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Wouldn't it be great if I could just finish one song one day and have it last longer than 2 minutes, but not today and maybe not tomorrow either.
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Hanging out in the living room with one of my sons, just making stuff up. I wish I'd had the recorder closer to him - whistle too loud, guitar too soft.
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It'd be a single, if we ever stood a chance of being on the radio.
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Okay...it's still a sloppy mess...but that's what you get when you have earthquakes, a new-born baby, a nuclear disaster, broken bones in your hand and a whole-lotta "uuuuuuuuuuurgh!" to get out of your system. Somedays, you just gotta play in…
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A tune by my friend Darrin Kobetich, I added some electric guitar. Check out Darrin's stuff, available in all the usual places.
http://www.reverbnation.com/darrinkobetich
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This improvisation (chords, melody and lyrics) is complete fiction and any resemblance to anything at all is just a coincidence.
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I can't guess
how it must be
to be so shallow
that you have ta be
an alien renegade…
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Sometime yesterday, sandbags posted "In the Ocean of Night".
Fuelled by a lovely walk and some pints, I was inspired to make some additions.
Technical/process details:
Guitar was my Michael Kelly going into GT-10 which had compressor, delay…
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SIX OCLOCK SHADOWS
At six o'clock the windmill throws it's shadow on the grave
The cattle chew their cud and lowly low above the one we didn't save
The broken body buried there beneath the sod we carried there that day
And tho we hold each…
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Nirvana - the perfect state of bliss from pain & suffering.
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This is a Ralph Mctell song , a very underated British singer / songwriter , probably famous for one song , The Streets of London , but in fact wrote many great songs , he wrote this while working on a building site before he was signed by a record…
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Songs sometimes are best left to the listener. This is one of them.
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Thank you for being you
No one else would do
Thank you for being you
You're all I ask for
Too many nights alone
tonight I'm coming home
open up the wine cos I'm
gonna be with the one who's shown
Me the ways of old
Women into wives…
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2011
One of my favorite songs I've recorded. An amalgamated tribute to 80's Crimson, Andy Summers and Peter Gabriel.
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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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Mancera is an spanish Fortress build about 500 years ago in an island with the same name, in the south of Chile.
Off course it has a lot of history, i used to go there when i was a kid and i have big memories of it, been in the big dungeon, where…
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shard hopping...or hard shopping? either way, this little remix-expansion of Kavin's "shards" is one of 21 "duos" on an album I'm releasing next week @ bandcamp.
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Folk/Blues I suppose, inspired by the US slander of Julian Assange
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Drive cleaning....
This is a lost instrumental. I have no interest.
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One from the vault...
Recorded for the compilation album Catacoustic Overtones.
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I cant seem to play this unless I do it live....
That is something new to me...
Used to be the other way around....
This is called "Do or die"...
Do or Die
(words and music by Tharek Mokbul)
Do or die, that’s what Everyone here is…
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something i wrote for my worst half. who happens to be my better one..
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My performance on video (see "more") at the odd music convergence with words by Evan Harrington and myself.
Details are available here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=68
The full quality 230 meg video is available here: http://clones.soonlabel…
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Another wacky production from the stretchy, bouncy, and elastic world of Rubber. Special thanks to Mark (Launched) for writing this one for us.
We had a whole bunch of fun with this song and you will too.
Enjoy!
Flies in my lunchbox
(Help…
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Sometimes a song just turns up out of the blue.
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I'm not sure if I'm happy with how the mastering came out but I figured it's time to let this one fly and get some feedback on it. I recorded the 'robot' voice using Audio Hijack Pro to record my Apple's system voice and then added some effects…
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It's kinda nasty, kinda funny, kinda sad but kinda true.
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I might have put a few harmonies on this one...
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Had the opportunity to play with sandbags' fabulous Reichatron. This is what happened.
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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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[2006] The Radian's Threshold - Cognitive Response
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Yes, I am dark sometimes. Aren't we all? Don't listen to closely, just turn this one up and lose yourself in the tones.
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What happened after too much time on youtube watching live vids of "voodoo chile" Noisy obnoxious and very cathartic for me! Live to 2tracks with the Jamman
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this is a new song not much to it , all instruments played by myself , drums , programmed ,by myself, vocals and backing vocals by myself, thanks for your time ,cheers tony cee
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Thank you to everyone that listen to the demos, these are now the newly recorded tracks!
