Very nice version of this well known song. It is refreshing to hear that it is possible to revisit such a classic.

That's a really interesting version of this beautiful Christmas song from my home country :)

Sophie
Tell me your story
Maybe we could chat
Over a cup of coffee

I know you’ve got things to say
But don’t know where to start
Doesn’t matter
Things  get better
I say this from my heart 

Just don’t bend
You know you’ve got a friend

So, Sophie
We all have stories
Some to tell and some to live
Did I ever think I’d come this far?
Did you ever think you’d go so far?

The fighters in us fight on
The lovers in us live on
The dreamers in us dream on
The spirit in you stays strong

So, Sophie
Will you tell your story?
It ain’t over yet
You know you’ve got a friend

Sophie..
I’m there..

Single(C)2019
Music - Yann Kifer and  Sreyashi Mukherjee
Piano - Yann Kifer
Vocals and Lyrics - Sumi (Sreyashi Mukherjee)
Mixing - Mateusz Kowara

Find Yann Kifer's music on: https://soundcloud.com/annkifer

Sophie (with Yann Kifer)

Getaway

The Abyss

Lyrics/Music written by Jason Johansson

Jason Johansson: Vocals/Guitars
Joe Reineke: Bass
Dave Warburton: Drums
Jeff Hamel: Harmonica

Recorded at Orbit Audio in Seattle, WA
Produced and Engineered by Joe Reineke

Zina

Apartment 27

"There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet."  - William Frederick Halsey


Soli Deo Gloria!

Rise To Challenge

My weekend project for my Last Song.
A tribute to the Poems ans Lyrics of Leonard Cohen.

It seems my lyrics needs a little explanation.
In my head the connections are clear, but even my wife has not quite understood what I was getting at.

"Man with the Hat.., how he knows so much about the past, the present and the future"
"The Future".
- Give me back the Berlin wall
- I've seen the future, it is murder
- You never will, you never did
It was the last song on "Natural Born Killers" and probably the moment
when I first noticed Leonard Cohen as a really cool artist. When we got married in the USA in 2010, we rented a Mustang
Convertible for our honeymoon and drove it through the desert. We were often greeted with Mickey and Malory. That was quite amusing.

"twenty years of boredom is just a blink of an eye"
"First we Take Manhtten"
- They sentenced me to 20 years of boredom

"the holy dove..."
"Hallelujah"
- "And I remember when I moved in you and the holy dove she was moving too and eery single breath we drew was Hallelujah"
this is obviously a very erotic allusion. In my imagination, the dove is now "pregnant" and must hatch the egg. She will raise it full of love.

"how many miracles ..."
"Waiting for the Miracle" First song on "Natural Born Killers"
- But i was waiting for the Miracle
- I've been waiting night and day

"His songs of hope are not like songs of people in danger..."
In connection with the Ukraine conflict, my father just told me how he sat in the air raid shelter bunker during Worl War II and sang together to drown out the sirens.
They were certainly not poetic songs, but they served to spread hope. Today, when he listens to the news about Russian War he remembers how scared he was by the sirens.

"especially now, on a Wednesday"
this has no relation to Cohen. My wife reported to me last Wednesday walking down the street. An ambulance came across the redlightning crossroads at high speed.
She was trying to warn a woman who was carelessly walking across the street with her cell phone to her ear.
Instead of thanking her she was insulted in what tone she was talking to her. In the context of the sentence: "would you rather die? On a Wednesday of all days?"

"Everybody knows..." song with this title.
Means that many people are not interested in this kind of lyrics. They are only concerned with the now.

"Lost for so long...rise like the phoenix from the ashes"
- 1996, Cohen was ordained as a monk until he returned in 2001 with "ten new songs"

"With wine and cigarettes..."
"Tower of Song"
- I was born with the gift of a golden voice
- he started smoking again at 80 finally live it up and stop worrying about the consequences shortening your life by much

"Without any choice he reaches our hearts"
"A singer must die"
- And all the ladies go moist and the judge has no choice

"..come to that hotel in New York.."
"Chelsea Hotel #2"
During a visit to New York we of course also visited the Chelsea Hotel. In the lobby hung some artworkds painting by Leonard Cohen.
Lyrics of "Chelsea Hotel #2"
- "While the limousines wait in the street."
- "Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty,"
- "You just turned your back on the crowd" (This line appears later in my lyrics)

"the lock of hair, one of his sleeping enemies"
"Famous Blue Raincoat"
- "Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair "
- "Well, your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free"

"has falling to the ground ..."
"I'm Your Man"
- "Ah, but a man never got a woman back Not by begging on his knees"

"As he looked at her, she started to cry..."
During a concert in Las Vegas, a lady boarded the stage, fell at his feet and gave him a rose.
The security guards panicked, but he took the rose and just smiled charmingly.

