Oddrun Eikli: Vocal and vocal composition:
Torbjørn Vagle @tobbenv: Instrumental composition, guitarharp, piano, el.piano, synth and bass
Ad Van Nederpelt @ad-van-nederpelt; Orchestral composition, strings, mix and mastering,
Photo Oddrun Eikli
Coverlayout: Vetle Vagle
Poem Emily Jane Brontë.
Thank you so much Torbjørn and Ad, thank you from my heart.
This music was written and finished before the outbreak of war in Europe. We feel deeply for the people who are suffering in the war.
Despite the cruelty of the war, we share this music today, 
....."let us sit and watch the while
The blue ice curdling on the stream ".....
This poem by Emily Jane Brontë takes us out into nature, where we can for a moment, move away from the painful and brutal world.
The poem focuses on the healing ability of nature.

Emily Jane Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. She also published one book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne titled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell with her own poems finding regard as poetic genius.

How still, how happy! Those are words
That once would scarce agree together;
I loved the plashing of the surge -
The changing heaven the breezy weather,

More than smooth seas and cloudless skies
And solemn, soothing, softened airs
That in the forest woke no sighs
And from the green spray shook no tears.

How still, how happy! now I feel
Where silence dwells is sweeter far
Than laughing mirth's most joyous swell
However pure its raptures are.

Come, sit down on this sunny stone:
'Tis wintry light o'er flowerless moors -
But sit - for we are all alone
And clear expand heaven's breathless shores.

I could think in the withered grass
Spring's budding wreaths we might discern;
The violet's eye might shyly flash
And young leaves shoot among the fern.

It is but thought - full many a night
The snow shall clothe those hills afar
And storms shall add a drearier blight
And winds shall wage a wilder war,

Before the lark may herald in
Fresh foliage twined with blossoms fair
And summer days again begin
Their glory - haloed crown to wear.

Yet my heart loves December's smile
As much as July's golden beam;
Then let us sit and watch the while
The blue ice curdling on the stream -
Emily Jane Brontë

How Still. Torbjørn Vagle. Ad Van Nederpelt. Oddrun Eikli.

This originally started life as a Rock song by GARDDWR PORFFOR soundcloud.com/garddwrporffor/tracks

Thank you Viv.

EVERLASTING DREAM (SLEEPLESS NIGHT MIX)

This is a single from our album < ONE >
soundcloud.com/oesj/sets/oesj-one-album

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05. THOUGHTS (Album "ONE")

Lucid Dreaming 1

Poverty
The "Schwabengehen", which finds its first mentions already in the 16th and 17th century, experienced its peak in the 19th century. It is estimated that at that time five to six thousand children worked annually on farms abroad as herd boys, maids or as farmhands. The background to this was the extremely low soil yields in the alpine regions and the associated poverty, which drove parents to send one or more of their numerous children abroad.

The Ways
The ways from Tyrol and Vorarlberg or from Switzerland to Upper Swabia were long and arduous. For some of the children, most of whom were between 5 and 14 years old, it led over mountain passes such as the Arlberg, which were usually still covered in snow in March and which many had to overcome with poor shoes and scanty clothing. Usually their companion was an adult, sometimes a priest, who made sure along the way that the children could settle down to sleep in warm stables and who negotiated prices at the markets. The construction of the Arlberg railroad in 1884 made the journey easier for the Tyrolean children.

The "children's markets" in Upper Swabia usually took place around Josephi (March 19). At Simon and Juda (end of October) or at the latest at Martini (November 11) they went back home. In the luggage were then the so-called "Doppelt Häs" (a double set of clothes from the headgear to the footwear) and, depending on the age and the negotiated price, a few guilders.

The Hütekinder arrived at the port of Friedrichshafen by ship from Bregenz. Since 1891, the central market place for the Hütekinder was in Karlstraße in Friedrichshafen. The children who were not placed traveled by train to Ravensburg to be placed there.

The work
In their homeland, Swabian children were exempted from compulsory schooling every year, and in the Kingdom of Württemberg the compulsory schooling that had existed there since 1836 did not apply to foreign children. The politically repeatedly demanded extension of compulsory schooling was prevented until 1921 by an Upper Swabian farmers' lobby.

Schwabenkinder (Swabian Children)

𝚆𝚊𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝙻𝚎𝚘

https://youtu.be/xnLWOMiO7sk
Born out of experimentation and mainly because Electrometis  https://soundcloud.com/fiona-greasley and M-Drid  https://soundcloud.com/m-drid inspired me to do this: an EDM version of the previous song "Anima Dannata". 

Thank you both....has cost me a night 🤣

🎞️ Video

Anima Dannata | Exclusive Dance Version

Vocals and Lyrics: Electra Volcana
Music: Laar

Recorded with Squire Jaguar, Squire CV 70s Jazz Bass and Fruity Loops. Drum patterns are taken from FPC plugin

My Fairweather Friend with Electra Volcana

’Celestial Respite,’ is an instrumental track that fuses classical orchestral elements with ambient vibes. I hope this soundscape helps you unwind as it transports you to an impossible realm of cosmic, infinite peace.

Celestial Respite

the Beauty of Holiness

the story of the photo and the song
 Muratağa is a small village in the middle of Cyprus, its old name was Maratha, it gave its name to this work because there was a massacre in this village in 1974. Only children, women and the elderly were killed in this massacre.

The man seen in this photo is my father and his dog Sarman, the date is August 14, 1974, when my father came to the village there was no one in the village and the houses were in a shambles, Sarman wanted to take my father to the place where the massacre pit was and my father followed the dog and faced the worst moment of his life, his mother from the pit , her grandmother and 6 siblings were also removed.

In the middle of Maratha 1974  (Enstrumental)

I'm here to share and appreciate all genres of music.  Most of what I am currently recording is electronic, and largely ambient, in nature; however, I have recently started recording cover songs of various tunes.  So, since I'm no longer strictly ambient (only mostly), I've changed my SoundCloud name to Smooth Waters Sonic Journeys.  Headphones greatly enhance the listening experience.  Thank you for listening.