(Music & Lyrics by Annika Elting
© 2 May 2023
E-guitar, Bass Ukulele, Vocals: Annika Jayne
Cover Art: Annika Jayne, picture taken from Canva

This is my SINGLE submission for the Album Writing Club of 2023. 

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I guess it's true when they say "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned". I was very, very angry at someone, not because they rejected me, but because they were holding me back from making music, so much so that I was starting to lose myself. As scary as that was, it also made me realise that I need songwriting and recording like I need air to breathe. And in this song I make sure that I'm back and more determined than ever. It's like a lot of people say: With all the pain and misery they put me through, they only pushed me towards my destiny. I suppose I should thank them for that.  So instead of channeling my anger into something destructive, I channeled it into creativity.

In Moments Like These

I'm On Fire

I'm On Fire SINGLE ALBUM WRITING CLUB

Man is a song I do with my band Ruby Dawn. This is a take of the song but more like in an experimental sampling way. I've only used the line Man Where's Your Heart and followed a totally different structure mood and emotionality.  I really love experimenting with wordless vocals, or mixing some words in with no language based melodic lines. This way the music remains universal, and I can express an emotion without articulating it in any language.  Man is made of mostly harmonic voices and instrumentation. 

All parts recorded performed played and mixed by Carola Baer

Written, performed and produced by Ian Allison.

From the Marzihu EP 'Four Minute Warning' – a snapshot of the lives of four people at the moment of the Four MInute Warning. 'Sysiphus' is the story of a woman whose relationship is ending due to relentless, monotonous, unsupported, thankless domesticity. Told in the style of HP Lovecraft/Geezer Butler… Lyrics:

Have you… ever been to a dark place?
A place of promises and lies?
She sits, all alone with the vaccuum,
It’s where her hopelessness resides.
Her dreams feel like ashes in the morning,
She dusts the dust, to earth it must return.
She waits for an absent invitation,
Ignores the place… where fires used to burn.

Now even Sysiphus must die!

Sysiphus

The Kiss of the Enchantress 

High up in the Sierra			
both sides are terrified			
It’s so hot in here 				
the snow waits outside 		

Sweat drips from the ceiling
Blood slips on the floor 	
Fear takes its icy grip		
The wolf is at the door		

Release me from this fever		
Release me from this spell		
High up on a snowy mountain 	
But my angel fell				

Like a Murnau movie 			
Monochrome and vivid red 	
The Kiss of the Enchantress 
An evil crown on your head

KISS OF THE ENCHANTRESS

Gil Barco is the story of a ghostly attendant at this abandoned garage. 

Fun fact: her name came from the make of the middle pump.

v1 - instrumental (lead guitar over acoustic)
v2 - 
dont loiter here
dont interfere
From the girl on the inside you dont deserve a smile
Shes made it clear

v3
she's watching through the glass
But wont even think to ask
Through the window with the shelves full with clutter that she sells
And time will pass

spooky instrumental

v4 - instrumental (lead guitar over acoustic)
v5 - 
There's so much that isn't known
It seems we are forever closed
Attended service is denied so will you kindly step aside
It's time to go

v6 -
so Gil Barco thinks she'll stay
maybe just another day
she doesn't yet believe that it's impossible to leave
she cannot say

spook

m8 - 
a whisper through the peeling paint 
bleached by sun and soaked by rain
And though he seems to stare right through 
she hopes he'll ride this way again

spook

motorbike arrives
shop door attention bell tinkles

Gil Barco (awc unmastered)

Nite T

Collide

Original composition. The song depicts an intense uncovering and hunting for lost time.

Message: Be disciplined in life, uncover what is important in life, use time wisely, and not just being caught up with busyness.

Enjoy! Marako

The Quest for Time

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The Quest for Time

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