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I had a vague idea to write a lyric about Julian Assange's daily life in the Ecuadorian Embassy; no sun, being confined to a small office-space... I didn't get round to it so I added some lame Mellotron (IK Sampletron) parts and called it finished.
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We got together again around the coffee table and the gang helped me record this song I wrote this week.
Greg- Guitar, Vocals
Scott - Mandolin, Vocals
Colin - Bass, Vocals
Colleen - Uke, Vocals
Hope you like it!
NEXT CHAPTER
VERSE…
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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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My first attempt at a Christmas original! I've gone topical.
Written by / all instruments, voices: Rog Hildreth
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A twist on the popular story of a wolf and three pigs.
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BROKEN BOTTLES
Broken bottles on the shore
You're molded to the bathroom floor
Just like you were the day before
All throughout the year and more
No excuse, you're such a mess
You break your word, you're honor-less
A heartless soul…
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I wrote this song in ten minutes after a long road trip.
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the actual title of this tune is
"the truth is something everybody lies about"
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Pleasure boats and fishermen
Tugboat pushin three barges wide
Sit on the banks from morn till evening
Wave to the people as they pass me by
Up in Minnesota she’s fast and cold
Walleye fishing just below the dam
Go and catch em til…
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Instrumental from new 2014 album "Farewell to Faded Blue"
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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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On Wikipedia I read this about the great jazz pianist Bud Powell: "...his solos could be heard to emulate the horn players' attack — with the use of frequent arpeggios punctuated by chromaticism," so the first thing you hear is a lick that uses…
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This another song written, produced and recorded by my brother, Mark Lisney.
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Well, I play this in Fokker 7-limit Just Intonation on the piano and I didn't attempt to try to sing as high as Robert. So that makes the vocals hard to nail right there. And I played it over many times the past 3 days and my voice got worn out…
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THE WALK
I drove 400 miles that night
East of Dallas to Abilene
And the hopes that I held in my headlights
Were hopes like I'd never seen
She called me from work that afternoon
She said she'd be off about 2 AM
Said it would be nice…
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For anyone who has ever lost a friend to depression and suicide - you might identify with the lyrics.
The Rain Outside (Vlad & Me - 2013)
The rain outside
it falls on my window
and slides to join
its' friends below
I saw your face…
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Written recorded 28th/29th March 2013.
A little something, just cos I was in the mood.
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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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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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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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apologies to pink floyd
back when I could access usenet still I made a newsgroup for amateur musicians and there was a nice group of 20-30 people who contributed and listened to each other's work. There was a woman named Emma who did a killer…
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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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According to John this lyric was inspired by the weird visions of a former sports reporter who now thinks the people in high political places are actually lizard men from space. :D
Lyrics: John Williams
Composed by: Andy Gupta
Vocals: George…
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Title track of my new project, as my other group? The Seven Spiders. This song is experimental dub influenced chamber music, I am exploring the possibilities of humour in music trying to make the music itself amusing ... if that makes any sense…
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The Lament of Saint Patrick’s Snakes is an ambient piece using a home made instrument of six guitar strings stretched over a 28? by 3? by 1/2? oak board tuned with zither pins by ear to a JI open chord. The instrument is then bowed with a viola…
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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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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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You still can't believe
That you'd accept the reprieve
Despite the excitement of the sound
That detached you from the crowd
When the foliage recedes
Contracting one more disease
Hidden in the fog that engulfs and surrounds
What was lost has now…
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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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Heres a collab with Wildgeas Music a beautiful bit of music hope i did it justice with the vocal............
Tomorrow (Lyrics)
I know the curse of the darkness is coming
those dark nights that will feed upon my soul
with no forward glance of tomorrow…
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Rough mix of something brewing.
Started with some minimalistic phrases of in different time signatures (5/4, 6/4, 7/4, 9/4) and grew from there.
From there, things got out of hand.
This is an attempt to bring things back.
Special thanks to my…
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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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In memory of my cousin Mike, nicknamed Shovel Head, because of the Harley Davidson Shovel Head motorcycle he drove.
Lyrics
I can feel the wind blow
Lean into that winding road
Setting Sun against my skin
Shift into that high gear
Get…
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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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This one was saved from an old cassette heading towards the bin....some might say it should have carried on ..............it is an early recording of Thetworegs ad-libing unplugged from an hotel room in Germany on a wet Sunday in 1994......Elvis…
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i have been listening to some wonderful music this morning here on AT, and it has inspired me to post once again
this is the sister to piano moment #4
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http://chrisvaisvil.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/box_harmonics.jpg
I used Paul’s Extreme Stretch (PES) to take a hammer dulcimer + violin improvisation and divide it into seven streams based on just intonation relationships to A at 55 Hz…
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apregg fun for ImprovFriday ("E"theme - 5/19-21/11)
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instrumental written by michael mcguane (reliablebowmusic)
John Fuller : piano/synth
Michael McGuane : guitar
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Finally going to end this RPM with a slop fest.
Pretty disgusted with my efforts. I did have some fun though.
I feel like I just gave birth to a full set of Ludwigs.
High gloss black of course.
