Name: A Sound At Night by TSM
Duration: 2 min 16 s
Description: A short dramatic song about a late-night visit. I hope you enjoy it!

what a gorgeous piece - wonderful! ♥🎵

I do break for New Age themes. Loved this one.

What a beautiful song. Your arrangement is fantastic. I need to hear more music from you.💫

Great and captivating music! Wonderfully beautiful voice!

Beautiful composition!  I love the bits of dissonance!

A short dramatic song about a late-night visit. I hope you enjoy it!

A Sound At Night

For many years, an amateur theatre group from my hometown, in which a friend of mine also performs, has been putting on a fairy tale every Christmas season.
This year’s play is “Hans im Glück” (Hans in Luck), and I was asked to compose and produce the title song for it.
Since this is a charity project, with all proceeds going to support children’s causes, it was an easy and heartfelt “yes” for me. ❤️
Together with MiLu Lotus, I created a danceable, clap-along song that’s feelgood, fun, and child-friendly, yet carries a meaningful message inspired by the story of Hans im Glück. I am very grateful that she sang this song with me. Thank you so much, MiLu! 💜
I hope you enjoy this slightly different song from me, sung in German.
You can find the English translation of the lyrics below. 🎶

Here is the video:

https://youtu.be/_1PbBcEgqwE?si=UDO8Vb6EcFfp947q



Es ist nicht alles Gold

Er ging mit Gold, doch ohne Lächeln,
der Weg war weit, der Schritt war schwer.
Was glänzt, blieb fremd in seinen Händen –
als ob da noch was andres wär.

Er tauschte Gold für etwas Ruhe,
für Schritte ohne Druck und Ziel.
Er nahm nur mit, was leicht geworden,
und ließ zurück, was ihm zu viel.

Es ist nicht alles Gold, was glänzt,
nicht alles wahr, was du erkennst.
Was du verlierst, kann dich befreien,
der Weg wird leichter ohne Stein.

Kein Zögern, keine großen Fragen,
kein Rechnen, was ihm bleiben muss.
Er nahm das Leichte in den Tagen
und ließ das Schwere einfach los.

Er kam nach Haus mit leeren Händen,
doch niemand nahm, was er gewann.
Was andre suchten, ließ er liegen –
und ging mit leichtem Herzen dann.

Es ist nicht alles Gold, was glänzt,
nicht alles wahr, was du erkennst.
Was du verlierst, kann dich befreien,
der Weg wird leichter ohne Stein.

Und du – was trägst du durch dein Leben?
Was hält dich fest, was macht dich klein?
Vielleicht ist Loslassen kein Fehlen,
vielleicht kann frei sein einfach sein.

Es ist nicht alles Gold, was glänzt,
nicht alles wahr, was du erkennst.
Was du verlierst, kann dich befreien,
der Weg wird leichter ohne Stein.

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Not Everything That Glitters Is Gold


He walked with gold but without a smile,
the road was long, his steps were slow.
What shone felt foreign in his hands –
as if there was something more to know.

He traded gold for a bit of peace,
for steps without a goal or strain.
He only kept what had grown lighter,
and left behind what brought him pain.

Not everything that glitters is gold,
not everything you see is true.
What you lose might set you free,
the road feels lighter without the stone you threw.

No hesitation, no great questions,
no counting what he had to keep.
He took the lightness of his days
and let the heavy things just sleep.

He came back home with empty hands,
but no one took what he had found.
What others sought, he left behind 
and walked with heart unbound.

Not everything that glitters is gold,
not everything you see is true.
What you lose might set you free,
the road feels lighter without the stone you threw.

And you – what do you carry through your life?
What holds you down, what makes you small?
Perhaps letting go is not a loss –
perhaps to be free is all.

Not everything that glitters is gold,
not everything you see is true.
What you lose might set you free,
the road feels lighter without the stone you threw.

Es ist nicht alles Gold

Nice to have a song featuring Kevin (Gibbons) on vocals!

1. Not so long ago,
I thought that i was happy on my own.
Feeling no connection
Convinced me I was better all alone.

Chorus
Then I reached out,
Didn't know  that I could have such feelings
When I reached out,
I saw a door, I saw a new beginning.

2. This prison, self-imposed
A captive in the walls of my mind
'If I could just escape
There would be contentment to find.

Chorus

Instrumental

Bridge
Seems to me
What I'm saying
Life is a state of mind.
It's up to you how you live
You can change it, anytime.

