Music: Yann Kifer and Oddrun Eikli.
Poem: by Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886)
Piano , keys, and instrumental composition: Yann Kifer @annkifer
Vocal and vocal composition: Oddrun Eikli

Thank you so much for this JOY Yann. Thank you from my heart.

Angels, in the early morning
May be seen the Dews among,
Stooping—plucking—smiling-flying—
Do the Buds to them belong?

Angels, when the sun is hottest
May be seen the sands among,
Stooping—plucking—sighing-flying—
Parched the flowers they bear along.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry.

Angels, in the early morning. Yann Kifer and Oddrun Eikli.

Oddrun Eikli, vocal; Chuck Weirich,@chuck-weirich fluegelhorn; Aleck Rand, @aleckrand, guitar, keyboard, bass.
Thank you so much Aleck (Dean)and Chuck.  It`s such a JOY to collaborate with you two :)

"Que reste-t-il de nos amours ?" What Remains of Our Loves?  This song was first recorded by the French female singer Lucienne Boyer in 1942. Music by Léo Chauliac and Charles Trenet and lyrics by Charles Trenet. A version of the song with English lyrics entitled "I Wish You Love" is recognizable by the opening line "I wish you bluebirds, in the spring".

I Wish You Bluebirds in the Spring.  Aleck Rand, Chuck Weirich, Oddrun Eikli

Voice and Lyrics: Oddrun Eikli soundcloud.com/oddrun-eikli
Piano and Orchestration: Syrel soundcloud.com/user-461764443
Picture by: Oddrun 

- Lyrics -
The Snowfall
Sprinkles hope and light
Crystals in a sparkling flight
Snowbirds
Flashing up into the air
Sweet, soft, without fear
Rustling down
In winter wind
Waiting for the Joy of Spring
Snowfall ...

Snowfall. Feat. Syrel and Oddrun Eikli

Piano: Debra Bueskinghttps://soundcloud.com/debra_buesking
Vocal: Oddrun Eikli
Trumpet and mix: Arne Hiorth
Thank you dear Debbie for the JOY working together with you, and thank you for your friendship. I am so very grateful for you.
Thank you Arne for playing so beautiful together with us. Thank you for your studiowork and mix.
    "You Must Believe in Spring", a song written by Michel Legrand and Jacques Demy for the 1967 French film The Young Girls of Rochefort

You Must Believe In Spring. Debra Buesking and Oddrun Eikli. Feat. Arne Hiorth Trumpet

Heartfelt thanks to Torbjørn for this composition that he invited Dairv and me to be a part of. With the poetry of Emily Brontë , this became a journey in nature, about hope and about light.
May we take care of our wonderful nature.

Torbjørn Vagle: instrumental composition, piano, organ, synth, strings and productionhttps://soundcloud.com/tobbenv
Oddrun Eikli: vocal and vocal composition
Dairv Dubbleyew: Guitarhttps://soundcloud.com/dairv-dubbleyew
Cover: Vetle Vagle
Poem by Emily Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848)

VIII
The battle had passed from the height,
And still did evening fall;
While heaven with its restful night
Gloriously canopied all.

The dead around were sleeping
On heath and granite grey,
And the dying their last watch were keeping
In the closing of the day.
·⁠·⁠·⁠·⁠·
How golden bright from earth and heaven
The summer day declines!
How gloriously o'er land and sea
The parting sunbeam shines!
There is a voice in the wind that waves
Those bright rejoicing trees.
·⁠·⁠·⁠·⁠·
Not a vapour had stained the breezeless blue,
Not a cloud had dimmed the sun,
From the time of morning's earliest dew
Till the summer day was done.

And all as pure and all as bright
The sun of evening died,
And purer still its parting light
Shone on Lake Elnor's tide.

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.

Morning`s Earliest Dew . Torbjørn Vagle. Dairv Dubbleyew. Oddrun Eikli.

