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One of the joys of listening to music on the internet is encountering music that sets off chimes of inspiration in our own minds. This holds especially true when the one doing the inspiring is a friend. Bruce Lesisko uploaded a song called Flyfinger…
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More on the "Freak" end of the Orphans and Freaks designation. Most of the time I'm making music for myself, and this one just makes me happy, no matter how hard I try to resist.
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Pastichio Rocker aka PDOA wrote and performed/programmed this electronica piece and asked me to write and sing a lyric for it. Despite (or maybe because of ) my accent, we considered it a success. It got some college-radio airplay.
I've made…
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Our entry into a compilation CD for the Acid Exchange International Music and Arts Guild double-CD. I wrote the music and cowrote the Lyric with Scott Graves, and sang the song. Other players are Jay P Lindsey, Dave Bell, and Steve of Asymetric…
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Another song I love. Nothing compares to Lou, though. Seasonal, will melt away soon!
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This was a large, somewhat unwieldy internet-based blues collaboration from several years back. I wrote and sang the lyric. AE pub collaboration!....lyrics and vocals by Tangmo harmonica by Tony(T.D. Brown)...bed by Scott(Riffmaster)....guitarst…
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If your movie needs an 80's montage song, perhaps you should consider this one... :)
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The complete "how to" article and online play back is on my blog http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=404
Yesterday I was able to capture the Fractal Tune Smithy midi stream of an "on the fly" relay re-tuned performance in Sonar 8.5 by use of LoopBe1…
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This is part of a microtonal tuning survey. for those of a stout constitution all of the options follow:
These are playable online here:
http://notonlymusic.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=749&start=0
Here is the original harpsichord…
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This piece is for solo viola. No electronics or processing were used. The fantastic technicolor performance is by Jessica Meyer.
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A piano solo in the JI version of Wilsonistic pivot on C tuning posted to the Just Intonation group by Margo Schulter 12/25/2010. The piece was improvised on a M-Audio 88es using Pianoteq 3.6 and recorded in Sonar 8.5 with some editing of the…
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As can happen when you listen to sometime a million times over your mind and ears start accepting things that later you wish you had not. This is a (much better imho) revision thanks to the urging of Gary from the music by computer list.
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There is a whole galaxy out there. I played this cold and made some mistakes on the inversions, oh well. I will re-record it when I get a chance.
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Just the music not the waffle although i prefer it with the waffle how about you?
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Perhaps you could use a little fatherly advice? Well here it is!
Chording improvisation on 7 different conga drums tuned to an octave and set to 3-2 rumba clave.
LYRICS
Lookie here hot-shot: a silent fool is half a wise-man
And there…
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This piece is part of a review of John O'Sullivan's book The Mathematics of Music. You can read part one here.
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=317
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Black Cat
Words and Music by Tharek Mokbul ( OsCKilO )
My heart will miss a beat
Each time
I see your pain
I know this is the end
But I
Will fight this tide
The battle is complete
Both sides
Have won this time
I will remember you
So proud…
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Did the world really need a cheesy, spaghetti western version of this classic Eagles song? I'm not sure. Did I make one anyway? Yes. Yes, I did. By the way the painting is "Villa Diablo" by Downe Burns.
keywords: old clint eastwood movies, the…
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This one scare me a little :) Probably gonna come back and mess with the levels and eq a little more later...
Remixed: 12/17/2010
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This is a solo piano performance using an M-Audio 88es midi controller, Pianoteq, and a tuning I devised that is based on a harmonic series segment reduced to one octave.
Online play and download plus scala formatted tuning are here:
http…
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A cover of the Cure's minimalist alt-rock classic, an old favorite of mine.
keywords: instrumental, chill, the cure, clock watching, lucky time
Remixed: 12/18/2010
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This something I put together pretty quickly. But it reminds a little of the stuff they play in between news stories on NPR's radio show, "All Things Considered." Dear Robert Siegel, please play my song on the radio :)
Remixed: 12/18/2010
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I had been listening to the new Massive Attack album for a few weeks, and I was initially trying to mimic some of the sounds I heard on there - especially from the songs "Splitting the Atom" and "Girl I Love You." But, then somehow the whole thing…
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keywords: electronic, experimental, chill, instrumental
"Remastered": 12/18/2010
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The idea was to create something with a bit of the flavor from Bach's Passacaglia in C Minor (and especially the orchestral transcription by Respighi). I didn't quite hit the mark, but it was a really fun project.
