The music of telecaster29
By telecaster29
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The music of telecaster29 posted to iCompositions - iCompositions Radio
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snow castle | recorded on gb for ipad and edited using audacity. i used the gb sampler to record the sound of a bass clarinet played by my very good friend martin ronchetti and used this to play the woodwind part v... iCompositions Radio | 5/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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farewell to suomi | a further exploration of joik singing. a recent trip to finland made a great impression on me, as has the joik singing of the sami people. this piece expresses the bittersweet feelings of fond memorie... iCompositions Radio | 5/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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noche cubana en pais de galles | kaoru posted a great latin track recently and it was suggested that it could use some sax. i added an ambient intro and ewi tenor sax and a lead guitar break,... iCompositions Radio | 5/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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articulate circle | single take alto sax improv to backing track produced on ipad, itself a series of improvs featuring two electric guitars input to ipad, smart drums and smart bass virtual instruments played via ipad ... iCompositions Radio | 5/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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karesuando | named for the beautiful little border town in northern sweden just over the frozen river from our holiday lodge in finland, this is another ipad composition, starting with some guitar played using ... iCompositions Radio | 4/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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aurora | the photo is of the northern lights i saw in finland, taken by a brilliant photographer steve barnett. the music is suitably ethereal featuring ewii clarinet, organ and a moog synth app for the ipa... iCompositions Radio | 4/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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a singular quartet | played live in one take with an ipad2 connected to an akai ewi and a yourock midi guitar running sample tank. the quartet is sax bass drums and tabla and it's a jazzy number... iCompositions Radio | 4/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ocean breeze | composed on the ipad whilst on holiday in mexico in january... iCompositions Radio | 4/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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saami heartbeat | this is my tribute to the remarkable saami people of northern sweden, finland, norway and' russia. the photo shows a saami shamanistic drum i picked up on my recent trip to the arctic circle. the musi... iCompositions Radio | 4/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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above the clouds | akai ewi firing alchemy synth, beats from logic and prs copy guitar. the picture was the view from an aeroplane window of the sunset as we approached bristol airport as sketched on my ipad using th... iCompositions Radio | 4/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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lounge bar incident | one of my fist ipad compositions. the guitars are both virtual and real instruments/ the flute is a mayan whistle i picked up in mexico, played in gb's sampler, the painting was the first appearanc... iCompositions Radio | 4/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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april fool | istarted this a few weeks ago recording the drums bass and sax using the ewi connected to the ipad running the sampletank app. i added the piano and synth and mixed the whole thing today using logic a... iCompositions Radio | 4/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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suomi | an ipad composition i did while visiting lapland recently.includes a recording of the local wildlife.... iCompositions Radio | 4/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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cenote azulejo | produced using the ipad apps fl studio, alchemy mobile and gb. the high strings sound is me playing the bouzouki wit a violin bow, played in the sampler instrument of gb. the flute is the sound of ... iCompositions Radio | 3/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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etonian mess part one | another foray into ipadland. the gb app is really designed to make it easy to play in tune. so i tried to make it play some atonal avant garde jazz. includes a sample of me tooting on the alto sax, pl... iCompositions Radio | 2/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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the boatman (2012 remix) | remix of a previously posted track recorded some 30 odd yearsago by me and some school mates when we were about 18. original recording made by mike pearson featuring me on vocal, mandolin and tin whi... iCompositions Radio | 2/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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last train to cairo | fusion piece reflecting on the events of the past week... iCompositions Radio | 2/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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xi-balba | xi-balba is the mayan name for the underworld where the revered souls o the ancestors reside. this piece was made on my ipad during my recent holiday in the beautiful myan riviera of mexico. it is mad... iCompositions Radio | 1/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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it was never going to be easy (original mix) | some time ago pharmakeus and i released a song of this title, which we co-wrote and played. today i came acoss this earlier version by me alone which i thought was lost. i sing, play telecasters, ... iCompositions Radio | 1/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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saxophony | another song completely played recorded and produced using gb for ipad. the saxophone drums and flute are loops the bass synth, guitar, organ and elecric piano parts were all played via the ipad t... iCompositions Radio | 1/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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the land, the sea and the sky | i was given an ipad for christmas. this fusion piece was composed, played and recorded using gb for ipad only. i found the smart instruments a joy to use, allowing me to set up some delicious chords f... iCompositions Radio | 1/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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vertigo | no, not a u2 cover but my affectiionate tribute to the great record label of the late 60's and early 70's which brought to the world's attention such names as black sabbath, colloseum, ian carr's nucl... iCompositions Radio | 12/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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blowing up the alto sax | angelo posted an already full-on beat called blowing up the universe angry dub and challenged us to find room to add to it. well it enabled me to blow my alto with wild abandon. here's the result. sin... iCompositions Radio | 12/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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a shade of blue | erin posted this superb jazz number asking for collabs to add bass and drums. the drums are made of loops from oddgrooves.com arranged in ezdrummer. the bass i played live in one take using a yourock ... iCompositions Radio | 12/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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polarity | jazzy fusion type of thing with lots of bass clarinet played on ewi. also i make some noises with the violin again. the music was prompted by my painting, which was in turn prompted by the inner turmo... iCompositions Radio | 12/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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empty rooms | a few weeks ago gepo posted another of his beautifully crafted guitar pieces. i added slide guitar, bass and percussion, wrote some lyrics and sang them. it should say no loops... iCompositions Radio | 12/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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blue thoughts | the lyrics for this song are a poem written in 2008 by a friend of mine nich pearson. the words had such a natural rhythm to them that immediately suggested to me that they should be set to music. i p... iCompositions Radio | 12/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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rush hour | in which my new alto sax makes its debut. i've been playing about 3 weeks. i programmed a mad drum loop in ultrabeat and played a synth line that sounded like racing cars on s track. i jammed along w... iCompositions Radio | 12/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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orion | jazzy ambient prog featuring tenor sax played on the ewi against a spacey backdrop.... iCompositions Radio | 11/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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outer space | companion oiece to "inner space". the album art is derived from the watercolour "inner space" by electronic manipulation of a photograph of the painting, so that it looks like a nebula or galaxy in ou... iCompositions Radio | 11/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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archaeology | soprano sax piece with a mid[eastern groove care of a turkish oud line played on the you rock midi guitar. also features my debut on fiddle.... iCompositions Radio | 11/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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inner space | second recording in the virtual space with 20 second reverb time. this one features 12-string and spanish guitars... iCompositions Radio | 10/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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icelander | this is the first of a series of pieces inspired by an album i heard recently of solo saxophone recorded in a building with a natural reverb time of 15 sec by the great scottish saxophonist tommy smit... iCompositions Radio | 10/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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skeletal | ambient jazz featuring electric guitar, ebow, piano, synth and sopranino sax (played on akai ewi).... iCompositions Radio | 10/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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blue autumn | a modern jazz improv featuring akai ewi tenor sax, piano, double bass and drums... iCompositions Radio | 10/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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gravity | features bass clarinet, fretless bass, electro-acoustic guitar, synth and drums.... iCompositions Radio | 