La Chanson D'Hélène

A track from the album Time and Tide, available on Bandcamp
amandasanderson.bandcamp.com/album/time-and-tide

Lyrics, music, mixing, production: Verulium
https://verulium.bandcamp.com/releases
Vocals: Amanda Kim Sanderson

It started in Garstang
Heading out for the M55 it's a beautiful motorway
But in the wrong direction 

I first saw Jimi in 75
Stood on the cowling of a seaplane not alive
But more like a saviour

I sat by the lakeside
Checking up on the stove and the gear for a very long holiday
To where the spirit takes me

He landed like a star on Derwentwater
His face was drawn so I offered him a quarter
Of Kendal mint cake

Driving the ghost of a famous 60s rock star
Around and around ’til we've built the energy
Living in the back of a camper van
The lakes are great and we do the best we can
One day we'll make it

We're parked in a lay by
Filling up with some beans on toast and a very nice Chardonnay 
To mark the occasion

In a white silk shirt and skin tight pants
He can't sing a note and he's banned all instruments
You've got to respect it

Driving the ghost of a famous 60s rock star
Around and around ’til we've built the energy
Living in the back of a camper van
The lakes are great and we do the best we can
One day we'll make it

We pin our hopes upon
The comeback show of the chosen one
At the Woodstock of the north
In Deeply Vale with Sandie Shaw and The Doors 

Driving the ghost of a famous 60s rock star
Around and around ’til we've built the energy
Living in the back of a camper van
The lakes are great and we do the best we can
One day we'll make it

But the times have changed
The stars have left?
We keep on chasing happiness none the less
One day we’ll find it

Time and Tide

Driving The Ghost Of A Famous Sixties Rock Star

Written, produced and performed by Jana Hermann and Enijs Maiks
© 2020 Elektrikana Rekordz

Pacifik (2020) ER TK-157

Bite the night

This year I did not go on vacation. I was only 15 days at home. Fortunately there is a pool here ...

That has allowed me to listen to a lot of music and also compose more than usual.

Experimenting with FM Player 2 I found a sound that I made a chord with. The sound developed very quickly, which is unusual for me.

Imagine the incredible voice of Nathalie B20 as the song was built, but I had not proposed any collaboration.

When it was almost finished and I proposed it to her, she accepted the collaboration, which represented a double challenge for me. Mentally imagine how Nathalie would treat the song and what we could get out of it. The result is what you see here: I could not have found a better collaboration in this case.

That is why I want to thank you for the opportunity you have given me, your magnificent contribution and the patience you have shown with me.

Thank you very much Nat

Link to hear more about Nathalie B20

https://soundcloud.com/nathalie-b20/popular-tracks

Composed in August 2020
Edited in September 2020

Edited in Music Studio 2
Art cover: Nathalie B20

Native Music Studio Instruments
KV 331 instruments
Synthmaster One Instruments

Waiting for you (Ft Nathalie B20)

MOVING TO OBLIVION - AMA Music Cinema Soundtrack ❤ 🎥

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MOVING TO OBLIVION

https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-rock-show-single/1842375564
https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/album/4lE3hGItYsq686bfbDivuU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoluLw5OfYE
https://touchofthewood.bandcamp.com/track/the-rock-show

I'm just having fun!
Hope you enjoying too!
Thanks for listening.

The Rock Show

A cover (okay, let's call it a "remake") of the fabulous late-70s "E la luna bussò" by Loredana Berté. I used to play this one with a band a few years ago, and I immediately fell in love with the lyrics.

Obviously I have maneuvered myself out of the comfort zone once more --- apart from the usual walks on very thin ice with singing and trying to get meaningful notes out of a guitar, this time it is about Reggae and strings programming (both things that I have tried to avoid so far in my musical life). Anyway, if you think that violins and cellos do not fit to Reggae: yes, you are right.

Special thanks to Tyler Cressman for having proof-read the lyrics translation!

And the moon knock-knocked on the gloomy gates of darkness
"Come on let me in!" -- but they replied "no!"
So the moon went knockin' on the place where there was silence
But a rude voice yelled: "You're late and time's already up"
So the moon left the windows open and she went to find and see

To find and do something for the time being
After having shed some tears
About another "no", about some other "no"
From the ocean (you're nothing but a pond, man!)

And the moon knock-knocked on shaded glasses
But the look behind them didn't notice her
So the moon went and tried "knock-knock-knock-knock-knock" on a pool party
"Strictly members only, no exception for moons!"
So she rolled over champagne and caviar and she went to find and see

To find and do something for the time being
After having shed some tears
About another "no", about some other "no"
From a waiter
Oh no

But then down there, almost by chance
Closer to the sidewalk, where what you see is real
But then down there, where no moon needs to knock
Between the lashes of a child, to let him fall asleep
And then down there, between tatters, tears and love
Where luck is luxury: there we need you, moon!
And yes down there, almost by chance
Closer to the sidewalk, where what you see is real
Between the lashes of a child, to let him fall asleep
Between tatters, tears and rags, to let us fall in love:
there we need you, moon!

