This is a Breton song, a tune that never got anything done with it. A Corncrow outtake,.
 Until yesterday it existed as a guide guitar track that I recorded, and some bouzouki played by my erstwhile bandmate.
I stuck some recorder and drums on it.  

Enjoy - with or without cider!

Cider Song (Breton trad arr Kim Guy)

 A collaboration between two musical conspirators, The Atwood Machine really like to make strange cover versions of random songs they love.

Kim Guy sings and instrumentalises while http://soundcloud.com/paulmdye programs and twiddles with his shiny gadgets. 

Vermilion (Slipknot)

A collaboration between two musical conspirators, The Atwood Machine really like to make strange cover versions of random songs they love.

Stars (Dubstar)

A Forest (The Cure)

Come Calling (Cowboy Junkies)

This is not the first version of this song that I've recorded. I keep returning to it - I clearly love it. It appears, augmented, on The Rowan Amber Mill release Golden Strings To Tether The Sun. Here is the UnMilled version, and as close to my idea of how it sounded in my head as I can make it. At present it's only a rough mix. I hope to find someone to mix it properly. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy it.

Bushes And Briars (rough mix)

Until It Sleeps (Metallica)

The theme tune from True Blood, reworked.
For those feeling slightly misbehavey...

Bad Things (Jace Everett)

From The Atwood Machine Vol 2, our cover of  'Spiders' is from System Of a Down's eponymously titled album from 1998.
Who are The Atwood Machine?  A duo consisting of http://soundcloud.com/paulmdye and http://soundcloud.com/kimguy who like to make strange cover versions of the songs they love.

Spiders (The Atwood Machine get entwangled with System Of A Down)

2014 and The Atwood Machine kicks off Volume 4 with a track from 2002 NMA album "Lost Songs".
Who/what is The Atwood Machine?  A duo comprising http://soundcloud.com/paulmdye and http://soundcloud.com/kimguy, who like to make strange cover versions of songs they love...

Trees In Winter (New Model Army recruits The Atwood Machine)

I'm a big fan of Stina Nordenstam.  I was thrilled to find the album this track came from on a Brighton-beachfront stall on the day of the eclipse back in 1999.  It's only taken up until now to do something from it - the title track.  
All my thanks to Paul Dye-namite, for excellentalising it. 


cover pic;  Holly Lindem

Dynamite (Stina Nordenstam)

Lou Reed.  What a legend. 
BIG LOVES, man.

Perfect Day (Lou Reed)

The Atwood Machine (http://soundcloud.com/paulmdye and http://soundcloud.com/kimguy) are rather taken with True Detective.  And the theme tune.  So they hied themselves hither into the studio to do the do.  As you do.

Far From Any Road (The Handsome Family get put through The Atwood Machine)

Lament For The Land

This track was due to be the final track in an Americana project that sadly didn't get off the ground.
The glorious crickets are " Summer Night In Georgia" by jymdavis. Many thanks for the atmospherics.

Rockabye Road (Rough Mix)

During my recuperation after illness, I wanted something lightweight to create music with that didn't require breathwork, which counted out my newly-bought Native American flute. I'd hankered after a lyre, ended up buying a 22 string harp because I thought I wanted more strings. I was wrong. My beautiful lyre came from the States, is made from spalted red oak and maple and I'm rather in love with her. As energy returns, I'm looking forward to doing more with her. Here's her first outing - a 12th/ 13th century tune from the Orkneys.

Nobilis Humilis

The Atwood Machine (http://soundcloud.com/paulmdye and http://soundcloud.com/kimguy) like to make strange covers.
Doll Parts is by Hole - from their second studio album, Live Through This. Released in 1994.
Artwork (adapted) from the original by Bousure http://www.flickr.com/photos/30430801@N06/6111102895/in/photostream/

Doll Parts (The Atwood Machine get into Hole)

Had to be done - saw the movie "Into The Wild" from which it is taken - and as soon as this song started playing I had to stop myself from rushing into the studio....

Long Nights (Eddie Vedder)

I was messing around and this happened.  Many thanks to Paul Dye, his added Excellence of Drummage (and mix-mastery mad skillz).

Guitar- stevejaz: www.looperman.com/loops/detail/68667

Take Five of My Favourite Things - album interlude

Stripsearch" is from Faith No More's 1997 album, "Album of the Year", covered by The Atwood Machine (http://www.soundcloud.com/paulmdye and http://www.soundcloud.com/kimguy) who like to do things with songs they like.

Stripsearch (Faith No More get frisked by The Atwood Machine)

The Atwood Machine Vol 4 is now complete - this being the last track, a cover of Bauhaus' Hollow Hills, from their 1981 album 'Mask'.  A lot of people know Bauhaus, but just who are The Atwood Machine? http://www.soundcloud.com/paulmdye and http://www.soundcloud.com/kimguy - who like to make strange covers of songs they love.

