Had written this one many years ago. I had it recorded originally in a different key and with different instrumentation but it I just was not happy with it. I deleted the original lyrics for the chorus and added a bridge section and lyrics. I…

Had a couple of ours spare this morning while the gang have gone for a bike ride/walk....so here goes... Lets Fly (Lyrics) Everybody's laughing but I feel like to cry As I watch the party pass us by I don't know what to think or what to do Baby…

Wooden Sam Mike Basil: Lead Vocal Gary Miller: Rhythm Guitar Mick Lovering: Lead Guitar Andy Gupta: Bass Todd Vierra: Drums John Scunziano: Lyrics Composed by Steffen Offermann & Mike Basil Mixed & Mastered by Steffen Offermann…

Mindaugas Rex Lithuaniae is a piece for string orchestra – Mindaugas was the only King of Lithuania. details and a picture http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=2267

Re-uploaded cause it was getting stuck at 2 minutes in :/ Replacing the audio didn't work either. Funny how we can feel like the most important person in the world, and yet the most flawed. To many if-then-else parameters

What is a suicide chicken? Listen to this tale of shock and awe and find out! Tom Pecard on bass and bg vocals.

Wow, 3 months since my last upload. I need to get it in gear!! Congratulations RPM'ers, sounding good out there! re uploaded without the trap

K.G. had a moody theme going on some of his tunes this year. love his words. this song is very easy on my ears. hope you agree.

...but we'll meet at the infinite point.

Rough draft Gustav Holst's In the Bleak Midwinter. Debating whether to ruin this with a vocal part or not.

Sounds like the right way to live ....

An improvisation with string ensemble

Please see the blog page for the complete blow-by-blow description of this collaboration with drummer / composer Peter Thoegersen http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1361

The other Reg has put his lounge suit on for this one, he's desperate.........and some might say a fool....but is as bigger fool as Reg.............

I declare my ADAT 8-track to officially be a dinosaur. Welcome to the 21st Century. This is the first completed song written and recorded entirely in GarageBand. I started it last night and finished it this morning. The rhythm guitar is my…

After almost 3 months of work (collectively throughout this entire year) I've been working on something, really really working on something. I mean REALLY working. Now... a few months AFTER the 25th anniversary, I give you, The Legend of Zelda…

Norm and I in a room at his house. See the video for the reason for the name.

Back to basics here. recorded with the Yeti mic. Ramblin' round your city,ramblin' round your town I never see a friend I know As I go ramblin' round boys As I go ramblin' round My sweetheart and my parents I left in my old hometown…

This is a captured and then edited live performance using the Sonar Matrix view using various samples - some of which were paul stretched. I'm liking this - if only they had the possibility to change the pitch live it would be like sticking…

Album: You Won't Like It (2011)

i was alone.

the collaboration team Norm percussion Reefwalker bass and voices Chris 12 string and vocal john lennon wrote it - coda by paul

This song was a challenge to write . . . LYRICS: Order for your protection under threat of a gun You might be confined here till the damage is done Lock him up and toss the key It's for your own good Straightjacket Done Tie me…

Lucy of the species Australopithecus looks into the distance of Awash Valley in what is now Ethiopia and feels the future of what can be. Performed in Charles Lucy's 0b5s tuning

A 7/8 improvisation on a set of 3 Bata drums, accented with afucha, tube shekere and cowbell. The number 7 is a symbol for perfection or completeness: 7 colors in a rainbow, 7 musical notes in a scale, 7 days = a week, etc. In Cuba, the…

...for they do not have to face another tomorrow... BLESSED ARE THE DEAD Blessed are the dead for they shall not be lonely Blessed are the dead for they will not be sad Blessed are the dead for they shall have no longings Nothing lost…

Louis was back in the cellar last night and he was telling Reg how Blue he was and they got to jamming...............This morning i arrived at the cellar to find Bon was passed out in the corner....Dave was right with his guess....He could never…

a season in hell by rimbaud,set to music by wordless poem,composed on the roland MC 505 groovebox.

A collaboration between Norm Harris and myself from 2009. At this point I wish I had the percs up louder.

A live recording (guitar and vocal) written and recorded one afternoon while I had the house to myself. Cajon and bg vocal added.

If you ever spent any time in the Whiskey well. You know it's a place you never want to revisit......

from the album "orange" I feel the same as yesterday Even though I’m losing my mind It’s hard to remember my name When I wake I never know what I will find Whither away, further each day I’m invincible Nothing can slow me down My feet…

from the album "Orange" We'll come this way, knock it off The same as me, in a souvenir Should it be, all the sameness ceases to be All the sameness feels like a blanket on fire These mini-catastrophes are easy to wait out Cause we're…

I tried to get the vocoder to work. It didn't in so many ways....

Well, I had this crazy idea that *maybe* Buddy Guy was using some microtonal inflections in his cover of Tramp (which are what the "blue notes" are and thought it would be cool to cover it with my fretless guitar. As it turned out it was my ear…