Tag: original 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.
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!
Superman Sings
by Tom Anthony on Aug.09, 2010, under Music
Years ago when I lived in Central Florida I would love to stand on Main Street USA in the Magic Kingdom and listen to the Main Street Electrical Parade. I was always fascinated by the way the music was presented. I believe there was a master recording of individual tracks that would be sent to each individual float. So float one would be playing track one, float two would be playing track two and so on. It all blended in the open air.
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.
Sweet Meet Re-post
by Tom Anthony on Aug.07, 2010, under Re-post
Back in October of 2008 I posted this fun little ditty called Sweet Meet Blues – thanks to some hacker two years later I find myself re-posting the entire Open Source Music Project site files. I noticed I never uploaded the track stubs – the individual music tracks used to mix this song in the first place.
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!
Child of the Universe
by Tom Anthony on Sep.14, 2009, under Music
The song Child of the Universe goes back a long way, this is a 2009 version I really like. The chord progression has remained the same since I first played it 35 years ago on the streets of Manhattan. Back then I played it on a 12-string Epiphone with my guitar case open and a sign that read “Please Help”.
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.
34 Fingers
by Tom Anthony on Aug.31, 2009, under Music
This was one that came very quickly – in fact essentially this is a live performance with not much editing at all. If you want to download the individual tracks below you’ll see what I mean. The main track was created using an arpeggio effect on a string guitar voice on my keyboard – mainly because I had intended to record using my (real) guitar but the battery was gone.
So here is 34 fingers.. or should that be here ARE 34 fingers? either way I hope you enjoy listening!
