amelie's laughter

Written after reading John Filson's The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucky (1784).

A tribute to jazz vocalist and interpreter, Suzannah McKorkle

Nostalgia, what ifs, Mormonism...

Jeannie and Frank get so stoned they wind up in outer space.

A nightmare about Roy Rogers mercy-killing Trigger in an abandoned mineshaft.

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'... ... ...and the door will be opened... -ULTIMATELY...'

Outrage, meltdown, bailout.

MARIAH CAREY DREAM LOVER REMIXXXXXX

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Written: 2004 Composer: Doug Sparling Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop. Piano music created at the command line on a Linux laptop. These are the first tunes I composed after switching from performing to writing. I don't own a piano…

Written: 2004 Composer: Doug Sparling Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop. Piano music created at the command line on a Linux laptop. These are the first tunes I composed after switching from performing to writing. I don't own a piano…

Arranged: 2004 Arranger: Doug Sparling I believe this is a traditional tune, but I'm not sure. I learned it from uilleann piper Seamus Ennis or Liam O'Flynn (or both). Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop. Piano music created at the command…

Written: 2004 Composer: Doug Sparling Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop. Piano music created at the command line on a Linux laptop. These are the first tunes I composed after switching from performing to writing. I don't own a piano…

Another song from the archive... Written about a friend who somehow seemed to come out of her general sad manner... Thoughts go back to a lunar eclipse when the girl I was standing next to to watch it (way back in college) disappeared from sight…

The last track that I'm going to upload for a while. I will be re-recording a few songs to release a LP under my own name. Hopefully it'll be good :) This one is another exploration using loops and delays. I hope you like it!

This is was originally for piano and is a fair assessment of my piano playing abilities in 1977 and was written in that year. The original piano version can be had here http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=528 or listen to it…

I found this poem I wrote back before she left. I put music to it and recorded it night before last. Yeah, the high voice is me too. LEAVING Key Am Am Dm He rattles like a tambourine, his…

Guitars, mandolin, keyboards, penny whistle: Doug Sparling Arranger: Doug Sparling - 2005 Composer: Shaker Hymn Old demo from the basement. I love this tune and someday I'll do it justice... IIRC, I recorded and mixed this thing with a…

Guitars, mandolin, penny whistle: Doug Sparling Composer: Doug Sparling Recorded: 2006 From an out of print, self-released CD I put out in 2006 (titled "The Old Stone Bridge" - not the same one as the Old Stone Bridge tracks I've released…

Guitars, mandolin, penny whistle: Doug Sparling Composer: Doug Sparling Recorded: 2006 From an out of print, self-released CD I put out in 2006 (titled "The Old Stone Bridge" - not the same one as the Old Stone Bridge tracks I've released…

how do you give a daughter away? I have no clue...

an attempt to evoke the urban Brazilian scene - which has a rhythm all its own.

Jonathan Thomas looks at what it means to be an "infant in Christ" and drink "milk"

Jonathan Thomas

Now appearing in the movie "Going Cardboard: A Boardgame Documentary". See http://www.boardgamemovie.com/ A song about a classic boardgame: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/13/the-settlers-of-catan Lyrics: You find a table and put…

welcome to something stranger than fiction.

another noise rythym piece..how do you spell rythym anyways geez, its always underlined.

As chance had it, I found myself in an acoustically great room, full of cajons! Well, they were unfinished cabinets actually, but they had lovely tones. Since this is the stuff dreams are made of, I had no choice but to seize the opportunity and…

i am not that guy at the beach. the first slolo in this song is played on a half scale guitar with four strings. The second part after the pause is played on my accursed 1, theofficial nomenclature for that being lost, it is a full scale, but…

yes, that's right..your 5.25 disc drive

This song contains some of my best harmonies that are perhaps not the most well executed. My original thought was that this would be a duet, with my voice taking the low part and an alto or mezzo soprano taking the higher part. Anyone want to…

Guitar: Doug Sparling Composer: Doug Sparling Written/Recorded: 2006 A "B" side from the "Stray Onto The Path" CD that I never released, in fact, I'd forgotten I'd even recorded it until today when I stumbled across the track. It's one I didn…

Really nothing more than some voice leading practice. Unfortunately, I had no keyboard or orchestral samples when I did this, so I used Lilypond and TiMidity++ and step programmed it in a text editor. I've since bought Cubase and EastWest/QuantumLeap…

One of our early collaborations. From Norm: Percussion note: the pattern used in this song is "Djesse Muloumbo", 240bpm.

this song is a mild morning movement i had while daydreaming

This was a warm-up song I did in January 2010 in preparation for my February RPM Project, "Wave". I was just trying to get a vibe going and wasn't focusing on anything lyrically, hence why the title is also the only line in the song. This is…

Copyright Kelly Armstrong, used with permission. Trios, as entities, are necessarily unstable.

Copyright Kelly Armstrong, used with permission.

The first time we played this tune, the drummer and I played it, spontaneously, almost exactly as this recording documents. But we'd never heard it before, had no chart, Kelly was just playing it on the bass and singing a bit, and our parts just…

I wrote this one a few year's back when my daughter was 6 years old. I finally recorded it and uploaded it to her MP3 player for her 12th birthday this year.

Just found out that I can connect our Yamaha Clavinova to the computer. Hell up.