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This is a collab tune which was originally written by Tad Rees (aka Solo). He plays the Keyboard.synth, and I did the guitar and drums. The last half blends with his original which can be heard in completion at :
http://www.traxinspace…
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Voice & Text(je ne parle): Ivan1984
guitar(looking for a voice): Davy Hamburgers
making sense out of dis'ordre
making sense out of dat'ordre
feeling like a ghost tied
to a railway track
the screaming never stops
i am driven through
with…
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details here if you want them http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=350
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from the album "the Hardest Blow" featuring vocals from Jana Persson (strumming dude) and lead guitars from Paul Lennon (Wildgeas)
Red and white, black and blue
Close me off, soak me through
Trade it all, fall down low
Sooth my wound, never…
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Little solo Session with JamMan Looper using a Eventide Modfactor, Timefactor together with E-Bow and Volume-Pedal
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Blues Rock, written after reading Dr. Bloodmoney
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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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A slice of life kind of song about just getting by.
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from our fourth album 2008. frantic guitar piece.
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Alister Flint and myself collaborated on this. Released January 2010 as a SoOn release.
This is edited just a bit for AT.
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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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I love you. And I'm watching you... :)
All one take into the Boss MicroBR hole and cleaned up a little. I'm the red headed stepchild of recording...
Love You
Some people want to know you
Wanna put their arms around you
Buy you a drink…
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Year: 1984
Album:
Singles
Artist's description:
From the primitive days of using two cassette decks and a 4 pot mixer (no panning, RRLL). I found one of the original double tracking tapes - this sounds complete but is 1st generation unlike…
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I wrote and recorded this song about five years ago. All vocals are mine. I would like to redo this song and change a few of the lyrics...but here it is in its current incarnation.
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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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still ain't done, but wanted to share progress. really grateful for the feedback. thanks!
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This is a cover of a song by Sister Savage, from her kickin' 2010 RPM Challenge album, Juped 2k10. It also introduces the genre of acoustic crossdressed spacecheese (these damn kids today with their flying cars and their hyperspecialized genres…
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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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Written and Recorded: Feb 28, 2010
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (FBbEbGCF, FBbEbGDbF, Capo III), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, Audacity...all fingers, no picks.
Last track for RPM 2010, and by far my favorite of the batch…
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This songs reminds me that this is the moment i have. No longer looking for the dawn for the dawn is here.
This is the moment
this is the moment
that i've been waiting for
I've been waiting for
the dawn and the dawn is coming soon
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Not a song I'm particularly proud of from a lyrical standpoint. But, I've always like the arrangement, so, I decided to ask for feedback here.
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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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This is what happens when you stand up for your principles, and none of your "friends and neighbors" have the fortitude, conviction and conscience to join you.
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Another Irish classic. This song tells the story of a group of pub regulars who, upon learning that the pub is on fire, head to the cellar to drink all the booze. You know, cuz it's free that way. What's a few burns?
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and you didn't even have to spend the night to get it.
another one from the morning sessions...
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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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20 copies of mmi's "glubot for a day," slowed to various degrees & mixed back together.
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The clock on the wall isn't moving
There's no paper at the door
And I don't see my friends anymore
My little piece of world is about 3 miles square
There's only empty darkness further beyond there
I gave you everything
And you just left…
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This came about after the death of a friends wife from lung cancer. He said that he would sit at the kitchen table and talk to the empty chair just like she was still there.
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A little experiment running straight guitar sounds and two synths. Live to 2 tracks
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One of MNCC's few songs with lyrics that can be recognized as english. Plus, it's a true story (even if it is about 2 different people) and it's got a Simpson's reference.
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Here is another remix. A surprise for Sudara when he wakes up tomorrow.
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Kevin Emmrich added lyrics, vocals, harmonica and percussion to Walk That Lonely Road. Thanks Kevin!
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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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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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My Dream 💭
Take Me To Places Where Have Never Been 😎🖤
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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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There was this television show called Nature. One episode showed a man raising a bear cub to a juvenile bear. When it came time to release the bear into the wild, the man set a weak bear trap, designed to hurt, but not critically injure. He called…
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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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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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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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My gut is telling me that when I listen to this version of this song back to back with the one I did this summer I am going to prefer this one. That's kind of the goal for these re-recording projects I'm forcing on myself. Just make things a…
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Written July 2021
Recorded July-September 2021
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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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Whistling a tune, I walk up to the house and meet a cat on the doorstep. We are going to have supper, and at this time a blizzard begins. April.
05.04.2021, live recording.
