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Here the idea was that I was going to write from the viewpoint of someone who is paralyzed from the neck down and can through technology only watch other peoples life but not participate. It turned out a bit more general and ambiguous than that.
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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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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 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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An instrumental song about happiness and puppies and vampires and possibly vampire puppies.
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Just under the wire (it's Feb 28, 23:47 in my timezone)... last track for RPM09
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The cosmic equivalent of standing on a ledge and jumping off, except, like Mr. Hawking established, black holes sometimes regurgitate their meals - the original matter is usually corrupted in the process.
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From the RPM 2009 album: "Like A…
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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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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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Title track to my RPM09 album.
Mostly ukulele and vocal, with a few other things thrown in.
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So many people today want to be the musician they idolize; be somebody that they will never be. This song is for them.
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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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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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[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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I heard a story about you
I didnt want it to be true
But it felt like it might
You, well it was all about you
and how the things that you do
Seem strangely undone
And life doesnt help out the weak
A lifetime tends to bring you some…
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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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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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Well I been playing the blues for so long
Kinda feel like playing jazz x 2
I dig the random instrumentation.
Play this in eight over three and a half
I been playing the blues for so long, make me feel like tryna rap x 2
I think I'll call…
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The first beat I ever made, first song I produced :) Please forgive the ill advised symbol.
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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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‘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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sample based song... basically just messing around on Reason, I still haven't quite figured it out.
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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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Cover of original track by The All-Night Workers (early song co-written by Lou Reed and JJ Cale).
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It's another war song. The lyrics pretty much tell the feeling behind this one.
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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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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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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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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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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 ninth of 9 demos I recorded in Jan. 2009 for the upcoming Spooky Garcia album that Rob and I are recording for RPM '09. I would have posted the eighth demo I recorded for the album but it sucks.
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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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There was a contest. I entered. I made the Top 100 and the Judges' Picks lists. Looking back on the whole thing, I'm REALLY glad I didn't win. It was the "Public Radio Talent Quest." The idea was to find the next great public radio host. Three…
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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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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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"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 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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Rough and Slow acoustic version of the more poppy [lifeline glu and sudara collaboration](http://alonetone.com/doublemeanings/tracks/lifeline).
If you like 4 minutes of the same 3 chords, you'll LOVE this song.
Now that I have two microphones…
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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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a short exploration of the fugal possibilities of a chinese musical mode....
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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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When I was fascinated to play Eastern music on my white el. violin....
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this one i wrote for my baby. yea her. i wasn't listening to the headphones when i did the vocals because i had a headache hence.....
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It's a part of a documentary 15min. movie, I recently produced. The title of the movie is "Parvomaistora" - "The Grand Master".
Finally, I could produce the film about my father, who was a great inventor and blacksmith master - Ilia Kovachev…
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Part of an audio sculpture I'm working on that uses the stuff I usually cut out of my radio interviews and turns them into...something new.
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What happened after too much time on youtube watching live vids of "voodoo chile" Noisy obnoxious and very cathartic for me! Live to 2tracks with the Jamman
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One of the first electric jam things I did after getting back into recording about the end of 2006
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this is about the gun crime in modern london and how cheap life can be.
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about a woman of 40 still trying to act like a teenager, but the song has compassion and is not scathing.
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punk song written on the russian beauties in london.
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Imagine a Mexican quintette playing a fast waltz. There are 3 melodies played in 3/4 time, in a sort of non-standard ABCABC format. The title is a photographic/geographic/melodic play on words. There is a merging of European waltz and Mexican…
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Copyright © 2009 Tiago Castro Henriques, some rights reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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This is the first 100% Liz-written song! Hooray!
It's about a shitty party I went to on New Year's Eve. It sucked really hard. My bandmate MK was on antibiotics and couldn't drink, and this guy kept passing us by way too close getting his ass…
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Another of my kinda ambient things. Goes on too long and needs a melody, but was fun to get lost in while doing it
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somehow I always end up singing about lost love...
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A test run with my new Line 6 DL4 delay pedal. Recorded with a handheld mp3 recorder, hence the ambient room noise. The DL4 was fed into a BOSS loop pedal also. No overdubs, all on the fly.
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It is created between the cracks. it is amplified. if you listen, you feel the space between time. it is created in a life without time. caught in a shadow of light. nothing can exist here. but this does. it is beautiful. it is ephemeral. it is gone.
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Traditional Irish Reel - Released on the companion CD to the book "Heart of a Mother." Guitar, penny whistle, accordion, drum loops.
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Publicado Bajo Autorizacion y sin animo de lucro. www.carranga.org
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We are still working on making some words for this song. We like to make up silly titles for songs before we have the lyrics, so the title is just kind of random. Liz does everything on this track, with the help of Garageband.