9/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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persuasion (richard thompson cover) | my version of a song written by richard thompson and tim finn. features spanish and tenor guitars with some fx and vocals. the painting i did recently after seeing rt in concert.... iCompositions Radio | 9/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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chilli jam | e-bow, slide guitar, organ, bass and vibes with a LOT of latin percussion... iCompositions Radio | 9/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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one year down (safe sax mix) | jeff posted this guitar and synth instrumental recently as a work in progress. i added a woodwind trio riff (soprano and tenor sax, bass clarinet) and a tenor sax solo, all played on the akai ewi. ... iCompositions Radio | 8/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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siren's fire | this is built on a midi drum pattern compiled from loops. i used the midi piano roll to fire synths to give the rythmic choral voices, double bass line and the drums. the spanish guitar and ewi bass ... iCompositions Radio | 8/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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moondream | the basis of the backing track is a short cuatro loop i recently recorded, played by my friend dewi griffiths. i slowed it down to half speed and applied various fx, converted it to midi and used it ... iCompositions Radio | 8/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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It Was Never Going to Be Easy [Keep Up the Fight Mix] | Original song by Kevin. Kevin sings, plays the saxophone, bass, drums and electric guitars. I also sing, and play some lead guitar, harmonica and Moog. Most of the words were written by Kevin; some of... iCompositions Radio | 8/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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little billy england | the story of one of life's losers the only loop is the drums ... iCompositions Radio | 8/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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mirage | this started out life as my recording of a duet between the spanish guitar and cuatro de puerto rico. i converted the audio file for that track to midi using the audio to score tool in logic. then i ... iCompositions Radio | 8/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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exiles (king crimson cover) | features virtual mellotron played on yourock midi guitar, akai ewi tenor sax, treated vcl, cuatro, synth bass and drums in ultrabeat... iCompositions Radio | 8/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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duet for spanish guitar and cuatro de puerto rico | the title is accurate. the painting is of the cuatro ... iCompositions Radio | 7/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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premonitions | i recorded a short piece on the cuatro and then used that as an accompaniment to record pieces for piano (played on the yourock midi guitar), tenor guitar and woodwind (bass clarinet and sopranino sax... iCompositions Radio | 7/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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east north east | the influences that came together in this piece were all either geographically eastern and/or northern, hence the title. i recorded this the day after i saw a great performance by the singer/ songwrit... iCompositions Radio | 7/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Billy Blue | Original. Kevin: Slide Guitar, Drums, Bass. Chris: Vox, Harp, Telecaster, Postproduction. Thanks for the great jam, Kevin :) ... iCompositions Radio | 6/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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will the wolf survive? (los lobos cover) | i first recorded this about 5 years ago and was always disappointed that the timing was wrong at the end of the song but i could never fix it by remixing. here is a re-recorded version. vcls, telec... iCompositions Radio | 6/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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for jan | a mad rocking jam featuring telecaster, ewi tenor sax, organ, bass and drums. the bass was played on the yourock midi guitar. the drums were programmed in ezdrummer from loops from groovemonkees t... iCompositions Radio | 6/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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for clarence | my tribute to clarence clemons, but more in the style of courtney pine's latest work. inspirational musicians both of them. the synth was played on my htc phone using ethereal digipad app the sax ... iCompositions Radio | 6/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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the ballad of cable hogue (calexico cover) | i,ve wanted to cover this for ages vcl, spanish guitars, telecaster, ewi trumpet, virtual double bass, drum loop... iCompositions Radio | 6/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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bluestones | played entirely on the yourock midi guitar, firing various virtual instruments, including acoustic guitar, synths and bagpipes. recorded using mixcraft5 and reaper on my laptop. bluestone is the ro... iCompositions Radio | 6/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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everyone's gone to el paso (remix) | there's a brand of "authentic" mexican food in the uk called old el paso, which is actually made in holland. tastes nice though. so this song isn't about my holiday destination, more about who or what... iCompositions Radio | 6/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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tenor slide solo | i recorded this about a year ago when i first got my tenor guitar. i used it in 2 pieces before now (tenor tango and 3 wise men blues) but i really think it sounds better on its own. so here it is... iCompositions Radio | 6/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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everyone's gone to el paso | started out as an acoustic song but evolved (degenerated) into an electric jam. vcl, spanish guitar, cuatro, melodica, telecaster. bassanddrums were loops. i will edit this one day but here it... iCompositions Radio | 6/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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spanish trio | trio for spanish and 12-string guitars and ewi trumpet... iCompositions Radio | 6/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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peace | spanish guitar with fx, a synth choir, brushed drumkit and tibetan drums and ewi soprano sax. ... iCompositions Radio | 6/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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judgement day | blues rocker featuring vcl, telecasters, slide gtr, harmonica and ewi tenor sax. the drums and bass were compiled from loops.... iCompositions Radio | 6/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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dunraven shadows | ambient jazz piece inspired by a day out at the beach with friends and their children. features heavily treated tenor guitar, ewi tenor sax, synth triggered by the ewi, ibanez electroacoustic guita... iCompositions Radio | 6/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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duet for tenor and spanish guitars | i was given the two guitars in the photo as retirement presents by my colleagues and my employers. that was about a year ago so here's a short piece feauring both instruments to mark the occasion.... iCompositions Radio | 6/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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orcadian wind | ambient jazz piece inspired by the windswept beauty of the orkney islands. features electric guitar tuned cgdgad with multiple delay fx, ewi soprano sax and ez drummer drums played in real time via m... iCompositions Radio | 5/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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songs for black guitars | twosolo instrumental improvs played on he two black guitars in the photo. the first is on an acoustic made by a friend of mine who gave it to me when he retired rom work. it is the only steel strung ... iCompositions Radio | 5/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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here comes the flood (a peter gabriel cover) | i thought this was an appropriate song to cover in this week when the apocalypse failed to arrive but in a 12 months which has seen people's lives devestated by natural disasters in japan, pakistan, a... iCompositions Radio | 5/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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standing by the waves | the music started out as a jam between myself on acoustic guitar and my friend ceri on electric lead guitar. i used the chord sequence to build a song around. the words were influ enced by a recent ... iCompositions Radio | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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urbanisation | this was the first recording i made with my new akai ewi a couple of weeks ago - straight out of the box. the piano and bass are played on the yourock midi guitar and the drums were programmed in logi... iCompositions Radio | 5/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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memories (leslie sax remix} | following comments received i remixed my friend ceri's song again. ceri jones - ac gtr, vcl, wordsandmusic kevin gray - ewi tenor sax, production... iCompositions Radio | 5/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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glacial | this is based on the same 12-string piece which james searfoss used to create his soundscape nebuloid. i added beats and synths and an echoplex trumpet to the 12-string to produce a chilled-out ambien... iCompositions Radio | 5/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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memories (leslie sax mix) | another mix of my friend ceri's song. i used the guitar track as a backing to practise playing my new akai ewi that i received a couple of days ago. then i re-introduced the vocal with a leslie cab ef... iCompositions Radio | 4/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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memories | my good friend ceri jones sent mee a gtr/vcl version of this terrific song of his and i posted a remix last week or so. we've done some more work on it since then and i'm happier with this one. ce... iCompositions Radio | 4/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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soundscape no7 10_4_2011 | ambient piece recorded in real time. soft synth played via midi keyboaard, tenor guitar recorded via imac built in mic with fx applied in logic express... iCompositions Radio | 