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guitar, voice / Kawol SamarQandi
1bit live recording by meacha
at OTOYAKINTOKI, Tokyo on November 3, 2023
converting and editing by kawol at 432den, seaside
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2023 50/90 Challenge idea number 26 becomes finished song number 25.
I think the way the melody handles the chord change in the chorus is clever. Everything else about this song is a dog.
Rhythm guitars are a Les Paul Standard into an MXR…
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2023 50/90 idea number seven is finished song number 18.
This one would have been okay if the vocal takes weren't so bad, and if the rhythm guitar tone was a little more lively and less muddy and dull. The vocal harmony is kinda weird too…
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2023 50/90 Challenge song idea number 23 is finished song number 16.
Poly rhythms. The drums in the chorus are in 4/4 while the bass and guitars are in 7/8. The vocal melody and the guitar solos... well... they just close their eyes and think…
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The next time you get an idea to experiment with 5/8 time........ don't.
The rhythm guitar tracks are my Les Paul into an Analog Man King of Time into a Vox MV50. I think the leads are the same but I forgot to write it down on the Trello card…
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[Verse 1]
Every person has a unique blueprint inside
They can destroy it, hide it or bring it to life
People are caught up in culture, I get it
No one taught you how to run wild in the thicket
There’s a whole wide world to explore…
First…
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[Chorus]
When they say (*gap*), it means black person
Think harder, think harder
When I say (*gap*), it means bad person
Think harder, think harder
[Verse]
Ah, the (*gap*)-word, what’s the meaning of that word?
Most think it only means…
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I know you don’t know what’s going on, or know none, or think it’s all wrong
It’s all been meant to be all along
Divine’s not confined to one’s conscience, but in all life and around it
Say, cred can’t be fully understood, trust—it will…
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[Verse 1]
All they ever see are the frowns
All they ever hear are the swearing sounds
They don’t ever see that I really hurt
It’s not just me, it’s your and my fault
I don’t sit around and just mope
I jump on the raps and get dope
This…
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I decided to cover one of Jarrett's songs. Word to the wise - it's harder than you think. Dude uses a lot of inversions and weird chords. So, being me, I kinda-sorta figured out the chords, but not quite, then took to creating my own song that…
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This is the first song I wrote about my Dad. I wrote it when I realised I was the same age he was when I was born.
I reflect on what he had when he was my age, and all that he has lost.
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RPM2023. February, the month of concessions. I didn't have the time to put into the original idea that I had for this year, so first concession, put that on the back burner and instead do something a little, or a lot, simpler.
A collection…
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Song 3 of my 2023 RPM Challenge album. For this album I’ve used the titles for the first 10 songs of the classic Beatles album “Rubber Soul”, and asked Chat GPT to “write a song called [insert name of Beatles song here…]”. Music is my own composition…
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Here's a new track called "Slow and Steady"
It goes like this
||: Em | C7 | Em | C7 | Em | G | D | F :||
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REAL DREAM BOI SET TO SHAKE THE SCENE WITH “SO WRONG DELUXE” A NEW ERA BEGINS
The Nigerian music space is about to witness something truly special as rising star , popularly known as Real Dream Boi, gears up for the release of his highly anticipated…
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You crave the sea, the oceans far away
And further every day
You watch the sky, and see the birds all fly
Towards their destiny
But where are they going?
And when can we leave?
You’re climbing up, the mountain’s summit
Just a few more…
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(The days skipped by, like a broken record. The only thing worse than going to the job was not going to the job. What was the point?)
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Twisted manipulation in Pure Data sampling and breaking up a 30min recording I did last year called Shiver. The patch samples an audio file somewhat randomly of which I was capturing the edit in another buffer.
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Thoughts on the future of music for Sound-In
Thank you Laurie for the inspiration.
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I wrote and recorded this song for RPM 2022.
It's a bit of a mess how we've been unable to beat this virus.
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Well, my entry for RPM 2022 went from LP to (a very short) 4 song EP but this track I think has bags of potential. It was a discarded idea from a few years ago that was lurking in my 'half-baked' Logic folder but something in it ignited my creative…
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Side A of RPM Challenge
This song is based on one of the many stories about being granted three wishes.
0:00-0:57, a man finds a trapped bird and frees him only to find the bird is a magical creature called the forest king
0:58-1:30, the man…
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I think i was possessed by the Stone Roses this week.
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Demo #1 for FAWM '22.