Gaming music Final Fantasy X-2
Song: Kuon Hikari To Nami No Kioku / Memories of Waves and Light
Composed and arranged by Takahito Eguchi and Noriko Matsueda.
In a version from Debra Buesking and Oddrun Eikli.
Poem: by Emily Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848)
Piano and Cover design: Debra Bueskinghttps://soundcloud.com/debra_buesking
Vocal: Oddrun Eikli

Love and Friendship
BY EMILY BRONTË
Love is like the wild rose-briar,
Friendship like the holly-tree—
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms
But which will bloom most constantly?

The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring,
Its summer blossoms scent the air;
Yet wait till winter comes again
And who will call the wild-briar fair?

Then scorn the silly rose-wreath now
And deck thee with the holly’s sheen,
That when December blights thy brow
He still may leave thy garland green.

Love and Friendship. Debra Buesking and Oddrun Eikli.

Happy Happy Birthday Debbie!!!!!https://soundcloud.com/debra_buesking
I wish you the best day dear Debbie. :) 

Music: Jean-Pierre Dubois.
In a version from Debra Buesking and Oddrun Eikli.
Piano and Cover design: Debra Buesking
Vocal: Oddrun Eikli

Thank you for sharing music and friendship dear Debbie :)
Thank you to your friend Jean-Pierre for this music, and for your beautiful piano-version. So sensitive and pure.
It was just for me to sing in it, with the lovely poem from  Christina Rossetti 
(5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894).
Poem:
A Birthday
By Christina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894)

My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.

Raise me a dais of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.

Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember". She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in Britain: "In the Bleak Midwinter".

A Birthday. Debra Buesking and Oddrun Eikli.

Piano/instrumental composition, and piano: Debra Buesking @debra_buesking
Melody composition for the voice, and voice: Oddrun Eikli
Poem: EMILY BRONTË
Cover design: Debra

Thank you so much Debbie, for great JOY working together.
Thank you so much for your friendship.

POEM OF EMILY BRONTË

That wind, I used to hear it swelling
With joy divinely deep;
You might have seen my hot tears welling,
But rapture made me weep.


I used to love on winter nights
To lie and dream alone
Of all the hopes and real delights
My early years had known.


And oh! above the best of those
That coming time should bear,
Like heaven's own glorious stars they rose,
Still beaming bright and fair.

November 28, 1839.

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.

That Wind. Debra Buesking and Oddrun Eikli

Music: Yann Kifer and Oddrun Eikli.
Piano , keys, and instrumental composition: Yann Kifer @annkifer
Vocals, text, photo and vocal composition: Oddrun Eikli
Studiowork: Arne Hiorth

In Yann Kifer's music I was inspired to focus on" Moments Of Life."
In Nature. In People. In Music.
It`s heavy and painful times for our world, despite this I have to thank Yann, from the bottom of my heart, for the musical joy even in such a time. 

The Way We Used To Sing. 

What is there to see
Catch the rain
And count the stars
Sounds waits

Ripples through the storm
In twilight and dew
I awake
To the rising sun

This is the way we used to sing

And remembered
The way we used to sing

In this moment
A door wide open
Eyes blink open

Eyes like the ocean
Light golden sea breaths
A Moment of Life

The Way We Used To Sing. Yann Kifer and Oddrun Eikli.

Freedom:
music, lyrics, vocals: Oddrun Eikli
bass: Lorenzo Alderighi 
musicarr. and trumpet: Arne Hiorth

coverart: Åshild Eikli Hiorth
painting behind the artcover, and photo: Axel Weiss

Album Notes
I am happy and grateful to present a new music project from Loops And Bridges : Doors And Windows .
Arne Hiorth and me are writing music together as before , and some of our new songs are presented on this album .
But in addition to this we have the pleasure of including some musicians and composer/friends from the Soundcloud community.
These are my wonderful co-writers and musicians :

Leticia Gabian - 
Axel Weiss - 
Jason Woods -
Vicente Bueso -
Nitzan Sagie - 
Gigi Masin - 
Claudio Vignali - 
Lorenzo Alderighi - 

I have received independent compositions from my collaborators , and by adding my melody and text as well as all vocals , it has evolved into something else . A new song . And some of the tracks have been made the other way around , whereas I have sent my melody out to be wrapped in music .