4/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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memories (remix) | my good friend ceri jones (jimisjoint) sent me a guitar and vocal recording of this song of his and encouraged me to mess with it. i added a drum track and a string synth part.... iCompositions Radio | 4/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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soundscape no6 8_4_11 | one of a series of experimental pieces recorded in real time. this one was played on a westfield prs copy with fx applied in logic and using a sonuus g2m guitar to midi converter to fire an arpeggiat... iCompositions Radio | 4/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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soundscape no1 25_03_2011 | first of an ongoing series of ambient pieces recorded live in real time. for this one i used an ibanez electroacoustic guitar with multiple delay fx, an m-audio keyrig 25 midi keyboard firing a s... iCompositions Radio | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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mountainscape | ambient piece. ... iCompositions Radio | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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the speed of life | frenetic electronica. the photo was taken looking out of my hotel room in kuala lumpur.... iCompositions Radio | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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dreambeat | inspired by my recent travels in australia.... iCompositions Radio | 3/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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etude | simple jazz piece recorded in one take, played on the yourock midi guitar, the instrument was in tap mode triggering an eletric piano, double bass and brush drumkit in logic express.... iCompositions Radio | 3/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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scatterbrain | fusion piece featuring westfield 7000a guitar, fretless bass (played with midi guitar), electric piano (played with m-audo keyrig49) and drums (oddgrooves loops)... iCompositions Radio | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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now i'm easy (aussie remix) | my version of the eric bogle song about the hard life of a migrant "cocky" farmer in the early to mid 20th century. remixed after my recent trip down under, this is respectfully dedicated to those wo ... iCompositions Radio | 2/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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crystalline | ambient prog piece. mostly done in live8 but mastered using logic express. ... iCompositions Radio | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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urok improv no 3 | another in the initial experiments with the yourock midi guitar thing. this one features several sequencers firing at once in logic.... iCompositions Radio | 2/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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urok improv #2 | second yourock midi guitar experiment. this was recorded live wih the gtr tuned to dad gad and firing a number of virtual instruments simultaneously. recorded using mixcraft 5 and a netbook.... iCompositions Radio | 2/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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urok improv #1 | first of a few experiments using a yourock midi guitar. this one was made using mixcraft5 and a netbook. the drum track is a loop. hte gtr was used to trigger a couple of synths concurrently and an ov... iCompositions Radio | 2/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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twilight in amsterdam | i took a chance on a yourock midi guitar and while it doesn't play quite like a real guitar, it's an interesting instrument in it's own right. the bass, piano and sax on this improv are played using i... iCompositions Radio | 2/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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mcgroove | a celebration oft my visit to the mcg yesterday, an ambient groove recorded here in australia while i'm visiting family the only loop is the drum track.... iCompositions Radio | 1/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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separation dub | dwh posted an experimental guitar track a while back called separation anxiety and invited remixes etc. here's my take on it. kind of ambient dub reggae. hope you like it, dwh.... iCompositions Radio | 12/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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fallback position | alternative composition featuring tenor guitar and piano... iCompositions Radio | 12/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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three cliffs | three cliffs bay is a most beautiful beach on the gower peninsula here in south wales. it's never crowded, even on hot days, because to get to it requires a steep descent on foot, followed by a seemin... iCompositions Radio | 12/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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rhythm of the river (i) blue water (ii) white water | part 1 depicts a cold mountain pool and features contemplative ehru and synth sounds part 2 is a headlong trip down the rapids featuring electric piano and 12-string guitar... iCompositions Radio | 12/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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in the bleak midwinter | 12-string in dadgad + vox. merry christmas... iCompositions Radio | 12/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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the midnight sun | for some time i have been listening to a lot of nordic avant garde, jazz, folk and ambient music. this has prompted me to attempt this longer piece, which i hope captures something of the austere beau... iCompositions Radio | 12/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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amereurafralasia | a remix of 12-string improvisations nos. iv and v, the title recognizes the culural divrsity of fthe sounds it contains. with elements of american, european, african, australian and asian music. hence... iCompositions Radio | 12/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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resonance | ambient piece featuring treated telecaster and resonator guitar. the album art is a treated photo of my resonator guitar... iCompositions Radio | 12/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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crimson tide | something of an homage to king crimson. the bassline was poduced using ni fm8 synth and the drums are a loop in 11/8 time from oddgrooves. the tele and ebow were improvised to mstch. the albm ar... iCompositions Radio | 12/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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the rose of ballytigue bay | extended version of 12-string improv part i. the album art is a photograph of the sun setting over ballytigue bay in co wexford in ireland, taken by my son's mother-in-law. i produced thee image you s... iCompositions Radio | 11/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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telejazzing | a prog/fusion number. ostensibly a solo telecaster played over a marvellous drum loop from oddgrooves.com, the synth bassline is generated by the drum loop and the guitar line is used to generate the ... iCompositions Radio | 11/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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12-string improvisations (parts i-v) | what it says on the tin! a series of 5 short improvisations on solo 12-string, played live. i may develop these further in the future but i just wanted to capture the moment... iCompositions Radio | 11/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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lady mahalo | the artwork started out as a photograph of my mahalo ukelele. i used the open source software gimp to transform it and i thought the result looked something like a spectral female figure, hence lady m... iCompositions Radio | 11/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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triptych | bouzouki duet with fx... iCompositions Radio | 11/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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33 heroes (with doctor zinc) | this is a re-issue of the collab orignally released by doctor zinc, who is no longer an icomps artist. he has agreed that i should repost on my page. he sent me the funky drums, bass and wah wah gui... iCompositions Radio | 11/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Continuum (Telecaster29 Remix) | This is the first remix of my song "Continuum". This version features the talents of telecaster29. The remix includes an extended intro with some fx applied to the original plus some bass and guitar w... iCompositions Radio | 10/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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sunrise | alternative version of the song i released with vicki (vixen) some time ago now. this features the tenor guitar and vocal plus a jazzy instrumental section with trumpet, double bass, guitar, melodica,... iCompositions Radio | 10/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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coalesce | psychedelic guitar instrumental with a funky backbeat and jazzy bass. the drums and bass are made from loops... iCompositions Radio | 10/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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hardwired | solo one take live guitar improv. equipment used was a westfield 7000a guitar (gibson 335 copy) into a johnson j-station guitar fx/pre-amp, digitec dl-8 delay/looper pedal, zoom a2 acoustic fx pedal (... iCompositions Radio | 10/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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pentagon in blue | an exercise in the use of the logic arpeggiator and vocoder synth. the piano is arpeggiated and the synth is modulated by the drum loop. i added some spanish guitar. can't really decide on a suitable ... iCompositions Radio | 10/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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home truth | ambient fusion sort of thing in a minor key. the only loops were useed to make the drum track (in ez drummer)... iCompositions Radio | 10/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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triangulation (part three) | third "remix" of dewi's guitar loops. this time i entered one of the loops to create a new instrument in the logic express sampler. i then played it like a piano. the curious thing was that the percus... iCompositions Radio | 10/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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triangulation (part two) | this is the second in a series of remixes of guitar loops improvised by my friend dewi griffiths. here