A second experiment with my new Rytme sequencer. This time Rytme is being fed into Logic to a track containing Kore 2 which is, in turn, hosting Kontakt 3 and the lovely Guzheng from Soniccouture (I bought the instrument before the new year but…

Another of the three songfight inspired titles. Painted Tense (the title) actually came from a band name generator website. I thought it might make a good song title so I submitted it to the RPM HQ person doing the name-from-a-hat picking. I would…

Very Slow but Quirky

Album: A Tale of Two Seas Year: 2006

a slow,intense meditation on a musical landscape,using coloured plates from atalanta fugiens

Slack key guitar and baritone ukulele. Hula version. Pauoa Liko Ka Lehua is about the beautiful flowers (Lehua) of Pauoa. The double entendre (kaona or hidden meaning) involves a girl with swaying hips.:)

Hula version. Slack key guitar with ukulele (Eleuke with high-octave G tuning) Ka Uluwehi O Ke Kai praises plants of the sea, the fragrance of the lipoa (a seaweed) and the limu kohu reef plant used for flavor in Hawaiian cooking.

Hula version. Slack key guitar and Eleuke with high-octave G tuning. An ancient Maui chief named a district Ulupalakua, or "breadfruit ripened on the back", because the fruit ripened during transportation (by foot) to his home. This mele…

Written by [Mark Moschell](http://alonetone.com/moschell).

psych space disco

100% field recordings of animals from SE Peruvian Amazon, Madre De Dios region. If this is your first bioelectrophilia experience, check out the album I made while I Was there this past summer: http://alonetone.com/glu/playlists/bioelectrophilia…

My cover of Gumbo Stu's (Stuart Walker) Blind In One Eye. Originally on his 2009 RPM Challenge Album, and available here on alonetone. Thanks Stu!

Breaks, Trip hop

Little Guy Demo Ep Self-Released http://www.erikino.com

Originally conceived as a mellow-ish, Stephen Stills sounding number (at least the verses), then the chorus came to me out of nowhere and turned the whole song on it's ear. I think that was for the better. I have to admit that I surprised myself…

from Live at KXCI Tucson, AZ studio session: When I was in the 7th grade, I used to skip school on Wednesday mornings so that I could watch the Nat King Cole show on PBS. I was mesmerized by his music. I could feel his vocal influence as I wrote…

the phrase "on thatch, on leaves, on tin, on willow" is from the book "A House in Bali" by Colin McPhee Originally for RPM '07 album. It might drag on a bit long.

This is a single track spanning two Ghost Ghost songs from one of our very first shows back in June 2008.

This is a live recording of a set I did with guitarist Mike Levine on a University of New Hampshire radio show. This is one of the 'songs' we did. It is a 5-tune Irish fiddle set that was previously done by the great Irish fiddle player Martin…

Slightly twisted, odd. I like this one a lot...I think I'll do something more with it.

"Time keeps slippin' away...."

Power pop psychedelia, strained & drained & midnight train'd.

Oh light, old light ahead Rain down, rain down on me There I was just walking the park It was just a little bit before dark There I saw you with that shit eating grin, It was you, living in our old house again (sigh) ...so I’m running, and you…

Meathead syndrome, No goals, no control. The light, the time It’s in my mind, Oh fine, Won’t be polite Some lines Have not progressed in Mind Meathead syndrome, No goals, no control, Meathead syndrome, No cure, Not attuned to be here Oh leave…

I’m your janitor today, I do it for the pay and Soak in the shadow The pistol, a blade in trade I use my hands to feel sane It crawls out my heart, to my arm, Up the wrist, So close to your throat Crawling Crawling No future in your flight…

This recording is live from our practice space and was featured on our two song demo "Lightning Demo" in May 2008.

This was the last song I composed for RPM 2009. I had a riff kicking around all month, then slowed it down and turned on the Lennon filter.

Album: Flora & Fauna Year: 2008

Album: How the Aviator Sees the Rainbow Year: 2008 (RPM Challenge album)

This is the finished version of Iris Florentine. The acoustic version is still up, though... Iris Florentina by Jack Merlot copyright 2009 all rights reserved --- --- --- young and lovely, with a wise patina tapping her toe like Degas' ballerinas…

Queens Over Aces by Jack Merlot copyright 2009 some rights reserved --- --- --- one hand clapping in the sycamore trees while you're out mapping the coast won't you come back, brother, oh please I swear that I miss you the most the Pacific…

This is from our album, "When I Was Your Age," recorded entirely in the month of February for our third year participating in the RPM Challenge. "When I Was Your Age" is a collection of 13 songs looking back at when we were kids.

This is from our album, "When I Was Your Age," recorded entirely in the month of February for our third year participating in the RPM Challenge. "When I Was Your Age" is a collection of 13 songs looking back at when we were kids.

The song is about isolation and loneliness (implied abuse) and the conditions that could lead someone down the path to obsessive, destructive behavior: stalking, arson, and violence.

This is one of my first ambient tracks, and it's been made up largely of sounds I've captured on a handheld recorder over the last five or so years. Dark, and more than a little creepy.

Recorded the intro and traffic sounds on my bus ride to work two years ago. This one is urban-esque, breakbeaty, and switches up the tempo a few times. And there are fat funky synths to boot.

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.

Sweet hard-drivin' groove with a message.

My best mate, Weaver, always used to tell me I wrote too many songs about women so here's a pop tune my sister might like!

A trancy rock thang I wrote in french. Apologies to all french speakers as I used an online translator so it might not mean what I think it does.

A techno/country tune about how I met my lady, Debs.

Another bluegrassy tune. There really were loads of magpies around where I lived at the time.