Tag: new music
Steve’s Buddy
by Tom Anthony on Dec.20, 2010, under Music
I believe the Holidays are about faith and family and not necessarily about the dollar value of the gift. So I wanted to give some very personalized gifts for the holidays this year for many reasons – mostly because I did not want to fall into the trap of buying some generic piece of crap at Wal*Mart and calling it a Christmas present. I decided to give My brother Steve a song. In the many years I have been recording I had never done that before, and it seemed like a cool thing to do. So here is a tune I call Steve’s Buddy. I especially like the big bass line. This is one I turn the volume up on. Enjoy
Tom and Steve Anthony 11/21/2010
The Long Walkabout
by Tom Anthony on Sep.17, 2010, under Music
According to Wikipedia, Walkabout refers to a rite of passage during which male Australian Aborigines would undergo a journey during adolescence and live in the wilderness for a period as long as six months.In this practice they would trace the paths, or “songlines”, that their people’s ceremonials ancestors took, and imitate, in a fashion, their heroic deeds.
I love that concept – but I really named this song The Long Walkabout becuase the Sax voice in the begining and to some lesser extent the breathy flute sound just reminded me of the Austrailian didjeridu.
I had to tweak this one several times becuase the bass frequency would rattle my speakers. It’s not the kind of bass you hear as the back beat in Hip Hop – just a weird tone from the lower register of the Sax voice on my keyboard. By the way I just added a page called “What I Use” to answer the question for a friend of mine who asked how I play all the parts at one time. I don’t – but you knew that right?
Sailing East
by Tom Anthony on Sep.11, 2010, under Music
I wrote this song for a friend of mine who likes my acoustic leaning mixes. It was really a quick thing that came out better than I thought it would. At first I fooled around with a simple chord progression on my guitar and got the tempo from a setting on my digital piano. On the recorder I first played just a drum track – then added the guitar on a different track. Next I added a kind of angel choir sound – and that’s pretty much it. 
At first I did not care for the very ending because it sounded to me like I hit a sour note. If you are a musician then you will probably know I did in fact play a single note out of the scale. I have been told by several people who do not play music they just can’t hear it – well you be the judge.
Second Chances
by Tom Anthony on Sep.10, 2010, under Music
I worked on this one a good long time –so the finished recording is somewhat dense compared to “Still In The Night” – but I still left most of the tracks I recorded out of the mix. And the title… well If I were writing lyrics to this melody there would be the phrase “Second Chances” in there – mainly because when I hear the chorus I hear those words in my head.
I’m not sure it’s a love song or an affirmation of life – but I hope you like it. Play it twice – after all (pretty much) everyone deserves a second chance. I’m not too sure about a fourteen or fifteenth chance – but definitely a second one.
Still In The Night
by Tom Anthony on Aug.21, 2010, under Music
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!
Dotin Dah
by Tom Anthony on Aug.10, 2010, under Music
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!
Sunday Morning
by Tom Anthony on Aug.09, 2010, under Music
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!
New All Along parts I and II
by Tom Anthony on May.26, 2009, under Music
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!
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.
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…
