winter 2025

March 2025 picks

Good Old Days

We all got them, some just can’t be seen……………cheers for having a listen


A constant reminder
A memory from afar
Now etched in time
My permanent scars

There’s another side to me
That you don’t really know
But if you look real hard
There’s a story to be told

And if it’s not what you wanna see
You can look away
They’re always gonna be there
My scars are here to stay

They been years in the making
Star of their own show
I can’t ask them to leave
Like me they got nowhere to go

A constant reminder
A memory from afar
Now etched in time
My permanent scars

My Scars

Based on a collaboration of Indii Wild Moon and Nathaniel Ehrnman found here:
 
https://soundcloud.com/nathaniel-ehrnman/blue-september

Blue September

There are many versions and different traditions of the story of the Magi and about their journey. And about their origin. Pictured on the cover is a drawing found in the 'Catalan Atlas,' a map of the world dated to the late 14th century. Pictured here are the three kings. The caption reads: “This province is called Tarshish, from which came the Three Wise Kings, and they came to Bethlehem in Judaea with their gifts and worshipped Jesus Christ, and they are entombed in the city of Cologne two days journey from Bruges.”
But where was the city (or the country) called Tarshish (Tarsis, Tharsis), whose king was already mentioned in Psalm 72?
No one, exactly, knows.

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I recorded the guitar part in 2018, when bought a Guild (my Washburn had become mute ...), so the track has a lot of noise and imperfections. Then there were several attempts to organize the piece and arrange it. This could be the last one. It came rather long and slow. But long and slow was also that improbable (and hardly true) journey - perhaps one could imagine it by closing the eyes and listening to the music.

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Composed by Michele Ansani (2018-2024).
Bansuri is courtesy of Aaroh; female vocals of Function Loops.
posted on SoundCloud: 2024, December 31

Traveling from Tarshish to Bethlehem * 🎧

The second track from my Echoes From The Wastelands EP!
And the first track to feature sounds from my new synth, the Arturia Microfreak!

Guitars used:
Gibson Les Paul Studio 
Yamaha Revstar 
Fender Precision Bass 

Novation Launchkey 49 MK3 midi keyboard 

Plugins used:
Tonex - Mesa Boogie Reference Signature Collection
Neural DSP Mesa Boogie MKiiC+ suite
Line 6 Helix Native
Arturia Analog Lab V
Spitfire Audio - BBC Symphony Orchestra 
Spitfire Audio - Labs Cassette Synth
Drums - EZ Drummer 3 - Dark Industrial 

Cover photo generated by A.I. 

Bandits

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Carlos Vivanco

Èr, Wǔ, Yī

Temperance Fountain

strockes and heart attacks

Composition and Sampling collage by Synline.
Photo by Engin Akyurt

For Nothing

Track was created using system consisting of modules mostly created by Random House’s Serge Modules.  Some of the modules used were Medusa Subharmonic Oscillator and NTO to FM the Medusa, VC Resonant Equaliser and a Serge 8-Stage Sequencer/Programmer.   Full patch details are not provided at this time. Recording was made directly into two tracks of a Zoom H6 Recorder.  A computer was used only for mastering purposes.  Basically it is was a one take effort.

Lemurian Seed

... The spinning wheel turns, days go by with countless chores around the house. Everything is on her shoulders – a dreamer husband, naughty children, the financial well-being of the family. With each passing year, her strength diminishes. New circumstances and inevitable mistakes, like tropical thickets, encroach on the comfort and well-being built with such difficulty. The wheel turns more and more slowly. The thread becomes thinner. And in the end, it breaks, no longer able to withstand the inexorable march of time…

«Incansable rueca de Úrsula Iguarán». Op.16-04. (2016)

Previous works can be found here:
https://soundcloud.com/shamukhamedov-803522980
https://soundcloud.com/shamukhamedov-nadir

«Incansable rueca de Úrsula Iguarán». Op.16-04. (2016)

nadir 3.0