Berta

'Breeze of Love' is a love song, a lyrical weaving of beautiful memories, mixed with reminders to myself to choose to love and understand, whenever it is possible. To not let the few bad moments in a day overshadow all the many wonderful experiences. 
This song is one of my unreleased old favourite songs which I completely re-worked in 2021, originally written for voice and lyre. Now magically transformed with Paul Landry's beautiful additions.
 
Song and lyrics, piano and voice by Marianne Lihannah
Synthesizer added parts and mixed and mastered by Paul Landry

Breeze of Love

Breeze Of Love |  Marianne Lihannah

Keyhan Kalhor & Navid Afghah.m4a

My submission for the Bucharest International Film Festival. I will be directing a music video for this track this December.

The track was recorded on tape, and features a small upright piano, a violin, a guitar bowed and a couple of floor toms. everything recorded with a  Schoeps Mk4.

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Reborn

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"An intimate journey led by a minimalistic piano, looking for something that went missing."

Grab your copy of the Digital Deluxe Edition of The Last Days of Winter. The digital download includes:

▶ The official video of "Missing"
▶ "The Ordeal" - Bonus track
▶ High resolution version of the official and the alternate cd cover
▶ PDF with the liner notes of the album

:: credits ::

Composed, recorded and mastered by Francesco Berta.

Piano, celesta, guitars and programming: Francesco Berta 
Cello: Aríanna Hönnudóttir

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Missing

یادداشت مترجم:

پل سلان این شعر را در حدود ۱۹۴۵ درباره‌ی «شوآه» (که امروزه به‌غلط هولوکاست نامیده می‌شود) و تجربه‌ی اردوگاه‌های مرگ نازی‌ها نوشت و نخستین بار نسخه‌ای رومانیایی از آن را با عنوان Tangoul Mortii (تانگوی مرگ) در نشریه‌‌ای ادبی (۱۹۴۷) و سپس نسخه‌ی آلمانی را در مجموعه‌ی شعر «خشخاش و خاطره» (۱۹۵۲) منتشر کرد. امّا بعدها به دلایلی از انتشار آن پشیمان شد و تا پایان زندگی‌اش هرگز اجازه‌ی چاپ دوباره‌ی این شعر را نداد. تانگوی مرگ اشاره به رویدادی دارد که گفته می‌شود در یکی از اردوگاه‌های نازی به نام Janowska رایج بود: مأموران نازی‌ها نوازندگان یهودی را مجبور می‌کردند در حال کندن قبرها، ضرب‌وشتم‌ها، و راهپیمایی‌ها موسیقی خاصی بنوازند که آن را «تانگوی مرگ» می‌نامیدند. فوگ مرگ را اغلب مثال نقض این حکم مشهور تئودور آدورنو می‌دانند که می‌گفت «بعد از آشویتس شعرنوشتن توحش است».

فوگ (Fuge) یک فرم موسیقی کونترپوان و چندصدایی است که در آن چند موتیف متفاوت در امتداد هم با یکدیگر تلفیق و ترکیب می‌شوند و ساختاری پیچیده را می‌سازند. بهترین نمونه‌های فوگ را در آثار یوهان سباستین باخ می‌توان یافت. سلان ساختار این شعر را به‌سان یک فوگ ـ همچون یک استعاره- طرح ریخته است. البته هیچ فرم متناظر ادبی دقیق و کاملی از فوگ موسیقایی وجود ندارد. اجرای پل سلان از فوگ مرگ در نوار ضبط‌شده از او بر ویژگی چندصدایی و فوگ‌مانند این شعر تأکیدی ویژه می‌گذارد که در فهم و ترجمه‌ی آن نیز بسیار راه‌گشا بوده است.

مارگارت (Margarete) یا مارگارته اسمی مشخصاً آلمانی است برای زنان و زن مطلوب رمانتیک‌های آلمانی را به ذهن تداعی می‌کند: زنی موطلایی، زیبا و آریایی‌تبار از نژاد ژرمان. مارگارت زنی است از جنس قهرمانان زن آثار گوته و هاینه.

