Name: Escape From Alvie Live At The Cat Oct. 2004 by Erika Kulnys
Duration: 5 min 36 s
Description: A fun song by Halali performed by Erika Kulnys, Stefan Amidon, Ashlynn Manning, Elvie Miller, Mary Larew, and Ryan Kotler Live at the Cat at Oberlin College Oct. 2004. This was the first time we played through this without stopping! :)

Phoenix

Phoenix (CID Remix)

Angels

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Written by Erika Kulnys
Lyrics and music copyright © 2019
Produced by Jordan Metro
Vox/piano by Erika Kulnys
Harmonies by Kala Farnham
Strings by Efrat Ariel Shapira and Catherine Bent 
Recorded by Mark Thayer at Signature Sounds
Mixed by Mark Thayer

STAND TOGETHER
Some people want freedom
Some people want war
We all want love
It opens every door
Some people have vision
Some are in the dark
We the people are calling from our hearts

Stand Together
We can’t stand alone
Not one border will bring us home
Stand Together
Hear the helpless cry
Let the ivory tower crumble
And let peace rise

Now we’re living in concentration camps
The people of Honduras,
Mexico, Guatemala deserve a chance
Will we watch like World War II
Or we will rise up
And say, Me Too
We’ll follow leaders that stand for truth
We’re all equals in spite of what we did to you
Make reparations, feel the hurt inside
Fight for justice and never turn a blind eye

Now the bells are ringing in Berlin
Saying we won’t let fascism win
We’re gonna let the refugees in
Let refugees in!

Stand Together
We can’t stand alone
Not one border will bring us home
Stand Together
Hear the helpless cry
Let the ivory tower crumble
And let peace rise

We’ll fight for freedom
Cause this is war
Torture and cages will be no more
We raise our voice, We raise our hearts
We the people have been singing from the start

Stand Together
We can’t stand alone
Not one border will bring us home
Stand Together
Hear the helpless cry
Let the ivory tower crumble
And let peace rise!

https://erikakulnys.com/music/stand-together

Stand Together is an album recorded in Ojalá by Olimpia Calderon Arias and in EGREM by Merlin Lorenzo. Ojalá is the studio of my songwriting idol, Silvio Rodriguez, and EGREM is Cuba's national music production company. Both are in La Habana, Cuba. I also recorded songs in this collection, including Stand Together, with Kala Farnham at Signature Sounds by Mark Thayer in Connecticut, where I recorded Rise Up. This collection of songs is an album about love, standing together across borders and ideological differences, and transforming suffering into joy. 

Stand Together includes Spanish songs, Fantasma (Ghost), I co-wrote in Cuba (I am the daughter of a Colombian mother) with Dariel Milan and Jeniffer Dalía Morales Rodriguez and Alcanzando La Rosa (Reaching for the Rose), a song I co-wrote with Gareth Dunlop in Belfast and translated with Cuban drummer, El Pulpo and friend, Josue Taboada. It also includes a love song co-written at Folk Alliance International with Lilli Lewis called Montreal and a song called Swimming with Dolphins co-written with Alan Roy Scott, recorded with Cuban piano great Alejandro Falcon. 

The first single, My Choice supports Whole Woman's Health, fighting for reproductive justice in the USA. The second single from the album, Stand Together, is a song I started in Cuba and finished in Germany. It is about ending the torture, internment and subjugation of refugees and creating a culture that recognizes our common humanity over national borders.

Stand Together (Radio Cut)

STAND TOGETHER
 
Some people want freedom
Some people want war
We all want love
It opens every door
Some people have vision
Some are in the dark
We the people are calling from our hearts
 
Stand Together
We can’t stand alone
Not one border will bring us home
Stand Together
Hear the helpless cry
Let the ivory tower crumble
And let peace rise
 
Now we’re living in concentration camps
The people of Honduras,
Mexico, Guatemala deserve a chance
Will we watch like World War II
Or we will rise up
And say, Me Too
 
We’ll follow leaders that stand for truth
We’re all equals in spite of what we did to you
Make reparations, feel the hurt inside
Fight for justice and never turn a blind eye
 
Now the bells are ringing in Berlin
Saying we won’t let fascism win
We’re gonna let the refugees in
Let refugees in!
 
Stand Together
We can’t stand alone
Not one border will bring us home
Stand Together
Hear the helpless cry
Let the ivory tower crumble
And let peace rise
 
We’ll fight for freedom
Cause this is war
Torture and cages will be no more
We raise our voice, We raise our hearts
We the people have been singing from the start
 
Stand Together
We can’t stand alone
Not one border will bring us home
Stand Together
Hear the helpless cry
Let the ivory tower crumble
And let peace rise!
 
Stand Together is an album recorded in Ojalá by Olimpia Calderon Arias and in EGREM by Merlin Lorenzo. Ojalá is the studio of my songwriting idol, Silvio Rodriguez, and EGREM is Cuba’s national music production company. Both are in La Habana, Cuba. I also recorded songs in this collection with Kala Farnham at Signature Sounds by Mark Thayer in Connecticut, where I recorded Rise Up. This collection of songs is an album about love, standing together across borders and ideological differences, and transforming suffering into joy.
 
