wonderful = ethereal and organic - recommended to @pleudoniem and @progrockdan-instrumentals

Sweet and calming - reminds me of when my two year old niece came to stay at my house and at bedtime she softly sang herself to sleep ❤️

Gentle, subtle but also potent and laden with depth. Great voice ❤️

Contemplative to the point of almost stopping time

Lyrics: Mavi Nervi (1981)
Music: Michele Ansani (1981)
Vocals: Elisabetta Verri and Michele Ansani

A young woman friend of mine had a baby girl in the spring of 1981. She asked me to make a little music for some verses (a lullaby) she had written for the circumstance. Now, I prefer to shorten the lyrics and add a sort of child's chant - that baby was indeed a very, very precocious singer - and, of course, the super joerxworx' sax (@joerxworx) [thank you as always, Jörg!]
The other audio material is almost all recovered from an early 1990s recording made (together with Elisabetta Verri) on a wonderful Tascam 424 MK II Portastudio (how nostalgic!).
Cover picture: Gustav Klimt, "Baby (Cradle)" (1917/1918). National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Lyrics (Italian/English)

Estrema anima primitiva
esile voce vaporosa
perla di rossa argilla
sguardo di gabbiano
geloso erede

Extreme primitive soul
slender vaporous voice
pearl of red clay
gull's eye
jealous heir

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Posted on SoundCloud: 2024, August 13.

Song for the newborn child who is already singing / with Elisabetta Verri & joerxworx **

Hello! I’m a university professor of history who enjoys playing guitar and piano/keyboard, and occasionally composing — unpretentiously, just for fun.
Most of my recordings (made with a KorgD8, Audacity, and more recently Reaper for MIDI and the Spitfire Audio libraries) are entirely homemade and decidedly imperfect.
My music includes old songs (all written back in the last century; here I’ve only shared the ones I’ve reworked in recent years) as well as both old and new instrumentals — usually in several versions, some of which eventually disappear because they’re simply unlistenable.

Thanks for stopping by and giving something a listen; in the description you’ll often find explanatory notes or translations of the lyrics.
Here I’ve discovered a community of talented musicians and songwriters, and plenty of beautiful music to enjoy. Whenever I like, comment, or repost a track, it’s always the result of attentive listening. For the same reason, I’m not interested in trading empty “likes” without real engagement, and I won’t reply to messages from would-be promoters — follower counts don’t matter to me in the slightest.

By popular demand (well, actually just my daughter’s — she insists it’s the “cooler” platform), I’ve finally started putting some of my music on Spotify too...

Update (2024, September 9). Completed the "AI & (fake) songwriting project". Here: https://soundcloud.com/mick-hansan 

P.S.: A prayer, a humble request to those who publish songs: use the description area to make the lyrics available... This would make listening to them more complete and enjoyable!

I've posted some 'live' homemade performance here: https://www.instagram.com/michele_ansani/

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