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Art of Love #1
these are my piano moment pieces arranged for other instruments, hence the name,, in a way it's kind of interesting to use one piece of work in more than one way ,,, Richard
and yes this version was put up 1st about 4 months…
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Reg has added some lyrics to the Slowdown piece.....Reg has just realized that its ok! to get clean, but now he's got to stay like it the rest of his life ...................and that's a long time to be sober...............
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From the album of the same name, this track really was recorded on a dark and stormy night, just to see if any of the elemental turmoil going on outside would lend its ambience to the proceedings. The thunder claps came from a sound effects album…
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This was more of an experiment that somehow worked it's way into a song.
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This is a two guitar sketch I posted to Youtube a while back.
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For the lyrics I tried to "paint a picture" rather than tell a story or make a clear point. I was thinking of Caroline No by the Beach Boys about a girl who suddenly lost the glow of youth. The lyric is not quite succesfull but... it will have…
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Original song: from the album, TheSongOfTheDay.com - February. This song refers to February 29th, or Leap Day. It also refers to heartbreak and loss, but that's not nearly as important as Leap Day. The observant listener will notice that back…
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this is titus alone and the brown dog affair. that, combined with the slowness, makes for a long-ass song.
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Song came out of a chord progression I had had for awhile and finally had some lyrics come that fit it. Might be on the RPM cd might not.
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A live improvised recording for the RPM Challenge 2011
recorded 2/19/11 at Dunn Bros. Coffee in Keller, Tx.
ebow loop
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Final version
it needs a fiddle but it has a mandolin, a chicken banjo and some excellent backing vocalists
my third demo for RPM 2011
The cat's in the window and
the rabbit's in the hutch
goat's in the meadow just
a-chewin on the…
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Grenade_Fish_by_Fenrir06 from deviantART
A musical setting in 17 notes per octave of CA Conrad’s reading of his poem “Say it With Green Paint for the Comfort and Healing of Their Wounds†posted on PennSound. Title and concept credit…
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Another song I love. Nothing compares to Lou, though. Seasonal, will melt away soon!
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Alright so with the advent of Markus's Java plat game, Minecraft, and me getting utterly addicted to it. I made a remix of Minecraft musician C418's Calm 1 theme for Minecraft.
It might suck to the trained ear, but remember it is because…
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Now you have to make a decision. Do you go with it or against it?
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a field recording/sound collage from last Saturday at the Fort Worth MOMA. Sounds inside the Serra sculpture Vortex, and the African percussion/dance ensemble Jumbie.
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finding meaning in nothing new.
Mon Apr 7, 2008, 1:21 AM
Mood: Lazy
Listening to: "next other" 74:25 min song I wrote
Reading: spacetime bororo of brazil by S. M. Fabian
Watching: tracy like trails into the nite
Playing: Apophysis
Eating: brain…
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Sour Milk on your Weetabix. Can you imagine it?
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Just a little jam track i came up with. Simple little chord progression simple lead work.
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Sometimes the past in which you felt successful and strong, reminds of fragility of life. It's a sign of that you are in a point of transition and you should make a choice. Or the choice will be made for you. For me.
~for Geoffrey~
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"Aww" they said. And I guess it was cute... I don't know... I don't what's cute I guess... anyways, where was I? Oh yeah, who am I? who am I... who am I... ?
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The closing number.
Lockdown:
We don't get to choose our days or chase our past
We only get the ones, we've made to cast
but there are things I'd say if I could
and If I was a better man
but under lockdown all I have...
Sweet end…
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i recorded this song a few months ago. i didn't add any other instrumentation at request of my wife who wanted it just guitar and singing.
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what did we find?
created for the Shorty Stories event.
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new versions of tracks that appeared on Skiks: 72 Miniatures.
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My love for America is . . . complicated. And yours?
The song is part of the soundtrack from my book, "PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings," which can be found here:
http://bit…
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All music by Tyler Dedera. All vocals by Lisa Nelson.
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Ich mag ambiant Stil Musik, Ich hatte Inspiration für dieses Lied, wenn es regnete. Ich liebe den regen. Plötzlich begannen die Wolken dicht über dem Boden erhalten, als wären sie vom Himmel fallen. Dann verschwanden die Wolken, als wenn es…
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This song is about how even though there are so many things wrong with the world you can still find peace and happiness. Ummm i played guitar on this and rim shots on drums and put the guitar through a double filter to get the sound you will here…
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I just bought a mandolin and while I was playing around with it to try to learn it this song kinda developed. A dark Alt.Country tale of love lost.
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A Black Eye Friday track that has previously not made it on to the interweb. Probably one of the last that will until the bands reincarnation is complete.
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A long over due changing of the acoustic strings led to this epic production. 40 tracks and 34 plug-ins. Good Gravy that's a boat load of tracks. All kinds of stuff happening.