What a great tool Soundcloud has been for me , what an excellent tool for music-collaborations , where distance does not exist .
The album is produced , mixed and mastered by Arne Hiorth , and Arne is also doing all trumpet on this album.

on cd baby today http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/oddruneikli
if you want the cd, it can also be sent to you by me.
all profits of this CD will go to the Red Cross's humanitarian work

I hope you will enjoy.
video for " all in Time"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOyUdP6tE7s
video for" Fargespill"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odidsk2OxBE&feature=youtu.be

Freedom.  From cd. Doors And Windows, with Soundcloudfriends

"In the Bleak Midwinter" by English poet Christina Rossetti was first published in 1872. In 1906 Gustav Holst composed a setting to these verses now sung throughout the world. At this dark time in humanity it is our sincere hope that you will reflect upon these verses with us and ponder the hope and true meaning of Christmas.

Thank you dear Debbie, for your beautiful sensitive music and piano. 
Thank you for this very special journey in music, and in Christina Rossetti`s beautiful poetry.
Arrangement and piano: https://soundcloud.com/debra_buesking
Vocal arrangements and voice: Oddrun Eikli
Studio work: Arne Hiorth
Cover design: Debra

Lyrics:
In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.

Our God, heaven cannot hold Him
Nor earth sustain,
Heaven and earth shall flee away
When He comes to reign:
In the bleak mid-winter
A stable-place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty —
Jesus Christ.

What can I give Him,
Poor as I am? —
If I were a Shepherd
I would bring a lamb;
If I were a Wise Man
I would do my part, —
Yet what I can I give Him, —
Give my heart.

All verses (1872)

    In the bleak mid-winter
    Frosty wind made moan
    Earth stood hard as iron,
    Water like a stone;
    Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
    Snow on snow,
    In the bleak mid-winter
    Long ago.

    Our God, heaven cannot hold Him
    Nor earth sustain,
    Heaven and earth shall flee away
    When He comes to reign:
    In the bleak mid-winter
    A stable-place sufficed
    The Lord God Almighty —
    Jesus Christ.
    	

    Enough for Him, whom cherubim
    Worship night and day,
    A breastful of milk
    And a mangerful of hay;
    Enough for Him, whom Angels
    Fall down before,
    The ox and ass and camel
    Which adore.

    Angels and Archangels
    May have gathered there,
    Cherubim and seraphim
    Thronged the air;
    But only His Mother
    In her maiden bliss
    Worshipped the Beloved
    With a kiss.
    	

    What can I give Him,
    Poor as I am? —
    If I were a Shepherd
    I would bring a lamb;
    If I were a Wise Man
    I would do my part, —
    Yet what I can I give Him, —
    Give my heart.

In The Bleak Midwinter | Debra Buesking and Oddrun Eikli

Poem: Emily Jane Brontë 

Oddrun Eikli: vocal and vocal composition https://soundcloud.com/oddrun-eikli
Torbjørn Vagle: Instrumental composition, piano, bass, synth, drums&percussion https://soundcloud.com/tobbenv
Arne Hiorth: Trumpet and trumpet arrangement https://soundcloud.com/arnehiorth
Photo: Oddrun Eikli
Cover: Vetle Vagle
Mix: Torbjørn Vagle
Mastering Njål Frode Lie https://www.nflproduksjoner.no/

The mist and the landscape evoke memories of the poet's childhood, and she longs to return to the time when she felt safe and happy under her father's roof. There is also an acknowledgment that a time has passed, and the melancholy that something will never be the same.
Thank you from heart Torbjørn and Arne for this collaboration. 

Mild the mist upon the hill
Telling not of storms tomorrow;
No, the day has wept its fill,
Spent its store of silent sorrow.

O, I'm gone back to the days of youth,
I am a child once more,
And 'neath my father's sheltering roof
And near the old hall door

I watch this cloudy evening fall
After a day of rain;
Blue mists, sweet mists of summer pall
The horizon's mountain chain.

The damp stands on the long green grass
As thick as morning's tears,
And dreamy scents of fragrance pass
That breathe of other years.
Emily Jane Brontë
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.

