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A quickly improvised tune with some stream-of-consciousness lyrics. Written/recorded hastily in the dead of night on Tuesday 11/27 with a short overdub session on Thursday 11/29, when I should have been sleeping.
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The cupboards, of this old house
Don't close like they used to
And your mother, is just as old now
Wouldn't you say
The lanterns, you hung in your teeth when you were young,
Still light up the room
Yeah it's true,
If anything is true
I wish…
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FDR emerged from his cave one morning and took a stroll,it was a blustery day and his ears blew back like two streamers in the wind. He went down into the woods and there in the dappled sunshine he saw something gleaming through the…
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this song is based on a rock opera idea i had, but shrunk it down to one song. perhaps someday i will do the whole opera.
it has 3 narrators singing, and one voice as jack. jack voice is very obvious and a horrible try at somewhat of an english…
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Continuing my obsession with the Buzzcocks Spiral Scratch EP, this is a medley of the four songs made using an Android ap called Chordbot.
There's two versions, this one and the one next to it here. And some guitar played over with the melody…
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Well Reg has just realised that he keep making the same mistakes with his relationships as he always has....the first song from the Newly built cellar.....Jim just had to jump o this one............
Hello pain my old friend it's so nice to see…
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Summer Sun
Sitting in the summer sun
The heat warms the soul
Sitting reminiscing
Got no particular place go
life is all around me
The motion of the birds and bees
Is like heaven to me
Heaven to me
I lay out in an open field
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..and the next one is...
Acting Like a Fool
Laying here half asleep
with sun shinning down through the window it peaks
The crack of the curtain shows the world outside
What have I done where have I been
was I really back out on the scene…
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Reg and Regfunkel reunion tour 2012...live in the Bunker...
Yesterday's Dreamer
Yesterday's dreamer sat on the sidewalk
Trying to find a way through his clouded mind
There was no rhyme or reason
To why he was feeling so down inside…
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A tworegs reunion rocker from the German bunker...Jawohl!!
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Scottish music scene veteran talks long distance recording, internet trolling, touring with a tribute act, and falling out with the erstwhile drummer from Teenage Fanclub over a Doctor Who DVD.
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This a song about conversion.
Moment Of Grace
Out of darkness I have come
Borne into Your light
Now seeing what is not of You
T’was by grace that I was lifted here
To the mountainside
By my angel, my faithful guide
You changed my…
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The first track on the first release by Manc punks Buzzcocks. Am intending to cover all four songs from the Spiral Scratch EP, this is the first.
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a slightly gloomy, hard rock, prog song. i think it shows a lot of improvement. as usual i am the one man band for this one.
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ipad preamps and ipad drum sequencer recorded track by track into a PC.
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One more before I plug in my microphone and really scare some folks.
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Alex is joined by instrument builder Yuri Landman and writer Gary Marshall to discuss file sharing, live music, and the future.
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Re-recorded, some riffs slightly changed, drums updated. Used a Jackson Warrior JS32 w/EMG 81 + Brass sustain block.
Amps: Poulin "Legion" + Kefir. Guitar Rig 4 (MeZone/Jump).
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Keyboard and Electric Bass Guitar by Otis Maly, Percussion by Matt Santana
One of three tracks that my friend Otis jammed on during February 2012. This is the first mixdown I've done since he laid down the keys back in mid-February of 2012…
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cobbled together from 3 different fits of inspiration for the 2012 challenge... still needs more words.
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put those dreams away before you let them fall
for you will break them all
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an instrumental! i don't know if it is prog. + rock + space rock, or what!?
but the title might sort of explain the journey of the song.
and as usual, i wrote it and play everything on it.
