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This is the first song on the first CD I ever compiled. You'll notice a piano as the primary instrument, and extensive use of horns. I wrote it years ago, and play it when I need some cheering up. Hope you like it.
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This is a simple Christian "Soul Searching" song. It's one of my favorites.
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The Hollow Men
Sad Hippie Thing
1993
Greg Melvin: Vocals, Rhythm Guitars, Keyboards
Doug Sparling: Lead Guitars
David Albrecht: Bass
Terry Adams: Drum Kit
All songs written by Greg Melvin
Arrangements by Greg Melvin and The Hollow Men
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A short piece, written and recorded by a few of the string players a while ago.
Instrumentation:
Resonator Guitar
Acoustic Guitar
Banjo
Bass
Light Piano
2 Clarinets
Drunken Crooning
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This is day 24 of my 24 day project. So that means it's over.
And if you're reading this on alonetone, this is lucky track number 100.
24 "songs" in 24 days. Really, the only requirement was to produce a minute of music each day.
I wish…
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An old song from a lazy Sunday, originally written for a certain musical and biological brother on his birthday.
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We found a nice bathroom, and, moved by whimsy, decided to write this little shuffle for y'all. Took us about 15 minutes to write and record. It'd lose its spontaneity, otherwise, no?
Style:
Crosby-Stills-Nash-Young-esque Bathroom Folk
Instrumentation…
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NOT FINISHED. another draft. just putting it up here so that i kick myself in the pants to flesh it out and write verses and whatnot and redo everything. great!
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a no budget choir of ones.
they all had their own ideas.
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Seems to be that one song everyone likes.
Lyrics:
Stary night, the highway fades
a hundred miles and I'm on my way
I got up late
Lazy days and even crazier nights
there she was, on her way
she stuck her thumb out for me to see…
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Inspired by RFK's Mindless Menace of Violence Speech
Lyrics
Perhaps we can remember
if only for a time
that violence stops for no man
being rich and poor,and black or white
we share the same old dreams
a captive moment in our lives…
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This is a new song off our 2009 release " Middle of the Night" . Available online everywhere in late summer .
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Inspired by a vision of someone dousing the flames of a burning flag by pissing on it.
We've been letting certain fat cats piss all over our freedom, we shouldn't forget that freedom is not a privilege it is a right, those dastardly bastards…
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Created this loop at a gig and saved it to the looper. When I got home, dumped it to Logic and added some ebow.
The name is a character from a book I'm reading "The Last Hawk" by Catherine Asaro.
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Added a guitar track to my buddy Nitro's blues dance album which will be titled "Wanna Dance?" You can look him up on reverbnation.
Nitro - Drums, writing
Ruthie - Vocal
Kavin - guitar
Rick - bass-
Bull - piano
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This one is dedicated to a good friend of mine, based on some recent conversations we've had. I'm not quite happy with how it turned out, but if you think about it that just mirrors life and how your best intentions never turn out exactly how…
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nothing fancy. I wasn't even going to put this song out, but I guess people dig this.
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This is a tragic, dramatic, distressing piece for orchestra, strings make it sound like a great calamity.
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Two people calling each other at a party setting up a meeting in the kitchen to get a new beer out of the fridge.
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A song about Beethoven's Shoes. Full album available at http://www.btown.co.nr
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Wade Hampton High School (WHHS) Singers:
Conductor: Warren C. Martin
Spring 1995
(School Year 94-95):
Track 8
Soloist: Troy Dunbar
Notes: This is the year that we were invited to perform a solo concert at Carnegie Hall(no competition). Mr…
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I wrote this with two of my friends Diego (aka Mr. Napkinhead on alonetone) and Annie. an ode to pasta since my family is all about pasta. we had fun with the lyrics. wrote it in about 15 minutes, recorded it in an hour, and sang it that night…
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I'm better at using my pots and pans for music than for food, so I post this tune in hunger. 3 pots, 1 pan, and a tabla.
"i'm just a gangsta in the jungle" recorded in the amazon. It's actually a part of a monologue that I will likely never post…
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The plinky sound is an acoustic guitar prepared with a drumstick stuck under the strings.
