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I worked on this project in February and March of 2010, then again in January of 2011. In July of 2011 I made a final push, starting with the lyrics to this song. Hence the theme. On a side note, don't you hate it when you work a riff into…
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Instrumental version of the song "Border Patrol" by the Wetband.
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It was a sketch for the final topic of amateur black and white film (a.k.a. "Ñlosing credits"), then not used, then forgotten. Then recalled and now free.
~For Trevor, who bravely fights with the ghost from the cellar. Spirit[uals]~
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After a month long break, here are some more home studio recordings of our repertoire. Still in Russian, but the beautiful melodies are sure to make you feel good :)
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One could use this to compare the changes I made to accommodate the change in tuning because this is the Centaur tuned piece but I changed the master tuning back to "standard" 12 equal.
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I plugged my Fender Mustang directly into the Zoom H2 and monitored with head phones while sitting on my bed and played around. This is a compressed version of one of the things I did. I've been pretty sick the past few days but I needed to…
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The audio uses all of the audio from that night I bowed the stop sign processed and not.
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The anime series Elfen Lied was a great thriller like anime. It's story elements were superb, and the cast was amazing. but what really gets me is the main theme, often heard as a music box in the story as a pivotal story element. a few facts…
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Reg has decided he needs to lose it tonight he doesn't care if that is with drink with sex with drugs in his mind or down the road he just wants to get lost".."..........
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Ferryman - Vocals (slightly re-imagined lyrics), bass, rhythm guitar
Dave Berry - guitar fills (r&l), lead solo, harmonica.
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We put a little bit of everything in here for you to try on.
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An Easter song, sort of. About standing at that place between night and day, sorrow and joy, fear and hope.
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Nero's Butterfly Two Star Poem Remix
This is a collaboration with anonymous and my wife. I wrote the script / lyrics and anonymous did everything else. So I can say - I've always admired the excellent performance of both - Debbie did the voice…
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Kind of a Neil Young impression, I guess.
You know what's ironic? I think this was the only song on the album I didn't use a metronome to record.
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a poem from illuminations by rimbaud,set to music by wordless poem..illuminate bya psychedelic fractal animation,created with mandelbulber...pure free experimental underground electronic fractal poetry...
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A bit of 'Cymbaline', one of the most wonderfull songs by Pink Floyd.
I hope you like and/or enjoy.
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This is 3 way colaboration with my good friends, Nick Coward and Mark Drozdz.
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http://improvfriday.ning.com/
recorded for the Japan benefit happening this weekend (right now) over at improvFriday. Stop by and help or just give a listen.
My father brought a koto back from Japan after WWII, I thought this might be a good time…
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This one is, again, from the early 90's, and was originally a bass line. So imagine it an octave down.
I hope you like and/or enjoy.
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I made up this heavy jam and it reminded me of Vlad the Impaler for some reason. Hope you like it.
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Have some ambient.
Bubble Harp app on ipod touch thru DL4 delay modeler pedal.
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Original song: from the album, TheSongOfTheDay.com - January. This song began it's life back in 1999 on an 8-track cassette recorder. In 2007, for TheSongOfTheDay.com project, we were able to overlay drums, re-do vocals, and replace some hummed…
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Reg was positive that she was the one until he had chat with Norm who said "Be careful remember Desirea" Norm was only trying to help but it has put doubt in Reg's mind and now hes not sure what he wants...........................thought i'd do…
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Track 1 - Album: Futurism - Band: The Anchorage Drift
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Had to re-post this one... noticed some clipping issues when I played it in my jeep :)
Lyrics:
this is the number of the disenchanted
this is the number i've made unclean
this is my number this is my number for you
show your weakness and they…
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Just a little song about another hopeless romantic. Actually, I just really like the name Svetlana.
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Something I'm working on for RPM 2011. I think this is a really pretty tune, just wish I had the kind of voice for singing it.
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Reg has just gotta get on gone, he wants to move out from his old lady's into reg's place where it's happening, what with Elvis in the cellar and his visiting friends jammin all night, Reg is almost living there anyway. So now he has decided to…
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Recorded live, singing and bashing pads on my new sampler.
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A live improvisation on 3 keyboards and a half dozen softsynths plus korg MS2000 in Sonar X1
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Written in Isaba, Spain 2003. On location shooting THE STONE RAFT/HET STENEN VLAT/La Balsa de Piedra. If you leave me a note, please tell me who you are.
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Ancient traditional, authored by King David. If only he had a Strat and an Axe Fx.
