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Himitsu jam session. This little piece reminds me of driving through small towns in Mexico on Sunday morning, with the light just pinking the horizon, and the entire towns' populace heading to mass to the sound of the church bells.
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Allelujiah-This was supposed to be a completely different song, but this one just wrote itself instead. It’s almost all first take, except for the bass, which took a while to get straight so that it wouldn’t overwhelm the song. It has this tone…
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Named after a painting which was named after a lovely little daily ritual I share with my best friend.
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Late night, last piece from a Himitsu session. Very laid back. All electronic. Recorded on minidisc and rescued later from a random hard drive.
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Playing with reverberation and stretching, part of a larger ambient piece for the RPM2010 challenge. It uses heavilly effected and modified samples and VST Synplant.
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"You gotta put your pencil to the paper. Don't bother with the intricate chords. Hell it doesn't matter if the damned thing doesn't rhyme. Write it down. Run it through. Make some noise." These were actually the first words I wrote when…
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Thank God!... Something up-beat. One of my colleagues has THE party of the year on Labor Day weekend every year, and I play around the bonfire from dusk until everyone is unconscious... and the ladies like to dance.
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In 1979, my father came home from the record store with an album that forever changed my life, Pete Seeger's Circles & Seasons. Before I knew Pete to be the blacklisted folk icon that had been on the humanitarian side of every fight since…
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From the Himitsu jam sessions. Electronic punk jazz or almost anything else. A group of 3 to 5 musicians meeting weekly to just play. All improvisation, no planning or themes, just what you bring.
Heavy use of Kaos Pad and vocoders, as a…
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From the Himitsu jam sessions. Electronic punk jazz or almost anything else. A group of 3 to 5 musicians meeting weekly to just play. All improvisation, no planning or themes, just what you bring.
This one's a three piece set, after the keyboard…
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From the Himitsu jam sessions. Electronic punk jazz or almost anything else. A group of 3 to 5 musicians meeting weekly to just play. All improvisation, no planning or themes, just what you bring.
Our guitarist led this 5 player piece, though…
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From the Himitsu jam sessions. Electronic punk jazz or almost anything else. A group of 3 to 5 musicians meeting weekly to just play. All improvisation, no planning or themes, just what you bring.
Kaos Pad twisted vocals run beneath this heavilly…
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The album kicks off with one of the gritter, darker songs. The amazing, gravely voice you hear is that of Linda Harrison.
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There are a bunch of bass tracks going on here. Headphones help pick out what's going on. This one came to me leaving Taos on the drive back to Phoenix, coming down out of the canyon. I suddenly became conscious of a disturbing dream from the…
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"There's a dude from Indiana rockin' real hard to Carlos Santana!" If you've ever been to Indiana, you'll know where this came from.
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Inspired by the book Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks. An earworm (or brainworm as Sacks espouses) is that catchy melody that sticks in your brain that you just can't shake.
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The lyrics continue the theme of the previous track, if you care about that sort of thing.
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these 2 "new" songs are a test to see if I now have what I need to successfully upload material. These 2 songs were recorded 20 years ago on a Tascam 4-track. The band is the Riptiles.
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2010 RPM Challenge Track. Lyrics
The thin veneer
That thin film of fear
What have you started
And what of your dreams
they tear away
And they won't return
We won't return here
Anymore
Dont they tear away (the thin veneer…
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With this special offer, you, too, can be the bomb.
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My attempt at being the male version of Sister Savage. I apologize in advance if you think it sucks.
As requested, the lyrics...
"She"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
She's ripped the fabric of my world with harsh intention.
She…
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If you're a businessman or a politician, mosh to this song.
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The anthem of my musical career. I'm joking. I hope.
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Relate if you can. Rock your ass off if you can't.
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This is what happens when you try to write a love song at 2AM for someone who doesn't exist.
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Aren't you?
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"Homeless"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
As I walk around downtown, and I see city drown around me,
I wonder how this happens to someone like you and me.
