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warning!!! this is a long 10+ min instrumental
It's a piece about 4 years old that was my first attempt at using synth voices,, I am still looking for a good one,, if anyone knows.
The music itself is a tone poem, loosely dedicated to a children…
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I'm singing lead on this. It was recorded to 24 track, 2 inch tape, I'm thinking. I have those somewhere, but they've turned gooey. Sadly, it seems to go into the red during the chorus, but I can't fix that now. I have more stories about the…
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One day my husband was describing someone as a floosie galore. First I cracked up; then I wrote this song. Do you think I have to share royalties with him? :) I recorded all the vocal parts on this several years ago at Boyd Recording Studio…
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I wrote and recorded this song about five years ago. All vocals are mine. I would like to redo this song and change a few of the lyrics...but here it is in its current incarnation.
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walking down the street in the 1973, you're wearing yellow tinted shades, and a hat with a feather in it. Your switchblade is in your pocket, but you're not gonna need to use it today. Cause the sun is shining and folks are eating ice cream…
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A small taste of the '74 Twin Reverb. Blackfaced, master volume removed from circuit, two tubes pulled, old Celestion G12-80s (it wasn't me). Les Paul with excellent PAF-style pickups (A5 neck, A2 bridge), stock pots and caps but good parts nonetheless…
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Deadlines, freeways, appointments, things to do lists, expectations, getting older, not enough hours in the day to get everything done? ..... make each day and moment count! Thanks to Dave Matthews for a lick I threw in there. Enjoy!
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Kind of a Sonic Youth version of the old folk tune. This was with my band Lincoln The Chain. Our vision was to create new and weird versions of tunes from the old timey days. Traveling music for post apocalyptic underground railroad...
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Words and music by Michael Thomas
http://alonetone.com/cavestreet
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All of creation is conspiring to shower you with blessings, right? Right. But not all of those blessings are sweet and delightful. Let's talk about the other kinds.
The song is part of the soundtrack from my book, "PRONOIA Is the Antidote for…
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She said sing for me a song
‘bout a world where we all get along
and she said play for me a tune
that makes me happy and wont you please play it soon
and she said dance but not too fast
take it slow, you never know if this dance will be your…
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i find myself wondering if you can watch yourself for suicide.........
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As the song says, this is a song I wrote for the RPM Challenge. I simply took my actual experience beginning at 12 midnight on February 1st, and a couple or three hours later I had my first song. The player takes away the intensity of this track…
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There's always a "but" isn't there?
God Loves Me But...
Music and Words by Demetrius Hill
©2010 Demetrius P. Hill, All Rights Reserved
It's been made painfully clear, that life's not fair
The rich get richer –– the poor poorer –– no one…
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When a friend is diagnosed with cancer, or any life threatening illness, we want to say something. But what do we say? This is a meditation on transience and emptiness, two central zen buddhist teachings.
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Second song by Madeleine. About her experiences on speed (adderall). Definitely a Suicidal Tendencies influence here.
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Meditative piece. acoustic guitar, native american flute, middle eastern frame drum.
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This is our little bundle of joy now grown up to be 10 years old. She took up the flute this year at school and this is her first effort in front of my microphone.
She decided on the flute after watching some vids of Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull…
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This is the first tune I wrote using an actual loop pedal. I really like the rawness of its form. The sound is sharp, it kind of attacks your ear.. but then after it loops around a few times, it calms down and sinks in..
I expect that there will…
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In episode 1, Rob beats a girl home and unloads his sack. Some content may not be suitable for younger listeners.
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Written and Recorded April 22, 2010
Buddah defined compassion as "a trembling of the heart."
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD/DADGAD Capo VII), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity.
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I'm not sure if I'll keep the song title. Anyway, this song is more about feeling I guess. At times the song feels happy, then creepy, then sad or dissonant. How does this song make you feel?! Thanks for listening!
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This is a collaboration with some tasty funkadelic percussion added by Norm. Guitars and Keys with some Fx's, I hope you like it,
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On youtube there's a short video clip of guitarist Shawn Lane (R.I.P) executing an extremely difficult chord voicing that requires extensive finger stretching, which Shawn calls "the hardest chord in the world." I altered the chord a little bit…
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All about finding it difficult to see an ex-partner move on with life and withy someone new whilst your still coming to terms with the break-up.
I watch you while you're seeing him
It's born a broken heart
To see you laugh as you pull away
Ohh…
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A song from a child point of view listening to their parents argue.
All these words are scaring me
They're giving me the creeps
When I hear what's going on
My heart drops to the floor
It's over all these problems
Money, kids and work
It always…
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Improvisation on congas and very fragile, clay Moroccan bongos (which my brother found for me from an African display at some zoo!). These bongos are basically clay pots with permanent, very thin goat skins stretched over the top - they can not…
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One day as I was turning into my driveway I saw Rita on her porch. She's a lot like me.
