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Fiona's Face An experimental piece in 5-EDO tuning. By David Hamill. Copyright © 2012
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Carry The Can A sociopath's song. By David Hamill, with help from Robby Garner. Copyright © 2011
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Shore Leave An instrumental. Original idea by Robby Garner, arranged and produced by David Hamill. Copyright © 2011
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Five Fifteen A minimalist instrumental, based on the numbers 5 and 15. Musical wallpaper. By David Hamill. Copyright © 2011
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Like I Do Does he hold you like I do? Does he kiss you like I do? Does he get to you? Melody, lyrics and vocals by Diane Jessurun. Guitar by “PhilTheNil”. Copyright © 2011
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Not Your Normal Girl I am not your normal girl. Is this real? You tell me. A loop-based piece by David Hamill. Vocal samples by Diane Jessurun. Copyright © 2011
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Waiting For The Red Light Waiting for the red light. See you on the other side. By David Hamill. Vocal samples by Helena Jesel. Copyright © 2011
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We Own You We know you. We'll clone you. We own you! By David Hamill. With a choir of thousands (possibly). Copyright © 2011
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Let’s Go Out And Play For Ryan Giggs and Wayne Rooney. Playing away. By David Hamill. Backing vocals by Sonika. Copyright © 2011
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Mina’s Song (electronic version) From the viewpoint of Mina Harker in Bram Stoker's novel ‘Dracula.’ Melody, lyrics and vocal by Susannah Kelly; arranged and produced by David Hamill. Copyright © 2011
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Chronic Iconic Chronic iconic, the hedgehog is sonic. Experimental whimsy. Written, performed and produced by David Hamill, featuring Microsoft Anna on vocals. Copyright © 2011
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Mina’s Song (acoustic version) From the viewpoint of Mina Harker in Bram Stoker's novel ‘Dracula.’ Melody, lyrics and vocal by Susannah Kelly; arranged and produced by David Hamill. Copyright © 2011
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Loss-Of-Coolant Accident Inspired by events at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. Written, performed and produced by David Hamill. Copyright © 2011
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Fallin' Apart Guns gettin’ loaded, knives gettin’ sharp. How come everything is fallin’ apart? Written, performed and produced by David Hamill, featuring samples from “swaplr”. Copyright © 2011
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Tell Me What You Want I'm giving you my all, but you still just want to walk all over me. Original concept and vocals by Timiarah Camburn; arranged and produced by David Hamill. Copyright © 2010
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The Marching Sand An atmospheric instrumental. Guitar and percussion by David Perreko, synthesiser by David Hamill. Copyright © 2010
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Am I Wrong? And if I'm wrong, why do I feel so empty now you’ve gone? Original concept and guitars by Aljan Janrac; melody, lyrics and vocals by Jacqueline Durbin; additional instrumentation and production by David Hamill. Copyright © 2009
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City of Gold The perils of life in the big city. Written, performed and produced by David Hamill. Copyright © 2009
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Tryte An instrumental piece. A trite little tune? Written, performed and produced by David Hamill. From an original musical idea by Robby Garner. Copyright © 2009
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Rundown After Sundown The title says it all. Well, all the lyrics anyway; this piece is really an instrumental. Written, performed and produced by David Hamill. Inspired by a four-bar sample from a piece by Robby Garner. Copyright © 2009
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The End Oh no, she missed the bend! She didn’t know she was going so fast. Reworking of an original tune (End Titles) by Robby Garner. Adapted, performed and produced by David Hamill; synth solo by Robby Garner. Copyright © 2009
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Wicked Things What a wicked thing are you. What a wicked thing am I. Melody and lyrics by Robby Garner. The rest by David Hamill. Copyright © 2009
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Virtual Band
Focal Chords is a virtual band, an international musical collaboration. We make our music available for free listening, downloading and sharing under Creative Commons licences.
Who’s involved?
See the credits for individual tracks to find out who did what. The band leader is David Hamill.
Free music!
We offer our recordings to you free because we want more people to enjoy our music.
Permissions
Here’s what you’re allowed to do with our music. You can listen to it, copy it for your own purposes, and share it with anyone you like. For other details, see the Creative Commons licences applying to the individual tracks.
Creative Commons licences are non-exclusive. The means that we may also license our work under a separate commercial licence where appropriate. If you want to use our music in ways not permitted by the applicable Creative Commons licence, please contact us to discuss alternatives.
Can I help?
Focal Chords seeks talented musicians (instrumentalists, vocalists, lyricists, composers etc) for collaboration on a one-off or continuing basis. If you like our music and you’re happy to work under the Creative Commons licences, please contact us.
Contact us
To contact us, email spam@focalchords.com, but change spam to music. :-)
We hate spam too, so we’ll never misuse your email address or pass it on to other organisations.
Willy Wonka quote?
“We are the music makers / And we are the dreamers of dreams” is indeed a quotation from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, but Mr Wonka (Gene Wilder) was himself quoting the poem Ode by Arthur O’Shaughnessy. For more, see this Wikipedia page.