This came out after some relaxing days in Christmas holiday.

I'm here

Vogelsanger II

a very rough edit of a much longer improvised ambient piece

for the moment

It awakens from stillness, drifting into a quiet stream of piano, flowing like a gentle current of memory, before returning to the echo of its opening theme.

Still Current

We’re delighted to welcome French pianist and composer Adrien Bertrand to the ad21 family. His new single Novembre is a serene and heartfelt piano piece that captures quiet emotion through graceful simplicity. With its warm felt tone and delicate phrasing, it invites intimacy, like a gentle moment suspended in time. ad21

Novembre

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Melody Rules

"Winterlude” is a reflective solo piano piece about the transition and descent into winter. Composed, performed and recorded by Karen Biehl.

Winterlude

Piano improvisation performed and recorded on a stray Steinway piano at The Glasshouse International Centre for Music.
The music will feature on a new album of piano compositions and improvisations recorded at The Glasshouse in summer 2025.
More music is available on my Bandcamp page: https://paulstephentaylor.bandcamp.com/
For aficionados of piano improvisation, maximalist soundscapes and everything in between.

Clandesteinway III

pict free wallpaper
starring virtually - duduk and oud :-)

2025-10-31

colorful landscape

The Forest Song is a song that, to me, sounds like standing in the middle of a sunny forest clearing with the wind rustling in the leaves while being in awe of the immense power and love of nature and realizing that we ourselves are indeed nature. And that this is where we might be finding the answers we are all looking for.
For that reason I wanted to keep the song as natural as possible and used my vocals instead of instruments.

Must be the season of the witch ;) 
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Credits: The Forest Song was written, performed & produced by:
Valeska Rautenberg
Mixed by: Marian Kuch
Mastered by: Zino Mikorey
Cover picture taken by: Ramin Tehrani
Cover by: Valeska Rautenberg

Lyrics:

Like the fallen leaves on my skin
I feel freedom
I feel save
Don’t you worry
It’s gonna be good
We got the leaves
We are the roots

We got the wind
Whispering all the answers
We got the wind

Like the falling leaves
We can fly
One last flight
Before the river runs dry
Don’t you worry
It’s gonna be good
We are the leaves
We are the roots

Wild, wild is the wind
Listen to the wind
Whispering all the answers
We got the wind
Wild is the wind
Whispering all the answers
We got the wind

The Forest Song (A Cappella Version)

The Forest Song (A cappella Version)

Gone

"The Soundtrack to My Innermost"
Hi there! I am Valeska, and I am a musician and music coach with all my heart.

My vocal music lives in the realm of Indie Pop and Electronica, and you can find it under my name,
Valeska Rautenberg.
For my instrumental neoclassical and ambient music, you can listen to
Valeska and the River.

Join me on my journey as you explore this page and take a listen!

Weaving acoustic elements and storytelling vocals into electronica and field recordings and thereby creating landscapes: Traveling into indie, alternative, electronica, neoclassical, trip hop, and beyond.

Songs that are alive and breathing. Songs that hold the wisdom of feelings. They know more than I do…

The Forest Song (A cappella Version)

Valeska Rautenberg

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