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The closer of the album. It only felt fair to give the guitar a turn with the tune.
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Taken from the album ‘The Weight Of Water’, from 2007. (This is a new mix, for 2014.)
Written and performed by Rog Hildreth.
Sometimes I challenge myself to write and record a song from scratch in a single day. This is a story song which…
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Down To The Bridge
D G/D D(add11) D
Down to the bridge I hurry
G D sus4 D
On the valley's well-worn path
D G/D D(add11) D
Eyes to the sky in wonder
G D Asus4 D
And on the…
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I've been told to keep going. This might be a challenging part of the journey, but a beautiful horizon is just around the corner. I'll stick to that.
(written for BC)
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2025**
Song number 13
Written 20th Feb
Demo recorded 22nd Feb
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I had the song half done - well, I had the title and chorus - and I was watching a FABULOUS film the other night called Enchanted April, with…
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Teejay’s WRLD - Uptown Disco Lyrics
Benni, Mon kanra, Mon para
Omije jabo loju mii, nigbati moh Gbo rate dollar
Aboki Ogbo kan Kan Oti dii dullard
Agba Baller, 001 Asisat Oshoala
Koko jabele, onikaluku Lon Shey thieh
Alamdullilah, kii…
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This might have been the fastest mix I've ever been a part of. That might be because there's nothing really going on here. I probably should have raised the vocals a smidge though, but I am really down on my singing ability these days.
All…
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[Verse]
Get that oatmeal and put it in my bowl please and it’s
This Southern hick beat I’m gonna get down real quick, see I…
Get that chili, my special combination I’m making and then I plate it and then I a-a-ate it
Yo, pasta every once in…
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[Chorus]
Good morning, America
Big race problem everywhere we are
If there’s trouble for minority
It probably ‘cause of ethnicity
If colored man is content, he is a bitch
You should let it get to you, be pissed
I wish I never been born…
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Dark Techno/Acid Bass/Post Rock project i started working on, let's see when it leads.
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Castaway. The Tom Hanks Movie.
* Disclaimer: I understand that most of the songs on this album are pitchy and hard to listen to. I recorded all of the vocals on Feb 27 and 28th as single takes. Most of them stream of conscience nonsense.
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This an old, old one from way back, Merry Christmas to everyone
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Night Falls
Capo 5th fret
Intro
G C/G G Gsus ://
G C G
Night falls into day
G C G
Gone now, yesterday
D Em
The sun rising
D…
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Track 2 of my failed RPM... just a quiet acoustic ramble.
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2021 50/90 song number 16 of 50.
I like this one. I think I screwed up the guitar part in the chorus about a thousand and two times before I finally had a useable take. I think it was probably worth it.
The guitars are a Les Paul standard…
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from the album 50
vocals Alejandro Olivares
lead guitar Dan Upton
search for so long to belong a place to go thats my own where everything is real the walls are never cold tell you how I feel while I am growing old and I am coming home to…
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Reg was reading the Sunday papers today and he's finally had enough he's going to get a shovel and dig himself a big hole and dissapear into it he's had enough of their silly games ....all of them he's off..being him....being the thespian that…
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Nothing special about this one except that it broke my one songwriting challenge rule: I rewrote part of it. The lyrics. I wrote the melody and a set of lyrics that fit late one night and even before I conked out for the night I knew it was…
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This is the Sinner's Prayer or the Jesus Prayer sung in Latin. I have an acoustic version uploaded and this version a cappella. I've sung this in the key of F, one step lower than the acoustic version.
"Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy…
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(Remastered 22/10/2021)
And here is the first reply to In Your Hands.
I say "first" because I've found another one, When I Try To Be Me, that Mrs R says I have to do too... but that's unlikely to be the next one I post because I'm working…
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Another song from The Great 2015 Re-Recording Project. This one originally came from my failed 2010 RPM Challenge. I liked this one at the time, and the riff is fun to play. The lyrics are about a very stressful drive from Massachusetts to…
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Well the virus has my friend and music partner in Krakow Poland sheltering in place but we are using the time to write and record..here is our latest...we tried to write in the style of Motown...check it out ... all music and production by Art…
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There's a line in an Indigo Girls song that says, "If you need to know that you weathered the storm of cruel mortality, a hundred years later I'm sitting here living proof." For me, ever since hearing the words "cruel mortality," they have always…
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Finally I have completed a track on this, for me, a very uninspiring year, musically speaking.
Lyrics come from the inexhaustible weirdness of my dreams.
Happy Halloween... if that's a thing :)
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Jackie Kelly sat next to me in 7th grade. She was great at diagramming sentences. I would catch up with her on the way to school and we would walk silently. She was buck-toothed and brash. I really liked her. I carved "JK" with a safety pin in…
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(i have literally not made it through a single listen of this demo since last year. no idea.)
