The Shimmer Beneath: A Scattering Attempt, for cello duo (2019)
Recording of a reading session at the University of York, June 2021.
Gaia Blandina and Ali Baumann (The Chimera Ensemble).

This piece is part of my research on Luminance as a semantic dimension of timbre.

The Shimmer Beneath: A Scattering Attempt (2019) [reading session] | Michele Abondano

Dreamer

You Don't Know

Christmas magic of love is here to weave its way into your heart this Holiday season...Uniting those both near & far. ;)

Making Love To My Honey

Christmas In Your Arms--My Spirit Is With You

Christmas In Your Arms - -My Spirit Is With You

This 1872 poem by Christina Rossetti (titled 'A Christmas Carol')was set to music in 1906 by Gustav Holst to become the well known Christmas carol we know today. Here is my version.

Vocals, acoustic guitar, bass and percussion - Graham Williams

In The Bleak Midwinter

In The Bleak Midwinter (Rossetti-Holst)

Welcome/Come Along/Ding A Ling/DING DONG /New Year Song

Better wait a while, you're all hysterical.
Better wait a while, you're all hysterical.
You'll pardon me, but my time is limited.
You'll pardon me, I trust.
Do not come here.  We can and will destroy you, all life on your planet, if you do not heed us.
Do not come here.  We can and will destroy you, all life on your planet, if you do not heed us.
Strangeness nears.
Strangeness nears.
Strangeness nears.
Strangeness nears.
So dead!
So dead!
We're in some sort of a force field… tremendously powerful… holding us right here.
Stop playing with toys!  We have a weapon that’s much more potent than that!
So dead!
So dead!
All right everybody!  Come and get it!  Breakfast's ready!  Hot coffee, hard tack, and vitamin pills!
As for being a mass killer, does not the world encourage it?  Is it not building weapons of destruction for the sole purpose of mass killing?
Do I sound that pessimistic?
Do I sound that pessimistic?
Do I sound that pessimistic?
Do I sound that pessimistic?
Weep.
You weep.  
You weep.
Oh I see one!  It's a monster!  Oh no, it's me!
You weep.
Isn't that silly?  My own reflection.
You weep.
Oh I see one!  It's a monster!  Oh no, it's me!
You weep.
Isn't that silly?  My own reflection.
You weep.
You weep.
You weep.
You weep.
You weep.
You weep.
You weep.
As for being a mass killer, does not the world encourage it?  Is it not building weapons of destruction for the sole purpose of mass killing?  
You'll pardon me, I trust.
You weep.
You weep. 
You weep.
You weep.

You Weep / Mass Killing

My name is Renee, a girl, singer and trumpet player from the Netherlands. I wanted to do this cover Smile (Charlie Chaplin/Nat King Cole) because I am going through a very difficult time. I am diagnosed with breast cancer and fighting for my life. This means going through a battle with chemotherapy which leads to hair loss and after that breast amputation.
Although it is a very scary, tough time, I still manage to keep smiling and look at the positive things.
I hope this cover gives strength to everyone who needs it!

Singer and Trumpet player = Renee van Ginkel
Piano = Ewald Ebing

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SMILE a cover by Singer and Trumpet player RENEE || (Nat King Cole/ Charlie Chaplin)

Oh, everyone wants a cheery Christmas song. John's character in A Letter to Santa has hit hard times, but hopefully we all remember to share the love in the spirit of the season. Perhaps. it's time for a little more Bach, love, and forgiveness.

Santa, Dear Santa i been bad
I've tried to be good
But that's such a drag
I know when it started, you see
Been nothing but trouble, with a capital T

They opened those dispensaries
Seems one, every hour
Each containing reems
Of the most delicate flower
Santa, the memory is fuzzy these days
The fog has lifted, but not the haze

Chorus
Santa, Dear Santa
Please forgive me
There's nothing under
My Christmas tree
But the dispensary's open
And they ship for free

Where was i, oh yeah
About all the chaos, you see
It's been one big party
Far out,
Look at the Christmas tree

In closing, Dear Santa
I am out of my bean
Take a left turn and hit the gas
You don't want no part of this scene 

Chorus

A Letter To Santa (lyrics: John Eagle)

A Place they call Shangri-La

Backing track from one of my favorite sources, "Now You Shred" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxIdfwbxn6g

Welcome/Come Along/Ding A Ling/DING DONG /New Year Song

Walkin' in Pa's Footsteps