Music by Jaka Škapin
Video by Pavel Radu 
Recorded and mixed by David Holmes 
Mastered by Giles Barrett

Follow Me (Piano Version)

I'm Ready - This River We Sing Upon (a live improvisation) is a single from Remembering, a twelve-track, fully improvised collaborative vocal album, out now (exclusively on Bandcamp). 

It was recorded live at Soup Studios in London, during a 3-hour session on 19th July 2020 that brought together some of UK's most experienced vocal improvisers. There was no rehearsal, plan or musical director, just an open space with an invitation to express what was kept on the inside during the first three months of the Covid-19 pandemic and the first national lockdown. 

Lyrics: 

This river, this river we sing upon
Used to freeze over in the winters and they would have markets upon the ice
And the bones of those with the plague went somewhere
In the graveyards in the river in the soil
This city is built upon
And now the buildings stand strong
And the birds they fly
I’m ready

Credits: 

Solo by Briony Greenhill

Featuring Sylvia Schmidt

Improvised live (including the words) on the 19th of July 2020 
at Soup Studios (London, United Kingdom)

Producer: Jaka Škapin 
Recording and mixing engineer: David Holmes 
Mastering engineer: Giles Barrett

Cover image by Marcia Willis
Cover design by Sara Požin and Jaka Škapin

I'm Ready - This River We Sing Upon (a live improvisation)

The Cradle Of Hope (a live improvisation) is a single from Remembering, a twelve-track, fully improvised collaborative vocal album, out now (exclusively on Bandcamp). 

It was recorded live at Soup Studios in London, during a 3-hour session on 19th July 2020 that brought together some of UK's most experienced vocal improvisers. There was no rehearsal, plan or musical director, just an open space with an invitation to express what was kept on the inside during the first three months of the Covid-19 pandemic and the first national lockdown. 

Lyrics: 

The cradle of hope 
Is where I was last seen 
All numbered and chosen 
To glide upstream 
The last one and the first one 
Are yet to be seen 
And I wish it all for you

Credits: 

Solo by Jaka Škapin

Improvised live (including the words) on the 19th of July 2020 
at Soup Studios (London, United Kingdom)

Producer: Jaka Škapin 
Recording and mixing engineer: David Holmes 
Mastering engineer: Giles Barrett

Cover image by Marcia Willis
Cover design by Sara Požin and Jaka Škapin

The Cradle Of Hope (a live improvisation)

Hetneya (a live improvisation) is a single from Remembering, a twelve-track, fully improvised collaborative vocal album, out now (exclusively on Bandcamp). 

It was recorded live at Soup Studios in London, during a 3-hour session on 19th July 2020 that brought together some of UK's most experienced vocal improvisers. There was no rehearsal, plan or musical director, just an open space with an invitation to express what was kept on the inside during the first three months of the Covid-19 pandemic and the first national lockdown. 

Credits: 

Featuring: 
Briony Greenhill 
Guillermo Rozenthuler 
Jaka Škapin
Kate Smith 
Marcia Willis 
Sylvia Schmidt

Improvised live on the 19th of July 2020 
at Soup Studios (London, United Kingdom)

Producer: Jaka Škapin 
Recording and mixing engineer: David Holmes 
Mastering engineer: Giles Barrett

Cover image by Marcia Willis
Cover design by Sara Požin and Jaka Škapin

Hetneya (a live improvisation)

I've Been Searching (a live improvisation) is a single from Remembering, a twelve-track, fully improvised collaborative vocal album, out now (exclusively on Bandcamp). 

It was recorded live at Soup Studios in London, during a 3-hour session on 19th July 2020 that brought together some of UK's most experienced vocal improvisers. There was no rehearsal, plan or musical director, just an open space with an invitation to express what was kept on the inside during the first three months of the Covid-19 pandemic and the first national lockdown. 

