All the wishes & love from a mother to her child x

Song For Seven (unmastered) feat. Chantelle & Seven

A live rendition of a somber new track about loss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oui57N7GC8&feature=youtu.be

Hold Me Down live vrs (link to video)

A revist to one of my favourites with a twist here adn a turn there and a little bit of...

Never (Cold And Lonely Mix)

https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/vieka-plays/id1164004538

Piano and vocal based track mixed with all sorts of noises for your aural pleasure.
A song written with love and inspiration from my ongoing journey as mother, lover and human being. Constantly questioning the affairs of man, the universe and everything. Continually learning and growing and loving it.
Peace x
RUN WILD

No Dinosaurs (NEMA MIX)

This is a selection from 28 days of making music, 7yeasr later. There are 5 songs. 
These pieces are inspiration for some up and coming heavy drum and bass and jungle classica piano vibes and I can't wait to realease them.
Here you can here that I have played around with effects such as space echo, tape delay, layering pianos and granular synthesis to achieve a modern twist to neoclassical piano. Think nils Fram, Olaf Anderson etc.
Hope you enjoy.

Nobodies Watching

Melancholia

Magpies

Forever Nameless

Dust For The Angels

My first creation in 7 years. A sonic soundscape, inspired by an interview with a catatonic schizophrenic and my melancholic jazz piano. 
I wanted to do justice to this interview which is uncomfortable to watch and explore issues with mental health in this chaotic audiolandscape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IehtMYlOuIk
A whirlwind of sampled cellos, string and choirs lead you to a swing jazz smorgsboard of samples from pool balls to meditation balls and much more. 
An aural delight.

To Play Piano For People

What do you think? This is a nearly finished version of a new track, and a bit of a new style for me. I always dJ drum and bass and jungle but never made it and I got a few track coming up for you to chekc out. Let me know what i should do with this ... ? ... if you love it or hate it ???

Magpies - nearly finsihed mix. What do you think? DnB

Hello :) 
What shall I do at the end? I've been sat on this track for about a year now...what do you wanna hear happen? I can't seem to let it go...what shall I do?
Should I go further with the dub ish section? Horns for example?
Should I add a vocal?
Should I make it more danceable/jungley?
Shall I fuck it up completley.
Leave comments where you have ideas...
I look forward to hearing what you think.
Vieka
x

Gnossienne (timeless remix) unfinished ...what shall I do to finish?

BUY ON: https://vieka.bandcamp.com/album/single-serving-sex

For pleasure seekers, lustful lovers and all who relenquish their flesh to another 

enjoy x

LYrics 

One too  many drinks
and i think 
that i know you
more than i've ever known anyone
for the first time
for a long time
I wanna go deep 
and sleep
inside 
the tidal of your mind
get lost in what i find

my thick legs wrapped round your waist
my face
in your face
my eyes looking into your eyes

my thighs wrapped around your thighs

Wrapped up in your arms
i feel like a victim of your charms
you disarm me
i dream of yesterday
when i did even
know anything about you
my wanderlust continued

my thick legs wrapped round your waist
my face
in your face
my eyes looking into your eyes

my thighs wrapped around your thighs

Single Serving Sex (Strange Mix)

When I ran away with the circus (for the second time) I made a load of songs for a show, some you have heard before but here are the finished versions for your aural pleasure x

Glastonbury, oh wondrous place of very well organised entertainment and pleasure. Wow wee, what a time I spent.

I sailed in on my orion boat as easy as cutting through cloth. I had enough supplies to last a week with Gin and Guinness a plenty. I built a small cosy nest lined with lilies and leopards lit with circles and squares and cosied up next to my fellow crew members awaiting the arrival of the rest.

As yet incomplete, the festival continued to grow around me, clothing itself with layer upon layer of increasingly sultry, intriguing, strange and wondrous outfits until finally, she threw her proverbial legs open for all (with fully functioning tickets) to enter at will.

