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Written in 1999...completed 2012.
David Bevan on brass!
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This carries on the theme from the the first song Carshalton Girls , done with a hint of Rocky Horror
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The original musical tribute to our first love, Wawa. This is a protest tune, as they had recently replaced the only Wawa on Lehigh University's campus with a cheap knock-off, Pantry One.
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Here's another from the cellar...........lets hope John & George arn't turning in their grave......and Paul & Ringo don't sue.........
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i wrote this thinking about the Passion of Jesus and glimpsing the Truth of my own part inflicting His suffering through my sins.
Shouldn’t I Love You More?
You prayed for me in the garden
You saw my soul and…
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the first iteration of AFC was supposed to be this group, my old band American Catastrophe and singer Janette Salsbury singing. We had a couple practices, but never played live or recorded anything. The songs we played wound up on the first…
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This was from about 4 yrs ago thru a Guitar Center King of the blues online collaboration. I was using Guitar Rig Jimi Hendrix Octavia on this.....pretty hairy sound right there.
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Did this many years ago. It came together very quickly. There are know synths, all guitars and backwards vocals, sped up vocals, detuned vocals.....whacked sounds. I wrote the lyrics on the spot. I love its deep personal message...lol!
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THanks to Bethan Mathis for the voice talent and Roxanne Sawhill for the words from her dream!
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Aaron Krister Johnson is the founder of Untwelve and a virtuoso pianist. I was honored to have Aaron perform my piece
“Prelude for Prelude for Centaur Tuned Piano”
at an intimate Untwelve gathering last year on his piano which is tuned to Kraig…
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this is a remix of my original song "If You Were A Song." Hope you enjoy it as much as i enjoyed making it!!
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"The man" from my album "I should follow Steve's thought".
FREE online on my website www.misterpeculiar.com
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DIGGIN’ A HOLE by Jeff Prince
This is Jeff on the vocal
From an album we made as THE GHOST OF JOHN MURPHY
All that fun guitar stuff is Jeff.
Diggin’ a hole is a natural thing to do.
Out in Odessa searching for Texas crude.
Or up in the…
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sunday afternoon and a little time to my self .......hope you enjoy........ i did.........
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Not sure what inspired me to write this. It's about a rich lady who loses everything. It's not about anyone I know, I was just trying to write a song not about myself for once.
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A simple song about unrequited love...altogether now...ahhh. Thanks to The Reprobate for ace lead guitar.
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A protest against the conditions of poverty in the developing world .
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details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=2193
NOTE: meantone refers to a tuning method, not the guitar tone.
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The lyrics are inspired by King Crimson's "The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum" where each word is connected only to the next word.
This piece takes some liberty with that idea and incorporates phrases, verbs and connecting words…
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Part Of Kitchen Sink, the RPM 2012 album for AMUC.
Freesound Samples Used:
18451_zippi1_sound_singing4.wav
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The chance encounter of traveling men as happens along the road. string up the town folks dog
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RPM2012 Preview ... drop D tuning ... this time I started with a click track so I was able to add some synth ... enjoy ... lyrics:
The cat's in the yard
The flowers in bloom
The sunshine is out
The boys in their rooms …
Can they tell where…
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This is a short cover I did of Polly, by Nirvana. I made it to closely resemble the studio version.
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~In the middle of everyday life [and all this fuss] you stop for a moment and see yourself as if from the outside~
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Matter does matter - probably one of Asimov's strangest stories (personally speaking), even with it's emotional ending.
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FORTY YEAR BARN
words by Jacque Shelton and JMT (I wrote the chorus.)
I had a dream as a little boy
Not a policeman, a fireman or even a toy
I picked cotton, I waitered
My sox need darned
But all that I dreamed was my Forty Year Barn…
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I learned this song from a Burl Ives record when I was a child. It's always been very deep and sad to me.
STREETS OF LAREDO
As I walked out in the streets of Laredo
As I walked out in Laredo one day
I spied a poor cowboy all wrapped in…
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My wife plays flute and asked whether I could write a simple piece for it. This is the result. She hasn't learned it yet!
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WILD BILL Key C
C Bass F# Am Bass G Bass F Bass C
The moon shone like diamonds on mirrors in puddles shaped like horse’s feet
Dm Dm - Dm…
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This is a delightful ballad in C Major, but because it was recorded in October, it was automatically transposed into a more "spookular" A Minor.
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Composed, performed, produced by Alex Jenkins. From the Omega Jam Sessions. BMI
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Music and lyrics by Brian Vaughn.
I shouldn't have to say this, but I can't stand this silence.
And I wonder if you know what i'm going through.