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A funky tune that I wrote a couple of years back.
All instruments and vocals by me
Hope you like it
KC
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Why don't you come around anymore
Is it something that I've said
Or something…
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a bit of doodling turned into this .....
The clock strikes midnight and Jennys heading home
Peter, makes do with bus and he sits there on his alone
He’s Watching the streets fill with people as the the raindrops form to the glass
the falling…
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SOME PEOPLE - G
GCG GDG
Some people have someone to hold them when they are lonely
Some people have someone to call their one and only
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Some folks miss the boat, or get a boat that won’t float
Or get a goat that eats their grass
GCG…
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Attempting February Album Writing Month.
http://fawm.org/fawmers/saltbearer/
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Pack a bag and head out west
Change of clothes and leave the rest
Northern skin needs a little sun
Sunshine can cure anyone
Slow it down to a steady pace
Forget about the human race
All I need is what’s inside
Take the rest and let it…
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My first attempt at a Christmas original! I've gone topical.
Written by / all instruments, voices: Rog Hildreth
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More from the way back machine. A set of polkas from the 1992 Scartaglen album "Last Nights Fun". Former band mate Mike Dugger wrote the first 2 tunes and I can't remember where we got the last tune. There is a live version of this up here. This…
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Last year friends and family seemed to be dieing right, left and centre. Part of my RPM 2015 effort
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I thought i'd join in the fun thanks for the challenge Gene......with a little fx free from freesfx.co.uk
I built myself an android
I’ve been sitting here lonely for seems a long long time
i’ve even thought of buying myself one of them internet…
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Bill got with Wayne and they made this... with a moxf6 yamaha and novation supernova II mixed together as counterpoint microtonal 22edo guitar bound the tones together. :)
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Got to messing about while waiting for my DVDs for the wedding i've been working on to burn............
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Yes, yes I know. The guitar melody sounds a lot like the jazz standard "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat." I understand and I'm sorry, but it's so rare that I come up with an instrumental melody that I just have to run with it when I get one.
The vocals…
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This demo recording turned out particularly well, especially when compared to how most of my MYTHOPOETICA recordings sound. The lead guitar employs an Eastern Folk scale and style of picking, greased with GEM-style Blues butter.
SUPER YOU…
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This has been in my head forever, but I never managed to pull it together until now. The lyrics were inspired by @_FloridaMan on twitter. Formerly known as RPM 2014 #4
Is it overreaction
when everyone acts that way
does it lead to distraction…
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2010 24 hour challenge. Record a 24 minute song in less then 24 hours.
Work has been so crazy music has been taking a back seat. I might have to try this concept again to get anything done on the creative side of things. :)
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Happily Ever After
(Boudreau)
I’ve been counting on the sun to come and melt my blues away
I’ve been dying for your smile all day
I’m trying to find the reason I’ve been moving so slow
I guess I’m just tired of blaming the snow
So I…
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I actually wrote this awhile back, but I've wanted to re-arrange it and record it with better quality, so here it is. Everything is me except the drums which are loops.
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What They Don't See
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guns buy love
peace sells hate
and i just am
waiting for my promised cake
everything you want
everything you need
i just am
the lack of what you see
while you ache
for what you'll take…
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A cover of Warren Haynes "Soulshine"with the music from Taylors Lament (Mike & Paul) from over at the cool lab and Reg on the vocal hope you enjoy..............
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Trampled
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A quickly improvised tune with some stream-of-consciousness lyrics. Written/recorded hastily in the dead of night on Tuesday 11/27 with a short overdub session on Thursday 11/29, when I should have been sleeping.
All basic tracks…
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I was sitting at an open jam when a guy approached me and said he liked my playing. He then began telling me about the nightmare he went through as a soldier in Iraq. He then said no one understands him or can connect with him. He feels like…
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Well Reg has taken this one from the cellar to the West End ........
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A long time ago (high school, actually) I went to a dance and witnessed a girl trying to catch the attention of a boy. The memory inspired this song.
Enjoy.
ER
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I ruin it again - but in a different way.
This is the harpsichord that was sampled.
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We've all met them! Haha. Got a bit of a rocky head on doing this.
"I ain't gonna love her like I said I would, coz my friends were all quite right - she's no good."
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A first alonetone collab! (thats not MMI), featuring amazing guitars by Movement to Contact.
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And so ends another album. Tried something different again ^_^
PS. I'm sure I've heard this kind of tune before, probably a cowboy flick, so if it turns out to be way too 'inspired' by some song, please let me know and I'll mention it here. And…
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One of my heaviest "electro" songs. This is news... for beginners.
