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Project “Fun-Time Challenge Project” Presents: Cauliflower Jam

July 21, 2025May 2, 2005 by Cecil Vortex

Just when you thought all the Cauliflower had been eaten, The Challenge returns! From the mysterious guitar-plucking fingers of a man called “xourmas” comes today’s shimmering turn of the Melon wheel. It takes Jake’s sax piece which took eb’s vocal … Read on Macduff...

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Project “Fun-Time Challenge Project” Presents: Cauliflower Maximus

July 21, 2025April 11, 2005 by Cecil Vortex

The Challenge goes on! Two new mixes just in from the uber-talented and oft overheated mind of reclusive madman MC DD von H. Both build on the original piano number plus eb’s stellar vocals.
First up is Radio Cauliflower, … Read on Macduff...

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Project “Fun-Time Challenge Project” Presents: Straight Up: Cauliflower

July 21, 2025March 28, 2005 by Cecil Vortex

About a week and a half ago I posted a short piano number and asked folks to mess around with it. Here’s a brief recap of the excellent and harmonically vivid versions we’ve gotten back so far:

  • Cauliflower Melon (the
… Read on Macduff...
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Project “Fun-Time Challenge Project” Presents: Tower of Cauliflower

July 21, 2025March 25, 2005 by Cecil Vortex

To briefly recap, a week ago I posted a short piano piece and asked folks to mess around with it. Bob and eb tossed down swank slide and vocal interps respectively. Now the Dread Pirate Yaniv Soha joins the fray.… Read on Macduff...

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Project “Fun-Time Challenge Project” Presents: Melancholy Flower

July 21, 2025March 24, 2005 by Cecil Vortex

Last week I posted a wee chordy piano piece and asked folks to mess around with it and send me the results. First in was a sweet slice o’ slide from Bob Myren. If yer just joining the fun, here’s … Read on Macduff...

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Project “Fun-Time Challenge Project” Presents: Cauliflowermelonslide

July 21, 2025March 18, 2005 by Cecil Vortex

Yesterday I exhorted folks to take this wee chordy piano piece I’d recorded (aka Cauliflower Melon) and mess around with it — add guitar, verb, drums, guitar, slice it up, and what have you.
Lo and behold, this morning … Read on Macduff...

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Cauliflower Melon: A Collaborative Fun-Time Challenge Project!

March 17, 2005 by Cecil Vortex

Tune-making and MVRT have both been considerably waylaid of late by hard disk problems and assorted other distractions. But last night I got Pro Tools working (yay!) and recorded this wee, chordy piano piece.
And with this piece comes … Read on Macduff...

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The Best Things in Life Are Free

December 28, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

Here’s another one of them there standards, with keys and vocals and antique steamer howl and yes, perhaps, yes indeed: the sound of time itself. It’s a confusing, some might say outrageous sentiment for this holiday week: The Best Things … Read on Macduff...

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Bean Thread Noodles

December 14, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

Here’s an all-new micro-tune featuring the legendary Jake Vortex on tenor sax. We call this one Bean Thread Noodles, because much like traditional bean thread noodles, it’s made from ground mung beans. Oh yeah!
Seriously though, I have no … Read on Macduff...

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For Every Man There’s a Woman

November 28, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

Good golly do I love the standards. A while back, you may recall, I posted covers first of “Bye Bye, Blackbird,” and then (with a lotta help from eb and Eileen Dahl) “Second Hand Rose.” Great … Read on Macduff...

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