Sheet Music: https://sebastianmorawietz.bandcamp.com/album/passage-of-time-free-sheet-music
Video: https://youtu.be/A-NPT_9SKG4
Hey, it’s me again!
This piece has a long history. I wrote it many years ago, back when I was living in Liverpool. The original title was Waterloo – named after the small seaside town just outside the city. I often took the train out there, just to walk along the shore and gather my thoughts.

The sea has always had a deep, humbling power to me – vast, strong, timeless. It teaches you humility. Being near it felt like standing next to something ancient and wise.

Recently, I rediscovered this piece and played it again. It felt like a quiet conversation with the sea – me asking, the sea answering. That’s how I shaped the sections of the piece: a dialogue between the searching and the still, the questioning and the calm.

The visuals in the video are simple – I’m still learning and experimenting – but they’re meant to hint at that inner process, that silent exchange with something greater.

Thank you for listening.

Yours truly,
Sebastian Morawietz

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Passage Of Time (Notes From The Shore)

Geschichte
Das Lied wurde als Dana Dana in jiddischer Sprache für das Musical Esterke (1940–1941) von den jüdischen Künstlern Aaron Zeitlin (Text) und Sholom Secunda (Melodie) geschrieben.[3] Die Worte „Donna Donna“ sollen nach Meinung einiger auf Hebräisch Donaj zurückgehen, Kurzform von Adonai, einer im Hebräischen üblichen Anrede von Gott. Sowohl aus sprachlichen (die damals übliche aschkenasische Aussprache war Adojnoj) als auch religiösen (die Anrufung Gottes in einem einfachen Lied war unüblich) Gründen ist diese Herleitung nicht plausibel.
Secunda schrieb Dana- für Orchester und die Variante Dana Dana für ein Vokalensemble. Der jiddische Text wurde in lateinischer Schrift verfasst. Die Anfangsmelodie bildete zugleich den Abschluss des Liedes. Die Rechte am Lied hatte ab 1940 die New Yorker Mills Music Inc. und in Deutschland der Belwin-Mills Musikverlag in Berlin.
Die erste Übersetzung ins Englische nahm Sholom Secunda selbst vor, sie verbreitete sich aber nicht. Erst die englische Bearbeitung von Sheldon Secunda[4] (Sohn von Betty Secunda und Sholom Secunda[5]) sowie Arthur Kevess und Teddi Schwartz[6] unter dem Titel Donna Donna um 1956 wurde zum Erfolg. Der entscheidende Durchbruch des Liedes kam aber erst durch Aufführungen von Joan Baez 1960 sowie von Donovan 1965.
Quelle: Internet - Wikipedia
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Against forgetting ....
History of the song
The song was written as Dana Dana in Yiddish for the musical Esterke (1940-1941) by the Jewish artists Aaron Zeitlin (lyrics) and Sholom Secunda (melody).[3] According to some, the words “Donna Donna” go back to the Hebrew Donaj, a short form of Adonai, a common form of address to God in Hebrew. This derivation is not plausible for both linguistic (the common Ashkenazi pronunciation at the time was Adojnoj) and religious (the invocation of God in a simple song was unusual) reasons.
Secunda wrote Dana- for orchestra and the variant Dana Dana for a vocal ensemble. The Yiddish text was written in Latin script. The opening melody also formed the end of the song. The rights to the song were held from 1940 by New York-based Mills Music Inc. and in Germany by Belwin-Mills Musikverlag in Berlin.
The first translation into English was made by Sholom Secunda himself, but it did not spread. It was not until the English adaptation by Sheldon Secunda[4] (son of Betty Secunda and Sholom Secunda[5]) and Arthur Kevess and Teddi Schwartz[6] under the title Donna Donna around 1956 that it became a success. However, the song's decisive breakthrough only came with performances by Joan Baez in 1960 and Donovan in 1965.
Text - Quelle - Internet - Zukunft-braucht-erinnerung.de
1.
Auf einem Wagen auf dem Weg zum Markte Steht ein Kalb mit traurigen Augen Hoch über ihm fliegt eine Schwalbe Durch den Himmel ganz geschwind
Wie doch die Winde lachen, Lachen mit voller Kraft Liebe und Lachen den ganzen Tag lang Und die halbe Sommernacht
Donna, Donna, Donna, Donna, Donna, Donna, Donna, Don, Donna, Donna, Donna, Donna, Donna, Donna, Donna, Don
2.  „Hör auf zu jammern“, sagte der Bauer „Warum musstest du auch als Kalb geboren werden? Warum hast du nicht Flügel, mit denen du fliegen kannst, Wie die Schwalbe, so stolz und frei?“
Wie doch die Winde lachen, …
3. Kälber, so leicht gefesselt und geschlachtet, Wissen nie den Grund warum. Ach, warum habt ihr nicht Flügel, mit denen ihr fliegen könnt? Wie die Schwalbe, so hättet ihr Fliegen lernen können.
Wie doch die Winde lachen, …


Donna Donna - English Variation Of Dana Dana - from Musical Esterke - Teitlin - Secunda

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“I Am Malala"
[Original Theatre Soundtrack]
Music Composer: Amir Mahmoudi
Genre: Contemporary Music, Ethnic, Avant-garde, Stage & Screen
Recorded & Produced at Igor Music Studio
Total Time: 00:43:31
Composition Date: 2024
Released Date: 2025
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Not an easy ride

Love on Sidewalks

Video: https://youtu.be/ObJDBgqcUFM
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Hey, it’s me again. Back with another piece from con PED —
music for the quietest moments.

A collection of twelve quiet piano works, each in its own key,
played on my 1908 upright Madame Bechstein with the sustain pedal held from start to finish.

Yours truly,
Sebastian

Evening Light, Wet Eyes

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The Prophet’s Bluff | لافِ پیامبر
شعر: صائب تبریزی

The Prophet’s Bluff | لافِ پیامبر

Composed with shortwave, long wave and UHF and VLF field recordings in Burdujeni Sat, near Suceava, Romania during artistic residency at Zidul de Hartie. Special shout out to Dan Prodan, for the ancestral house and the apples. This excerpt is drawn from an iteration of the composition concept realized on the cusp of the Harvest Moon of 2025 in Poznan with additional spontaneous spectral audio and synthesizer which amounts to one full 69 minute piece which will be released by Akashic Records on Bandcamp some time next week after it is divided into smaller tracks. Enjoy the warp of our planet's space time continuum in the fun-house mirror of the ionosphere as bounced back through radio waves. 

The Apple Orchard Extract 2

Improvisation in the Dastgah of Nava
Majid Derakhshani – Tar
Shahou Andalibi – Ney
Arman Sigarchi – Oud

A spontaneous live recording capturing the dialogue of three instruments within the Persian modal system of Nava.
Recorded at Schoko Pro Studio, Wiesbaden, Germany – October 20, 2010
Recording Engineer: Michael Küstere-Trenkle

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listeners will find here the most recent edge of my research as well as album samples and one-offs from the last 10 years of my solo work, from official, upcoming releases, unreleased oddities, works in-progress, & experiments, all music by jeff gburek and collaborators, as noted. support directly via paypal: jeff.gburek@gmail.com or buy albums via https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/

The Apple Orchard Extract 2

Jeff Gburek