It seems way too common for words and acts to disagree,
But I expected more from you.
I told…
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Analog version of a tune off of the record. This one comes off much more sentimentally.
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Duet nr. 02 on jew's harps: stevenstoop and danibal
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This is my first track ever recorded on this Roland.. I still have dynamic problem with this song as I am not used to the weight of the keys on fp-7f ... this is where experiment starts! Enjoy!
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Sea planes and the space race, dreams and destinies.
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I had this mellow tune hanging around when I heard "Love is Life" by The Two Regs and thought I need to catch the other Reg while he's around.
Lucky for me he had the time, the voice, and the melody. We created this lovely tune.
I was electrified…
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He's been gone a while but the other Reg is back from the otherside with a message .................
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I heard Fort Bigwater by Wildgeas Music this afternoon and it struck a chord and some lyrics came to mind...so here they are...Thanks Wildgeas for letting play.........
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A micro-tonal piece made using one instance of the Novaphone 340 ("Imperial") playing 3 piano samples from SoundIron's "Emotional Piano 2.0".
The samples were sequenced using a MIDI keyboard using the Novaphone Micro-8 scale (1/8 semitone per…
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so yes, I got the Vocaloid 2 program. Pretty cool, a little convoluted, but it has its knacks.
Of course I had to deal with using the Japanese android diva, Hatsune Miku, so the song is in Japanese. (broken if nothing else, my japanese sucks…
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Contains an example of Reverse Speech, or a speech reversal that appears on the voice of Truman, namely "Mad! They must have dropped it before the whirlwind." This appears where Truman says, "'The world will note that the first atomic bomb…
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12 string improvisation - vaguely in an eastern Indian mode.
Feel free to use this in something if you'd like - just post a link in the comments here so I can find it.
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This is a piece using 2 keyboards, an M-Audio 88es (vocal choir) and Alesis Q49 (brass choir) in 17 notes per octave. The objective was to use some functional xenharmonic chord progressions. I would be interested in knowing if you perceive the…
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"Winston's Black Dog"
I could have made a great Prime Minister
Just need a good reason to be sinister
Give me an army, an enemy,
a great war --
and I'll deliver
Put me in the middle of nowhere
In the wilderness I'll survive
But in an air-conditioned…
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I felt inspired today, so I laid down a few tracks on my Micro BR recorder using my Yamaha Keyboard...
A bit of jazz for your relaxation pleasure.
LG
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This is a piece using Garritan World Sample Set (Tibet singing bowls and Tibet bells) and pianoteq. It also uses a non-octave tuning that is an infinite stack of just major seconds (scala file below).
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Reg has this recurring dream of his fantasy women but she is always out of reach...........Thanks to Tess for letting me play with her tune.
Space Gypsy with Sister Savage
She roams in and out of my world
I’m Lost I am lost without…
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Berceuse (means cradle song - or lullaby) by Chopin Op. 57 midi recorded by Ron Lubetsky, M.D. in 1997. And indeed I can tell from the midi file this was a real performance. I ran it through pianoteq in Sonar X1. I hope you enjoy it.
http…
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JI guitar
Fretless Bass
Drums from Sonar
This is replacing the "up way too late" version
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Reg is willing to do anything to cure himself of his addiction to alcohol and when he hears that they are restarting the experiments with LSD to help cure alcoholism he has to find out more. Through internet research Reg finds out that the experiments…
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Reg was at his local AA meeting last night and just had to express some truth's he had to the others there......................but they didn't believe him they thought he could stop but Reg knew better.......i mean it was the Devil that told…
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I recorded "Whole Lotta Love," attempting to sound like Joe Satriani with my guitar. Hope you like it.
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The radio play episode 1 is introducing Thetworegs with Reg as writer performer, musician, and producer as the budget was rather low.......... They have just set sail for Germany it was time for them to leave England before they were caught…
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The door has closed and Reg is very afraid of the days ahead so he had a chat with Jim down in the cellar last night and this is what they came up with..........
Strange Days (Lyrics)
Strange days have come to me again
Lost and afraid i cant…
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Another one from the collaboration of Chris Vaisvil, Norm and thetworegs from the album Women and Whisky together ain't no good. We hope you enjoy......................
Reg created the lyrics, vocal melody, and sang
Norm composed and played…
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"From the mid-1920s until the early 1970s thousands of Irish children officially in the care of the state were subjected to a double regime of sexual abuse and wageless slavery. Ireland's notorious industrial schools and orphanages all run by…
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My cover "No Changes" by fellow RPM-challenger Angie Fights Crime.
This is my first recording with my StingRay 4 (that I just purchased yesterday). Also my first recording using Recabinet 3 for guitar speaker simulation.
