These songs encompass anything I've listened to in the past 3 months that had so much "wow factor" that I had to immortalize them forever on my own personal listening list. These songs are in no particular order.

J.J.'s Picks March 1 2025 (Quarterly Playlist)

winter 2025

Going to California (Led Zeppelin cover)

Morphometry

Bandcamp

Alkahest

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

composition for piano: Kelly Goodwin. @auntiekmusik
Arrangement & mixing: Larengonat
Cover: ArtriOO www.artstation.com/artri00

Not so long ago, Kelly offered me a collaboration and gave me this magnificent composition on the piano, its melody made me think of a Japanese animated film that I love, and I simply dressed the piano in a light dress in order to continue the magic. Thank you very much Kelly for this moment.


NOT SO LONG AGO.  🎧✨

another from the archives.. This one has special meaning to me... Things can get very difficult.
I never played this live.....for good reason....I listen to this and it brings back pain... and anguish... tears.

Lyrics:
Lying on his bed.. his hands hold his head
He prays his house to keep and not his soul instead
for his faith was in a man who ran a good campaign
now his dreams they all are hungry
and standing in the rain he’s asking please..

Show me..   show me that you’re real
Show me … show me please .. please
please.. please… pretty please?

End of the day.. babes tucked away
she prays they wont go hungry  for another day
butn her prayers they are not answered
by the silence in her head
Kneeling by the bedside instead of counting sheep
shes asking please…
Show me… that you’re real
Show me…….

Sometimes at night..alone in my head
I pray my job to keep and not my should instead
for my faith is in the notion that someday I mi9ght see
that theres someone out there listening to the voices
As they’re asking please…..
Show me…. show me that you’re real
Show me please….. please please…
Please?
Please?
Pretty please?

Pretty Please

Winter Dreams

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.

----

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.

----

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

Take Me To The Riverside (Version 2)

Music producer and music artist: electronic, instrumentals, dance, pop, R&B, hip-hop, alternative rock, funk, ambient, and slow chill vibes.

Take Me To The Riverside (Version 2)

Russell B. Anthony