alonetone radio: Popular
Popular
probably the most 'full band' thing i've ever done
Uploaded
The sound of the wheels
That the gravel driveway reveals
I am home for a while
Where I keep my things and desires
Tennessee / Carolina
Tie the loose ends and leave it behind
You know me, I’m unwinding
Soaked in gin subatomic dividing…
Uploaded
I wrote and recorded this song a few months back (on Inauguration / MLK Day). A month or so ago, I re-recorded it to change the key but was not satisfied with the guitar sound, so I re-re-recorded the guitar today (still not satisfied...) and…
Uploaded
Draw Near Again
Intro:
Draw me nearer, draw me, Lord,
Draw me nearer to Thee.
Tame my soul, oh tame me, Lord,
Draw me nearer to Thee.
Verse 1:
Our Father who art in heaven,
The earth can't contain Your grace.
We have sinned and now…
Uploaded
Baby Willow
Somewhere, something
has turned a wing
and left a branch dancing
grey days, grassways
there's a stowaway seed
in the cuff of my jeans
baby willow
it's the only place you'll ever know
blue vein in my head
gets the blood…
Uploaded
Back to an orchestral game/movie trailer piece, having been working on covers for a while. Here is my composition using full orchestra, Cathedral organ and choir, that hopefully could be imagined alongside a thrilling piece of movie action!!
Uploaded
The full moon is already being felt. Spent a good amount of energy today just speaking the language and then trying to work in community. This is the hard stuff. Building community takes conversation. calm, context, and collaboration. Probably…
Uploaded
I made this in Ableton from piano bits I'd created a while ago.
Uploaded
I wrote this track pretty long time ago, but then redid parts of it for a live setting so I could play it on my digitakt. I haven't played out live in a bit so I tried practicing it today...
Uploaded
There was once a boy
Who got inside my blood
And began to make me sick
I heard he loves a girl
With a big house and sexy looks
And he's goin' to have her kids
It's like he's erasing us
Erasing me
And filling his life with another…
Uploaded
Take your time to find the right one
The sun don't rush to meet the dawn
Every star has its own glow
So let the moment softly flow
No need to race
No need to run
A masterpiece is never spun
In hurried hands or fleeting nights
Patience…
Uploaded
Hello, Are You There
To share the love
We have found
Uploaded
She walks in light that blinds my eyes
Her smile’s a spark that fills the skies
The world could spin or fall away
But she’s the reason I will stay
she is the spirit in the sky
Uploaded
I've been chasing shadows in the light
Running through the echoes of the night
The road is winding but I just don’t care
I hear your voice it says take me there
Always and always
Uploaded
She's got a laugh like summer skies
Eyes that shine like fireflies
Her heart beats in a world of gold
She's the one I’ll never let go
Take care of my baby when I'm gone
Hold her close when the nights are long
Promise me you'll treat her…
Uploaded
I’m a shadow in the evening light
Fading slow into the night
Will my name echo through the breeze
Or vanish like whispers in the trees
Will you still remember me when I fade
When the colors of my face begin to shade
Am I a story that time…
Uploaded
When the sky turns gray and the winds run wild
And the weight of the world feels like a lonesome child
Keep your eyes on the road there's a path to trace
There's always a solution for the things we face
Lift your head up high let the light…
Uploaded
Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning
And you think I'm not going to make it
But you laugh inside
Remembering all the times you've felt that way
'Cause you'll be fine
You'll be fine
You'll be fine
You'll be fine
And sometimes…
Uploaded
On my way home
By that lonesome graveyard
A ghost jumps up and says
Come here won't you be my man
Wasn't a ghost at all
Someone asking for a ride
Wasn't a ghost at all
Someone asking for a home
Said boy come here
And take me to your…
Uploaded
Learn to Stall
1
So your water is cold
You’re probably hiding something
So if I ask you to stay - just go
You’re the gift that keeps on taking
2
Why are you asking me?
What do I know?