Chorus


Wigmore: Music, Production
Gibbons: Lyrics and vocals

Then I Reached Out

Situé dans une représentation fictive de l'Islande médiévale, "Les Sagas de Windholm" de Erik Upper, est composé de quatre histoires qui imitent les éléments communs aux traditions culturelles et littéraires de l'Islande au Moyen Âge, principalement pensez à l'épopée Vikings, mais avec moins de raids et plus de douceur dans l'écriture. 
Cette approche musicale pourrait soutenir cette saga dans son ensemble et permettre de deviner les contours, de cette histoire plutôt fascinante ….

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Set in a fictional representation of medieval Iceland, Erik Upper's “The Sagas of Windholm” consists of four stories that mimic elements common to Iceland's cultural and literary traditions in the Middle Ages, mainly reminiscent of Vikings epics, but with fewer raids and a gentler tone. 
This musical approach could support the saga as a whole and allow us to guess at the contours of this rather fascinating story ....

The Return To Windholm ....

This composition will be my last post for the year, and would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Blessed and Happy Christmas, and may all your wishes come true for the New Year.....

Art picture is by IIbrahim Gueatar on Unsplash...

Bagatelle opus 15

A special tribute to the band America , My version of ( This is for all the lonely people )

This is for all the Lonely People (Tribute to the band America)

A 2025 rendition of the classic, Greensleeves

Greensleeves (2025 Version)

7 days to Christmas and we're uploading a darker, challenging song, not quite anti-Christmas, more like an awareness exercise.
Mental health over the holiday season creates some challenges for the season.
A curated version of the song is up on YouTube at the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gocDRLXqh4

Lyrics:

Behind (Not Your Usual Christmas Song)

Verse 1
 
The road is long, got some twists and turns
Got some elevation, I can see the world around
And sometimes, sometimes, it's not as pretty
As the music seems to suggest
Sometimes it's pretty ugly
Makes you want to turn around and leave this world
Behind 

Verse 2

The road is long,
It's got some twists and turns
Takes you through the valleys,
You lose your way ahead.
Sometimes, sometimes it's not as pretty
As our FB posts and selfies seem to suggest
Sometimes, it's pretty, pretty ugly, 
Makes you want to fall to the ground, curl up
And leave this world
Behind
And leave this world behind
leave it all behind
leave it all behind

Wigmore: Lyrics, Vocals, Music, Production
Allen: Guitars, Bass, Additional Vocals

Behind  (Not your usual Christmas Song)

so anyway.....i finally did my laundry  🙃

_______________________________________________

Bleach

Hey everyone,
thanks for being here and for listening.
It’s been a while since I last released a song. Some things needed time, and this one took its own pace before it felt right to share.
Still Somehow sits between memory and the present. The song reflects on a love that has ended without fully disappearing. Not as open pain and not as longing, but as a quiet awareness that some connections continue to linger.
It’s neither a classic love song nor a factual analysis of a failed relationship. Instead, it’s a calm look at what remains after letting go, and at the things we carry with us without holding on.

The track was created as a collaboration with Janne Hennie. Working together gave the song its balance between closeness and distance, between emotion and clarity. Thank you so much, Janne!
Check out more of Jannes' incredibly beautiful music here:
https://on.soundcloud.com/GS66YmTxO15uZEt4vc

Still Somehow is a song for quiet moments and for thoughts that don’t need closure.


Still Somehow

I don’t look for you anymore,
but sometimes I still feel you near.
In little things — a word, a song,
the way the air gets soft this time of year.
It doesn’t hurt, not really —
it just reminds me we were real.

I´ve learned to live with empty rooms,
to leave the light on just in case.
I tell myself I’ve closed that door,
but some nights I still see your face.

It fades before I call your name,
but not before I feel the same.

Still somehow,
you live inside the quiet.
Still somehow,
your name feels like home.
We let it go,
we both moved on —
but love like ours
doesn’t really go.
I met someone, he’s kind and calm,
he laughs like you, but not as free.
And when he holds me close at night,
sometimes I wish that you could see —
not out of longing, just because
you’d understand what that still does.

I tell my friends I’m fine these days,
they never ask too much of me.
But when the rain hits hard at night,
I find your ghost in melody.
Not haunting — just familiar,
like breathing in old light.

Still somehow
you live inside the quiet.
Still somehow,
you never really fade.
It’s not a wound,
it’s not regret —
it’s love that stayed
where words forget.

I thought we’d end.
I thought I’d heal.
But some things time
just doesn’t steal.
I wouldn’t change it,
I wouldn’t try.
We said goodbye —
but not inside.

Still somehow,
after all this time,
you’re part of every quiet rhyme.
We let it go,
we learned to stay —
but still somehow

we love that way

Still Somehow

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A Sound At Night

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