Stand Together includes Spanish songs, Fantasma (Ghost), I co-wrote in Cuba (I am the daughter of a Colombian mother) with Dariel Milan and Jeniffer Dalía Morales Rodriguez and Alcanzando La Rosa (Reaching for the Rose), a song I co-wrote with Gareth Dunlop in Belfast and translated with Cuban drummer, El Pulpo and friend, Josue Taboada. It also includes a love song co-written at Folk Alliance International with Lilli Lewis called Montreal and a song called Swimming with Dolphins co-written with Alan Roy Scott, recorded with Cuban piano great Alejandro Falcon. The Spanish songs feature an all-star Cuban band.
 
The first single, My Choice supports Whole Woman’s Health, fighting for reproductive justice in the USA. The second single from the album, Stand Together, is a song I started in Cuba and finished in Germany. It is about ending the torture, internment and subjugation of refugees and creating a culture that recognizes our common humanity over national borders.

Written by Erika Kulnys
Lyrics and music copyright © 2019
Recording released 2022
Vox/piano by Erika Kulnys
Harmonies by Kala Farnham
Strings by Efrat Ariel Shapira and Catherine Bent
Recorded by Mark Thayer at Signature Sounds
Mixed by Mark Thayer
Graphic Design by John McLean
Produced by Jordan Metro

Stand Together (Acoustic Version)

"AGUA"

Irina González : voix, guitare, composition, percussions & arrangement musical

Chloé Bousquet : violon

Solenne Burgelin: alto

Eugénie Ursch : violoncelle

Louis Navarro : contrebasse

Onel Miranda : tambours batá

Enregistrement : Boris Béziat (Studio Elixir) / Philippe Dutheil (Cordes records)

Mixage : Jacques Hermet 

Mastering : Sean Mageet (Abbey Road Studios)

Photo & artwork: Ulysse Navarro

www.irina-gonzalez.com

Tiempo

Agua

OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD

Recorded live with Alejandro Falcon by Olimpia Calderon Arias at Silvio Rodriguez's studio, Ojala in Havana. Will be released on Stand Together.

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Lyrics

The Santa Clara Moon
is hungry in the sky
Dogs are circling home
I'm not gonna cry

Everyone's singing Besame
and holding each other tight
I'll walk you home tonight
I'll walk you home tonight

Is it too soon to touch my fingers to your heart
I asked the moon, and saw a shooting star
Consulted runes to kiss you in the car
Talking to the moon tonight
Talking to the moon tonight

And everything I wished for
in a moment it came true
It's funny how things change my dear
like the faces of the moon

The Santa Clara Moon
is hungry in the sky
Dogs are circling home
I'm not gonna cry

Everyone's singing Besame
and holding each other tight
I'll walk you home tonight
I'll walk you home tonight

Santa Clara Moon

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I wrote a special song called Swimming with Dolphins with my dear friend Alan Roy Scott on the beautiful Irish island of Inisheer, which has a wild dolphin who loves to swim freely with people. This song is about love: about being free from our conceptions about ourselves, our conceptions of others, and our attachments to suffering. It is about following the wild dolphins who show us how to laugh and love and sing in our power. Alan and I hope to produce this song with full pop production soon!

Swimming with Dolphins will appear on Erika's album for peace and empowerment, Stand Together! Stay tuned:

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Lyrics
I went as far away as I could get from you
to an isolated island, population 22
Walked on an empty beach
There were footprints in the sand
I came here to be alone
It’s not going how I planned
I swam in the ocean
thinking is this is how I die?
In the freezing water something caught my eye
I knew I should be afraid
but somehow I felt free
Something was leading me
to where I’m meant to be

Now I’m swimming with dolphins
riding the waves just letting go
Feel the wind rushin' through my soul
Calls to me
Swimming with dolphins
part of the family of life
I’m feeling totally alive
out at sea
Swimming with dolphins

I feel the winds of change, cause everything makes sense
on the way to better times you gotta first go through the depths
but it’s all what you learn from it
that’s how you move ahead
I accepted being alone, and I found love instead

So come with me in the ocean
The water is just fine
Want to show you something
that’s gonna blow your mind
I used to be afraid
but you have set me free
Now your love is leading me
to where I’m meant to be

We’ll go swimming with dolphins
Riding the waves just letting go
Feel the wind rushing through my soul
Calls to me
Swimming with dolphins
Part of the family of life
Just feeling totally alive
out at sea
Swimming with dolphins
Riding the waves just letting go
Feel the wind rushin' through my soul
Calls to me
Swimming with dolphins
Part of the family of life
I’m feeling totally alive
out at sea
Swimming with Dolphins

credits
releases August 18, 2023
Erika Kulnys, Voice
Alejandro Falcón, Piano

Recorded Live off the floor at Estudios Ojala by Olimpia Calderon Arias

Swimming With Dolphins (Live)

A fun song by Halali performed by Erika Kulnys, Stefan Amidon, Ashlynn Manning, Elvie Miller, Mary Larew, and Ryan Kotler Live at the Cat at Oberlin College Oct. 2004. This was the first time we played through this without stopping! :)

Escape From Alvie Live At The Cat Oct. 2004

Erika Kulnys

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