Verse One
I’m burning out, I’m feeling down
I can’t explain when You’re not around
Every breath is a paper cut
I sleep in wreckage just to feel enough…
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(Disclosure: Despite the Aug Upload, these are no longer the demo versions I had. I just didn’t want to lose my high listen count… very vain, I know…)
Verse One
I’m pretty sure, I’d never pull the hammer
But I know just what the metal taste…
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The guitarist started this one out as a love song, but it became something much different.
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Ill Drink a little slower
can't make my mind slow down
Im thinking of nothing
at a million miles an hour
makes me burn a little deeper
Chorus
But all my dreams are gone
you were there before it burned away
and all our love is done
im just looking…
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This is from Dylan's album Oh Mercy. In spite of an intention to stop posting covers of songs and work on something angry and new, I got to the end of this without messing up the piano and only barely mangling the lyrics, I got too excited and…
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Such an emotive piece I have always loved, from Miss Saigon...given a more orchestral feel and arrangement.
© and written by:- Alain Boubil, Richard Maltby and Claude-Michel Schonberg
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Another improv with the Pure Data patch taking live guitar input and outputting samples with delay along with some droning synth tones.
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wrote some ambient to reflect some of the positive momentum in life. #REM Oct '25.
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Love is a riddle, whispered in rain,
A shadow that dances, a flame in the vein.
It breaks us to pieces, then stitches the seam,
A storm in the daylight, a hush in a dream.
Life is a river that never stands still,
It bends without reason…
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Travel back with us to 1962…the Place, the shores of the River Mersey.
Umbrella Book is a song about a book….eh, I’m not gonna explain it to y’all.
Slap on a pair of drainies and some Italian heeled boots and you’re on your way to some nostalgic…
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Teejay’s WRLD Praise Da Lord Lyrics
Bhad Mharn Tinz
Yeah, Am Proud To Be A Rockstar
Elevate Gradually As A Loner
Many sleepless night I no recover
With different nightmares it seems life is over
Trying my best to figure out what…
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Teejay’s WRLD - Abu Dhabi Lyrics
Anyhow it be, it no matter
Who be you, wey I go fit die on top ur matter
Bruh, u ain’t do me no favor
Carry ur cross, everyone be he’s own Jesus
Though Oluwa Nikan lomo eni tii irekan
I no panic…
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Another re-recorded song. This one was the title cut from an RPM Challenge a couple of years ago. It's different. I don't know if I love it, but I like it. I think the goofy panning games I played at the beginning and end are probably mistakes…
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3rd Song for RPM. Getting this done was filled with late night torture.
You tried so hard
You tried so hard
But you’re not there
You’re not there
You’re not there
You’re not there
You made your way
Oh you made your way
But…
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[Verse 1]
Integrity integral to integers
Gibberish, that of the just natural, not detritus
Firmly wound around dignity
Sea quiet, limit speech, lips just sealed
These inhabitants free radicals
Training on battleground to stand your ground…
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I see, so let me ask you, how did you get into hip-hop?
My love for hip-hop really started in high school. I listened to guys like Nas and Eminem, Jay-Z, Xzibit and even 2pac and BIG and then when I went to college it was Kanye, Common, Lupe…
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This beat is just for me, I don’t do it for your peeps
And it’s so damn raw, I need soda pop
And if you’re going to pop, don’t hold it back, come on
Yeah, I am so raw, I’m so depressed, can’t fix me yeah
I’m Alex D, AD and Klash, I go by several…
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UPDATE: I remixed this. I replaced the plate reverbs with rooms.
Another song from the 2022 RPM Challenge, re-recorded for Quarantine Tunes Volume Seven.
Not a lot different between this and the original. The rhythm guitar is still sloppy…
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sometimes a man needs finger snaps.
Letter Seventeen's original is here.
https://alonetone.com/letterseventeen/playlists/half-time-show-(rpm-2022)/lightning-rods
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Written and recorded for a promo video for Jasper Guitar Company, LLC, a boutique guitar manufacturer based in Green Bay, WI.
Jasper guitars use bodies that employ unique, patented technology that increase sustain, enhance harmonic overtones…
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The Feast - A A J Russe
Written 26th September 1985
Recorded 3rd March 2022
The Shoebox Demos Vol 1
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This one's been sticking out of the shoebox for a long long while. It always shows up in a list of maybes. And it did this time…
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If I told you how well I know you
Would you tell me it's not true
Have you got yourself believing
No one could know you like I do
I know it's been a long time coming
So many others you thought would treat you right
But I'm gonna show you…
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Dance remix of “Alive” by Gary Fox off his 2021 RPM album Stardust.