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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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2010
Depeche Mode lite
I was going to hire Meatloaf for the ending but it turns out he will NOT work for pancakes... which is what I had heard.
This is one of the prime examples of (early on) being WAY more ambitious than what my ability…
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We decided to let Elvis back out of the cellar to record this one as he has been whining and whinging for weeks now to have another go. So here it is for 3.42 minutes Elvis is back in the building.......The music is one of Elvis's own karaoke…
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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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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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Acoustic/Folk with a choral end, not a song from a happy place..
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Blues Rock, written after reading Dr. Bloodmoney
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Trapped In My Body - Lyrics
trapped in my body
trapped in my soul
trapped in my body
and I think i’m getting old
trapped in a dream and
you can’t even scream
‘cos there’s no one ever here
stapped to your seat
and you can’t find your…
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from our fourth album 2008. frantic guitar piece.
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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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Mixed a couple of free samples together from Robert Fripp's DGM Live website, added some delayed ebow.
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I used to cross over railway tracks on my way to the ballfield in college, and though I never knew why, I was always tempted to just start following them.
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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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A cover of The Missed Connections off her 2010 RPM CD.
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Last song of RPM album. I'm particularly fond of the last ten seconds. :D
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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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My opus. By far the longest song I've ever recorded. I tried to make it shorter, but it just didn't work. Sorry. :)
"The Water-Carver" uses a sample from Stereolab's "Changer." (Gane/Sadier)
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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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Another electronica styled piece for Ocarina of Time's Lost Woods. I think I made the melody too low, what do you think. Other then that I think I captured the ecentricity of the song through this mix. Also the choi adds a bit of fidelity I think.
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The first song I though my own sweet sexy voice into (lulz). I imagined a soft RnB kick to this as well, but I tried doing jazz, so who'd a thunk it.
Kakariko is a town frequently visited by our young Hylian hero, so I thought this was befitting…
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a boy named crow
there has to be more to this than metaphors
if i were you and you were lost without me
this sadness is bigger than the truth
and i could walk right through you
driving towards my destiny my misery
and purpose left, to exaggerate…
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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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And oldie, probably recorded around 2003-2004. All instruments played by P. Brown.
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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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20 copies of mmi's "glubot for a day," slowed to various degrees & mixed back together.
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This is another old melody. I dusted it off, gave it some clean clothes, and sent it off into the world.
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Little Guy Demo Ep
Self-Released
http://www.erikino.com
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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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i am thinking about words tonight
they can be hard as nails
they-can be as shapeless as water
they can break your heart
they can hang like a chain
hold you up for years
cause you to think twice
take away your fears
you are falling in love…
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The tabla percussion loops are from the great Zakir Hussein.
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Sunday aftnoon (11/09/08) took the reso down to the Fort Worth Modern Art Museum and recorded some doodling inside the Serra sculpture Vortex. No effects added, all natural reverb inside the structure.
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The title comes from reading "The Willows in Winter" to my son Maurice, which is the sequel to "The Wind in The Willows" and thinking of Toad and the sort of idyllic natural landscape. While messing around in Logic, I ended up creating a "Drag…
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Nice melodic pop song. Mostly guitar instrumental with a roll your top down, feel good outlook.
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This tune was made with a single sample of some oropendolas feeding on capotroche.
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This is the last one. Letting go is not something I am good at, but this is the last one.
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You could feel your mother and your father scold,
But you only regret what you fail to behold.
After all, it was a once in a lifetime scene…
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a chill digital beach, whipped up in a 10 minute jam challenge on an autumn afternoon
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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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streets are empty
phantom skyline
it dreams of people
missing in time
(where did they all go?)
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Track built around these Creative Common 0 samples found on Freesound :
476663__f-r-a-g-i-l-e__vocal-chops-female-with-harmony
565940__bectec__mic…
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Strung Drawn and Quartered live at the Grackle 1/4/25
Darrin-guitar
John-12 string guitar(slide)
Kavin-guitar
For Matt
"make your art right out loud
make some noise, make a fuss
because in the end we're all just
waiting for the bus…
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Phew! Song 10 of my RPM 2024 done. Well, this is more of an experimental piece...I threw a bit of everything in...prophet synth, electric guitar, and even some crowd noise (I loved it when Bjork did that so...). The power cutout just as I was…
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Music/Lyrics/Production: Rich Blenkinsopp
Vocals: Sheena
VERSE 1
the sun comes closer so they say
as the moon gets further away
you always leave - you're gone again without me
I'll wait for your return, one day
VERSE 2
the wind is…
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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 produced by Smokey Robinson and George Martin from the song "You've Really Got A Hold On Me," performed by The Miracles and The Beatles, respectively)
I need you so bad
I need you so
I want you so
‘cause this is just consolation…
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[Verse 1]
Healthcare, many mistakes, it doesn’t work
Most stay ill and few are cured
Unless your case is mild, you’ll stay a while
And when the bill gets high, you still will die
Some operations work
But when doctor makes a mistake, it takes…
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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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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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Written with John Bennett - Find more John Bennett music here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB8kZ_1SeK4wsNtEoYwlEzCbGVt0XA6ny
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Walking On A Winter’s Day
Sunlight glistening on freshly fallen…
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RPM 2k22
down goes the champion
disappear into the past
his glory fading out
know it would never last
faced with reality
just a shell remains
nothing to fall upon
and no one else to blame
raise your white flag
and hope that you get…
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I developed a strong obsession with the building blocks of pop songs and tried to craft one. Unfortunately, I wrote it in a key that was high enough that the combination of the rapid-fire words and the pitch nearly made me pass out while singing…
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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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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022**
Song number 14
Written Monday 21st February 2022
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This is it ... FAWM's all finished for me... time for a lie down now.