Lyrics: 

I've been searching for you high and low 
Baby oh were do you go 
I've been searching for you in the sky
Baby why do you say bye bye 
Sweep me off my feet
Baby sweep me off my feet 
Why you gotta be so sweet 

Credits: 

Solo by Kate Smith 

Featuring:
Briony Greenhill 
Guillermo Rozenthuler 
Jaka Škapin
Marcia Willis 
Sylvia Schmidt

Improvised live (including the words) on the 19th of July 2020 
at Soup Studios (London, United Kingdom)

Producer: Jaka Škapin 
Recording and mixing engineer: David Holmes 
Mastering engineer: Giles Barrett

Cover image by Marcia Willis
Cover design by Sara Požin and Jaka Škapin

I've Been Searching (a live improvisation)

Please Can I (a live improvisation) is a single from Remembering, a twelve-track, fully improvised collaborative vocal album, out now (exclusively on Bandcamp). 

It was recorded live at Soup Studios in London, during a 3-hour session on 19th July 2020 that brought together some of UK's most experienced vocal improvisers. There was no rehearsal, plan or musical director, just an open space with an invitation to express what was kept on the inside during the first three months of the Covid-19 pandemic and the first national lockdown. 

Lyrics: 

Never had I
Nor should I
Or should I maybe go? 
Well, could I
Could I really? 
Or don’t
I don’t know

Nor could I  or should I know?

Please can I give you 
All that choice? 
Please can I give you?

Please can I give you? 
Please hold me Why not today? Why not today? 
They crawled all through the night

Please can I give you 
All my give you 
All my give you All my trust? 

My trust

Credits: 

Solo by Sylvia Schmidt

Featuring:
Briony Greenhill 
Guillermo Rozenthuler 
Jaka Škapin
Kate Smith 
Marcia Willis 

Improvised live (including the words) on the 19th of July 2020 
at Soup Studios (London, United Kingdom)

Producer: Jaka Škapin 
Recording and mixing engineer: David Holmes 
Mastering engineer: Giles Barrett

Cover image by Marcia Willis
Cover design by Sara Požin and Jaka Škapin

Please Can I (a live improvisation)

Soy Say Hey (a live improvisation) is a single from Remembering, a twelve-track, fully improvised collaborative vocal album, out now (exclusively on Bandcamp). 

It was recorded live at Soup Studios in London, during a 3-hour session on 19th July 2020 that brought together some of UK's most experienced vocal improvisers. There was no rehearsal, plan or musical director, just an open space with an invitation to express what was kept on the inside during the first three months of the Covid-19 pandemic and the first national lockdown. 

Credits: 

Solo by Jaka Škapin

Featuring:
Briony Greenhill 
Marcia Willis 

Improvised live on the 19th of July 2020 
at Soup Studios (London, United Kingdom)

Producer: Jaka Škapin 
Recording and mixing engineer: David Holmes 
Mastering engineer: Giles Barrett

Cover image by Marcia Willis
Cover design by Sara Požin and Jaka Škapin

Soy Say Hey (a live improvisation)

Too Many People (a live improvisation) is a single from Remembering, a twelve-track, fully improvised collaborative vocal album, out now (exclusively on Bandcamp). 

It was recorded live at Soup Studios in London, during a 3-hour session on 19th July 2020 that brought together some of UK's most experienced vocal improvisers. There was no rehearsal, plan or musical director, just an open space with an invitation to express what was kept on the inside during the first three months of the Covid-19 pandemic and the first national lockdown. 

Lyrics: 

Too many 
There are too many people 
Everywhere you go 
too many people 
The earth cries out 
The earth cries out
too many people 
too many people 
she sends a message to our ears
ah! our arms, and our mouths, 
and our eyes, and our legs, and our bodies
Touching touching touching one another
Holding holding one another 
Tight tight tight 
Crammed crammed crammed
Together 
Too many people 
too many people 
too many people 
too many people 
too many people 
too many people
too many people 
Ah, our breath 
our breath
we breathe 
we live 
upon each other 
we live 
we breathe 
upon each other 

Credits: 

Solo by Kate Smith 

Featuring:
Briony Greenhill 
Guillermo Rozenthuler 
Jaka Škapin
Marcia Willis 
Sylvia Schmidt

Improvised live (including the words) on the 19th of July 2020 
at Soup Studios (London, United Kingdom)

Producer: Jaka Škapin 
Recording and mixing engineer: David Holmes 
Mastering engineer: Giles Barrett

Cover image by Marcia Willis
Cover design by Sara Požin and Jaka Škapin

Too Many People (a live improvisation)

How Does It Feel (a live improvisation) is the first single from a twelve-track, fully improvised collaborative vocal album titled Remembering, out now (exclusively on Bandcamp). 