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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…
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Okay so I enjoyed doing Glubotism1 enough that I thought I'd take a second crack at it. Same tools but took a different approach to how I used Stylus RMX and I introduced some of it's built-in effects on some of the parts. Also I bused RMX and…
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driving that Infiniti all along the coast
doctor of divinity - I didn't mean to boast
with your strange affinity for whiskey & coke
and looking at the stars
brother Shawn, here's a disk for your collection
we're gonna go check out this here…
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*Rap/Hip-Hop featuring an Evolver synthesizer*
All you zombies listen up good because I'm only saying this once
There's no sense in repeating it again cuz repeating it again is dumb
This is a tale that starts with snakes but in the end it…
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*Rap/Hip-Hop with drum machines, synthesizers, and vocals*
A lady friend backed up to me last week
She gazed into my eyes and then she pinched my cheek
She whispered "Take me to my house and you can watch the show"
She said "Come check out…
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This is a serious idea. Gives a good feeling of what this can become.
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it is a winter blanket of snow. it smothers life. it attempts to silence all sound. however, small ghosts of music escape. they always find each other. every winter they dance together. they are the notes of christmas past. 0x0
hw: quicksilver…
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A failed attempt to sing a song of the glorious banana breakfasts served by P.P. in "Gravity's Rainbow"
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Was this the crappy, overlong, attempt at an ambient track that I did to try and fill time?
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An electronic track from the Dead In The Water sessions. I thought the Last FM version was missing something, so I went in to fine-tune it.
This is the end-result of that fine-tuning.
The track deals with how there are usually no easy outs…
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sometimes I am just sick of smiling...pretending all is ok when in fact it is not. Just wanting to scream ...dropping the barrier i hide behind.
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This piece was written for the Vance Quartet, a student clarinet quartet at Oberlin in 2002. My wife is one of the 2 bass clarinetists heard on this recording-- we'd known each other for a few months at this point. The electronic sound collage…
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Title track from FREE EP "Let's Go Out and Get Fucked", released exclusively to our mailing list subscribers. Psychedelic Pop for the modern age!!
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half-moon after xmas - digital dust blown off and humans sit outside in the air avoiding viruses - some sounds wound up growing out of the evening
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a chance meeting of electro folk bards clumsily clanging the dust off guitars, electronics, hearts, hands |
a spliced but raw recording of waves in a room in Nebraska | a sand painting trapped in time by ones and zeroes
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I sampled and chopped to extract some chords from a lovely rearrangement of an anime bgm that Poloma from the REM group made, based on "In The Fall", from Yuyushiki https://youtu.be/NwvXD9yb558?si=SWC1AwZW0CEm732D
I experimented with a few…
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If we could hear the music that mushrooms make, it might sound something like this. 🍄💚✨
I recorded this while messing around on my semimodular.
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My lyrics, ai demo:
You laugh at something I’ve just said
Some silly thing I read today
We know we’re tryin’ to delay
What we really want to say
We’re holding hands across the table
We’re looking in each others eyes
This is when we…
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My ghost was hiding deep in the book stacks
He get mistaken for hat racks
Gets toppled onto the floor
My ghost lives on the edge of the sidewalk
It doesn’t matter how I talk
It’s just the same as it was
But you know how it goes
It…
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I see my footsteps in the garden
I hardly recognized the feet
The ruddy clay in Carolina
Impressions there in front of me
The stalks above collecting daylight
Conceal their mysteries down below
For who I am I too traipse your garden
If…
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The truth is it’s useless to ponder it
I’m helpless, I’m selfish for needing it
And what do you buy for the guy who created the universe?
So biblical, to trivial to manifest
No confidence, no eucharist for those like us
And what do…
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Some riffs, overlaid with more riffs. The name shows the inspiration!
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When a shardblade was swung at my head
He parried and saved me instead of a-
-lowing a lesson you cannot unlearn
Dropped like a fly; eyes like they’ve burned
It’s true, he killed our captive in a snap
And now we’re left on our own to beat…
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Finished Up... Done in Protrekkr 2.8.3, Loops created in VirSyn Soft Synth... Plenty of mucking about at relatively slow 100 BPM>>>
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