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Been putting together some of the tracks I play at open mics as acoustic demos

Acoustic Demos

December '20

Pocket Dial Demos

A playlist of the original songs I've put on soundcloud, pretty self explanatory. Roughly in the order of what songs I like at whatever random moment I decided to edit the playlist.

Originals

2023 Demo of Lovesick Lullaby, recorded super quickly to compare with other demos

Lovesick Lullaby (Acoustic Demo)

2023 Demo, recorded super quick to compare to other demos

DYHM (Acoustic Demo)

Limerence (Acoustic Demo)

this is a very human kind of emotion, the feeling of being trapped an endless cycle of longing. the stars may align between you and some person and you could find yourselves together. but then, sometimes those same stars don't. and that's okay too. it's very bittersweet to feel sad for breaking someone's heart even as your own heart is being broken. it's very confusing to feel sometimes.

love is a strange and beautiful thing, isn't it? enjoy


warmly, carisa

sun and moon

Wrote the lyrics for this a few years ago with the chords going back to when I had only been playing a few years and just learnt 7th chords. It's probably the original of mine that gets the most attention at open mics. I like it. So here is a simple acoustic demo version. One day i'll do the song properly, with a drum kit and a bass, and maybe finally figure out a nice harmony for the vocals.....

Get Your Head Up (Demo)

Without Any Meaning?

Wrote this for the r/songaweek challenge for week 24, delay. Came up with the verse riff by using a shite ton of delay and then was able to fit in some old lyrics about when you're breaking up but you just want to DELAY it by one more day.

Lyrics:
Such a lovely day
Sitting by the river
What a place to be to end it all
We both know whats coming but I just can’t face it
I want
One more day like this

My takeaway
I had to pay 
Can’t runaway
From what you want or what you had to say

Skip the clichés 
Don’t need coffee just to speak my truth 
We’re at an end
You say today was nice we need to keep it going just have
One more day like this

My takeaway
I had to pay 
Can’t runaway
From what I want or what I had to say

One more day
One more day

Takeaway (r/songaweek 24: Delay)

This is a song about breaking up, not because you want to, but because it seems like the best thing for both of you. Or maybe thats just how you rationalise it to yourself. Started working on this over a year ago but decided to not redo any of the guitars and do the best I could with it. Maybe that was a bad decision. If I ever decide to rerecord it I could probably make it sound better.  Kinda just wanted to get it out there and move on from the song (for now).

Lyrics:
Don’t do this easily
Don’t wanna cause you strife
Slowly killing us, I can’t safeguard your life
So much we could work on, so hard to find the time
Between breakups and breakdowns
Between half truths and lies

It’s not for myself
It’s for us both there is something wrong
We both need some more help
Taking our time, but everything leads back to this

Unhealthy partnership unhealthy minds
Searching for something you never find
Build it back to normal
Build walls in our lives
Between breakups and breakdowns
Between half truth and lies 

It’s not for myself
It’s for us both there is something wrong
We both need some more help
Wasting our time, cus everything leads back to this

I promised you this wouldn’t happen
A promise I could never keep
Both our worlds are so misshapen
This is what we really need
I’m ending this right now
Just need to find a way out

It’s not for myself
It’s for us both there is something wrong
We both need some more help
Taking our time, but everything leads back to this

Unhealthy Minds (Demo)

Don't think the rest of this song holds up but still like the solo so thought I'd upload that. Mostly just a practice at mixing metal fro when I acc need to make a real song.

Random Metal Solo

テクノカマキリ (Demo)

Run Away

The theme for this 24 hour challenge was the picture of Gertrude the Gigantosaur (without the hearts). Wrote a silly love song for Gertrude the Gigantosaur. There's defo a few bars where I go out of time but it's a 24 hour challenge and didn't have time to fix it.

Lyrics:
1 - 2 - dinosaur
Gertrude, I think that I love you
Gertrude, you make my heart giganto-soar
Largest terrestrial carnivore
You are my favourite dinosaur
Oh Gertrude, I've fell in love with you

Gertrude, we could be carbon dating
Gertrude, my late cretaceous friend
Therepod with the giant bod
Till you were took by an act of god
Oh Gertrude we never will be near
Cus you've been dead for 100 million years

Gertrude The Gigantosaur(IMF 24 Hour Challenge)

Buried all that I had
In an ocean in the sand
Every memory, regret, belief and fantasy

Water
The desert into mud
I can't wait to wash out with the flood

Water

You've opened your eyes
To a world on fire
A stately funeral pyre
So where you going now

And as the flames burn low
And the embers glowed
I can’t hear a single word
That you're saying now

But I’m not the one to put it out

You emptied your heart
On a world in the dark
But your Lightning bolts have missed their mark
So what you throwing now

And when they are singing your song
Are you humming along
Even though they’ve got it all wrong
So whatcha singing now

And I'm not the one to shout it out

Feign a smile
But I can see it in your eyes
We’ve learned to live in dark ages 
But you’re desperate for the sunrise

Paint the night
Tracing the shadows in failing light
We’ve learned to live in the dark ages
But we waiting on the sunrise..


Tuning F A C F A E

Is It Over Yet?

Put It Out

Made for Life's Everyday Soundtrack, a fun event @soranleif heads up every month where he gives a group of producers 3 stems that must be incorporated into a track. The rest is up to you. Special thanks to Soran and David Petty Music @user-24405761 for the stem work!

Check out LES Volume 6 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvL8kTSkINs

Latest version: 8.2.20 (remastered mix, added saturation to basslines, fixed some vocal issues, added about 30 more seconds to the end).