It was recorded live at Soup Studios in London, during a 3-hour session on 19th July 2020 that brought together some of UK's most experienced vocal improvisers. There was no rehearsal, plan or musical director, just an open space with an invitation to express what was kept on the inside during the first three months of the Covid-19 pandemic and the first national lockdown. 

Lyrics: 

What do you say humanity, shall we have a pause? 
Let’s think about this course we're on. 
Just for a season let’s ground the planes 
Let’s stop all you’re doing and imagine once again 

How does it feel in your body 
How does it feel in your soul 
I know we were addicted to normal but how did that really flow? 

How does it feel when we read the news? 
How does it feel when you think about having children in 2021s world? 

Un-fell the trees 
Revive the lost species 
Could we even press rewind? 
Fast forward, do you like what you see? 
Press pause: we’re not stopping 

How uncomfortable it has been to be just alone with me 
No touch no dancing no singing no hugs no cuddles no making love 
No eyes of friends in the physical 
I am hungry I am starving for connection and yet 
I am hearing all the voices arguing about  
how to deal with this thing  
when really we have a circle and everyone in it has some sense 
and sees things differently and of course 
With so many billion of us there are multiple perspectives  
And how good are we at listening to one another with respect? 

O my brothers o my sisters 
It’s a painful pause 
But I think of those with paws  
In our pause is there room for a new story to come into our hearts?

Credits: 

Solo by Briony Greenhill 

Featuring: 
Guillermo Rozenthuler 
Kate Smith 
Marcia Willis 
Sylvia Schmidt 

Improvised live (including the words) on the 19th of July 2020 
at Soup Studios (London, United Kingdom) 

Producer: Jaka Škapin 
Recording and mixing engineer: David Holmes 
Mastering engineer: Giles Barrett 

Cover image by Kate Smith 
Cover design by Sara Požin

How Does It Feel (a live improvisation)

Don't Tell Me (a live improvisation) is a single from Remembering, a twelve-track, fully improvised collaborative vocal album, out now (exclusively on Bandcamp). 

It was recorded live at Soup Studios in London, during a 3-hour session on 19th July 2020 that brought together some of UK's most experienced vocal improvisers. There was no rehearsal, plan or musical director, just an open space with an invitation to express what was kept on the inside during the first three months of the Covid-19 pandemic and the first national lockdown. 

Lyrics: 

Don’t tell me all the things that you are 
Oh I cannot bear them all 

Don’t tell me all the things that you are 

Don’t tell me

Credits: 

Solo by Jaka Škapin

Featuring: 
Briony Greenhill
Guillermo Rozenthuler 
Kate Smith 
Marcia Willis 
Sylvia Schmidt

Improvised live (including the words) on the 19th of July 2020 
at Soup Studios (London, United Kingdom) 

Producer: Jaka Škapin 
Recording and mixing engineer: David Holmes 
Mastering engineer: Giles Barrett

Cover image by Marcia Willis
Cover design by Sara Požin and Jaka Škapin

Don't Tell Me (a live improvisation)

Beneath My Feet (a live improvisation) is a single from Remembering, a twelve-track, fully improvised collaborative vocal album, out now (exclusively on Bandcamp). 

It was recorded live at Soup Studios in London, during a 3-hour session on 19th July 2020 that brought together some of UK's most experienced vocal improvisers. There was no rehearsal, plan or musical director, just an open space with an invitation to express what was kept on the inside during the first three months of the Covid-19 pandemic and the first national lockdown. 