Remixed: 12/18/2010
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(George Harrison) - from the Beatles album 'Rubber Soul'; my second entry for Beatlesfest at Songcrafters
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Helplessly
But then sometimes in the colorless light of a hazy windy moonlit night, the feeling haunts you like you've known that you would always be alone.
But then sometimes in the sparkling sun, you think of things you should have done…
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When I was a kid, my dad was the preacher at the Church of Christ in Tehachapi, California. We lived in Palmdale, so we'd get up early on Sunday mornings, pile the 5 of us into our 1950 Chevy coupe and head up thru Lancaster and Mojave, over the…
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Music= Bailey, Slautich, Osborne
Lyrics= Bailey
Pop rock tune circa 2004. Recorded @ Plastic Jesus Studios. One of my favorites...hope you like
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Don't curdle the milk or else. Just a quick jam, me on guitars and drums.
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Sometimes you waddle through life sometimes you ramble. Not sure on this song
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Love the tones of Ron Wood's early work a lot. Not anything he has played or even in his style.
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My pal Sam plays drums here, me on the git box
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Life can get a muted feeling blurring everything into a jumble
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There are a lot of things there, out yonder I mean.
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I couldn't talk for a while afterwards and I felt like a moron after listening to my vocals, but it had to be done :) So no laffin'!
Our attempt to be on the roof of Abbey Road Studios if only for a moment!
The Lineup:
Guitars: gtalfsen
Piano…
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Wrote a song on my Baritone ukulele today. Sweet tone, sweet day.
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Sometimes we all get lost in our daily lives. This is a song about a small boy (me) out on a small raft among big waves on a sunny day.
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I'm not going to spoil any more surprises until I'm done- but one more to hold you over in the time being . . .
You can hear the original with lyrics below.
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Sometimes you find yourself with the help of a close friend
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I was really pissed about work when I wrote this. I you hear a phone ringing it's (you guessed it) work calling me.
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This is loosely based on a Granadinas style of music
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Another one rebuilt after my freak SD card initialization fiasco. The excellent solo work was done by my buddy Gnasty - I love it!
This is the second part of a two part song. I'll get the other part up next hopefully.
Badass Solos: Gnasty…
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Not really sure how to describe this one. Kind of dark. Kind of crazy. Not sure if this one fits into any genre.
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Lyrics : Something About The Way You Smile
~ Vakratund mahakay, Suryakoti samaprabha,
Nirvighnam kurmedev, Sarvakaryeshu sarvada~
something about the way u smile, i may never know the reason why!!
Sa ni dha pa ma -ga ma ga re sa..
something…
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Modeled kinda after a Thursday song. Using drums from a drum machine with guitars and bass.
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keyboard percusion + xenharmonic dulcimer + drum machine + warbly strings + saturated bass + field recordings
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My softer side. Some interesting time signatures in here.
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Rage Against the Machine cover by bddtmm. I perform all strings and vocals, I built the drum pattern on my drum machine.
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Metallica cover by bddtmm. I perform all strings and vocals, I built the drum pattern on my drum machine. Hope you enjoy it.
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Don't go to the streets
Where they put you to the ground
Where they put you to the wall
And they steal your broken heart
Don't go to the streets
Where they say that it's ok
Where they've seen it all before
And they put you to the wall
The hand…
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Something I did last year - A song about the crazy college days (Or Uni where applicable :) )
Bad Old Days
Everybody's drinking their wine
Driving slow and taking their time
Better off when I sip moonshine
Not rubbing alcohol 'cause I…
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I present the first of 3 guitar solos - Fender Mustang => Roland GR-20 + DoD FX-7 into Alesis mixer and Alesis effects.
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This is one of my first alonetone collaborations written by Louis Smit.
