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Being as I am in something of a musical trough of despair (it's not as much fun as it sounds) right now I thought I'd try messing with my TMA-2 Reaktor instrument and try and coax some better results from it.
From a promising beginning TMA…
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(Cotton, Williams) Live radio performance on James Madison University's WXJM in Harrisonburg, VA circa 2005.
Osborne: Drums
Cotton: Vocals/Guitar
Williams: Vocals/Guitar
Capponi: Keyboard
Small part of a larger musical work w/ nice dynamics…
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Ten Years After cover performed live by Rainbowtruth @ Irish Brigade Fredricksburg, VA circa late 1990's.
Barnett: Guitar/lead vocal
Osborne: Drums/back-up vocal
Duff: Guitar
Bowers: Bass
Cool high-energy take w/ plenty of guitar solos. Decent…
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I locked myself/was snowed into a cabin for a month on the shores of lake Michigan, and turned it into a one man studio. Piblokto is a form of hysteria mainly found in eskimos, sometimes triggered by isolation during which the victim will find…
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Quick live recording on my buddy Jim's guitar while visiting him in Portland. The song hopefully speaks for itself. Eastern Europe gets me every time...
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An improv with Bleep!Box app and Harry Partch's Eucal Blossom.
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Live improvisation using a MicroKorg and Roland SH-01.
Mixed with Live 8
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Archival stuff from my distant past with former bandmates in Scartaglen. A set of traditional Irish tunes. Rescued from a cassette tape done at a concert back in the early 90's. Myself on Uilleann pipes and whistle. Mike dugger on guitar and fiddle…
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two loops. incongrous and paired. ridden all the way out. through metaphorphoses. and motion
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last eve there was a beautiful moon
dancing in a blue black sky
outside my piano room, it called to me
this tune is a one take playful moment, loosely based on the main theme from the 2nd mov of my piano sonata,,, i only toned down about…
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another one take that resulted in the previous song slav-o-tage
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Party 2 Nite is a song about you and your lady.
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I had some lyrics describing a late nite cake baking experience kicking around. If I have a lot on my mind, dirtying every dish in the house seems like the right thing to do.
I stole some cool percussion from Norm and went to work. I also…
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For the indignant lover who won't walk away in all of us...
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I wrote this song for the first person I ever fell in love with to tell her that I loved her. I figured that if she didn't feel the same way, it would be less awkward. Win!
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I wrote this one about this guy I worked with in a two man show. Do I feel guilty? Meh.
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Uploaded this one yesterday but it was a bit scrappy. So I've fine tuned it a bit. Left it a bit basic in case anyone wants to add bongos or zephyr. ( Is that the right word?).
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Over at improvFriday Bruce Hamilton took my piece and mashed it up, also featuring Shane Cadman.
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i had the idea of having a strong drum track through something...a drum track that built up through the track...but then i started to mess with the track and ended up with three different versions that i am rather attached to...other versions…
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Rumba Columbia is a traditional Cuban pattern in 6: the "go-to" pattern for 12/8 - if you have only heard one Afro-Cuban rhythm in 12/8, this is probably it. As an energetic Afro-Cuban dance, Rumba was often suppressed and restricted because it…
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More stuff from the ancient archives rescued from the same cassette tape as Last Nights Fun. This time a set of 3 Irish reels Live at a concert back around 1992
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Guitar/Mandolin: Doug Sparling
Fiddle: Brent Hoad
Composer: Turlough O'Carolan
Arrangement: Doug Sparling
Recorded: 2005
A couple of Planxties by O'Carolan. For the life of me I don't remember the names of them...one may be Charles O'Conor…
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Guitars/Keyboards/Shaker: Doug Sparling
Composer: Doug Sparling
Recorded: 2005
I believe there's a demo version of this tune that I've already uploaded to alonetone. Originally written as a piano piece.
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Guitars/Pennywhistle: Doug Sparling
Bodhran: David Shaughnessy
Composer: Doug Sparling
Recorded: 2005
A couple of jigs I wrote after spending time on Inishmore in the Aran Islands.
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Guitars/Mandolin/Pennywhistle: Doug Sparling
Fiddle: Brent Hoad
Bodhran: David Shaughnnessy
Composer: Doug Sparling
Recorded: 2005
Set of three tunes I wrote in 2005. Well, I guess they're hornpipes of sorts...
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Guitars/Keyboards/Low Whistle: Doug Sparling
Composer: Traditional
Recorded: 2005
Irish song, also know by its English title, "For Ireland I'd Not Tell Her Name."