i just layered the loops over each other.... iCompositions Radio | 10/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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triangulation (part one) | another collaboration with dewi griffiths. during sessions to record a cd of his solo acoustic guitar, dewi improvised 3 guitar loops for me to remix as i saw fit. they had a feel of the group pentang... iCompositions Radio | 10/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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reality | i found this on a hard drive i had sitting around. a bit of cod existentialism courtesy of the fruityloops voice synthesiser.... iCompositions Radio | 10/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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african interlude | chill out ambience using slowed-down kalimba, marimba, bass and drum loops, i played tenor guitar and electric piano... iCompositions Radio | 10/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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around the world in 80 loops | just a bit of fun with garage band loops... iCompositions Radio | 9/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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tete-a-tete (vocal version) | gepo recently posted a gorgeous country blues guitar piece and i was not the only one to comment that it would make a good basis for a vocal track. so i wrote some lyrics and added some vocals, electr... iCompositions Radio | 9/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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in my garden | tenor guitar solo composed in my garden but recorded in my home studio. single take the album art is a photo of the copper maple tree in my garden, transformed using gimp. one for all my canadian f... iCompositions Radio | 9/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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jet stream | another stratospheric guitar piece. no stratocster, though, just tele, tenor and 335 copy... iCompositions Radio | 9/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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havin' a cigar | warm up improv from a recent session. between me on tenor guitar (rt channel) and dewi griffiths on acoustic guitar (lt channel) recorded live over a cuban percussion loop.... iCompositions Radio | 8/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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south of the jet stream | whereas south of the jet stream things are much calmer. a jazzy duet between the tele and a 335 copy with synth bass and pads and percussion... iCompositions Radio | 8/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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north of the jet stream | the air is very turbulent north of the jet stream. chaotic telecaster amd ibanez electro-acoustic over pulsating bass synth and arpeggiated synth pad... iCompositions Radio | 8/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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cloudswimming (telecaster29 remix) | this is another collaboration with dewi giffiths, a very talented guitarist. those of you that heard my first posting ofthis will know how good he is because i mistakenly uploaded the original unadorn... iCompositions Radio | 8/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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the end of it all (remix) | i added some distorted guitar to angelo and dika's original mix. http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=144205... iCompositions Radio | 8/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ashram | this started out as an experiment in the use of logic's arpeggistor and delay line objects with a virtual guitar. things then started looking east with the addition of sitar and tablas and finally ten... iCompositions Radio | 8/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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positive logic | just finding out what you can do in logic wih a few loops and various soft synths and samples. plus some slide tele.... iCompositions Radio | 8/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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blueberry jam | tele and hammond jam. percussion and bass compiled from loops... iCompositions Radio | 8/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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from brazil to bintan | this started out as an experiment where i took the midifiles for some brazilian bassline loops and used them to fire asian percussion virtual instruments, including indonesian gamelan. along the way t... iCompositions Radio | 8/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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iberian interlude | ambient sounds from my telecaster with a bit of synth and some bassa and drum loops.... iCompositions Radio | 8/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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crazy woman | this is dedicated to my long-suffering wife helen. features vocals, bouzouki, telecaster, slide tenor guitar and strings. the bass and drums were compiled from loops.... iCompositions Radio | 8/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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silver | ambient proggy thing... iCompositions Radio | 8/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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shoot out the lights | cover of the richard thompson song, but closer in feel to the los lobos version. loadsa distortion.... iCompositions Radio | 8/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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hatfield and the east | hatfield and the north were my favourite jazz-rock band of the 70's. iwas playing around with some gamelan loops when i changed the instrument to electric piano. suddenly everything was very rotters c... iCompositions Radio | 8/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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dopamine | i was lucky enough to see steve wynn and jason victor perform live at a private party recently. any resemblence between this and steve's 'amphetamine" and "wired" is entirely intentional. drums are... iCompositions Radio | 7/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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will we ever see the day? | song based around brass and string sections. drums are the only loop... iCompositions Radio | 7/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Harmonic Feelings 5 | This is a fruit of a work of Kevin(Telecaster29)that had the idea reading a comment of Vicki(Vixen)and listen a my piece. Thank you Vicki for having given the idea to Kevin,who has literally made a... iCompositions Radio | 7/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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gemstone | just a proggy wig-out jam.... iCompositions Radio | 7/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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victory | this is built on a slowed down 12-string loop and takes in african percussion, reggae bass and drums, jazzy organ and electric piano, proggy synth, electric guitar, xaphoon and melodica along the way... iCompositions Radio | 7/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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78 degrees below zero | the good doctor recently posted a 78bpm ambient jazz style rhythm track for open collaboration.i added some telecaster, slide tenor guitar, xaphoon and melodica.... iCompositions Radio | 7/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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transatlantic | i sent gepo a kind of electrobeat backing track with a punk guitar line and some ambient treated guitar sounds and asked him to play whatever he wanted to along with it. true to for he came back with... iCompositions Radio | 7/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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singapore sling | a guitar improv recorded live in one take played on a 12-string electroacoustic tuned to open c. the other sounds wre made in real time using the aonuus g2m to fire virtual instruments such as gamel... iCompositions Radio | 7/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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whalebone strut | a funky fusion number, the bass , drums and percussion were compiled from loops. the electric piano was played by midi keyboard and the soprano sax and guitar were played simultaneously using the sonu... iCompositions Radio | 7/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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shadow in my mind (2010 remix) | this is a remix of a remix, so to speak. syed added indian classical singing to my original dadgad guitar based instrumental. for this mix i've added tabla loops, electronic beats, slide guitar and fx... iCompositions Radio | 7/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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jam in 12/8 | this was based around an extended drum solo loop available free from the good people at oddgrooves.com. as well as the drums the midi file was used to fire piano and bass virtual instruments. the g... iCompositions Radio | 7/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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birds, cars and guitars | remix of "les oiseaux et une voiture"... iCompositions Radio | 6/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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two tenors | the two tenors in question are guitar and sax. i played the guitar and sax lines simultaneously on the tenor guitar by using the sonuus g2m to fire the sax virtual instrument in logic. recorded live o... iCompositions Radio | 6/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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gwenllian (remix) | this is another collaboration with my very good (and talented) friend dewi griffiths. i recorded him playing a solo acoustic song of his called gwenllian, which makes up the central part of this mix. ... iCompositions Radio | 6/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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hold | the title comes from the fact that i started this the day i was due to see allan holdsworth play live. not that it sounds like him. the rhythm track was recorded using ableton live lite. i finished... iCompositions Radio | 6/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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les oiseaux et une voiture | starts with a recording i made from my window of the birds singing and a car passing in the early hours. the percussive sounds at the start are made with fx applied to that recording. the first half i... iCompositions Radio | 6/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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now i'm easy | my version of an eric bogle song about the hard life of australian migrant "cocky" farmers. i was inspired to record this after hearing chris's (pharmakeus') version of "the band played waltzing matil... iCompositions Radio | 