A live performance of my original composition 'Renaissance of Us', inspired by the style of a classical waltz.

Composed and performed by Vikki.

Renaissance of Us

Live recording of my original composition 'Porcelain & Wine'

Composed and performed by Vikki

Porcelain & Wine

Live recording of my original composition 'For You (After Dark)

Composed and performed by Vikki

For You (After Dark)

Live recording of my original composition 'Winter Eventide'

Composed and performed by Vikki

November 2021

#piano #chillout #relaxation 

Winter Eventide

To Cassiopeia - ocean of stars

An original piano composition performed by VWC Poetry & Music

#ambient #piano #cosmos 

To Cassiopeia - ocean of stars

Alabaster Love - a piano improvization by Vikki

Alabaster Love

'Denouement' was originally written on the piano to accompany a poem of the same name. I later had the pleasure of working with songwriter and guitarist Matt Guntrip who added his stunning guitar to the track. I feel that the guitar has truly elevated the piece by accentuating the nuances of the story in a powerful way. 

I hope you enjoy this "music-spoken word" landscape which aims to bring home the sentiments of love and life endured across the passage of time. 

'Denouement' piano and poem - written and performed by VWC Poetry & Music

Guitar and production - Matt Guntrip

Do check out more of Matt's beautiful music: Matt Guntrip 7-9 on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/jrV6M

Cover art by Vikki

11th July, 2022

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Lyrics (by VWC Poetry & Music): 


Denouement

I want to be there, in your broken reflection
the one that haunts you after the end
maybe we were right then but now we're wrong

like stirring pale clouds into steeped tea
just an illusion of something far away
married into an unextraordinary routine

but it is vital, this milk of memory
makes life mildly bearable
when I stare in the mirror, I see you madly in love, still

you see me, a Plath poem pressed to my heaving chest
a girl you once knew, now trapped in her own mind:
a library of stories belonging to others,
vellichor draped over an aloneness that defies poetic justice
the window left open to a perpetual sunset

a sleeper train interrupts the horizon
it carries the cargo of absence
across a long and winding road
to some fool's paradise with no name

along those boundless fields, we walked
there, time is a quicksilver bullet, then gone
light dissipating everywhere but here
I accept that now, silent all these years

how love changes even in the aftermath
its death, sudden and swift, so the stories go

I'm going home now
maybe the mourning will end after the dirge
but my black heart will always believe in its ghost

...and I confess, what remains, is quietly startling.
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#piano #poetry #guitar




Denouement (with Matt Guntrip, guitar)

7 Days To Utopia was written on the piano with a future dystopian narrative in mind. Such a world instils in each of us the desire to be the hero/heroine of our destiny but also vulnerable and compassionate with the need to be saved - fragile threads of the human condition which we hope will persist through the ages to come. 

There is a certain saudade which haunts - a need to be loved without the pain of such commitment. The question remains as to whether humanity will rise above this existential crisis or whether an inferior appetite for hedonism will prevail. 

Although the scenario may be fictional, I think it retains and serves to amplify the pivotal qualities of humanity as we know it today. 

I hope you enjoy this musical interpretation composed on the piano with strings and percussion, aimed at capturing the "live" atmosphere of an auditorium (or perhaps an old ruin damaged in the battles that preceded such event....)

Thank you for listening...

Vikki C.

Piano, lyrics, vocals and production by Vikki

#ballad #rock #piano #soundtrack #film #dystopian 





7 Days To Utopia

A reading of my poem 'Atlas' which was published by Black Bough Poetry in their anthology 'A Duet Of Ghosts - Poets in Conversation' (October, 2022).

Piano: The Path To Gloaming - written and performed by Vikki 

'Atlas' - written and read by Vikki

Amaranthine

Written and performed by Vikki C.
A soundtrack to accompany a cosmos of stories that transcend worlds lost, found and reimagined. 

#piano #strings #cinematic 

Amaranthine - soundtrack

Pictures (G minor) - Vikki C. & Debora Ewing

Lyrics: Debora Ewing
Piano: composed & performed by Vikki C.
Vocals: Vikki C.
 
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Tangled up in what I didn’t want to say
Why do people need to say things anyway?
Could I trade my soul with half the pages torn?
Where's the good in that? 

Found a double eagle, threw it in the lake
Never would have made a fortune anyway
only would have held it ‘til the edge was worn
Lost it in my pocket, in fact.

Picture me between a dream & truth
Broken either way, but sadder without you
I’ll take what I can get in dopamine
If I find you in my waking dream
If I find you in my waking dream

Now’s already mourning as the signals fade
Should we pour another glass of lemonade? 
You’re so far away; is there a different script? 
There’s no holiness in this

Pawnshops, salad beets, chainsaws in a holy tree
All these things are magic, these things you’ve given me
A bird bath in the winter for an early autumn crocus
or how I knocked the fan out of Jenny’s diplodocus
not a proposition, nothing’s carved in stone
here's my only sacrifice: I only know alone

(Instrumental)

Words are often traitors so I’ll let them go
Just a scrap of paper, then, to let you know
Pictures fall like golden leaves on city streets
Take a picture when you think of me

There is something holy in that.
There is something holy in that.
There is something holy in that.
There is something holy in that....





Pictures in G minor (acoustic demo) - Vikki C. & Debora Ewing

Original piano composition to accompany a poem of the same name...

#pianoday 

Water Babies (World Piano Day 2023)

New Age Reflections

A piece inspired by a memory of the sea, at Polzeath specifically....but really, water merges, moves and touches everything - so it is about *your sea. 