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I dug out my old alto recorder several years back and got thinking if I could just learn to play a simple phrase or two on it, I could incorporate it into a song. It was a nice idea, but in practice I did better at digitally editing a take together…
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hid my phone in the room where my 3 year old was playing and caught some audio- in it at one point he exclaims "obey the man!"... the "man" he was referring to was actually batman but I thought it would make a really funny reggae line- even if…
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one take open tuning noodle with a bunch of guitar lines thrown on top... a little on the long side and pretty rough but has some nice moments about 3/4 of the way through.. reminds me of sitting on our porch during the summer evening in the…
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this is a song dedicated to my sons favorite angry bird- the big red bird- known in the angry birds community for his awesome destructive force- the words were taken more or less verbatim from answers given by my son when I asked him to describe…
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i wrote this in 81 originally called - battlecry. but i updated it to a sci fi type armageddon story. a video would have went well with this but, maybe some day. all explosions, firepower, helicopter sounds and all battle sounds did on keys…
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The Road to You by Pasha is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at alonetone.com.
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Maybe I missed a career scoring for no budget spaghetti westerns, because this is what this reminds me of. Done live a couple weeks ago with the Taylor and a floor full of toys and loopers.
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collaboration with a former bandmate, finished ending and mix
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Recently, my wife and I discovered the TV show Portlandia, and it has become our Saturday morning ritual to watch the latest episode with our coffee. Anyways, I kind of got the theme song (http://www.ifc.com/fix/2011/02/portlandia-whats-that…
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Come join me on this sonic joyride...I'm Saved
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This song sounds like a lonely road by the beach in the late summer/early fall. Try it out when the weather is cooperating with you. Then, reflect on who you are.
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Pulbicado bajo autorizacion y sin animo de lucro. www.carranga.org
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The title track to Aural Sculpture Project. Part ambient music, part spoken word. Enjoy.
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Call that dark, feels cold to me? And I'm waiting for the sound of dead leaves falling.
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The original version, written in response to LAN goers who used the software and didn't turn off their sound effects.
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With the flick of a switch when the light ran away
And the last scraps of daylight abandoned
Instead of feeling secure inside the cozy retreat
There were noises just outside on the landing
When the shadows crept through the deepening gloom
A twinkle…
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You shouldn't try to keep your secrets
And then just run off to confess
I'm sure you've got your own reasons
To fight the movement to suppress
Acting parts in your own theatre
But going blind under the spotlight
(Chorus)
Even though it's all…
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High 'n Mighty
(t boudreau)
Well look who made it halfway
I truly must be blessed
I made a few mistakes and caught a couple of breaks I guess
And I always do it my way
I make it up as I go along
I think I earned some slack to take a…
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Gone To Stay
(C Maiorano)
Here at the crossroads, with no ideas
River of time flows, year after year
We change as the wind blows, storm drawing near
The light of our life glows, then disappears
We wrestle with reason, struggle with fear…
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i can hear the digits in your digital audio
i feel the need to fidget with my mouse and my moby
i’m listless as i listen to prestigious presentations
of manipulated data and prestidigitation
i type unlisted numbers into my communicator
i'm dubious…
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I wrote this in Feb 2012 - I've been getting into watching documentaries on the NASA Apollo program and also having fun with a Telecaster. The Sea of Tranquility is a place on the Moon.
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Part of The Kitchen Sink, AMUC's RPM 2012 album.
If you like what you hear, you can also find the entire Kitchen Sink album as a playlist, with everything in the correct order.
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Another experiment...
This time in Spanish
2/25/12: Somehow the original file got broken, so I had to re-upload this... nothing new here, except I lost all my nice comments :(
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This track is actually 99.583333% M.T.C. But, I needed an easy project for July, since I didn't have a lot of time last month. He had published it as a "B-Side" called "Quarter of a 60th Spanish." For fun, I just added a few subtle twists. Probably…
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I've never felt such a need to apologize for a track as this one. Take that as a warning.
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A tribute to Hawkwind
The Surreal Age of the Naked Lemon
Haley's Comet flies across the English sky and the Saxon king will not survive
It's a dark dark omen a foreboding warning it's a dark dark Amen like a beautiful morning
On the…
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It's a small song about a blurred childhood memory of a night in the woods when a wild boar made us run home in panic.
The monster came through the ground
Across the glade we ran
There was a sense we felt again - never felt again.
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A story about the search for leader. People, independent as they are, often look for someone to tell them what to do. In their quest they will often go for a person who was just passing by and was never planing on leading anyone ... Things get…
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Sometimes the best attention you get give someone is to leave him alone for while ...