AL & RITA Capo @2 in C
C stepping down to F
Al was a smoker. He's dead now, of course
Al has Alzheimer's. Alcohol made it worse
D stepping down…
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Mixed a couple of free samples together from Robert Fripp's DGM Live website, added some delayed ebow.
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This song is about those of us who have been deployed, and our deep appreciation to our nation, our brothers, and fellow soldiers, airman, marines, and seamen. This is a song written by a troop.......Ive been in the Air Force for 7 years and…
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I've got perscription pills that turn us invisible, let's pop them when the dragons darken our sky...
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sometimes people say what you don't want to hear...
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GMO took my piano solo and did wonderful things with it.
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First song by our band. Madeleine composed,wrote and sang it. First song she's composed that has lyrics. Madeleine chose to embrace her lack of skill and vocal talent and leave it messy. Angry, angsty, repetitive, droning. Mummbly.
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20100415 Mansfield University concert choir performing for the participants of the 2010 Vocal Jazz Festival.
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A little heavy metal thing I recorded. All the guitars are by me but the drums are a drum machine.
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I finally got around to finishing the final track on my ep. This is my debut release one could say :)
I hope you enjoy it :)
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This is about somebody moving from an unhappy place to a happy place. The happy place happens to be a rain forest. This is a true story. The end.
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A friend of Gochii's laughed at the fact he didn't use paper and pencil to write his songs and that his method of storing his rhymes and was risky. Gochii response simply was my mind is a computer.
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4 stereo guitar tracks played out one at a time.
Another late night - early morning recording.
I like to keep a positive attitude about the things that haunt me, but sometimes dreams change course unexpectedly, and the worms creep in.
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Improvisation on Gon-Bops congas, while thinking of future days gone by.
4/4 180bpm.
LYRICS
A cool wind brings the fall
And the season starts to change.
Outside the sky's steel grey.
Inside my heart is too.
And I don't know how to…
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Just another cover of one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite musicians. Yes, the entire song is written in haiku. I'm not really sure how she does it, but Sam can make words dance.
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I'm very proud of this one, Especially the middle section where the melody drastically changes.
Yes, I know this is very short.. But this one, the 2 preceding it and the next few piano pieces, I use to learn how to compose for piano. After that…
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This was a Track Created in around Two Hrs...
I Wrote the Music after daydreaming about going to The French Riviera....
Posted the Track on a Web site, and within minutes, an Awesome Musician from france, "Daniel DeSete(That I hadn't spoken…
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The Doors have always been one of my favoriates,, i would like to an entire cd of piano takes on their music,, this is my first take at cs
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A Poem about Fear....
-My friend Fear-
By Tharek Mokbul
My friend.... (!?) .....
You have controlled your tone....?!?!
Is this the first time I have truly known you?
The ever present protector....
Moderator of will....
I request that you know…
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Two-part tune. The first part is "Untitled," and the second part (based on the last bit of "Untitled") is "Sugar." We went for the slow version for the record. We also play "Punk Sugar" and have messed around with "Country Sugar" and "Reggae…
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Faith is like food/It's necessary/Not when it's shoved down your throat/They look just like sheep herds/Following feeding and growing/Trying to fit in is IRRITATING
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very short piece for 4 horns, 3 trupets, 3 trombones and tuba.
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I Feel It (Lyrics)
Desperate thoughts of uncertainty
Keep on dancin’ in my head
And all these images of yesterday
And what I should have done instead
Oh, Oh, I feel it
Chorus:
I feel it, I feel it…
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Another one from the dusty special price bin! It started off as a Pilot cover, but it didn't end up that way.
Dave Berry added the excellent tele solos and the crazy cool noises at the end. Thanks bro, you rock!
I spent more time on this…
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by coheed n cambria .. got inspired my friend erinmarie .. www.alonetone.com/erinmarie
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Some Greek mythology 101 with a little incorporation of "All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett
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This instrumental song is about the rabbit in the moon. Fact: the ancient Aztecs measured drunkenness in number of rabbits. Like, "Oh, cheg out Bill, he's 300 rabbits." "Dude, I was like 230 rabbits last week and I got kicked out of the Florida…
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I was collecting 4th of July samples and recorded a jewel. By chance, I recorded my 4 year old girl, and you can hear her thought process...wondering how the fireworks were so high in the air - perhaps the fireworks were dropping from the sky…
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Because it's crucial not to forget to put sunscreen on!
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Norm played the percussion first, which is a Bembe pattern; I couldnt help playing a melody and creating lyrics for this perc track. Thanks for the listen, Enjoy!
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Played and Sung at the same Time.....
Recorded On One Track....
Words made up on the spot....
Was in Two Minds as to if I should Post it....
I aint Preaching in this.....
