Dawn

using a Native American flute, steel tongue drum (D Celtic minor, pentatonic), small Celtic harp and voice for this one...

Falling Leaves... (an autumnal waltz)

just a random vocal recording session...all voices mine...and a bit of reverb...

Mourning...

From my new album "Voices from the Woods" - out now on Bandcamp: https://valdkynd.bandcamp.com/album/voices-from-the-woods

A German neofolk-song with describing a fascinating nightly dance of fairy creatures in the middle of the forest, expressing the spectator's longing to stay with them...to become one with nature again...

lyrics:
Irrlichterreigen

Sie schweben und gleiten,
ein Irrlichterreigen bei Nacht…
Sie tanzen und geigen,
ein Irrlichterreigen durchwacht…

Sie leuchten und tanzen mit Kaefern und Wanzen,
mit grossen und kleinen mit Fluegeln und Beinen,
und schneller und schneller, ihr Licht immer greller,
rundum und im Kreise, erst laut, dann ganz leise,
sie kichern und fluestern, mit Muendern und Nuestern,
die weissen Gewaender, das Haar voller Baender,
mit Koboldgesichtern und gruenlichen Lichtern,
im naechtlichen Walde, es daemmert schon balde…
Noch singen sie Lieder und biegen die Glieder,
die Welt ohne Sorgen, die Nacht ohne Morgen…

Was wuerde ich geben…mit ihnen zu leben…!

Sie schweben und gleiten, ein Irrlichterreigen bei Nacht…
Sie tanzen und geigen, ein Irrlichterreigen durchwacht…
bei Nacht… bei Nacht… bei Nacht.

credits:
from Voices from the Woods, released December 12, 2022
vocals, harp, lyrics, composition: Syl
mixing and mastering: Frank

Voices from the Woods

Irrlichterreigen

From my new album "Voices from the Woods" - out now on Bandcamp: valdkynd.bandcamp.com/album/voices-from-the-woods

A prayer for the future after humankind has gone... A future in which we have not taken all life with us, a future in which nature can thrive and breathe again, a future in which human suffering and joy are but a memory blowing in the wind and over-grown with plant-life...

lyrics:

Once we're gone…
Once we're gone…
life will take over…
ruins over-grown
and only memories of laughter
blowing in the wind…

Once we're gone…
green will take over…
cities over-grown
and only memories of violence
rusting in the air…

Once we're gone…
wilderness will blossom…
highways over-grown
and only memories of traffic
fading in the grass…

Once we're gone…
animals will wander
bridges over-grown…
and only memories of humans
buried in the ground…

credits:

from Voices from the Woods, released December 12, 2022
vocals, harp, kalimba, composition, lyrics: Syl
mixing and mastering: Frank

Once we're gone...

Winterlegend is an album featuring 7 themes extracted as songs which also are used for the soundtrack of the long 8th track, which carries a narrated story of winter an oneness, the journey of a shaman through the snowy forest, a pagan yulestory... Enjoy

Winterlegend

...a journey into the heart of our being...deep into the green, the past, the future, the very essence of being alive, to the question of what we want this world to be like, how we want to live and coexist with each other...

Into The Ancient Forest (updated version)

Sometimes it is hard to be aware of what is going on in the world and wanting to remain creative... I was struggling for many weeks to create anything really and when I am not able to create I don't feel like myself... So today I decided to just recorded what ever is going on in my head right now... The short, disturbing piece is called "the dissonance of life"...

The Dissonance Of Life

Valdkynd was founded in 2003 by singer, musician and composer Syl. Demo Releases: Sehnend in den Zeitenlauf (2004), Ode an Armorika (2005), Herbstmonodie (2005). Album Releases: Erdgesaenge (2012), Winterlegend (2018), Voices from the Woods (2022)

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