Lyrics:
You've been away, you took your time
You lost your mind, now you are mine ...
Locked in a basement of a house you never been to
... I'll be kind…
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microtonal piano improvisation
it was pointed out to me at 2:54 you can hear Mary Had a Little Lamb - totally unintentional and in a completely foreign tuning to boot!
details
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1991
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Organ in 15 Porcupine - I'm not very happy with this. I've fussed with it for a couple hours and it still sounds like disembodied phrases thrown together haphazardly to me. YMMV
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When destruction hit ... what do you do? look back or build anew? in any case, I hope you're smiling ...
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Spun around like a seer's needle
A philosopher so lost in his riddle
Tries to speak but no longer able
Drifting in the deepest dream
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This one took me a while [years!] to complete - how did it come out?
Freesound samples used…
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This is a live cut from an NPR radio broadcast back in 1988 while my Irish Trad group Scartaglen was on one of its first east coast tours. Found recently on a cassette tape. Musically this was one of my favorite periods in the history of the band…
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HE MOVED ON
capo @ 7 in C positions
C G Am Em
Jenny left her husband many years ago
F C G
She got lost in menopause and found herself…
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The guy who lives next door to the guy who has lots and lots of friends...
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An experiment I recorded yesterday with a rig I put together for more or less ambient sounds using two loopers and nearly every effects unit I own. I have no idea who Clark was but he owned the '58 Harmony Stratotone that I used on this cut. His…
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this song - purple mountains was iriginally a jam back in 75. chris vaisvil was the guitarist and i always remembered it cause i liked it. he had an echo-plex then and it was pretty psychedelic. no keys were originally in the song but it was a…
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starts as kind of a uriah heep instrumental then right into a haunting gothic love song.
13. ethereal stagecoach ride / dance macabre ©
the suns gone down
no humans to be found
the shadows will…
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Details and another piece
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1477
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A setting of a sonnet by Walter Lowenfels to music.
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The story of everyone's life.
I tried again, after I learned it a bit better.
I took my love, I took it down
Climbed a mountain and I turned around
And I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills
Till the landslide brought me down…
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Live in the Living Room cover of Hawkwind's Master of the Universe
Done for the Songcrafters.org fest Live in the Living Room, I made this recording in one take. Which isn't how I usually work. My guitar was put through fuzz and distortion…
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In 1984 George Sluizer, a Dutch director filmed RED DESERT PENITENTIARY in and around Sweetwater, Texas. This is the theme song of the lead character, Danny McMann. I played that role in the movie and wrote the music to the film.
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My contribution to the Angie Fights Crime album "Sunny, Sorta..." AFC wrote the lyrics and chords, then gave me free reign to do what I wanted from there.
I tried some very out of character things with the guitar. I think they worked…
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A solo electric guitar piece. Strat copy in 17 edo, Marshall amp, zoom H2 recorder.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiprotonic_helium
Tuning:
Harmonic six-star, group A, from Fokker
16/15 6/5 32/25 4/3 3/2 8/5 48/25 2/1
A string composition played on Fender Mustang driving a Roland GR-20 that was re-tuned on the fly
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Me and Rihanna went on a date...That's my story and i'm sticking to it.
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This is one of my earlier compositions. Both clarinet parts are played live by me.
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a bit techno-like jew's harping. i like this stile of playing because it shows the instruments strength in rythmical patterns and ancient synthesized music.
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live @ Cafestival, Kargadoor, Utrecht, NL Jan 2011
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Live impro @ Cafestival, Kargadoor, Utrecht, NL Jan 2011
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This is a piece using 2 keyboards, an M-Audio 88es (vocal choir) and Alesis Q49 (brass choir) in 17 notes per octave. The objective was to use some functional xenharmonic chord progressions. I would be interested in knowing if you perceive the…
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thought i'd throw it out there.
take it. use it.
if you like.
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slightly different mix for sinbad multitrackstudioforum who suggested a vocal boost and some creepy Vincent Price reverb(i may have given it too much of a boost though)
sort of vaguely electroskank arrangement with some hints of klezmer &…
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I'm not on top of it as usual, guys. But I did manage to let Greg Brady out of my basement and set him free. This is his testimonial regarding the incident. I hope he can forgive me.
