Two short improvisations for this track....

LAST DRINK CLUB.

Chicago On The L Train

The axolotl called Julio Cortazar watches the aquarium observers (including that one who resembles Julio Cortazar). The previous draft here (I tried now to improve the central part): https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/this-is-them-final-draft. 
The sister tracks: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/this-is-us and https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/is-this-you
Here the short backgroundstory: https://ambystoma.uky.edu/teachers_materials/axolitbook/AxolotlByJulioCortazar.html
Picture is from Pietro Corrao.

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Composed by Michele Ansani (2022-2024)
Posted on SoundCloud: 2024, November 19

This is them (final version) *

Hey…. Did this song go in so many directions until this final recording. It started as an electric slide song, then a mandolin song, and finally as an acoustic guitar/recorder song. You know I laugh every time I play recorder. Just imagine a rough and scrappy, wild old man creating such a thing. Hahahahaha. Anyway, there are a lot of crows here. When I was working on the slide version, I heard them cawing outside as they flew by. (I scrapped my impromptu birdcall crowing on this, no one needs to hear that, not even the crows.) Lyrically the song has 2 distinct moods with some vocal transitioning. And guess what folks: As a novice singer, I can finally vibrato my voice… some more shenanigans you’ll have to put up with. Back to the crows. In town, we have a huge flock (murder) of town crows. Hundreds. They sure love fast food, and hanging out by the high school where tasty, tossed tidbits can be had. They are organized too, as if in an air force, as they are mostly wary of us humans… Finally, happy holidays to all who celebrate, and happy times to everyone else. Hope you enjoy this one. I sure did. Mark

As The Crow Flies

Sinistram

Cocktail time jazz. 
Now appearing nightly, lounge singer Shade Structure and his jazz combo. 😉 (open shirt, sweaty, toupee, pinky ring. )
From the album: "Curiosities Of Outsider Art" (Sept 2025)

Lyrics:
I've had enough of the light
Let's turn the lights down low
And get in our evening glow
I wrote a haiku for you
And ways that you do
And the ways that you move...  🥵 

I saw you climb the fiery spires
And you never tired
Don't you know you're the source of my desires?

Well, you're lucky if you get out of this world with any kind of love at all
(That's what you always used to say!)
I said, "Let's go dancing like we used to do
Let's go nowhere
In the car
Let's rhapsodize upon the stars
You know I love the way we are

You can't love yourself all alone
You are everywhere
And everyone you've known
You can't love yourself all alone
(Solo 1)

You can't love yourself all alone
You are everywhere
You're everyone you've known
You can't love yourself
All alone
You are the particles of everywhere you've gone
(Solo 2)

I wrote a haiku for you 
And the way that you move...

You can't love yourself all alone
You are everywhere
And everyone you've known
You can't love yourself all alone
You're the elements
The particles of everywhere you've gone

You Can't Love Yourself All Alone

Pour cette première compo de 2025 j'ai fait dans l'epic Pop. Je venais de finir la série Arcane et je voyais bien cette chanson pour l'illustrer
J'aurais du la finir plus tôt mais j'ai chopé une angine que j'ai immédiatement exploitée pour certains passages :)
Bonne année à tous et merci de votre support!
(traduit plus bas)
[NO AI INSIDE]

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When the world is crashing down
You don't really want to know
You don't really want to know
Plug your ears until it's gone
You don't really want to know
You don't really want to know

You don't really want to know
You don't really want to know
You don't really want to know
You don't really want to know

If i squeeze my eyes shut to hide
Why i still don't feel safe inside
Why future looks so heavy
And so blurry

Is there meaning lost in the haze
Because I cannot break through this maze.
I try to chase the doubt away
For a clearer day

A better day

When the world is crashing down
You don't really want to know
You don't really want to know
Plug your ears until it's gone
You don't really want to know
You don't really want to know

You don't really want to know
You don't really want to know
You don't really want to know
You don't really want to know

Should i worry ?