It is Just something which makes me, "me" that I want to…
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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&s=dmusic&qid=1263239993&sr=1-9
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HE'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU. We thought this instrumental was just dying to be in a horror flick. The producers went with DMX instead. Really? up in here?
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A Song About Choices......
Peace
Tharek and Geir
This Path
Tharek Mokbul and Geir Alfsen
It Started with Nothing
Now we walk this path
A road to the Journey where we’ll know well last....
Treading Through Fire and Jumping From Planes…
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So-named because it was a last minute addition to the album. I wish I could remember what effects I put on the accordion track to make it almost sound more like a synthesized sitar.
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I'm proud to say this is one of the weirdest songs I've ever done. I got some more use out of the beer bottle here, this time hitting it with a pencil instead of blowing on it.
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Possibly my personal favorite of everything I've written so far. I will admit that I can barely play guitar and this is the result of a lot of looping and editing.
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As you can probably tell, I had a lot of fun with gratuitous panning and weird vocal effects on this album.
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I'll admit I completely ripped off the rhythm of "Closer" by NIN here.
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One of a few pieces composed on a battery operated toy keyboard that I nicknamed the Powersockey, due to the fact that the power socket was labeled that.
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One of a few pieces composed on a battery operated toy keyboard that I nicknamed the Powersockey, due to the fact that the power socket was labeled that.
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One of a few songs on the album where the percussion is a loop of myself hitting my computer desk with my hands. I think I got a nice hypnotic vibe going with this one.
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One of a few pieces composed on a battery operated toy keyboard that I nicknamed the Powersockey, due to the fact that the power socket was labeled that.
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The chorus is adapted from "O Death Rock Me Asleep", by Anne Boleyn, while imprisoned in the Tower of London, waiting for her execution.
(Tolar & Savigear 2010)
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our 2010 entry for the RPM Challenge. members included:
Minibar Madness - sound effects & noise,
Commoner - Amplifier worship, pedals, electrical guitar,
The Chaos Council - MicroMoog , alto sax, effects,
Tone the Destroyer - violin &…
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A quick song about the Times paedophilia correspondent, Roger Boyes.
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We all live on one planet, and on this planet we ARE the indigenous peoples. The rest is just intellectual self petting if you know what I mean. When I'm feeling frustrated with the human race, I return to the roots. I read once in a novel on…
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I used to cross over railway tracks on my way to the ballfield in college, and though I never knew why, I was always tempted to just start following them.
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minimal, haunting drone...with a flavour at the end...
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light piano...drone...then i allowed the drums to take over the song...
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This is me in 'funk story rant' mode.
Guitars by Damien Taylor
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I'm not sure if this is a song about the pointlessness of war, or about me getting turned down for a job at a local radio station....
Possibly both.
Guitar by Damien Taylor
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Gothic-Doom metal from Russia, all the tracks in this album are instrumental.
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Another in the iPod series.
Apps used:
Sound Pallete
NLog synth
Bebot
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Housemate Tim (first verse, chorus) joined us for an attempt at a Bette Middler classic. AND THEN WE AUTOTUNED IT...
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Housemate Tim (first verse, chorus) joined us for this attempt at a Bette Middler classic. This is not autotuned.
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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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On a cold and lonely trip through hyperspace, our protagonist wonders whether he'll ever see the sunrise on Ganymede again. (All sounds produced acoustically!)
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Written August 29, 2009 and Recorded March 22, 2010
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD, Capo III), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, Audacity...all fingers, no picks.
I don't normally repeat myself, but when I sat down tonight…
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Written and sung by Tangmo. Arranged and performed by Phil Close. Additional guitars by Karl Cutruff.
Hey everybody, come out in the streets now
Hey everybody, let's have a good time
Bring along your cooler, there's good food to eat now…
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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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cover song originally by tegan and sara (lyrics by Sara Quin).
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Pack your things and head for the hills, Tsunami's a comin!
Recorded with acoustic guitar
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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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the beats part is worked by my friend using fruityloops and the guitar part is done by me.ENJOY!!!!
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This composition is a remix/reincarnation of a [previous tune](http://alonetone.com/gcd/tracks/seven-flavors-of-milk) I wrote a while back. I wasn't ever quite satisfied with it and had neglected to incorporate a nifty additional bit of melodic…
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A typical folk song.
Written and recorded in about an hour for the 24 hour album (attempted on March 13th). Excuse roughness and vocal glitches, it was 2am and this was my first full take.
Thanks to montgomeru for his chord suggestions…
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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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The first 6 min. of the set from Backbeat Cafe last night. My favorite part at a manageable listening length.
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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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Some girls have had it far too rough for their very few years.
How old were you when you'd seen enough
How old were you when your hide got tough
Your wounds have scarred
Sometimes they still sting
Close your eyes and hear her sing
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