These are the original demos of the song-cycle "All the hearts symmetric" composed in 2021. These songs became the basis of the set of the folk-rock band K. (https://konstantinmusic.fr/).

All songs writen, composed and arranged by Konstantin Todorov (2021), except for 
 - Last of meeting places: lyrics by T.S. Elliot
 - Clockworks: lyrics co-written with Anne-Lise Lepellec

Small Steps

Last Of Meeting Places - version 2021

Own Light

Not A Harbour

How You Commence A War

Port Of Phantoms

This Book

Clockworks

As Our Traces Ignite

Ancient Children

Words and music by Atomheart (2016).
Drums by Hervé Arroyo.


The Dogs of Jeff Koons

words and music by Atomheart (2016)
…..

I bet our love didn’t like me at all
I know our love didn’t like you much more
That day our love, made our bed and closed the door
we came back home to find our love gone.

Now you are an island far away from home
How to get there I used to know.
But I mixed many dinks
And this map always brings
Me back here.

Clever conversations with lovely lovely friends
I don’t get a word of what's being said. 

Take the best and leave behind the rest
It's been a while since we've left that mess 
tonight I thought of cleaning it up 
the more I thought the more it thickened up

Now you are an island far from home
How do I get there I used to know
But the south madly swings 
And this compass just brings
Me back here.

Am I here to stay now 
or am I just a guest?
I won’t start this clever little quest.

What a lovely day to take a rest.


Island

w&m Atomheart (2016)
..….
I don't want to be you
your blues and your revolt
you made a perfect point
of no return

Outside a night is born
it's blind and has no wings
i'm standing by the door
will i open the winds?


You said the light that lived in your
eyes was gone, I said it was not true (a shelter from the truth)
so i ran looking for the thief
while i felt his tongue behind my teeth
his steps beneath my feet

The actor stabs his chest
the heart is black and blue
it's fake as we all knew
fake as a heart can get

The poetry is cold
the stars cannot be heard
under a shaky moon
flocks of night birds 
leading us out

You said the light that lived in your
eyes was gone
i said it was not true (a shelter from the truth)
so i ran
looking for the thief
while i felt his tongue behind my teeth
his steps beneath my feet



Thief

w&m Atomheart (2016)

…

Down the road 
the spinning road the tangling road again
roll the nights of white and see 
her heart and mine unchained

you skim flip and browse me, you don't flick or touch

the air is still my skin is wet 
wind giggles in my feet
roll the nights of white and see 
her heart's and mine's defeat

you skim flip and browse me, you don't flick or touch 
my mind

I enter with no call I hear the roar
of anxious waterfall I lift the dam
walls of clouds collaps at the feet
of the flooding light
once again I shoot into the heart

Reading through recurrent patterns
flocks of goose and hunters traces
the smelly lakes, the dusty feet, 
the heart the beat the racing pace

Thought I was looking for it but am I running from it?

Hunter

Music Atomheart 
Lyrics by Markus Eronen and Atomheart

—
Search everything,
tell me what you've found.
My hands are tingling,
my feet above the 
ground.
Search for me with those hands.

I am quiet for once
Marbles roll down the pavement
the clouds go down and down
but these memories stick to us like tar

The reason I came to the lake was
she saw me in a dream 
i moved with her silent signs

there’s something in the curves of her hair
a moon-ray harpsichord
the music of prophecies
falling over her shoulders

Search Everything

Words & music by Atomheart (2017). Drum samples by Hervé Arroyo

—— 
There are no elephants to slaughter on the road between you and I
there are still crimes we did not commit

The miles of rails and states now twist and dance before my tired eyes
the landscape changes and we don't fit 

While I was worrying about my rhymes
While I was strengthening my arms
While I was busy wasting time
you've been drifting away my love

Was I the guy who left his suitcase and guitare and silence behind 
and hopped off the train to take you in his arms

We needed a foreign language as a shelter where we could tell
je t’aime and all the rest and tell je t’aime from hell

Elephants

words and music by Atomheart (2018)

--- 
not before your voice has shrunk
to useless human sound
not before you couldn’t stab
and after you have tried
then you will surrender to 
the sirens and the ghosts

did i dream 
that i’m home
with your heart
at its throne

you won a war but you did no harm
and it was not God’s doing
and now you see her lift her arm
and take you to the ruins
of what was once a lighthouse and
a harbour and a dawn

and your heart
will grow dim
can you feel 
chilly breath on your skin?

Oh the wind will howl with fury
the years the skins will change
her stain of breath enduring
on memory’s window panes

Golden boys with golden touch
walk in perfect lines
well you know they’ve come for us
their lips and their minds rhyme
it’s the time of guessers now
and time to kill and mime

did i dream
that i’m home
with your heart
at its throne again

Oh the wind will howl with fury
the years the skins will change
her stain of breath enduring
on memory’s window panes

Wind Will Howl With Fury

words and music by Atomheart (2018)

----
Hold on a second 
you know that it takes sometimes
a deeper cut

hold on your breath cause
you know that it breaks sometimes
half way up

you used to be my friend
but this might be the end
of our crimes
shaped like rhymes

the game that we’re playing 
is pointless and wearing me down

—
and straight from the poem’s gist
look at them sharpen the knives 
(you can’t seem to shake it) 
put on your heart of grief
and look at her spill the oil
(you know you can’t shake it)
time is a gifted thief
before you know what it means
you’ll know you won’t make it

— 
resignation
look into these eyes
turn the other cheek
the worst is yet to come 
consequences
will meet our shrugging arms 
let them seek for us
there’s nowhere we will hide

—
there is not much you can do 
when the ship is wreck
but feel the breeze

fall to their arms and 
surrender your arms and your heart
will feel the ease

the silence you sow
is the distance we reap 
and it doesn’t fit 
that little box
 
but all that a man ever loved
ever wanted will fit 
a little box

— 
and straight from our ruined fun
look at them sharpen the knives 
(you can’t seem to shake it)
a thought for the lifted ones    
look at her spill the oil
(you know you can’t shake it)
reflecting your pointless stun 
the moon knows what it means
she knows you won’t make it

resignation
look into these eyes
turn the other cheek
the worst is yet to come
consequences
will meet our shrugging arms 
let them seek for us
there’s nowhere we will hide

hell or water high

Resignation Song

(All the) Dragonflies (Will Be Freed)
w&m by Atomheart (2018).

(All the) Dragonflies (Will Be Freed)

Sign of Life

Alma At The Window

Lyrics based on the poem "The Hollow Men" by TS Eliot.
Music by Atomheart.
Featuring vocals by Melody Nelson.

Last of Meeting Places (w. Melody_Nelson)

Atomheart is the singer-songwriter Konstantin Todorov, based in Montpellier.
This a sketchbook. The songs featured here are mostly original demos of songs that are now part of other main projects of Konstantin. Check, for example, konstantinmusic.fr.
On other clouds: 
The Pipes of C: https://soundcloud.com/the-pipes-of-c
Body Electric: https://soundcloud.com/body-electric-band

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