Written & Performed by Rog Hildreth during February 2012.
Taken from "Rog Hildreth and The Enemies Of Progress".
More of this sort of thing at www.facebook.com/roghildreth…
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Blah, Blah, blah, - (pause) Blah, blah, blah, blah!!
I can't take it no mo'. I'm buggin' out.
Oooooo! look at all the pretty colors.
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You know I'm diggin' and scratchin' when I start
sounding like Jimmy Buffet elevator musak :)
Oooooo the delightful chaos of RPM
This has 2 percussion loops, midi drums, midi fretless bass, some midi strings, synths, and piano, 2 gallons of…
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This is my first of the year so a Happy new year to all and thanks Norm for the beat .....hope you enjoy.
Stories of ghosts and the devil abound in Puerto Rican folktales. In the southern part of the island, it is said that most of these stories…
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The inner layers encaged and squirming. The layers beneath, beyond any obviousness.
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I have a video called THE BROKE PIANO on line at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JON_poM_sdY
Ironically, it does not include this song.
Key D
D (figure is D D sus, D D sus)
I am a BROKE PIANO. Got no damper and no keys
G…
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as with all the works of this series,the gregorian chant is taken from the passion play of prague(jeu pascal de prague)
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.Written shortly after the Egyptian uprising that over threw the Mobaric regime.
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This is an improvisation I did live on ustream - but the audio quality was horrific - fortunately I had recorded everything in Sonar so I used Sony Vegas to make this into something listenable. Since the frame rate was messed up (you can see…
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Back to basics here. recorded with the Yeti mic.
Ramblin' round your city,ramblin' round your town
I never see a friend I know
As I go ramblin' round boys
As I go ramblin' round
My sweetheart and my parents I left in my old hometown…
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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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I Love Drum And Bass.
Grew up on the stuff..
Here is a Nostalgic one...
Peace
T
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the collaboration team
Norm percussion
Reefwalker bass and voices
Chris 12 string and vocal
john lennon wrote it - coda by paul
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Well, I should give some background. Sometimes, for me, the difference in tunings are hard to discern - I don't have perfect or even good relative pitch discrimination. So I can get fooled. The Prelude for a Centaur tuned piano was actually composed…
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Ambient video and audio improvisation with my 19 notes per octave guitar, loopstation, Marshall amplifier, Zoom H2 and post-processing.
on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGO0R381HQs
full quality video
http://clones.soonlabel.com/public…
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Do you see that girl? Do you see that boy?
Walking hand in hand? They're on top of the world.
Can you see that boy? Can you see that girl?
Kissing in the park. They're on top of the world.
I can see that girl. I can see that boy.
Walking…
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Lyrics: Eugene Crider
Vocals: Domenico Mercurio (Mimmo)
All Instruments: Steffen Offermann
Composed, arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
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I really love Mimmo's vocals on this song.
Another…
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A guy I know never shuts up long enough to listen to what I have to say. He is singing it, I'm playing it.
Love you Jim.
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Track 4 / Band: The Anchorage Drift / Album: The Anchorage Drift (2010)
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The story of a workplace experience. And an ultimate fighting match.
Killer bassline by Ian Tanner. Drums by Grant Muller. Backing vocals by Clarke McMurray.
Hey there Mr. Flashy Pants
Hey there voice of thunder
As you lie there flat on…
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Lyrics: Paul Dempsey
Guitar: Billy Playle
Bass: Andy Gupta
Drums: Alex Zulaika
Composed by Steffen Offermann & Tricia Dovidio
Arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
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Based on Norm Harris' Percussion Solo Moonbathing http://alonetone.com/norm/tracks/moonbathing this piece uses bass pictured above after conversion to fretless and uses my fretless Fender Squire through the metallurgy 3 demo effect.
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If your movie needs an 80's montage song, perhaps you should consider this one... :)
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If you ever spent any time in the Whiskey well. You know it's a place you never want to revisit......
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Go check out the original: http://alonetone.com/ironangel/tracks/07-goth-song
Synth - The wife
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from the new album "the Hardest Blow" featuring vocals from Melissa Childers
You see the lights in the sky of a trillion shining stars
Image yourself, just one of them
You see a field full of flowers and everyone's the same
That's what I…
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Funky version i created of a a friends song. (thetworegs)
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A slice of life kind of song about just getting by.
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A live recording done in our studio in Tucson, AZ. This is one of the first songs that Kit and Chris ever wrote together.
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Gary has very kindly allowed me to add a bit of bass to this rather niffty number.
