The time is now. Well, mid-September anyway and nearly ten o’clock at night. The year is, ah, not now. In fact long enough ago that air-conditioning was not yet a common occurrence in a Greenwich Village cocktail lounge.
          The front door and a side door are both propped open. It was warm during the day but now a cool breeze carries in the softening sounds of the street and carries out snippets of conversation, music and some of the cigarette smoke.
          There is a quartet; drums, bass, guitar and a guy that splits time between a piano and vibes. This is the first time they’ve played this number. Dave (leader, vibes and piano) played the song for Roy, his boss, only a few days earlier. “Not bad Davey ya think you can shrink the melody to under a octave and a half and make it a little less busy in spots?” “Ah come on Roy. It’s just barely over and not that busy. Can I take it to Marty for some lyrics?” “Nah, I need him to finish the stuff on his desk already. Take it over to Sal. He might be able to sell it as an instrumental.”
          A young woman and her date are sitting quietly talking at a small table by the window. It’s not their first date but the end of a more casual relationship and the beginning of something else. She’s talking about a previous group outing or more specifically a girl who came named Mary. She thinks, in a subtle way. Although not particularly perceptive, he laughingly notes her obvious dislike of Mary and asks why. She admits to her flimsy subterfuge but defends herself by stating that Mary is chasing him. He laughs even harder “come on, Mary hardly knows me.” Of course he’s wrong and Mary is but his obliviousness makes her happy.
           After a few drinks he takes takes her for some coffee and pastries. He gets a napoleon and an expresso. She gets a coffee light and sweet and a cannoli. While he’s wondering whether or not she likes him enough to sleep with him. She’s dreaming of names for their children. She only nibbles an her cannoli. She’s killing time until it’s too late to catch her train. When it gets close she tells him a story. After her parents divorce she moved with her broke mother to a new town. Out school clothes shopping she saw a dress, too expensive for their means, that she fell in love with. Her mom, feeling sorry for her, decides to indulge her. She wears to to the first day of school and is teased so ruthlessly that she never wears it again but won’t tell to her mother why. Completely enraptured by the story he doesn’t notice the time until it’s to late to make the train. The next one is not due for hours so he invites her back to his apartment. She then wolfs down her dessert and they go. There is a moment after getting punched in the face, when that metallic taste of blood floods your mouth, that your senses are heightened and you are fully there in that moment. That night was the flip side of that same coin. The next day she worries that, swept up in passion, she might have driven him off to some other girl. But in his mind there are no other women and there wont be. Sometimes she will still hum the melody, the simpler parts, but she no longer remembers where she heard it. Long forgotten by everybody else it now only exists, in fragments, in her mind.

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Have a listen to my album "Curiosities Of Outsider Art" (Sept 2025). Quirky and interesting tunes.
Thank you for listening!

I try to write with rich lyrical details and self-deprecating humor about the human condition. Plus, that unique Shade Structure sound!  It sounds best with headphones. Thanks for any comments, reposts or likes.

Discography: Available under Album tag on my Soundcloud main page. 
* Curiosities Of Outsider Art (Sept 2025)
*All this Useless Beauty (2025)
*Rockers (2024) 
*Arrhythmia & Blues (2024)
* The Curse Of A Good Looking Ghost (2024)
* Low Profile (2024)
* Smilers (EP 2023)
•Short Songs For Tall Minds"  (2022)
•Friends, They're Gonna Get Your Story Wrong (2021)
•A Suburban Dadaist With Some Store Bought Beats (2021)
•All Feel and No Technique (2020)
•This Is How I Spend My Nights (2019)
•California Songs (2018-2019)

All sounds contained within are home-made/DIY recordings. Most songs are short stories, as I am influenced by Musicians & Writers like Raymond Carver, Warren Zevon, Mountain Goats, Tom Waits, Mark Eitzel,  Randy Newman, Destroyer, Steely Dan, Captain Beefheart, Loudon Wainwright III, Leonard Cohen & The National. Most songs have the lyrics on the song page. Thank you for listening!

I'm a conceptual musical artist but the concepts are vague and I'm not willing to explain them.