Check out the original version here:
https://alonetone.com/garyfox8/playlists/stardust/alive
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This is the result of a stunning lack of rehearsing.
I write these little songs as I am recording them and as a result there is no actual rehearsing of anything involved. I do it all on the spot. I really enjoy that process but sometimes…
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When you C reach the Em point
When it’s F all in the rear view C mirror
And Am reflection is your G only point of C view G
You C feel it Em inside
When it F becomes so C clear
There’s Am nothing that G you can C do
F Hold on to G memories…
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What’s on your mind
Are you losing confidence
Someone’s been unkind
And caring becomes a consequence
Look for a reason to smile
The Sun will shine your way
Look for a reason to smile
And watch the clouds drift away
Feeling like you…
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GONE - My sequester song...
Chain wrapped around the dog park gate
Weeds growing on the school yard lawn
Where has everybody gone
The chairs are stacked
And the stage is dusty
And my strings are getting rusty...
(C) Royal T Music
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We're all in the same boat with nobody at the rudder and hoping the swell will take us through to the otherside. we've been given time to to think about life while the door is closed. When it opens again lets put all those wrongs to right because…
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Bob Campbell: Lyrics, Vocals
Jorge Paulo: Guitars, Bass
Tony Wolsey: Drums
Steffen Offermann: Original Music & Production
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The sound of an old Remington typewriter, sampled, looped, and run through a vocoder.
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This one's the single. It's fun to play and fun to sing when I was in the studio. It's meant to played loud. Actually, the whole album is. Thanks for listening! Cheers, Gary
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Shout out to Tom Waits, one of my favs. Rumor has it, he has had a similar problem with his piano.
I didnt think I would make it signing this way to the end of the song, lol.
Throat lozenge anyone??
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A piece in a tangos flamencos form that i composed for "Mare Nostrum - Mystical music of Mediterranean" project. Here i play Iranian drum Zarb, Greek lute Bouzouki and Middle Eastern flute Ney. My friend Denis plays flamenco guitar.
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from the album "Flooded" featuring Ash Reynolds on vocals and Jeff Treese on solo guitar
i wasn’t certain, if you could hear
when i told you, the rain was falling
but not it’s easy to see in your eyes
but for a moment, there’s hesitation…
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hang up
i hear the ghostly sound
faintly
they come
down through the phone lines
bravely
to give you peace of mind
to pacify the masses
i read it all online
the dread the fear the sorrow
we're running out of time
today tonight tomorrow…
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As you may have picked up on, there's a lot this year about soldiering on when your world has been destroyed. So, this is a song of hope. Have faith, have faith...
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This is my cover of the Twin Peaks Theme, "Falling."
I've always adored the vibe of this series. This is my attempt to capture how it makes me feel. The original has music by Angelo Badalamenti and lyrics by David Lynch.
You'll have to be…
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I Know, I know, it take balls to cover Bono.
I adore him honestly.
This is just a vocal exercise for me during my RPM efforts.
I gave it hell though right?
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I wrote these lyrics in response to the tragedy that happened in Paris this week and i put them up in a response to a song by Geo's (Dobrodaddy) track in memory of slain innocence and Geo responded with voice and guitar, i added a backing vocal…
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The realtors always disliked showing the old Victorian house on Layton Way. It gave them a creepy, clammy feeling. Especially in the basement where mad whispers and the sound of metal working off in the distance could sometimes be almost heard…
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Political Folk tune featuring Starry Nightmoth on baby grand piano, pan flute, KB “strings” and intro voice. About the blatant environmental destruction humans are committing against Mother Nature/Earth.
Curse of Eden
Why did you heed the…
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Verse 1:
We should be colonizing Jupiter
but we’re just getting stupider
move to the moon way from here
so when doomsday comes we’ll live on
Don’t you wanna live on? Get on
the spaceship and give the
human race a chance to expand on
Keep…
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One of my other hobbies is watching wildlife in the area. I'm the happiest with a pair of binoculars around my neck and my hiking boots laced up.
Rita and I took these photos over the last few days, near our home.
Dakota County / February 2014
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Pièce pour guitare, en trois parties.
~Journaux de Paris~
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Me, Regs, and Les covering Stephen Stills
Love the One Your With
Enjoy!
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from the album xChange
original words and music by Damian Lethbridge
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From heart to heart it comes
A stream of sounds
That so worries,
So beckon ...