Upon The Hill. Torbjørn Vagle. Oddrun Eikli. Arne Hiorth.

Piano/instrumental composition, and piano: Debra Buesking @debra_buesking
Melody composition for the voice, photo and voice: Oddrun Eikli
Studiowork: Arne Hiorth
Poem: Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Lee Frost (født 26. mars 1874 i San Francisco i California, død 29. januar 1963 i Boston i Massachusetts) var en amerikansk poet. Han ble tildelt Pulitzerprisen fire ganger, henholdsvis i 1924, 1931, 1937 og 1943.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. Debra Buesking and Oddrun Eikli.

The Trial
A Pico-Operetta for our Times

International Cast

Lady Humanity - Oddrun Eikli - Norway, vocals and lyric on the last song; @oddrun-eikli
Lord Mammon - Peter - England, All poetic lyrics in the operetta, except the last song; soundcloud.com/user-264930040/tracks
The Judge - David Dunham - USA, and acoustic guitar in the third song; @david-dunhamuser589535203
Music & Production - Seagull - Sweden, compilation, mixing, sound effects etc; @farout-music-studio

Here you can download all poetic lyrics: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/37k203an5c6azz0ekltvn/The-Trial-Libretto.pdf?rlkey=mope1vjiyqhaeo17b5u74dp2i&e=1&dl=0

Synopsis

Following unprecedented worldwide growth in human conflict, an emergency plenary session of the United Nations was convened late in 2023, tasked with finding new approaches to defuse global tension and ease conciliation. Recognising the abject failure of extant UN jurisdictions and powers, and in a radical restructuring of the international legal and security framework, that session established a new UN institution to sit alongside the International Court of Criminal Justice. The International Court of Moral Justice was formally incorporated into the UN Constitution on 1 January 2024.

The foundations of this infant organisation and those of the UN itself were shaken when it was revealed that the inaugural case to be heard by the ICMJ was to be a private prosecution brought by greed itself against the defendant, mankind’s innate sense of humanity.

In papers lodged with the court, the protagonist, Lord Mammon has asserted that the fundamental basis for human misery, the creation of discontent, thence envy and hence conflict, is to be found exclusively in false moral goodness and self-righteousness borne of a misplaced sense of benevolence. The human race survived and thrived, he states, not by moving at the pace of the slowest, or sharing resources with the weakest, but by taking and keeping, for the self alone, much more than is needed for basic subsistence, this being the singular route to strength, individual contentment and thus tolerance of others.

In reply, a broken and demoralised Lady Humanity has been compelled to present her own defence after failing to secure funding for a legal team to counter the advocates ranged in front of Lord Mammon. The case for the defence rests solely on the premise that good comes from within and cannot be created from nothing. So whilst she may try to bolster the moral cause in her work, she increasingly finds that the human souls she sees have no humanity in them whatsoever for her to strengthen, nothing to work with and as such, concedes that she has failed, but denounces the notion that it was for want of trying. Devoid of resources, supporters and allies of any kind she single handedly has held the fort against the self-perpetuating, self-reinforcing massed ranks of Mammon.

The Lord Chief Justice of the ICMJ along with his bench of associate judiciary adjourn proceedings to consider their findings and in the final act, return to deliver their verdict.

The Trial. A Pico-Operetta for our Times.

Dedicated in loving memory to our mothers.
Thank you from my heart dear Debbie, thank you for beautiful music and your friendship.

Music Debra Buesking and Oddrun Eikli
Poem: Emily Jane Brontë
Piano: Debra Buesking.@debra_buesking 
Voice: Oddrun Eikli.
cover design: Debra Buesking.
Studiowork: Arne Hiorth

IN MEMORY
Blessed be Thou for all the joy
My soul has felt to-day!
O let its memory stay with me
And never pass away!


I was alone, for those I loved
Were far away from me;
The sun shone on the withered grass,
The wind blew fresh and free.


Was it the smile of early spring
That made my bosom glow?
'Twas sweet, but neither sun nor wind
Could raise my spirit so.


Was it some feeling of delight,
All vague and undefined?
No, 'twas a rapture deep and strong,
Expanding in my mind!