Enjoy!
you spend your days and your night times
bustin' ass…
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More stuff from the ancient archives rescued from the same cassette tape as Last Nights Fun. This time a set of 3 Irish reels Live at a concert back around 1992
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This is a piece that uses MOTU Ethno 2. All but percussion and voice were performed my Fender Mustang and midi recorded via Roland GR-20. The piece uses the Almak tuning included in Ethno 2. [Amlak recurrent sequence (x^2 = x + 1/3), as a matrix…
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Backyard Ghost sent me something to work on...i added my own touch and arranged it...i sent it to him and he added another of his touches and rearranged it and You've Had My Tears is the end result...we both love this collaboration...expect more…
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If this song could have babies it would be triplets. (I have no idea what that means either).
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Words and music by Michael Thomas
http://alonetone.com/cavestreet
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I'm not sure if I'll keep the song title. Anyway, this song is more about feeling I guess. At times the song feels happy, then creepy, then sad or dissonant. How does this song make you feel?! Thanks for listening!
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Loops, Dupes, Whoops, Ooops, and a bit of reverb.
Dedicated to South Dakota.
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A coin tossed...
As usual, served best with headphones
Enjoy!
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Bass and Backing Vox from Launched (Mark)
Lead from Geir...
Hope You Like it!
-EASY LONDON-
(By Tharek Mokbul 2010)
We Live in London Town
Moving in Cans in the Underground
You’ll never know
You’ll Never Know, Never Know…
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A quick song about the Times paedophilia correspondent, Roger Boyes.
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Keep Shining Through- Last minute lyrics…kind of a cop-out, since it’s a song about song-writing. I didn’t have any better ideas and after losing so much time from the outage I had to just bust out what I could. It was pretty much written on the…
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Sentiments I think most of us feel at one time or another.
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My fourth piece for RPM. 'Twould definitely benefit from live instruments.
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In the immortal words of Tone Loc: "Let's do it"
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Sleep
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-Lyrics-
I’m in this ancient place of peace...
With a Lullaby in me.....
But I cannot seem to sleep....
Just a Pill to help me go to sleep ........
This Lullaby in me..... I cant hear......
The sirens…
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I like changing things. Going from one place to another. Like a journey. Kinda like life. This instrumental guitar track goes many places. Enjoy the ride!
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Everyone has heard the phrase 'he can talk the talk, but he can't walk the walk'. Well I was thinking it should be more 'can you walk your talk'. Do your actions back up your words? As a Christian I was thinking that yeah I can talk the gospel…
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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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She just a panic standin in that ring of fire
Say hey maybe Janet baby ya took it just a little far?
Maybe ya said somethin ya ought to take back?
Said she don't need to be forgiven for nothin
She the one they run into this shot gun shack
And…
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Another collaboration between me and guitarist Kerry Hoke. Kerry provided me with four guitar loops. I arranged the loops, added some effects, played a sampled upright bass, programmed some drums, and blended it all together.
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A very rough demo. Programmed the drum kit live in one cut. I messed up on the guitar part at one point too. Oh well.
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Otherwise known as the 'opus'. This song was my life for a good year. Left forgotten in the dusty hills of Santa Fe. This is pretty much the A section :)
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Parental advisory lyrics in conjunction with Sister Savage (unless she denies it, in which case, she's right)
Based on a graffiti that simply set the mind racing
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This one was written after coming home in the harsh light of being out all night after learning someone I knew put a shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. I write this from his perspective...
'Nuff said.
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My wife and I had a fight. It was a bad one. And, after awhile, without words, we made up. This is a song about that.
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Here's the soon-to-be smash-hit all on its own. Rob and Steve enlisted the talents of a serious hip-hop producer to nineties-up samples from Alphaville's 1984 chart-tickler before unleashing the sick and also fat rhymes of the MC they're calling…
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This is another version of the same tune used in Dana's Song. I just changed the lyrics. It was created back in 1999 with the help of Alontoner K.Scot.
This is my own way of looking at a beautiful text - Psalm 139.
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the wifebot inspires
synths, tabla, beatboxing, claps, and love.
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My evening challenge: compose and record a piece in an evening. Song titles will reflect the time of day when the day's light slips into the darkness of night.
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Originally for (unfinished) RPM '08 album. This song and "shortwave" together probably required more component audio tracks than my entire RPM '09 album, which is one reason RPM '08 didn't see completion.
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Ghost Dobro
by Jack Merlot
copyright 2009 all rights reserved
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spider silk of the stars
heard me playing the ghost dobro
saw me slip through the bars
to quench my fevered glow
her allure was practiced and warm
and all the…
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This is my newest song made using Reason 4. Compositionally it might get slightly repetitive but I am hoping that there is enough variation that it will keep the listeners attention through the whole piece. Enjoy and let me know what you like…
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Dreamy instrumental with piano, middle eastern percussion, and deep bass. Inspired by William Orbit.