Devoured by the grandeur, I wandered soaking in the splendour but never jumping into far…for I had a job to do.

And oh dear, the spectacularity that is our show was fraught with disaster. A dress rehearsal just too short to ensure safety, last minute changes, a sick performer…will they perform or won’t they? Will the gut wrenching, heart busting last two months of furious work & reharsals, forsaking all others, have been worth it?

“To the healing fields, fair maiden…”

And all was well. The show received a standing ovation from one corner on one day and played out to thousand of excited eyes throughout the whole sun-shiney weekend. A job well done, with footage still to come.

Waiting For You

Swing Me

Inspired by a recent remix and by the music from Drive - a little sketch of a potential track

Transform

This is the first of my tracks for the meandering month of February, my project 28 songs later. Although i've been in a very somber mood and feeling rather sad, i was surprised how quickly this flowed out of me…

28 songs later - A Song a Day - my project for February

Sometimes I get stuck. I find it hard to create, then other times the creative flurry vibrates my soul and flows through me like a river. But, I often get transfixed with minute details and can spend years, days, months on production. I can never get all the songs inside me, out; new, old, yet to be told.
So, I have decided to set myself a challenge for the deep wintery month of February.
A Song a Day.
It may be a sketch an idea or a complete piece; short or long, sounds or song but I will be stepping away from the electronic realms and using a simpler approach for this.

Maybe you will be inspired to do something, maybe you will follow my journey or dip in and out but it will be an interesting challenge and I hope to have a beautiful aural journey, wound by sound and following all the ups and downs of this expectant month.



Love and tea
V



28 songs later; Day One - Melancholia

Day Five of 28 songs later

So, I settled on this as it is swimming around my mind after the jam. I'll probably call it Home.
 I've made the track in ableton today instead of protools (the ever-crashing-CPU-demanding-bitch that protools is). The lyrical content is something that has been flirting around my head for some time. I have a few of the sentences scattered around the swaths of paper that I jot down my lyrical ramblings on. I swim and dive and love water. With echos of lovers and wild places this is defiantly the beginning of a epic future track with the addition of my beloved accordion.

Day Five - Home

Day 14

A simple ditty with a wandering bassline. I took only one take of recordings and a wee bit of processing. I like this one and may come back to it in the future. 

Happy Valentines Day.

Day 14 - Love You

Day 19

I've really enjoyed this piano track and whilst practising this morning. Todays offering out into the world is a somber, piano track in my favourite key, with an echo of stride piano which always makes me think of my grandma who kind of started me out on this pianistic journey.

xvx

Day 19 - Nameless

Day 27 

The penultimate day. A remix of a classic 90's house track by My friend Sam. Made on the wonderful ipad app, nanostudio, highly recommended mini studio for iphones and ipad.
x

Day 27 - Pleasure remix(nanostudio ipad app)

Day 28

The final day of making a song ever day. Blooming heck it has been a mammoth task sometimes surprisingly easy and sometimes really hard to commit too but always with so much creativity flowing, even oozing from the wonderful and inspirational world around me. Hearts, minds, nature and life - Thank you for all you give xxx
Today is dedicated to all the people taking on epic adventures this year, there are many blooming around me at the moment. In particular, it is a friend of mine who inspired my final outpouring into the world for the 28 songs later project in February. He is walking from Manchester to Ireland, 400km, to honour his sister who died relatively recently. Check out what he is up to and why he is doing this solo adventure and see what you can do to help here.
 https://www.facebook.com/walkforaoife/?fref=ts

Thanks for listen out there.

Keep walking, running, swimming wild and wondrously. Live, love and lets welcome the Sun.

xcx

Day 28 - Walk On Home

A journey. A walk through a city, a night, a dawn, a long long road that msut be walked. ON and ON.
Words taken from The god of small things, the most tantalising opening paragraph I have ever read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_of_Small_Things

Image from www.kucuu.com

Distance

For all the days spent playing with my son adn to all that will come.



