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This piece is inspired by a classic Star Trek (first generation) episode by the same name. For me it imparts a sense of mystery. I usually include it when I perform. I believe that was recorded with a Taylor 110E with a capo on the 5th fret…
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From the second CD. This composition was inspired by a cruise that I took in August 1998. We were in Norway and I was up in the morning and there was this erie fog on the water. The sun doesn't fully set at that time of the year it just hovers…
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From the second CD. This composition was inspired by a visit to my friends Don's condo in Grand Lake, CO. Grand Lake sits just below the Rocky Mountain National Park. Don's condo has an excellent view of the lake and the park. I woke up one…
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This came directly from an improv. It's a Taylor 814 CE in standard tuning with a capo on the second fret. It's similar to Managerie in structure but has a very different feel.
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This track is off of the third CD. When I composed it I immediately knew that it would be track that closed the third CD. While it's short I always like playing it. Recorded with my Huss and Dalton MJC in open D tuning.
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This track is off the third CD. The song reminds of the feeling that one gets when you know that your headed home. It's very straight forward which is unusual for me. Recorded with my Godall 12 string in standard tuning.
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This track is off the third CD. The title comes from an comment from a close friend that the song invokes an feeling my mystery. While it may feel that way it was never the intent hence the title. Recorded with Vincent De Francis OM-42 in standard…
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This track is off the third CD. The title comes from a car that my girl friend at the time owned. The pace and feel of the song reminds me it hence the title. Recorded with my Huss and Dalton MJC in open D tuning.
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This track is off the third CD. I composed the track a tribute to Wookie, a chow chow who has departed his earthly existence. Recorded with my Huss and Dalton MJC in open D tuning
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This track is off the third CD. It reminds me of the feeling that one has when having to do something that we'd rather not do. Recorded with my Godall 12 in standard tuning.
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This track is off of the third CD. It was written on a trip that I made to South America. I composed it in my hotel room on a traveling guitar. We heard a lot of tango music that week and while the feel and phrasing was inspired by the tango…
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This track is off of the third CD. Composed in single day. It's as close to classical guitar as I get. Recorded with my Vincent De Francis OM-42 in standard tuning
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This track is off of the third CD. The title directly reflects the technique that I used which I call Thumbing. Essentially I play by slapping my thumb against the strings. Similar to what bass players have doing for many years. I love the…
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This track is off of the third CD. This title reflects the history behind the track. A close friend once stated to me that my playing style doesn't fit what she considered to be new age. So I wrote a composition that was, in opinion new agey…
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sorry folks just changed the title of the track, I put the wrong one on originally!
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newest recorded music, just a rough mix, a teaser one might say. guitar doesnt stay in tune much these days, you cant really notcie till the end, but its all good...eh, ish.
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This is a track I've been working on for quite a while so I am glad to finally have it out of my head.
I have a kind of love/hate relationship with time and its humble functionary, the clock. Ticking, in particular, is something I am ambivalent…
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This programme won the Radio 1 Student Radio Award 2009 for Best Journalistic Programming (sponsored by Radio 1 Newsbeat).
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This is the entry for URY Gold in the Student Radio Awards "Best Specialist Music" category.
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This is the interview which won the Best Interview category at the Radio 1 Student Radio Awards 2008.
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im getting better at the whole recording thing, its still a tad choppy tho.
hope ya like it
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First song I made after being lazy about making music for a few years. The whole thing took me a few weeks. I feel it should be noted that the song quotes a short passage from Nine Inch Nails' "Eraser." I'm not a very creative lyricist.
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Girls And Boys
3:48
Some boys like to dress in black
some girls are always talking back
Some boys they are tough and cool
some girls don´t like to go to school
We like to be that way
Girls and boys are okay
There´s not much more to say…
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Friendship
2:32
It is something that we got
And it really means a lot
You need it every day
Try to keep it if you can
And use it now and then
Let it never run away
Friednship, is a word
But the best ever heard
Friendship, between me…
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new track still needs a title. Still needs to be finished as well.
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This Is A Kind Of Oldie With A Different Vocal For Us.
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Remixed from Elemental Red for the Ambient Black CD 2004
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Acoustic Dub from Ambient Black, also used by Roadtrip Nation (television show).
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Touch of your love
4:12
Golden dreams, doesn't matter what I do
Everything, look so bright and beautiful
A whole new world, opend up since I saw you
U baby It's gonna be hard
U baby you making me cry
Touch of your love got get in my…
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Hungarian Girl
4:31
Week vacation
By the banks of Danube
Ended all too soon
Waiting for the plain
At the airport Budapest
Life seems hopeless and gloom
Hungarian girl
Thank you for being my guide
And that you showed me
Budapest by…
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Surfing Is Our Business
4:06
Surfing is the greatest
Yeah, surfing is our life
Surfing is our mistress
While we look for a wife
Surfing is our business
To surf is what we do
We can turn you into
Surfer through and through
Surfing is…
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Artists: Castro of SI, NY & Obvious of 860. This track was done in Staten Island, New York using my Toshiba laptop with the help of Adobe Audition, Sony Cardioid Microphone, M-Audio MobilePre USB, Axiom 61 and FL Studio Producer for FX's…
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This track has Frankie G Da Mex on it from Houston, Texas. I-10 ENT is Frankie G's movement and is making head way, so be on the look out for him.