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I do love a bit of ZZ Top. This is probably my straightest cover. It was one of the first tracks I recorded when I got my Zoom R16 back last summer, although the programming on the BOSS DR-5 goes back over a decade. It was before I got my microKORG…
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Poor old Mary lived in the anonymous council flats near Reg, he didn't know her he just read about her in the paper....Thanks Henwrench
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Fallen Arkansas Blackbirds is inspired by the 2011 New Year's Eve report of thousands of blackbird dead and dying in Beebe Arkansas. Some apparently dead upon impact others dying a bit slower as they tried to walk away. This is the sad scene…
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Our lovely cat Minimini is such a nice cat. She loved to go outside with me in the snow. And so I had to make some music and video with her.
This was in January 2010
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'm doing a course in Mandarin Chinese and mamahuhu is one of my favourite words. It means so-so (literally horsehorsetigertiger); "not so good". In this lyric I just allowed myself to whine about my situation; get it over with. I like the harmony…
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Original song: from the album, TheSongOfTheDay.com - October. Ah, the great mysteries in life: Why are we here? Is there a God? How much do you tip a bartender for a beer? Back when we were recording the songs for TheSongOfTheDay.com, inspiration…
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This is a one hour piece I did after having poisoned myself with MSG.
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A few years back (when I lived it Texas), I drove out to an open field to watch the Geminids meteor shower... I really need to remember to look up at the night sky more often.
The Showers of December
Lying flat on my back
Looking…
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A cover of Larry Wallis's fine ditty (it's always been one of my favourite Dr Feelgood songs).
This was my second recording with my Boss MBR, recorded early 2009. It confirmed for me that I was a "standalone recorder" kind of guy, and there was…
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RPM 2011
Used to feel the same as me
So warm inside
Used to care too much to see
The other side
You’re so far outside the lines
Your shapes distorted, undefined
Your color choices too
A wash and blurry, through and through
Visualize, love saves…
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This song was born on the 18th of Feb. 2011. It was the last piece I wrote/recorded for the challenge. It was a very sad day for me, almost as if all my usual winter sadness was concentrated and crammed into one day. The process of writing and…
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Two Freesound sample used here that's worth noting:
* 97189 epanody_samplescene2
* 18450_zippi1_sound_singing3
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This is a short piece written for a friend who is developing a computer game for his degree. It needed to be loopable, hence the abrupt start and finish! Still a work in progress so i'd appreciate any comments about making it better
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Now I don't know which song is Rotten Log. Probably the other one. Thanks anonymous commenter :). This is not from Prozac's one multitrack recording session as I had originally thought. What sounds like overdubbed guitars is simply psychic…
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Take the lift and your half way up....
Reach the top and your half way up...
You didn’t see your rise, and Lost your way.....
Looking down on the world your tears fall...
You Missed the Beauty of the climb.
And now you’re…
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Recorded this just the other day while warming up during one of our regular rehearsals. Dave (guitar)gave me some "ideas" on how to play ROCK ;)
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I have a story to tell. Debbie and I went to a Guitar Center across town looking for a cheap used bass for me to convert to fretless like I did my Squire Strat. Well.... I ran into a really nice used Ibanez 5 string bass - with a B below E…
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Well, this is a single minute of music around this wonderfull 'Angel Eyes' song. I hope you like and/or enjoy this miniature. Have a great 2011 alonetoners!
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About a very strange individual indeed............
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eshar asked me "if you ever feel like supplying some funky vocals...that would be awesome!
." I said "yes" instantly because i love what she comes up with. Here is the first attempt, all words are made up on the moment with no retakes. I think…
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(Syd Barrett) - early Pink Floyd song written by Syd. I gave it an Eastern treatment with harmonium, hand percussion, and guitar.
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recorded with my nylon strings guitar, and the kit mic-phones to chat hahahaha ;)
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This track was my attempted submission for Ramen Music #001. I finally got around to uploading it here.
It was made using several instances of the Max for Live instrument "Loop Shifter" that I played in real-time using my Novation Launchpad…
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Randy Brown and I did a little co-write this evening and this is what we came up with...
I MISTOOK IT FOR THE MOON Capo @ 2 Key D (Play in C positions)
I was coasting across West Texas/Had my top down, it was late at night
I caught a coyote…
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Billy Chicken & The Paw Paws classic country song
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Norbert Oldani & Roger Sundstrom round out the soundscape against my quasi-just intonation singing and quirky rhythm section electronica.
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Why. Why? Why! Why- why... why, why, why; "(why)" are we here?