Drizzly Days

‎"impeccably icy and avant-garde, built around Glass-esque piano and chilling samples of whinnying horses." - Manhattanchester.blogspot.com

Inspired by Gloomy Sunday.

Image from www.shinybinary.com

Never

Tear Me (knee jerk remix)

https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/vieka-plays/id1164004538

Waiting for a new lover to come all the way in, filled only with the smell, the thoughts and lust left from the night before.
This track is primal and wild. 

A woman asks to be torn apart and shared only with the person she loves (but not actually)

Sharks don't ask to get torn apart (but actually are). 

We are dedicating it to raise awareness of the mass slaughter of sharks for their fins. Cut up alive and thrown back, Sharks are on the brink of extinction. 

50% of all sales of this track will go to 
www.sharkwater.com 

Love & nurture the wild, in you and in the world.

www.howlingforjustice.wordpress.com

Tear Me Apart

A dramatic, solemn song about falling in love with someone you can't have or that you don't want - a painful and relentless experience for all.

As is water boarding, 'a form of torture in which water is poured over cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive, causing the individual to experience the sensation of drowning'.
What do you want to do when you grow up?

Waterboarding (falling)

A demented teddy bear convince's the little girl to take revenge on the 'badman' and they bury him under her tree.
Dedicated to all the children who are too scared - tell somone.


Childhood

A soundscape created using field recordings, small noise toys and clinky instruments, synths, beats and and amazingly warped and bent double bass. All delightfully wrapped and winding around my ancient lullabye.
Sit back relax and listen x peace

Get in touch if you would like to make an video/animation.

Waiting for a fairytale

A wild and ever building song with teasing lyrical content and an array of sounds and noises to tantalise and intrigue. My £10 guitar.




The Hunt (rough bitch edit)

This is a mix of the opening track for my premier appearance at Glastonbury Festival. I am performing live with a circus and dance troupe in the Big TOp, everyday - COME SEE OUR SHOW.
Playtime is an old piano piece I have loving recycled as it fits so well with our show. It changes relentlessly, before winding playfully back to where it started.
I hope you love it xx

Featuring a Cameo appearance from my newly wired into existance, HARDDRIVE BASS (and a recording of one of my other ahrd drives which is on it's way out!)

A song dedicated to all the kids that can't get their parents to play with them x

Playtime (glastonbury 2013 - circus MIx)

Vieka Plays (:vee-e-ka p-l-aa-ys). Born, will die. A female singer-songwriter-electronic-fiddler-producer-engineer currently residing in the fair lands of Manchesterville, UK. Inspired and nourished by music and sound.

 Vieka plays her music full frontal, sometimes delicate, sometimes brash but always dedicated to the senses. Alikened to Björk, Portishead with a dash of Cocorosie, Vieka moves through you in a whirl of challenging stories and sounds created by all manors of electronic geekery that can be harnessed, beated and whipped into shape. 

...'Combining sonic brutality, unfettered on-stage physicality, never-quite-reassuring periods of calm and moments of breath-taking spectral beauty'...'Ostensibly an avant-garde musician in the Portishead/Björk mould mould, Vieka’s beguiling live performances set her apart from other experimentalists.'
 … 'Their live concerts can veer from dubstep mood-pieces to eerie swing narratives and sexual psycho-dramas all with an underlying Burial-style-soundtrack-David Lynch intensity'... 

With a lustful desire for the wild world, Vieka weaves through all manner of sounds; blending, warping and creating impassioned soundscapes with subtle sound recordings from nature, life and the wide-wide world. Obtuse creations of synthesised bass, glitch noise and samples come from deep within the digital spectrum while the vocals cut through unabashed.

'With a tongue stuffed thoroughly in her cheek she blissfully hovers her sound in the darker sides of life (or hoovers her music up from the filthy corner of the proverbial room).'

Vieka

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