[VERSE]
I wasn’t looking for trouble,
Just a change of pace.
Something different that my mind could engage.
A shallow fragment of longing
For something different to feel
The novelty of the change it’s own appeal…
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Just straight-up acoustic guitar, with no trickery. Submitted to Sound-In Christmas event 23-30/12/2021.
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Supposed to work on a 50000 word novel, but this is all I can come up with. Still a work in progress but this shows some sounds and feelings I have had during the month of November.
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Taken from my Desert Rat album. Recorded live during a BBQ at my Torrey Utah homestead. Recorded on a Fostex cassette four track in 1985.
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A song written and recorded for the Record Every Month challenge in June 2021
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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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Oleander Season
Written By Fictional Name
It’s oleander season
The cold is turning cool
The reeds are getting sharper
Lying in the pool
Millions of fireflies
Coming from the east
Songs of tomorrow
Songs of the beast
It’s oleander…
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rpm 2021
she's on the go, she's got not time
she will leave you all behind
she's in the know, changes her mind
she does shit like this all of the time
where did she go
somewhere far away
where did she go
it changes every day…
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Don't really know where this came from, could be the general malaise that seems
everywhere, it might be a long, long winter ahead .....
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Originally recorded for my 2019 RPM Challenge album "The Dark Side of the Moo." I was never really satisfied with it (listen to the original version), so I decided to add some strings and remix it. Much better.
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OK, so after the Lockdown Orchestrations project, I have moved to a new series of pieces I am calling Fusion Soundscapes. What I am trying to do here is paint a picture using some sound effects, and with a mix of orchestral and electric/rock…
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a pseudo 17 edo three piece band - guitar / vocalist, bass, drums
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from the album "the Machine"
blinking lights, on my face
so bright, it's a show
inside, and it feels
so right
starless road, and the air's
too cold, makes me feel
so old, but this tales
been told
and I can't ration with my mind
tequila…
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This Is a short prayer of petition to Our Lord that translated from Latin means “Lord Jesus, heal me”. I recorded it with my Martin HD 28, capo on the 4th fret.
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for the sound in animoog work four parts played together here.
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Anyone who has ever ridden a motorcycle can probably relate to this piece.
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The key and convincing supplements of this condition restore and also condition your Hair remembering the true objective to enhance clamminess in them. To fathom what makes this serum make your Hair look thicker and all the more full, keep examining…
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I AM HIGH ON THIS RETRO SAW TIMBRE I DON'T CARE WHAT ELSE I CAN DO OR THAT I ONLY GOT ONE VIABLE VOICE CLIP FROM SOMEONE ELSE (I asked like a dozen Discord servers if anyone would make mouth sounds vaguely in tune with 15 seconds of the melody…
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Another Sudoku puzzle track. Appropriately queasy and loopy, as the road weariness settles in.
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Obviously built on a crappy Dillinger Escape Plan knockoff. Was messing around with the pawn shop guitar and programmed drums, and it just happened. :) Added the second guitar track and bass after I got home.
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A tribute to Steve Moshier, combining his "Forces Of Gravity," with elements of my "Sendai Suite," five pieces based on the five elements. Here I used "Fū (Air)" (the start) and "Kū (Emptiness)" (the end). On top of the combination I did a one…
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re-imagination of track "crows before you" with much lesser vocals.
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Buddy Holly said he made songs out of things he'd heard his mother say all his life...
A E A D A
I'll always remember what mama said
I'll never forget what my mama said…
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from the album "2017"
featuring Madeleine Koestner on vocals
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I'm fascinated currently with alter'd tunings and I don't mean the altered open guitar tunings used in a lot of acoustic folk, celtic and instrumental guitar which I have done and they are all great and inspiring. I'm speaking of the alter'd…
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Originally recorded for the bands own amusement, it was a surprise club hit in the summer Of 2000 thanks to heavy Internet promotion.
15 Years after the Original Release, The Brand New 50 Shades Of Gay Mixes are a tribute to the track with the…
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This song was born from a pure happiness. Lets positive vibrations arise ~
By the way, ,,fujara" is an old Slovenian instrument, which have across a some people magical powers :~)
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Dhat HOt street Banger u have been expecting is out #CBLACK ft ERIGGA #Tilted PH&WAFF Town .........plz download nd share
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At the time, my most ambitious track.
