Piano - Bittersweet Melancholy...

Another collaboration with Yann Vienne, merging lyrical prose, or poetry, with piano. For me, a sublime combination that I hope you enjoy as well.

Music/piano: Peter Bennborn
Lyrics/vocals: Yann Vienne (https://soundcloud.com/non-sapiens, https://soundcloud.com/non-sapiens-and-ko)

Lyrics:

Sitting here in your old red chair,
The one dating back to your school days, When you used to have hair,
You look around, at the time that's left... At life passing,
You walk back the track inside your mind, looking for traces, looking...
Games and laughter, looks and sun shedding gold,
Smiles and sighs, the fire after, the dead and the old,
It's just fall at play, twining round your heart,
As in a drunken dream, you relive your part,
Looking for the pieces scattered in the rain,
Looking for your reason as one looking for a train...
1971... 1982... 1991... 2002...
Not afraid of getting old, not scared... of going away but try as you will...
You'd like to come back, and leave, and break away from time standing still...
Slightly nostalgic, you're mostly confused,
So little magic and moments left to lose,
It's just fall at play, twining round your heart,
As in a drunken dream, you relive your part,
Looking for the pieces scattered in the rain,
Looking for your reason as one looking for a train...
Sitting here in your old red chair, you smile and sing
And try to grab here too at that elusive thing...
You look up high, you search the endless skies,
Search for life a passing and eternity in disguise...

Life Passing (feat. Yann Vienne)

TPC Four Chord Challenge (G Minor, D Minor, Eb Major, F Major)

A sketch, inspired by the season, remembering loss...

Composed and played by Peter Bennborn

Remembrance

When Noemie approached me about adding vocals to my solo piano track "Insignificant" I was delighted, expecting her to make the track her own - and she did. Beautifully done, Noemie - you have a unique talent.

Enjoy!

Music/piano: Peter Bennborn
Vocal melody/vocals/lyrics: Noemie Costa (https://soundcloud.com/kosmi-1)

Mixed & Mastered: Peter Bennborn

Lyrics:

HOW SHALL I EVER FIND A WAY
WHAT IF I EVER GO ASTRAY
DO WE KNOW WHERE TO GO
WHEN THE SUN WON’T RISE ANY MORE
WILL YOU SHOW ME THE WAY
WILL YOU BRING THE LIGHT
AND BE MY EYES
IF I GO BLIND, IF I GROW WILD
I GUESS I’LL HAVE TO FOLLOW THE STARS
TO GUIDE ME THROUGH
THE DARK TO THE BRIGHT
NOW I KNOW WHERE TO GO
WHEN THE SUN WON’T RISE ANY MORE
WILL YOU SHOW ME THE WAY
AND TAKE ME OUT OF THIS NIGHT
IF I GO BLIND, IF I GROW WILD


Astray (Bennborn/Kosmee Project)

What keeps us together? Let Noémie's mesmerizing vocals guide you on an inspired journey towards an answer. 

Music: Noémie Costa & Peter Bennborn 

Vocals: Noémie Costa (https://soundcloud.com/kosmi-1)
All instruments: Peter Bennborn

Mixed & Mastered by Peter Bennborn & Noémie Costa 


Together As One (Bennborn/Kosmee Project)

The Truth Is In The Pain

A mist horn, calling from the fog...whatever lays ahead...whatever fate has in store

Simplicity, essence, capturing fleeting beauty...

A trio - three temperaments - juxtaposing father (on clarinet) and daughter (on violin), embraced by me (on piano). 

Composition: Peter Bennborn
Mixed & mastered: Peter Bennborn

Piano: Peter Bennborn 
Clarinet: Michel Martineau (@michel-martineau)
Violin: Charlotte Martineau


Another Twist Of Fate (ft. Charlotte & Michel Martineau)

Composition: Peter Bennborn
Grand Piano: Peter Bennborn

Saudade

Listen on Spotify

Left to Desire

Ingenuity

Unrehearsed improvisation, played only once and recorded a cold December night in 1993.

A 20 sqm apartment in second-hand, just having broken up with and moved out from my girlfriend...not particularly sober...the perfect setup for "flow".

Enjoy my misery ;-)!

Valse Triste (piano improvisation)

Thoughts About Leaving You

Composed 1989, recorded 1997, remixed 2010!

Paola's Theme

A simple piano piece...came from nothing, no reflection, no afterthought, just there and then...

Insignificant

An impromptu solo piano piece...Life Passing...live it!

Music/Piano: Peter Bennborn

Life Passing

For me, the purest form conveying emotion with an instrument might be piano or cello. 

Let me present to you a meeting between two temperaments; Corsican female cello and Swedish male piano, expressing how we feel at the end of... a relationship? Life?

Based on my track "At the End", Luliby (https://soundcloud.com/luliby) composed a beautiful cello melody, hence our piece "l'Ultimu" ("At the End" in Corsican).

Enjoy!

l'Ultimu (feat. Luliby cello)

A minute of your life well spent ;-)!

Composed and played by Peter Bennborn

130519: Extended!