Lyrics: 

Ground shifting beneath my feet
Waves drifting beneath my feet 
And growing up beneath them 
in earth that is so thick 
grows new earth to reach up high 
to the earth it seeks
The earth 
The waves beneath 

Credits: 

Solo by Kate Smith

Improvised live (including the words) on the 19th of July 2020 
at Soup Studios (London, United Kingdom) 

Producer: Jaka Škapin 
Recording and mixing engineer: David Holmes 
Mastering engineer: Giles Barrett

Cover image by Marcia Willis
Cover design by Sara Požin and Jaka Škapin

Beneath My Feet (a live improvisation)

Silently Speaking (a live improvisation) is the second single from Remembering, a twelve-track, fully improvised collaborative vocal album, out now (exclusively on Bandcamp). 

It was recorded live at Soup Studios in London, during a 3-hour session on 19th July 2020 that brought together some of UK's most experienced vocal improvisers. There was no rehearsal, plan or musical director, just an open space with an invitation to express what was kept on the inside during the first three months of the Covid-19 pandemic and the first national lockdown. 

Lyrics: 

Oh, why? 

Silently saying and silently speaking 
And silently saying and silently speaking 
And silently saying and silently speaking 
And silently saying and silently speaking 

Of the things 
That you really want to say 

Silently 

Silently saying all the things 
That you don’t want to say 

And they’re welcomed

Credits: 

Solo by Jaka Škapin 

Featuring: 
Briony Greenhill 
Guillermo Rozenthuler 
Kate Smith 
Marcia Willis 
Sylvia Schmidt 

Improvised live (including the words) on the 19th of July 2020 
at Soup Studios (London, United Kingdom) 

Producer: Jaka Škapin 
Recording and mixing engineer: David Holmes 
Mastering engineer: Giles Barrett 

Cover image by Kate Smith 
Cover design by Sara Požin and Jaka Škapin

Silently Speaking (a live improvisation)

Remembering (a live improvisation) is a single from Remembering, a twelve-track, fully improvised collaborative vocal album, out now (exclusively on Bandcamp). 

It was recorded live at Soup Studios in London, during a 3-hour session on 19th July 2020 that brought together some of UK's most experienced vocal improvisers. There was no rehearsal, plan or musical director, just an open space with an invitation to express what was kept on the inside during the first three months of the Covid-19 pandemic and the first national lockdown. 

Lyrics: 

Tender bodies with voices inside
Uncurling my voice after time without space to sing
Learning again to listen to you
Learning again to trust the void
Remembering how to give voice to what comes through

Wicked wild fairies, Goddess of song
Come and sing through us carry us along
Let us be imperfect and children and grand
And may the winds blow us wherever they can.

Credits: 

Solo by Briony Greenhill 

Improvised live (including the words) on the 19th of July 2020 
at Soup Studios (London, United Kingdom) 

Producer: Jaka Škapin 
Recording and mixing engineer: David Holmes 
Mastering engineer: Giles Barrett

Cover image by Marcia Willis
Cover design by Sara Požin and Jaka Škapin

Remembering (a live improvisation)

23/03/20 - 26/03/21 

Is there more to feel 
in this incessant space 
between boredom and grief 
that flow through my daily ways?

Lyrics: 

Follow me and we shall find 
broken light to tend my cry 
never meant to feel like mine

Credits:

Written, arranged, produced and performed by Jaka Škapin 
Mixed by David Holmes 
Mastered by Giles Barrett 
Cover by Jameisha Prescod

Follow Me

Written, arranged, produced and performed by Jaka Škapin 
Based on Lipa Zelenela Je by Miroslav Vilhar and Davorin Jenko 
Mixed by David Holmes 
Mastered by Giles Barrett 
Recording engineer: Simone D'Avenia 
Cover by Sara Požin

Lipa, Lipa (Instrumental)

My name is Jaka Škapin and I'm a Slovenian transdisciplinary artist, composer and vocal improviser based in London.

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