after rpm 2009 but never recorded. Recorded guitars one day and added vocals the next. Cool tuning of B-A-D-G-B-D.
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