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Ambiences

ambient track by onlyone • freely available for use in all podcasts as background music behind dialog (please credit onlyone or Joe Kowalski)

© 2013 Joe Kowalski Music; Is It Noise Or Is It Music, ASCAP

Random0cycles-fadeinfadeout

written, performed, and recorded by onlyone/ joe kowalski, Saturday, February 1st, 2014. 

A silly, musical response to that meme where the cat is reading the paper and thinking about whether he was supposed to pick up the coat-wearing monkey at Ikea. 

©2014 Is It Noise Or Is It Music, ASCAP

MONKEY IN A COAT
No mere monkey
and he's cold
i think he's in canada
and it's almost february
he's no mere monkey
yeah he's no mere monkey
Carl with no hat
monkey in a coat
Carl with no hat
monkey in a coat
monkey in a

there's nothing funny
if you forget
to pick your friend up at two
and it's almost ten o'clock
there's nothing funny
there's nothing funny
Carl with no hat
monkey in a coat
Carl with no hat
monkey in a coat

should I call a cab?
should I pick him up?
should I call a cab?
should I pick him up?
maybe flip a coin?
maybe he's okay?

does he have a hat?
monkey in a coat
Carl has a hat?
monkey in a coat
monkey in a coat

Monkey In A Coat

"Fixable" by onlyone
from the new album "Breakable," available now
http://onlyone.bandcamp.com

watch the video: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bue37afE78M

written/ performed/ recorded by joe kowalski
©2014 joe kowalski/ is it noise or is it music? ASCAP
mastered by ponch d'lyon/ the chub group

Fixable

Free download!  2nd track from onlyone's brand new album "Breakable," available at https://onlyone.bandcamp.com/album/breakable

words and music by joe kowalski
cover art by andrew james stone

* replaced audio track with final master on 8 June, 2014. 

Electric Chemistry

Ambient electronic music track perfect for soundtrack use by onlyone/ joe kowalski

©2014 joe kowalski music/ is it noise or is it music ASCAP

Soft Pink Clouds

MC Silver Fox and Dr DJ P Knuckle are GERIATRIXX
From the forthcoming EP "Pancakes with Geriatrixx." 
Contractually obligated guest appearance by hype man Paco Del Paco

Vocal/ lyrics by Will Davies; production by Joe Kowalski

Winter City Streets

Originally the b-side to their single "(A "Trip" To) Babylonia" (which still holds the record for worst selling single of all time), the master tapes for "Tympanzee" were long thought to be lost. However, three months ago, former Banilow roadie Dave "Zero" DiSenza discovered the unmarked reel in the underwear drawer of his mother's room while helping her to pack up some things. At first listen, DiSenza was very impressed, but he quickly realized the tape was being played backwards and at too slow a speed. He was less impressed when listening properly, but the band was elated at the discovery. They hope to unearth all of the masters from their debut album and re-release it one day.

Artist: Larry Banilow
Songwriters: Graham/ Kowalski/ Stiglitz/ Bedfellow
Arrangers: Larry Banilow
RCA/ Victor: 1974

"Tympanzee" by Larry Banilow

Inspired by a sighting of a bow-tie wearing duck in a car-park. 

hey, i think i see
yeah, he seems kinda real
there, he’s behind the wheel
now, he’s looking at me
it’s a bow-tie duck
it’s a bow-tie duck
it’s a bow-tie duck
what the—

yeah, you see him too?
hey, he’s looking at you
huh, think he knows what to do?
behind the wheel?
it’s a bow-tie duck
it’s a bow-tie duck
it’s a bow-tie duck
it’s a bow-tie duck
it’s a bow-tie duck
what the—

i hope he can’t drive
i hope he can’t drive
(i’m watching you)
i hope he can’t drive
i hope he can’t drive
(i’m watching you)

(i’m a bow-tie duck
i’m a bow-tie duck
i’m a bow-tie duck)

Written/ recorded/ performed by Joe Kowalski/ onlyone, June 5-6, 2015
©2015 Is It Noise Or Is It Music, ASCAP

(It's A) Bow-Tie Duck

Cover of David Bowie's "Deranged," performed by Boston rocktronica band All the Queen's Men at The Lizard Lounge in February, 2003. 

Christine Zufferey - vocal and keyboards
Cathy Capozzi - guitar
Tamora Gooding - drums
Joe Kowalski - bass

RIP, David Bowie

All the Queen's Men - "Deranged" (David Bowie cover)

Ambient music by Joe Kowalski.

This track was produced with Ableton Live on 3/19/17. It is made up of an improvised take of baby grand piano which was processed through two instances of the Max4Cats virtual modular synth plugin Oscillot, four more instrument instances of Oscillot, and a drone track (Max device). All is run through Valhalla Reverb. One instrument instance of Oscillot includes two custom modules, one of which works as intended.