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Whatever happens - go ahead, to keep up with _________ (insert here). For the life itself it does not matter - you go or not.
~Hyperion Cantos~
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Please also listen to the second part of this track, "John Capulator".
This part represents first scenes of comics, John Capulator's appearing from the morning fog in a narrow alley, huge double chainsaw massacre near crowded underground station…
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An experiment with granular "freezing" in Boîte Diaboliqué this time using a few seconds of guitar from [MMI](http://alonetone.com/mmi).
Using granular synthesis it is very hard to get a real "freeze" effect although by using very high grain…
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Well, some today's 'afternoon-to-evening' stuff... very simple, but i like it. I hope you like and/or enjoy!
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Co-written and performed with William Liggett. Tried to make it a 'duet', but not being in the same state--much less studio--made it too hard to match phrasing.
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Musical piece about the fairy adventures of toys on and around the Christmas tree, and all that.
For us, the boring adults realists, such a story is ridiculous, but not for them - for children who listen to tales with bated breath. For them…
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This has absolutely nothing to do with that annoying youtube video ;)
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from the album "orange"
We favor the moon and alternate Saturdays
Give it away too soon and all sorts of flattery
Maybe turn out right, eventually
But I can’t be bothered by further scrutiny
It’s the same spinning room, fall down trying…
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I had a country band once Billy Chicken & The Paw Paws. This was to be our single
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Metallica cover, fat and loud, solos on my new Agile AL-3000
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A classical/avantgarde piece inspired by Franz Schubert's Der Leiermann from his song cycle Winterreise. Will the hurdy-gurdy man play his songs for you?
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something I wrote for piano a long while ago I'm dusting off and trying to give it new life.
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this is a crazy POS I threw together for IMFF. That's improv }MF{ friday
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JV Andres - vocals, guitar, clock
Veejay Andres - vocals, piano
Spirit be the sieve
That filters out my thoughts
Uphold me and remind me of
How much this life has cost
Each flight, I feel like I'm taking a hard right
From you
In…
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I had been choosing songs to perform during communion in my church's Sunday services. One Saturday night I was having trouble finding a song that had the themes that I wanted to address, so I wrote one.
JV Andres - guitar, vocals
Veejay Andres…
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The Flying Bear features a nice fusion of funk and rock that leaves the listener both satisfied and excited. An experimental vibe is very prominent during the song's bridge, and the entire song can be rooted back to Soulstice Music's Red Hot Chili…
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keyboard percusion + xenharmonic dulcimer + drum machine + warbly strings + saturated bass + field recordings
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Download full album for free at http://www.snowavemusic.com/
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Inspired by a couple people. And the general pretentious ideology in general.
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Hey, friends, I'm looking for opinions for this one. I wrote this song some time ago, and it's posted on this site. Today I changed some of the instrumentation and cut down on the keyboards, strings, etc. I'd like to know if you like this or…
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Guess I've been away a while - something a little difference - distinct parts in harmony, perhaps... or just me experimenting ;-)
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hey this is a song i wrote about being blinded by the seas beauty
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This song is built on an entirely weird formula. First, I played it.
Second, I broke it up into equal but random lengths,
Then, starting each segment where i played it, Repeating each segment four or five times, adding lots of fx
Finally, i needed…
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This is just a little shout out to my boy D Hopz. R.I.P
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This is an instrumental track. It is definitely not the final version of the song, but I thought i'd post a pretty decent version of this song.
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another sneak peek at my next album which I'm thinking will be titled "Cryptical Condition"
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Early Method, "this track from 2001 dedicated to my beautiful baby daughter born that year."
Nice strings.
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I hope Norm will forgive me for what I did to his excellent percussion track.
I bought a used Alesis mixer today from guitar center and had to try it out, of course. So I laid down 4 tracks of 12 string guitar - including…
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I was working on one of my ethno 2 demos and needed a break so I made an improvisation on a series of major 7ths using only the Ethno 2 package.
All of the pitched instruments use the included Werckmeister temperament tuning.
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This is a redo of "I've Made Myself A Wall", from the 2009 24 hour challenge on Alonetone.
I thought the original version was a little bland, so I wanted to take a stab at breathing some fresh life into it.
