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when you wake up
and it feels like its further away
you get discouraged
could it have really gone unnoticed
what you're tryin to find
isn't so black or so white
it's more rooted in faith and less in fate
what you're tryin to find
isn't so gift…
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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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A light classical solo piano piece with a touch of humor.
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A cover of Justin Currie's Sleep Instead of Teardrops. Recorded 2010.
It has always been one of my favourite Del Amitri songs. I was strumming away at it one day and my missus said I should record it...
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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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Performed on Fender Mustang, Casio CZ-101 (keys, bass, percussion), vocal. Recorded via overdubbing on two cassette decks with 4 mono input radio shack mixer with radio shack 10 band graphic equalizer. Written in the years of Ronald Reagen's…
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thought,, id try doing something for valentines day so i chose two Beatles tunes,, amazingly (or not) i found them very difficult for me to personalize, ,,hope all you lovers have a good day and enjoy
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Thoughtless
w/m: Tharek & Geir
Guitars /Music : Tharek
Vocals/Lyrics: Geir
-Lyrics-
A simple mind
not evil or unkind
had lost it's sight
of anything but it's spot in the night
the words should have been unsaid
what they did can't be undone…
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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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(a setting of) The Conqueror Worm by Edgar Allen Poe
LO! 't is a gala night
Within the lonesome latter years.
An angel throng, bewinged, bedight
In veils, and drowned in tears,
Sit in a theatre to see
A play of hopes and fears,
While the orchestra…
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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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Friend of my put some lyrics to this one about his father. Hence the title.
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It is all about love, isn't it?
Lyrics @ http://wave.transmit-music.com/loveengine3.html
Wave 2010 (RPM)
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A collaboration that involved 5 musicians over several parts of the world. A crazy stalker tune - Has a soft/hard/soft format. Recorded with The Boss Micro BR(MBR), Mixed with Audacity and then mastered with the MBR.
More details in the Youtube…
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The first WildGeas and Cave Street collaboration
There ain't nothin' I could buy
that can ever calm me down
So I leave my money at home
when I go into town
I put on my fightin' hat
an' I wear my dancin' shoes
An' if I miss my ride…
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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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You know those people who like to break out the family photos or something of that sort with which to bore their guests? This is my version of that.
Most of what makes this song special to me is for all the same reasons that you won't share…
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sexy synth pop tune.
It's still rough around the edges
but it's time to unveil the idea.
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Honestly I have no idea where this came from or how.
I was messing with Omnisphere patches and came across a lovely, flutey, breathy sound that put me in mind of the scenes inside the monolith at the end of 2001. I setup a Rytme pattern to…
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This is my 12 hour song (written, recorded, mixed, mastered) ... I pined away all day at it while a storm kept me company.
instrumentation:
a man lost his house and sold me his fretless bass for next to nothing. a family friend gave me…
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This song is just what it is and says what it says.
It's where I am and where my hopes lie. It all just happens to fit into a song...
WHEN PEGGY COMES HOME - G
When Peggy comes home I’ll have the dishes put away
The floor will be swept…
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start here at the airport
feels like im going blind
middle of the day in a dark bar
1000 miles away from peace of mind
im tring to remember
when i was a kid
did the sun set in my back yard
i think it did
what comes before and goes on…
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Grackle Live Straw Drawing improv
Miguel, percussion
Kavin., fretless Chinese junk strat, loops
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Under neon clouds and faded signs,
It moves through walls and crooked lines,
Glass heart beating underneath—
A ghost of what it used to be.
It’s carrying a weight no one else can see,
Invisible chains in the melody,
Smiling through the…
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A sort of pentatonic pairs improvisation with a looper and drum machine
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Making tunes feels like swimming through mud at the moment ... make that quick setting concrete!
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Teejay’s WRLD - Higher Lyrics
Kon shey Dan Dan ni ki motor TOBI koto peni oko bogini
Alamdullilah for what I have V. Soon oma plenty
I pray make my helper no go stress me
Jah go run am, God Is over everything
Oluwa joor jekin raye…
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you may fail but at least your not square .....
Don't waste life being square
You’ve got tomorrow and I’ve got today
to let all my dreams just roll away
You say theres nothing o letting it go
That there tells me you don’t know…
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This is actually a pretty old track, made in 2011 and released under the (now defunct) Ember Music label. I only now realise it never got uploaded it here.