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So there I was, trying hard to complete a big production that I've been working on for ages, and I was getting nowhere. In frustration I started composing this little thing, and it quickly evolved into a nice piece of music all of its own. Funny…
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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 piece Norm and I collaborated on last year. We hope you will enjoy it.
two improvised 12 string guitar lines
bass line ( I took a few takes)
improvised piano
Norm's percussion in Tumbao rhythm
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only one more to go to finish this 12 serie of chamber music pieces...
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This is the first tune I wrote using an actual loop pedal. I really like the rawness of its form. The sound is sharp, it kind of attacks your ear.. but then after it loops around a few times, it calms down and sinks in..
I expect that there will…
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Check out the quasi-reggae breakdown right in the middle. The chorus is in 7/8 with the exception of the last measure, which is 8/8. Mike does the backup vox.
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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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theres no reason, no reason why this song is so catchy, so sexxxy, no reason at all. it doesn't make sense.
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Last song of RPM album. I'm particularly fond of the last ten seconds. :D
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An ebow strained thru octave pedal and pitch shifter.
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it's like an onion bell forever ringing
angels demons laughing screaming
it's like an onion bell forever dreaming
children playing dancing singing
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Filler track just in case. This too, will be shorter in the final mix. If it makes it at all.
All Synth.
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I created this tune to be one of the Demos of my "Bulgarian Voices" sample project which hope to release soon in www.audiogrocery.com
It will be a Mega sample pack which will offer EXS and Ni Kontakt format samples of Bulgarian choirs, single…
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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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One of the things about my [Glitching Satie](http://alonetone.com/sandbags/tracks/glitching-satie-1) track that I wasn't comfortable with was that it wasn't my recording that I was using. But I'm nowhere near good enough to play a piece like Gnossiennes…
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Episode One:
Sandbags allowed me to use his mad rhythms- see here for an explanation: http://alonetone.com/sandbags/tracks/my-name-is-harry-palmer Sudara lent me some samples of him playing chords from his new autoharp, an ebow against piano…
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Li Bao's lament, ‘Fighting South of the Ramparts,’ was probably written in 751, a year of significant military defeats for the Tang Dynasty, which was approaching both its cultural and political peak and soon to face the rebellion of An Lushan…
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So this track was purely for the fun of it. I was messing about in Omnisphere and came across this wonderful sound that reminded me of the guild highliners in Dune.
I built a beat around in using Stylus, Ricochet, and Dubstation. Then added more…
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A track that I put on hold for the RPM Challenge.
Of course, now I can't really remember where I was going with it... but to have used it in the challenge would have been cheating.
What I do remember was that I had just discovered and fallen…
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uncle-nephew collaboration:
My nephew banged on the guitar, I found a few usable loops in there. I had him sing" the people in the city are runnin' 'cause the robots in the…
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The beat started out as a short interlude, but a lot of people like the guitar sound so I stretched it a bit longer.
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I used to record all voicemails I got on my landline for posterity, this is one of the less intelligible ones.
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Little Guy Demo Ep
Self-Released
http://www.erikino.com
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Album: How the Aviator Sees the Rainbow
Year: 2008 (RPM Challenge album)
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The first version.
This is the first and only song I wrote on [arrsuarez](http://alonetone.com/arrsuarez)'s Christmas gift to me, a mbira that he lovingly crafted by hand.
2009 Record Production Month Challenge offering. Very pleased with the collective results. Epic folk song. That's my thought anyway.
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For the RPMC 2009 album "Sabbatical"
From a news story last year about UFOs over Phoenix. They turned out to be some lighted balloons some guy had set aloft. So this tune about UFO paranoia.
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Copyright © 2008 Tiago Castro Henriques, some rights reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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A little experiment running straight guitar sounds and two synths. Live to 2 tracks
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Originally a very different song, slowed to a dragging pace and laced with dense moans of twisted agony. There's a little bit of John MacDonald on lead guitar in the build too.
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This tune was made with a single sample of some oropendolas feeding on capotroche.
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This is a new recording of a hymn I wrote and initiallyly recorded in August of 2005.
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Teejay’s WRLD - Synchro System Lyrics
Ahh, Bii Gongo aso kutupu ahu
Gbo Gbo olowo koni Odogwu
If U’re not taking about money, Meshu onu
Stop steering at me joor Gboju so hun
Oju laari aomonu
Lodi fa fùn eni Ton kè tio sukun
Different…
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Track 1 from my 2012 RPM offering. A gaggle of ukuleles toss around the recurring theme of the recordings.
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Sometimes, just a bunch of rubbish from a soundcheck can be used to create something interesting. In this case, setting up to record tenor sax (with a tin-foil pie plate covering the bell), some microphone taps, and a bit of vocalising, most with…
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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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