6/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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tibetan mountain slide | started as a tibetan ambient piece and ended up as a slide guitar workout.... iCompositions Radio | 6/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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portent of change | this is an improv played on the tenor guitar, recorded live in one take using the imac's internal mic and subject to delay fx. at the same time i took a feed of the sound from the guitar using a very... iCompositions Radio | 6/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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spanish steps | latin fusion sort of thing, featuring spanish guitar, melodica, electric piano, double bass and percussion.... iCompositions Radio | 6/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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94 rhinos | this is all generated by drum loops programmed in ezdrummer in 9/4 time. i used the midi files from the drums to trigger several voices in rhino soft synth. plus a bit of fx and editing. mostly don... iCompositions Radio | 6/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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three wise men blues | i recorded this in the days after the general election. don't see any reason to change my opinion. slide tenor guitar, harmonica and vocal... iCompositions Radio | 6/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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the perfect circle of scale (remix) | i added some beats, guitar and a choir to ian's fascinating creation. see the original for an explanation of the scale upon which it's based. http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=1413... iCompositions Radio | 5/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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tenor tango | slide tenor guitar with a selection of beats and tango bassline loops from garage band... iCompositions Radio | 5/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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tenor sadness | sonny rollins and john coltrane famously recorded a piece together called "tenor madness". i appropriated the title but in my case it refers to my new tenor guitar given to me by my work colleagues up... iCompositions Radio | 5/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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montenegro (mynydd du mix) | gepo is an excellent guitarist whose pieces stand alone and need no embellishment. but he gave me permission to play with this piece he posted some time ago. i applied a few effects and did some cutti... iCompositions Radio | 5/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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blind funk | starting to find my way round garageband. this piece was inspired by listening to talking heads in the car on a long drive. uses two drum loops, one with a basic bassline. the rest is played on guitar... iCompositions Radio | 5/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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menagerie a trois | fusion thing featuring wild animal calls... iCompositions Radio | 5/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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freedom | celebrating my freedom from wage slavery, this is also my first garage band project using my new imac (my retirement present to myself). the only loops used were the drums, although the bassline was g... iCompositions Radio | 4/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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chichenitza | latin fusion inspired in equal parts by listening to caravanserai and remebering the magical place of the title. the drums and percussion are loops, as is the bassline on the first part. the flute ... iCompositions Radio | 4/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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frozen air space | ambient jazz-rock fusion thing. started out with some loops overlaid with orchestra and synth arpeggio and evolved to take in some electric piano, fretless bass, a saxophone section, guitar and e-bow... iCompositions Radio | 4/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ceteid | this features my first use of the xaphoon, sometimes called the pocket saxophone. so far i have only succeeded in making it sound like a whale with tourettes, hence the title. the piece is built on a ... iCompositions Radio | 4/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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crawling to beijing remix | i've removed the original version of this because i suspect bots were hitting it (c 500 hits in 2 weeks, only 2 comments). i alo made it a lot shorter. still based on a piece written in a cawley hotel... iCompositions Radio | 4/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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imperfect solitude (telecaster29 mix) | i added some ebow guitar to angelo's delicious groove. the ebow was also triggering a minimoog sound via g2m. single take with just some fading post-production. my recording and mixing in reaper.... iCompositions Radio | 4/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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canto de lunes | i walked into a local record shop (spillars of cardiff - the oldest in the world) feeling thoroughly fed up and miserable when on the shops stereo came the unmistakable soaring tones of carlos santana... iCompositions Radio | 4/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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sunday (final mix) | final mix of sunday. no drums but with fretless and mini-moog ... iCompositions Radio | 4/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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quiet sunday | alternative mix of sunday - no drums... iCompositions Radio | 4/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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sunday | it's been a prog weekend! this one starts out as an ambient piano piece, takes in some orchestration along the way before finishing with minimoog/guitars/fretless/drums. recorded in reaper. only lo... iCompositions Radio | 4/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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friday night, saturday morning | prog rock featuring mellotron, acoustic and electric guitars, fretless bass and drums. recorded over the said period using reaper. drums are the only loops.... iCompositions Radio | 4/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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moths | something a bit different for me. this features an orchestral arrangement as well as fretless bass, electricpiano and percussion. all played using soft synths and m-audio key-rig 49 keyboard. the perc... iCompositions Radio | 4/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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paddy's night | i started recording this on 17th march, hence the title. this is a fairly free jazz piece which was based around a virtual tenor sax improv played on the guitar with midi conversion using the sonnuus... iCompositions Radio | 3/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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chimera (part 2) | i took the opportunity to remix this piece when i removed the annoying submarine sonar effect frm the original version. i created more space in the mix and added a guitar synth (using the sonnuus g2m... iCompositions Radio | 2/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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chimera | chimera - a creature of more than one genetic type. also the name of a software synth i used in the making of this piece. seemed an appropriate title. world/jazz fusion type of thing. features drum... iCompositions Radio | 2/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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gdp | fusion, guitar in dadgad,drums in7/8, fretless bass virtual instrument, electric piano.... iCompositions Radio | 2/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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electricx | one-take guitar mprov over geoff's spritely backing track. short and (i hope) sweet. thanks geoff for the inspiring backing track. my recording using reaper and a 335 copy.... iCompositions Radio | 2/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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latin reconstruction project #2 | based around a latin drum pattern triggering various virtual instruments with synth-horns and -strings building to a guitar finale recorded and mixed in reaper.... iCompositions Radio | 2/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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68 dadgad avenue | this started out with an electro-acoustic in dadgad capo'd at the 4th fret and was gonna be a folk song with a bit of swing. but after adding sampler double bass (NI KORE3 plyed with an m-audio keyboa... iCompositions Radio | 2/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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behemoth | behemoth - amonster that takes in ambient, rock, fusion and punk sounds... iCompositions Radio | 2/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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eleven 08, sunday morning | built around 11/8 drums programmed in ez drummer and used to trigger a number of synths with some heavily treated telecaster on top. recorded and mixed using reaper.... iCompositions Radio | 2/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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clear blue water | a personal song i played cuatro, baritone ukeleles, electric guitars and synth double bass. i sang all the parts. drums were programmed in ezdrums lite and drumcore3. recorded and mixed in reaper... iCompositions Radio | 1/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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for jm | it's almost a year since john martyn's death and this is my tribute to him. it's played live on one electro-acoustic guitar with fx applied to the audio track and the bass and drums triggered as virtu... iCompositions Radio | 1/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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return to never | second attempt to upload this. a jazz-rock fusion guitar piece. recorded and mixed in reaper. the drum program is made up of loops in drumcore3 and is used to trigger the bassline.... iCompositions Radio | 1/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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the arabic lesson | some time ago awannabepoet sent me a middle-eastern piece and asked if i wanted to add to it. eventually i turned it into an east meets west kind of thing by adding rock drums and guitar. i used the d... iCompositions Radio | 1/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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drum driven thing | further explorations in guitar midi. this is made up of three basic components: a midi drum track programmed in ezdrummer, major7 and 7th guitar power chords and a lead guitar improv. the drum track m... iCompositions Radio | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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powderfinger | neil young song which reminds us, lest we forget, that it is usually young men that pay the price of politicians' folly.... iCompositions Radio | 1/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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almost steve reich (jamming with steve vai) | this started out as an ambient piece based on two piano loops a la steve reich, but somehow a very prog rock mellotron and guitar intro evolved into a fast and furious guitar bass and drums improv. fi... iCompositions Radio | 1/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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the scientist (feat. sion rees) | cover of the coldplay song sung by a friend of mine who appears at an open mic evening i frequent. he posted the guitar/vocal version as a video on myspace http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction... iCompositions Radio | 1/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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frank zappa's ghost (haunts my machine) | this was a total experiment. i used the audio output from the rhythm track of my casio keyboard as the input to my sonuus g2m guitar to midi convertor and used the resultant midi output to trigger a b... iCompositions Radio | 12/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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muhammed ali, michael j fox and me | the lyrics speak for themselves the female voice is my own electronically processed, the "tenor sax" is a virtual instrument played on the guitar and a sonuus g2m midi converter. recoorded and m... iCompositions Radio | 12/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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sanity clause | i know it's an old joke but if it's good enough for chico it's good enough for me! this is a fusion caused by a collision between a telecaster (well three to be precise) and a mellotron. record... iCompositions Radio | 12/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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snowblindness | started as a strings loop with heavy reverb and delay fx. added drums, fretless bass, minimoog and guitars. recorded and mixed in reaper.... iCompositions Radio | 12/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mzungu Dub ( Final) | Thank you Kevin for the mixing and guitars, etc. Melly added the Rasta vocals..... iCompositions Radio | 12/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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early morning (wake up call) | synth-sax and guitar improv fusion thing. recorded and mixed using reaper. drum programming is the only use of loops.... iCompositions Radio | 12/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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organised chaos part 2 | my response to allan's open collab invitation. it was a pretty full sound anyway so i just added some bass and mellotron for colouration. oh and then i stuck a mini moog solo on the end in case it was... iCompositions Radio | 12/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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bempton cliffs | a fusion piece inspired by a recent visit to these beautiful cliffs in yorkshire, home to thousands of seabirds, followed by a blistering set by the very excellent placebo in nearby bridlington (of al... iCompositions Radio | 12/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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loopz (open collab) | i put this thing together by recording a very simple synth line and looping it on four tracks with varying speeds, pitches and fx. i added a drum loop. thre's no real lead instrument so if anyone want... iCompositions Radio | 12/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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variations on a theme: staralfur | some time ago my friend ceri sent me a recording of just the guitar chords to sigur ros' staralfur. i treated the track to various indignities and then added some loose extemporisation around the basi... iCompositions Radio | 11/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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cerdd y carol | this is based on the electric guitar passage of cerdd y llywlyn. i decided that the shorter version of that song is better and that the electric guitar part deserved a composition of its own. so here ... iCompositions Radio | 11/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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the dimming of the day (live) | i recently played an open mic night with a friend and we recorded this version of richard thompson's song on the fly as we were rehearsing for it. the finger picking and solo guitar is played by a you... iCompositions Radio | 11/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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chiller cabinet | a little bit of chill-out jazziness! anybody wants to jam with it feel free drums are the only loops, recorded and mixed in reaper... iCompositions Radio | 11/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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loopy loup | prog metal jam with synths and guitar over some synth and piano loops and a drum pattern. recorded, mixed and mastered using reaper. ... iCompositions Radio | 11/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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cerdd y llywelyn | a longer version of the tune i posted last, this time with the correct welsh title! i took dewi's original acoustic guitar and played it backwards - sounds like a sax in places. then i tuned an ekec... iCompositions Radio | 11/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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cerd yr llywelyn | my arrangementand production of a beautiful guitar piece written and played by my very talented friend dewi grffiths dewi: electro-acoustic guitar me: drum pattern, synth double bass, e-bow rec... iCompositions Radio | 11/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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turkish coffee | dance track featuring an electro-acoustic guitar riff, melodica and dub-delay banjo. the double bass line is a virtual instrument played live via midi keyboard. the only loop is the drum track. sta... iCompositions Radio | 10/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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echoplexis | ambient doodle featuring synths, bouzouki, prs copy guitar, melodica and drums. the drums were programmed in beatcraft, the song recorded, mixed and mastered using reaper.... iCompositions Radio | 10/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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minor fault | the minor fault with this is that it's too long! ambient electronic jazz/post rock fusion wotsit. includes a backwards bouzouki, although you'd never know it. the only loop is the drum beat. all done ... iCompositions Radio | 10/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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hanoi shuffle | another slice of oriental funk and continuing my musical travelogue. never been to hanoi but you have to use your imagination sometimes. the bass and drum parts are built from loops. the rest i pla... iCompositions Radio | 10/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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the weight | this is the result of a sunday afternoon jam with my friend ceri, sometime in 2007 i think. i had a guitar/vocal version of the band classic the weight and we just jammed lead and acoustic around the ... iCompositions Radio | 10/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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nuthin is my middle name (telecaster29 mix) | claypotts and lagusaya2 put this incredible song up for collab a few days ago. i didn't think it needed much embellishment so i just added some chorus/delay tele, some electro-acoustic guitar lead and... iCompositions Radio | 10/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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humiliation | synth trumpet ambient jazz piece, heavily influenced by the music of nils petter molvaer, a norwegian trumpeter who does this sort of thing properly. the drum loop is something i had lying around wher... iCompositions Radio | 10/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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soft landing | .....or maybe not. this is built around multi-tracked and treated acoustic guitars and a wonderful drum solo i found on a loops site. with added live bass, prs copy and synth improvs all done in re... iCompositions Radio | 10/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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lady of the divine silence | this features evrim baykal reading from the egyptian book of the dead. the rest is me messing about with synthesizers and drum loops. all done using reaper.... iCompositions Radio | 9/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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reunion (remix, remastered) | i posted my remix of scott's reunion some time ago but managed to squeeze the life out of a very energetic song. hopefully this puts that right. scott: bass, drum pattern, vocals, words and music ... iCompositions Radio | 9/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(jamming with the) zincbeat | the good doctor posted this drum loop to test our sound equipment. a technical as well as amusical challenge to collaborate. here's my stab at it. i added strings, organ, tele and synth parts. all ... iCompositions Radio | 9/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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cuatro cinco diez | the basis for this is a version of rustcalia's "lady of the dust" played much faster on the cuatro, so although he doesn't play on it jesse takes a writing credit. the original beautiful guitar in... iCompositions Radio | 9/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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in search of norse ancestors | this is still work in progress really. formerly known as nordic folk song, i added some wordless vocals for a vocal demo and with a bit of treatment are steering this in a more avant garde direction. ... iCompositions Radio | 9/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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sticky wicket | based around a simple synth chord progression and a fruity loops drum loop. i used the synth midi pattern to trigger synth pads, arpeggios and mono synths, added a synth trumpet and some more free-for... iCompositions Radio | 9/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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soda bread and curry | indo-irish jazz fusion, would you believe. this started as a dadgad improv (again!) that i made into a few loops, backwards and forwards. added bodrhan and darbuka loops and an anonymous indian vo... iCompositions Radio | 9/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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funan funk | funky improv featuring guitar, synth, bass