Alonetone bonus: this version is 11s longer than the released version!
I guess this…
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“Bats in Flight” composed, recorded, and mixed on 10/20/2023, for October’s 30 Day Songs challenge (30daysongs.com).
“Bats in Flight” was also submitted to October’s REM Challenge (via RPM Challenge).
“Bats in Flight” composed by W. Ng…
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(samples music and interpolates lyrics from "Hey There Delilah" by Plain White T's)
[Verse 1]
Don’t want to lose this
What's it like in San Jose there?
I'm a thousand miles away, but girl, tonight you look so pretty
Yes you do
Them chicks…
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(samples music by Jordan River Banks and interpolates lyrics by Killah Priest)
[Intro]
Such a beautiful wedding, a beautiful setting
See Her face up in space, the Mother of Heaven, the mother of second, the mother of seven
The Sister of…
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I Want You To Know - A A J Russe
Written 21st June 1987
Recorded 6th March 2022
The Shoebox Demos Vol 1
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This was to the same lady who inspired Foolishness. There's a couple of others from the same period, related to her, that will…
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Cross my heart, and hope to live forever
If we’re wishing we might as well jump
Bittersweet, sepia tones rolling down the canyon,
Turning my head
So long this long refrain
So long we’ll meet again
Flying past though leave no trails…
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Lemonade is an instrumental. It started as an early version of a co-written song with Mary Kealy Falk. We eventually settled on the 4th version of the project.
I just couldn't let this version go without doing something with it. It's the…
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minimalistic piece. Like the one as before. It was my sunshine today.
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They opened the economy here, but I don't think I feel safe going out more than I absolutely have to... and when I go out, I wear a mask.
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New material to put together and listen to in case we get quarantined:)
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I wrote this story with the intent to let the listener decide for themselves who the common thread may be.... But for me I'll dedicate this to my dear family and long time friends. Thanks for always being there for me.
I hope you enjoy…
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7 acoustic guitar improvs from April all stuck together.
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Something new here. Tilden Barger offered to arrange and produce this song. Tell me what you think.
Written by Greg Connor
Arranged and Produced by my friend Tilden Barger
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from the album "Flooded" featuring Ash Reynolds on vocals
She’s grey outside
She’s very sad
She starts to cry
It’s looking bad
The frozen ground
Won’t let her in
Yet on it comes
The flood begins
The road ahead
Has warning signs
say…
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A new song, still just a sketch, recorded live at Winterland studios for my demo. Story about a guy living in Tuscon, AZ, lamenting the irony of the beauty and hardship of living in the desert.
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I remastered this one that got deleted a while ago, still too much stuff in it but keeps rabbits outta the garden when i crank it on exterior speakers outside.
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A song in honor of my Grandad Benny.......who survived the 1st world war and lived to the ripe old age of 96........but never forgot the friends he lost.......
The Screaming The Pain And The Mayhem
it was the 28th July 1914
and nobody could…
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my version of sabbath's - wheels of confusion.
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My new album, my first all-jazz effort, is taking longer to complete than I had hoped, due to my plans to set up a proper isolation booth for recording horn parts (sax, bass clarinet, trumpet). But I've been listening to the rhythm section mixes…
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Another song from old pre-garageband RPMs. The arrangement stayed the same this time. I just added some vocal harmonies and added some goofy effects.
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First things first, many, many thanks to Greg for adding Bass and a Great Harp break. Don't tell my mate Dave, my normal Harp buddy, he's been ill with Flu.
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from the album xChange
performed by Alex Moody
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Who says that I define you?
Who says I should label you?
Who says I should shelter you? Who says i should restrict you?
Who says I should limit you? Who says i should hold back you?
There is no user guide.
There is no yellow brick road.
There…
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I wrote this song for my beloved doughter.
Lyrics:
Eva written 28-1-13 by Inge
Fairy, you’re a fairy and very very pretty
I call you Coockie, you are my coockie cause you were born to eat
Choosing your right hand as your best friend
You…
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LadyJane (Moonchild) and Jip messing about with a medaeval type song. Saucy ending. lol x
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Looping with nLog synth app, with Glenn's bass on top off it, and some ebow.
