Elpiverse

One of my older songs updated this week, I may remix the tune with a classical treatment in the future. 

In the meantime, I wish you sweet dreams. I also hope that fears or threats are vanquished as quickly in your life as they are in my Bedtime Story. Happy trails!✨

90 bpm with tempo shifts 
DAW Apple Logic Pro X 
MIDI Akai Pro MPK  
E-instruments: 
Steinway Grand Piano 
SoCal Ballad Piano 
 Flamenco Echoes
Steel String Acoustic
Upright Ballad Bass
Violas
Cellos
French Horns
E-drum kits:
Latin Kit Pandeiro, Tambourine, Congas, Bongos
Pop Kit Maraca, Shaker
Classic Hip Hop Remix Analog Kick, Gated Snare, Hi-Hats, Cymbal
Atlanta Hi-Hats, Crash
Mystic Groove Chimes

Audio
* Bird chirps recorded live May 29 and June 15, 2024.
* Cicadas recorded live June 22, 2024
* Train recorded live October 17, 2023
* “I’m gonna get ya” vocal recorded live July 11, 2024, of my voice transposed 4 steps down. Sounds like LL Cool J’s voice to me. 😀

Cover art: A Photoshop composite of many photos from pexels.com as follows:
* Woman in body of water by Pixabay
https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-in-body-of-water-235469/
* Brown Monolith Under Teal and Gray Milky Way by Eberhard Grossgasteiger
https://www.pexels.com/photo/brown-monolith-under-teal-and-gray-milky-way-1624360/
* White Swan (wings) by Anthony
https://www.pexels.com/photo/white-swan-132479/
* White Horse on the Beach by Missi Köpf
https://www.pexels.com/photo/white-horse-on-the-beach-6215909/

Bedtime Story

Nothing More

Feel the wind in your face
Blowing across the bay
You stand up tall
With your back against the wall

Watch the waves raging
And the seagulls chasing
You’re so done with seeing
What the world has become

All that is left
Is here with me
Nothing more nothing less
Just me and my fear

Through the eye of the storm
There comes a barque
It carries a load 
So precious but worn 

And when the day was done
And darkness had been gone 
You’re starring stunned at
Heaven’s vault in the sun

All that is left
Is here with me
Nothing more nothing less
Just me and my fear

Nothing More

My first DAW song!
I enjoyed very much doing this song?
Can you also enjoy it?

Under Pressure
In this world of expectations where success is a decree
All the pressure from everywhere can easily break you and me
Schooling us with numbers and facts, who care is’s breaking our backs
All the promises I must keep still hunt me in my sleep
In this circle of demands the pressure still expands

Education should be the key, but if the pressure breaks me?
What if I cannot break free?

You think when I smile I’m shinning so bright, but deep within there is a fear I can’t fight
All the pressure closing on me, expectations, how to be free?
How can I handle the wight before it is too late?
The obligations are so strong, where do I belong?

Success is what we strive for, but I wonder if there’s more
Expectations are everywhere,  all the pressure I have to bear

Under Pressure

Lost Son 

So how could I know
The things you didn’t tell me were making you 
so unbelievably lonely and sad 

So why couldn’t you show me
the thoughts you kept inside 
your fortress of gold held by a legion of wardens


My son, my son, where did you go?
I miss you more than you could ever know
I pray for your safety every day
Hoping you'll find your way back to me someday


So I should have known
The path you had to choose was the one of your own 
be guided by angels on all your ways


My son, my son, where did you go?
I miss you more than you could ever know
I pray for your safety every day
Hoping you'll find your way back to me someday



Cover Artwork: M. Besinger 06.07.1955 (dad)

Lost Son

Special thanks to 5Eleven for his a cappella....

ONLY MY DRUGS.  Feat 5Eleven

Some people touch your life in unexpected and unprecedented ways.  Such was the case with a little red-headed girl, maybe seven years old, but in every way a ministering and guardian angel to her daddy who was going through a very rough patch in his life and never wavered in her devotion to him.  Maddie, this one's for you. You blessed my heart beyond words. 
A very special thank you to Axel Menningen for loving this song and lavishing his musical gifts on the arrangements.  He offered me two versions and loving them both, I asked him to publish the other mix on his profile. This is a kind of "Irish Pub" version of the song, smaller and more intimate.  The bigger, symphonic version is on his profile.  I encourage you to give it a listen as well as his other fine compositions @axel-m-501052973
Axel also produced a beautiful and touching tribute to Maddie on his Youtube channel; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGuDhSgMauo
Thank you my friend, words fail me.

Ginger Angel (with a lovely arrangement by Axel Menningen)

extraterrestrial, a strange taste from elsewhere

to listen to Cécilia:
@specialececilia

Alien, Un Gout Étrange Venu D'ailleurs By Zitou Itou & Cecilia Speciale

Special thanks to SilverBella for her a cappella....