Everyone was young once
But nobody knows it…
Uploaded
Accidental synthwave. I hated this at first, but it's not bad. I kind of feel like this is me, in the 80s, driving home from work along palm tree lined high way. I had a bad day writing fortran for my job and I'm burnt out.
Uploaded
Higher and Higher
Verse 1:
When the barren dances with joy,
Holding her firstborn through tears of joy.
When the broken leap in praise,
As the good news fills their humble hearts.
When the sun rises in the morning,
Proclaiming Your…
Uploaded
Subtle change of gray light
Heart breaks in sync with the sky
As it cries over open fields and tall stands of pines, their delight
No weight to the world they rejoice
Heavy lids, can't sleep
Head like a hornet nest, a buzz with bees…
Uploaded
it's fuzz and it's delay but it's more folk + 90s alt rock
Uploaded
A cover of Working Hands by Tom Eisenbraun from his 2014 album "Radio Ghost"
Uploaded
I saw jack-in-the-pulpit and I knew I belonged
And I felt every sermon and I held every song
O The trees creaked and shifted as they turned and dropped their leaves
And I pulled an empty bottle and I held it to the breeze.
Oh this one life…
Uploaded
I saw jack-in-the-pulpit and I knew I belonged
And I felt every sermon and I held every song
O The trees creaked and shifted as they turned and dropped their leaves
And I pulled an empty bottle and I held it to the breeze.
Oh this one life…
Uploaded
One Newport left in the pack
I know that we ain't coming back
Waving goodbye to my friends
Beginnings can feel like the end
Thrusters go off underneath
Vibrations under my feet
Can't help but think of that thrill
Card in my spokes as…
Uploaded
Cracked glass
Lightning
Strike
The passing
Yellow
Line
Pull over
I said
I’m fine
Everything we took for granted
Oh I can taste it
Now it all amounts to nothing
more than wasted
time
I said
I’ll try
Sad sack…
Uploaded
Went to Bellow Falls today and hiked around a bit. It was beautiful and grounding.
Uploaded
This is yesterday's track, back to the original melody with cross-picked guitar added (oy! that was tough). I see the template for a proper song now, and over the coming days I'll add to this and I hope to end up with something...
Uploaded
Maybe I’m someone
Or maybe I’m not
A tree falls in the forest
And the roots start to rot
And my lady she loves me
Whether I like it or not
I’ve got all that I need
I’ve got all that I’ve got
It’s too early for peaches
And it’s too late…
Uploaded
a little break beat from my digitone. This is turning into "learn the digitone" month.
Uploaded
EMPTINESS
It seems to be very difficult for people to be critical of the culture in which they are enmeshed within. There are all sorts of mechanisms that dominant cultures use to further socialize and entrench us:
patriotism /// nationalism…
Uploaded
Mountain Song
Went to the city from Arkansas
I wanted to be everything that I saw
Don't you believe the nice things you hear
People in the city'd lick the fat from your beard
Red red river where nobody goes
So full of iron it's like…
Uploaded
A new TKP rough draft track... Lyrics and keys to come! / Added second guitar to beginning and worked on lead 7/7
Uploaded
I wrote this a week or so ago, and decided to give it a proper "mix" I guess? I'm not great at mixing quite yet, so this is just trying to add some ear candy and make it sound as good as I can!
Uploaded
I'm grateful for balance. Yarrow showed up today in a field and I was reminded of the balance I have to continue to strive for.
Uploaded
Worries Never Win
Verse 1:
Worries have never solved
The things that ache my heart.
Pacing the midnight floors,
Only pulled me apart.
Tried to fix it all alone—
But I was sinking fast.