Hollow Hills (The Atwood Machine get festive with Bauhaus)

A cover of the gorgeous Stina Nordenstam song...pretty much as she laid it down on her album "And She Closed Her Eyes".  I added a teeny smidge of additional harmony.

Fireworks (Stina Nordenstam)

The Atwood Machine cranks into action with their version of this 80's delight.
Very little control was lost during the making of this track....

Self Control (Laura Branigan)

Alone (Heart - The Atwood Machine)

A collab from an original track by Indigolab, remixed by Bo Bo Nomad, with vocal wotsits by me. These guys rock. And ambient, and dub, and....

Bo Bo Nomad VS Indigolab - Eyes Open ft Kim Guy

I have covered many a song based on very random grounds...this is another. From their 2009 debut album "These Four Walls", who could fail to be intrigued by a band called We Were Promised Jetpacks? The band were mentioned in my horoscope, so I then YouTubed them, came across a song title I liked, listened, loved and...here you go...

Quiet Little Voices (We Were Promised Jetpacks)

Ahhhhhhhhhh!
The Atwood Machine like to make strange cover versions of songs they love.

Heart Of The Sun (Roger Waters runs through The Atwood Machine)

I heard it. Got straight into the studio. Here you go...

If I Needed You (Townes Van Zandt)

From  Marilyn Manson's 1999 album 'Mechanical Animals'.
It was either do this or take valium...
:)

Coma White (Marilyn Manson)

It's the Pink Floyd song - without all of the rest of it...

Echoes (Roger Waters)

From Nick Drake's 1969 album, "Five Leaves Left".
I had started this last year but not finished it.
Never leave songs lying around half-done - they get tangled up like knitting, so I've discovered....

:)

Way To Blue (Nick Drake)

From 1985 - "Night Time" - the fifth album from Killing Joke.
The (beginnings of this) cover had been languishing in the vaults (okay, depths of my hard-drive) for about two years until a recent visit from Paul. We set to it together, he then went and set forth on it and here it is. Finished. (Finally).

Love Like Blood (Killing Joke)

Yep. It's this song - my version, at least :)


Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

My Mo&Jo, hand in hand with The Muse, collectively decided they've better places to be at the moment, and it was getting depressing, quite frankly. In order to break out of the tailspin, I sought  inspiration.  This wasn't what I was looking for when I stumbled across it, having completely forgotten I knew this one many years ago, from the glorious Joan Armatrading 1985 album "Secret Secrets". The usual thanks to http://soundcloud.com/paulmdye for his mix-mastery.


Love By You (Joan Armatrading)

Part of my as yet unfinished Requiem mass.

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Lacrimosa (Kim Guy)

I've been meaning to delve into Nick Cave for a while, but when I heard this I knew the time had come, and it gave me a chance to have another go on my new guitar.
This is the title track from his latest album.


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Push The Sky Away (Nick Cave)

Recording with The Rowan Amber Mill (brainchild of Stephen Stannard) this is our interpretation of the 1720 ballad, Mad Maudlin's Search for Her Tom of Bedlam. Recorded in lockdown and back to my roots, it's a track from the album Golden Strings To Tether The Sun, available on rowanambermill.bandcamp.com

Golden Strings To Tether The Sun

Bedlam Boys (The Rowan Amber Mill)

I started watching The Bridge a few days ago. For the uninitiated, it's a Swedish/Danish crime series on TV.  Or DVD, in my case ...  
Barely got past the first few seconds of the title sequence before the need to get into the studio overcame me.
This is my version of the theme toon.
I hope you enjoy it.

Hollow Talk (Choir of Young Believers)

My town is under threat from a greenwashed proposal of indeterminate scale, which literally threatens this beautiful blue-belled lane, several protected species, our river, our night sky and so much more. This seemed like the only song to be sung.

Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell)

I am a singer and multi-instrumentalist. My initial incarnation was as a           wyrd/psych-folk singer-musician, and saw my debut solo album, Wednesday’s Child, released in  2010. Subsequent (unreleased) solo albums include self-penned material alongside an eclectic mix of covers from various genres. 

I have gigged and/or recorded with Elowen, The Rowan Amber Mill (album releases include 'Midsummers', 'Heartwood' and 'Folk Devils and Moral Panics' ) Corncrow (album releases include 'Sweet Nightingale' and 'So Brightly Shining') The Atwood Machine, Mats Bergman's 'Burnt More Bridges Than Cross The River Thames' vinyl release, Dead Melodies 'Murken Hollow' and featured on various collaborations; releases including Dark Britannica's We Bring You A King With A Head Of Gold and Rif Mountain's Echoes From The Mountain, all widely available .

The lockdown gave me ample opportunity for music to be made at Wyrd House Studio. Back to my folky roots, and after a 10 year hiatus, The Rowan Amber Mill released a mini-album 'Among the Gorse To Settle Scores', ahead of the full-length 'Golden Strings To Tether The Sun'. Please head over to https://rowanambermill.bandcamp.com/ where you will find this nestling in all the other RAM goodness.

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