This city has a way of…
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Started with a little guitar riff on the archtop, Played roland rs9 string synth through tremolo amp. Also has my tenor steel pan played live.
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http://emorej.bandcamp.com/album/stars
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The final track of my 2010 RPM Challenge album. The intro is a bit of a red herring to lead the listener(whoever that may be...) to believe it is in the same vain(vein?) as the Fear Trilogy but then morphs into something else. This too fall into…
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Another track from my 2010 RPM Challenge album. It is a song about our little family and what is going on in our house at this point in time. The kids never tire from hearing their names and activies in song.
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I wish you could see
The beautiful light
That surrounds you
It touches me, touching you
We look at these pictures
When we were young
Long for yesterday
When we knew nothing
Now we know so much
Too many things
Why can’t we let go
Forget everything…
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Written for the "My First Sing-A-Long Dictionary" RPM 2010 project.
See myfirstdictionary.blogspot.com/
Daddy's away
Posted abroad
Sending home pay
All he can afford
Mummy pretends
But I notice that something has changed
The letters…
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Finally a good cut of this one. Named after Daniel Burnham of Chicago's Burnham Plan, this song is about the downfall of western capitalism. I'm completely unprepared for it myself -- I have no idea what I'll wear.
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A song about the five stages of grieving, as devised by the (late) Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. Unfortunately knowing these stages does not help you get over them.
You've been managing expectations
Consultations end in tears
Even if you're optimistic…
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Track 11... I have to stop writing parts that I can't cleanly play.
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Toughest thing to mix on the entire album. Synthesizer music for the attention-impaired.
If you don't like the current melody, wait five seconds.
Song name comes from my workplace addiction - I was going through a bag of cough drops weekly…
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Emotions get the best of me sometimes and this is what comes of it....
Gotta pour out my heart.
i loved you i did
but i had to let you go
and i chose again and again
to let it die
i died again and again
a love so strong
a pain so…
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This one could use re-mixing, but I'm going to leave it as is for now. This should be track 6 on "They Are Killers."
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This is a good place for me to be....it does me good to remember this.
God around me
God within me
there's nothing i need to fear
always remember you're here
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Alternative grunge inspired, Alice in Chains like, about shitty pop music and how we can't get rid of it.
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This one features Treefrog "playing the wind" on a talking drum...
She’s like the wind
that moves through the night chasing ghosts
She sees the lights,
she sees the shadows and she knows
There is a difference
between the day and night…
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I have touched and I have known
the memories of stone
And echoes of the oceans
are etched upon my bones
My body's of the earth
and my spirit's of the sky
My mind is of the matter
these memories will never die
So let's go down below…
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Just letting out my frustration at 'people' in general again.. nice to be able to vent it in a more pleasant way (for those interested in how I used to do it, please see http://alonetone.com/boynamedsu) :)
Lo and behold now holy guacamole if…
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Second single off of Palettes to Burn, also featuring the lovely vocals of Vancouver artist Adaline.
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I came up with the initial rhythmic riff on my bass, then looped it to create the basis for this track. Then, I layered another "lead" bass track on top of that, added some percussion, and finally topped it off with an electric piano-ish sound…
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Where's all this sappy music coming from? The Olympics were on. I must have been watching too much figure skating or something.
Unmastered track from my 2010 RPM Challenge submission.
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A prog-rock style song about looking for answers in dreams.
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Hurray patches?
The melody was the last thing that was written for this.
The piano is a placeholder for whenever I get around to actually writing full lyrics. (I have a few lines written down, but I’m not sure if that’s the direction I want…
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To everyone missing.
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I found silver in your mouth
on a holiday
found stories in your eyes
beautiful as mould
6000 miles away
I finally recalled
the secrets on your skin
in scars and birthmarks
open wounds
secret stories of…
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bang bang bang i am still missing my e string but i dont care. i bought an old bass drum from a second hand shop. caaaaaaaaaraaaaaaaaa she gave me a ribbon
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