Dance Duty

This track is based on the recent Doctor Who episode 'Boom'. I was moved by the idea in the programme of an army fighting a completely imaginary enemy. There was 'no enemy outside'.
This is the first version I recorded and it's halfway between the 'big' version and 'small version you can hear on this playlist:)

No Enemy (medium version)

A few things to say.
1. Sorry, this song is a long one: more than seven minutes, too many to expect to have listeners desirous to get to the end of a small marathon. Moreover, it is slow (the first refrain only comes after three minutes or so) and sung in Italian (the English translation is available, but it is never the same thing).
2. The photo shows two actors: Bekim Fehmiu and Irene Papas, protagonists of a wonderful TV series (‘Odissea’) aired in 1968. A show that enriched my childhood and conditioned my imagination (and my reading) forever.
3. I have long wished to be able to write a song about that story within the story of Ulysses' wanderings: his return to Ithaca and his failure to be recognised by Penelope. I succeeded in 1994, then producing a few versions of it. I recorded this one a few years ago, the sound quality was not excellent but now I have taken it up again, singing it all over again and changing the arrangement a little. I hoped at least to recreate an atmosphere musically suited to the story evoked.
Female vocals courtesy of Sound Doctrine.

LYRICS 

he speaks softly from afar
and his voice is like a stray dog
like a boat you can barely see
like a moon on a swing
suspended on the edge of a sea wave
he holds his breath to follow his song

she sings and as she sings she has dozed off
he takes her hand and
whispers ‘welcome back into my life, welcome back’

she still sleeps and dreams of making love
with this morning shadow
of these colourless eyes 
came from an icy adventure
of days that smell clean
of all nights and all days
of spells, escapes, memories 
of days lost without desires

and if she will not listen to his words,
if evil will not slip from her heart
then who knows
where the wind will settle him
where he will lose himelf
where he will rest

[Penelope]
"Are you the night that burns
are you this sky that falls on me
are you this ship that arrives
are you this fire congealed inside me
... (You're all I need) ..."

she squints her eyes and moves slowly
as if to let the world to feel
all the weight of this abandonment
of this vanished illusion 
of her infinite sadness
sadness that perfume the nights and days
spent alone with this wound

but he is not only the thought of every morning
he is in the sand in the waves
that have always bounced on the shore
he is the cement of this house
is the receding fear
is the storm ever closer
he is this morning shadow
and she will listen to his words
and the sea will deposit him on her heart
and then who knows
maybe the wind will settle 
the circle will close
and she will recognise him

[Penelope]
"... (You're all I need) ...
are you the night that burns
are you this sky that still falls on me
are you this ship that arrives
are you this fire congealed inside me
are you my eyes you are my hands
are you my lips my skin of today and tomorrow
are you this peace that rises again
are you this home to recapture
this night to rest
... (You're all I need) ..."

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Lyrics and music by Michele Ansani (1994).
Posted on SoundCloud: 2024, September 15

Nostos (il ritorno di Ulisse) **

Sit down at the end of the day with a mug of glühwein or a mug of hot chocolate and imagine a typical village Christmas scene on the front of a Christmas card. This is a song of that image.

Words and music - Graham Williams
Vocals, all instruments and production - Graham Williams

Christmas Lights On Frosty Nights

Я получил много русскоговорящей любви к этой песне, поэтому в знак признательности я включил плохой русский перевод текста от Google ниже. Спасибо.

My baby’s got love
My baby’s got soul
My baby’s got a gun she can’t control 
And I love her
Though I should hide from the
Storm, because she is the author
Of my own demise

She don’t want to hear the reasons
What she want’s
Changes like the seasons
She’ll have another
Don’t get sucked under
Or you will discover
Why I should have run away

(chorus)
I Ain’t complaining
I’m not that bold
A lesser man would probably fold
Oh help me mother
Find another

She’s got a smile
That looks like a threat
She ain’t looking for trouble
She is it
Don’t get me started
I’m sure not startled 
Look at how she sparkled
When she delivered the threats

У моей малышки есть любовь
У моей малышки есть душа
У моей малышки есть оружие, которое она не может контролировать
И я люблю ее
Хотя я должен прятаться от
Шторма, потому что она автор
Моей собственной гибели

Она не хочет слышать причины
То, чего она хочет
Изменяется как времена года
У нее будет еще один
Не поддавайся
Или ты узнаешь
Почему я должен был убежать

(припев)
Я не жалуюсь
Я не такой смелый
Мужчина послабее, вероятно, сдался бы
О, помоги мне, мама
Найди другого

У нее есть улыбка
Это выглядит как угроза
Она не ищет неприятностей
Она и есть она
Не заставляй меня начинать
Я точно не испугался
Посмотри, как она сверкала
Когда она передавала угрозы

Pixie Patty

October 2022. 
Mariage dans les rues de Skopje, Macédoine du Nord.
https://zuunzug.com/2023/05/11/skopje/
Previously published on Radio Engram: Volume One 
https://engramrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/radio-engram-volume-one

Wedding in the streets of Skopje, Macedonia

Hydrognosis

Oh, the magic and beauty of snowfall!  Upclose, far away, inside/outside. A beautiful site to behold.  The pure and absolute symmetry of nature created as we watch in real time!  This is one of the many miracles we get to witness in a lifetime that is God given and totally magical.  As you look out the window, listen to my piece and behold the beauty!  Watch my Youtube video: https://youtu.be/pjh5jIG4B0g?si=S0kcf1l4uAxv6VoG

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Hugues et Georges Perché

A nudibranch has antennae like ears of a rabbit. It crawls slowly and steadily on the bottom of the clear sea swaying its antenae.
Thank you.

This song is a spin-off from my song "GIN-PO - in the coral reef -". These two songs share some of the phrases.

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