i love this one, nice singing, guitar..👍

Super collaboration Oddrun and Yann. really nice production and arrangement. very cool.

*Please note that the unfortunate soul portrayed here is completely fictional and is a depiction of nobody in particular.  More accurately a hybrid of individuals encountered or observed.
Enjoy:)

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Tequila
He takes a sip and lets it gnaw
On dreams that never will take form
He's slippin' away

Morning light
The new day ends another night
Of nothing but another fight
That takes him away

He never knows the plans he should make
Or chances that his heart wants to take
He's heard it all before 
But not anymore
It's slippn' away

No reply
His efforts never get him by
So baby don't you even try
He's slippn' away

Sweet Charlotte
He gives it everything he's got
Then orders them another shot
She turns him away

He never knows the plans he should make
Or chances that his heart wants to take
He's heard it all before 
But not anymore
It's driftin’ away

Albatross 
It's like a train you can't get off
He's sees the stop but not the cost
Of slippin’ away

Slippin' Away

Ummm yeah, well these things just kinda take a life of their own.  This started out life as an innocent funk bass riff. More apocalyptic existential panic with a dash of Jansenism thrown in.

Art: William Blake The Ancient of Days

Save Me

you know I wonder how to fill out the days 
as I schedule my life in reverse
I'm highly aware of my failings 
and not sure if that's a blessing or curse

we're given the gift of this life
and still we find ourselves maligned
awash in a violent tide
how can this be

we're given the gift of this life
and turn away to choose the darkest side
is that all we see

save me from myself just one more time

toxic repercussions keep having their way
I mean like who knew 
as if the actions of today 
come back tomorrow looking for you

you start to feel like the world is unwinding
right before your eyes

and the way the tide is shifting
you're gonna need a place to run and hide

I knew a girl from another time in my life
she used to wake up and drink herself back to sleep at night
we showed each other just how low we both could climb
last I heard she's still alive 

won't you save me from myself just one more time

I wanna be free of the memories
of the worst of the human race right there living inside of me
I wanna believe that irrestible grace is coming after me
even if it wants my life

out there on the streets tonight 
so many souls are yearning for the light
how to win day from night
will we ever
I don't know what's there inside God's mind

how many times must we fall

Hear on Spotify

Save Me

Two Clans

Far away girl painting : Nataly NGM 
Notes & words composed, played and sung by Bruno Chassaigne 
Mastered by Loony De Bussy in October 2023

You Got The Right - Bruno C.

Colorful Colorado – Autumn (feat. Video)
Watch the YouTube video featuring beautiful photography by Heidi Schnicker at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_JLb9uDbrc
October 2023
Duration: 3:10
Cover art photo: Heidi Schnicker 
Originally composed November 2016, revised and re-orchestrated October 2023
For strings, flute, oboe d'amore, bass flute, heckelphone, piano, vibraphone, virtual instruments, sound effects and percussion.

Colorful Colorado  - Autumn (feat. Video)

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.

Texte Français et Google Traduction

C'EST LA NUIT

C'est la nuit
Sait-on où l'on vit
Ce monde qu'on détruit
Par la mort sur la vie
Sans vouloir y penser
Ne faisant qu'oublier
Ce qu'on nous a donné
Et se disant en nous
Ira t-il juste qu'au bout
Cet homme est un fou
Que sera notre terre
En vivant cette misère
Les horreurs de la guerre
Une méchante maladie
Cet homme est ainsi.

C'est la nuit
La tristesse aussi
De celle qu'on maudit
Pour ces morts d'aujourd'hui
Que l'on va regretter
Restant dans nos pensées
Dans nos cœurs si marqués
Sentiments de dégoûts
N'en voyant pas le bout
En nous détruisant tout
Parlant de nucléaire
Promettant le calvaire
Allons nous le laisser faire
L'écrasant dans l'oubli
Si même je me dis.

C'est la nuit 
Trop noire c'est ainsi
Marquée de tragédie
Emprise de tyrannie
Avec un homme damner
Qui ne veut justifier
 Sa non fraternité
Ne laissons pas surtout
Ce débile de Moscou
En le battant d'un coup
Retrouvant la lumière
En sortant de l'enfer
Essuyant nos paupières
Des pleurs de cette folie
J'ai toujours dans l'esprit.

