Eleven traditionals about heavy hearts, green laurels and soft dew. Recorded and mixed by Nicholas O'Brien at Upcycled Sounds, Paris
Mastered by Barry Teehan at Safire Studio, Amsterdam

Laurels

Green grow the laurels

Summer Sundays - Acoustic

Last track of my album Laurels (2014). It's a Robert Burns song that I knew from Scottish singer Karine Polwart. I accompany myself on the mbira, which I play while holding it onto a piano in which the microphones were hung (for more such good ideas, get yourself recorded at Upcycled Sounds). You can hear or even buy the whole album on Bandcamp: http://sophieterschure.bandcamp.com

Recorded and mixed by Nicholas O'Brien at Upcycled Sounds, Paris
Mastered by Barry Teehan at Safire Studio, Amsterdam
Photograph by Jack Durtnall at Palais de Tokyo, Paris :)

http://upcycledsounds.eu

The lea rig (final song of my new album Laurels!)

Fairy Lights

For everyone who has to celebrate Christmas after losing someone.

When I just had become a mother, I stayed with my parents for a few days so they could help me with the baby at night. It was May or June then, as it is now, and I was admiring all the wild flowers around my parents' house. I was really worried about climate change and the world that I had brought my baby into - would he know all the flowers that grew around me when I grew up? Would they still be there when he was my age? I felt helpless and that's when I wrote this song. I've realized since that it makes me feel more hopeful if I come into action. But back then, I felt like my voice didn't matter. And I'm still afraid. But hopefully if we all come into action, we can prevent the worst.

Thistle

(c) Sophie Janna 2018
Demo recorded by Pieter van Vliet who also added some synth :) 
Lyrics with some love from Kay, Sanne and Eva at KONIJN festival, August 2018

Put up your tent beneath the glowing of the starlight
Reminds me of a year ago
We had to make our camp out in the total darkness
Right in the middle we didn't know

Now I wonder where you are while you're not sleeping in my bed
Put your arms round someone else, tell me where you lay your head

The trees are arrows pointing up towards the night sky
And I wish that you were here
To tell me names of planets, stars & constellations
And make my worries disappear

Now I wonder where you are while you're not sleeping in my bed
Put your arms round someone else, tell me where you lay your head
And I wish you could have tried a little harder to be mine
I gave you all I had and my heart was on the line
Now I wonder where you are while you're not sleeping in my bed
Put your arms round someone else, tell me where you lay your head

I fall asleep surrounded by the conversations
Of other lovers holding tight
With no one else you'd sleep so well but me beside you
And I'm lost without your hand in mine 

Now I wonder where you are while you're not sleeping in my bed
Put your arms round someone else, tell me where you lay your head
Now I wonder where you are while you're not sleeping in my bed
Put your arms round someone else, tell me where you lay your head

Beneath The Starlight

Jen Lason is the archivist for the Grand Ol Opry. She's also a well known guitarist/singer in bluegrass. She discusses her performance and non-performance careers with Howard Parker.

Jen Larson, G.O.O Archivist Chats With Howard Parker

vocals, lyrics & music by Sophie Janna 
backing vocals, synth & sound design by Hannah Jacobs
arranged, recorded, produced & mixed by Upcycled Sounds
mastered by Felix Davis at Metropolis London

Wide World

Vocals Sophie Janna
Violin Joseph O'Keefe 
Guitar and drums Nicholas O'Brien
Lyrics & music Sophie Janna

Nightfall

Starlight

Sophie Janna toured the world with her duo The Lasses before she dared to share her own songs on the stage. Vulnerable, honest and captivating, Sophie Janna’s songs deal with being a soft human in a concrete world.

The lea rig (final song of my new album Laurels!)

Sophie Janna

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