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A Flamenco piece in palo(genre) of Taranta, ending with a little Buleria. This is about a man, who wanders like ghost along snowfields flooded with starlight near one northern city. He pointlessly looks to the sky. A kind of city legend from the…
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Heres a cover..... as my Guitar playing wasn't up to accompanying i thought i'd try it accapelo....hope you enjoy i did............
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The Two Regs vocals
Phantasm drums
Chris guitar and bass
We cover Peter Gabriel's Digging in the Dirt from his album Us.
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Music by Billy Jack (instrumental song "Funk It" previously posted). Lyrics/vox by thetworegs. Damn I wish I could song write like thetworegs.
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Well i got the £16 special out and Bon came down the cellar for a visit last night it was a shame Angus didn't as the lead is a bit limp but hey!! were trying down here.......now with some finger drums.......
Helter Skelter (Lyrics)
i ain’t…
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I'm a hog for your beer chips and gravey.......baby!
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I need an electric geeetar. My weary old Crafter electroacoustic picks up every touch. 'Scuse the solo, I'm only a strummer..
Anyway, the song. Clogging up my brain, had to get it out. Some lasses don't know what they look like, and some lads…
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I've been teasing Steve (SLKrell) about Rose, from Las Cruces Nevada, ever since he wrote a song about her for Valentines Day a few years ago.
Rosie is a figment of our imagination. I wrote a song about stealing her away from Steve:
http…
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This is a song called "if it hadn't been for love" by Adelle.
Not originally recorded by her but hers is the only version i've heard.
This is me on all the parts.
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A collaboration, this started out as a jam, with Jen on thumb-piano.
Written & Performed by Rog Hildreth & Jen Howell during February 2012.
Taken from "Rog Hildreth and The Enemies Of Progress".
More of this sort of thing at www.facebook…
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A meditation of sorts.
Arose from experimentation with a technique described here
http://www.ehx.com/blog/ehx-tone-tips-stereo-memory-man-w-hazarai
This is a single take with a bunch of reverb added after the fact in Reaper (also an experiment…
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The backing track is mainly the "Chanticleer Hegemony" beat in reverse at a slower tempo and pitch-shifted samples of my earlier track "Harm". The lyrics are taken verbatim from a note that once landed in my driveway one windy day. The ending…
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Now can you imagine it, it’s Christmas eve and there is no one to give us Christmas as Father Christmas has died and there is no one to take is place what are we gonna do????? What would life be without a Christmas song???
No-one to sing the…
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I have just received the little black songbook through the post and couldn't resist having a go at this one...
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from the album "Que Vive!"
the faces blend together, form an enemy
the faces blur, who’s the friend and who’s the enemy
guilty is a feeling
all human’s cry freedom from the enemy
all the while freedom’s just not listening
guilty is a feeling…
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Chris sent me the the track this afternoon and i took to it straight away and threw it down the cellar to see what would happen and Frankie Zee quickly scribbled the lyrics and Reg sang it or should i say spoke it straight in one take because…
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Another with Johnny this one with a whole lotta love thanks Johnny
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Bob came down the cellar last night it had been a bit quite down there for a while so he hit this old classic by the doors and Regged it up a little.....we hope you like it
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Track 1 from the 'Space Opera' EP.
Download the EP here:
http://www.archive.org/details/SpaceOperaem123
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Chris sent this track to me earlier today with the request that I add some percussion to it.
I had something different in mind.
After the first take I was afraid to return it to him, fearing that he would convert it to 23 edo or something…
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El vuelo del condor, (the flight of the condor) It's a song i wrote when i was living at Patagonia, i could pass hours watching them flying.
Music: Diego Cardenas (somno project)
Featuring Norm Harris on Percussion!
i hope you like it...
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This is my song Floating fully recorded at Blue Frog Studios.
Alsooo check out the video for a live version!
Enjoy :)
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This has probably the least effert i've ever put into a song , i was sat at my computer falling asleep , when i had the urge to sing this beautiful George Harrison song , i could'nt be asked to get up and change guitars , so using my PRS Singlecut…
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This song is sort of about making a clean break, killing off the lead character in your story and burying him along with all his sins before the inevitable happens, and the bad guy gets his. Initially came from a jam with my mate Ben Price who…
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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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VOIP (dance for the solstice you fucking plastic robots)
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from the new album "the Hardest Blow" featuring vocals from Ashley Reynolds.