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Guitars/Mandolin: Doug Sparling
Composer: Traditional
Recorded: 2005
A couple of nice reels played on guitar, the first is The Cup of Tea, can't remember the name of the second one. Unfortunately my midi flute scratch track got added in the mix…
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Pennywhistle, Low Whistle, Bar Stool (w/ drums ticks): Doug Sparling
Bodhran: David Shaughnessy
Composer: Traditional
Recorded: 2005
Set of traditional Irish jigs. Don't ask me the names of them, I don't remember (are you seeing a pattern here…
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Guitars/Keyboards/Pennywhistle: Doug Sparling
Composer: Traditional
Recorded: 2006
An old English/Scottish folk song. It's very well known, but has a great melody and I'm not ashamed to play it...
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Pennywhistles: Doug Sparling
Bodhran: David Shaughnessy
Composer: Traditional
Recorded: 2005
A set of reels (the first being "For the Sake of Old Decency," picked up from a Michael Tubridy album of the same name) I put together one evening. You…
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Guitars/Mandolin/Pennywhistle: Doug Sparling
Composer: Doug Sparling
Recorded: 2006
Nothing special, the last track I wrote and recorded for this unfinished CD.
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norm, brian, me - needs leads. My hand is hurting and I need to perform tomorrow - handing this off.
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I'm still getting around to re-upping everything I took down last October.... this is one of them, and if I recall correctly, this is the track that was the impetus for Paul & I to start collaborating. (Something I've been missing a lot…
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Hey, friends, I'm looking for opinions for this one. I wrote this song some time ago, and it's posted on this site. Today I changed some of the instrumentation and cut down on the keyboards, strings, etc. I'd like to know if you like this or…
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Wyn looks at the way Peter commands us to be prepared in 1 Peter
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aren't strings expensive? man i need to sober up.
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this song is the result of playing around on one of those free loop internet jungle gyms.
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In each of his shows, creator Joss Whedon has been noted for writing in a "self-insert" character to serve as the mouthpiece for his particular brand of humor: namely Xander in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Wash in Firefly and Topher in Dollhouse…
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Dedicated to all of the Dracula Girls who have passed through our lives - with love.
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Recorded during a strange phase of the band. We discovered that touch tone phones were wonderful musical instruments.
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The Floyd Tremolo was busted on my Jackson guitar, but we recorded anyway. Why not?
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We originally wrote this song on a cheap home style kind of a Yamaha keyboard and a pair of Cobra walkie talkies. This studio version is much better. We kept the bleeps from the walkie talkies.
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If you're from San Diego, you may know this one. It was an underground club hit there in the late 90s.
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This mix is so far from the original I don't even recognize it. A shooting occurred right outside while we recorded it. It's long, but I like it.
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Dedicated to all of the Dracula Girls who have passed through our lives - with love. And more love because this is the extended version!
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Recorded in the early eighties, this is one of Sha-Pink's very first tracks.
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This song was written at a time when Darrin and Jim lived in different states. This was Sha-Pink's first Internet song.
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loops i hate you. i hate how easy you made this. just kidding. this was a shhtload of fun.
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So, what's "Fly"? This.
Bass Cajon; tambourine; congas; cymbals.
4/4 180bpm.
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A second version with the initial lead guitar standing alone...a little cluttered after a few listens and some constructive feedback!
Norm's Groove for St Monica inspired this one. Thanks Norm!
Lead Guitar, bass guitar and acoustic guitar…
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Recorded one guitar chords, then improvised the melody...hope it's enjoyable :)
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A Black Eye Friday track that has previously not made it on to the interweb. Probably one of the last that will until the bands reincarnation is complete.
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still one of my personal faves. - although i'd wish to redo some parts, i'm stuck with this version, since i don't own one of the synths used there anymore..
(original photo)
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My improvisation project is getting interesting. The centre of this track is at 2:08, where the drums pick up a guitar phrase that begins at 2:03, and then take over the melodic line, while the guitar shifts position to background the drums. The…
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Year: 2010
Album:
bent classics
Artist's description:
I don't know.
Contributors:
an old exercise from piano class
jo guest
the amateurs of alt.binaries.sound.erotica
freesound.org
kontak4
absynth
an evil kitty who made me do it.
a terrier…
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You know what to do and you know how to do it.
The piece is part of the soundtrack 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…
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The final version.
Thank you for listening, any feedback that you can provide is greatly appreciated.
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Fasten your seatbelts, this jeep is going deep into the heart of the jungle! Sound clips cut and pasted against Norm's Fat Baby Bembe.
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This is from years ago, living in santa fe.
I loved driving around in my little 1980s toyota corolla and listening to cassettes. I loved the way they sounded.
So I took a piano song I was working on, recorded it to cassette, dragged mic…
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Unfinished version of our second song. Still needs another verse, a re-do of the hook, equalizing, improved looping, and maybe a new title.
Still let us know what you think of it. Thanks for listening!
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Wrote this song a while back so thought id record it. Im on guitars, Brian Bazeley on Bass.