Whether we're right or wrong 
It's unvarying
Change is part of life as we know

And what goes up, comes down or disappears
Men of power also will leave the show

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Quand le monde s'écroule
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir
Bouche-toi les oreilles jusqu'à ce que ca passe
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir

Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir

Si je ferme les yeux pour me cacher
Pourquoi je ne me sens toujours pas en sécurité à l'intérieur
Pourquoi l'avenir semble si lourd
Et si flou

Est-ce qu'il y a un sens perdu dans la brume
Parce que je ne peux pas sortir de ce labyrinthe
J'essaie de chasser le doute
Pour un jour plus clair

Un jour meilleur

Quand le monde s'écroule
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir
Bouche-toi les oreilles jusqu'à ce que ca passe
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir

Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir
Tu ne veux pas vraiment savoir

Dois-je m'inquiéter ?

Que nous ayons raison ou tort 
C'est invariable
Le changement fait partie de la vie telle que nous la connaissons

Et ce qui monte redescend ou disparaît
Les hommes de pouvoir aussi quitteront le spectacle

You don't really want to know

Droney delta-style adaptation of She Said by the Beatles.

1978 Alvarez 12-string guitar
Yamaha MT4X Recorder
Shure SM-58
Recorded in a carpeted living room, 1996

She Said (12-String Raga)



Feb 11 1963....Death of Sylvia Plath... 62 years ago... 
Florida Dawn reference found within the pages of  the Bell Jar her only novel
Sylvia Plath reading a portion of Lady Lazarus opens tune...

Florida Dawn

All that we touch                                       
Turns to dust                                            
The flesh gone frantic                              
The ink upon the page                         
The idea stays                                         
Reading pages of Plath                            
Such a sad aftermath                               
I picked up those letters                             
And sprinkled some bits on your grave       
See love where it lays                                 

That February spinning round                       
Breath is getting thin                                     
Sit and watch the ocean tide                         
Centuries crashing in                                     
In the Florida Dawn                                        
Another episode of cruel                                
The leader and the ones lead on                    
Who's playing tricks on who?                          

Rain begets rust                                           
Turns steel into dust                                     
The flesh gone static                                    
A chemical tease for the brain                    
Why did you read her again?                          
She did a Sylvia Plath                                 
Climbing into the bath                                    
I'll spare you the details,                               
the end result was the same                       
Minus the fame                                            

Now everything is spinning round                 
In this space I'm in                                       
I sit and watch the ocean tide                        
All those centuries crashing in                       
In the Florida Dawn                                       
Replay your episode of cruel                            
The leader and the one lead on                    
Who's playing tricks on who?                          

I walk these words and find myself              
Where you said you'd be 
I walk these words to where you ought to be                            
But there's only me                                       







Florida Dawn

my love song to you

Here’s a cinematic track with strings, synths, horns, orchestral percussions and electronic drums.
Have a nice trip and thank you for listening :)

Composition: Julien Apelian
Recording studio: Audio Colors

Journey Through Dimensions

Greetings!

Slava Ukraïni to listeners in Ukraine.

Music has always been a fundamental part of my life, even if not always at the immediate forefront of my activities. I've studied classical guitar, and had some keyboard lessons early in life, unfortunately from an uninspiring teacher. I disappointed my guitar instructor when I bought my first electric guitar. In the late 70s through the 80s I played with friends in various bands with varying levels of ability and seriousness. During the 90s and into the 2000s I focused my life on other things. Then, beginning about 2015, I began building up a home studio, trying to renew my ability to play multiple instruments, and working on writing and recording my own music as a creative outlet. I've always enjoyed writing, and want to become better at integrating music and words to express thoughts, ideas, and emotions in a way that others might appreciate. Good music has the power to move people, to communicate at a deeper level than words alone. I hope I can create some music that others might consider good! Also, It's just damn fun to rock out and create new things. I plan to work up a coherent set of tunes to play live and record for the world to hear, or at least a few people! 

I ignore fake and fawning messages about my uploads and offers to promote my music. If you're not real and honest, I have no time for you.

She Said (12-String Raga)

Tim Lang