My 3rd album "Fleur Noir"

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FLEUR NOIR

Arranged & Produced by https://soundcloud.com/bitzone

Yelena  voice, guitar, VST programming
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone percussion, bass, keys

Mixed & Mastered by https://soundcloud.com/bitzone
at Somnambulant, Münster, Germany

Original songs are written by Yelena Gorn

BEHOLD THE HOUR, THE BOAT ARRIVE
Poem by Robert Burns
Music by Yelena

Cover songs:
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MORNING GLORY
Written by Tim Buckley and Larry Beckett

IF YOU GO AWAY
Written by Jacques Brel
English Words by Rod McKuen

YELLOW MOON
Written by The Neville Brothers

DEAD AND LOVELY
Written by Kathleen Brennan and Tom Waits

LIVE FOR LIFE
Written by Francis Lai and Pierre Barouh
English Words by Norman Gimbel

Field recordings:
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bitzone's audio sample library
Yelena's audio sample library
freesound.org, "seagulls....waves." by juskiddink 
freesound.org, "Wind and Water" by janrou
clips from the film "The File on Thelma Jordon"

Yelena  Album cover design
Yelena  Motion Graphics & film production

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Fleur Noir

Written by Tim Buckley and Larry Beckett
Performed by Yelena & bitzone

Yelena (vocals, acoustic guitars)
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone (orchestral samples - strings and woodwinds, bass, drums, and production)

Image: Art Nouveau vignette by Géo Dorival


Morning Glory

I lit my purest candle close to my
Window, hoping it would catch the eye
Of any vagabond who passed it by
And I waited in my fleeting house

Before he came, I felt him drawing near
And as he neared, I felt the ancient fear
That he had come to wound my door and jeer
But I waited in my fleeting house

"Oh, tell me stories", I called to the Hobo
"Stories of old", I smiled at the Hobo
"Stories of cold", I wept to the Hobo
And I waited in my fleeting house

"No" said the Hobo, "No more tales of time
Don't ask me now to wash away the grime
I can't come in, it's just too high a climb"
And he stood before my fleeting house

"Then you be damned", I screamed to the Hobo
"Turn into stone", I wept to the Hobo
"Leave me alone", I knelt to the Hobo
But he walked away from my fleeting house

Morning Glory [bitzone production]

Performed by Yelena & bitzone

Yelena (vocals, acoustic guitars)
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone (keys, bass, drums, and production)

Intro: excerpt from Russian folk song "Shar Goluboy" (blue balloon)
Clips from the film "The File on Thelma Jordon", 1950 throughout the song 

Image: fragment of Art Nouveau vignette

Price

Raindrops shine on the window pane
Street lights make them yellow diamonds
Shadows move across the wall
Footsteps in the hall

Your hands were empty
And the heart full of hope
You would never fail
Music will never stop

It's a damn good place -
Top of the world
Even if you're there
For no reason at all

Price, price, price
Seems like it's always price to pay
For a silly little wisdom
For a cheep cliche

Price, price, price
Such a dear price to pay
For a penny wisdom
For a dirt cheep cliche

Dancing till the sun comes up
Velvet gloves on the floor
Silence fell like ton of steel
Whisper makes you kneel

The rhyme is lost
And the reason left the room
Girl with the silver hair
Never married her groom

Price
Seems like it's always price to pay
For a silly little wisdom
For a grand cliche

Price, price, price...

#Chanson

Price [bitzone production]

Performed by Yelena & bitzone
Yelena (vocals, acoustic guitars, synth)
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone (synth, bass, drums, and production)

Image: illustration by Chas Pears from The Studio magazine, October 1894

Freezing Rain

Morning rain, cry, cry, cry
Winter ice, melt, melt, melt
Troubled wind, don't you dare bother me
Spare my soul

One of these mornings
I get off this crazy train
And the gold of the morning sun
Will be mine
And my heart would heal
And my spirit soar
I will travel this dreaded road
No more

Morning rain....

His shoes were worn
And the skin was old and wrinkled
And he softly, oh so quietly
Talked to me
'Why should you work
so hard', he said
'The fire is slowly dying...'