Then I heard a still, small voice:
“Child, this…
Uploaded
Last of the five-day experiment in intervals. Again, my friend Ebow was acting persnickety, as is its wont (I'm sure I have nothing to do with it), and the result includes some abrasive string rattling. I like the melody of the original recording…
Uploaded
Hares on the Mountain
O Sally my dear it's you I'd be kissin'
She smiled and replied "You don't know what you're missin"
If all the young men were hares on the mountain
many young girls would grab guns and go huntin
If the young…
Uploaded
V1:
Oh, how did we get here
Seems familiar but it’s unclear
Did no one take the reigns before we lost control
I’d rather say something
If it’s better than nothing
Wouldn’t you think twice if it saves your soul
Chorus:
Darlin…
Uploaded
I was in deep at second, my heels in the outfield - full count
No one left out on the bases, familiar faces, the heat breaks a cloud
Hands red from the clay dirt as I held up my glove to my faaaaaaace
It smells just the way I remember, the…
Uploaded
I was reminded again yesterday of a responsibility to the language, to the culture, to ourselves.
Uploaded
To me this is one of my best Tracks.....yet.... :-)
The Kick comes from a PlugIn called "Kick Ninja"! What a great PlugIn!
Also I'm really starting to hate my AI generated garbage profile pic but alas, I have not a single gram of talent in…
Uploaded
Reg has been reading the papers today and it seems like utter chaos out there since the circus came to town ...... and the world will never be the same again.....
Nothing will ever be the same again
The circus came to town today…
Uploaded
The ebow gods were fickle today. Anyway, here's a melody, copied to a new track, then I raised the original track two steps, and lowered the duplicate track two steps to create a fourth interval. I tried also adding reversed tracks but it was…
Uploaded
another attempt at short form deep techno a la some of my favorites...
Uploaded
Drums, guitar, bass, Microfreak set to say "Meow" through a bunch of pedals.
Uploaded
Half and apple half a moon
Half a dozen coyotes and a howling loon
Pick a card any card
It's all magic don't think too hard
Don't think too hard
Don't thing too hard about it
Where on earth do you find the time
To be anything less…
Uploaded
exploring the kinotone ribbons tonight. it is a pedal that emulates magnetic tape and all it's imperfections. here i start what a clean arpeggio and engage ribbons around 20s. throughout, we explore degradation, harmony and rhythm as the loops…
Uploaded
Beat Your Ass Like You're Talking Bout A Little Kid
Uploaded
Changed the approach a bit today: intended to blend a melodic line a third apart, but ughhhh. So, here's an improvised ebow line, copied then reversed, with some harmonics added. Still not satisfied with results, but am happy to have made three…
Uploaded
A quick attempt at some hypnotic techno a la deep bass..
Uploaded
so much depends on a little red wheelbarrow
glazed with rainwater
beside the white chickens
these days a man dies you can't leave him be
gotta get his body offa your property mm-hmm
so much depends on a red wheelbarrow
glazed with rainwater…
Uploaded
(written for BC)
Been a reflective and challenging couple of days. Pushing myself, balancing, grounding. Rinse and repeat. I appreciate the very supportive person in my sphere right now.
Close your eyes. Feel the ocean's healing through this…
Uploaded
I AM Alone
Chorus:
Eternal Father, King of glory,
Ever reigning from above!
Forgive me, Lord, I once was blind,
That I dared speak their names with Yours.
You are I AM—the fire, the storm,
The Shepherd, Lion, and the Dove.
From everlasting…
Uploaded
Dian, you say the sun is going down
But it's a ways across town
I think we've got a little light left
Dian, you say you miss me when we talk
But I'm the only one who calls
Ain’t it funny how that works out
Dian, first your sister…
Uploaded
It's very late and I decided to mess with some ambient guitar sounds. Now I'm ready for a nice dream.
Uploaded
a tribue to one of my favorite melodies. do you know it?
Uploaded
Day two of the Daily Two! I feel like I flubbed these drums. But I did the thing and that's what matters...
Uploaded
Two passes at a melody in Am, both duplicated, moved down a second interval and reversed. Hmmmm.
Uploaded
Anticlimactic jam in a time signature not yet known to man. Maybe 6/8
Uploaded
Spinning like the wheel
Painted on the temple
Does the wheel turn slowly
Or is it me that moves?