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New Music Is Elation: Endangered Species Various Artists Alternative Rock Compilation and sticker set available on Bandcamp!
All profits go to Orangutan Foundation International to help save the Orangutans at: orangutan.org
More than $100 donated so far!  
https://musiciselation.bandcamp.com/album/endangered-species

Music Is Elation: Greatest Hits Vol. 2 compilation, sticker set, and zine still available on Bandcamp!
All profits go to Shelter to help people in need of housing assistance at england.shelter.org.uk 
More than $100 donated so far!  
https://musiciselation.bandcamp.com/album/music-is-elation-greatest-hits-volume-2

Still Promoting Great Music Worldwide on SoundCloud and Bandcamp
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GENRES: Easy Listening | Electronic | Experimental

INSTRUMENTS: Keyboards | Synthesizers | Guitars | Vocals.

Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Evandro B. Lira, also known as “Vintage Mutation”, has been a musical explorer since he was nine years old, when he started his first music studies.
In 1990, he became a trombone player, participating in “jam session” meetings and joining with some gospels orchestras. In 1996 he began his studies in synthesizer keyboards, suffering the influence of the electric guitar since 1998, when he started composing his first songs.
Active researcher on the relationship between music and mysticism, revives his experiences since 2016, expanding his sounds from synthesizers and guitars, in order to rescue all the classic and “vintage” atmosphere, for consequent transmutation into contemporary tendencies.

This Page is Dedicated to the Songs + Artists I've Enjoyed on S.C.
Thank You 4 Filling my World with Music :)

Electronic music artist & producer


Dance & EDM, Electronic, Hip Hop, Pop, Rock
I like to work on different music genres and mix them up

If you search for special music, you can find it here... 
„monokino-productions“ is label and plattform for music and video works produced by Bernward Schilke aka „der minotauros“, the name for my musical-ego and my solo-productions. Together with Eva Henning I build the elektro-acustic-duo named „kaas & kopje“. In 2023 we start the new Brass Project "Brass & Kopje". I´m also bassplayer in the punk-rock-poetry band named „Marilyn´s Army“. In the 1990´s I formed the techno-live-orchester named „T.E.V.O.“ together with five Friends. My own CDs  I produced as „der minotauros“ or together with Eva Henning as „kaas & kopje“ and "Brass & Kopje". With „T.E.V.O.“ we produced LP and CD, with „Marilyn´s Army“ several CDs.

Listen to kaas & kopje  and Brass & Kopje releases here:
https://brasskopje.bandcamp.com/

Listen to Marilyn´s Army Albums here: 
https://open.spotify.com/artist/26xKF33K3uixshUB0FRTKZ

See more of the band "T.E.V.O." here: 
http://www.youtube.com/user/tevoesk

German  translation:
„monokino-productions“ ist Label und Plattform für meine eigenen Musik- und Video-Arbeiten. Mein Name ist Bernward Schilke aka „der minotauros“, Musiker, Producer, Songwriter, experimenteller Tonal- und Visual-Gestalter.  Als „der minotauros“ veröffentliche ich seit den 1990er Jahren meine eigenen CDs und experimentellen Videos. Zusammen mit Eva Henning bilde ich seit 2001 das elektro-akkustische-Duo „kaas & kopje“.  Im Jahr 2023 haben wir das neue Brass Projekt "Brass & Kopje" gestartet. In der 1986 gegründeten deutschsprachigen Punk-Rock Band „Marilyn´s Army“ spiele ich seit 1999 den Bass. 1993 gründete ich mit fünf Freunden das Techno-Live-Orchester „T.E.V.O.“. Neben LP und CD Veröffentlichungen spielten wir bis 2001 unzählige Live-Performances auf Techno Partys und Festivals in ganz Deutschland und dem benachbarten Ausland.
Höre die neusten kaas & kopje und Brass & Kopje Veröffentlichungen hier:
https://brasskopje.bandcamp.com/
Höre die neusten Marilyn´s Army Alben hier: 
https://open.spotify.com/artist/26xKF33K3uixshUB0FRTKZ
Mehr vom Techno-Live-Orchester "T.E.V.O." gibt es hier: www.youtube.com/user/tevoesk

Singer/Songwriter and instrument tinkerer :)

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