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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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EVER ONE I NEED TO TALK TO
Everyone I need to talk to tonight is gone
Some have gone to heaven. Some have gone to hell
Ever one I want to talk to tonight is gone
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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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I was messing about and this came out. Thanks for listening
GET DOWN ON MY KNEES
I get down on my knees and I pray for a day
Where we can all go outside to run and play
Take my hand and tell what you see
can you see a future, for likes…
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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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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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Everyone has at least *one* album in them!
https://peppermintsky.bandcamp.com/album/aurora
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Vocals, Vocal Melody, Lyrics: Gerry Finan
Saxophone: Jan Kopcak
Bass: Amadeo Zunino
Drums: Robert Cudmore
Original Music & Production: Steffen Offermann
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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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It's been a while...
This song was recorded with another verse, it ties the song together nicely but who the heck wants to listen to a 5 minute song about depressing stuff? We're really looking forward to feedback from those of you who've like…
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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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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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Our twisted, Psychedelic Folk version of RAIN by the Beatles. Starry Nightmoth performs on the Yamaha E-313 KB, using it's "bag-pipe" setting. This 4:20-long song is best heard on headphones, with the lava and black lamps running, incense burning…
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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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One guitar track chopped up and mashed with itself. Little Martin
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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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19 - Damage Over Time
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i still love you
especially when you're here
oh, how i hate you
everytime you are near
// damage over time
// (i believed in you)
// all you left behind
// (i believed in you)
i still…
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just a recording done with my new 7-string guitar, it's working good so far...
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I started paying attention to popular music when puberty reared it's ugly head in the early 1970's. The music during that time appealed to me not because they protested something but because they had something to say. I liked the songs because…
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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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Had this one written before the end of year. Finally hit the record button a couple of weeks ago with some electric rythym guitar tracks and built it from there. I was having a problem getting the song to mix right and had an idea to try a different…
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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 was in your dreams last night/ and this is how we now fight.
(this song features a CNC milling machine)
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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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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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from yesterday - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Falls
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My dedication to all the night people.
~Midnight, alone, you~
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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 tworegs reunion rocker from the German bunker...Jawohl!!
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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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This is a big song... Give it room to play and it'll grow up to be a healthy tune!
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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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A first alonetone collab! (thats not MMI), featuring amazing guitars by Movement to Contact.
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In 2001 my most recent band, Hoss Williams, recorded a four-song demo, and each of the four bandmembers contributed one song to it. This was mine. It's loosely about growing up in the country and being a teenager ripping around in clapped-out…
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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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A cover of the Teenage Fanclub song 'Verisimilitude', written by Raymond McGinley.
This featured on the 2011 LP 'What You Do To Me - A Teenage Fanclub Messageboard Tribute'.
(Please let me know if there is a copyright issue here and I will…
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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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They broke up once before and he was miserable--and now that they're back together he wants to keep it that way!!!
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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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A collaboration between Norm Harris and myself from 2009. At this point I wish I had the percs up louder.
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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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from the album "Orange"
We'll come this way, knock it off
The same as me, in a souvenir
Should it be, all the sameness ceases to be
All the sameness feels like a blanket on fire
These mini-catastrophes are easy to wait out
Cause we're…
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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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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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insane, accoustic guitar from 2008. totally improv.
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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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Hi - thought I'd throw up an older piece today while I have time (doing work at the new house later). This is an improvisation with my Fender Mustang / Roland GR-20 combination retuned on the fly to 9 notes per octave "Sorog" tuning. I think…
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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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a crowning noise triumph of guitar and microprocessor.
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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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this is a cover done for the french hiphop band, IAM, because although highly political in content, saldy most of what they say is true. - note that the clip was never aired on tv or radio, due to official decision.
lyrics in french (right…
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From last February...
I'm not sure where I'm going - its late - I'm tired so I may be out of my mind.
several absynths
pianoteq heavily modified
session 3 drums through guitar rig
stratocastor through guitar rig
vocoded voice via korg ms2000…
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I Love the fact that No man is an Island.
These Guys Made me a Very Happy man By covering one of my songs.
I am Still Over the Moon!!!
Thanks Bro's!!!!!
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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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relax baby.
you look like the american fflag/dont be so unchill baby/somebody might think your uncool.
The guitar loop haunting you in the second half of the song was recorded from an accoustic guitar onto my cell pphone and to this day remains…
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An ebow strained thru octave pedal and pitch shifter.
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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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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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From Music for MOBA: a collection of pieces inspired by paintings from The Museum of Bad Art.
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From Music for MOBA: a collection of pieces inspired by paintings from The Museum of Bad Art.
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