There's still nearly a week to go, but I'm done, 14 songs written in 16…
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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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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 guess you can call that a religious experience:)
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This is my 2nd Piece that I "wrote" in a pretty simple fashion. I started with the 2 pizzicato tracks and then Improvised 3 voices on top of that. It started as a test if I can plug in my audiointerface into my phone and it kind of worked out…
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sometimes the song just pops up in your windshield
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Pharmakeus & I teamed up on icompositions many years ago and made around 30-40 songs and this is one of them. My old 1970's Kasuga dreadnought sounds amazing and so does Pharmakeus voice and harmonica , enjoy :)
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An American Contemporary worship music band, has released a new gospel song titled ‘ Do It Again ‘ the track is off “Evidence – Elevation Collective” Album featuring Kierra Sheard and Travis Greene , it was also produced by Israel Houghton.
The…
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because tardigrades are cool and look a lot friendlier than Guild navigators
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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 cover of Pink Floyd's Welcome to the Machine in 17 notes per octave tuning
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Attempting February Album Writing Month.
http://fawm.org/fawmers/saltbearer/
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Another unintentional instrumental. I quite like this as a track though it doesn't really go anywhere.
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RPM 2016 is underway! This was written on an iPad on Tuesday 2/16 and recorded and mixed on Wednesday 2/17. It is just a looped 8-bar bass line with a change added somewhere on each iteration.
The lyrics consist of one verse repeated forever…
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Folk instrumental titled after a place in Missouri where loved ones lie in rest.
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I got a friend, his name is Tim, and he really likes donkey songs.
Letter Seventeen on Mandolin, Banjo, Backing Vocals, Beer bottle, hoots n hollers...
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More lo-fi noodlings for RPM. Featuring 2 year old daughter let loose on a box of instruments, and then messed with in goldwave. Will be a (poorly) hidden track on RPM album.. when there are actual songs on it.
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from the album "ZERO"
featuring Meg Radley on vocals
way to go
great escape
such a clever girl you are
made the grade
change the course
all because of what she said
climb up the ladder
release the lion trapped inside
all our thoughts…
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Double tracked 2 lead parts together on this smooth blues jam and it sounds out of this world.
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I've given this a bit of a twist ....Big E sat on the settee bored so i got him to work..hope you enjoy...another for the John Lennon Jukebox on the otherside....
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This song was inspired after watching a Prince video. The title comes from the lead singer, who heard the chorus and sang the words "You can't hide my love."
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No more sin or sorrow foolish fancy to a fault
No more dirth upon the land that withers under the assault
No more Babylon behavior bobbing up and down and up
until we drown away each memory scattered from a shattered cup. No more crying for…
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A new mix of something we recorded over the summer including drums and chimes by Treefrog.
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Out of your shell, into the night
Through fields of clover burning brightly
Fire in the distance, fire in my mind
Pinwheel kaleidoscope…
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Recorded for the 2013 [NaSoAlMo challenge.](http://www.nasoalmo.org/)
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In the mean time
In an alleyway downtown
In the mean time
In Afganistan
In the mean time
In your back yard
In the mean time
Knockin' at your door
It could…
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Inspired by those “music everyday” iphone commercials.
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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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Evan tries his hand at horseback riding. The steed gets away from him at one point and runs until it is exhausted.
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Poem by Francis Duggan
Poem selected and recited by Bethan Mathis
Music composed by Chris Vaisvil
Selected for the ANDREAS N°15 – 14?-?18 First World War – FRACTION STUDIO COMPILATION
details / poem
http://chrisvaisvil.com/along-the-war-avenue…
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SofC song - Streams of consciousness to you, my friends. G:)
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After a comment, I had to do a quick version of this - includes harmonica sol (but, not so low so that you can't hear it - sorry!)
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LadyJane (Moonchild) and Jip messing about with a medaeval type song. Saucy ending. lol x
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Ok, this is the full length version, so far, until the new tweaks have been done, but it's a nice reminder of cool things that can come from improv and jamming. Bass (Pete Burke, i.e. myself) and drums (Marty Boot) recorded from a jam to level…
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Imagine the open road, stretching out before you, your bike or hotrod rolling over the hot pavement as the sun beats down. Times couldn't be any better. Until the engine starts to cough and shudder. Fortunately, you roll into the shade of an…
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Yep, another slap dash scratch track, same as the last few... one take, no practice, no edits and no damn idea what I was going to play before hitting record. Still craptastic keyboard drums too!
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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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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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