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Dotin-Dah
Although it has been a while since I made a post there is new music. This one is called Dotin-Dah – and it features the Sax voice on my keyboard. I actually uploaded this back on November 2, 2009 – but for one reason or another just never created this link… Hope you like it…
New All Along parts I and II
It seems like it gets longer and longer in between uploading new cuts. I don’t know if it is because I am getting too picky or what! I have kind of mixed feelings about this song, called “New All Along part I and II”. It is inspired from the old Bob Dylan song “All Along The Watch Tower” 
in that it has a similar chord progression. But the melody line is different and especially different in the second part of the song. I really like the way this came out except for one thing: No matter how I mixed it the first half sounds so different from the second half that it’s pretty much a different song.
After dozens of master mixes I finally gave up and made it obviously two songs – hence the “New All Along parts I and II” title. Pretty clever huh? 
I would really welcome your mix on this. The original unedited cuts are contained in zip files (links below) because iTunes (or the WordPress plug-in called Podpress) apparently sees posted mp3 files somewhat randomly. In fact I will go back and re-post the earlier stuff in that format to clean up the podcast tracks. As always you are free to use under the Creative Commons License. Translation – use it any way you want for free but give me credit as the song writer and performer.
Oh – and I would really appreciate it if you just let me know you used it – send me a link!
Raw Tracks:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Long Ago and Far Away
Long Ago and Far Away is the second version of the same song in the podcast series – although they surprisingly have little to do with one another beside the chord progression.
Watching the 2009 top ten Idol the comment was made about Smokey Robinson doing five hundred some-odd different mixes of a song only to use the second track he mixed… well this mix did not happen for me like that. This was the umpteenth time I’ve recorded it, and this was mix eight or nine. Still not perfect – but I really like the way it turned out.
As always the individual tracks are available below, and starting this week a podcast extra, showing how I mixed this version. In weeks to come I will have more detailed extras available for each mix – but for now I would welcome your comments .
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Prairie Dog
This mix is one of my best I think. The track started from an unusually strong rock drum beat sampled from my synthesizer. After hearing the whole set of tracks it was hard to choose what to focus on. The sax track is really smooth. The two lead guitar tracks are frequently in an interesting harmony – but not necessarily in tune with the sax track all the time.
I think you will want to turn this up.
Individual Tracks
You may preview the individual tracks >here< or download zip files below
First Kiss
This one is pretty atmospheric in the beginning and a little fusion after that… I just don’t know where this stuff comes from sometimes. I hope you like this – I really do 
Links to work parts
Track 1 http://music.tomanthony.com/music/FirstKiss01.mp3
Track 2 http://music.tomanthony.com/music/FirstKiss02.mp3
Track 3 http://music.tomanthony.com/music/FirstKiss03.mp3
Track 4 http://music.tomanthony.com/music/FirstKiss04.mp3
Dubious by Nature
Some time ago I would spend time in a little Irish pub in NorthPort, Long Island, NY. It was a warm and accommodating place where most of the folks I hung out with were from County Cork, Ireland. I’m not sure why that was the case, but it was. I played darts and drank a ‘wee bit of Old Jamie’s and told stories with some of the coolest people I knew. My favorite memory was of playing guitar with the guys that hung out there. That’s actually the main reason I would go. Sometimes a flute would appear, and once someone whipped out an accordion.
This song reminds me of some of the music we were playing in NorthPort.
I Finished the mix just now – I hope this does not get tedious to listen to… it’s as long a recording as I have ever posted here. But I just wrote this and performed it in the last 90 minutes… it is still echoing sweetly in my ears. This is a straight up live recording.
Here are the individual tracks used in the main mix. The muse is living in track 1
Sweet Meet Blues
What a great evening I’ve had. After a full week that went well, and at the end of a fun night, I found myself wanting to play. So I did. I was really inspired tonight, and it came out of my fingers as an upward spiral of good spirited blues. I think there is a better mix to be found in here somewhere, but good bad or indifferent here is my “Sweet Meet Blues”
Storm of Love
This is a song I wrote about 20 years ago to and for the Mother of my Daughter. It has words, but I’m not ready to sing quite yet.
I was so frustrated earlier this week trying to set up my studio so I can record music I had to buy myself an early birthday present. It’s a digital recorder made by Boss, which in turn is owned by Roland, the same company that makes the synthesizer I use. (It’s a Roland Fantom-S BTW… see more here ) What an unbelievable difference in sound quality.
So here is the first recording on the Boss BR1200 created within four hours of opening the box, reading the instructions… O.K. reading a few of the instructions, hooking up the audio cables from the Roland to the piano and from there to the recorder. Plugged in my headset so as not to wake the neighbors – and came up with this version of Storm of Love.
Here are the individual tracks I used in the mixdown.
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the pre-programed drum and acoustic piano master track
first improv track – a sort of electric lead sound and a Sax voice at the end
second improv track – mostly electric guitar sound – I used more of this track in the mixdown than I thought i would.
third improv track – just fooling around is all.
Friday Playday
I really wanted to record something new tonight, but the little black box which connects the keyboard to laptop has an unacceptable hum. Drat.
Well, actually I got lucky. Moving some files around I noticed a set of three tracks which I had not produced yet called Friday Playday. I originally recorded these tracks on March 18, 2007. Sounds impossibly long ago against the backdrop of my current “new” life.
I call this a track and not a song because as I poke around inside my existing recordings I notice that I have played a lot of very different variations on surprisingly few themes. In other words I hear the same melodies and counter melodies across many recordings, but they seem pretty different because of the musical arrangement. This is upbeat, all me – playing across three or four different tracks, and (I hope for your sake) not completely unpleasant.
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