Open Source Music Project

This is really a great melody. Although I tried to keep this clean with simple instrumentation it ended up getting a little complicated.

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!

 Still In The Night [5:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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I am sure there will be a post detailing this further – but all my personal and professional web sites are in one master directory inside my Rackspace server account. Several weeks ago the sites were hacked by a program called a SQL Injection Trojan – which is a sort of attack dog on the internet searching for weaknesses in websites. At the time there was just such a weakness in the WordPress content management platform, the software I mainly use to build web sites. While that issue has now been corrected I found myself re-building all of my websites about a month ago. Then it happened again two weeks ago – only this time an old forum software platform was the culprit and the results were just as catastrophic.

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!

 Dotin Dah [7:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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From November 2008 this song was at least inspired in part by the song “Mornin’ “by Al Jarreau. It has a sort of atmospheric opening which reminded me of bird song and it breaks into a kind of Jazz Swing arrangement. I am not sure why I never got this posted to the Open Source Music Project site – but I have been listening to this track for a long while.

I hope you enjoy it!

 Sunday Morning [6:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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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.

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!

 New All Along parts I and II [5:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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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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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…

 First Kiss [4:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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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.

 Dubious by Nature [8:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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