Still photo taken from the video:
https://youtu.be/3BKUnPcKjwk

"Electronic Purring"

Experimental synth textures by onlyone/ Joe Kowalski

Not a final track, just the result of some experimentation using the Oscillot virtual modular system and K-Devices' Ext controller device to create semi-generative music. There'll be more of this. 

3/27/17

"Modular Dreams"

Produced by Joe Kowalski using Ableton Live using Zeze, Adungu, and Ohangla instruments created by behr and Autobeat created by K-Devices. 

behr: https://emilehoogenhout.com
K-Devices: http://k-devices.com/

Image from video by Joe Kowalski

African Harps

Rough mix of a new song toward the next onlyone solo album... 

Joe on vox, synths/ keyboards, guitar, bass, drums. Recorded/ engineered by Joe on 5/20-21/17

©2017 Joe Kowalski Music/ Is It Noise or Is It Music ASCAP

(You Are Not) Alone

My wife found this manuscript for a short piece I wrote in 1995. It was largely based on an improvisation. 

Recorded 9/30/17 at Spencer Davis Hall. Wu Wei Delgado (p) Clementine Busch (cl). Conducted by Samuel Toshi.

(actually recorded on same day by Joe Kowalski in the spaceship control room. Audience sounds downloaded from freesound and were created by user eksaa.)

"On The Phone With Joan" - clarinet and piano (Joe Kowalski)

Inspired by and incorporating recording of medium channeling a poet.

Recorded on 3/3-4/18. 

Gear used:
Roland Juno 60 synth
Yamaha DX7 synth
Roland System 1m synth
Make Noise 0Coast synth
1952 Baldwin baby grand piano
Roland V-drums
Ableton Live

A Great Deal Of Trouble

"Leia's Theme," produced/ performed/ adapted by Joe Kowalski inspired by Vangelis and Wendy Carlos.

Composed by John Williams for Star Wars.

"Rebel Princess" design by Jacob Saariaho/ POPTEEZ. Buy the shirt:
https://www.popteez.com/products/rebel-princess

"General Leia Dreams of Electric Sheep"

What happens when I watch Synth Britannia and Turner Classic Movies in quick succession? I make a track like this in a day. Or this specific track actually. I don't think I'd done that before. Anyway. Enjoy!

Music ©2019 Joe Kowalski/ Is It Noise Or Is It Music ASCAP

I don't own the original unprocessed voice so this will probably come down soon.

You're Working For Me

End credit music for the short horror film "Luperca Returns," from Exiram Productions. 

Soundtrack composed/ produced by Joe Kowalski

LUPERCA RETURNS
Produced, directed, edited by Alexis Ramirez
Written by Brennan Scott

"Luperca Returns" - End Credit Music

Inspired by watching the Blizzard of 2013 roll into New England. Composed, performed and produced by Joe Kowalski/ onlyone on February 9, 2013, as snow accumulated and accumulated outside. 

If you enjoy this, you may enjoy onlyone's ambient album, Soundscapes: Volume 1.
http://onlyone.bandcamp.com/album/soundscapes-volume-1

Thunder Snow 020913

The first in a series of ambient pieces built off of birdsongs, this piece is based on the song of the brown creeper. 

Brown Creepers Creeping

Another birdsong ambience by Joe Kowalski. As hinted (given away?) in the name, this piece uses manipulated instances of the Rose-Breasted Grosbeak's distinctive birdsong to create its atmosphere. 

Buy the album at http://onlyone.bandcamp.com/album/in-flight

Rose-Tinted Grosbeak

Hi Speed Line Approach To The Center Of It All

onlyone released the ambient album "Zen and the Art of Commuting by Public Transportation" in February, 2015, and he released three other solo albums and an album with his band The Elderly in 2014. 

Joe "onlyone" Kowalski is a composer/ producer/ multi-instrumentalist based in Boston. He has played in countless bands as keyboardist or bassist (including BrownBoot, Gato Malo, Larry Banilow, The World's Greatest Sinners, All the Queen's Men, Larry Banilow, The Bay City Rollers featuring Ian Mitchell and many more), and has written and recorded a number of solo albums ranging from ambient music to electronics-infused progressive rock. Joe has also been an equal member of other collaborative recording groups like Fünf and The Elderly, co-writing, playing numerous instruments and co-producing all albums. Topping it off, Joe is half of the absurdist soft rock outfit Larry Banilow, producing and engineering the greatest hits album "Huggin' Funshine: 16 Golden Greats," co-writing all of the songs and playing many of the instruments on the record. 

In 2010 Joe produced, engineered and co-composed (with guitarist/ vocalist Adam Sherman) the soundtrack to the feature-length independent film Phillip The Fossil (available in NetFlix). Joe's music has also provided the soundtrack for other short films. Joe has also composed the theme song for acclaimed creativity podcast Ideascicle.

Joe is also a music instructor, teaching piano/ keyboards, bass guitar, theory, technology and more. 

joeonlyone

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