For my last RPM Challenge album…
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walking down the street in the 1973, you're wearing yellow tinted shades, and a hat with a feather in it. Your switchblade is in your pocket, but you're not gonna need to use it today. Cause the sun is shining and folks are eating ice cream…
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My talented cousin, Robert Nichols, wrote this melody and played it for me. It spoke to me, so I asked if I could put lyrics to it. He was kind to say "yes". His piano; my vocal. This is the outcome. Seems like it should be in a movie to me…
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I watched a documentary recently on Miles Davis when he was in his electric period and it inspired me to record this little jam. I hope you like it.
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This piece was composed for academic choir of Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin (Poland) in 2008.
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Pounded on a midi controller for hours.
Made with headphones for headphones.
I'm in a cinematic mood these days.
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till death do us part
shot thru the heart
till death do us part
shot thru the heart
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This one is named after the resident cat who loved me dearly when I was a visitor. Now that I've moved in I'm pretty much only good for adminstering food and occasional petting- on the cat's terms of course!
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The execution is not perfect, but the concept works.
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Album: The End of Happy Endings
Year: 2010 (RPM)
Written by: Damian Lethbridge
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Trying to be a better man.
Featuring the vocal talents of Clarke McMurray.
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Inspired by a perfect day in Clevedon, North Somerset.
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This is a far from finished version of a new song. I have lyrics for it, but haven't recorded any vocals yet. I'll repost it when it's a little more completed. For now though, I'm anxious to post it even as it is. Hope you can dig on it.
-Rain
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Sorry for the multiplicity. In the future, I should probably refrain from uploading until I have something more of a finished product. I doubt I'm finished with this... but it is, indeed, something more.
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Another trip through the Reichatron. This time I caught a groove that I wasn't gonna let go.
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M.Stevens Teams Up With SK, For A Remix To His Song Space Travelers...
Produced By: M.Stevens
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This is the title track from our album, and is the counter part to the track, "Watershed." They are very closely related counterparts, and throw hands with each other from time to time. Those were strange and embittered times, birthing some sharp…
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I don't recall exactly how this composition came about. It was one of the earlier ones recored on the CD. At the time that I organized the CD I comtemplated leaving it off. However I find myself including it when I perform. I believe that…
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Same homework assignment as Intoxicating Haunt.
The assignment was to come up with something that used (my choice) of chords that contained C octave, C & C#, C & G#, C & F# where the bass moved from C, C#, G#, F#.
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A soundscape using some new toys.
Specifically, CamelPhat, CamelSpace, Alchemy and Max for Live.
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This is about getting out and making dreams come true. Grow up!
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A quickie "throwaway" idea to be developed another time. Maybe you'd like to try?
90bpm, Cmin
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A practice in looping and sampling using ProTools
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courtney keesee on vox. back in the good old woodshed collective days. listen for the thunder in the background as we were recording.
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Started off with me just goofing around with Battery and a couple of other NI things (which are new to me) and grew into this...
It may still have places to go.
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Because everything is always more magnificent underwater
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First things first... set your volume level to the first lightning strike that opens the track. Nothing is louder than this peak.
That said, this is a collection of sound I recorded by putting the mic near the open window as a thunderstorm rolled…
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We decided we've got too many odd ideas, so we're going to start a series of Esoterica. Here's our first.
"The Light Dances with The Dust" is a fragment of a song by our frontman, written for a big-band-funk cantata to be performed by The…
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This was quickly put together as I collected my thoughts for some serious soul searching. I felt a bit funky so why not? This is dedicated to a new friend of mine. Pronounce the title, "Backwards eBeth".
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A marching band composition depicting the before and after the Industrial Revolution.
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Welcome to hail mary pass #1.
There are finished lyrics, but I hit a brick wall trying to pick instruments. Knowing that my time the next day would be severely limited, I decided to go for my so-called hail mary pass in order to get the song…
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This is a little riff I've been carrying around for a few years from my Nozomi Phoenix days in NYC. A dreamy sequence, that reminds me of a Grimm tale.
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In which Rob rumbles a disgraced Stevie Listings, Snoop Robby Rob tackles blogging, Steve teaches us how to relax and both jet off to Rome to bring you what was at the time live coverage of the first fifteen minutes of the Champions League final…
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[2006] The Radian's Threshold - Cognitive Response
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There is also a version of this track with vocals describing a boring evening at some party that's not really going somewhere and ways to cope with that.
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This is a total remake of an earlier posting.
Lead vocals courtesy of fellow Alonetoner, Dana.
In the lyrics, I was trying to capture a sense in which there is something else beyond -
something which draws me as it were homeward. A son…
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Here I attempt to articulate a few distinct feelings of the home, or the affect of cultivating one's own space, or not.