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Reg was watching a documentary called the half ton man and it got him thinking...............
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Just playing around with my keyboards and drums. This was just updated today with a new mix.
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After the Alonetone meetup in Dublin, I promised Tess & Bethan I'd get my finger out and finish/upload some more stuff. So this is the first thing that's reached "good enough" stage. A trancey/ravey number featuring monotron samples after…
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Written & Recorded: July 1-2, 2011
DADGAD
First time I've picked up a guitar since February. Still not feeling it, though...
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The B side to Dad's father's day present. This is an instrumental celebration of his 45 years in the printing industry, and an acknowledgement that while other kids got bedtime stories, I got the history of lithography..
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I live way out in the woods and when I play guitar the frogs, crickets and coyotes sings along. This is an interpretation of that interplay and my amusement of it.
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download full quality video (157 MB)
http://micro.soonlabel.com/17-ET/Dead_Sea.wmv
This is a guitar piece in classical style in 17 notes per octave using the 17 version of the phyrgian mode. In normal 12 equal tuning phyrgian mode starts on…
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Lyrics: Casia
Vocals: Mark Lee Fletcher
Guitars: Andrew Doherty
Bass: Marc Traynor (1962 - 2010)
Drums: Gerald Langenfeld
Composed, arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
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Marc Traynor…
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I want you to fling my ashes into the face of the person who annoyed me last....
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Lucy of the species Australopithecus looks into the distance of Awash Valley in what is now Ethiopia and feels the future of what can be.
Performed in Charles Lucy's 0b5s tuning
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This evolved out of an exercise in a workbook I just got on music composition. The original task was to write a melody in the Dorian mode about water...
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The vocals are hard tohear cause it was recorded badly...
I feel like getting drunk
I dont feel its gonna get better
I've tied my hands to my back and its done
Nobodys in the mood for summer
I think the ghosts have come home
Done it before…
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A Song I wrote about a friend of mine who used to Jump out of planes a lot.
This is one of the hidden tracks on my new album "Black Cat" which features Beth, Keith and Reewfwalker from alonetone and Geir and Jim from Songcrafters.
Here is a…
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Steady, hold your heading
The landing strip's in sight
Keep your wits about you
Hold your values tight
Storms gather in the distance
Crosswinds on the ground
Freedom on the glide path
Will always get you down
FREEDOM! There's nothing more important…
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Drums - Steve Gardner
Lead & rhythm guitars - Norm
Bass - Mimmo
Words, music, vocals, piano & 'strings' - Errol
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I've been told that drowning is a dreamy way to go.
THE ANGELS CRIED "NO!"
He lived high on the mountain top
He lived there with his love
He tumbled to the valley deep
When she gave him a shove
And when he hit the valley deep
It must…
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My first RPM cover of 2011. This one is "Like This" by The Missed Connections. I seem to have taken a darker turn with the song than Amelia did. It wasn't intentional, but it seems to be what I do when I cover her songs.
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An improv in a found tuning. E and A strings tuned WAY down so they're slapping the neck:
A(low) E(low) C# E A C#
Super full moon tonight! (View More for video)
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Guitars, Drums, Production: Nick Testa
Guitar, Vocals: John Van den Oetelaar
Words & Music: Errol Chugg
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The title track to the new album. Turn it up. Listen all the way through and there's some ear candy at the end for you. ;)
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A brief glimpse, but that's all. Inspired by last April. It's for everyone, but no one in particular. Yes, this one gives more than a passing nod to Ham and Evans. Thanks gents!
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from the album "In the Shadow Of the House Of the Demon" (2010) on Teagown Records.
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from the album "In the Shadow Of the House Of the Demon" (2010) on Teagown Records.
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Sassy Nation version!
Sister Savage and Mr Sandbags collaborated on the original of this wonderful heartbreaker of a song. I've been playing it on the guitar the last few days and it always seemed to come out with a grittier tone, so i asked…
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The piano track is a mangled version of the already-mangled piano from the previous song ("The Saucers Arrive").