and drum loop. it started out sounding vaguely oriental. hence the title. recorded, mixed and mastered in reaper... iCompositions Radio | 9/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ffordd allan | this started life as "for allan". the title is welsh for "way out". features the telecaster, acoustic in dadgad with fx, organ, bass and drum loops. recorded, mixed and mastered using reaper. ... iCompositions Radio | 9/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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a new life | another(!) collaboration with evrim baykal. this starts out trippy with an acapella from a different (unknown) singer. then things take a zeppelin turn. and then back. evrim baykal: vocals, words a... iCompositions Radio | 9/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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oxytoasting (open collab) | this is a track i put together a coupla months ago for a mate to jam with, but i thought i'd put it up for collaboration with anyone who feels like it. there aer individual tracks on my page for the... iCompositions Radio | 9/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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become the sky | another evrim baykal acapella, this time a sufi poem. i found it went perfectly with the first part of what became twisted whisper, added bouzouki part and here#s the result. evrim baykal: voice k... iCompositions Radio | 9/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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circles | i put this acapella by evrim baykal of her song circles together with a track i was working on and it seemed to fit. evrim baykal: vocals (words and music) kevin gray: guitars, synths, bass, drum ... iCompositions Radio | 9/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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blood music | built on an ambient background which is my bouzouki part to a previous recording ("run"), heavily treated with fx. the free kontakt3 sampler from native instruments includes an excellent free uillean... iCompositions Radio | 9/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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elf jam at 7 (extended mix) | final mix featuring me on electric and acoustic guitars, wurly electric piano and bass with two loops, drums and a 30 year old ambient loop of rob rolley's clarinet, recorded and processed by mike pea... iCompositions Radio | 8/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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have a nice day | this started life as "blue period". i added some lyrics and re-mixed it. i sang, played guitars, bass and synths. the drums are the only loop. all recorded, mixed and mastered using reaper.... iCompositions Radio | 8/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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elf jam at 7 (acoustic version) | my response to my own collab! this time with electro-acoustic guitar in dadgad capo'd at 6. so now it's folk-rock!... iCompositions Radio | 8/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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elf jam at 7 open collab | in response to a request i'm posting the backing track to this as an open collab. the ambient loop is a 30 yr old recording of my mate rob's carinet made by mike pearson. i played guitar and bass and ... iCompositions Radio | 8/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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elf jam at 7 | jazz rock improv based around eflatmaj7 chord (geddit?). features guitars, wurly, fretless bass (fretted cheapo electro-acoustic through a zoom b1 pedal), drum loop and an ambient loop of my mate rob'... iCompositions Radio | 8/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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blue period (work in progress) | rock-out with electric lead, slide and rhythm guitars, synths, bass, drum loops and vocals. this needs lyrics and mixing, but i'm unsure whether to expand the vocal parts and/or reduce the lead/slide... iCompositions Radio | 8/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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purple patch | another slice of 70's pomp as a response to allan's wicked fuzz bass collab track. i added guitar, organ and a brass section. ... iCompositions Radio | 8/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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string snapper and key cutter | allan posted this for collaboration. i can't hold a candle to him as a lead guitarist so i added some organ instead.... iCompositions Radio | 8/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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uskudar giderirken | i found an acapella of this turkish song by evrim baykal and added a bouzouki, drum loops and fx. evrim tells me that it tells the story of a man going to uskudar for a date who comes to realize that ... iCompositions Radio | 8/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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before the deluge | a recording from 2006 of the jackson browne song. quite a noisy recording, but one of my first attempts at overdubbed home recording. the instrumentation was cort and fender acoustic guitars, mandolin... iCompositions Radio | 8/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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reunion (remix) | scott recently posted this original song for collab and produced an exellent version with guitars by pinkfreud. despite being beaten to the punch on this i couldn't resist jamming along with it - the ... iCompositions Radio | 8/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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what's on the tele? | been neglecting the old namesake a bit recently. this should put things right! all wriiten, recorded and mixed in reaper in 2 and a half hours tonight. drums are the only loop.... iCompositions Radio | 8/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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down where the drunkards roll | a better mix of the richard thompson song i uploaded earlier. features my ibanez electro-acoustic in dadgad and muzikalia bouzouki in adad (unison strings), both capo'd at the 3rd fret. recorded and m... iCompositions Radio | 8/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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mouse burger | the sounds generated by mouse driven thing,chopped and reconstituted. instant mousee burger!... iCompositions Radio | 8/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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mouse driven thing | someone recently coined the phrase"cpu trio" for a piece of music they got the computer to generate by itself as it were, with interesting results. this is a similar idea. i used reaper daw with on... iCompositions Radio | 8/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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shipbuilding | elvis costello's shipbuiding - as relevant today as when it was written. recorded and mixer using reaper... iCompositions Radio | 8/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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for allan | improv for guitar in dadgad and charango in dadad. recorded two minutes ago for allan.... iCompositions Radio | 8/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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bouzouki improv #1and2 | what it says on the tin. two bouzouki improvs running concurrently in landr channels. tuning was gdgd with unison strings and both were played on a muzikalia bouzouki. recorded and mixed using reaper.... iCompositions Radio | 7/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sink Florida Sink - Against Me! cover | A cover of a song by one of my fav bands. Thanks a million to Kevin (telecaster29) for his enthusiasm, patience and brilliant playing on this! A second (and much different) version of this song wit... iCompositions Radio | 7/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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nordic folk song (work in progress) | bit of a united nations effort this. the guitar is tuned to dadgad and was made here in wales by a friend of mine. there's also an irish bouzouki on here, made in italy, and a colombian charango. i f... iCompositions Radio | 7/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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claude debussey (remix) | doctorzinc posted a gamelan piece recently. i added some guitar, keyboards and beats and remixed it to produce this. if you like this, please check out the original track http://www.icompositio... iCompositions Radio | 7/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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chords | chords to oxytoastin... iCompositions Radio | 7/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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drumsd | drumys for ox... iCompositions Radio | 7/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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lead | guitar for oxytoastn... iCompositions Radio | 7/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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synths | synths for oxytoastin'... iCompositions Radio | 7/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ghosts in the rain | i took an accapella loop and subjected it to various fx and got some ghostly noises which were still vaguely musical. i recorded some real welsh rain from my bedroom window and hey presto! ghosts in t... iCompositions Radio | 7/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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smooth3 | albumflaps put up this track for collab and i liked the feel of it. i added some tinkly piano and some ebow but it feels like an intro to something else. hope you like the additions allan and per... iCompositions Radio | 7/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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shadow in my mind | built on acoustic guitar tracks, one a fender with standard tuning capo'd at the 7th fret, the other a hand made in dadgad. with some sustain electric guitar (prs copy) and synth flute. i'd like t... iCompositions Radio | 6/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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run (ambient folk mix) | version of the snow patrol song. an old recording done with audacity, remixed in reaper. instruments are acoustic guitars, bouzoukis, vocals and a yamaha keyboard strings and flute.... iCompositions Radio | 6/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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talcum and glass | i posted this briefly yesterday but the file had some horrendous clipping introduced at the mp3 encoding stage. the title refers to a recent trip to barcelona where on the same day we visited art inst... iCompositions Radio | 6/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(what's so funny 'bout) peace, love and understanding | my version of the nick lowe classic recorded entirely using audacity in 2006. i sang, played cort and fender acoustic guitars, telecasters and godman electro-acoustic bass guitar. the drums are a loop... iCompositions Radio | 6/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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amroth sun | amroth is a tiny village in west wales. this is a celebration of the beauty of the scenery there. features synths and ebow and my new prs-copy guitar. recorded and mixed using reaper, mp3 convers... iCompositions Radio | 6/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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the white hare (ambient mix) | i recorded a version of seth lakeman's white hare a couple of years back, but it never seemed to ome together to my satisfation. i revisited the files recently, added some fx and instruments and went ... iCompositions Radio | 6/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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bow wave | ambient piece featuring 12-string guitar and e-bow. i recorded this using mixcraft4.... iCompositions Radio | 6/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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narcoleptic | ambient guitar and synth piece. recorded using reaper daw. ... iCompositions Radio | 6/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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6:43 | a slice of prog with guitars and synths and drum loops. 