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Reg is getting heavy with DJBride........
I want rid of my Grieving heart (Lyrics)
She was my Princess she’d said she’d love me forever
She said that she’d need me for ever and ever
She lied to my face, looked me right in the eye
told me, told…
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Thanks to Colin Garvey for giving his energy to this little duet... And to Genevieve for making good on a promise.
BORN AT THE RIGHT TIME
Born at the right time
Underneath the summer sky
Always walked a fine line
Making good and barely…
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Transmision de Flymagic en Discomagic Radio 12/12/12
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Any resemblance to the Yiddish word Chutzpah is of the purest intent. With a doff of the hat to Sheldon Alan "Shel" Silverstein ...and Mad magazine for all of their influences. that indeed did rot my brain
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Guitar/bass into Zoom G3x into Boss BR-80. BR-80 drums.
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Again my aussie friend Kelvin on acoustic guitar & me on vocal , live recorded into the BR-800 onboard mic's
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I am slowly coming to the realization that I am sacred.
I trust you do as well.
It was so easy to be bitter
To hate the life I was born into
And I almost lost myself in this fight
Cutting what was so sacred
I could not see beyond…
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Carnagie creepers jeep flipchart geranium. Evil streaking beakers leak bacon on a cranium. Lay low bilbo, said bag it mr. super, i shoe horn my corn fed friends with sally hooper. My time is 5 later, my eyes are radiators, my fingers are side…
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Poor old Monkey they put him a rocket and shot him into outer-space..........
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I redid this song it needed drums.
i did all the parts by me lonesome
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Another cover, this time in Italian with Manu taking the lead...
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This is a 12 string nylon MIDI patch.
The only thing missing from this
arrangement is you.
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A new original from me. Another one-voice, one-guitar, "live" performance in my broom-cupboard. This time it's the good ole tin guitar.
I wrote this one in 2002 during the "dark years" lol. I've ummed and aahed over the years on whether to…
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I did it!
Starts off a little cheesy, but I really was on a train, going in a westerly direction, when I wrote that!
Enjoy!
xox
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Cascadia is the first solo work written and recorded by Andrew Davis. This funky instrumental blend of folk, rock and jazz features mandolin, acoustic and electric guitar, banjo, bass, and varied percussion. Enjoy!
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Random blue mood. Vocals by MJ, from a different song by a different side project, which I 'borrowed' for now.
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You know how good mixing means EQ, compressing etc? Yeah, disregarded everything here.
intro bluesy guitar sample from here: http://archive.org/details/MiZ2012-01-26.wklitz.schoeps.sbd.flac16 "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes"
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Growing up in Ohio we used to see the signs the hoboes left on trees and mailboxes. Bits of ribbons and cloth-signifying friendly,and-cold hearted bastards who'd sic the dogs on you.
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This is not a haiku,
Though at first you may think it is.
The poet enjoys your confusion.
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[recorded in glorious 4-trak at lotek studios in the '90s]
straining to maintain
straining to maintain a sense of dense intensity
vainly feigning pain of a spurious immensity
a furious refrain of precarious opacity
nefarious pretence…
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From a idea born in the mind of Greg Connor, who wrote half the words. I supplied the tune,at his behest. Perhaps someday he will take it up and add his accents to it.
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Poor old Reg she's left him again...........
JUST ONE OF A MILLION LONELY MEN (Lyrics)
Can't find love in this cold hard city
There ain't no love and there ain't no pity
Walking alone in the lamp lit town
Trying to hide my sorrowed frown…
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Written by Greg Connor
Lyrics:
Old Country Songs
Wooden Chair by the window
Gibson on my lap
And the time I spend strumming
Is never coming back
The sun is shining on me
Evening won’t be long
I’m living in the city
Singing…
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This is the title song from my first LP.
FEATHERS IN THE WIND by SNOWGEESE.
Snowgeese was my first wife, BarbaraAnne and me. Michael was a new friend we met when we moved to Texas that liked my songs enough to produce and arrange and record…
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Started out be an innocent little jazzy study in quartal harmony, but the DL4 was still in my signal path and things went downhill from there! Another done with my beloved '58 Stratotone
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New AR track, really keen to get a great mix, so I'd be very grateful if you could let me know how it sounds on your speakers. I'm a bit unsure about the bottom end.
Any mastering tips?
Thank you!
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Inspired by a perfect morning watching the Sun come up over Lake Superior.
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...almost a love song ... - ish. deal with it, and don't come to expect it from here.