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Title track to my RPM09 album.
Mostly ukulele and vocal, with a few other things thrown in.
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It's another war song. The lyrics pretty much tell the feeling behind this one.
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While my wife and I were travelling back down the coast of California (near Big Sur) from a vacation around New Years, we stopped at a turnout over a cliff, and took a bunch of video of at least 15 California Condors, flying and hanging out on…
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I think this is my favorite song ive done but idk you decide.
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When I wrote this I was not thinking about the verison commercial! Though God always has the best reception! The chorus is based on Psalm 17:1-7.
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I wrote this on one rainy Saturday morning. I was thinking of the old Beatles song I call your name.
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acoustic guitar improv recorded in Keith House, Fort Worth, Tx.
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[Lyric is based on a quote of Jack Kerouac]
When our colors start to fade
And our flowers fall away
Will you love me in December
As you do in May?
As you do in May
Do in May
When our colors start to fade
And our flowers fall away…
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Christmas Everlasting
Chorus:
Merry Christmas to you all. Share His love with the world.
Spread His joy throughout the earth, for we are all one.
The One who was born and died for us — send His love to everyone.
Be like Him; let us heal…
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Lyrics:
I clock in at sunrise, hammer in my hand
Framing up these houses on someone else’s land
It’s my hard work and know-how makes these walls grow
But I can't give my family a house of their own
I'm building dreams for wealthy folk…
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Because y'all like weird crap. Thanks, Tom, for the idea of writing from the perspective of a dead person watching their body decompose.
Kat: lyrics, keys, vocals
Once I was composed
eyes of stars, lips like a rose but
what am I worth…
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(Disclosure: Despite the Aug Upload, these are no longer the demo versions I had. I just didn't want to lose my high listen count... very vain, I know...)
Verse One
I hide in corners where the light won’t stay
Your voice slips through the…
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My version of Woody Guthries "all you fascists bound to lose.
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something made in thumbjam -0- I had deleted all the saved songs from my thumbjam memory and reinstalled thumbjam 000 it was occupying about 15 gigs of space for the music I had already downloaded 000 this is a fresh start ,.. I may have to reinstall…
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Cause and effect
Not hard to detect
The changes in us
Time is a tide
If we can we enjoy the ride
Just accept
And don’t forget
To party on
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Recorded for the compilation Passed Love on Passed Recordings. The full version of the song is available at https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/passed-love under the name Twilight Sleep.
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New music from *STARDY* a.k.a KingStardo the young talented yoruba rapper, after he dropped *Leave rap* he get back to studio and do a wonderful job *GBTB* GOOD BOY TURN BAD, a new party song for his fans. Enjoy!!
Via @all platforms
Via…
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RPM CHALLENGE 2024
A MOOCH DOWN THE BOULIVARD IN NEW YORK
I walk these city streets alone
footsteps from behind dance out the time
Murmmers of truth hang in the air
As I roam down the Boulivard
Lost within the beat, echoing from the…
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RPM CHALLENGE 2024
LOVE YOU
These crazy feelings inside of me
Makes my days swing sweet
The loves is just oozing outta me
Oh This feeling you just can’t beat
From the day I met you
You’ve made me feel so complete…
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Same as the previous track, with the addition of a drum machine run through some effects pedals.
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2023 50/90 idea number 29 becomes finished song number 24, which is also the 10th song both started and finished within the month of August, which means I have completed an album in a month under RPM Challenge rules. Groovy.
Too bad the song…
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2023 50/90 challenge song idea #1. One down, 49 to go.
This isn't so much a song as an exercise. One of the things I want to play with this year is using time signatures I've never attempted before. This song is in 13/8 and there are timing…
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A guitar and dobro played simultaneously , sort of. Inspired by Debashish Battacharya
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Music and lyrics by Lane Sullivan, used with permission
She thinks it is hopeless... she is ready to be done with hurting everyone around her. She is ready to end it the only way she knows how...
A still small voice tells her to hold on…
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We have come to destroy you
We’ll take no prisoners today
We have come to destroy you
There can be no other way
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Yacht rock.
Every time I see your smile
I feel like I’ve come home
And every time you stay a while
Is the best day that I’ve known
You’re the one that lights my way
Brings brightness to my day
And I just have to say
Don’t want it…
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Two independently recorded tenor sax tracks, each processed by an EHX Voice Box, panned left and right. A third, centre, track was made by combining the two, subjecting that to noise reduction using the entire file as the template, adding reverb…
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BENPINOZ has finally teamed up with the Talented OAP,Spoken word artist and Motivational Speaker ROBIN BOLD on this one.