Everyone should go listen to some of his tunes. Louis is a very original
and talented folk style acoustic guitarist- singer - songwriter.
You can hear him here.
http://alonetone…
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This is the finale to our first cd "Going To Hell"
"Good News (For You)"
and "Epilogue"
enjoy!
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Another song from 2 middle aged guys who make music!
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This is what you get when 2 middle aged guys write music!
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This is an improvisation around a few chords I found when experimenting with two simultaneous tunings on my Fender Mustang run through the GR-20 retuned to Arabic 17 note Pythagorean tuning and also as-is through my DoD FX-7
The way this…
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In 2006 we visited a Japanese garden. In September of 2009 I wrote this piano piece in 17 ET and I hear a connection between the two. So I put together a video from pictures and video taken of our visit and married the two. Please visit the song…
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Publicado como documento historico y sin animo de lucro. www.carranga.org
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Many thanks to Kirk Lynch, a real gentleman and a pleasure to jam with.
His tracks are the heart of this tune.
Lyrics:
I have a a pain
deep in my Chest
I can’t Breathe
as I Light my cigarette
Oh my head, Woe is me
Oh my head, Woe is me
But…
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Haven't done one like this in awhile. A bit more upbeat and "riffy" but I tried to keep it pretty sparse. Thanks everyone.
2010
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This is a redo of "I've Made Myself A Wall", from the 2009 24 hour challenge on Alonetone.
I thought the original version was a little bland, so I wanted to take a stab at breathing some fresh life into it.
For my last RPM Challenge album…
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Recording some match lighting samples recently and felt compelled to put some music to it.
I put the mic up to some raw acoustic guitar. Bass and lead added with FX. Norm added percussion, making it sound waaaay better.
Contributors:
lyrics…
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Of the whole album, this is the track I had most fun making. The instrumentation consists of accordion, beer bottle, work desk, toy keyboard, whistling, and scissors.
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Possibly my personal favorite of everything I've written so far. I will admit that I can barely play guitar and this is the result of a lot of looping and editing.
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based on the "clique" project first introduced in a long lost forum post on the RPM Challenge forums, the rules were to record a track that was in relation/response to the previous track before it. performers were: jazzsequence, Pugilistas, The…
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the method was to record a percussive track (or not) at 110 bpm. it was not required that your track be percussive, but if it was, it needed to be 110 bpm. participants included jazzsequence, Pugilistas and project was orchestrated by The Chaos…
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This is me in 'funk story rant' mode.
Guitars by Damien Taylor
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I'm not sure if this is a song about the pointlessness of war, or about me getting turned down for a job at a local radio station....
Possibly both.
Guitar by Damien Taylor
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This composition is a remix/reincarnation of a [previous tune](http://alonetone.com/gcd/tracks/seven-flavors-of-milk) I wrote a while back. I wasn't ever quite satisfied with it and had neglected to incorporate a nifty additional bit of melodic…
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A happy kind of electro pot-pourri.
The process:
- find a sound, noodle in Ab
- find another sound, develop a compatible noodle
- repeat a couple of times
- program a beat
- add replicant
- find other sounds for a B section
- find more sounds…
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Himitsu jam. Title says it all. Visting hard rock guitarist sitting in this session.
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Himitsu jam session. This little piece reminds me of driving through small towns in Mexico on Sunday morning, with the light just pinking the horizon, and the entire towns' populace heading to mass to the sound of the church bells.
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Playing with reverberation and stretching, part of a larger ambient piece for the RPM2010 challenge. It uses heavilly effected and modified samples and VST Synplant.
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From the Himitsu jam sessions. Electronic punk jazz or almost anything else. A group of 3 to 5 musicians meeting weekly to just play. All improvisation, no planning or themes, just what you bring.
Kaos Pad twisted vocals run beneath this heavilly…
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I guess this would be the "centerpiece" of the album. Like the rest of the album it really stumbles along the line between droney and simply repetitive, and it needs a bit of a reworking to reach its potential.
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Ha.. slowed down a punk song I wrote and added some anthem synth line for a indie rock feel I guess.