Scent
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I can smell your perfume on my body
*scent of the chase i need what i want, this is on
Invigorating my sense of taste for your world
Making…
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For details and the TED talk that I connect with this piece see http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1439
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Nothin' new - this track replaces a different version of the same tune your Quill had up for a while. Missing this trio a bit; musing over some old tracks; thinkin' the loose feel and the reckless solo and the nice smoky vocal in this version…
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The second of seven unfinished leftovers from RPM 2007 to finally get completed. The lyrics are about my strong desire to vacation in San Diego... permanently. Just a little 12-bar. I liked this one a lot more before it was finished. Now I…
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Written by Rog Hildreth.
Copyright 2010.
All instruments/production by Rog Hildreth.
Taken from "The Anxiety Bomb".
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under the influence of fine cheese and alkyhol oldrottenhead didn't care anymore
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The whole world could be falling to pieces but it really doesn't matter because WE'RE IN LOVE!!!!!
(I was especially happy to throw in a line about 2012 and the Mayan Prophesy!!!)
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Maia was from Georgia. The Georgia that was part of the the USSR. She drew pictures of her sisters. She lived on orange juice and tea. (Horns by my brother, John.)
MEETING MAIA
Where the tram stops in front of the Van Gough Museum, I waited…
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A song for a very special friend, and I'm glad she loved it. I hope I can soon post some songs of her and me together here.
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here is my cover of a boy named bri's "some may say" from his 2011 RPM album. the original is here.
http://alonetone.com/boynamedbri/tracks/some-may-say
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written on a Bad day with Chicken pox....
But Spent a Great Day with my Son who also had it.
Jim Called later that day.
He added a vocal/Lyric the day after as my voice is shot...
This is a song about good times with your wee ones..
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Reg threw Norms 7th son in the Cellar tonight and it wasn't long before young Johny Cash had jumped all over it.................
Daddy didn’t love his 7th son
I was born when the storm really started rising
When the ships crashed the rocks…
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Peter Thörn: Alto sax and Fretless Acoustic guitar. Fieldrecording of Irish Sea.
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A sad and peaceful piano ambient piece with a touch of avantgarde jazz in a winter landscape.
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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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Well, I love this song...
I hope you like and/or enjoy. Cheers!
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This is a composition from July's '96, and it could be said that it belongs to a period in which i was listening to, and composing, in a kind of 'baroque' style, very influenced by J. S. Bach. I hope you like and/or enjoy it.
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Instrumental named after the street I live on (for want of a name and LOL I live on Ellis Blvd.) any way the base for "Tactual Sensation."
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a little jam with Norm's "Cabinets" percussion track.
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I'm doing a twenty-four hour project. This is the warmup done in the first ninety minutes.
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Fender Mustang guitar, Roland GR-20, and Fractal Tune Smithy
Alontone refused to accept the update
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This is the accoustic version of fat tragedy. I guess it is a guitar solo. Thinking itself through, but not really anticipating what itself is going to do.
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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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Because after enough smoke and whiskey anything sounds good.
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Sung By John B - he also does most of the instrumentation. My contribution is simply that I wrote the lyrics and composed the music, and if you listen closely I play the guitar parts. A cross Atlantic collaboration.
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Little country ditty with a "hook" :) recorded a few years ago at Boyd's in Wylie. I am singing lead and harmonies. That keyboard player is my talented cousin, Robert Nichols, who turned me onto this site. You can search for him here on Alonetone…
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Publicado bajo autorizacion y sin animo de lucro.
www.carranga.org
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Another one from the dusty special price bin! It started off as a Pilot cover, but it didn't end up that way.
Dave Berry added the excellent tele solos and the crazy cool noises at the end. Thanks bro, you rock!
I spent more time on this…
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The song that really kicked off this second album of 2009.
"In time all the stars will fade away
Our kind won't get to see it anyway
No shine, just endless black between the gray
I won't be going out in that way"
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got a new threat, new threat baby/ i gotta new threat/ to your existence/pushing daisies/pumpin pistons/in the engine of your destruction/ a generator supports your load/a load of crap/ your new abode/ i gotta new threat, im on your cell phone…
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Simple little song. My view on how love really falls apart. Last verse is in my opinion an add-on. I wrote it after the rest, at the behest of someone who thought it was too "un-hopeful". It may have been a goood thing.
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Lyrics by Brian McCloskey in somewhat of a suprise collab. Musically a kind of feel-good soul-pop. I quite like how this turned out, and nominated it my prefered RPM-track this year.
New version uploaded 12 Dec 2010.
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A Halloween collab we did last fall that I thought was pretty cool. Designed to scare old ladies and make babies cry :) I love the way the song peters off in the end.
All tracks recorded with the Boss Micro BR, mixed with Audacity and mastered…
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Old Paint Ver.II
Continued from Old Paint Version I............