"He is the keeper of truth..."
"A singer must die"
- "you keepers of truth, you guardians of beauty"
- "Your vision is right, my vision is wrong"

Other  lyrics are freely invented by me but inspired by him to create a framework for this song..

Oli Boli - Man With The Hat

Man With The Hat - Swinging Leonard Cohen Tribute

ALFONSO LLORENTE: VOCALS, ACOUSTIC GUITAR & STRINGS
MRS A: VOCALS

IF I WERE A CARPENTER (Tim Hardin)

« Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht » has been penned by Franz Xaver Gruber in 1818, based upon a poem written by Joseph Mohr two years earlier.
It became a worldwide tune very soon.
Among its numerous renditions, I still keep a special place in my heart for the version by Elvis Presley, forever The King, that inspired me to record this cover (December 2023 Remix).
I didn’t play a bagpipe for once but a Breton bombard : more on this instrument here https://www.ericdentinger.com/en/bombarde.html
As I’ve recorded (and mixed) it with lots of positive emotions, I’ll be very glad for your support to my work here on Soundcloud and also on Bandcamp https://ericmclewis.bandcamp.com/track/silent-night
—
« Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht » a été composé par Franz Xaver Gruber en 1818, à partir d’un poème de Joseph Mohr écrit deux ans plus tôt.
La chanson est très vite devenue un « hit » mondial.
Parmi ces nombreuses interprétations, je garde une place spéciale dans mon cœur pour la version d’Elvis Presley, pour toujours The King, qui m’a inspiré sur cette reprise.
Pour une fois, j’ai remplacé ma cornemuse par une bombarde, instrument breton que vous pouvez découvrir ici https://www.ericdentinger.com/fr/bombarde.html
J’ai réalisé ce titre (remixé en décembre 2023) avec beaucoup d’émotions positives et je serais particulièrement heureux si vous supportiez mon travail ici sur Soundcloud et aussi sur Bandcamp où vous pourrez le télécharger https://ericmclewis.bandcamp.com/track/silent-night

Silent Night

Sublime (Acoustic) written, composed and produced by Chris Browne BrowneProject - Hat Man Can LTD Records all rights reserved made in England. Download via my BandCamp music page today - https://browneproject.bandcamp.com/track/sublime-acoustic

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Sublime (Acoustic)

Mixed and Mastered by Woods Studio
@woods_studio

Lyrics:

Salted wind is spraying, troubled mind is graying,
Apprehensive praying, shore of stone and clay.
Now the fog is forming, hides the lonely morning,
Heart without its warming, numb before the day.

There was an uncertain sign, 
Stars that wouldn’t align in their common display,
A storm that swallowed the night, 
Full of thunder and might,
And a blazing pathway.  (Instrumental)

It was an ominous sign, 
Stars that wouldn’t align in their common display,
A storm that swallowed the night, 
Full of thunder and light,
And a flaming doorway.

A solitary vision, feelings in remission,
Emotional collision, head of stone and clay,
Now the fog is forming, hides the lonely morning,
Heart without its warming, numb before the day.
Ooooh

Numb Before The Day

You and me.

Welcome on my Soundcloud page! So, I play bagpipes, bombards, Irish whistles, and sing in English, French and Breton. All tunes are performed, recorded, arranged and mixed in my personal home studio: working hard in it for the present time with several singles to come and at least one album in 2024. Work in progress…
I am thankful for your precious listening here and also if you pay me a visit on Bandcamp, YouTube, etc…
Eric
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Bienvenue sur ma page Soundcloud! Joueur de cornemuses, bombardes, flûtes irlandaises, chanteur (anglais, français et breton), compositeur, parolier. Actuellement en plein travail dans mon studio pour vous livrer plusieurs singles ainsi qu'au moins un album en 2024. Work in progress…
Merci pour votre visite ici et aussi sur Bandcamp, YouTube, etc… et pour votre soutien! Eric
Interprétations, arrangements, enregistrements et mixages : Eric Maclewis

Silent Night

Eric Maclewis

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