A slightly humorous song about a Christmas Tree. Thanks to the guys in Lawyers, Guns & Money for the inspiration.

Norwegian Spruce (Christmas)

A song about a boy, a skateboard, and his faithful dog who keeps watch while he endlessly practices that elusive "flip kick". The song is from the dog's perspective, by the way.

Dylan On The Skateboard (alt. version)

Written, composed and produced in Zlin, in the Czech Republic on Cakewalk Sonar using a 15 year-old IBM Thinkpad T20 laptop that was coaxed into running Windows XP. All sounds are produced by Sonar Producer's TTS-1 General MIDI engine. No actual instruments were harmed in the process. Zlin is a unique place in the world and I tried to capture something about it in song.

Nights In Zlin (Instrumental)

I got a new piece of gear, the Joyo AC Tone amp modeler. I did a test recording with my Ibanez Les Paul copy; nothing spectacular, just me noodling. And even though this sounds nothing like it, the somewhat ambiguous title is a nod to the beautiful instrumental "Albatross" written by Peter Green and Fleetwood Mac.

Albert Ross (Instrumental)

I couldn't help myself; years ago I noticed how similar in song structure these two are. In the end it creates a beautiful story of two people in love who are like two ships which pass in the night. Of course I shouldn't need to point out that the respective songs are the sole property of the artists Tori Amos and Robert Nesta Marley; both of whom I deeply respect.

Bill Dumas Mashed It

Butterflies Wait In Vain (Mashup)

Do you ever feel like you live in a frenzied world? That everybody's always going everywhere all the time?This line popped into my head one afternoon when driving on a busy section of road and tucked it away in my subconscious as something to work on, so at least in this case it was a song I developed lyrically first. Since this version I've done another "blusier" version, but I lost the multitrack version of that to a hard drive crash and I'm only left with a rough mix mp3.

Life & All That Comes With It

Everywhere All The Time

A song to remind everyone that, while everyone the world over knows when the holiday takes place, sometimes we need to be reminded that Christmas is a celebration of faith and not just about giving gifts.

Everyone Knows It's Christmas

Do you believe in multiple universes, alternate realities? If every possible reality does exist, the one in this song does, too.

Dylan On The Skateboard II

I shouldn't give the whole concept away, but I will. Imagine a person as a commodity or product that is under development. Revisions, data mining, R&D...well, that's it in a nutshell. I'm still just a work in progress.

Version

An instrumental with a very "hooky" synth line that morphs into angelic, uilleann pipes-laden dream-pop. One of my serendipity projects where I had no pre-conceived concept in mind and just wanted to create music.

Alpha Angel (Instrumental)

Born in Baltimore (Carney) Maryland but currently residing in Toms River NJ. I've been performing music longer than pretty much anything I've done in my life except eating, breathing and sleeping. I started writing and recording my own music almost as soon as I learned to play guitar. I couldn't tell you how many songs I've written. Once I learned about a thing called MIDI, that was it! I can't stick to any particular genre, so the styles of my songs vary based on the subject matter of the lyrics.

Bill Dumas

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