RPM Challenge 2021 Category: Single (this is side 1) Genre: Surf The 2021 RPM Challenge was indeed a challenge and I only signed up to record a single! My month was fraught with problems, mostly having essential gear go south (mixing board…

Got one for xmas

How’s the saying go, isn’t it an echo or a stain But words get telephoned, caught up in some other’s long refrain Heavens catch your gaze, barter for your faith, how pretty the horizon How far does it go, the unintended consequence of sight…

Hold my hand get through this I dissect your iris And behind the lens there is an omen Here I thought I knew you But I’m stuck on preview You were hiding in my peripheral vision In my dreams, reaching forward, falling backward, out my…

Your fear took the sky away, we’re stumbling in the dark You ran to the mountain top, sounding the alarm I’ll hold the mirror at the other end, a jewel from it hung sword points highest to the emperor’s sun A clash of the heavens pair…

Lost half of my castle, we dug the moat, we built the walls But the waves don’t care, they’re busy shushing us senseless It’s a wonder, forever building here in the sand How the universe don’t care The pen to the page, part and parcel…

You’ve got a lot to say and sleeves to sew We don’t see eye to eye don’t you know It’s not a coin but two lone planets circling our own suns Where is the salve to soothe our aching hearts Suffice to say we’re better apart The tattered flag…

Rain on my roof, constant tapping, sounds like there’s invaders outside always marching, always shouting, pouring down hour glass counting Half dissected, introverted, I don’t mean to pry Past protracted, so exhausted, I don’t even try…

As the quiet burns on the midnight oil And my footsteps making cracks in the floor For the monsters lurking under my bead For the tinnitus ringing in my head It’s the pill in hands that I hold To Kill the tremors and bury the cold Carry…

Might as well sew your shadow to me, ghost of myself and drenched in caffeine Mirror becomes a distant warning I’m entering the uncanny valley You can’t pass this thread through my eye Patience failing, no compromise A reeling confrontation…

It’s the scrape, in your face, every morning, all it’s glory fades You’ll go numb, weak the knees, targets training, always hold this pace Take it all away Pull it all away Peel back all your skin Show your scars Take it all away…

Excess intense, eye-watering energy I didn't know what to do with then did. This. Overpowered turned into a music slap.

Tribute to my friend who passed. Ambient

Tribute to friends and family I have lost to covid. Lyrics by Greg Austin

Abstract rock

Ehterial

Ambient

Music by Mike Smith

Poem by June Webber, vocals by Jazz, music by Mike Smith

A chill and moody composition where my slide guitar playing aimed for one thing and came out completely different

Another for the RPM ..... This is war the war for lust This war The war for love The battle of words Fought with lies The war The war Oo love He wants mine I want yours The deceit of love once more till the end of time He wants…

As usual, this turned out totally different from what I imagined. The new plot of the song turns out to be that black metal ghosts possess the souls of hillbillies at a barn dance. By the third wave of demonic energy, any yokels left alive are…

An experimental musician friend in Canada told us about the RPM Challenge, it struck immediately as a noble and inspirational idea; simply to make music (or elsewhere) for the sake of making music (or elsewhere), and to be one of many doing the…

Deepening (overdub version) Coming to terms with the circumstances Full song on youtube and soundcloud, link in bio using on a Synthstrom Deluge for sequencing and added instrumentation drums made using one-shots from the @liamkillenmusic…

Originally a simple Classical style piece.. Written on a GuitaleleI! I never though much of this song, as it seemed a little obvious; but after purchasing a Midi Guitar - AKA a rock band controller - I transcribed this piece to Midi and arranged…