My grandparents on my mother's side fled from persecution in Kiev in 1900 and found a sanctuary in the UK. This song is for them. Gefehlt Mir Mein Heym is Yiddish for I Love My Home.

A Long March Home

Gefehlt Mir Mein Heym

This the title track from my album, More To Be Revealed, released on Irregular Records in 2011

More To Be Revealed

Artist: Ian Roland
Album: The Wood Wide Web
Release Date: Fri 24th February 2023

Written after visiting the Eden Project in Cornwall in England and learning how trees and plants communicate via a mycorrhizal fungal network of interconnections. A recommended read on this topic is Merlin Sheldrake’s ‘Entangled Life’.


CAN’T LOSE ANYMORE			             

VERSE 1
I SEE IN SHADOWS, YOUR PATTERN ON THE HILL
I AM MOVING, LOOKS LIKE I’M STANDING STILL

CHORUS
THERE’S A MESSAGE COMING DOWN STREAM
OUR ROOTS ARE INTERTWINED……
HOLD THE LIGHTNESS, (HOLD THE LIGHT)

VERSE 2
AS THE SUN RISE, CATCH THE LIGHT OF DAY
LIFE RUSHING THROUGH US, A BRILLIANT RELAY

CHORUS
THERE’S A MESSAGE COMING DOWN STREAM
OUR ROOTS ARE INTERTWINED
HOLD THE LIGHTNESS, (HOLD THE LIGHT)

MID
CAMBERWELL BEAUTY AND A CHALK HILL BLUE
TORTOISESHELL, LANDING ON YOU
MARBLED WHITE AND MEADOW BROWN
ORANGE TIP, SMALL HEATH, YOU FOUND.
RED ADMIRAL, SWALLOWTAIL IN FLIGHT
WHITE LETTER HAIRSTREAK, BRILLIANT SMALL WHITE 
SILVER-WASHED FRITILLARY
MOUNTAIN RINGLET, BRIMSTONE, HOW THEY SET US FREE.

INSTRUMENTAL VERSE

CHORUS
THERE’S A MESSAGE COMING DOWN STREAM
OUR ROOTS ARE INTERTWINED
HOLD THE LIGHTNESS, HOLD THE LIGHT
HOLD THE LIGHTNESS, HOLD THE LIGHT

07. Can't Lose Any More - Ian Roland

Here are some strings I have arranged to colour the end of a friends track on his EP - to hear, the combined result, search for Jake Martin and his new EP at the end of February :)

New Song Strings End Section

A Quick Demo recorded today with Ian Roland, Brione Jackson and me. - Pretty Epic!

2018 Drafts

In The Darkness Draft Demo

Unknown album (16/02/2015 10:22:26)

A Watchman For Your Heart

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Baylen Leonard - Amazing Radio
"Ian Roland's songs have a way of sneaking into your head and heart after just one listen. I find myself singing them long after hearing them. His songwriting somehow has the magical ability to transport me back to the front porch of my youth. They manage to sound both modern and like something from times gone by. Excellent." Baylen Leonard - Amazing Radio, http://amazingradio.com/?show=thefrontporch

Phil Widdows - FolkCast
"Ian Roland is a gifted songwriter and performer with an individual and refreshingly different approach to his art, producing songs that really are well worth getting to know." - Phil Widdows, folkcast.co.uk

07. Can't Lose Any More - Ian Roland

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