iTunes Greenlight
by Tom Anthony on Mar.11, 2009, under Music
iTunes has added the opensource music project as a regular podcast! If you would like to subscribe through iTunes click here – and thanks!
Prairie Dog
by Tom Anthony on Mar.02, 2009, under Music
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.
Skyline Drive
by Tom Anthony on Feb.11, 2009, under Music
Over the Christmas Holiday I drive with a friend to New York and enjoyed a weekend in the city. The song “Skyline Drive” was written for that trip, and we played it (really, really loud) on the way up and back. I hope you enjoy it !
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.
First Kiss
by Tom Anthony on Nov.26, 2008, under Music
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
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…
Dubious by Nature
by Tom Anthony on Oct.28, 2008, under Music
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.
Sweet Meet Blues
by Tom Anthony on Oct.24, 2008, under Music
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…
Storm of Love
by Tom Anthony on Oct.03, 2008, under Music, Re-post
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.
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.
Friday Playday
by Tom Anthony on Oct.02, 2008, under Music
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.
Ticker Tape
by Tom Anthony on Sep.27, 2008, under Music, Re-post
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.
Snickers
by Tom Anthony on Sep.27, 2008, under Music
Here is a recording and individual tracks for a song I named snickers. It’s actually named for a pet goat, not a candy bar, but that’s a long story…
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