Instrumentation: house keys, pots and pans, long bamboo flute, synth, drum programming, voice(s), and didgeridoo (a real…
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I found this while doing some clearing out. Its the only demo me and a friend Ben Price recorded when we were briefly looking to form a band in about 2005/2006. Listening back to it, strained vocals aside I kinda liked it so thought I should give…
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Logic's noise gate and vocal transformer are my new best friends. I really enjoyed messing with them and thought I'd have another go.
I've always quite liked pulsing ambient and it seemed to come naturally. This time we have Rytme playing Kore…
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A second experiment with my new Rytme sequencer. This time Rytme is being fed into Logic to a track containing Kore 2 which is, in turn, hosting Kontakt 3 and the lovely Guzheng from Soniccouture (I bought the instrument before the new year but…
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One of three songs with lyrics written about my RPM 2009 strategy. Something about this song appeals to me. I think it's my favorite one out of the ten.
Early morning
no sun in the sky
undergrounded
sleep still in my eyes
Buried alive
I try…
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Another remixed tune to add to the Goran Bregovic collection.
Let me know what you think! I usually hate house/trance/
4-floor beats but this was fun to remix and program.
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RPM 09. True story of my best mate, Weaver Hawkins.
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This is from our album, "When I Was Your Age," recorded entirely in the month of February for our third year participating in the RPM Challenge. "When I Was Your Age" is a collection of 13 songs looking back at when we were kids.
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There's a whole mythology woven into this song, and hence into the album, and the weave is fine and warm.
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A classically-inspired track that totally does not fit in with the rest of the album. Incidentally, Ctesiphon was a capital of the Parthian Empire.
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Words are from a sestina of the same title by Steve Davenport, who asked us to make music out of it! This was a terribly fun song to record. We did it, of course, while drinking. Thankfully no instruments were harmed.
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I am concerned with the values of my generation.
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lyrics:
The silence sometimes
is all you have to say and I believe it, and you
and everything surrounding the skin beneath your eyes
Time's without a shield or an attack against the sight
of a lifetime that was burning you by
And I may…
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this song makes me think of a splintered piece of wood.
lyrics:
It's a cold day out, the kind where you think you're missing
the longer days with the sun beating on your face
but you're beside me and I think
the cold was a gift to lead…
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Pretty much the title says it all. It's about memories of my brothers and me. Only one of my brothers remains. My other brother only lives in my memories. This is for my brother Mark who became my sister Sandra. She passed on to a better place…
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Rod Webber, Joey Slliks and Luke & Aaron Bellamy bring you sounds of love and death straight through the chip in the back of your neck.
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This song tells about a guy I know named Gene.
GENE
AGFE
C B
Gene had a girlfriend. The band would play and they would dance
A…
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Finger style folk guitar with vocals... things are not always what they seem
YOU WON’T FIND HIM AMONG
THE PROUD MEN WHO INSIST THAT THEY ARE STRONG
YOU’LL FIND HIM WITH THE MAN
WHO CRIES OUT GOD FORGIVE ME, I AM WRONG
YOU MAY NOT FIND HIM IN…
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Really, I think this should have a full band behind it. That clearly wasn't an option in the time I had...
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A very early collaboration with Invisible Friend. I'm doing my best Macy Gray impression.
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Close your eyes. Drift. Yeah. That's the idea.
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Channeling my inner Rod Temperton I came up with a track and then thought it might be a good idea to try out some headvoice singing, then I came up with a Michael Jackson-inspired lyric about the dangers of trying to become something you're not…
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Summer of Fun is a new song by guest bassist, Steve.
He writes about the sadness…loneliness.
…I guess.
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There's another plane that I'll ride
and only I know where I'm going
and without reason I can't think
and your lies won't let me sleep.
This early morning sunshine
gets sucked into the wall
where perhaps we might draw from it
when we are…
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Another acoustic guitar improv at the Keith House in Fort Worth, Tx
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Mix by Metamere. Drones by Metamere, Wil (Coyote Senate), David X. McKinna, and AMUC. I generated my drone in one take using my Fantasy preset on the Dreadbox Typhon. The topic for the month was a party themed drone with three phases: preparation…
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The winds blow hard against my windowsill
A howling voice that never stays still
Leaves like whispers scatter and fall
I sit and listen to the quiet brawl
Against my windowsill
The world fights back
Against my windowsill
The night turns…
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I love this tune. Listen to the original here:
https://alonetone.com/jaronchilds/tracks/gulf-of-mexico
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