For Trevor, the one and only
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This is one that I started with a synth progression and over the week it grew....
Everything is in there but the kitchen sink I think. Used midi for GB synth sounds, choirs, bass, Kontakt strings and organ, piano,horns, sax lab for sax, godin…
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Arrangement by Jana Persson (Strummindude)
Accompanying vocals by Andrea Szirbik
CIVIL WAR
Holding down the borders
What's mine is yours
Folding down the corners
Of pages meaning more
Walking on the wire
Never thought to look for…
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rpm 3,,cello,cello, contrabass, and bass clarinet,, im really getting to love that clarinet!,, thanks for listening , and please send any comments,suggestions, thoughts richard
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Part 2 of The adventures of Moonbee and friends.
Just me and my new guitar :)
Enjoy
xox
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Maybe the last for 2012 Reg got the Acoustic out on this one and a touch of guitar fx for the vocal hope you enjoy.......Happy New Year....Although Reg is a miserable sod........
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My take on an old Fleetwood Mac number,it's boogie time!
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Oh,
Iron jaws, wrapped around my legs,
Try to gnaw, but why would I want to.
Why would I want to.
Oh,
Fresh cut gauze, soaking lips,
Trying not to fall, but why would I want to.
Why would I want to.
Silent pines, know my name
Even…
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Celebrating a lifetime of music
Terry Brown / TerrySongs http://alonetone.com/terrysongs/tracks
** I originally recorded this with a drum track, borrowed from another alonetone member, but the creator of the track never responded to my…
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A mando improv for Pete Cosey, who left this week. For the improvFriday "blues" theme.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Cosey
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Alarm is the first instalment on our demo, to really kick it off with a bang!
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i tell K.G. that this one is like the allman brothers and bruce springsteen doing a tune together. another kick ass K.G. tune. we played this thing alot and nailed this take live!
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Apocrypha is a progressive rock song in the sense of Rush more than ELP or Yes. I had come up with the guitar and via my GR-20 the strings - everything else you hear was performed by my long time collaborator Frank Miller (Phantasm777) - so that…
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I detest groups. It removes individualism from thoughts, and adds a false sense of comfort and ultimately dependence. They might be essential, for efficiency, for communication, but they should not be celebrated as much. Or maybe it’s just misanthropy…
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Another cut from the 1988 cassette tape of a live performance by Scartaglen on the NPR show Mountain stage. This time some tunes from County Kerry.
Kirk Lynch- Uilleann pipes and whistle. Becky Pringle- Fiddle. Mike Dugger- Fiddle and guitar…
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Featuring my son Kellan on guitar and vocals.
recorded entirely in my kitchen with kitchen stuff.
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The lyrics of this song,
as they pertain to plot,
are my exact memory of the event.
I had spoken to the kid maybe a minute before the "action" started about how the pressure of the water was very strong. He was nestled down with his back…
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A tail-end edit from the Halloween Mega-track. Jeff Duke provided the ambient guitarscapes.
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Well it's hit poor old Reg hard today that it's finally over between him and Desirea so he's written a blues song to exorcise his pain........I've actually tried to put my own drum beat down on this one by using the keyboard as my drums and working…
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Lionel the hermit crab - Skeen Remix 120607
Lionel the hermit crab lives by the sea, oh yeh
He looks a little bit like you, a little bit like me,
Lionel the hermit crab doesn't have no friends, oh no
He'll live his life alone in his shell…
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A simple song that somehow became a rather complicated recording.
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Loop idea recorded during gig rehearsal. Room miked so you can hear me stomping on pedals.
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Good friends, family, my adorable pet--you all bring a smile to my face!!!
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Acoustic improv. Top 3 pairs of strings tuned a 4th apart on 11 string guitar. And a touch of synth.
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"The Speechless Full Moon Comes Out Now" (2011)
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I played 12 string guitar and 5 string bass along with Norm's original percussion track http://alonetone.com/norm/tracks/7th-son. The only effects were a bit of attack shaping on the bass (compression w/o compressing).