SUPERSPREADER.   feat SilverBella

If I can stop one heart
from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one Life the Aching
Or cool one in pain

Or help one fainting Robin 
Unto his Nest again
I shall not live in Vain.

— EMILY DICKINSON 
“Further Poems of Emily Dickinson" published by Little, Brown and Company of Boston, 1929.

65 bpm
DAW Apple Logic Pro X
MIDI Akai Pro MPK 
E-instruments:
Studio Grand
Steinway Grand Piano 
Boesendorfer Grand Piano
SoCal Ballad Piano
Clarinet Solo+
Harp
Upright Ballad Bass
Rolling Chords Synth
Electronic Drum Kit - Platinum Dreams 
Latin Kit
Hip Hop Kit
Studio Brush Kit

Audio of bird chirps recorded live Jun. 15, 2024.

Photo of children splashing water via public domain, Wikimedia Commons 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Happy_children_splashing_water.jpg

Happy Endings

According to St. Bede, Ceolfrith set out from his monastery on 4 June 716, a thursday. Among the things he took with him was an enormous book, a gift he intended to deliver at his earthly destination. The giant book Ceolfrith took with him, now known as Codex Amiatinus, is the oldest surviving, complete Latin Bible in the world.  Ceolfrith took one of the three giant bibles written in the Wermouth monastery, where he was the abbot, as a gift for St Peter’s shrine in Rome. " ... and got on a horse, speeding away from the land of the Angles to the lands where, with a freer and purer spirit for contemplating angels, he might be delivered to Heaven".
On 12 August Ceolfrith "reached the lands of Gaul", where he was received with honour by King Chilperic himself. The party then travelled over land. Ceolfrith went part of the way on horseback and part of the way being carried on a litter, as he was becoming ill. He reached Langres around 9am on 25 September. He died there on 29 September 716.

As the cover image, I chose the famous miniature that occupies the fifth sheet of the 'Codex Amiatinus', now preserved in the Laurentian Library in Florence.

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

Ceolfrith's hopeful journey to Heaven *

Video; youtu.be/5TUhgtuiwbc

Made in #Ableton (June 2024)

Genres;
#Ambient
#Ethno
#Electronic
#Experimental

It's All Ours

60_ Homenagem à Madeira - released on 01 July 2024

Small island really big! Experienced a lot by car and on foot. Superb diverse and flowery. Hope you can hear it! #guitar #chillout #dance

(produced with Music Maker JAM)

Homenagem à Madeira

Pourras Tu Ressentir Ce Vide En Moi By Zitou Itou & Wildsilences

When I need to lay my troubles down about things beyond my control, I take a stroll across the Indigo Bridge for safe passage over the Big Blue. The only toll required to crossover — temporarily letting your worries go. And, hopefully, you enjoy a songbird serenade on the trip to the other side. 💙✌️

70 bpm
DAW Apple Logic Pro X
MIDI Akai Pro MPK 
E-instruments:
Steinway Grand Piano
Boesendorfer Grand Piano 
SoCal Ballad Piano 
Deep Organ
Cellos
Upright Ballad Bass
Studio Brush Kit 
Studio R&B+ Kit
Lo-Fi Remix 
Latin Kit 

Audio of bird chirps recorded live June 29, 2024.

Cover art: Derived from a public domain photo of the Golden Gate Bridge via Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Golden_Gate_Bridge,_San_Francisco,_California_LCCN2013633353.tif

Indigo Bridge

DISSOLUTION.  (French)

Video; https://youtu.be/xge2dJQN7KQ?si=7ItBhVOXUYInQX71

Made in #Ableton (July 2024)

https://hega.bandcamp.com/album/in-our-lives

Genres;
#Electronic
#EDM
#Pop
#Experimental

In Our Lives

I’ve always dreamed of recording a synthwave track, but I’ve never been able to create that atmosphere, the right drum section, the characteristic bass line, and the vibe that this wonderful genre of music is known for. Now, I can finally present my first work in this genre. It’s not complicated, but for the first time, I guess it’s successful. Enjoy listening! Best Regards!

The cover-art was made with the FL Studio ZGameEditor Visualizer plugin

Music by ɅƉﺍꝚﺍɅNƠ

SYNTH VISION

Wake, Think of Rose, Write

“Evolved Kraftwerk influences… really cool sounds and ideas — pumps hard.”
— Third Son / Polymath via Groover
„An absolute standout in the experimental bass landscape“ - Spotify Curator Hybrid Trap.

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⚡ Synthwave energy unleashed! ⚡ Shock the Algorithm returns with a brand NEW album — Ultraviolet Cosmos.
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