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I had this old song sitting around and decided to re-do it. The chorus used to be slightly different.
The drums are from "Drummer" and the song is played using "Pointless Picks" Recorded in "Garage Band" and Mastered in "Tracktion."
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Another song that I just had to pick a random name for. It was thrown together at the last minute, but I think it came out well.
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This song was originally titled "Spiky" in its demo form, because it was originally supposed to be an attempt to write a song in the style of Porcupine Tree. Still not quite there on the PT worship.
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Clocking in at just over a minute, this was something a song that I started on and then kind of gave up on.
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This song started off just on bass and was saved in demo form as "bass led", as in led by the bass. When I needed titles for all the album tracks, I ended up taking "led" and making it "LED"--light-emitting diode.
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This song was composed just by selecting random chord names in the piano roll in Fruity Loops, and then going from there. The offset piano melody in the beginning was a happy accident (in that I painted it at the wrong offset in the step sequencer…
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This was intended to go much longer than it did, and take a darker or heavier twist...but instead it just ended.
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New song recorded in home studio,better mics on this one.
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Partly about the wars in the Middle East, partly about a dream I had when I was 8, partly about all sorts of random other stuff.
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Drony improvisation. Bugger of a time EQ'ing it. Closing of the ritual and transition to the married state.
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(Traditional)
Kiddie song learned from kindergarten teacher. Not quite the same vibe here, though. New instruments.
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(Tudor)
Henry VIII of England's most famous composition, passably included here for additional merriment.
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(Hogard)
Self-explanatory, with a lot going on. May not be a close factual account of the wedding itself. Kazoo!
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(Hogard)
Everyone should get a lovely wedding dirge as needed. Unfortunately not played at ceremony.
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(Bassett/Shelton/Bender/Franklin?)
On a lovely spring day in the BCS, why not should a man rise up from his drum throne and sing?
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(Hogard/Shelton)
A big wedding, a large circle of friends. Drink.
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Just a short piece of music I made to de-stress myself while working on the other tracks for my upcoming ep :)
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A short piece that sums up what love invokes in me.
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Lyrics:
I don’t want to live to see that it’s over
But I don’t want to leave before my time.
So here’s what I’m gonna do.
No, no, baby, I ain’t gonna lose you,
I’ll just meet up with you further on down the line.
Well I can’t tell myself…
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I don’t know whatever your mama told you
But, baby, listen to me.
Well she may think that I’m a snake in the clover.
I tend to disagree.
But I don’t want to take a lover if I can do what I please.
It’s just a memory of what you…
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Lyrics:
Mama, quit talking crazy.
We both know you’re never gonna leave me, baby
Because you’re scared to.
We got us a history
But love is only a drugstore mystery, baby,
That I don’t care to read.
This ain’t real, baby.
We both know…
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Baby, I don’t have too many friends outside of this biker gang.
And I’m beginning to think I’d like to keep it that way.
Everyone here in the gang likes to snort amphetamines.
If it’s okay with you we can get jumped in today…
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I spend all my time with no one
And I just live with my mistakes.
I’m so tired of being lonesome.
This is more than I can take.
I can’t wait, I can’t wait…
For someone I can hold on to.
For a love that will be true.
For someone…
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She’s my mood swing.
She’s my accoutrement.
She’s my blood money, honey.
She’s the coke bugs under my skin.
She’s my perturbation.
She blows me to smithereens.
She’s my crisis intervention.
She’s a mystery repeating.
She…
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Well you know everything is changing, you can’t tell which way to go.
It’s just booze, guns, and acid, and one huge pile of blow.
I gotta make some corrections, it’s not hard to see.
Maybe find myself a holy man to take this devil…
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Love is a mild catatonia
When you suspend your disbelief.
It can beat you down, it’s like pneumonia.
It’s something you catch and don’t release.
It’s a debt without restitution,
A series of rules that you must break.
I might…
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Well I get up this morning
And I seen my bluebird gone.
Well I get up this morning
And I seen my bluebird gone.
My garden’s full of weevils
And there’s vultures on my lawn.
I’m a put the word out, baby.
Where can my bluebird…
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All four parts (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass) for our Christmas song, "I Can See it in Your Eyes"
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Soprano part for our Christmas Song, "I Can See it in Your Eyes"
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Alto part for our Christmas song, "I Can See it in Your Eyes"
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Tenor part for our Christmas song, "I Can See it in Your Eyes"
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Bass part for our Christmas song, "I Can See it in Your Eyes"
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This is our 8th song, and one thing you may notice about it is that (on alonetone and iTunes) it is at a lower bit rate than most of the others. This is because Alonetone seems to have a 60MB song size limit. However, if you want it at original…
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A bangin trance track. Give it time to build. First rough mix. Soon to feature vocals by sister savage. Stay tuned
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(Hogard/Hogard)
Bonus track! Recorded for Godxiliary's collaborative project _28 Seconds Later_.
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Stuck in a very comfy place. You know you need to leave...