(ad libs)
Sidewalk boogie
(more ad libs)

And The Moon Knock-Knocked

An old Eddie Harris tune, heavily based on the big band arrangement by Erik Morales. We are playing this one with the local big band, and they didn't want me to solo on it -- this is my revenge.


---- There were multiple requests for pasting the lyrics, so here we go:

So, it's really something that's been great
But you need stamina
You need physical health
And you need mental health
Like you go:
Person, woman, man, camera, TV
Could you repeat?
So, I said yah
So it's person, woman, man camera, TV
Ok, that's very good
Get it in order, you get extra points
10 minutes, 15, 20 minutes later, they say:
Give us that again! Can you do it again?
And you go: person, woman, man, camera, TV
If you get it in order, you get extra points
They said nobody gets it in order, it's actually not that easy, but for me it was easy
And, that's not an easy question
In other words, they ask you to --- they give you five names and you have to repeat them
And that's ok. If you repeat them out of order, it's ok, but you know, it's not as good
20, 25 minutes later, and they say: go back to that point, then I tell you this: go back to that question
Person, woman, man, camera, TV
And, I got a perfect mark!
And the doctors were: they said very few people can do that
Very few people get that. You understand? It's not that easy!
There were other questions, tougher than what I just did.
But it's not that easy! But as soon as they announced my score at that test
And they said: wow!
You have to be able to show this country that the person that we're picking as leader is sharp
Give us that again! Can you do that again?
And you go: person, woman, man, camera, TV
They say: that's amazing! How did you do that?
And of course I have like, a good memory
Because I'm cognitively there
The last questions are much more difficult
Ah like a memory question
It's ah, like you go: person, woman, man, camera, TV
And they said: wow!
Go back to that question, and repeat them! Can you do that?
And you go: person, woman, man, camera, TV
Person, woman, man, camera, TV
They say that's amazing, how did you do that?

Cold Duck Time ft. Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV

POOKAH LIBRE DE VIVRE EN ÉQUILIBRE I MEAN IN FREEDOM LIBRA
POOKAH TON BATEAU IVRE CROULANT DE LIVRES PLUS THE UNWRITTEN ENCYCLOPEDIA
POOKAH IVRE DE VIVRE AND LIVE AT EASE WHEREVER
POOKAH BLOWN BY THE BREEZE A BALINESE POLE DANCER
POOKAH

HOW MANY YEARS TO GO BEFORE YOU LET ME KNOW 
YOUR REAL NAME
POOKAH 
IT TOOK SOME AIKIDO S OME NIGHTS IN THE WEIRDO 
HALL OF FAME
AND
POOKAH CETTE SURPRISE I WON’T TELL EITHER 
WHERE IT COMES FROM MAYBE SOMEHOW KENYA 
POOKAH NO USE TO GRIEVE YOUR MIND AT EASE YOUR OPEN HEART GONE NOVA

POOKAH
BORN FROM A MANDALA AND SUNG BY A MANTRA SHIFTING ANAHATA YOUR CHAKRA
POOKAH
LIFE’S A BRAHMABUTRA ET QUI A BU BOIRA QUI A FOUTU FOUTRA OH POOKAH
POOKAH OPIUM POPPIES WATER LYLLIES ALHAMDULIILLAH  
POOKAH STRAIN AND RELEASE FLY WHERE SHE LIVES PERHAPS INDIA
POOKAH SAVOIR SURVIVRE EN TEMPS DE CRISE C’EST SAVOIR VIVRE SA BARAKA
POOKAH WHEN CRAZE INCREASES THE YOGI FREEZES IN DHANURASANA 
POOKAH
AND I AIN’T GONNA TELL ALL THE LETTERS THAT SPELL 
YOUR REAL NAME
HOPE YOU ARE DOING WELL TINKLING YOUR JINGLE BELL ALL THE SAME
POOKAH
AN URBAN FAIRY THAT’S WHAT HE IS
POOKAH

POOKAH (Lyrics) song for Pookah

The Art of Hoquet - D'Amore
November 2020
Duration: 2:45
Cover Art: John-Marc Ventimiglia

Based on the 14th century 2 part Ballade, Je ne cuit pas, by Guillaume de Machaut.  
The composition is written in a contemporary style using the technique of hoquet.

The term "hoquet" is a French word (in Old French also hocquet, hoket, or ocquet) meaning "a shock, sudden interruption, hitch, or hiccup".  Although the term is in reference to the secular music of the 13th and 14th centuries in France, the technique, under other names, could be heard in different types of music across the world as early as the 11th century.  Hoquet is the rhythmic linear technique using the alternation of notes, pitches, or chords.  In medieval practice of hocket, a single melody is shared between two (or occasionally more) voices or instruments such that alternately one voice sounds while the other rests.  Hoquet is also used in Indonesian Gamelan music, African music, Classical music, Jazz and popular music.

For strings, woodwinds, harp, bandura, celeste, virtual instruments and percussion

The Art Of Hoquet - D'Amour

Keeping on fiddling while Rome is burning. Some of my therapists say that music is sublimation which is a good thing.

Profile pic by Antonino Muscarello :-)

And The Moon Knock-Knocked

Florian Lüthi