Here are the first snippets of my new recordings.

I am so thrilled about my new sound! I've been thinking about trying a folk/country influenced sound for, like, three years - and now I finally did it! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Thank you to those who've collaborated with me on this: Jo Varain, Nils Tuxen, Dominik Pobot & Robin Fuhrmann.

Stay tuned for more new music to come!

Crush (Snippet)

Thank You (Snippet)

we might crash into a dead end
hit a point of no return
feel like each others ball and chain

we might lose appreciation
mooning over someone else
and find some justification

we could bail
we could dare

at the end of the rainbow is a pot of gold
lets leap
we'll be a crazy pair of loving trolls 
and we'll make it
for a rainbow it'll take some rain
eventually the water will dry off again 
and we'll make it

we may judge us by our covers
and then look the other way
we might see no choice but hurting

we might not be of the same mind
set different priorities
oblivious of each other's dreams

we could cave
or create...

We'll Make It

Here is the first full song of my upcoming EP "Need To Get Going".
300 Days is one of the few songs I wrote on guitar. I am a way better pianist than guitarist, that's why most of the time I automatically go to the piano when I'm writing songs. Working on this song, however, I appreciated that the guitar gives you a completely different feel - I never would have come up with this on the piano.
I recorded the song with Robin Fuhrmann (drums), Dominik Pobot (piano), Nils Tuxen (all guitars & pedal steel) and Jo Varain (bass) at III:30 Studios in Hamburg, Germany. It was produced by Jo Varain and me. 
I hope you enjoy listening to this song! It is also playing on www.jango.com (personalized internet radio) and will soon be available on iTunes, Spotify etc. 

300 Days

Here are the first snippets of my new EP "NEED TO GET GOING".

I am so thrilled about my new sound! I've been thinking about trying a folk/country influenced sound for, like, three years - and now I finally did it! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Thank you to those who've collaborated with me on this: Jo Varain, Nils Tuxen, Dominik Pobot & Robin Fuhrmann.

If (Snippet)

Destination (Snippet)

Here's another full song of my current EP "Need To Get Going".

I  wrote "Thank You" about a bittersweet breakup - bitter because I was parting from someone who had been a pillar in my life for quite a while, and sweet because I felt like I was breaking free and setting out into an exciting new future. So it's kind of a positive break up song.

The song was produced by Jo Varain for III:30 and me. Robin Fuhrmann (drums), Dominik Pobot (piano), Nils Tuxen (guitars) and Jo Varain (bass) are responsible for the energetic music. 

I hope you enjoy listening to "Thank You"! Cheers, Nora

Thank You

Here is my song Crush in full length. I absolutely adore the dancy music that Robin Fuhrmann (drums), Dominik Pobot (piano), Nils Tuxen (guitars) and Jo Varain (bass) play for this composition of mine. 
If you want to know what this song is about: listen to it :-)
Cheers, Nora

Crush

"Seeking You" was written waaaaay back... in 2004.
It's one of the songs the audience always really likes on my gigs, so it definitely goes out to my listeners!
I find that "Seeking You" totally points to my Whitney & Mariah influences - I spent the first 14 years of my life listening exclusively to balladesque soul-pop, with Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey being my favourite performers. So "Seeking You" somehow feels like a tribute to these two great singers.
As for the lyrics, "Seeking You" has no autobiographical background. It's a total love song; but when I wrote it, I was single with no object of my affection in sight. So maybe the song states how I imagined the perfect feeling of being in love at that time. Who knows...


Seeking You

This song is about coming to terms with a love from the past that just keeps sticking to you - even though you don't know why and just want to get rid of the whole issue.
It's like, you break up and leave in peace, and then this old love comes flashing back every now and then, basically haunting you, making you feel uncertain about the decision to leave this love behind. "Was he/she the one for me!?!?"
Thank god I'm over it! I wrote "Scorpion" in 2006, and whatever it was that haunted me then, I'm free from now :-)
"Scorpion" is actually the first song I ever wrote on a fender rhodes. Even though there were a few colleagues in the past going crazy over me playing a fender rhodes, I prefer playing piano. (I still think a rhodes is a cool instrument for someone who really knows how to deal with it!)
"Scorpion", just like "Alpha Male", was associated with Joni Mitchell as well as Kate Bush. Wow, I'm honored!

Scorpion

Even though I wrote "Taste" (in a slightly different version) a long time ago - probably 6 years ago - it feels like a new song to me. That's because I never used it for anything so far, I haven't played it on any gigs whatsoever. 
Last year, after I ended a collaboration with a colleague that had lasted 7 years, I decided to go solo as an artist - and the first thing I did was playing all the songs I had ever written to myself. That was how I rediscovered "Taste".
I believe now that when I first wrote it, I didn't know what I was actually writing about. But when I played the song again last year, it totally fit the situation I was going through... I was on my own, with a lot of new people I didn't know that well yet and that didn't know me that well yet.
"Taste" is about seeming like something on the outside but feeling like something else on the inside.
It used to have a chorus that I threw out; and I added the final verse instead.
I'm currently in the process of producing a video for "Taste", so stay tuned! You will be able to watch it on http://www.facebook.com/norasaengermusic

Taste

when I'm alone in the woods
and standing barefoot on that tender tickly moss
inhaling deep the wisdom of the trees
when I'm alone in the woods...

absorbing that ancient silence with all of my pores
letting my hair fly wild through the air
when I'm alone in the woods
whispering my secrets to a swarm of wise butterflies

haze ascends to the sky
letting that third eye shine
and no crown seems to high
my feet take root and I'm unbreakable...

when I'm alone in the woods
I get addicted to lingering in the woods
I'm grander here
and finally I see clear 
when I'm alone in the woods

haze ascends to the sky
letting that third eye shine
and no crown seems to high
my feet take root and I'm unbreakable...
when I'm alone in the woods

DEUTSCH

wenn ich alleine im Wald bin...
und barfuß auf zartem Moos stehe
tief die Weisheit der Bäume einatme
wenn ich alleine im Wald bin...

diese uralte Stille mit allen Poren aufnehme
mein Haar wild im Wind fliegen lasse
wenn ich alleine im Wald bin...

meine Geheimnisse einem 
Schwarm Schmetterlinge zuflüstere...