From "All Of This", an album that grew from what I called the Fortnight Initiative - a project to create a new track every two weeks. Some of the results were wacky, but it was worth it.
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An instrumental jazz guitar track inspired by George Benson. Basically a posh 12 bar blues :-)
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it nearly 16years since my father died......
wait till tomorrow comes
Am7 Dmx8
C E7 A7.
Break
Am7 Dm7x3 C E7 A7 Am Ab Am Ab G Am
The promise of tomorrow
Is moving into today
With hope on my shoulder
i watch it walk this way
As the…
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Song three of (probably) 10 for NaSoAlMo. I'm still going with the plan of longer(ish) songs that feature at least a little bit of 12-string guitar. So far so good.
I sort of like the chorus on this one, but the verses aren't all that hot…
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My 8 year old daughter composed the melody line for this song. I turned it into a flat out rocker! It's pretty hot - I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.
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Party Party Party . . . and then Regret . . . . . .It's the same old story!
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Something tells me I'll be mixing this one again soon.
The lyrics here are specifically about 9/11, but I guess it would apply to any major event. I was just listening to the accounts of people who were there at the time and comparing their…
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Just having fun, hanging out, creating some music.
Double drop D Capo @ 3rd- Lead Capo @ 9th. :)
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This song is about being a Mother Fucking Badass!
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In A capo @ 2
G Bm Am Em
People have told me, “Time will heal.”
Em D C G
How does that work when Time stands still?
Bm Am…
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Think of this (lyrically speaking) as Anti-Vaxer's Lament Part 2. I wrote both lyrics at the same time.
The rhythm guitars used Amplitube's Fender Twin app while the leads used Amplitube's Jimi Hendrix app.
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The title track to this year's RPM album. The lines actually forced themselves into being and then straightaway demanded that no other lines should be written.
When the songs speak that loudly, I do what I'm told.
OBJECTS IN THE MIRROR…
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An attempt at carnival shoegaze. Yes, Violet, it's a freakout.
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Mark Treefrog - percussion
Michael Thomas - guitars, processing
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Audio selection from a 2009 Ustream show I did.
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Well my friends life has been busy. Needed a break tonight and jumped in the car for a drive. One of those, don't know where your going just want to listen to music and relax kind of rides. Headed out and found myself on an old county road through…
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This song originally started as a demo in late 2012, but I didn't know what to do with it lyrically. I dusted it off during RPM Challenge 2013; inspired lyrically by a Thanksgiving 2012 road trip I took to Las Vegas. I guess you could say this…
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Lido shuffle from way back in the 80's a Boz Scraggs cover with Johnny Robbo from over at the Cool Lab, John really smashes the music….hope you enjoy
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A poetic piece written on the fly by Gene. Vinnie does the lead guitar on this all the way through. It's inspired by a tale of a woman and the dunes of Pismo Beach, California. The rest is up to your imagination.
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OH JIMMY - capo @ 4
C Am F G
On page thirty of the yearbook he found a picture sweet
A girl named Marie Angel, in school right down the street
Dm walk down G
He didn’t notice that the date was 1983. Oh, Jimmy!
C Am F G
Oh, Jimmy!
That…
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I jumped on the backer of Dave Berry's cover of a Blind Faith oldie and we turned it into a Reg- Berry Trio.......
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The news today reminded me of this old traditional American song. In 5000 years we still haven't figured out how to keep the world from being run by the war mongers instead of the peacemakers. Certainly we have learned nothing since the time when…
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No it's not the Zep track....it's a bit of blues Reg style thinking of those poor folk who survived the levee breaking in New Orleans but had nothing and had lost loved ones.......
When the Levee Breaks (Lyrics)
oh She is beautiful even dressed…
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This one has a good groove, but I admit you won't dance as much to this one. Grab a drink and just listen and tap your feet. Turning yourself around with conviction drives through every beat...
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I couldn't help but finally make a layered arpeggiated piece along the the lines of Philip Glass. I put it out there for a taker and Bill Grundmann wrote "I hear voices". I had no idea how many and how disturbing they would be. He created a mini…
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From our RPM 2013 album "Something Into Nothing"
written by Damian Lethbridge
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solo piano
information on John's Raven tuning http://www.johnsmusic7.com/
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a little ditty the lady and I put together. Some festive cheer and all that. x
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At least, I think it's a sonata, if a very short one. I did it as an assignment in a music theory class I took in 2011.
