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Tom Slatter progress: 3 joined: January 2008 location: Somewhere, UK website: www.songwright.co.uk influences: Bowie, Radiohead, various metal bands, various indie rock, various prog rock

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2010 Songs

1		Rattle your Jewellery	13 comments // 1 week ago
2		Shaking Hands with Death	5 comments // 3 days ago
3		Candles and Flowers (with  ellenpliss)	4 comments // 2 days ago

Soundboard

•  ellenpliss 21 hours ago

  Yes, Yes, Yes -- please do take "Candles and Flowers" and see what you come up with -- I will be thrilled to have you work on it. Thank You!

•  ellenpliss 1 day ago

  Mr. Slatter -I saw in the collab forum that you might be interested in using other people's lyrics...mine up up for the grabbing, if anything there inspires you. I have many more to write before months end, so hopefully SOMETHING will be worthy of a tune
  Thanks! -- Ellen

• Otterman Empire 2 days ago

  I have to say, I loved Spinning the Compass. Brilliant album. Your FAWM songs are sounding great.

•  Bruce H. McCosar 3 days ago

  Ah, I see -- I did an entire series of articles on odd time signatures back in the day. Here's the one on the 5-groove:
  
  http://bmccosar.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/rhythms-in-five/
  
  That's probably where I went could have added some complexity. I should have used another drum to get a counterrhythm going, one of my 5-claves, superimposed over the 3:2 straight 8 5-groove.

•  Bruce H. McCosar 3 days ago

  Thanks for your comment on "My Secret Word for Dragonfly" -- odd, I don't think it sounds like Take Five at all. Maybe that's because T5 is swing, and this one is straight 8ths? At any rate, it's something that's come up in two comments now, so I probably ought to compare the two.

•  Benjamin Nolan 5 days ago

  Try now. My Wi-Fi's been playing up, and it took me an hour and a half to upload that track.

• Nick Sypniewski 1 week ago

  Sorry - newbie. Posted my song comment here...

• Kim o the Concrete Jungle 2 weeks ago

  "@Kim o' the Conrete Jungle - Good song. Reminds me a little of Nick Cave. In a good way."
  
  Thanks for the comment. I get the Nick Cave comparison a lot. But I can live with that.

•  third time lucy 2 weeks ago

  nice blog, i'll definitely be checking back there. bonus points for writing about songwriting and actually having some well written songs up on your bandcamp to back up your words

•  Chasing Andromeda 2 weeks ago

  Tom, enjoyed Spinning the Compass and looking forward to more great stuff from you! Have a great event!