I asked the man is he blown away
He said "son, not today,
But that's ok man, it's just ok"
Just ok
So I tried harder, I tried so hard
To kill that man with my…
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details here if you want them http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=350
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from the album "orange"
this game, is a, last stop
before, you see, to the, very top
and I'm half asleep, yet I'm wide awake
and this ride isn't working out, not it's not for me
cause it gets so hard to believe, in
anything that you…
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"The out of body experience of traveling alone".
When I first started to play Guitar in April 2009, Geir was there to help me create tracks...
This is one where I put down a an amature track and he made something from it...
A…
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This is my first musical expedition into the midi keyboard. Having never played the piano its a fun learning experience. Thanks to Norm for lending me Stinkbug!
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ImprovFriday mashup (10/8/10) feat. Kavin Allenson, J-P Kervinen, Norbert Oldani, Ben Smith & Roger Sundstrom.
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I wrote this today in a new creative process, writing a poem first, then a lead part and ending with an accompaniment. It's definitely a different sound: I was experimenting. Some of my other influences came through on this one. Also, I paraphrased…
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Recorded on my old Alvarez 5023 with a Fishman Rare Earth soundhole pickup.
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This is my first effort with real bongos. I've been so inspired by Norm's talents, that I had to give it a try. I borrowed a set of bongos from my brother Asa.
http://alonetone.com/asalennon
I had to play 18 holes of golf to get my hands…
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From the Angie Fights Crime/AM FM Dreams split album "Faiths" (2010)
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I call those harmonies at the end, my chipmunk voices....which, by the way, is the best part of this song. This work was done at January Sound in about 1981. Yikes! That's a long time ago.
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24-hour album.
This album is a collage of several disconnected pieces recorded & mixed over 18 hours or so.
I've left it as a single long track, but here's a sort of navigational guide if you want to skip around:
0:00 - 1:30 = Living…
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Sorry About The Quality of the recording on this one...
A Friend of Mine (64Guitars From Songcrafters. Org ) challenged me to write a song about a subject (a Secret....Lol)....
This was finished 45 mins Later...
Will be Good for me on Open…
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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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A song celebrating the animator for The Teller of the Tale. Music is post-avantgarde neo-progressive rock.
New version uploaded 12 Dec 2010
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The vodka, ahhh. One of 3 that I recorded to a dimming flashlight during a power outage.
One take into the Micro BR hole with some harmony and noodle overdubs.
Vodka
I want the vodka
'Cause I know it's gonna make me play better…
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A billboard is no place for advertising some sort of spiritual message. I call it thieves in the temple if you ask me.
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Well i gues i was just sitting bored at home in new years even and i came up with the hook , then just worked on it on and off, and ended up with this.
Hope you enjoy it :)
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Have no idea where this one came from. I was strumming away and the words just came out. Seems to be about some kind of wrongdoing in the past. May have been possessed. Thanks again to Gary for helping out on lead..
In sleepy towns through…
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Had the opportunity to play with sandbags' fabulous Reichatron. This is what happened.
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A good take on a middleeastern style theme. Sounds refreshing and with the reiterations of a Middleeastern prayer, it makes itself right at home. I've always wanted to do one song like this.
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This One was a creation with my friend and gran Master, Kavin. You can fin more kavin´s tracks on alonetone.com/kavin :)
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A song about how I don't follow, or care about, fashion or trends.
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Have you ever heard a traditional Irish folk song re-worked as a ska song? No? How about with an additional Spanish horn riff? Well, now you have! This song tells the story of an unfortunate guy who hooks up with a girl in the kitchen of her boss…
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a moody ethereal track. recorded straight from the laptop mic, so not the best, but had to capture it before it faded away.
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Sudara says: Just found this on my iPod.
Basically it was the first full mix of the tune, before it passed back to glu and then back to Sudara for the "original" version.
This is heavier, more energy, less fraility, and in Sudara's opinion a…
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Another song in the key of Glu.
I know I called the theme was [glubot for a day](http://alonetone.com/forums/togethertone/topics/glubot-for-a-day).
Maybe glubot for a week?
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Lyrics:
There’s a pound or two of flesh in my chest yet.
It sits next to the bag that brings me my breath, yes.
A knot of muscle that flex and flex and flexes,
It’s okay—no rest (unless time requests it).
