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Troll Tunes

by Troll Tunes

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Monica 02:35
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The Resonating Machine 01:41
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Beach Basket 02:10
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4.
Mary Don't 01:48
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All The Bodies Return 01:36
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Walk Alone (Laura Marling cover) 03:13
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The Laughing Spot 01:14
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Lady B. 01:54
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Briar Lighter 01:11
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Misabel 01:14
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Double Ken 02:18
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12.
When Kelly Became Kathy 01:54
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TNT 02:58
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14.
The Swan 02:37
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about

(All proceeds will go to benefit trans youth in Florida.)

Thank you so much for being here.

Troll Music... If a troll that lived under a bridge decided to stop eating people and maybe learn their ways. Starting with music.

Ok, for real.

I have:

No skills,
no innate talent,
a bad piano,
a 40-year old keyboard,
a bad voice,
shitty recording equipment
and well, a drive to create and figure things out.

Thus.

I present you with a series daily songs, maybe more.

My rules:

--It has to be done in one day.
--All recording has to be analog. (Some small exceptions, mostly AI voices, noted in the tracks.)
--I have to be able to play what I'm hearing (in other words, no scrambling notes together into some unplayable (by me) arpeggio or melody or something.)
--I have to try something new each song
--Limits have to be leaned into; mistakes have to be left in as much as possible, seen as happy accidents first, and mistakes only as a last resort.
--Yes to digital editing but no to digital effects, loops, instruments, beats, etc.

*What troll would use those?*

In all earnestness, I have LOVED music and SONGS as much as anyone else, but never ever tried to make some, and I couldn't really understand it. It was magic to me.

So this album is me trying to understand:
What is a note, a chord? Why melody? What IS a melody? Why rhythm ? Why these traditional instruments? A "chord progression"? Lyrics, what's up with those?

If you want to hear someone learning in real time, this is the place to be!

Thanks for listening!

credits

released April 11, 2023

Co-vocals on The Swan by Lizzie Merrick. Everything else by Tom Hart and his army of trolls.

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Troll Tunes Providence, Rhode Island

Cartoonist. Never made music.

Troll Music... If a troll that lived under a bridge decided to stop eating people and maybe learn their ways. Starting with music.

Ok, for real.

I have:

No skills,
no innate talent,
a bad piano,
a 40-year old keyboard,
a bad voice,
shitty recording equipment
and well, a drive to create and figure things out.

Thanks so much.

Proceeds go to trans youth in Florida ... more

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