The plan was to try to improvise in a way that was somehow rhythmically compatible with the skittering piano track. The guitar track…
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February
t boudreau
I'm stuck inside of February
With little chance of escape
And all you bar-stool visionaries
giving me advice that you'd never take
Wanna seat on a slow boat heading
South down a stream that seems to never end
Or…
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Two Freesound sample used here that's worth noting:
* 97189 epanody_samplescene2
* 18450_zippi1_sound_singing3
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Final version
Guitar, mandolin and voice.
this doesn't fit with my rpm project AT ALL so i may not use it but i like the way it came out. I recorded the music for Bethan Mathis' RPM project but she didn't have time to use it (her album is…
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So I dropped the guitar into DADGAD tuning for the first time, threw a capo on the third fret, rifled off something nice, and sent it to Movement to Contact for his contribution, got it back, did some mixing...
Here is the result.
YOU NEED…
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This was based on a flying dream I had months ago.
(Actually, more like a crashing dream, since while I was able to pilot myself into the heavens, I guess I forgot to turn off gravity.)
The fellow described appeared in the dream, casting…
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jazzsequence - bass, mix mangler
daedae - spacey, acoustic guitar
Jahn - Electric Guitar Analog Effects
Commoner - Found and common percussion
jesmiaus - flpitchervocals
Uncle Tompa - Percussion and Ambient Synth
Ronny Wærnes - contact mic feedback…
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This was one of several songs I recorded in a session on the night of my 29th birthday. I had decided to just start playing and see how many tunes I could write straight through without stopping. My only rule was that these tunes had to be totally…
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Final version
I wanted to have a banjo fiddle tune but i still haven't learnt to play either instrument, so this is my famous 1 string banjo technique, with mandolin and guitar. It's style is inspired by meeting Morgan O'Kane and Ferd 4 last…
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Another page from my "sketchbook". This is typical. Not much detail. But a real feeling or two emerges. Like a potters perfectly turned shard or the poet's beautiful line that she's never found more words to join with...
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This time paying homage to grandpa. Did I miss any dead folks out this album?
I often stop and think of William
Up on Skinners Ridge
He passed me on his way back down
As I passed from being a kid
A shame you’d say
But aint that the way
Things…
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Final version
it needs a fiddle but it has a mandolin, a chicken banjo and some excellent backing vocalists
my third demo for RPM 2011
The cat's in the window and
the rabbit's in the hutch
goat's in the meadow just
a-chewin on the…
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2010
I just got a phone call...
offhand liz loves america
though she often falls in love with places she's never been.
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Jamming with a couple buddies. I screwed the lyrics up but it was fun to do. Who doesn't want to at least try an AC/DC tune?
A live recording:
Me: Vox, Bass
Joel: Guitar, Backing Vox
Chris: Drums, Backing Vox
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Tang paid for the rights to use this on a CD, but never did. If the publishing rights holder wants it back, he'll accept refund.
Tangmo himself is gone and there ain't no sunshine in more ways than one. Uploading for him. Enjoy.
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Island tribute to a drink made of Kahlua and milk. Recorded 1981
The Ulstafarians were a rock/reggae/R&B band from New Paltz, NY, USA in the early 1980s. This song inspired wild dancing when played live.
Recorded at Valley Recorders, Red…
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Such a sweet girl,
the camera really loves your face
Tall heels and a bullets grace
The creatures gonna eat your name
Such a sad girl
Your mammas gone an let you down
left you wandering down the streets like a sacred cow but holes in your…
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Don't give up when things get down, give it another try never,ever give up!
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I remember weekends thinking we could last forever
I remember everything that you said was so clever
I remember our hearts fading like a burning ember
I remember wishing that our ties would soon be severed
I remember why I left you
This…
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I wrote this to have something to play my new fiddle to. Thankfully, the fiddle is long gone, but the song remains. Additional lyrics added by Paul Aaron Hughes. You can hear his recording from his new record "I've Got To Have You"
http…
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About life we live in today people are cracking everyday just have the normal things...Best be on yo shit .. Everyday its a job trying not Go OUT MY MIND!
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A Break from the fake world to my real World..... Music
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For the Lady's I Love Them...It's a ALL Nite Thing!
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