This Master peice you have been waiting for will definitely thrill and inspire you. A new song to energise your hustling…
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September 2022 crap song #4 out of 4. I'm done and I'm going to bed. Good night.
The guitars are all my Les Paul Standard 50s. The leads used a Deluxe Reverb and the rhythm used a direct input amp sim in GarageBand because my wife was working…
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Crap #3 of 4 that will be finished off and uploaded tonight. I did the rhythm guitar tracks for this twice because the chorus was so atrocious that I had to rewrite it on the fly. It's better now, but that's pretty much all this pig has going…
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Finally, I have something to submit for RPM's Record Every Month. Sure, it's crap but I've had a tough few months.
I had stomach surgery almost five months ago and I couldn't play for the first month as I recovered. Then when I started slowly…
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"For You" and "Feel Flows" were two songs created for the 2022 RPM Challenge.
"For You" was a real song, with lyrics, singing, guitar, etc., the works.
"Feel Flows" however, was filler. It's basically like an super-extended dub remix of…
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Pure Data, 6 oscillators and a patch that grew from an envelope.
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Must admit I don't know where this came from, but I guess it can apply to many situations and on many levels.
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I originally recorded this track to test out settings on my EHX Grand Canyon delay/echo/looper in 2020. In late 2021, I had Jasper Guitar Company, LLC do a custom build for me that was a combination of their Olam and Deja VuDoo models. I call…
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Gates Of Heaven - A A J Russe
Written 15th January 1988
Recorded 6th March 2022
The Shoebox Demos Vol 1
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This is about as naked as I can get.
This is how I wrote it. It's never had any accompaniment.
I was a bit young to sing…
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RPM_2022
Matt:_Bass/Keys/Guitar/Vocals/Hand_Percussion
Mark_Dante_Troiano:_Vocals
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RPM 2k22
you can't remember anything tonight
cause you lost the feeling, lost the feeling
the tide is turning, the shoreline is in sight
but you've lost the feeling, lost the feeling
whenever all seems hopeless try
to remember all…
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RPM 2k22
it's all you know
so why don't you show me
just how it's done
i'm mesmerized
the way that you lie
mostly to yourself
as if you're someone else
it's killing you
these things that you do to
simply remain
not breaking ground…
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these is a much slower and meditative version of be the groove song--- it is mostly different of course I designed the lauchpad app settings for groove type playing- :)
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Breakbeat blizzard face-to-face snowboard showdown
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The third candidate for the May entry in RPM's Record Every Month challenge. I think I'm going to submit one of the other ones. This song is okay, and I like the chorus a lot, I just don't think I quite pulled it off. I wrote the melody first…
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A collaboration with Chris Vaisvil! I'm so jazzed he took a Thumbjam sketch of an idea and ran with it. Either an alternate Star Wars imperial march or Amon Duul jamming with Mahavishnu, don't know which.
Chris Vaisvil: guitars
Kavin.: Synths…
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As I have mentioned in other years, I am so very blessed to have some songs come to me in my dreams. Grace is one of them. The specific line "Grace, grace, grace! You don't have to be a lonely child" is what I retained in my waking moments so…
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She Cries Diamonds
Written By INT'L
She cries diamonds
Only when she’s sad
She cries diamonds
Only when she’s sad
She’s drowning in diamonds
Because everyday is so bad
She cries diamonds
When she's out in the rain
She cries diamonds…
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I've been doing this too much lately....
On another, happier note, I finally got around to adding guitar to a track...
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One morning looking out my picture window at the snow gently falling inspired this composition for bell choir. In this case, the bell choir is a Yamaha DX-11 synthesizer.
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A short 2-track guitar tune. I was trying to get that feeling of going out in public after lockdowns are all over. Sort of a combination of relaxing and frantic, I guess?
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A dark one for you ......Reg was reading the paper and the story of a cold case, about a murder of a Prostitute Wendy Robinson finally being solved after 22 years, her family had almost given up hope of ever catching the perpertrator got him to…
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4 recorded real time played 7 second dulcimer looped cells, mixed down and manipulated in Pure Data as a form of composition. Created for Sound-In.
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Oh baby let me take you
To that screen-saver dawn
To Hallmark scenes
On a snowy winter’s morn
You can’t do this on your own
You can’t do this on your own
Oh baby let me take you.
Oh baby let me take you
Out to the windy cliff
Where…
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THE TIDE POOLS OF CALIFORNIA
capo @ 5 in C. 4/6 time…
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just like it says
I moved my headphones and the wires connecting them to the mixer .. the wires in turn turned down the sound on the headphones to nothing.. --- I was fumbling with the settings the power the levels the plugs where they were…
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performed with 2 tracks of a Prophet 12 desk module and an Alesis Q49 in Magic 19 of 41 edo tuning.
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