Da techno:
Ableton Live, Alchemy and playing on the the qwerty, quite literally while lying in a bed in California with ipod headphones on. Upon arriving home, I did a little mixing…
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Everyone has heard the phrase 'he can talk the talk, but he can't walk the walk'. Well I was thinking it should be more 'can you walk your talk'. Do your actions back up your words? As a Christian I was thinking that yeah I can talk the gospel…
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to long for an intro to short for a song but we like it!
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"pastlife laptops and attic instruments" is a composition from 2004 that I wrote to perform with saxophonist Brian Sacawa. This is the pre-recorded electronic part that accompanies a (mostly) written-out saxophone part and an ad libitum improvisation…
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A track I improvised and (mostly) recorded on Thanksgiving evening.
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A 15/8 shuffle inspired by my rendition of "Greensleeves" recorded last year for Sidedown's Holiday Challenge.
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Not sure quite what happened here, though I think my bass caught whatever disease Chris Squire's gear was afflicted with in the late '70s.
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Sometimes love can be a hard bargain.
Thanks to Richard Hardrick for the inspiration.
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The music was created to mimic the growth of cubes in a video i created for an installation. The video was projected at The Wind Up space in Baltimore, MD.
You can see it on vimeo here » www.vimeo.com/
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Music was scored to video trying to mimic the sounds of the textures in the film as well as the timing and motion. Video is available with music to see on vimeo.com » http://vimeo.com/7692912
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This is a song I wrote at Christmas six years ago. I've always liked it. Just simple guitar and vocal. Merry Christmas everyone!
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Okay, this is the "finished" version...
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I’ve been meaning to get drunk and try to forget you.
Instead, I’m finding new ways to just upset you.
Baby, I just can’t stay in my mind,
Unintended and unsung, just like all the bad bad…
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Shuffling down the sidewalk, always glancing, looking for.. for what? What is he looking for? What is he looking for? What is he looking for?
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A transcription of Prima's brilliant original recording. I recorded this attempting to catch some of the character of the reeds and horns using an electric guitar plugged into an amp - that's it. Once all the horn parts were multitracked, the…
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This is a Promo for AM570 KLAC talking about me
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THIS SONG IS FOR THE LADIES & DUDES.THE THAT KNO THEY TAKE CARE THE BED LOVE THIS WAT U YOU TELL THE LADIES..,.
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THIS IS FOR THE SMOKER.THAT KNOW THE REAL VIBE AFTER YOU SMOKE...
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THIS IS FOR THE GUY THAT LIKE THE LADIES THAT GO BOTH WAYS & HOW THEY LIKE THEM.THEN IT'S FOR THE THE LADIES THAT LIKE LADIES
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THIS SONG I WROTE FOR A FRIEND OF MIND A REAL LOVE PROBLEM TALKEN BOUT LADIES THATS LOOK FOR GOOD MANS THEN WHEN THEY GET ONE THE MESS OVER THEM..FEEL ME ON THIS SINGLE
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for all the thick ladies just know they body good
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The raw first verse of a Christmas song I'm working on.
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After I finished working on my demos, I decided to cover this song, just because.
One of Kurt's best.
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I wanted to write a song with piano, it pretty much wrote itself. (The chromatic structure of the guitar solo had been in my head untabbed for years.)
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Flexible bullet fired at me
Following some unknown trajectory
Piercing the walls…
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I had to do a love song so . . . .
LYRICS:
So we were two
less than one now that we're through
It came to pass
nothing good could ever last
It's in the past
Why won't it die
The words are flowing now
a narrative suggested
This…
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I was depressed at my caliber of friends when I had a drug problem. This was the result.
LYRICS:
Most my friends are embryonic
Most my friends are hooked on phonics
Most my friends stick to the comics page
Most my friends are disillusioned…
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I've always liked playground taunts and rhymes.
LYRICS:
Sit in the garden
eating nothing but worms
Tastes pretty good
to me
There's so much bounty
coming out of the soil
I could be feeding
for weeks
Who knows where that's been…
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I know the world needs the upwardly mobile, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.
LYRICS:
Success is regressive
Step forward is two steps back
A world unimpressive
judging me for what I lack
Defying convention
all rules are relative…
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I'm afraid of death. Hope I don't die when I'm 44.
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The man in black professed to me
the secret of this life
The conundrum of human pain
The reason for this strife
It doesn't make much sense
I knew that much was true
But what…
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I used to smoke sometimes, so what.
Lyrics (as requested):
Got a bag of weed
Know how to be numb
Light it up and pass it
We all can be dumb
It's fun to smoke marijuana
I'm one to toke when I wanna
I know I'm not poor
enough to…
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I was unemployed for 5 months. This was the last one I recorded before I became just another working man.
LYRICS:
Last one left to
finish then I'm through
Sorry if I'm
under the gun
Three more seconds
antidepressant
Afterwards we…
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I like 20th century classical music. Grand Canyon Suite, can you dig it?
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We are all ghosts
who walk the earth
Everyone you see and
everyone you don't see
Don't know we're dead
through self-deception
People pretend
it turns out well
Don't know what'll happen after this
but I can
hazard an educated…
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