Also, abstract eye progression: o.o 0,o 0)0 p]R 9|9 818 111
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A tender farewell to a mother leaving for a long trip home.
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This is a solo piano improvisation that I performed last year (2009) but have tinkered off and on for a while as a work in progress. It really isn’t done yet but I thought I might let others hear it. The piano sound is generated entirely by…
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E V H I ain't...but here is some noise anyway:)
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For improv friday
I did an experiment using Paul's Extreme Stretch harmonics function and Audacity.
I took a raw field recording (included here field recording http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=1187 ) and ran it through…
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pleasant, dom7/mixo+nuances; upbeat road music
no apologies ;-)
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Licensed for my new "Forever" CD by HFA this song is from "Prince of Persia". It's a song about having faith that all troubling things will turn out allright. All you have to do is believe it will.
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Can you dig this? I can! Looking forward to hitting a real studio soon in hopes of doing this song and more.
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The perfect synthesized soundtrack for a soothing, green-screened trip to the glittering fringes of outer-space. Behold!
(aka getting to know my new synth... and no this isn't serious)
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Written and Recorded June 6, 2010
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD, DADGAD Capo V), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity.
Rachel, you are my hero...
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Visit www.2camels.com to read the more about body painting.
This is a jazz fusion piece featuring my Fender Mustang, Guitar Rig 4, GR-20, Session Drummer 3, and the following soft synths ARP2600, Absynth 5, Dimension Pro.
I hope you find…
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B Jones / drums // Sluk / guitar / bass
The Atomic Boys: Sluk & Buzzy Jones (complex drummer)
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Ok first of all, I am sorry for the lack of music updates on my part. It's just hard for me to make more different music each time. In fact the only way I was able to make this song is through the overly used system of repitition. Hopefully…
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My motto is INWARD THRU THE FOG. One day about a month ago, Laura 'Taylor' Whitfield told me I should, "write that song." Thinking back on a fog-bound night in California, I wrote it. Norman Pilcher, a friend from Texas, and I were headed north…
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sometimes people say what you don't want to hear...
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This song was inspired by the heavy rains of the past two days, and my wife and I biding our time waiting for them to subside a bit so we could leave the house. The guitar is my old Alvarez classical with a microphone, then run through my RP350…
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Housemate Tim (first verse, chorus) joined us for an attempt at a Bette Middler classic. AND THEN WE AUTOTUNED IT...
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New version of my cover of A Beautiful Scene's You're So Comfortable and I'm Not. Now with lots more instruments. Some parts are still kinda rough but I think I'm done with it.
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A tale of the lonely soul who is desperate to feel connection. The Asterisk Zero is the child who opens fire on fellow school children, with no understanding of the depth and complexity of the pain they are causing. This song is a soul searching…
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It enters us
Without us knowing
Not welcome
Uninvited
Go away
Leave me alone
Give me peace
Let me rest
Eat us from the inside
Bit by bit
Cell by cell
Multiplying
Taking over
Invaded
Go away
Leave me alone
Give me peace
Let…
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For String Orchestra. First performed in Grassington in North Yorkshire, a place of outstanding natural beauty.
This version is computer generated I'm sorry but it sounds ok!
Thanks
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Track 11... I have to stop writing parts that I can't cleanly play.
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Post RPM jammin'. I don't feel much like cleaning up after RPM. Not yet anyway. I think my little Casio took a beaten and went out of tune. I did this arrangement with just the Casio, guitars and
harmonica, hence the annoying piano and strings…
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Where's all this sappy music coming from? The Olympics were on. I must have been watching too much figure skating or something.
Unmastered track from my 2010 RPM Challenge submission.
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It's a song about farting, it's not "the long and winding road"
have a laugh and enjoy!
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One of the first rounds my mom taught me. We sang this for hours as the family paddled down rivers, hiked mountains, and sailed the ocean blue.
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Lyrics:
How much will it cost to mail this fruitcake?
The one that I have baked with so much care.
Tell me, what’s the postal rate, and how long will it take,
And will it still be fresh when it gets there?
I stayed up all night just…
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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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The band had all gone home, and I was left mixing what we had accumulated over the last few months of work on what is to be our "final" album. Things felt over. it seemed like we had reached a saturation point, where we had driven the car as far…
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Another track without a plan. I was supposed to be doing something else, but I was stalling...
Electronically, I used only Ableton instruments on this one in the effects stew I used Eos, Replicant, BigSeq2, and LiveCut in addition to the Live…
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A very electronic piece, with just a synth and a drum.