Was it a sanguine view of life
And all its transient bliss—
A hope of bright prosperity?
O no, it was not this!

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.

Sound Of Memory. Debra Buesking and Oddrun Eikli

Piano arrangement and piano: Debra Buesking https://soundcloud.com/debra_buesking
Trumpet and Studio Work: Arne Hiorth
Vocal arrangement and vocals: Oddrun Eikli 
Thank you dear Debbie and Arne for the great JOY!

Spring turns into summer, no matter what the world looks like, no matter how dark it looks. With summer comes more light. 
This version of Summertime reflects many emotions, including the joy of what nature gives us in terms of light and new life.
"Summertime" is an aria composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, and Ira Gershwin. 
The song is sung several times throughout Porgy and Bess, and in act 3 by Bess, singing to Clara's now-orphaned baby after both parents died in the storm.
Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim characterized Heyward's lyrics for "Summertime" as "the best lyrics in the musical theater".

Summertime. Debra Buesking.  Arne Hiorth. Oddrun Eikli.

Music: Yann Kifer and Oddrun Eikli
Instrumental composition, piano: Yann Kiferhttps://soundcloud.com/annkifer
Vocal and vocal composition, photo: Oddrun Eikli
Mix: Arne Hiorth
Poem: Emily Jane Brontë (The first verse of the poem: Come, walk with me)

Come, walk with me,
There's only thee
To bless my spirit now -
We used to love on winter nights
To wander through the snow;
Can we not woo back old delights?
The clouds rush dark and wild
They fleck with shade our mountain heights
The same as long ago
And on the horizon rest at last
In looming masses piled;
While moonbeams flash and fly so fast
We scarce can say they smiled -

Come walk with me, come walk with me;
We were not once so few
But Death has stolen our company
As sunshine steals the dew -
He took them one by one and we
Are left the only two;
So closer would my feelings twine
Because they have no stay but thine -

'Nay call me not - it may not be
Is human love so true?
Can Friendship's flower droop on for years
And then revive anew?
No, though the soil be wet with tears,
How fair soe'er it grew
The vital sap once perished
Will never flow again
And surer than that dwelling dread,
The narrow dungeon of the dead
Time parts the hearts of men 

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.

Come,Walk With Me. Poem: Emily Jane Brontë. Yann Kifer and Oddrun Eikli

"Silhouette" Poem: Peter aka @user-264930040
Piano and Arrangement of Astor Piazzolla's "Oblivion" : Debra Bueskinghttps://soundcloud.com/debra_buesking
Vocal Composition and Vocals: @Oddrun-Eikli
cover design: Debra Buesking.
Studio Mix: @Arne-Hiorth

Thank you Peter, Debra, and Arne for this moment to ponder "Life's Silhouette" together but from different vantage points. 

Silhouette

Like the fjord, edging my eye
Material reward can pass me by.
Ice to sea, slowly but sure,
Floating free, flowing pure.
Whispered smile, bears no regret,
Ponder a while, on life’s silhouette.

Solace of breeze, whiffles my hair.
All at ease, by waters fair.
Mirrored of cloud, sparkled of sun,
Where two is a crowd, I’ve a table for one.
Nature’s fine art, devoid of defect,
Embraces my heart, through life’s silhouette.

Treasured time, in mind’s recall.
Love sublime, in its rise and fall.
Flickered glints from glistened waves
Fall distinct, and light the way.
As morning rays shall yet reflect,
Of peaceful days in life’s silhouette.

Silhouette.  Debra Buesking. 1234567890. Oddrun Eikli.

Music, Poem, Composition: Andrew Janik 
Voice: Oddrun Eikli
Photo by Michael Ryan, Vancouver

Thank you Andrew, for music, and for this deep JOY.
Andrew`s https://soundcloud.com/soundpainter words about this composition:
"This track is literally about all things, Emotional, Human, Animal, Environmental and interactions between all".

