"Always Here" is a song cycle that features texts by queer poets from over a century ago. The poems remind us that queer people have always existed, and that their experiences continue to shape our own.

4. Episode (Winifred Bryher, 1920)

3. The Rushlight (Michael Mecredy, 1913)

Adela Florence Nicolson (1865–1904), better known by her pseudonym Laurence Hope, was a British poet who spent much of her life in India. Writing under a male name, she became an international best-seller in the early 1900s. Her collection The Garden of Kama appeared in 1901 (retitled India’s Love Lyrics in its American edition), a book whose framing sometimes implied she was gathering “native” verses rather than writing them herself—what I think of as a kind of “pseudo-Indian” style.

“Kama” translates as “desire,” and I approached these poems through that lens. Their voices inhabit a strange spiritual landscape: at times hopeful and innocent, at others sharp with calculation or disillusionment. My own setting was written during a period of unease, shaped both by the global pandemic and the turbulence surrounding the 2020 U.S. presidential election. That atmosphere inevitably seeped into the music, coloring the way desire, longing, and loss find expression here.

2. You Never Loved Me

1. When First I Loved

5. The Aloe

3. Youth

4. As One May Sip a Stranger's Bowl

Lights of years past (excerpts) III-V(2007)
(Six Haiku for soprano and guitar)
Lyrics: BASHO
III. In the garden
IV. The divine glass
V. Moonlit
Live recording of the premiere, on July 16, 2007, at the Vendsyssel Festival, DK.
performed by: Soprano: Maria Juul Bennedbæk/Guitar: Mikkel Andersen

LIGHTS OF YEARS PAST excerpts(III-V)

Esta música faz parte do meu repertório disponível em https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mCXMEAobXk&list=PLB8G0TYJfS3IBOr1zj4g0m99DkKTFoZpl&index=10

“Call My Name”. Depois de muitas noites a experimentar sons, ecos e texturas, nasceu algo especial. “Call My Name” é uma viagem entre mundos  uma fusão de sons tribais, vozes etéreas e atmosferas que lembram o mistério de Enigma e a serenidade de Enya.
Entre pads profundos, percussões suaves e vozes que sussurram no tempo, esta faixa fala sobre chamar e ser chamado atravessar o fogo, o silêncio e o sonho até encontrar aquela presença que nunca se apaga. “Call My Name” já está disponível nas plataformas digitais.

"Call my name, through the fire, through the storm… I remain."

 É uma música feita para ouvir de olhos fechados, sentir o som expandir-se e deixar-se levar. Deixa o tempo dissolver e a luz entrar. Espero que gostem, tenho mais um par de músicas que irei publicar em breve.

Time dissolves 
 Light remembers
Call my name
Through the fire 
Through the storm
I remain 

In the breath of time 
In the space between 
I feel you move 
Inside the dream
Light between 
Worlds unknown. 
Rise again
In the flow

We are fire 
We are sky 
We are dust 
Passing by
Light light 
Between worlds

Call my name ✨

Esta música faz parte do meu repertório disponível em https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-S6uZAjq8o&list=PLB8G0TYJfS3IBOr1zj4g0m99DkKTFoZpl&index=5

Espero que gostem.

Letra:
[Omnia, lumen, spiralis..]
A breath becomes a dawn unseen,
The soul remembers what has been.

In the silence, truth unfolds,
Ancient rivers turn to gold,
Breath of ages, light concealed,
In the humble heart revealed.

Shine within, not above,
Wisdom speaks in quiet love,
Every dawn, a sacred flame,
We are one, and all the same.

(Gloria, lumen, anima mea)
In the circle, all returns,
Ash to fire, soul that burns.


Echoed voices, dream and dust,
Guide the mind to gentle trust,
What is small is what is pure,
Through surrender, we endure.

Humble is a bliss unknown,
Peace is found when self is gone,
Every breath, the universe,
Every tear, the sacred verse.

(Omnia, lumen, spiralis...)
Round and round, the soul takes flight,
In stillness, we find light.

(Spiralis... lumen... gloria...)
The sound returns to where it starts,
A gentle flame inside all hearts.
(Omnia... omnia...)
Circle of light... awaken again.

Circle of Light ✨ - Music

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"My" repertoire of songs was created with my poems and the use of AI. No commercial intent, just an experiment in delicious uncertainty.

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Louis Aguirre (f. 1968) Cubansk komponist bosiddende i Danmark. Aguirre er uddannet som komponist i Cuba, Amsterdam, men fortsatte studierne efter han flyttede til Danmark i 2004, og afsluttede solistklassen i komposition ved Det jyske Musikkonservatorium i 2007. Aguirre er en stærk og original stemme i dansk musikliv. Hans værkliste, med mere end 200 værker, inkluderer: opera, orkester- og kammermusik, soloværker, vokalmusik, koral-, elektronisk- og didaktisk musik. Han er en aktiv del af musiklivet i Danmark og Nordjylland, bl.a. ved sit arbejde som medlem af komponistgruppen Snow Mask og som kunstnerisk leder af Snow Mask Ensemblet. En række af hans værker er inspirerede af den cubanske Santeria religion og de religiøse tekster fra området.

Graham Yates is an award-winning Canadian composer and pianist based in Austin, Texas. He is regularly commissioned to write works for choirs, soloists, and chamber ensembles, with performances of his music across Canada and the United States. In addition to his composing, Graham is active as a collaborative pianist and co-founded CTC Music Publishing to champion new music by emerging composers. He holds degrees in Piano Performance and Nonprofit Management from Brandon University and Trinity Western University.

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