Floki

floki

Ballad featuring only my vocals and me on acoustic guitar.  This was recorded at a friend's home studio here, in Toronto, Ontario

01 Tell The World, You've Just Begun

Home

This is a song I have written about a very beautiful, strong and talented woman that I love very much.  I owe her everything.
Photography by @Mel Brown Studios
Recorded at Pump House Studios

Like An Angel

You don't have to

Written and performed by Robynne Calvert 2011

You Don't Have To- Robynne Calvert (Original)

Our version of (the original) Fleetwood Mac song written by the late great Danny Kirwan.

Something Inside Of Me

https://www.musicbyragnar.com

Exploring cinematic composition, Laurenz is a song about transition and hope, based on three connected melodic parts written on piano, featuring accompany strings and orchestra arrangements.

Music By Ragnar is a creative outlet for songs written by multi-instrumentalist composer Ragnar Fjölnisson. Born in a rural part of Iceland, but now living in Germany, Ragnar explores soundscapes influenced by his fellow countrymen and women, including Biggi Hilmars, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Of Monsters and Men, Ásgeir and Sigur Rós

Want to collaborate? Reach out on info@musicbyragnar.com

Artwork based on photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash

Laurenz

Hurting Me Like Hell

In 2020 I lost my best friend and musical collaborator of 40 years to cancer. It took me a while to write something meaningful about this - this song emerged from 3 or 4 unsuccessful and partially completed songs. In essence, it is a song about loss, yearning and the hope for better times.

It started as a simple acoustic piece, but then grew and grew. There is a version with an extended "Gareth Malone" style massed choir singing "You're in our hearts/Never forgotten here". There's also a more orchestral version with massed trumpets, marching band and additional choir. 

This short piece crystallised 4 different themes, so there are some fragments of the earlier unsuccessful songs hidden in the lyrics. Janine Bracewell joined in and added a complete female choir. Thanks, Janine!

Ian Middleton: 12 string guitar, bass, vocals, orchestra, choir
Janine Bracewell: female choir

Hope it feels like home 
©2021 Ian Middleton (Mysterian)

And here we are, now one of us is gone
An empty space, where you once belonged
And if there’s is a place that we all go
Come visit us 
And tell us what you know

We all wonder where you are
Are you there
Shining brightly with the stars
Will you
Whisper in the winds that blow
So wherever you’ve gone
We all hope We all hope 
We hope it feels like home

The race is run, you can take your rest
With the brightest and the best
The world seems like an emptier place
Without you
It leaves a empty space

Dust to dust is what they say
I guess we’ll all 
Find it out on some other day.

And it all just
Feels so very far far away
So wherever that you’ve gone
We hope We hope 
We hope it feels like home

Holding all the memories
And never let it go
All the moments remembered
So very, very long ago

Ashes to ashes is what they say
Here's hoping that 
there’ll be some more better days
And it all just
Feels so very far far away
So wherever you’ve gone
We hope We hope 
We hope it feels like home

Hope It Feels Like Home

Singer songwriter in the Folk genre living in Hampshire UK.

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