In the bowl above my eyes a gelatinous…
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this song was inspired from an ee cummings poem. it was composed for rpm 2009.
lyrics:
i'll tell you a dream i had once
up in the sky blue everything
flying away a kite on a string
i didn't have anything
i was cool you were warm…
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A tribute to all the beautiful ladies in Sweden...
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Growing up is hard.
For everyone.
I once had a Facebook Friend named Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick. A poet, from Midland, Texas, doing advanced studies at Sarah Lawrence. She was so good she could write a hundred pages about how she couldn…
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A fingerpicky tune from the old days.
Tuning is DADF#AD Capo III.
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here we are, for the very first time
is it safe to touch you
or am I way out of line
now it's over, and our embrace was far too sweet
is it safe to fall in love or is this a game that can never be beat
here we are in my bedroom all alone…
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Nice melodic pop song. Mostly guitar instrumental with a roll your top down, feel good outlook.
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3hird Sunday Grackle Improv Jam
Mark-guitar
Miguel-percussion,charango,Peruvian flutes
Kavin-Bass VI, percussion,loops,vocals
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It started as an attempt to make a dream-pop song, but it evolved into a purely instrumental piece with three movements. I felt a need to make something more pleasant and peaceful this month, and to spend as much time as I could immersed in that…
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On any other day than this I might recall, the words to make you feel better
and spin the waves of the record known by heart
I’ve tried to fool myself to sleep so many nights I fear I may never wake up
A moonlight trance
I drank the drink…
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interpolates lyrics written by Illogic and Lucid Optics and samples music produced by Lucid Optics
[Hook]
What are you running from?
Don’t wait for tomorrow
In this world, there’s only one of you
The sun doesn’t follow
What are you running…
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My mom
What you love most is being our mom
Forces against it seem to pull you down
Out the nest, we still needed our mom
You said I loved to cuddle
I love you more than the stars
Know when you slip away, you’ll never leave where we are…
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[Verse 1]
I used to grin at the idea of attention whore
’til I saw one in real life, now I get it more
Do you make music for you, or to get some dough?
You should make it for you, they don’t get your score
It’s some subconscious reminders…
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Straight out the quarantine
Alex is the number one host with novel Covid-19
Happening to guilty sheeple
Also affecting innocent people
The answer is love but not found in these weird evil jeepers creepers here
Jesus, why you leave us in tatters…
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Written and recorded for the Record Every Month Challenge in March 2023. I'm thinking of trying to record a single each month this year. This would be the A side for March.
The idea started bubbling up in my head at the tail end of the RPM…
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6th song for my RPM album. If you like slow and depressing music...this is for you! I had a blast using my new crash cymbal and brushes...my fingers are not very pleased about playing the bass riff however (ouch).
somehow you knew me
and…
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The Our Father in Latin and sung a cappella. I don’t really know any Latin but I’ve tried to learn to say some of the basic prayers. For me it’s a really nice way to pray sometimes and frees my mind a bit to focus on God. This melody came to…
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Here is the latest song challenge offered by the Minnesota Asscociation of Songwriters:
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Your mission this month is twofold:
1. Try creating a boundary between the production of content versus the judging…
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Sometimes life tends to repeat itself if you're not careful.... Good to find a moment to recognize old patterns and shake them off.
Great help on this one from the MN Coffee Table Gang - Greg Connor on guitar and vocals, and Mark Lofgren…
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Ludum Dare 50 - Dark forest folk waltz to keep the fire alive - wadmeister.itch.io/gone-out
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I’ll never understand those who are famous for being famous, and I honestly don’t care to. Unqualified influencers and fake internet gurus, this one's for you.
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"For You" by W. Ng, written and recorded in February 2022 for the RPM Challenge.
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The vastness of the ocean
A darkness in the sky
A lifetime of emotion
How hard you've had to try
To navigate the currents
And the demons in the deep
You have to stay awake
'Cuz they might take you in your sleep
You wish that you could…
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We decided to give the kids an outlet that wasn’t pandemic or lockdown based this February, and made an album as a family for the RPM Challenge 2021. It was just the most precious, funny, brilliant month.
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I recorded the Gibson straight with the SE Magneto condenser mic into the Scarlet and then vocal on seperate track you may hear the bloody dryer in the background if you listen carefully but this one had to be done there and then or i'd forget…
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I wish I could come up with lyrics that make at least a little sense
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