I had the pleasure to see Swan Lake on stage

Infinite Jukebox wc 10 November 2025

The trials of a fantasy adventure

Music by Ambient Annie. Production & Mastering by BotNikStudio2, Bottna, Sweden.

MYSTÈRE IN F

Video; www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKwkMvCMepI
In this track and video I was inspired by dreams, mysteries etc.
Made in 2023.

The Way Of Dreams

I hope this song reaches your heart. 
Thank you so much for listening.

This is an original track.
I recorded the guitar, bass, piano and drums myself. Some elements like certain string parts, ambient sounds, and subtle adjustments were programmed using MIDI — although some of the string sounds were also played and recorded using an electric piano.
This track features vocals by Koharu Rikka (小春六花), a singing voice synthesizer.


The lyrics are as follows:

見えない心を抱いて
凍えた夜を温めて
途切れ始めた記憶を
繋ぎとめようとしてた

いつもより明るい日が
夢のなかで感じた日が
やって来ると信じながら
時が過ぎるのを待った

あぁ　偶然出会った時にあなたは
嬉しそうに寂しそうに微笑んだ

悲しみのない気持ちに
感じたはずの気持ちに
もう一度だけ出会えたなら
きっと幸せになれる

あぁ　こわくて辛くて寂し過ぎて
気持ちだけが先に進むあなたへ


The English translation is as follows:
-----
Holding an unseen heart,
I tried to warm the frozen night.
I reached for fading memories,
Trying to keep them from slipping away.

Brighter days than usual,
Those I once felt within my dreams 
Believing they would come again,
I waited as time went by.

Ah… when we met by chance,
You smiled — so happy, yet so lonely.

If I could once more
Feel the feelings I thought I’d lost,
Meet the heart untouched by sorrow,
Then maybe I could be happy again.

Ah… to you, who’ve been afraid, in pain, and lonely,
yet still let your heart move forward toward the light.

-----

Letters to the Light

'babe...' 

Scotty: epiphone casino guitar, fender squire 3/4 bass, lyrics, vocals 

(1-2-3-2-1) 

Babe, is my love in vain?
This loss of trust with you has made me rather quite insane.
Say what you need to say.
Get it off your chest, and lay to rest all of your blame. 

Some sorta solution needs to be figured out.
Otherwise resolution is without beyond doubt.
I'll do whatever it takes just to figure out
whatever's going on and causing us this drought.
Maybe you're right and I am nothing but a grouch.
Or, maybe, I am, and you just need to shut your mouth.
Maybe we're both to blame and should just carry out
our lives that remain and hang upon the couch. 

Babe, why can't we be
happy, understand we'll disagree and soon make peace?
Yet we always want to leave.
Turn our backs upon our love during difficulties.

babe...

Orchestral Moves (2025) Remastered

I get the point
Experience I’ve found
What goes around comes back around

I understand
I’ve lived a double life
I’ve felt the balance on a knife

CHORUS
Feeding my nausea 
Feeding my shame
I’m self destructing once again
Bleeding self pity
I’ve played this game
I’m self destructing once again 

Playing a part
Feelings are fragile
Succeeding means being agile

It hurts so much
I’m feeling broken
It doesn’t help we’ve not spoken

CHORUS

I pressed the point
I pressed the button
I’m in danger of being forgotten 

CHORUS

Self Destructing

Deeper Underground

Synfunny

Themes from a Story to be Told IV

[I accidentally removed the track. Sorry about that - those who have already listened can just move on].
Unfortunately, the connection has dropped, and we cannot be sure what is happening in the apartment where, at such a late hour, the light is still on. Probably nothing; they’re likely watching a film or reading a book. They might be projecting their reactions outward, and what we see could therefore be nothing more than the reflection of someone else’s nightmares — or dreams. Certainly, we have now reached a turning point: nothing can any longer be regarded as real, or the opposite... (all talk!).

This is the fifth in a series of eight easy, acoustic, rather short, and deliberately inconclusive tracks, assembled by combining new ideas with reworked older material, adding parts and sounds along the way. 

Part 1 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-1-night
Part 2 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-2-dawn
Part 3 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-3-noon
Part 4 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-4-late-afternoon
Part 6 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-6-dawn-again

Composed by Michele Ansani (2023-2025). This time I simply redid a piece I had posted in the spring of last year, slightly changing the atmosphere: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/overlays
All the ambient noises and female vocals are taken from public sound archives.
Posted on Souncloud: 2025, October 16 and reposted on November 4.

In case nothing happens - part 5 (night again)*

Swan Lake Memory (Unloved) Remastered

"Bewahre das Licht in dir"
"Keep the light inside you"
🙏

Keep The Light Inside (Remix 2025)

℗ © Copyright Ian Stokes. All Rights Reserved
Recorded, mixed and mastered using Logic.
Guitars played: Taylor 714CE in DADGAD tuning (Capo 9th Fret)
Photography: Thanks go to Nigel and Libby Hume at Hume Photography.
SONG NOTES:
This song reflects my growing awareness of the incomprehensible nature of a star in the sky, which has captivated the imagination of humanity since the dawn of time. All that amazing energy, captured in a little word of just three letters, the sun. 
LYRICS:
Such a little word “the sun”
With all its mystery 
Yet, without the sun my friend
Where oh where would we be?

With colours that glisten and dance all around
As far as the eye can see 
Without the sun tell me my friend
Where oh where would we be 

For who can say how it does what it does 
Painting the sky so blue
As pretty a picture as I’ve ever seen
Oh the things the sun can do

The years come and go like the ocean tide
But is time ever what it seems?
Without the sun, tell me my friend
Where oh where would we be?

Chorus

A Little Word

In Fading Light

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