So, I plugged in the cat eater, hit distort and it took on a whole new feel.
I added bass(finger is tore up now), more drums, and low level fuzzed up leads.
The ghost…
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I suppose this is an "ambient chill" piece. It was mainly an excuse to use a marimba sample and an analog synthy sound from my Roland Juno-106.
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A song about falling asleep on the couch, so there is no mystery to it! But the loose change is in the cushions, lights and tv are on, and the oven has been set to 350 for several hours :)
One vocal & acoustic take with a harmony and noodle…
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The art of war is simple enough
Find out where your enemy is
Get at them as soon as you can
Strike them as hard as you can
And as often as you can
And keep moving on...
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My 2009 Christmas Challenge song. It's rough around the edges and I didn't have a drumset, so fake drums, but all in all, not a bad little diddy. enjoy!
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Just working out some rhythms. Toucans come in at about 1 minute.. wish I could get the sound onto vinyl for some proper scratching. I used Sandbags' awesome generative sequencer Elysium for some of the ambient and lower pitched toucans. The lead…
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A spacey electronic number.
Part of my song a week project.
http://yelyah.com/song-a-week/
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Ambient. Electric Bass Guitar. Ebow + Acoustic Guitar
Sometimes a new instrument is all it takes to inspire a nice little piece.
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2009 Record Production Month Challenge offering. Very pleased with the collective results. This track was the first one completed for the RPM challenge this year.
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07 – What’s ‘Round Here? (A Mystery). Written and recorded 22nd Feb.
A mystery.
Info and lyrics at www.butterflypolite.com/uglifruit
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The second of 9 demos I recorded in Jan. 2009 for the upcoming Spooky Garcia album that Rob and I are recording for RPM '09.
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Dedicated to the victims of the 23 day assault on Gaza.
Copyright © 2009 Tiago Castro Henriques, some rights reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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My only regret is that I couldn't get more power into this song, but no amount is enough. Desoto on bass again.
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On IRC, somebody was asking about routing to I got to playing around attempting to help them out. This throw-away piece came out...
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I originally built this up to some cliche rocking acme but there is no need, so I peeled it back kept it raw. Thanks Su for the critiques on the levels.
Since I am not participating in the 24hr album today, here I am in spirit! This track was…
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A remix of the [lead vocals](http://ccmixter.org/files/shannonsongs/15128) of "Silence" by [Shannon Hurley](http://www.myspace.com/shannonhurley).
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A chill-out track using the vocal samples of [Colors Shifting](http://ccmixter.org/files/cwillits/7781) by Christopher Willits, a pumping bass drum, and some more.
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The last track I wrote in Santa Fe, New Mexico before moving back to Hawaii.
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This tunes was always being played around the house when I was a kid. Heard it recently for the 1st time in ages on a TV show & it sparked some great memories for me. Decided to do a cover of it. Hope you like my treatment of it :-)
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Reg has fallen of the wagon, he's wandering around town somewhere ....
The Thinking is loud
I’m drunken solo in the morning light
Feeling the rhythm dancing from my thighs
walking on the boulivard laughing out loud
I’m…
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Instrumental track from yesterday, with lyrics and vocals made today:
Modern Fool
What modern fool doesn’t understand the game of love?
And what about the push and shove you’re guilty of?
That dares not speak its crime?
What modern…
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Tim - guitars, voices, and other noises
Marz - vocals and lead guitar
Megan Kleven - backing vocals
Marz and I have know one another for over ten years now, but we've never actually recorded anything where we sang together until now. We…
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This is the lowkey vibe, the wind down, decompression
Before I put my head to bed then
I take a step down
Didn’t have a stepfather
Only my Heavenly Father
My Mother-slash-Father from up above, huh?
Don’t bother me as I sleep soundly
Being…
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I got a new hydraulic system
My whatchamacallit ticking
I find myself getting even and then getting away—Macaulay Culkin syndrome
I’m enjoying life despite the hiccups
Why rhyme except to edify the listener—me
There’s never been a time like…
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New Hampshire. New Hampshire and my family flat-out rejected them both. Of course, their being addicted to and eventually withdrawing from heroin didn't make explaining who they were easy. At my nephew's house, after I showed them his alcoholic…
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Strange though it may seem, this was actually made with the one string crutch. Effects were: EHX Voice Box (vocoder setting) -> EHX Stereo Memory Man (one output fed to the instrument input of the Voice Box) -> Zoom RFX-300 (one channel…
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Did you guys hear? There are SPY BALLOONS!!!!!