6:43? the time of day when i first saved the intro track. recorded using reaper daw, with some editting in audacity and mp3 conversion using... iCompositions Radio | 6/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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girl behind the veil | this is my version of doctorzinc's "the girl behind the door". i added turkish virtual instruments via a midi keyboard and a greek syrto rhythm loop, and did some editting. drzinc played acoustic guit... iCompositions Radio | 5/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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coalminer's dub | i was taken with doctor zinc's "song for a welsh coalminer" with its' reflective mood and added my reflections on the fact that there no longer are any welsh coal miners with bouzouki and harp parts. ... iCompositions Radio | 5/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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nadina | i made some loops out of an indian vocal accapella and synths then added fx, beats and a synth sarod.... iCompositions Radio | 5/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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twisted whisper | i took a recording of me whispering some lyrics and electronically twisted it to produce a rhythmic sound. added a tabla loop and some indian instruments and guitars. finally resolves into a beat loo... iCompositions Radio | 5/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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pen-y-fan | my response to drzn's latest open collab. i added guitars and a synth-sax. pen-y-fan is the highest mountain in south wales.... iCompositions Radio | 5/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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the tundra | a heavily treated recording of a choir made a sound like a strong wind. the rest of the instruments (synths, mbira, baritone ukulele) follow the theme of desolation.... iCompositions Radio | 5/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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the view from okinawa | ambient/new age/world music piece featuring synth, bouzouki with fx,a drum loop and an accapella of an okinawan folk song... iCompositions Radio | 5/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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deep brain stimulation | modern jazz companion to "stem cell therapy". rhythm section care of casio, i played guitar and piano... iCompositions Radio | 5/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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stem cell therapy | free jazz piece featuring guitar, fretless bass, drums and sax.... iCompositions Radio | 5/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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eastern fairy dance | the inspiration for this piece were twofold: harald's piece "fairy dance", which i sampled with permission, and an accapella by an unknown indian singer which is to my best knowledge royalty-free. i p... iCompositions Radio | 5/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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girls talk | another lunch break cover recording. recorded live. my ibanez electro-acoustic has both jack plug and xlr sockets. one was routed via a johnson j-station effects pre amp to an alesis mixer, adding del... iCompositions Radio | 4/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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rain again | a song about the weather? how very british. or perhaps not.... iCompositions Radio | 4/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(the angels wanna wear my) red shoes/ the needle and the damage done | two covers recorded one lunch break into my i-river hp140 mp3 player. i recorded these mainly to capture the sound of an acoustic guitar made by a workmate. he only made one steel string guitar and wh... iCompositions Radio | 4/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ice floe | based around two sonic themes - arpeggiated chords (piano and synth) and the wall of sound (backwards cuatro and electric guitar)... iCompositions Radio | 4/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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cuneiform | the first song i did in the technothrash style. following the ancient language theme for the title....... iCompositions Radio | 4/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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first point of aries | space rock number with sax, synths and guitar. it's a little-known fact that planet gong is in the constellation aries, which just happens to be my star sign.... iCompositions Radio | 4/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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bombay fla | no not florida, fruity loops! sitar with beats and synths... iCompositions Radio | 4/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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glass | sort of ambient post-rock piece featuring a glassy-sounding tele and an echoey flute loop. introduces a more distorted guitar phrase.... iCompositions Radio | 4/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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indian summer | guitar and sitar with synth... iCompositions Radio | 4/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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bebop spring | jazz workout, featuring soft syntnh tenor sax and yamaha and casio keyboard's piano, organ, drums and tenor sax voices. rhythm guitar is the tele, lead guitar a 335 copy. the intro and outro feature a... iCompositions Radio | 4/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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floating circles | drzinc put out this track for collab some time ago. my additions are mainly to process the original in lots of ways, plus a little guitar and some remixing and editing ... iCompositions Radio | 4/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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samba de phobos y deimos | latin trance number. the backing track is al loops with lead lines played on synths (incuding bandoneon)... iCompositions Radio | 4/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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linear c | another minoan folk song (thanks chris!) this time a one-take guitar jam recorded live with sequenced synth and drums with overdubbed organ also done in a single take. all recorded and mixed in half a... iCompositions Radio | 4/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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the jolly beggar | irish folk song. features my wife, helen, on backing vocals. the rest is me on vocals, acoustic guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, banjo and tin whistle... iCompositions Radio | 4/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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linear b | a companion piece to linear a this builds from an ambient synth beginning to multi-layered gutar noise.... iCompositions Radio | 4/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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descending | based around a descending chord sequence, it's telecasters, organ, bass and drums. bit early floyd-ish.... iCompositions Radio | 4/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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zulu part 3 | i came across this sample of a zulu choir and added synths and beats. this version i added township guitar to it.... iCompositions Radio | 4/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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junk | funky jam: bass, drums, guitars, organ... iCompositions Radio | 4/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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latin reconstruction project | a few weeks ago dr zinc posted a track for an open collab. here's my effort. i turned it into a latin jazz fusion with the addition of electro-acoustic guitars, organ, electric guitar and latin percus... iCompositions Radio | 4/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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fanfare | starts out like film music, but becomes something else. really don't know how to describe it.... iCompositions Radio | 4/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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asia celtica | i was playing around with a synth loop, varying the speed and pitch, when suddenly it took on a sound like celtic flutes. eventually that fed into this piece which fuses asian and celtic sounds with a... iCompositions Radio | 4/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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steeltown | sort of techno-jazz fusion piece i recorded while visiting family in sheffield... iCompositions Radio | 3/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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staralfur (extended mix) | last year a friend sent me an mp3 of his acoustic guitar and voice version of this sigur ros song. i was struck by the ethereal beauty of it and it fitted with some synth parts i had recorded onto min... iCompositions Radio | 3/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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early bird | loose synth-sax and guitar improvisations over piano and bass shifting phrase.... iCompositions Radio | 3/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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1st august 1982 | ...the day i met my wife. a synth doodle really... iCompositions Radio | 3/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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110 point six | funky number at 110.6 bpm... iCompositions Radio | 3/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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