C'est la nuit
Sera t'elle finie
C'est la nuit, c'est la nuit
Nous faisant du soucis
Espérant en rêver
Dans nos cœurs de pensées
Se sentant fatigué
Restons bien debout
 Le mettant à genoux
Souhaitant qu'il échoue
Qu'l'espérance nous libère
D'ce débile incendiaire
Saurons nous bien le faire
Le détruisant aussi
Qu'enfin on revit.

C'est la nuit
Elle n'est pas finie
Notre peur aussi
Par un sale abruti
C'est la nuit
C'est la nuit

IT'S NIGHT

It's night
Do we know where we live
This world that we are destroying
By death over life
Without wanting to think about it
Just forgetting
What we were given
And saying within us
Will he only go to the end?
This man is crazy
What will our land be?
Living this misery
The horrors of war
A nasty disease
This man is like that.

It's night
Sadness too
Of the one we curse
For these dead today
That we will regret
Staying in our thoughts
In our hearts so marked
Feelings of disgust
Not seeing the end
By destroying everything
Speaking of nuclear
Promising calvary
Are we going to let it happen?
Crushing him into oblivion
If I even tell myself.

It's night
Too black that's how it is
Marked with tragedy
Grip of tyranny
With a damned man
Who doesn't want to justify
 His non-fraternity
Above all, let us not let
This moron from Moscow
By beating him with one blow
Finding the light
Coming out of hell
Wiping our eyelids
Cries of this madness
I always have it on my mind.

It's night
Will it be finished?
It's night, it's night
Making us worry
Hoping to dream of it
In our hearts of thoughts
Feeling tired
Let's stay upright
 Bringing him to his knees
Wishing it would fail
May hope free us
Of this incendiary moron
Will we be able to do it well?
Destroying him too
That we finally live again.

It's night
It's not finished
Our fear too
By a dirty idiot
It's night
It's night

C'EST LA NUIT - Anti POUTINE N° 2 -

Naive romantic lyrics. The whole rest is harmonies and melodies.

You stare at me intensely 
a bit like you would with a child 
who you think is lying to you 
you simply don't believe me 

Give me a hundred years 
to show you my feelings 
put them to the test of time
but you won't find any traces 
of the passing of time, then wearily
you'll understand that my love 
is not wind

look at me, I defend myself 
with the weapons of a child 
who wants to win your trust 
to steal your heart 


Give me a hundred years 
to cross the oceans 
brave the waves and the torments
so that in the end not a trace 
of this weary time
then you'll know that my love 
is not wind

C'est Pas Du Vent (translated)

Latin Heart

Frida's Wings – The Skeletons
November 2023
Duration: 2:40
Listen to the Playlist: soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/art-expressed-in-music-i
Painting: Frida Kahlo, Four Inhabitants of Mexico (cropped).  Frida pictures herself at 4, with a Judas, a pre-Columbian symbol from Nayarit, and a skeleton.
Music for Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) who will be performing Frida's Wings, a ballet based on the life and works of Frida Kahlo, June 2024 in Colorado.
This piece will also be included in the upcoming “Art Expressed in Music” series.
Thanks to John-Marc Ventimiglia @john-marc-ventimiglia for creating the “rattling bones” sound library
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self portraits and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.  Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. She is also known for painting about her experience of chronic pain. In most of her self-portraits, she depicts her face as mask-like, but surrounded by visual cues which allow the viewer to decipher deeper meanings. Aztec mythology features heavily in Kahlo's paintings in symbols including skeletons and skulls.  In the painting, Dream of The Bed, painted in the year of 1940, Frida expressed her feeling and interception of death, which depicts a skeleton on the canopy of her bed (as she had in her real life). Her husband, Diego Rivera called the Juda, Frida's lover, but Frida said it's just an amusing reminder of people's mortality. Frida Kahlo spent much of her life in pain.  As As a teenager she suffered a horrific bus accident which left her unable to have children and meant she needed more than 30 operations on her spine. Eventually her withered leg had to be amputated and she died at 47. She said in her diary: “Feet, why do I need you, if I have wings to fly”

For guitar, accordion, trumpet, violin, double bass, sound effects and percussion.

Art Expressed in Music - Frida's Wings - The Skeletons

Improbable Company

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 !:)

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

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