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story: wings of chaos, wings of beauty. h.g. wells awakens from cyber-sleep in the "Chrysalis". the steam-driven moth-ship is now traveling slowly across an immense nebula. the engine's motoric rhythm generates the soundtrack to the view from…
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D-Day is the first Utopian Hedonism song, build within the Reagan's speech about the Normandy Landings (6 june 1944)
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NOT FINISHED. another draft. just putting it up here so that i kick myself in the pants to flesh it out and write verses and whatnot and redo everything. great! this draft is continuously replaced with newer versions. check back, please! (oh yeah…
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Suppose the lyrics say it all. A poet's brief dialog with inspiration.
Instrumentation:
Banjo
Guitar
Harmonium
Greek Chorus
2 Clarinets
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NOT FINISHED. doo doo vocals. just figuring out how this song is going to go.
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I wrote Dancing Vampires while reading the book "The Historian", which is a story of a man and his accomplices’ quest to find Dracula in present day Europe. I love history and all of its grit. This song speaks of primal human instincts. We are…
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true hiphop!!! from melatone's free downloadable ep (Pay Attention)
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Apparently I wrote this three years ago, well, August '06. I just found it. It picks up after a minute or so...
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When anger knows no bounds. When betrayal begets rage. When sleep brings no rest. When fighting is just the beginning.
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Format Sea - Part Two
Based on the age-old concept that a person is born anew every seven years. It's technically meant in terms of physiology - you develop all new bones/muscle/fat in a seven year period. I kind of add a spiritual/alien abduction…
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Publicado Bajo Autorizacion y sin animo de Lucro. www.carranga.org
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A song that came to me when I was fishing in the rain with some of my Mamainde buddies. The Mamainde is a small endangered Amazonian tribe of 230 people in west-central Brazil. This song attempts to tell their story…
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Filho Sumido is portuguese for "Lost Son".
Its my little bossa way of describing what its like to be away from the place I love, Brazil. Like a lost son. Someday I may make an english version - but then, maybe not. After all, its about Brazil…
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Using the waltz beat from the 1958 record album "Rhythm Accompaniment", with the composer on all other instruments. The spoken bits are of xenophobic Utah State Senator Chris Buttars. Written and recorded in February 2009 for the RPM Challenge.
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Those stark Moonlit nights have something of a reputation, but there are other things lurking in the moonlight.
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*Modern electronic rock. Guitar, synthesizer, samples, drums.*
*Sounds like **_Depeche Mode_** *and **_U2_**.
*Recorded at The Hive in 1997. Mixed with* **_Ken Kessie._**
*When you're depressed, nobody wants to see you.*
You all said…
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This song was written in 2001 but never recorded. I recorded this for my 2009 RPM Challenge album "Relative Polyphonic Mutiny".
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2009 Record Production Month Challenge offering. Very pleased with the collective results. My favorite song from the album. Enjoy and repeat.
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Goth/folk...Vocals and lyrics by Laura Aalto
This is a companion piece to "Vision in Gold"
From the 2009 Alchemist Corpse Rite entry in the RPM Challenge: "A True and Faithful Relation"
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Lyrics:
A lazy hound lying on the couch
sleeping the day away
The sunlight comes pushing through the curtains
warming the old dog's face
The savory smell from a wood burning stove
holds you while you awake
Brew some tea while others emerge…
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My second foray into multi-tracking my voice. Still a great deal to learn here, but I'm starting to figure this out.
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Let me introduce to you
Every woman child and man
The place I did my growing up
Raised by grandma's hand
I think you'll find
That folks are kind
They're sure to ask you in
Enter the warmth
Close the door
And my story will begin…
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This work is dedicated to Andy Jaffe, jazz composer, pianist, arranger and teacher. I studied with Andy at Williams College from 1988 to 1992, and his approach to music-making and teaching has influenced everything all my work since. He once related…
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Another fingerpicky gospel instrumental. From the old days.
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Something just broke and I think it's my heart
It wasn't an arrow. It wasn't a dart
It mighta been a meter that tore it apart
But, something just broke and I think it's my heart
G.
A bedside bomb with no alarm…
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60 bpm, a
fading, just so, the light
the light out my window
hold tight, hold tight
fading
stretching out
this road, goes on and on
out the window
who even knows which road we're on
stretching, forever
but i'd rather sleep my life…
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We've wanted to make Halloween music for years and this is our second attempt at doing so.
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A reggae version of Colin Mutchler's "Blue Ocean". James Brotherston of The Hustlers is on keys.
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/
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2007. Moody deep house. I really enjoyed playing aroud with this sort of punky house stuff, this was one of my favorites. Pretty simple but disturbed.
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This one came out of my brother in law dying. God ultimately just wants us to talk to him.
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