There is a bass line track in there I played manually and another one generated by the automated accompaniment track in my Technics Digital Piano. When I took out the accompaniment track and replaced it with just the drum track it sounded flat so I put it back two separate base guitar tracks and all.

It is intended to be a romantic ballad, and I think it sort of has an anthem feel to it. Hope you enjoy it too!

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Today I am finishing up the re-launch of the Open Source Music Project site with a cleaner and corrected set of files. Some of the songs here had been originally listed in such a way as to allow iTunes to randomly select which track was the final mix – other tracks were uploaded to the server but for various reasons never posted. Dotin Dah falls into that category. It is up tempo and features a lot of the Sax voice from my keyboard. enjoy!

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This recording is from October 2008, and I’m not sure why it never got posted.  As I rebuild my sites in response to being hacked off the internet I wanted to include it here.  The first part of the song – especially the “moog” sound at the begining was inspired by those warm nights in Orlando standing on Main Street.

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Since that is the whole purpose of the Open Source Music Project – I thought that qualified this song for a re-post. I know my music has evolved a lot over the past two years – I think for the better – but I wanted to stay true to the mission of this site… so hear we go again with Sweet Meet Blues!

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Street Music

The original lyrics were really goofy except for the one phrase “Child of the Universe”. I later wrote some very meaningful lyrics and always loved the song. A lot of my later music dips into the same chord progression, but this version tries to capture the original essence of warm summer days in Florida with my six-string in hand. I really don’t sing much anymore, but if I did, this song would always remain.

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So here is 34 fingers.. or should that be here ARE 34 fingers? either way I hope you enjoy listening!

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Indian Caves in Inwood Hill Park

I don’t know how I connected the musical theme with that vision – but there you have it. Enjoy

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In this song the melody line is different and especially different in the second part.  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!

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Smokey Robinson

While watching a 2009 top ten American Idol show 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 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.

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I’ve also included each raw track below in case you want to fool around with a remix yourself – or in the event you are just curious as to how one of my recordings goes together.

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Additional Note: I first posted this in November 2008, and while I have posted a lot of stuff since then I still find myself listening to this track in the car frequently. It is haunting and sweet at the same time … well to me anyway…

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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.

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Oct 24, 2008
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“

August 7, 2010
My site were all compromised by hackers in July and as I finish the re-build I have reposted this tune with a different mix under the Re-post category. This mix sounds a little too raw and more like a circus than a song…

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.

8/8/2010
Note: I consider this a re-post since back in 2008 the individual track files were posted as MP3s . That messed up iTunes and a random work track would be posted to the podcast.

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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.

Album Cover 1979 Angel Station

Here are two versions of a song called “Ticker Tape”. The first mix is a little rough and the second one is more produced – I like them both. We all get our inspiration from somewhere, and for me this song was inspired by a Manfred Mann Album - Angel Station – not a specific song – just the feel of the whole album.

Angel Station is unique in featuring a six-note descending theme in most of the songs on the album, woven skillfully into the context of each song in a different way. You can read more about Angel Station here.

August 9, 2010
Note: Originally (Sep 27, 2008) I posted both these cuts within the framework of the podPress plugin for WordPress. Either I did not understand how that software worked or it did not work – so iTunes posted a random version of this song. I have since discovered that if I post only one song to the blog for iTunes to see it works a lot better – so if you are interested here is that alternate version of “Tickertape” mentioned above, please feel free to download the cut labeled “Track 1″ below.

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