A view from above, floating so high
Watching as the world goes by
Silent and sleek, full of mystique
High altitude game of hide and seek
Flying high, floating in the air
You think you…
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RPM day 2
Now I ain’t no groundhog baby
I can barely see my shoes
If I see a shadow it’s cos I’ve got the blues
If you want a weather forecast
I suggest that you watch the news
But I tell you something I can predict
There will be 6 more…
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Another day of broken promises
Like all the other days before
You start each morning with such optimism
That lasts until your feet hit the floor
That’s when things begin to fall apart
And the rain starts to pour from above
There’s no hope…
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Since venturing beyond twenty atmospheres, our intrepid explorers were assumed lost forever. Never underestimate the human spirit and instinct for survival, especially when it’s fueled by a defiant shanty.
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I should've paid attention
When my buddy mentioned
The state of all the guys you'd left behind
You looked so young and wild
With that come-and-get-it smile
You'd taken over something in my mind
When we were together
I should've seen the…
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Some days I'm the preacher with my head up in a cloud
Some days I'm a gentleman who does my mama proud
But some days I'm the creature who just arrived from Mars
And some days I'm the futurist who drives electric cars
Some days I'm the…
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The Quarantine Tunes thing is definitely scraping the bottom of the barrel. I am supposed to be pulling songs from old recording projects and updating and (theoretically) improving them. After five rounds there isn't a whole lot left to use…
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Meh.
Originally written for the 2010 RPM Challenged and finished about a year and a half later. It was called Dogfight and the lyrics were about... Top Gun, or Hot Shots, or some air combat shit. I can remember sitting at my desk in the cellar…
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I think this one may have lost something in the re-recording process. The mix feels sloppy and the performance seems... well... sloppy. I am going to need to listen to this and the first recording from over the summer back to back before I am…
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There are too many battles to fight in life, sometimes it's best to just walk away.
Written & recorded Aug 2021 as part of the RPM Challenge: Record Every Month Challenge
Remixed: Sept 25, 2021
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This one started life as a noodle which turned into a doodle which became shark bait....Thanks for listening
Shark Bait
Shark Bait
Shark Bait
Shark Bait
Nothing but blue
Nothing but the blue
waiting for you
Nothing
but the…
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It is Sunday so i'm looking out for some promise ..........
Theres that promise out there in the air again
as the dawn rises gently up from the moor
the scene is set these are a sequence of events
that have led us on
led us on for…
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No life remains in balance,
we're swept up in winds of chaos.
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Drums, upright bass, and electric piano in 7/8.
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another from new exploring with the mountain dulcimer. This one tuned DAC. Digging it. Created for the Sound-in Event.
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My latest Soundscape hopefully evokes an atmospheric evening in the desert, as outside the tent the girls make their mournful cries before the local musicians strike up a dance beat.....
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I'm really tired right now so this mix might sound awful and I won't know. Also, 50/90 might be hitting a snag in that I have a bit of an injury to my left hand. It's not getting better and while recording the leads on this puppy it was affecting…
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Lockdown 2020. This was a suggestion by our friend Paul Matthews (check out his page: https://alonetone.com/IlshamOrchestrate )
Paul performed the piano and programmed the drums, strings and guitar tracks.
Billy picked up the bass for the…
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I remembered an incredible night at the seaside some years ago. The moon over the water and the waves, the stars in the sky and the wind with a natural sense of movement. I hope I was able to transfer those sensations into the song.
This work…
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In Lockdown, I have really been inspired to return to my more classical roots, and have enjoyed playing around with the idea of epic style movie or cinematic themes/trailers. I have imaginatively named them Lockdown Orchestrations No. 1, No…
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I wrote this one morning but gave up tryin to sing it . then I asked my buddy Steve Schostal to do vocals . His Canadian accent was perfect for this . Notice how he leads the beat ‘wow perfect.
I love Colabs
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I put together a patch of 6 oscillators using frequencies 198, 210, 220, 228, 230 and 280. I recorded the piece interactively playing as I felt them by triggering. A previously recorded loop often playing in reverse was also used. Produced…
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© Words and music 2019 J.Cole
Rogues Anthem
I fell asleep to your serenade
Of pompous propaganda
As the band went on and played.
Now I’m lost in scattered thought
To things I’ve sold out to
On credit that I bought.
Anyway…
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Another Minnesota Coffee Table Song! Written and recorded “live” in one evening.
Memories: Written and performed by John Bennet, Joe Passofaro, Mark Lofgren, Colleen Dillon & Greg Connor. Listen to Minnesota Homebrew Radio w/ Carl Unbehaun…
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Since my ear found your voice
And my eye found your face
All the sights and the noise
Will never erase
The song I started singing
The song I sing today...
(C) 2019 Royal T Music
I wrote this about Violet.
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