'Eunoia' (meaning: beautiful thinking) is sung, arranged and played on nyckelharpa by Marianne Lihannah.
The melody is an old German folk tune. (Ich stund an einem Morgen)
The lyrics by Marianne Lihannah and Anon.

I fell in love with this song with Swedish lyrics  (Hemlig stod jag en morgon) and learned that initially. After getting inside the Swedish text I realized I couldn't make myself record that kind of story.
I began to research the song and discovered that it originally had German words (Ich stund an einem Morgen), with a completely different story from the Swedish version. 

Because I loved the old folk tune so much, I decided to re-write the lyrics completely and arrange it for nyckelharpa.

Eunoia

Eunoia |  Marianne Lihannah

A neo classical composition for friends of piano, strings and choir. 

Photo by Julia Kuzenkov: https://www.pexels.com/photo/seagulls-flying-over-beach-1974657/

Veritas et Libertas

69.1. - Veritas et Libertas

This began with SA sending a drum track to AJ, and AJ returning a guitar track. Then, SA added layers, took out her drums, produced. It didn't fit the kosmische album in the making, so here you go!

A.J. Kaufmann on guitar
SA on synth, mixing, production

Run Play Now

What Don't You Know

Sound Animal X A.J. Kaufmann - What Don't You Know

Technical details Pa' Mi Morena:
Rhythm and solo guitar : Ibanez AG95QA DBS Artcore  Expressionist jazz guitar
Acoustic bass: Fender CB COSC
Saxophone: Thomann TAS180 Alto Sax
Drums : Loopz
Recording , mixing & mastering  July- November 2022
All instruments excepting drums  are played by The User


Pa' Mi Morena

Oblivion

ALFONSO LLORENTE: LYRICS, VOCALS. ACOUSTIC GUITAR, ELECTRIC GUITAR, BASS, DRUMS, CELLO & SYNTH

Who Said It?

Who said that we won´t move on
Who said that the game is over
Who said that we can´t work it out
Who said that we can´t love again

Life may be a merry go round
Sometimes you´re up and then you´re down
Don´t waste your time on hatred
Just try to be long on love

Who said that the world must be black
Who said that it must be white
Who said that we must live in extremes
Who said that we can´t dream together

Don´t try to understand
Just believe in the new day
There´s always a new way
So, please come out to play
We´ll learn the new game
But don´t stay the same
Just give us your name
For our dream to remain

Life may be a merry go round
Sometimes you´re up and then you´re down
Don´t waste your time on hatred
Just try to be long on love

Life is a bag of surprises 
And not a problem to be solved
Don´t hang on your memories
While you fly away in your dreams
Let´s fly home together!

Who said that we won´t move on
Who said that the game is over
Who said that we can´t work it out
Who said that we can´t love again!

WHO SAID IT? (Alfonso Llorente)

This is the first entry to EXCURSIONS - Volume I, my new endeavour to produce as many pieces of music as fast as possible. 
I want to see how much I can do in a (at least for my standards) very short period of time, mainly to increase my overall efficiency when it comes to making music but also to get more experience in the process of actually finishing projects, which I lack.

This one is a simple progression that doesn't evolve much in terms of harmonic content but builds more upon the idea of: emotions first, complexity later. Since I tend to dislike things I make that are too "unoriginal" (as if that ship hasn't already sailed) and discard usable ideas that can easily be turned into something pretty good, I figured this would be the perfect way of trying to break this useless notion of reinventing the bloody wheel every time (not that I do that, but I hold myself to that stupidly impossible standard regardless).
I hope I succeed and I think with this piece I am on a good way towards getting better at that.

Hope you enjoy this little Richter-esque excursion. 
More (probably short) pieces will follow - they might be totally different to this one, they might be similar - I shall take what I can get :)

Cheerio,
Cedric

[ amazing photo by Vadim Sadovski that I used for this cover found here: https://unsplash.com/photos/rVk7NXidQFY ]

EXCURSIONS Vol. I

The End Is Never The End Is Never...

EXCURSIONS - The End Is Never The End Is Never...

lover

Beauty Of Life

Swinging, dreamy and at the same time a bit wistful, the solo piano piece "Spin" tells about the first steps of our life. First cautiously, then a bit more courageously and finally euphorically dancing full of joie de vivre, until we had the feeling to float and started to go our own ways.

Spin

Petite Dances - Spin

Tomorrow's Chill (new vocals mix)

Elyssia (Paul Landry and Marianne Lihannah), an Anglo - Danish duo creating new age music, ambient music and progressive rock with beautiful female vocals.
This channel also features songs by Marianne Lihannah in various genres