Andrew is also under Bury The Jar on bandcamp and Spotify- Bury The Jar is his latest project for more experimental as well as meditative slow world type music...
burythejar.bandcamp.com/track/all-thi…ended-version

Feel. Free
Heaven.Earth
Moon.Light
Fire.Inspire

Love.Hate
Hurt.Heal
Star. Sun
Stillness. Beauty

All things. All things
Touch. Me
All things. All things
Touch. You

Bird. Flower
Creature. Spirit
Time. Space
Soul. Whole

All Things. Music: Soundpainter. Voice: Oddrun Eikli

Piano: Debra Bueskinghttps://soundcloud.com/debra_buesking
Flugelhorn: Arne Hiorth
Voice: Oddrun Eikli

Merry Christmas to you all, and the best wishes for  the New Year.

Thank you from my heart Debbie and Arne for the JOY making music together.

Our version of the timeless "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" written in 1943 by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane.

Merry Little Christmas. Debra Buesking. Arne Hiorth. Oddrun Eikli.



------- Catherine Healing Hearts

She takes a bold courage
Of silver delight
And calls for the thunder
To rescue her knight

With leaves of chamomile
Her hands bound in moonlight
And shadows of pain
In the fields of the fight

Oh heavens
Bring mercy
Oh heavens
Be kind

She holds her knight’s head
In her cold trembling hands
A ray of warm blood
Running over the sands

A deep open wound
In his wild heaving chest
She kisses his forehead
Praying him to be blessed

Oh heavens
Bring mercy
Oh heavens
Divined

She will always wander
From mornings to sighing nights
In ruinous wars’ battlefields
For the broken in violent fights

She carries compassion
Unending floods of care
With waves of sweet tenderness
And healing hands everywhere

Oh heavens
Bring mercy
Oh heavens
Be kind

-------

I was in Stalingrad
The cold winter the cold winter over forty two
In the shadows of the Volga river
The rat war
I was in Stalingrad
At Mamayev Kurgan
And Pavlov’s House
Oh heavens
Your mercy
Oh heavens
Your mercy
Oh heavens
Your mercy

I was in Hastings
And Vienna
And also in Cajamarca
And in Yorktown
And then in Trafalgar
And also in Leipzig
And Waterloo
And Hiroshima

-------

Again a bold courage
Of silver delight
And a call for the thunder
To rescue her knight

A new place of battle
With deep scorched holes
And wounds of shear terror
Of harsh suffering souls

Oh heavens
Bring mercy
Oh heavens
Divined

------- George and Dragons

Eight
Eight times before you smile
Fate
Fate washing hands in time

While
While hearts cry

While
While hearts cry

In vain

Composition and Poetry: Diederik Aerts
Vocals: Oddrun Eikli and Diederik Aerts
Piano: Diederik Aerts


Eight Times (Oddrun Eikli and Diederik Aerts)

Voice and Lyrics: Oddrun Eikli
Keyboards and programming: Vicente Bueso
https://soundcloud.com/scienceteheran
Writen by Vicente Bueso and Oddrun Eikli

"for those you trust
for those who care for you
take these hands
and reach out to the sun
our souls are freed
love feels no burden
for those you trust
for those who care for you"


Lachrymose II . Hold Me, Never Let Me Sink. Science Teheran(Vicente Bueso) and Oddrun Eikli

music-freddiehangoler
http://soundcloud.com/freddiehangoler
poem and vocal-oddrun eikli

please visit Nitzans site and listen to his wonderful music
http://soundcloud.com/freddiehangoler

 THE KNIGHT AND HIS LADY

I WATCH WITH JOY
YOUR GARDEN YOUR SOUL
THE BEAUTY OF YOUR HEART

MY LOVE FOR YOU
WILL NEVER FADE
IN TASTE OF YOUR SWEETNESS

YOU ARE IN THIS BREEZE
IN THIS RIVER OF WINE
I LONG TO SEE YOUR FACE

LETS DANCE AND PLAY
TO SUCH DEVOTION
AND SING TO LIFE`S DELIGHT

AND FILLED WITH PLEASURE
I KISS YOUR LIPS
THE MYSTERY OF LIFE STARTS ONCE MORE

LET ME JOIN YOU IN JOY
TURN THE WIND TO A SONG
AND OUR LOVE WILL LAUDLY SING


The Knight and his Lady.music-freddiehangoler,poem and vocal- oddrun eikli

Oddrun Eikli, vocal; Chuck Weirich,https://soundcloud.com/chuck-weirich fluegelhorn; Terry Clarke, drums; Aleck Rand, https://soundcloud.com/aleckrand, guitar, keyboard, bass.