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Flow to this new original by oPen cOncept! Only vocals and beatbox accompany this fun track. Get crazy, tonight we're going to loose our minds....
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Me and JK seem to have These at the moment.....
Uncanny really....
A dilemma (Greek: ??-????? "double proposition") is a problem offering two possibilities, neither of which is practically acceptable.
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remake of the song i did last yr but with a intro section. didn't turn out as good as i had hoped.
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This a song for the lenten season, contemplating what it must have been like for Jesus during His 40 days in the desert after being baptized by St. John, His cousin.
Forty Days
To the desert Jesus Christ was led
And for forty…
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Backing track for Coz I love you by Slade, this was my first attempt at doing a cover version. It's a lot different from the original.
this is the new version with a few added instruments and the vocals ...
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Feel So Blue
Shes the kinda lady I've wanted all my life
The kinda lady that you want to make your wife
Once i found her I never stop the chase
I didn't want my entire life to turn out to be a waste
So I told her that I loved he…
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Ah, that sounds better, A re-recording of an old one.
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This is Mark's First adventure into Song Writing
Big Legged Woman -- Written by Mark Imsdahl
Mark's alonetone site: http://alonetone.com/imsdahl
Mark Imsdahl -- Harmonica
Greg Connor -- Dobro
Here is Ron Rouch's version of Mark…
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This is a beautiful song from Joni Mitchell. My friend had his 50th birthday and this was my gift, I played it live at his party and recorded it later (4-2-2011)in my livingroom.
It's one take, can't mis that if you listen to it all the way…
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Samples used: http://www.freesound.org/people/Voktebef/sounds/39439/ http://www.freesound.org/people/BristolStories/sounds/65916/
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The finished version of the track previously uploaded as Bump 01. Enjoy.
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Way, way back I read an article in the newspaper about a little old lady who embezzled money from the bank and wound up in Brazi, living the good life with her boyfriend. Fans seem to like this song.
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Naively conceived, written and published in February 2012 for "Contemporary Chamber Music" (vol.1), an RPM12 album.
The titles of the pieces in album are follow each other in a certain order - see album description.
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Featuring Norm Harris on Percussion
http://alonetone.com/norm
Norm is playing his piece:
"Groove For All Hallows"
http://alonetone.com/norm/tracks/groove-for-all-hallows
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Something that I'm now ready to share from last September. Took a while. But recent changes made it possible. Blues rock I'd guess.
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A tribute to Hawkwind
The Surreal Age of the Naked Lemon
Haley's Comet flies across the English sky and the Saxon king will not survive
It's a dark dark omen a foreboding warning it's a dark dark Amen like a beautiful morning
On the…
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My first song wirh my new toy, a banjo, got it for Christmas.
Banjo, Mandolin, synth(organ), harmonica
Recorded on Boss BR-80
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here at southend-on-sea
where we used to walk with you
on the sand & the mud & the clay
that an ancient science
said we were all made out of
and here at southend-on-sea
my old man
old man river
old father thames
and old father…
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Version 2 of Cable Tie frets.
details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=2008
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Made with the Boité Diabolique playing some piano and cello samples. I did a bit of hand editing in Live and then added some light compression, reverb, and limiting.
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Wrote and recorded my first Xmas tune ...was supposed to be entered into a song contest but that site closed...all instruments except drums are played by me.
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Got to keep the Monkey busy....then he won't bother you .....Thanks Norm
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We just finished another of Alberto's compositions.
Working with Alberto has made me listen a lot to Lucio Battisti and Lucio Dalla recently. This is exactly the vintage sound of Italo rock that I love.
I hope you like it - I do…
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I'm obsessed with this tune (actually, just few notes, but...), and I cannot get rid of it, at least for today. At least for all these days...
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Here comes the rush
You feel it in your bones
And when your bones are crushed
You feel it in your soul
You just cant escape it
Its everywhere you go
Turn round and face it
Tell everyone you know
Ah, the rush
You've missed so much
Here comes…
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my second song i made i the first jumpstyle song iv made. I feel that the beat is ok, not bone chilling, but enough to make you jump like a champ.
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a bit techno-like jew's harping. i like this stile of playing because it shows the instruments strength in rythmical patterns and ancient synthesized music.
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Kept in the Cellar is a piece for piano, percussion, and processed street signs in 17 edo.
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A song about loss and the change it brings in a family; this was actually a live edition recording and I think it has something that the polished version does not. Enjoy!
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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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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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