This is another song that came to be from my roleplaying, it's a lullaby for a daughter who past away.

Lullaby

This is an arrangement I wrote a long time ago, that I only recently decided to record after discovering some decent string sounds. It's still just a demo, but I'm quite happy with it. The song itself is a traditional Swedish song, made famous by Hugo Alfvén

Och jungfrun hon går i dansen

A much more orchestrated version of an old track of mine. I wanted a version with more instruments, as I heard something like this and not the much more mellow original version in my head. The cover art is taken from Pexels, by Juan Pablo Serrano Arenas. Please check out his art there, there's so much more. If you listen to this track, please share your thoughts.

Lullaby - Orchestrated version

I've had a thought of making myself a jingle, just for fun, nothing more. And last week, I finally did it. Behold the Grape!

Grape - Jingle

Alive is a song about anxiety and gloom. I'm mostly a positive and happy person, but my lyrics have a tendency to be about the times when you feel like you have any more to give and you would rather just give up.

In those dark times, there is still hope. In life, we can choose the path towards the light, and we can help and encourage others to do the same.

We are stronger together than on our own!

Alive (Demo)

Sometimes in life, no matter how hard you try, you just feel like you're drowning. Somehow you keep your head above the water, but at times you can feel like there is no point in going on. Don't give in to that feeling!

Keep going! I've heard people say that it would be better for everyone if they were gone. Let me tell you right now, it isn't better. What do you feel if someone you know is no longer there? Never happiness, always sadness. Even if it's someone you didn't even know well.

Reach out to someone for help! It's always the better choice. And for those who know someone who struggles, reach out and offer them your help!

Drowning (Demo)

You know the kind of nightmares that stay with you? When you wake up, there's that lingering feeling that you just can't shake. For a short moment, your tired mind is still stuck in the dream world, and you don't know what real and what's not.

This song is about those nightmares

Cold Sweat (Demo)

I had planned to write a bit lighter lyrics for this song, to balance the gloomy lyrics in my other songs. I even had a project name, Let's Dance. But a comment from a loved one convinced me otherwise, and it ended up being a dance with death.

Obviously not as light as I had originally thought, but I'm quite pleased with how it turned out.

Let's Dance (Demo)

Back when I studied music, I wrote an arrangement for one of my favourite Finnish Christmas songs, Sylvia's christmas song (Finnish: Sylvian joululaulu, Swedish: Sylvias julvisa).

The arrangement is for a string quartet, and my teacher was very good at encouraging me to try things that I'd never tried before. This was one of the first arrangements where I started to feel comfortable.

I haven't adjusted the dynamics, I might do something later to adjust it. But I feel like it's good enough to share. I hope you like it

Sylvian joululaulu / Sylvias julvisa

I've been roleplaying on a discord server, and an episode that one of my characters was involved in inspired me to write this song. It's basically about finding people you love that become family.

You're My Family

I'm first and foremost a bass player. I've played music most of my life, but I only just started recording and uploading some of my own stuff here. I mostly upload demos here, where I've played and recorded all instruments myself, but the drum tracks are programmed, not played. And the finished songs end up on other streaming sites.

I like many different music styles as long as the music's good. But vocal harmonies and interesting basslines are quite important to me. If you're interested in collabs, or if you'd like to help me make my music sound better, please don't hesitate to dm me.

Currently I play keyboards for Finnish pop rock band Sam's Garage, and I write my own songs for a project named Far from the Tempest. You can find music by both by visiting my Flowpage.

I hope you enjoy your stay here!

Henrik Böckelman

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