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 ❄️🎶

Shock the Algorithm

mnlt

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)

The Shape The Sound The Pose

All music, words and composition by S. Drysdale

S. Drysdale- Vox, Guitars, Clay, Keys, Fretless Bass, Bass VI, Slap Bass

A. Reed- Engineering, Programing, Keys

The Shape The Sound The Pose

This is the self title track from the upcoming debut album of Shock The Algorithm my friends (tbr mid-2024)!
 Enjoy...ROCK AND ROLL KILLS!
 (p) & (c) 2023, STA.
Youtube link: https://youtu.be/OKGfQuK63Ng
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 lyrics:
So you had enough today?
I thought u'll visit us one day
Was waiting for another sunray
to hear you once again prevail

I thought you'd live forever
i dreamed our bonds would never sever
at least you did one more last endeavour
and that's why i would admire you forever

You lived your life and that was fine
it was super cool and you were on the first line
you didn't pretend , you neved showed off
you didn't have tattoos or fake persona blastoff

You lived your life, till your 49
and afterwards your soul forevermore shine
your face is now on t-shirts, your name on NY street
and that's why i sing and say....ROcknRoll kills anywayyyy

You toured nonstop for 22 years
thank god there was music and brushed away your fears
you got bullied so many times
and then you wrote the world's top class rhymes

For them you were the underdog, the freak 
for us a legend and not the weak
you gave us hope, the music & soul 
You were so true and not a fake persona blastoff

Rock and Roll Kills

Merry Christmas! I recorded this song with my acoustic Taylor guitar. The lyrics are from a poem I wrote. 

The gift of giving sows the seeds
of light, into a world that needs
to see—that hope will always thrive,
so long as we keep faith alive.

Yes, in a world that’s cold an’ dark
the gift of giving creates a spark—
that lights a star we all can see
shining on the Christmas tree.

~Tony, 2023

Christmas song (Acoustic)

Merry Christmas
Arrangement and guitars by Neno J.

White Christmas (Irving Berlin cover)

Seagull surprised me with this lovely song as a gift for my 70th birthday, featuring his playing on acoustic guitar, and likening our friendship and musical comradery to a "walk in the morning dew".  I was beyond honored:)  Then the thought occurred to him, "what if Ed, Dan, Peter, and David joined me on my walk?"  Peter's words set the stage comparing our friendship (and lasting friendship in general) to fine gold "hewn from so much more than mere common ground"  Ed's gorgeous electric guitar defines the melody, Dan's synths and Clara's vocals add depth and emotion, and I get to decorate an already beautiful production in the left and right channels.  It is now a magnificent 70th birthday gift, enriched by my musical bond and friendship with these fine artists, and one I want to share with you dear listener.  Be blessed as you walk with us "in the morning dew":) 
More of their amazing music can be found here:
Seagull: @farout-music-studio
Peter: soundcloud.com/user-264930040/tracks
Dan-DT: @dan-t-3
Ed Cunningham: @westtracksmusic
Seagull has also created a lovely video to celebrate our walk together and invite you to join us there: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDbapIXADdg
Peter's introductory poem:
A tempered bond of ether gold forged from trust in seeming kin
Blenched of ore hewn from so much more than mere common ground
Metallicised, a like of kind that cannot tarnish, ne’er to rust, it’s strength, atomic, set within
And so my grateful thoughts are due, my friend, to you, as one where empathy is ever found
To crystallise a state of mind as if from walks in morning dew as bright new days begin.

A Walk In Morning Dew (Seagull, Ed Cunningham, Dan-DT, Peter, and David)

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

Designed and Performed by Stark Hunter  2025

Sound Painting 1

Reference Recordings used without permission:

Robert Fripp, Radio Phonics, 1995.

Excerpt from the film, Gold Diggers of 1935. Busby Berkeley, Producer.

Diggers Dancing Neon

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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White Christmas (Irving Berlin cover)

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