'All margins are drawn
And the list is all written
All buttons are sewn
All apples are bitten
And the only damn thing
We are all born to do
Is to quietly, quietly, quietly
Disappear'

Freezing rain, freezing rain, freezing rain
Road is closed

I've seen you before
I am sure you know it all
And I do, yes I do
Know your name
Your wisdom is deep
And it's good for fleecing sheep
I will listen to you
No more

Morning rain, cry, cry, cry
Broken heart, bleed, bleed, bleed
Troubled wind, don't you dare bother me
Spare my soul
Spare my soul

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Song trailer on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/858076535242258763/

Freezing Rain [bitzone production]

Written by The Neville Brothers

Performed by Yelena & bitzone
Yelena (vocals, acoustic guitars, MIDI programmed synths, field recording)
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone (samples - strings and e-guitar, bass, percussion, and production)

Image: Notturno by Lionella Nasi from "Gli Adornatori del Libro in Italia", 1923-1927 compilation

Field recording is of daily 7PM cheers for New York City essential workers during COVID-19 pandemic

Yellow Moon
(with the excerpt from Lord Byron's poem)

Yellow moon, yellow moon
Why you keep looking in my window?
Do you know something 
You know something I don't know

Did you see my baby 
Walking down them railroad tracks?
Oh can you tell me
If he is ever coming back?

Is he hid out with another
Or is he trying to get back home?
Is he wrapped up in some other arms
Or he is somewhere all alone?

With your eyes so bright and a-shiny
You can see the whole damn land
Yellow moon, can you tell me 
If another stole my man?

Yellow moon, yellow moon, yellow moon,
Did you see my creole baby?
Oh can you tell me 
If he is still friend of mine

...
(spoken)
So, we'll go no more a roving
   So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
   And the moon be still as bright.
...

With your eyes so bright and a-shiny
You can see the whole damn land
Yellow moon, can you tell me 
If another stole my man?

Yellow moon, yellow moon, yellow moon,
Did you see my creole baby?
Oh can you tell me 
If he is still friend of mine

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Song trailer on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/858076535244014676/

Yellow Moon [bitzone production]

Poem by Robert Burns 
Music by Yelena

Performed by Yelena & bitzone
Yelena (vocals, acoustic guitars, MIDI programmed VSTs)
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone (mellotron, bass, percussion, and production)

Image: Illustration by Fred Hyland, circa 1900 

Field recording from freesound.org:
"seagulls....waves." by juskiddink (https://freesound.org/people/juskiddink/)


I wrote this song in my teenage years with Russian translation of Robert Burns poetry. Some time back I revisited my song and adapted it using original language of the poem.

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Behold The Hour, The Boat Arrive (adapted)
Poem by Robert Burns 

Behold the hour, the boat arrive;
You go, the darling of my heart;
Sever’d from you, can I survive,
But Fate has will’d and we must part.

We must part...

I’ll often greet the surging swell,
The distant Isle will often hail:
“Here I took the last farewell;
There, latest mark’d his vanish’d sail.”

We must part...

(spoken) 
Endless and deep shall be my grief;
Not ray of comfort shall I see,
But somehow, I belive
That you will still remember
Remember me...

We must part...

Along the solitary shore,
While flitting sea-gull round me cry,
Across the rolling, dashing roar,
I’ll westward turn my wistful eye...

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Song trailer on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/858076535246403871/

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Behold The Hour, The Boat Arrive [bitzone production]

Words and Music by Jacques Brel
English Words by Rod McKuen

Performed by Yelena & bitzone
Yelena (vocals, acoustic guitars, MIDI programmed VSTs)
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone (mellotron and production)

Image: Fragment of the drawing by Charles Robinson for The Child World,  The Studio magazine, December 1896

If You Go Away (Ne me quitte pas)

If you go away on this summer day
Then you might as well take the sun away
All the birds that flew in the summer sky
When our love was new and our hearts were high
When the day was young and the night was long
And the moon stood still for the night bird’s song
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away

But if you stay I'll make you a day
Like no day has been or will be again
We'll sail on the sun, we'll ride on the rain
We'll talk to the trees and worship the wind
And if you go, I'll understand
Leave me just enough love 
To hold in my hand
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away

If you go away, as I know you will
You must tell the world to stop turning 'til
You return again, if you ever do
For what good is love without loving you?
Can I tell you now, as you turn to go
I'll be dying slowly 'til the next hello
Ne me quitte pas, ne me quitte pas, ne me quitte pas

But if you stay, I'll make you a night
Like no night has been or will be again
I'll ride on your smile, I'll sail on your touch
I'll talk to your eyes that I love so much
And if you go, I'll understand
Leave me just enough
To hold in my hand
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away

If you go away, as I know you must
There'll be nothing more in this world to trust
Just an empty room, full of empty space
Like the empty look I see on your face
Oh I would have been the shadow of your shadow
If it only kept me by your side
If you go away, if you go away, please don't go away

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Song trailer on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/858076535248764942/?nic_v2=1a6CMtY7u

If You Go Away [bitzone production]

Chanson, Ballad & Blues 
All songs are produced by brilliant producer and musician from Germany https://soundcloud.com/bitzone. 
Thank You for listening!

In this project I arrange and record my original songs and favorite covers. Sometimes I set poetry that resonate with me to music. 
Thanks for stopping by!