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Piano - Soprano in Pythagorean Tuning - poem by TS Eliot (in public domain)
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The winter evening settles down
With smell of steaks in passageways.
Six o’clock.
The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy…
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A second ghost story, but of a different sort. Once again in Hungarian Minor.
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It's October and that means time for ghost stories. This one came out of a couple of songs posted last month in Hungarian Minor. I found that to be a spooky scale, so I built on it for a couple of songs this month.
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October 2023 A-side? It started with the stupid singsong thing I remember hearing as a kid and then mutated into Meshuggah... with a special cameo at the end of the track.
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October 2023 B-side? Halloween/spooky music always calls for theremin. I don't have a thermin, so I made do with what I had.
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October 2023 C-side? Because it was appropriate for the monthly theme, I decided to butcher a song I wrote in 2005.
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I have a relatively easy life. Today I recognize that through song.
Still writing a Song a Day through October.
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Recorded around a campfire in the San Rafael Swell.
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Live looping under Echo Bridge in San Antonio, Tx.
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Here's a current draft of a traditional tune I really like. There are several recorded versions out there.
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Reg has been reading the papers again, it always brings him down, but this time he can't carry on looking the other way and ignoring the news and the facts that the life, the freedoms he holds dear are slowly being dissolved not just by his government…
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A work in progress with some of my pals on wikiloops.com.
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Done with my pal Mark Goldberg and Steve Caustrita.
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Inspired by a huge Cottonwood tree I found washed up along the Mississippi River near Red Wing MN.
D When your roots can’t seem to hold you When you’re A footing falls away
Your D left to feel unstable With the A change that’s underway
It…
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This is a track that I did in 2010 that appeared on first issue of the dearly departed Ramen Music.
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This was incredibly fun to write record and sing! Far from my best work - it's not a personal story - but recording it was a good time.
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The 10th track from album Paradise. A funky blues instrumental to end the album. :)
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The 4th track from album Paradise. A poetic devotional style tune.
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The 3rd track from album Paradise. My version of an R & B tune.
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7th track from album Paradise. A country style tune.
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9th track from album Paradise. A country rock feel for this tune.
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Not the best recording, but I wanted to pay homage to my older brother who passed away a few days ago. I recorded from our baby grand, and then lowered in a few steps so I could sing.
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A song written an recorded for the Record Every Month challenge in September 2023
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September 2023 B-side
What have we done we've upset the balance
And soon we all will bathe in fire
What can we do to restore this balance
We'd give it all to make it stop
There's a huge volcano sitting just below the surface it could burst…
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In the Serra sculpture Vortex with the 1937 Regal dobro
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In the Serra sculpture Vortex with the 1936 Regal dobro
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The first lines of the chorus just crept into my head.
I had to write the rest.
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You've been holding back for so long now
And I've been losing track of how many times I've written my vows
It feels like you're sleeping behind the…
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An experiment were I string together a few files generated by text prompts in Stable Audio. Interesting - but they have serious work left to do and yet they are selling this for $12 / month to create 90 secs of audio - I used the free option and…
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Now and perpendicular to now, where shadows are, as we will create the next song of music and make sounds together in the now but also in the perpendicular to now for the theme at sound in. of course any music on theme or not is ok. At right angles…
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A visit...
All instruments by Paul, Carla does the vocals. Recorded on an Akai 8 track.
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It's a well hidden garden.
Vocals by Paul and Carla.
Guitar and synths by Paul. Recorded on an Akai 8 track.
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There is a time for everything.
All instruments by Paul, Carla does the vocals. Recorded on an Akai 8 track.
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beat belongs to internet producer. was thoroughbred kesha
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Beat belongs to internet producer. was thoroughbred kesha.
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beat belongs to internet producer. Was thoroughbred kesha
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Such a sad, and sexist song, but I love the melody. Done with Patrick Poulou. (Lafayette)
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Harp and Female vocal in Just Intonation with 7 limit tritone.
Just intonation with a 7-limit tritone
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Life has its beginnings and endings. That's the way it goes....
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A day of from the gardening and my first go at organising drums in Easy drummer that funnily didn't turn out to be so hard . I'm playing the Tele with the Kemper and Boss Me-90 Thanks for listening
You shook me from my middle
And you…
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One of my favorites done with my pal Patrick Poulou (Lafayette)
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The SE-02 all on its own, with a sequencer patch running and on-board effects. Submitted to Sound-In "Strange Music Week" for 31/8 - 07/09/2023.
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I created my own stylophone app last winter using p5.js (https://openprocessing.org/sketch/1779333), and I added in a lot of exotic musical scales, which got me interested in Indian music and scales. For this song I used the Raga Sindhura Kafi…
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Recorded circa 11-18-2021
An off-the-cuff jam session that happened to be recorded. Not too bad even though the bass and mandolin sometimes go in different directions.
Dan Kitchka - mandolin
Tom Bantle - lead guitar
Marcia Kitchka - guitar…
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Recorded 05-25-2023
Second pass for possible further editing. Drum kit removed; bass boosted.
Tom Bantle - guitar
Dan Kitchka - guitar; vocal.
Marcia Kitchka - guitar
Ted Dekker - bass guitar
Written by Mel Tillis, Wayne Walker.
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Another song about struggling to fit in when you've always been told what to do.
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