Second track from the 10" EP "Satori", released 22/11/16.

the moon is so bright
up in the sky tonight

taking sips of our souls
and raising toasts
for our poor souls tonight

and the morning never reaches us

sometimes I wonder
what would happen if I lost myself
In a box full of moon shine
instead of worrying myself to death

the moon is so bright
(just keep in mind that this is an illusion)
up in the sky tonight
taking sips of our souls
(just keep in mind that this is an illusion)
and raising toasts

Satori

A2 GBG

Track 4/B1 from 'Åker', released 18/12/18

recorded between March 1st and 12th 2016 in studio Optica, Gothenburg Academy of Music and Drama, on nights pulsating with the energy of the spring yet to come.
I used a Serge modular synthesiser and an Elektron Analog 4 (I don't remember if I ever figured out how to turn on the Buchla, although I know I attempted to). so I dedicated this song to Serge, being the first modular synth I ever touched.

Åker

One Night With Serge

track 1 from "Contours", a compilation album released by Canigou Records on 13/12/2019. 
Written and recorded in my living room in Pelgulinn, Tallinn, Estonia, during two days in the beginning of October 2019.

and it is October 
and I want to settle down
somewhere between the chestnuts in your pocket

the only problem is
that you never pick them 
and they lie waiting among the yellow leaves

like me

Contours

in fiore

Track 7 (B3) from "Woolgathering", released on Õunaviks 19/9/19.

recorded in our bedroom at Roo street in Tallinn, some time in spring 2019. 

this is a song about a passive anger I guess...like when sometimes you want to scream, but you realise it wouldn't change anything. you are fed up with people around you, showing how they actively "save the world" with their diets (although I'm a vegetarian, too, because I love animals).
but then, acceptance comes instead. an acceptance that you're an ant, totally unimportant, and therefore totally liberated. and that the world is going under, and that there is nothing you can do about it. 
so I made a song...did it make me feel better? I don't know. I still sort my garbage, I still avoid buying new clothes...I consider not having a child because of it being an environmental disaster. but, yeah. 
I still wake up with a smile.

lyrics:
Haven't much to say about this life. 
I'm not the one to tell wrong from right. 
Haven't much to sing except this line. 
You mind yours, and I'll mind mine. 
And maybe we'll meet some other time. 

Untied, undressed, unveiled. 

'Ambitions?' you ask, and I will tell: 
'To be at peace, to leave no trace.' 
'But don't you want babies?' 
'I don't know...Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Depending on which side wins, the biological or the intellectual...' 

Beyond this life, beyond myself –  
what's left behind? What will become? 
The truth unveils, the truth undresses. 
And it is not nice.

Woolgathering

mundane magic

Written, recorded and mixed by Liis Ring in February 2020. 
Mastered by Newman Wolf.
Released by Cudighi Records, LA, on 14/08/20 as part of the "Sample Platter Vol. III" compilation: https://cudighirecords.bandcamp.com/album/sampler-platter-vol-iii
Music video available at https://vimeo.com/448066036

Lyrics:
haphazard pieces of ex-homes
now concrete, wood, metal
now garbage, now dust

I cut my finger on someone's window
a thousand eyes have looked through
in hope 
in expectation
in sadness
in silence

haphazard pieces of life
now concrete
now powderised
I put a piece of wallpaper in my pocket
someone's first time, pressed against it, only 14
so in love

haphazard pieces of sound
now silent 
oh, so silent

Material Memory

This is a song about the Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) from the Remembrance Species 2020 compilation, released on 30/11/20, Remembrance Species Day. It included artists from around the globe:
https://remembrancespecies.bandcamp.com/album/remembrance-species-2020
 
The Great Auk was a species that was hunted to extinction around the 1850s. It was a very common alcid on both sides of the Northern Atlantic Ocean. Sailors later gave penguins their Latin name because of physical similarities to the Great Auk, although the species are not related and live on opposite poles. The Great Auk could not fly, and was not afraid of humans or other predators. It could dive up to 1km deep, which exceeds any other modern alcid. It accelerated under water and glided through the air onto the rocks, which probably was the closest it came to ”real” flying. The Great Auk mated for life and could become up to 25 years old. Their call was supposedly hoarse and deep. Although only imaginary, its call, behaviour and sad stories about its extinction made me write this song both about, and for, the Great Auk.  

All proceeds from album sales will be split between Umbral Axochiatl, an axolotl conservation charity in Xochimilco, Mexico City and Scottish Seabird Centre, a seabird conservation charity in North Berwick, Scotland.
There is a digital exhibition up as well, check it out here: www.lunetarioeditorial.com/remembrance-species-2020-exhibition
"Remembrance Species 2020" was Curated by Bell Lungs and Laura Luna Castillo.

The Great Auk

Experimented with contact mics on my kitchen strip light, some old classical music tapes and my voice through an effect chain. Recorded in the beginning of March 2020 in Västra Frölunda, Sweden.

This track was made for International Women's Day and released on 8th of March on a compilation album by More Womxn. Check the whole album out here: https://morewomxn.bandcamp.com/releases
More Womxn is a radio show on Resonance FM with Katie Callin and Hannah Hogan, celebrating music made by womxn.
www.resonancefm.com
All proceeds from this release will go to Sisters Uncut, a feminist direct action group taking action to defend domestic violence services.
www.sistersuncut.org

MWxIWD

there, the horizon

new label, new release:  
https://kajajaja.bandcamp.com/

musician, performer, (sound) artist. 
hosting wabi-sabi on @IDA_Radio monthly. 
stream all shows here: https://idaidaida.net/shows/wabi-sabi

releases (all available in various formats through Bandcamp) :
04/12/25 Liis Ring, Penny Boxall & Maarja Pärtna – "Siin oli soo. Once was mire." (kajajaja)
14/02/24 Liis Ring – "I found what I was looking for" (Longform Editions)
18/08/23 Liis Ring – "Vaikelu" (Õunaviks)
28/04/23 Liis Ring – "Homing" (Breton Cassette/Canigou Records)
28/11/19 Liis Ring & Galaktlan – "Paralleel EP" (Õunaviks)
19/09/19 Liis Ring – "Woolgathering" (Õunaviks)
18/12/18 Liis Ring – "Åker" (self-released)
22/11/16 Liis Ring – "Satori" (self-released)
16/10/14 cirkl – "Fables of a Faraway Land" (Õunaviks)

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