The 1940 Broadway show "Higher and Higher" introduced the Rodgers and Hart tune, “It Never Entered My Mind.” The melody is almost transparent in its simplicity and, in the vacuum of rudimentary harmonies found in standard versions by Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald, only the lyrics keep it alive. But what lyrics. Brought up to date with modern harmonies and instrumentation, this is a this love song of unheeded warning.

It Never Entered My Mind.  Aleck Rand, Chuck Weirich, Terry Clarke, Oddrun Eikli

Music: Oddrun Eikli and Arne Hiorth
voice: Oddrun
trumpet: Arne
A musical image from Norwegian nature.
From "Stemmen", Skorpevatnet i Muslandsvåg. 
A musical memory, with my grandmother Olava. 
Photo: Oddrun

Stemmen. Oddrun Eikli and Arne Hiorth

music: ClassicalGlass and Oddrun Eikli

pianocomposition and piano: ClassicalGlasshttps://soundcloud.com/classicalglass-1
Vocalcomposition, vocal and words/photo: Oddrun Eikli

For A Moment, to understand, and see.
Thank you Philip, for beautiful pianocomposition for these words, thank you for this moment.

For A Moment

A door wide open
I had never seen before
in the light
of sparkling water streams
for a moment
eyes blink open
eyes like the ocean
in and out a shore
light and golden sea breaths

for a moment 
eyes blink open

For A Moment. ClassicalGlass & Oddrun Eikli

Music: Eric Dartel and Oddrun Eikli
Piano: Eric Dartel soundcloud.com/ericdartel/tracks
Vocal and photo: Oddrun Eikli

Poem Emily Bronte.

I had the great joy visiting the Bronte sisters' hometown Haworth in West Yorkshire, with my two sisters two years ago.
Walking in the beautiful, wild and kind nature, I met the poetry of Emliy Bronte (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848),
I met her there at the moors.

Not a vapour had stained the breezeless blue
Not a cloud had dimmed the sun
From the time of morning's earliest dew
Till the summer day was done

And all as pure and all as bright
The sun of evening died
And purer still its parting light
Shone in Lake Elnor's tide

Waveless and calm lies that silent deep
In its wilderness of moors
Solemn and soft the moonbeams sleep
Upon its heathy shores

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.

Lake Elnorś Tide. Eric Dartel and Oddrun Eikli

Music: Classical Glass and Oddrun Eikli
Poem: by Emily Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848)
Pianocomposition and arrangement : Classical Glass. @classicalglass-1
Composition for the vocal, photo and vocal: Oddrun Eikli.

Poem: by Emily Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848)
All hushed and still within the house;
Without – all wind and driving rain;
But something whispers to my mind,
Through rain and through the wailing wind,
Never again.
Never again? Why not again?
Memory has power as real as thine

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.

All Hushed and still within the house. Classical Glass and Oddrun Eikli.

Aleck Rand and Oddrun Eikli in a Blossom Deary Song.
Aleck Rand: Guitar, Bass, everything else. https://soundcloud.com/aleckrand
Oddrun Eikli: Vocal

Singer and composer Blossom Deary always makes me smile.
There are so many things to worry about, but here is a musically hopeful smile in November darkness.
Inspired by Blossom :)
Margrethe Blossom Dearie (April 28, 1924 – February 7, 2009) was an American jazz singer and pianist.