Une Minute Dans La Vie

Some time ago I got inspired to write a short piece reflecting the time that the listener, you, took to listen to the song, to stop and reflect - for a minute of your life.

Yann got inspired by this moment in time to reflect on the longing for love and the moment you find it. 

This is a collaboration of  Yann's words, vocals and my music. French is truly the language of love and passion...for life! Feel it...enjoy the moment. 

See the visual expression as well: http://youtu.be/RJmqOR6-b_c

Piano: Peter Bennborn
Vocals/Lyrics: Yann Vienne: https://soundcloud.com/non-sapiens

Mixed & Mastered: Peter Bennborn

Lyrics:

Tant de temps... Tant de tendresse à tenter...
Pour toi... Te pouvoir tenir, te toucher sans compter...
Ces heures qui sucent le cœur sans une âme-sœur,
Seul éperdu, et perdu en une tempête perpétuelle et pourtant ténue, tu sais...
Tu sais les siècles essaient mais ne cessent,
Sans issue...
Et toi, tu sens... En moi, en moi là, cet émoi si...
Une minute dans la vie...

J'attends cette minute tant, cet instantané,
Battement comme hébétement qui se sait condamné,
Soixante secondes dansantes dansent sans discontinuer,
L'essence de ton absence, tant de sens, dénué,
Naissances d'arborescences, cent mille présences,
Tu sens en toi cet étau si...
Une minute dans la vie.	

So much time... So much tenderness to try...
For you... To be able to hold you, touch you, not counting...
All those hours that suck at your heart, with no soulmate,
Alone and madly in love and lost in a neverending storm yet so faint, you know...
You know the centuries try but never stop,
No way out...
And you, you can feel... In me, right here in me, this emotion so... A minute in your life...

Waiting and yearning for that minute, that snapshot in time,
A beating pulse like a stupor aware of one's own end,
Sixty dancing seconds, dancing without cease,
The essence of your absence, such meaning, bereft,
Births of trees and branches, myriads of spirits,
You can feel inside now, such a grip...
A minute in your life.

Une Minute Dans La Vie (Peter Bennborn & Yan Vienne)

Piano is my instrument, inspired by the world. Sounds like whatever I like, intent on a cool vibe, often somewhere in between Swedish melancholy and Brazilian bittersweetness... 

Peter Bennborn Project is a diverse musical experience ranging from romantic piano ballads to alternative indie metal rock and everything in between, but for country and reggae so far...

The music is either performed alone or in worldwide collaborations, wherever the appropriate musician for the task is located - no limitations and no limits in a borderless world... 

SoundCloud collaborators (from Sweden, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, Canada, USA, Cuba, South Africa, Dubai, India, Philippines, Australia):
Vocals; https://soundcloud.com/michelle-yaneza, https://soundcloud.com/neisy-wilson, https://soundcloud.com/jogoldie, https://soundcloud.com/vapmok, https://soundcloud.com/nazneen-1, https://soundcloud.com/just-andre, https://soundcloud.com/kosmi-1, https://soundcloud.com/milanazilnik, https://soundcloud.com/michael-obadja, https://soundcloud.com/markexander, https://soundcloud.com/vocalatti, https://soundcloud.com/steveferguson, https://soundcloud.com/vocalatti, https://soundcloud.com/ruud-lockefeir, https://soundcloud.com/padruna
Drums; https://soundcloud.com/walter-w-kelleher, https://soundcloud.com/powerhell, https://soundcloud.com/manuel-muzzu, https://soundcloud.com/moodymo
Bass; https://soundcloud.com/jonnytrobrobass, https://soundcloud.com/vladaroo, https://soundcloud.com/manuel-muzzu, https://soundcloud.com/stringburner
Guitars; https://soundcloud.com/danieleturani, https://soundcloud.com/flohbold, https://soundcloud.com/raphaelgtr, https://soundcloud.com/single_espresso, https://soundcloud.com/jerry-kramskoy-1, https://soundcloud.com/lando-orz, https://soundcloud.com/derek-cornett, https://soundcloud.com/robertdahlstrom, https://soundcloud.com/danarchx
Horns; https://soundcloud.com/dave-mckeown, https://soundcloud.com/waynemorley, https://soundcloud.com/michel-martineau, https://soundcloud.com/jomama-2, https://soundcloud.com/the-ewi-master
Vibraphone: https://soundcloud.com/cocogdiez
Keys; https://soundcloud.com/martinmusic-1, https://soundcloud.com/balammusic, https://soundcloud.com/benjamin_meilink, https://soundcloud.com/johan-rigner
Remix/Drum Programming; https://soundcloud.com/mixed_meta4
Lyrics; https://soundcloud.com/jaime0223, https://soundcloud.com/non-sapiens

https://soundcloud.com/bitbybeat

Enjoy!

Influences: Acid Jazz, Bossa Nova/Latin, Classical; Early inspirations; Satie, Debussy, Ravel, Rachmaninov, Narada Michael Walden, Level 42, Ultravox, Incognito, Shakatak, George Duke, Stanley Clarke, Jay Graydon/David Foster, Quincy Jones