Guitars/Mandolin: Doug Sparling Composer: Traditional Recorded: 2005 A couple of nice reels played on guitar, the first is The Cup of Tea, can't remember the name of the second one. Unfortunately my midi flute scratch track got added in the mix…

this is a random song i made when i was bored hope you like it

Life is a quest for knowledge and a simple realization that not only is there so much we don't know but to declare it somehow is empowering. A great collaboration with Norm who is an amazing percussionist and a super cool guy! Thanks for the…

a simple tune for the upcoming summer..

Mid-flight serenity until that moment, you know those moments im talking about... In-flight samples recorded by me, drums, guitars.

Splice your main-brace, and scrape off your barnacles. You'll be jigging along to this one.

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...

This is a song that started as just an idea I had playing live one lovely thursday evening and I just started playing this progression and sang some gibberish over it and I came up with the "chorus" part and and the Idea of asking questions in…

"Gypsy! Give Me Your Tears!"

Just some bluesy shiiat I did while back

This is one of my first alonetone collaborations written by Louis Smit. Everyone should go listen to some of his tunes. Louis is a very original and talented folk style acoustic guitarist- singer - songwriter. You can hear him here. http://alonetone…

I watched a programme on Dali half way through composing this and it took some strange turns!

Been carrying this around since 1982, finally recorded it. Composed when we were expecting our first child, hence the anxiety.

My first MIDI tune. February 2009.

Instrumentation Demonstration to try applying the Gunslinger sound to a more bluesy progression. Bass is a bass, guitar is a guitar. The drums are a digital pad kit connected to an Alesis trigger I/O to make them MIDI capable. Generally, I…

This is an improvisation around a few chords I found when experimenting with two simultaneous tunings on my Fender Mustang run through the GR-20 retuned to Arabic 17 note Pythagorean tuning and also as-is through my DoD FX-7 The way this…

something a bit more.... aggressive.

This one is called "Your Light". Hope you Like it! Peace Tharek LYRICS -YOUR LIGHT- -By Tharek Mokbul- We’ve heard all the compliments. All said in a day. They’ve lost all their meaning now. Wasted away. They were there…

Partial lyrics from a song I wrote for my band, Nail of The Sun thats (not on alonetone)along to some Phil Collins like music and of course the commentary on phil in general. HAH.

Jason Sloan and I recorded this track in March 2010 as an improvisation in preparation for our performances on The Vigil all-night music festival at MICA. Jason describes the session: "Erik and I come from very different backgrounds in our approach…

i gave this one a little adjustment and couldn't decide which version i liked best...so it became a safe and warm mix...

perhaps because my heart lies broken...once again...

I wrote and recorded this song about five years ago. All vocals are mine. I would like to redo this song and change a few of the lyrics...but here it is in its current incarnation.

Little country ditty with a "hook" :) recorded a few years ago at Boyd's in Wylie. I am singing lead and harmonies. That keyboard player is my talented cousin, Robert Nichols, who turned me onto this site. You can search for him here on Alonetone…

Is everything fine?

The Mighty Wurlitzer And Alesis QS6 Quadrasynth Played Live And Overloading My Sound System

As the song says, this is a song I wrote for the RPM Challenge. I simply took my actual experience beginning at 12 midnight on February 1st, and a couple or three hours later I had my first song. The player takes away the intensity of this track…

When a friend is diagnosed with cancer, or any life threatening illness, we want to say something. But what do we say? This is a meditation on transience and emptiness, two central zen buddhist teachings.

Simply an expression of my love for brownies.

This is our little bundle of joy now grown up to be 10 years old. She took up the flute this year at school and this is her first effort in front of my microphone. She decided on the flute after watching some vids of Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull…

A Collab With Vanncad.... An Awesome Musician from Canada... He did the vocal and Lyric for this... I Am Humbled that he worked with me.... My 2 and a half year old son Helped with the synth as well.... It's called "Gonna Come a Day…

One day as I was turning into my driveway I saw Rita on her porch. She's a lot like me. AL & RITA Capo @2 in C C stepping down to F Al was a smoker. He's dead now, of course Al has Alzheimer's. Alcohol made it worse D stepping down…

Ok, so I'm just a percussionist, and if your only tool is a hammer, the entire world looks like a nail. I get it. And I also get that our songs are our children, so we should be very careful about whom we let them play with. When I first heard…

a duel between a sloppy guitarist and a precision drum emulator.