«شولامیت» (שולמית) یا «زولامیت» (در تلفظ آلمانی) اسمی رایج و مشخصاً یهودی است برای زنان. این واژه‌ی عبری صورت مؤنث همان سلیمان است که با «شالوم» (به معنای صلح) و «سالومه» نیز مرتبط است. این نام در کتاب مقدس (عهد عتیق: «غزل غزل‌های سلیمان») نیز می‌آید  و زنی «سبزه ولی خوبرو» وصف می‌شود.

فوگ مرگ، شعری از پل سلان

Remix by The Echelon Effect.

Watch the official video here: youtu.be/X7pnbDBBFcU

The single WAVES was performed and mixed by Francesco Berta in London, the vocal layers were written and recorded by singer Anne Van Den Hoogen in Amsterdam and the EP was mastered by John Webber at the legendary Air Studios in London.

“When I made some people listen to a preview of the track they were surprised, they told me it was beautiful yet different from everything I did before. But on one level, I must never lose touch with my audience. But I must, at some point, stop trying to get everybody to like me, and be true to my musical soul, to what I feel and I have to say. It’s a challenging moment to live as an artist and composer because these days everyone is writing music on his laptop. Music making has become accessible to almost everyone, that’s why it’s important to find what defines you, and chase it”.

The official video is directed by Isaac Madge, a writer, director & filmmaker based in West Sussex & London, passionate about low budget filmmaking and telling stories that really make an impact.

The video is starring Lucy Elizabeth Anderson and Joe James.

“The video is inspired by the true story of a friend of mine” says Francesco “she’s suffering a form of dissociative disorder. When I told Isaac this story he jumped on board straight on, and he did an amazing job portraying that reality. Also the actors are young but terrific and spontaneous, I’m really satisfied by the overall work”.

Waves feat. Anne Van Den Hoogen (The Echelon Effect Remix)

Luigi Rubino - Last Dance

Artificial Animals Riding On Neverland

Aaron - Little Love

Intimacy

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The Peak Of Eternal Light

Written, conducted, mixed and mastered by Francesco Berta between April and May 2017.

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A Beautiful Place

Written, orchestrated, mixed and mastered by Francesco Berta in July 2017. 

▒ Flute: Luke Howells 
▒ Bassoons: Adam Ford, Mike Summers 
▒ Piano, Celesta, E-bow: Francesco Berta 
▒ Violins: Liam Raw, Robert Varley
▒ Viola: Anne Narayan 
▒ Cello: Aríanna Hönnudóttir

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The Memory of a Warm Embrace

21 Moonlight Waltz - Parisian Version

#39: Adagio - Bach/Marcello

Victoria

Composed, performed & produced by Deryn Cullen

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Morpheus

مقام سبز پری  - عبدالله سرور أحمدى

Francesco is an Italian born music composer, pianist and visual artist. 

In the first ten years of his career Francesco has been able to collect a substantial list of wide-ranging achievements: from conducting his own music in the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London to releasing an impressive number of albums as a solo artist; scoring movies and documentaries to directing award-winning short films.

Francesco’s work ethic is second to none, but his greatest asset is, undoubtedly, his unconditional love for film: having a bachelor’s degree in Film Technology and a burning desire to create stories that will stand the test of time.

Drawn to simplicity and driven by a fanatical attention to detail, Francesco creates music that blurs the lines between ambient, electronic and orchestral.

His instinctive use of acoustic instruments combines the elegance of traditional orchestration with complex, electronic landscapes, melding into emotive and exquisitely elegant hybrid-orchestral compositions.

Francesco’s music takes listeners on a passionate journey through images and emotions, creating stories and shaping memories.

The Peak Of Eternal Light

Francesco Berta

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