Been tryin to get this song mixed for about a month now and I'm finally happy with result. Started out electronica but on the advice of a good friend I went back to organic acoustic. I'm playin piano,keys and bass. Basically everything you hear(and cant hear). I bought a 1 amp Blackstar guitar amp recently and I love it's sound in the studio! I wanted to put more electric guitars in!...Had to hold back. Very happy with vocal sound recently. 

Time To Wake Up

Decided to give this track a fresh sound by remixing it. My good friend Fintan Tynan sings with me here. I brought up his vocals in the mix and I moved some stuff around and changed some volumes and Eq. I re-did the drums entirely and finally Im happy that they sound closer to the 'everybody-playin-live-in-a-small-room' sound I wanted first day.
The idea of this song came when I learnt the mandolin. I started messin around with some chords and this song came from that.

Lives & Alcohol - 2015 Mix

This track has acoustic guitars (takamine en10) , mandolin, Bass and Drums and percussion bits that I found lying around  and started banging together. It's started life as an acoustic song but I thought the addition of drums and perc brought it to life. The two vocals in verses caused me some problems getting them to gel. The lower melody was tough to sing as it kept banging off the higher one. Very happy that I stuck at it cause they work well together now.

For What Its Worth - 2015 Mix

The idea of this song came to me after reading Dean Koonz's Frankenstein books. The idea of a human more evolved and tired of being in our shadow inspired the lyrics here. The electric guitars were done by Mike Moriarty. Seriously bluesy and grungy which is what I wanted. I put down the rest of the tracks myself and only got to mixing it recently. I kinda wanted A black Keys meets Zztop sound and also simple.

The Maker

This is a kinda country/folk number . Paul 'Chubba' Collins played drums and the rest was myself. Song has been in my head for a while so I decided to record it and mix( finally) it. I played a really nice gibson acoustic guitar on the lead parts. There is also some banjo and mandolin in there too. Lyrics are about a guy who is at a crossroads in his life and always loves to tell people about it , but then he never does anything to improve his situation. In the end life has past him by and he's still thinking about changing. There are so many people like this.

Dope Street - 2015 Mix

This song came to me when I heard a drum beat late one night in my home studio. I started strumming my guitar and within a few minutes I had a chord-riff thing followed my a vocal melody. That was the premise of the song and it grew into what you hear now. I wanted to keep the multi-singing chorus bit and it just flew into a disco-esque route for longer chorus . I originally had a electronic bass but it bored me after a few listens so I replayed part on a Fender Precision. I might adjust a few things in mix but Im happy overall with this song. The lyrics are kinda hiding a dark tone of going down to the river and thinking of jumping in and giving up on life but also about finding strength to pull through life's ongoing knack of knocking you down!

Down By The River ( Mix 1)

I wrote this song last week in an hour! I felt used afterwards cause the song just passed through me so quickly. I recorded the piano in one take ( mistakes and all!) and I liked the feel so I didn't edit any of the playing. The vocals were a mixed bag cause I sang it differently in the beginning and chose to re-sing the melody lower in verse. The lyrics are about taking charge of your life and going for what you want and not waiting for someone else to give it to you.... Times Up!

Meet In The Middle

Kinda has an 80's feel to it . Have put it too some scenes from Magnolia (1999 Movie) and it sits really well. It's got a dreamy hypnotic vibe going

Stop Messin With My Head -  Instrumental For Film

Kinda bluesy with a Tom Petty , Oasis vibe,me thinks!

Wrote and recorded this song in Feb 2019. I played all instruments and got my friend , Oscar Halpin to pen some guitar tracks.
Idea behind lyrics is you are who you are so just be happy with yourself .

I Can't Feel My Toes

I Cant Feel My Toes

Ok, So I've added an Outro . It's nearly finished. The Mixing is only temp as well but what do you all think of the song so far? Am I going in the right direction?

Tom Ryan SingerSongwriter

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