Name: Liar (Full version) by JAY-JAY JOHANSON
Duration: 3 min 34 s
Description: Taken from the album Self-Portrait (Deluxe edition) released 2009

wonderful smart passion-emulates, musical arrangement, composition design and captivating subterranean contrasting punctuates .. clever vocal scene .. LOve the sanity-questioning, love-blinds originality style .. LOve the insanity-tensile-L'Amour oboe-clarinet mind-squeezing tremors .. enjoyed .. BooDad

I finally found an amazing backing track for this song, but obviously nothing can compare to the original. This is merely a tribute to a beautiful piece of work which was performed by a beautiful human being.

Lyrics:

What power art thou
Who from below
Hast made me rise
Unwillingly and slow
From beds of everlasting snow

See'st thou not how stiff
And wondrous old
Far unfit to bear the bitter cold

I can scarcely move
Or draw my breath
I can scarcely move
Or draw my breath

Let me, let me,
Let me freeze again
Let me, let me
Freeze again to death
Let me, let me, let me
Freeze again to death...

"The Cold Song" - Klaus Nomi (Cover)

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Brazzaville - Anabel2

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Kadebostany - Walking With A Ghost

Where 
Where are they now? 
The ones with whom I laid in summer 
You lover somehow 
I’ll find a way to keep forever 

Dance while you can 
Before the night is over 
We know how life 
How life can change 
In an instant baby 
Dance while you can 
Don’t you know life is horror 
I’ve seen how fast it can change 

Look into my eyes 
We know life pulls the rug from our feet 
One day to another 
No time to be shy 
We must treat this and every night 
Like the last goodbye 

Where 
Where are they now? 
The ones with whom I laid in summer 
You lover somehow 
I’ll find a way to keep forever 

Pictures that we took 
Just a decade ago 
Oh my god half those people are dead 
(Or almost dead) 
Life goes so fast 
Yes of course 
But no one really believes it 
Till they get there 

For all the people laying in hospital beds 
For our mothers suffering somewhere 
So many living in hell 
Who would kill for a night like this 
Dance while you can 

Before the night is over 
We know how life 
How life can change 
In an instant baby 
Dance while you can 
Don’t you know life is horror 
I’ve seen how fast it can change 

Where 
Where are they now? 
The ones with whom I laid in summer 
You lover I vow 
I’ll find a way to keep forever

Michelle Gurevich - Dance While You Can

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Sleep On My Shoulder

Taken from the album Self-Portrait (Deluxe edition) released 2009

Liar (Full version)

The Time That Angels Hide

was in 1996 that Jay-Jay Johanson, a young man from a cold climate, fascinated by the Bristol sound they called trip-hop and Portishead in particular, first tapped delicately on our eardrums.
The intoxicating album that definitively put this rare and elegant Swede on the map was called Whiskey. It was the beginning of an enthralling adventure. In only a few songs he revealed a family tree that spread its roots far and wide: on one branch Lee Hazlewood, or pop from Talk Talk or Nilsson, on the other John Coltrane with Johnny Hartman, and a whole army of calm jazz or symphonic
recordings sampled from everywhere imaginable.
Almost 20 years later he has returned with an
incredible new album. This new release is called Opium and it contains the very essence of Johanson’s music: an ease with inventing melodies, a voice that gently caresses, and the jacked up, heady rhythms that lift and carry the songs. From the peaceful harmonica opening of Drowsy / Too Young To Say Good Night to the smoke-wreathed love song I Don’t Know Much About Loving, via titles with a sporadic and light groove (NDE, Alone Too Long), Opium is a courageous offering. Johanson opens his heart with
fearlessness and modesty, gracefully lowering his guard and evoking the questions that torment men of his age: love, solitude, immaturity. The songwriting is unerring, the words have a suppressed poetry. This
new Johanson is the work of a guy who has survived the avalanches, who is no longer looking for answers and is content to sketch out the perspectives in as many songs. Some titles are serious (Harakiri), but others immediately take up the reins casting a more
gentle, peaceful light, like Scarecrow, a collaboration with Robin Guthrie that would not have sounded out of place on a Cocteau Twins album, or of the strange positivity of Be Yourself or I Love Him So.
The strength of Opium is that it asks questions that don’t necessarily have an answer; it offers a collection of songs freed from any certitude but which convince
through their modesty, through their precision.
In short, Jay-Jay at his best.

Liar (Full version)

JAY-JAY JOHANSON

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