Diary Of A Cephalopod In Crisis

Part 2 of the S.P.A.C.E. saga
prod. by James D
Words TDJ

There's no turning back now
There's an event horizon
I'm off the coverage map anyhow - No Verizon
No disguise could hide the surprise attack from my friends.
I'd re-up the supplies to my men but they're all dead.
I keep a rocket in my back pocket
I blast atomic.
Rain down like a comet
Can you hear me now? You can't stop it
Microphone getting so hot I'ma drop it
But it's burning hotter than the sun
So I'm leaving nothing but ashes in my palm when I'm done.

The planets are all ashes 
The stars are all dust
The station's been destroyed 
There's no one left to trust.

The planet's in ashes.
The environment's in shambles.
I may as well be wearing a briar coat made out of brambles out here in thin zone
Trying to phone home but my signal is scrambled.
Trying to get a handle
But to make an omelette you gotta break a few eggs
Watch me upstage my enemies
Poison stinging like the tentacles of an anemone 
One day I'll make the shadow pay 
But it steady stays ahead of me.

Chorus (repeat)

Planets to Ashes

Photo Cred: 5 Ace.

Lyrics:

[Verse 1]:
I know you're struggling,
I feel your heart breaking,
Just know I'm by your side,
Even though, even though I'm half the world away.

[Chorus]:
Half the world away.

[Verse 2]:
Please close your eyes tonight,
Imagine distant skies,
I'll be there for you to find,
Even when, even when I'm half the world away.

[Chorus]:
Half the world away.

[Bridge]:
I promise babe,
Every day,
That I'm astray,
You will find, you will find, you will find me,
Even when, even though I'm half the world away.

[Chorus]:
Half the world away.

Half The World Away

Welcome to the Assassins Experience, Hope you enjoy the ride :)

Lyrics & Rap: Tone Deaf Jeff (https://soundcloud.com/tonedeafjeffmusic)
Music Production, Mix & Master: Partial Cigar (https://soundcloud.com/partial-cigar)

First Act:

An assassin in white. 
Sent to sever the sultan's life. 
He waits till the toast at night when the wine has been spiked. 
And while everyone's clutching at their throats, 
the sultan's slipped a note. 
Written in blood. 
It says look up you dumb thug. 
And he does. 
The killer plummets down, 
lunging at the guy with a knife plunging around,  
toppling the sultanate and sending his crown clattering to the ground.  
He retreats, mission complete. 
Disappears in a dervish, 
off to collect the check for his service.

Second Act:

A certain ebon assassin answering the call to arms from the rebel faction. 
Her whirlwind of death gains traction as she slips through their camp inactive.
Blacks out a lamp. 
Acts out a plan. Knives flick out fast. 
She kicks down a guard with a low sweep, 
nicks his neck mostly, 
hoping he'll go to sleep soon from the toxin. 
Drop a smoke bomb now everyone's coughing. 
Slashing and stumbling, 
a confused throng wondering what's wrong, 
too busy bumbling to notice their target's gone. 
In the chaos she'd sown, 
she killed twenty of their own. 
As for their leader? She left em alone. 
Demoralized men would mutiny soon enough tearing the skin from his bones.

Assassins (Feat. Tone Deaf Jeff)

Had the guitar written for this for ages and recently put it to some nice lyrics about performing at an open mic, no ones listening except the one person you care about, and that's all you need. Lots of clean up possible but kinda burnt out on it and wanna move on, initially thought id have harmonising vocals and some strings but I never got them to work (hence the demo).

Lyrics:
The bar is filled with noise
Louder than my voice
My song will go unheard
Aren't open mics absurd
But you're always listening
I know that you care
lost the room but I'm focusing
On the moment that we share


Guess it feels the same
Our secret type of fame
You can't be outdone
My audience of one
Well do it all again
Our self indulgent game
You always make it fun
My audience of one


I crack a stupid joke
Your laughter gives me hope
You've heard them all before
Still laugh while they ignore
Dont care they're not listening
I just care that you do
Lost the room but I'm focusing
Focusing on you


Guess it feels the same
A secret type of fame
You can't be outdone
My audience of one
Well do it all again
Our self indulgent game
You always make it fun
My audience of one

Audience Of One (Demo)

Featuring https://soundcloud.com/melosopher on saxophone

Are you friend or foe?
Never seem to know with you
True, we share a name
But you don't feel the same, do you?
I'm baited and blistered
All because it's not for you

Did you think about it?
Or did you try to break it? 
Have you come to numb the pain?
In some world
Some day
You won't need to blame me
Could we try to start again?

Tear me down again
Just to feel the weight from you
Some won't let you near
While others lie in fear of you

Come in screaming
With your guns blazing
Have you come to numb the pain?
In some world
Some day
You won't need to blame me
Could we try to start again?

Unresolved (ft. Melosopher)

The Race - Demo

At My Window - Demo

Collab project with Ruben Kildahl https://soundcloud.com/kildahl
Mastered by Carl Saff https://saffmastering.com/

Will be on streaming platforms at some point

Fax Bot - Devious Steve

A track based off a pan drum performance shared by thatguy.dave in fall of 2020. Used with permission, gratitude, and hopefully to good end. 

That Guy Dave:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmj_FJjZmre_IFIdiSQ5lSQ  https://www.instagram.com/thatguy.dave/

Queenspark

Anækitt III (alternative mix)

An attempt at sculpting a soft/ sad piano sound to fit the vibe of this piece. This was originally a piece that I composed for a Trimester Final Project for a class, but I tried to mix it in a DAW to make it sound better than the default MIDI piano SoundFont.

Running Against It (Take It As You Will)

NI based guitarist tryna write and record good songs