a jazzy christmas, enjoyable also in summertime!

🔥🔥Fantastic 🔥🔥
🔥Awesome performance …
🔥Just in time for Christmas 
👏👏👏Bravo👏👏👏

Christmas will certainly be a great pleasure this year(2024) with the inquisitive eyes of wonder beheld in a Grandson's eyes! 🙏🏻😌

🎄A stripped-back, nostalgic rendition that lets the guitar do the storytelling, Feels like snow falling in slow motion, simple, reflective, and full of heart ❄️🎶

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Spécial thanks to Mikamik for his a cappella ......

NEED NO REASON.  feat Mikamik

Santa got Wankered

This song sprung out of a practice session, with the lyrics, especially the first verse, just tumbling out.
It's another love song for my partner.  Can't seem to stop writing them, but that's how much she means to me.  Will be more worried if I stop writing them.  
Hope you enjoy it.

Rapid Rivers (Blazing Across My Mind)

I wrote another Holiday song...

The lights are on the tree
You brought the decorations down
The candles flicker in the breeze
It's calm and peaceful all around 

It was cold here in this place
But you got the  fire going 
And it warms my hands and face 
You made this  feel like home

and I know that things were bad
But they'll be better now you'll see
This is going to be our year
This year was made for you and me

When i look back upon this year  
On all these mem’ries made together
And the love we always shared
That i knew would last forever

Now i don’t know how things would be
If i woke up to find you gone
You are everything to me  
I ‘d never make it on my own

And I feel it in my heart
Things are better now you’ll see
This is gonna be our year
AndI’m so glad you’re here with me

This is gonna be our year
This year was made for you and me

This Is Going To Be Our Year (Christmas '23)

Video;
https://youtu.be/dVTVR1MrYvc

Made in #Ableton (December 2023)

Genres;
#Electronic
#Experimental
#Pop
#Rock

Warm Spaces

Merry Christmas
Arrangement and guitars by Neno J.

White Christmas (Irving Berlin cover)

Balance...


Image created with Leonardo.ai.

RiZLiX - Bitter Sweet

2024 Remix and Remaster version to bring it up to the standard of the later album tracks for full album release in 2025.
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Lindisfarne has always held a special fascination for my wife and I, so it is no surprise to me that I would eventually create some music about it. Hopefully you can be swept away by the music but not the tide ;-)

This track is now the first track of the "The Pilgrims Way Project" exploring the history and natural world of Lindisfarne

Project Playlist

soundcloud.com/mrbouzouki/sets/the-pilgrims-way-project

Project Website

www.pilgrims-way.co.uk

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Instrumentation
The Pilgrims Way Instrumental features Low Whistle, coupled with the sound of strings waves and the wheeling of seagulls overhead. It also features Shevvanai Voice of the Elves VST. (Lara Ausensi)

"Flock of Seagulls by juskiddink (5th June 2010) licensed under creative commons attribution licence via freesound.org

creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Thanks to Redmando, Leonard Scaper and the Songwriters in the Kitchen Forum for the spark
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Background
Ever since 635, when King Oswald gave the Holy Island of Lindisfarne to St Aidan to establish his monastery, the island has been a place of pilgrimage. The road was not constructed until 1954 and until then the vertical poles were the only indicators of the safe route between the mainland and island. The sight of the poles stretching across the sand and mud is one of the most iconic views in Northumberland and to walk the route away from the road and follow in the footsteps of our medieval ancestors is a wonderful experience.

With 'The Pilgrims Way', there was actually very little research involved. Lindisfarne was a place both my wife and I loved and it was really created from a simple low whistle melody. I also included 'Foley' sounds to help in the immersion for the listener. Having got some initial positive feedback from some musical friends, I decided to try and create a series of pieces based around Lindisfarne. Given it's history and unique natural setting, there seemed plenty of material to go at.

The Pilgrims Way - 2024 Remix and Remaster

Bruno Cadillon (https://soundcloud.com/bruno-cadillon-847608847) proposed to me to write the lyrics turning into a song an instrumental track I had just uploaded to Soundcloud (Timelines, here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/timelines-final-draft). 
And here we have the song (see also https://soundcloud.com/bruno-cadillon-847608847/comment-fais-tu-ca-michele-ansanicab): is dedicated to Pierre Bonnard, a French painter (1867-1947) of the Nabis group, a post-impressionist movement. 
Thanks to Bruno - the piece is sung by him -, a true and versatile artist.
Cover picture: Pierre Bonnard, La porte-fenêtre ouverte (1921). The Phillips Collection, Washington.

LYRICS

Commet fais-tu, ça, Pierre
Donner tant de vie
Commet fais-tu, ça, dis 

Derrière ta fenêtre
Il y a
Tant de couleurs claires
Tant de joies
Comment fais-tu ça, dis
Comment fais tu ça

Tous ces paysages  
Que tu voies
Ces chaises bancales
Cette simple table
Couleur sable

Toute cette douceur
cette chaleur
cela nous traverse
Nous transperce

Rester là peut-être
Que le temps s’arrête
Derrière ta fenêtre

Commet fais-tu ça pierre
D’un trait de lumière
Donner tant de vie

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How do you do that, Pierre
giving so much life
how do you do it, say 

Behind your window
There are
So many bright colours
So much joy
How do you do it, say
How do you do it

All these landscapes  
That you see
These wobbly chairs
This simple table
Brown and sandy

All that tenderness
all that warmth 
it goes through us
it pierces us

Stop there
maybe time may stand
behind that window

How do you do it, Pierre
To give the desire
How do you do it, say ... 

How can you, Pierre
With a stroke of light
To give so much life

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Lyrics by Bruno Cadillon (2024); music by Michele Ansani (2022).
Posted on SoundCloud: 2024, July 6.

Comment fais-tu ça [Michele Ansani & Bruno Cadillon]**

Here's another easy, dirty, old strum refreshed somehow in these hot summer days. This used to be a song, but the years have taken the words away and only the initial chords remain in my memory and maybe that of some old friends.

Picture is from Pietro Corrao.

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Composed by Michele Ansani (2024).
Posted on SoundCloud: 2024, July 28.

Dirty and easy summertime strum

Maggie & Eddy 2

Hold me tight. 505 ( 1996 ) Margareta Theorin - Eddy Mango ( Margareta )

MELT INTO THE EARTH - Preview

Ballet after hours. Lo-fi beats glide under minimalist piano motifs and graceful, dance-inspired rhythms—adagio to allegro, plié to arabesque. Neon-sunset ambience and warm tape texture set a calm, focused mood for stretching, journaling, or late-night choreography notes. Classical elegance, modern groove—Drift Notion’s lo-fi ballet variations.

Breathing Walls

Bridges, roads ... Meetings, partings ... All this is chaos - in it we are only actors. It's so hard to remember and so easy to forget. But the house is already so close - even if you are gone ...
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