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An instrumental that sits in the middle where your grandfather would have been turning the LP over to play side 2
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Just a basic dance track because its just fun to bounce around sometimes. Also another excuse to use a growly bass sound... a "60 Hz Hum Bass" soundfont I had clearly neglected for too long.
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A song about the five stages of grieving, as devised by the (late) Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. Unfortunately knowing these stages does not help you get over them.
You've been managing expectations
Consultations end in tears
Even if you're optimistic…
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Track 12 from "They Are Killers" ... originally to be #11, but I decided this was a better one to go out on.
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Dang, everyone except Rob (and Laura) (and me) liked the previous version! (Cupid's Own Knife)
Only i did this with the lyrics so maybe one can be a bonus track ...
aargghh ... why didn't i write a *different* song?
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This one could use re-mixing, but I'm going to leave it as is for now. This should be track 6 on "They Are Killers."
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Dedicated to my friend Paul Lennon.
Once You asked me
If I could see the end
It's okay to tell the truth
I don't want you to pretend
And I said I would not lie
But I don't believe it ends
It goes on And on Forever Forever
It goes on…
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I came up with the initial rhythmic riff on my bass, then looped it to create the basis for this track. Then, I layered another "lead" bass track on top of that, added some percussion, and finally topped it off with an electric piano-ish sound…
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I get to say that it borders on hip-hop because there’s a hip hop drum loop and a hip hop drum kit on it. I have no idea what to call it other than “electronic”. With a piano.
This is my second song using Record.
I was going through a book on…
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Least favorite of this year's RPM output so far...
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An acoustic guitar instrumental inspired by the sound of a rainy day.
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one of those 'it was written even before i started' songs that just rolls out like magic
i tried to keep it simple so as not to destroy the vibe
first finished (if unmixed) track for RPM 2010
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this is about the time i hung out with my friend in the library. we sat on the floor underneath the towering shelves of the dusty poetry section. we're only humans, just two of them. i turned up the reverb. and double tracked one high and one…
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bang bang bang i am still missing my e string but i dont care. i bought an old bass drum from a second hand shop. caaaaaaaaaraaaaaaaaa she gave me a ribbon
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Unmastered track from my 2010 RPM Challenge submission.
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Just a fragment.. but thought it was worth including..
If I were to lose you now
I don't know that I could cope
Please don't leave me now, don't go
You're my only hope.
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Sitting around in my shop a couple of days ago with the Goodall and the Zoom H4N. First time I've really messed with using the internal mics on the H4N in multitrack mode
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It's a song about farting, it's not "the long and winding road"
have a laugh and enjoy!
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hey mister rosary beads you were right i did write an indie ballad about her! only at the time i'd been listening to very/too much leonard cohen and this bleak piece of miserable shit came out but it has a singalong chorus!!!!!!!
and i played…
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Another trip through the Reichatron. This time I caught a groove that I wasn't gonna let go.
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This was Week 9's recording, and it was in the key of F. Originally, it was intended to be a "Hippie Jam", i.e. one or two acoustic guitars, drum circle, and lots of chanting and group singing. However, because it was two days before Thanksgiving…
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Remember, remember love. That’s all we ever really had.
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From Music for MOBA: a collection of pieces inspired by paintings from The Museum of Bad Art.
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From Music for MOBA: a collection of pieces inspired by paintings from The Museum of Bad Art.
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Straight-up rock song, the first guitar-driven song I wrote during these sessions and one of my favorite songs I've written/recorded so far.
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Being Dragged Through Hell And The Depths Of Sorrow By The Woman Who Betrayed You
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A Process Where Parts Of Your Skull Are Drilled To Make Holes So The Evil Spirits Residing In Your Head May Leave
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I was baptized by the Deep Goddess, she anointed me with her blood and I healed the world.
Dream: I was the savior of a dying, post apocalyptic world. My job was to go into the basement of a large demolited building. When I got down to the…
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Measuring Desert by Lena & Irina Panfilova is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
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Dedicated to grandmother Zoya
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Crying Angels by Lena & Irina Panfilova is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
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