In the Wee Hours
Valhjim

In the wee hours, when stars still sparkle
and the world is hushed, voices
surface in musical array

textured whispers in sequence
of musical motifs, blues in the night,
a lonesome saxophone moans

in dark space, counter-point
to a jazz singer whose silhouette
glows like slivers of light—

what does this sudden melodic utterance
that comes like a deep breath mean?

One will discover that in mind and body's
response to the musical atmospheres

as we listen to
the magic of the music.
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Hope you like this piece, friends.

Thanks for listening
and for your kind words.

Valhjim: guitar, syntehsizers, samplers.

© 2025 Valhjim. All rights reserved. Original music by Valhjim.

In the Wee Hours

A new song......
Lyrics: 
In our mind is where it lives
In our thoughts and desires 
Wanting, longing and craving
This thing we all call peace

Throughout the dawn of time
We fight and conquer 
Mostly for land and gold
Not for this thing we all call peace

Peace is only a dream 
Peace is only a dream 
Peace is only a dream 
Peace is only a dream 

We argue and fight with one another 
For our ego we have to be right 
To seek compassion and understanding 
In our journey for this peace

Once we have what we have taken
We just are not satisfied 
The thirst for more is always there 
Not for peace, that’s just for dreams

Peace is only a dream 
Peace is only a dream 
Peace is only a dream 
Peace is only a dream 

Mastered Track: Distrokid Mixea
Music and Lyrics by Len Bennati FM Folk 2025
Image: revac film's&photography

Peace is Only a Dream

un nouvel habit pour ce reggae que j'avais composé en 2023 : je lui ai ajouté une ligne de piano, un texte, et, sinon un chant, du moins ma voix.
PAROLES
Même si t’es sans ressource
Prends un verre de reggae
Bois la vie à la source
 Réveille l’avenir
 Fais luire
Dans les yeux de la nuit
 Le soleil de midi.

Si t’es plus dans la course
Prends un bol de reggae
Danse sous la Grande Ourse
Réveille l’avenir
 Fais luire
 Dans les yeux des amis
 La source de vie.

Même si la joie te quitte
Et que le Roi est nu 
Prends un air de reggae
 Et retourne en toi-même
Pour qu’à tous  profitent
Le rire des enfants
La couleur des « je t’aime »
 Et la chanson des rues.
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LYRICS
Even if you're destitute
Have a glass of reggae
Drink life at the source
 Awaken the future
 Shine
In the eyes of the night
 The midday sun.

If you're no longer in the race
Grab a bowl of reggae
Dancing under the Big Dipper
Awaken the future
 Shine
 In the eyes of friends
 The source of life.

Even if the joy leaves you
And that the King is naked 
Take a reggae tune
 And find in yourself
For benefit of all
Children's laughter
The color of "I love you"
 And the song of the streets.

Musique et paroles : Henri Elie ( tous droits réservés 2025)

Boire la vie à la source

“ORANATOL” unfolds like a dialogue between cultures, a meeting of Anatolian warmth and Western sophistication. Smooth yet expressive, the track moves in organic waves of improvisation, where mellow guitar lines and soft jazz harmonies breathe with soul.

At around ~78 BPM in D minor, “ORANATOL” balances gentle groove and cinematic stillness. It carries the calm elegance of jazz intertwined with the emotional resonance of Anatolia, a sonic horizon where sunlight fades into melody.

Perfect for reflective evenings, mindful sessions, and creative focus, it embodies the spirit of fusion, where emotion and tradition coalesce.


BPM: ~78 /  Key - Tonality: D minor (approx.) / Dynamic Range: ~21.5 dB /  Spectral Centroid: ~2.8 kHz / Average RMS: –17.2 LUFS /  Stereo Width (Side/Mid): ~0.45 / Gender Energy: eminine-leaning (42M / 58F balance)

Fusion Breakdown: Lo-Fi Chill 20% • Cinematic Ambient 25% • Neo-Soul 20% • Jazz 30% • Experimental 5%

ORANATOL

In collaboration with Francess Harris. She played the piano composition and I did the composition of the orchestral arrangement. Thank you for listening and enjoy. Any comment is appreciated always.

My Love Will Follow You (feat. Fr. Harris)

hot summer

Evening session. Sequencing two Behringer 2600 with a Korg SQ-1, lead synth is Roland Gaia. Keeping it simple.

Surkål | Sauerkraut

A new beginning of ambient music for this famous synth hardware!

Contemplare

next time I send a carrier pigeon

This started with a very beautiful piano piece by Tom, then advanced by Jussi’s great electric guitar lead. I added an imagined lyric about someone not being able to commit to a relationship and the song was completed by Boon’s excellent acoustic guitar work. Thanks to all for their wonderful contributions. Thanks everyone for giving this a listen. Much appreciated by us all. 

Desamor by Tom Régnier, Jussi Welin, Boon Suzuki and Mark J Bennett

There’s an absence in my life, 
Perhaps of my own device. 
An awkward independence, 
Rendered me unable to share,
 My life with any other. 
Desamor, Desamor

There’s an absence in my life,
 Desamor, Desamor 
An awkward independence,
 Left me unable to share.
 Desamor, Desamor
 Keeping a distance from love and affection, 
Forbidding myself that joy.

There’s an absence in my life,
 Desamor, Desamor

Keeping a distance from love and affection, 
 Forbidding myself that joy.
 Desamor, Desamor

Desamor - Tom Régnier, Jussi Welin, Boon Suzuki & Mark J Bennett

A reworking for this track in my archive originally created in autumn 2024, after a few versions in the last year i  find it fits well with the context of Haiku Music Challenge Naviarhaiku 617



an autumn nightfall
the skeleton of a huge fish
drawn back by the sea.

by: Saitō Sanki



Saitō Sanki (1900 – 1962) was a dentist who discovered his passion for haiku poetry in his mid-thirties, when his colleagues at the hospital in Soto Kanda convinced him to write a haiku for a collection. Later, he became one of the most important exponents of wartime haiku: he was imprisoned in 1940 during the government’s World War II persecution of controversial artists, and was officially forbidden to write until the end of the war.

haiku by Saitō Sanki

Picture by John Jason

more info here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/

an autumn nightfall (Naviarhaiku#617)

Valhjim is a music composer with an eclectic approach to different genres: rock, pop, folk, New Age, and experimental electronic music. Greatly driven by imagination and poetic imagery, he combines multiple instrumental textures to fire the imagination of his listeners. 

His more experimental ambience and electronic music is built with layers of suggestive sound textures, rhythms, and melodic lines that stir the imagination into suggestive imagery and worlds unseen, true architectures of sound that open up limitless spaces to explore. Often Valhjim's melodies sail through genre thresholds, crossing over from one genre to another, from neo classcal to electronic, or from jazz to rock or new age.