A song about mature relationships or growth in relationships.
Melody and text came to me once in automn (”Herbst” in German) while driving the car and while feeling this big gap between hard times in partnership and the wish of creating a family.
After some years passed, this song now also represents a possible road to new kinds of relationships, where we aim to set each other free and where all kinds of ”kids” can be born: dreams for the future, creative projects, spiritual development or ”old school” physical kids :)

German is my mothertongue and still I mostly sing in other languages :)

voice & accordion: Elis Abeth
recorded 2022/23 live and in studio
audio production: Omri Ben David - https://www.facebook.com/omribd

"Herbstfest" Live+ version

Et underligt land - "A weird land"
A song about entering new landscapes, both in the physical world and in our inner world. 
A song about transition times and how to step forward into the unknown by finding answers inside ourselves. Even by making mistakes, we can get more clear sight and see the light of wisdom.  
„Each time you step towards the light, shadows melt away, a strange light“

Danish has become my second mothertongue, but Denmark also still sometimes feels like "a weird land" :)

composed by Elis Abeth in 2017
voice & accordion: Elis Abeth
recorded 2022/23 live and in studio
audio production: Omri Ben David - https://www.facebook.com/omribd

"Et Underligt Land"  Live+ version

This Hungarian folk song (popular in the version of Marta Sebestyen) is sung by a woman who is waiting for her boyfriend/partner to return. We don't know where he is – maybe on a long travel or fighting in a war, lost in his personal journey or maybe run away from his angry girlfriend...well... who knows. But the young lady puts her hope into a small violet flower in her garden, who returns each spring. She also talks to the singing bird and asks him to sing its beautiful song for the broken heart(s). In verse three, she, or the bird? suddenly sings: "Those who have been hurt will be comforted by the one who has hurt them." Who has hurt who? The story also doesn´t tell us. 

I like this thought (planted in my head by a friend who heard me sing this song): We live in a time where we can heal both the male and female part inside ourselves. And this song encourages us to start comforting the part in us which we unconsciuously transformed into a black sheep. Actually we can only find peace when both (all) parts of us can unfold and become strong, helping each other on the way. And by doing this we might even come a step closer to peace around us.

Elis Abeth: voice and accordion
recorded 2022/23 live and in studio
audio production: Omri Ben David - https://www.facebook.com/omribd

Vetettem Violát Live+ version

Pendul

filmmusic for "VOYAGE", a documentary of Stamatis Efstathiou's work 
(released in 09-02/2018 in Athens)

On tablas: Omri Ben David
Piano, Accordion, Flute, voice, strings, percussion: Elis Abeth Klein

STAMATEMA

Very popular Greek melody, I learned it from Borislav in Plovdiv (Bulgaria) and heared parts of it quoted from several Folk musicians in Athens this spring. Of course I adapt it a bit to my own expression, combined with this advice:
"Imagine you sit somewhere at a sunny beach in Greece" (Borislav Z.)

Greek Popular Tune

played after notation of Lindbergs improvisation over an old swedish melody

"Meditation" over Torn Erik's Visa / N. Lindberg

public concert in Pianohaus Micke, Muenster, Germany
summer 2007

GriegLyricPieces43

A Version of the Bulgarian 13/8 dance tune, made famous by Petko Radev, amongst others. This is a slower version - enjoy the 13beat feeling!

Krivo Sadovsko Horo, Version E1

Forårs-ballade  / by Elis Abeth Klein, 2020

For jorden (verd'nen) åbner sig til os
 Gi' det som du vil gi'
Med åbenhed og mørkets kraft
Forvandlingsenergi

For hjertet åbner sig i mig (dig)
  Gi' det som du vil gi'  
Med kærlighed omfavnende
  Forvandlingsenergi  

For verd'nen (jorden) åbner sig i dig
  Gi' det som du vil gi'  
Med smærtens længsel bli'er vi født
  Forvandlingsenergi  



English Translation with help from Lisa G. Littlebird:

Springtime Ballad / by Elis Abeth Klein, 2020

For Earth is op'ning up towards us
 Give what you have to give
With openness and darknes' force
 "Forvandlingsenergi"

The heart is opening in us 
  Give what you have to give  
Embracing everything with love
 "Forvandlingsenergi"  

For Earth is opening in us
  Give what you want/have to give    
Through pain and longing we are born
 "Forvandlingsenergi"

Forårsballaden

my performances arise from a classical-folk-original melting pot.
I love music as a way of expressing the moment's fragility and power of change.
"music travels through time and space; we can travel along"

Elis Abeth

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