I can count the hours
And I can name the prophets
Kept like silver spoons
Struck like wooden matches
Should I call it sleep or divine…
Uploaded
It takes a lot to get me going anymore
Through Trials and Tribulations
The needle drops into a dance I don't forget
You've got a way of moving
I'm twisted
I'm twisted
I'm twisted
Around your finger
Uploaded
Lyrics:
Another morning
Such sorry days
Long hours working
No living wage
Oh how I long for
The life I crave
Sure begs the question
When the dam's gonna break
Oh watch out
Head down
Hush your mouth
Honey, don't stand…
Uploaded
This is another song for my Hyperphantasia album, dealing with dreams, daydreams, fantasies, and imagination. The inspiration was a challenge in the Deluge synth discord group to make a song using a single kit. I compiled a bunch of sounds from…
Uploaded
A single ebow line in G major, copied to new track and reversed, with some reverb and compression; added simple strummed acoustic guitar, recorded twice/doubled; canned drums. Recorded in Ableton. My idea is to record 5 days of ebow stuff like…
Uploaded
mikwaldigan liwlaldamana
Returning to the language (Abenaki) is a remembering. A remembering of how the words have meaning, a remembering of how the words are part of our culture.
Uploaded
Everyone is writing songs inside their heads
Waking up from sleeping in their unmade beds
I cleared out space in springtime to make room for the fall
I wrote you words of kindness, but I won’t speak them at all
The kudzu choked the hillside…
Uploaded
Had a hard time to integrate the vox samples in this project but I like the result :-)
Uploaded
I Stopped at One
Chorus:
I tried to count my blessings one by one,
But I stopped at one—for You are enough.
You're all I need in this life; You lift me when I'm down.
You walk with me through the rain—such a loving friend.
Verse 1:
I…
Uploaded
This Single is for an EP with a pink combination of another song
Uploaded
Bind My Heart
Verse 1:
Here I am—did You call, Lord?
In the still of night, my heart hears Your voice.
Forgive me, Father, for running once more.
Bind my heart, my feet, and desires to Your humble throne.
Chorus:
Lord, You are my peace…
Uploaded
Recorded in Reaper with actual instruments mostly. Drums are virtual because I'm no drummer. Never played one on TV, nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express(tm) last night. It ended up being about heckling.
Uploaded
I decided to revisit my ambient side with this track. I was split on leaving it this way or adding voice clips. The ambient side won.
Uploaded
I thought I'd do one for the Series killer fest on the Songcrafters.org site. My dog Bella decided to join in when I was recording the acoustic and her timing could not have been better......Charlie? well what can I say he was a young man when…
Uploaded
Reg was trying his best to convince her that what she was doing wasn't really what she wanted to do that it wasn't in her to throw him out on the street. she loved him and he knew it....or so he thought!
This ain't you Babe
Theres…
Uploaded
Brass, Woodwinds, Strings, Choir, all looping at slightly differing rates to get different combinations over time. periods 13, 14, 15, 16 beats at 20 BPM
Created in Abelton Live
Uploaded
My version of Woody Guthries "all you fascists bound to lose.
Uploaded
Missing Persons cover. Please dont sue. Im not selling it.
Uploaded
Another Track after a fairly long creative block. Also my Laptop with EndeavourOS crashed unbootable and I was not able to fix it. So i reinstalled and I am now trying to work mainly in Bitwig and try to install as few PlugIns as possible. So…
Uploaded
All what's happening in world has shaken Reg a little and he's calling for a little compromise and understanding ...I personally think he's really after the Nobel peace prize as its up for grabs now Trump has bombed Iran…
Uploaded
I started this song a few days back and just now getting back to it to finish up mixing and uploading.
(written for BC)
Uploaded
It was a lovely sunny day yesterday ...... this morning I woke to the news that the US had bombed Iran
Its a lovely sunny day
Its a lovely sunny day in Israel
Its lovely sunny day in Iran too
What is that that flying high through…
Uploaded
“On Vices and Their Opposite Virtues and In Whom They Are and About What,” - Philodemus
Uploaded