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This is a song written and recorded at my cabin. Sometimes I just want some peace ..... and learn to play "Lazy" .. really slow !
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A song about people with power that shouldn't have had it
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An improvisation on the resonator, played lap style.
Tuning CGCEBE
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What's to say? That we actually have anything to do with what our government does? Ha! Even Woody Guthrie knew the truth. They just leave that verse out of his "anthem".
No Man's Land
Easy come, easy go. Nothing lasts for long
Pay your…
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This song might be better suited for a girl but I don't have a girl anymore.
CAREFREE
Every time I go out looking for someone who's not like me
Someone who's learned to take their time and live their poetry
I dream that Care's a monkey…
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Some questions and some guesses...about dreams.
Video @ https://vimeo.com/214337550/158436839
BETWEEN OUR DREAMS Capo @ 2 KEY F
FM7 - When we are born do dreams begin
Or was it dreams we dwelt within
C - And when we die does dreaming cease…
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Absolutely love this song so had 2 do a cover. Alot harder guitar work and few minor changes. Once again with Brian Bazeley on Bass guitar.
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accoustic track, guitar and the occasional groan loop. grunt away chicken little, the sky is falling! the kids are malling! the environments appalling. mental spiritual and ecologue devastat o-populart
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Year: 2009
Album: brave new world
This morning coffee cup upload.
Artist's description: Performed synth composition with samples added
Contributors:
Patrick Trotter painted the song icon
Please support the visual artist by visiting…
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This is a weird little story about a a green monster .... There'a a monkey reference in this one too !
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'...to the supposedly low ones; to the myriad, invisible precious...'
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Made a little song which ended up being about the veteran German footballer Torsten Frings (holding midfielder, can break forward).
Did it in an accent that started off being a bit Willy Mason, ended up a bit weirdyank.
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Here are the foundations. Now all we need are some walls and a roof. And perhaps a nice patio area.
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Moving from point a to point b, sometimes not as fast as you would like but with rewards at the end. Sometimes the rewards are unknown but still worth it.
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Kind of an antagonistic / protagonist song. 3rd person type rendition. This song was inspired by a little of my past history.
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Written after reading John Filson's The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucky (1784).
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A tribute to jazz vocalist and interpreter, Suzannah McKorkle
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Jeannie and Frank get so stoned they wind up in outer space.
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A nightmare about Roy Rogers mercy-killing Trigger in an abandoned mineshaft.
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The new new testament will include the book of St. Jones.
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'... ... ...and the door will be opened...
-ULTIMATELY...'
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Slower alt song, about 64bpm, lowest bpm i have wrote so far. Was a bit tricker than the rest. About 20 hours over 3 days for this track. Inspiration is a little varied.
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On this beach made of sand and shells
and broken hearts
as with so many things in this life
it ends where it starts
And like the waves that will roll over me
you take away everything that I see
So I walk to the place where the sand
and sky…
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made with an electric guitar, a simple looping device, an amp, and automated volume curves in Garageband
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A track that I had chalked up as a "throw-away" until a PAL convinced me otherwise. I believe this is an alonetone debut for this one.
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Written: 2004
Composer: Doug Sparling
Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop.
Piano music created at the command line on a Linux laptop.
These are the first tunes I composed after switching from performing to writing. I don't own a piano…
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Written: 2004
Composer: Doug Sparling
Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop.
Piano music created at the command line on a Linux laptop.
These are the first tunes I composed after switching from performing to writing. I don't own a piano…
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Arranged: 2004
Arranger: Doug Sparling
I believe this is a traditional tune, but I'm not sure. I learned it from uilleann piper Seamus Ennis or Liam O'Flynn (or both).
Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop.
Piano music created at the command…
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Written: 2004
Composer: Doug Sparling
Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop.
Piano music created at the command line on a Linux laptop.
These are the first tunes I composed after switching from performing to writing. I don't own a piano…
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Another song from the archive... Written about a friend who somehow seemed to come out of her general sad manner... Thoughts go back to a lunar eclipse when the girl I was standing next to to watch it (way back in college) disappeared from sight…
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The last track that I'm going to upload for a while. I will be re-recording a few songs to release a LP under my own name. Hopefully it'll be good :)
This one is another exploration using loops and delays. I hope you like it!
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This is was originally for piano and is a fair assessment of my piano playing abilities in 1977 and was written in that year.
The original piano version can be had here
http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=528
or listen to it…
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I found this poem I wrote back before she left. I put music to it and recorded it night before last.
Yeah, the high voice is me too.
LEAVING Key Am
Am Dm
He rattles like a tambourine, his…
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Guitars, mandolin, keyboards, penny whistle: Doug Sparling
Arranger: Doug Sparling - 2005
Composer: Shaker Hymn
Old demo from the basement. I love this tune and someday I'll do it justice...
IIRC, I recorded and mixed this thing with a…
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