Dunst steigt zum Himmel
und lässt dieses dritte Auge erstrahlen
und keine Krone scheint zu hoch
denn meine Füße schlagen Wurzeln 
und ich bin unverwüstlich
wenn ich alleine im Wald bin....

werde ich süchtig danach
im Wald zu bleiben
hier bin ich groß(artiger) hier
und kann endlich klar sehen
wenn ich alleine im Wald bin...

Dunst steigt zum Himmel
und lässt dieses dritte Auge erstrahlen
und keine Krone scheint zu hoch
denn meine Füße schlagen Wurzeln 
und ich bin unverwüstlich
wenn ich alleine im Wald bin....

Alone In The Woods

Hamburg's Sarah Gad and Malin make guest star on Nora's emotional ballad.

TEXT (deutsche Übersetzung weiter unten)

feeling so out of place
a scattered puzzle - my so called life
desillusionen, fallen from grace
invisible, even to myself

thought I had so much to give
yet no one takes notice of it

so I'll take a leap in the dark
shush my fears, go with my heart
life is what happens where your comfort zone ends
you'll see me take off into the dark
for a change

17 dollars in the bank
an empty fridge, no gas in the tank
please get me out of this low
get me movin', tell me where to go

I must have taken false steps
guess there's no need to trace those back

but to take a leap in the dark
shush my fears, go with my heart
life is what happens where your comfort zone ends
you'll see me take off into the dark
for a change

oh, they say the sun hides behind every cloud
the answer's there though I don't see it now
I'll find a place where no one steals my shine
(hold on to hope, don't you give up
find a place inside of untouchable peace of mind
where no one steals your shine)

so I'll take a leap in the dark
shush my fears, go with my heart
life is what happens where your comfort zone ends
you'll see me take off into the dark
for a change    

DEUTSCH 

ich fühle mich so deplatziert
mein so genanntes Leben -
ein durcheinander geratenes Puzzle

desillusioniert, in Ungnade gefallen
unsichtbar, sogar für mich selbst

ich dachte ich hätte so viel zu geben
aber niemanden interessiert's

deswegen wage ich den Sprung ins Ungewisse
bringe meine Ängste zum Schweigen und folge meinem Herzen
Leben fängt dort an wo die Komfortzone aufhört
zur Abwechslung werdet ihr mich abheben sehen ins Ungewisse 

17 Dollar auf dem Sparbuch
Kühlschrank leer
kein Benzin im Tank

kann mich bitte jemand aus diesem Tief herausholen?
mich dazu kriegen mich zu bewegen
kann mir bitte jemand sagen wohin ich soll?

ich muss falsche Schritte gemacht haben
jetzt bringt es nichts mehr, diese zurückzuverfolgen, sonder ich muss

den Sprung ins Ungewisse wagen...

man sagt die Sonne versteckt sich hinter jeder Wolke
die Antwort ist da, obwohl ich sie jetzt noch nicht sehe
ich werde meinen Platz finden, an dem mir niemand mein Strahlen nehmen kann

Leap In The Dark

SUPPOSE I 
(T.: Nora Sänger / M.: Nora Sänger, Stefan Rebelski, Eike Ernst)

what is it with you?
somehow you got me to go there
to your party thing
where I don't belong

it was awkward sayin' hi
this pressure of behaving 
in some way that's romantic or erotic
and not knowing why

as crazy as it seems
I feel the need to flee...

let's suppose I hit the breaks
turn the wheel around 
speeded up
with a howling motor sound
let's suppose I stopped the car
and ran into your arms
instead of fighting these tears down
but really crying my way home...

what is this with us?
I got a feeling 
your friends around there think
it's you and me
that we're meant to be

I stayed for a beer, no more
I had to get out of there 
before it became more
I don't want more

now on my flight I'm surprised
I'm welling up, shaking inside

let's suppose I hit the breaks
turn the wheel around 
speeded up
with a howling motor sound
let's suppose I stopped the car
and ran into your arms
instead of fighting these tears down
but really crying my way home...

why do I hang on 
to this scenario?
picturing ways of 
how you could react?
would I want you
to wrap me in your arms
or would it freak me out?
would I sink into you 
or chicken out?

let's suppose I hit the breaks
turn the wheel around 
speeded up
with a howling motor sound
let's suppose I stopped the car
and ran into your arms
instead of fighting these tears down
why not cry my way home?

what is it with me?

Suppose I

Hey there! Thanks for visiting my SoundCloud profile. :)
I am Nora Sänger, singer-songwriter from Hamburg, Germany. I am a pretty classic songwriter, I'd say. Meaning I come up with tunes that are melodic and somewhat structured. My role model songwriters include Carole King and Joni Mitchell, my idols in general are Whitney Houston and Courtney Love (what a mix! - but yeah, it's possible…;) ). 
I play a lot of solo gigs just me and my piano.
I released a folk / country album, "Almost Golden", in March 2015.
I'm currently working on new material.

Nora Sänger

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