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Spaghetti Party was our first foray into recording a complete song. MK came up with the idea of writing a song about her friend/co-worker who has "spaghetti parties" which involve him lying on his back on a couch in the basement by himself shoveling…
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From Alex B's Beat Tape Volume 1
www.alexbeats.com
www.1320records.com
www.myspace.com/pnuma
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its basically like putting cake in the toaster
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I thought the hand claps were a bit weird but I wasn't running this dog and pony show. See more notes under "red cowboy" and "I left my toothbrush in St. Louis".
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This was a sort of vignette of the various ways we might travel across the United States: automobile, trains, and planes.
Composed for winter percussion - the indoor percussion equivalent of marching band, with a dash of theatrics.
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Flow is all around us, and sometimes there is a lack of flow. This show explored the different facets and associations of flow.
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the most awesome thing ever recorded by anyone, anywhere, at anytime in the entire history of recorded things. It's true.
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this is a song by my niece Clara. She's 4. the lalalala's are Noah's (6) contribution.
Recorded Christmas day 2008.
Happy New Year all alonetoners!
glad to be here.
t.
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A simple 3-part "round" or canon with variations, showing my children how you can devise a melody that can stack on top of itself like offset puzzle pieces, which will then make its own harmony (with a nod to the master of rounds and fugues, J…
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This song was written to celebrate freedom, actually, (the Russian at the end is one of the dudes from Freesound.com saying "sound should be free!") after a decade when I wasn't. Props to Shreya, who apparently is like me and will just not go…
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This was the first song Shreya played me, and she said it came to her in a dream, and I believe it. It's flooring, and her vocals/acoustic guitar are relatively untouched. I added the other virtual instruments, and if you listen carefully, you…
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their aren't many things that take "it puts me to sleep" as a complement. i think this song takes it wonderfully.
thanks jason for making music and letting me give it a try.
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This piece is my original almost-fugue-sounding arrangement of my favorite Ukranian “Christmas Carol”, Carol of the Bells, as if J.S. Bach had written it. Ingredients: Warmth, depth, complexity, eternal romance. Dedicated to my Belle. This was…
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Drive slowly and plan your route to ram into each of them.
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The title was partly inspired by Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, partly inspired by the circus sound it has.
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Esta Muestra hace parte del Metodo para Tocar Musica Carranguera de www.carranga.org . Publicado con fines educativos y sin animo de lucro.
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Alternate title: Gratuitous Love Scene
Just hacking around with these chords; added some stuff and before I knew it I had one of those bits of cheesy music that accompanies those gratuitous sex scenes...
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Answering the question of whether or not overdone reverb has been uncool for so long that it is now cool again. The answer: no, still uncool.
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This is a short prelude for piano and cello I wrote for my son
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Publicado Bajo Autorizacion y sin animo de lucro. www.carranga.org
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The longing is authentic. What more can I say.
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for any one who has a friend or loved one that makes you hope for the best, and fear the worst... this song is for a friend that I have had a long dialog with(years)... he's very self destructive... you don’t care about winning the argument, you…
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it is a winter blanket of snow. it smothers life. it attempts to silence all sound. however, small ghosts of music escape. they always find each other. every winter they dance together. they are the notes of christmas past. 0x0
hw: quicksilver…
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This is the first real attempt at recording this properly and its got some way to go. It needs a guitar solo and vocoders and so on. But this is some of what I did in my 24 hour slot. I battled with my vocoders and lost :(
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One night after three month of no rain, as we were driving home from singing at Gringos in Grapevine a splash of water hit the windshield.
I said to myself, "Sweet Rain."
I went home and wrote the song. It's on the soundtrack of a movie called…
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...after reading John Steinbeck's IN DUBIOUS BATTLE and watching the John Ford movie of GRAPES OF WRATH. The opening and closing statements are quotes from the Preacher in the movie.
A friend said he wanted to do a video of this track. I…
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one of 5 songs written in July 2005 re: an old bandmate coming to visit after moving away to Indiana. this is a true story.
remember me
when I slept with your wife
and you didn't kill me
remember me
when we played in that band
and toured…
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Jeff Archer - Guitar
Joe Lafata - Keyboard Bass
Matt Stahl - Drums
This is my personal favorite of the 5 jams.
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Just messing around with some amp tremolo and a drum loop.
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it is perhaps of Oriental origins. however, the pentatonic music becomes dysfunctional as it begins to fixate on two notes. it is almost humorous. it was considered a failed experiment. however, it is retrieved from the waste bin, as version 0x01…
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This is another song snippet from my experimentations with Reason 4.
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A remix my girlfriend Dionne came up with.
Part of “The big crash of '07” album. Which is a collection of mostly prototypes of songs that are lost because of a harddrive failure. C'est la vie.
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A mashup of “Bodyrox - Yeah yeah (Ramirez remix)” and “Bucky Done Gun - M.I.A.”
Part of “The big crash of '07” album. Which is a collection of mostly prototypes of songs that are lost because of a harddrive failure. C'est la vie.
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A failed attempt to sing a song of the glorious banana breakfasts served by P.P. in "Gravity's Rainbow"
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