When I was young I lived in a world of dreams
Of moods and myths and illusionary schemes
Though now I'm much more grown up
I fear that I must own up
To the fact that I'm in doubt of
What the modern cynics shout of

They say it's spring
This feeling light as a feather
They say this thing
This magic we share together
Came with the weather too

They say it's May
That's made me daft as a daisy
It's May, they say
That gave the whole world this crazy
Heavenly, hazy hue
I'm a lark On the wing
I'm the spark of a firefly's fling
Yet to me
This must be
Something more than a seasonal thing

Could it be spring
Those bells that I can hear ringing
It may be spring
But when the robins stop singing
You're what I'm clinging to
Though they say it's spring It's you

If poets sing
That when a hard sympathetic
It's merely spring
Then poets plights are pathetic
Though I'm poetic too T

hey say it's spring
For lovers, there's where the lure is
That evil thing
For which September the cure is
This, they are sure is true
Though I know
That it's so
That my fancy may turn in the spring
With the right One in sight
One can find a perpetual thing

Did I need spring
To bring the ring that you bought me
Though it was spring
That wondrous day that you caught me
Darling I thought we knew
That it wasn't spring 'Twas you

They Say Its Spring. Aleck Rand and Oddrun Eikli

music, words and vocals oddrun eikli
musicarr. and trumpet arne hiorth
http://mtgmusic.no/artist/arne-hiorth-og-oddrun-eikli/

artcover: Åshild Eikli Hiorth

The song can be heard at the cd "Loops and Bridges"
and you can find this cd at Itunes or Amazone.

Waltz For You.

Long lasting story.
The song that I sing.
Summer and winter, my everything.
Tell me You are happy 
in touch of my hand.
Darling when I`m with you 
the love has a chance.

Waltz for you,
Waltz for me.
Love for you,
Love for me.

One sunny Waltz for you,
flame in the sky.
Passion undying,
love that is true.
Farewell to sorrow,
hasten to me. 
tender and warm.
You stay,
and you`r free.

Waltz for you,
Waltz for me.
Love for for you,
Love for me.


Waltz for You.   (From cd. Loops And Bridges/Oddrun Eikli and Arne Hiorth.)

Thank you for listening and for your comments.
Music is Magic:)
Thank you soundcloud 20.08.13. for SCOTD http://soundcloud.tumblr.com/post/58744738434/soundclouder-of-the-day-oddrun-eikli-if-theres 
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Biografi
Oddrun Eikli is the singer in Loops and Bridges. A project headed by Oddrun Eikli and Arne Hiorth. Oddrun Eikli sings, composes the melodies and writes the lyrics , Arne Hiorth does the arranging trumpet work and studio engineering.
Loops and Bridges released their debut album in jan 2010 (mtgmusic)
http://www.mtgmusic.no/artist/73/Arne-Hiorth-og-Oddrun-Eikli
Doors And Windows released september 2014.



New cd out mai 2013:
SPIRALI
massimo berizzi: trumpet & electronics 
oddrun eikli: vocals & lyrics
alessandro monti: bass

 CD RELEASES AUTUMN 2012:
"ENDRING" WITH Raphaelgtr and
 THE INTERNATIONAL  JAZZ CD  "FLOW"

"FLOW":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtaKeETfQ4g
The musicians on the "FLOW" album are:
Cheryl Pyle (New York City) - flute, Oddrun Eikli (Oslo) - vocals, Arne Hiorth (Oslo) - trumpet, Stanislav Zaslavsky (Kamensk) - piano), Sean O'Bryan Smith (Nashville) - bass, and Axel Weiss (Obernbreit) on guitars and art.

"ENDRING":
Raphaelgtr & Oddrun Eikli
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghdVeFgfPIA

ODDRUNS COLLABS. AT SOUNDCLOUD:
you can find my collabs. in these sets:



with Arne Hiorth:
https://soundcloud.com/oddrun-eikli/sets/oddrun-eikli-and-arne-hiorth
with Axel Weiss
http://soundcloud.com/axelweis/sets/oddrun-and-axel/
with Vicente bueso:
https://soundcloud.com/oddrun-eikli/sets/vicente-bueso-and-oddrun-eikli
with Raphael GTR and Massimo Berizzi
https://soundcloud.com/oddrun-eikli/sets/raphael-gtr-and-oddrun-eikli
a set with many of my souncloud-collabs:
http://soundcloud.com/oddrun-eikli/sets/collabs-with-my-sc-friends/

Thank you. :) Thank you to you all !:)

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