I did this kind of oddly…
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This is a blues riff I've been playing with for a while. I wanted to start with a slow style blues. I'm working on a sped up dance version. So I threw down some rough lyrics and did a quick demo recording, added a solo and a small vocal backup…
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No Ducks were hurt or killed during the production of this tune, unless eaten and thoroughly enjoyed
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Poor old Reg he cant figure it out!! ........ since he's been listening to his self help tapes to stop drinking he has never got any money and he just doesn't understand it, he keeps working coming home relaxing to the tape........... then when…
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Just a bit of fun with the newest genre, Spaghetti Metal. Thanks to Kirk for naming my style. :)
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This song started as the riff on my Strat while fooling around with some FX. I knew it needed to be a big dance number, and then realized there is a great story about the power of music and dance, which I hid in the lyrics. See if you can figure…
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This is a collaboration with a prolific chap called James Higgins (oldrottenhead on songcrafters.org), based on an instrumental of mine from a couple of years ago: http://alonetone.com/andyr/tracks/muletide
I was quietly minding my own business…
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gushing surge of opulence,
cavaliers to complete nonsense.
the true soldiers of misfortune
are mings and chengs
drowning in the democratic fabric from our nation.
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Final version
An unaccompanied song about bedtime. Not a lullaby though. Oh no!
What does anyone think of the 'cat's moustache' line - it seems like that's a make or break call right there and i like it when i read it but it's hard to sing without…
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Angels Missing Bill Sethares for simultaneous 12 equal guitar and faux voices in Sethares Neutral 10 tuning
More pieces from the survey can be found here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=493
! E:\Cakewalk\scales\sethares-neutral10.scl
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sethares…
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~Decrepit shadow of a piano in the shadows of former visitors~
I've played in such a cafe, a long time ago, for a meal/drink, thru the night. Surreal it was; second life. Yeah ...
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Sometime it’s better to let it go away
Sometimes it’s better to never know anything
This heart beat’s similar to drum beats only difference is it’s coming from dolls.
And all this waiting is killing, we only prepare to fall
This is the…
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Just saw Ween's soon to be infamous train wreck of a show in Vancouver. Still one of the best live bands around. All hail Boognish!
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I listened to Chris's Orwellioan Cameras while watching the video. It got me thinking about the eye watching us and this is what i came up with.............
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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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Thought I'd try an improv with two capos to get an open C tuning.
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Publicado bajo autorizacion y sin animo de lucro. www.carranga.org
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(Bowers, Rainbowtruth) from the LP "Over the Counter and Through the Woods" circa 1997.
Barnett: Lead vocal/guitar
Osborne: Drums/backing vocal
Bowers: Bass/spoken vocal
Duff: Guitar
One of my favorites. Don't be fooled, the sampled snare…
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"This little light of mine,
I'm gonna let it shine.."
This tune came to me whilst helping mow a graveyard this morning.
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a little cover i whipped up for my last live show, i thought it was neat, so i recorded it for your listening pleasure.
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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 a demonstration piece in A minor.
The left channel is a Korg MS 2000 voice with a split keyboard that is driven from the Roland GR-20 as I play my guitar that you hear in the right channel + GR-20 piano - all played against a session…
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Improvisation on congas and very fragile, clay Moroccan bongos (which my brother found for me from an African display at some zoo!). These bongos are basically clay pots with permanent, very thin goat skins stretched over the top - they can not…
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Conga improvisation. It could really use some vintage surf-style guitar work...
4/8 180bpm.
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An ambient anthemic piece.
The process:
- Start with a live take of me playing an iphone app called tonepad.
- add camelphat and camelspace
- add an Alchemy instance, find a big fat pad, work out a riff
- record a single take accompanying the…
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With a 909 drum loop reminiscent of Tears for Fears instrumental fillers, this downtempo tune quickly
becomes an earful of delay, clarinet, and oozing synths.
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When I grow up I want to be all grown up...still waiting.
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This is a crazy Dubstep song, I'm not even sure if it's legal ;)
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Classical Guitar Inspiered by the Art of Sam Jefferys .
See www.samjefferys.net for more Info on his Work.....
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All guitars by my good friend Chris Mitchell. I had a chance to record this while I was in Dallas this past Summer. This is a companion piece to my song Secrets from the "Of Sound Mind" album, my RPM 2009 entry.
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A 30 minute track (creation time).
Went for dinner with friends that were having trouble getting along.
They were in my thoughts whilst I put this together.
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This is my 2007 Pirate Day song, written and recorded September 19th 2007. I like the innuendo, but maybe it's too subtle - nobody else seems to notice ;~)
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For my friend and coworker, because he certainly deserves it.
This song is friends with [song for themcgruff](http://alonetone.com/sudara/tracks/song-for-themcgruff)
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this ain't perfect, i've been working on it a while. the drums sound like shit, my vox are horid and the guitars suck balls, but i kinda like it.
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