🎹 Written and performed by Vikki C. Music

#piano #ocean #lovesong 

Ocean Child

Ballad For Estranged Lovers

A piece inspired by a poem I wrote called 'By Heart'. Dedicated to the liminal spaces between then and now. Echoes of a lost era.

🎹 written and performed by Vikki

Ballad For Estranged Lovers

🎹 written and performed by Vikki C. 

An orchestral version with violins for a more cinematic atmosphere.

21st Century Odyssey (piano & violin version)

An experimental piece inspired by a poem of the same name. Words, vocals and music by Vikki. 

Letters From A Ghost City

Original soundtrack for A Crossroad South Of Utopia - a story by Vikki C. published in Ice Floe Press (Geographies 2022 project)

Featuring two tracks written and performed by Vikki C. 

1) What Chopin Told Me
2) A Crossroad South Of Utopia (main theme)


🎨 Cover artwork by Robert Frede Kenter, EIC at Ice Floe Press


July 2023


A Crossroad South Of Utopia (Original soundtrack)

In Spite Of Us (spoken word set to original music)

Another beautiful collaboration with Deb Ewing 🎶

Lyrics: Deb Ewing
Piano composition and vocals: Vikki C.

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If I Could Give You Wings

A photograph in sepia, a thoughtful little boy
one hand in his father's, the other holds a toy
a window to the sun, a place that's always bright
but wind and rain are in your eyes tonight.

Never one to battle if you've got a thing to say
you listen like a soldier in your quiet, gentle way
shoulders hum with tension like the calm before the storm
gathered thoughts like crickets in a swarm

(chorus)

I can see you thinking - I don't want to interfere
I wonder where you go when you're not here
somewhere in your smile there's a boy you used to be
If I could give you wings I'd set you free

(bridge)

Every boy wants to fly
build a plane or climb a tree
choices made, bills to pay, sensibility

You have climbed so many walls
conquered hills & slept in halls
sometimes you're still a boy to me

(instrumental)

You told me once nobody ever understands your soul
that might be true, but I really want to know
I'd paint your portrait in repose, a tacit acrobat
there's room enough inside your heart for that

(chorus)

I can see you thinking - I don't want to interfere
I wonder where you go when you're not here
somewhere in your smile there's a boy you used to be
If I could give you wings I'd set you free

Yeah I would set you free
yeah I would set you free...

baby...



Boy (If I Could Give You Wings) - Vikki C. & Deb Ewing

Pictures - Vikki C. & Debora Ewing

Lyrics by Debora Ewing
Music written & performed by Vikki C.
Vocals: Vikki C.
Cover art 🎨: Debora Ewing


Pictures 

Tangled up in what I didn’t want to say
Why do people need to say things anyway?
Could I trade my soul with half the pages torn?
Where's the good in that? 

Found a double eagle, threw it in the lake
Never would have made a fortune anyway
only would have held it ‘til the edge was worn
Lost it in my pocket, in fact.


(Chorus)

Picture me between a dream & truth
Broken either way, but sadder without you
I’ll take what I can get in dopamine
If I find you in my waking dream
If I find you in my waking dream

Now’s already mourning as the signals fade
Should we pour another glass of lemonade? 
You’re so far away; is there a different script? 
There’s no holiness in this


(Bridge)

Pawnshops, salad beets, chainsaws in a holy tree
All these things are magic, these things you’ve given me
A bird bath in the winter for an early autumn crocus
or how I knocked the fan out of Jenny’s diplodocus
not a proposition, nothing’s carved in stone
here's my only sacrifice: I only know alone


(Instrumental)

Words are often traitors so I’ll let them go
Just a scrap of paper, then, to let you know
Pictures fall like golden leaves on city streets
Take a picture when you think of me

There is something holy in that.
There is something holy in that.
There is something holy in that.
There is something holy in that....





PICTURES alt version - Vikki C. & Deb Ewing

Reverie in G - an improvisation by Vikki 

Reverie in G

l'amour tragique

Night bloom

The Dormant Miracle

Ice Floe Press (Cassandra Chorale)

Poem and music (Night Bloom): Vikki C.(c) 2023/4

Cover image: Robert Frede Kenter (c) 2024. 


Read the published written version at Ice Floe Press: 
https://icefloepress.net/because-love-is-an-abstract-noun-a-city-falls-invisibly-a-poem-and-spoken-word-piece-w-music-vikki-c-in-collaboration-w-robert-frede-kenter-image/

Because love is an abstract noun, a city falls invisibly – Ice Floe Press (Cassandra Chorale)

'My Death Poem' written by Lisa @LisaAlletson - read for #ReadMeSpeakMe 78 #SpokenWord #Poetry

Live performance of a piece inspired by an ongoing love affair with London...where else? x

Composed and performed by Vikki 

Waking In London (A Love Theme)

Musician, poet, author. I create poetic cameos of life through the heart of a piano and the occasional song or poem. 

I also compose music to accompany my spoken word pieces and have collaborated with various artists in this genre.

All compositions, improvizations and cover art are original works unless otherwise stated. I hope you enjoy the journey. 🎹

All rights reserved.

My latest poetry collection 'Where Sands Run Finest' is available here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1738273407?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520&s=09

My debut poetry collection 'The Art Of Glass Houses' is available here:
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Glass-Houses-Vikki-C/dp/B0BMT39BPG#aw

Thank you for your support 💙

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