Here you go, guys.  Knock yourselves out.  Free for non-commercial remix.

Zefora - Akkad Eh-ni (dry vocal stem)

Composed by https://soundcloud.com/michal-cielecki
Vocals by Zefora
Catalog #XTS048_04

Blur Studio Animation Reel:  https://youtu.be/NmHGFN3SDHI

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Michal Cielecki ft. Zefora - Rebirth [Two Steps From Hell]

The Scarlett Hotel

Trapped

Room 213

Mary's Vigil

Haunted Piano

The Pemberton Suite

Join us for the curious case of the identity theft of a 16th century French peasant.

Hosts:  Jake & Adam
Music by:  https://soundcloud.com/mary-cassidy-rogers
Audio editing and artwork by:  Zefora

Mead and Murder Ep02 - Martin Guerre

Oliver Sadie was kind enough to let me add my own musings to this wonderful song.  You can hear the original here:  https://soundcloud.com/oliversadie/the-muse-ii  
Check out his EP on Bandcamp and please consider supporting his talent!  http://download.oliversad.ie/album/the-muse

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Oliver Sadie - The Muse II (Zefora's Vocal Version)

Guitar:  https://soundcloud.com/themonkbythesea
Vocal and mixing:  Zefora
Featured in the Red Bull "Storm Chase" film (2014) http://www.redbullstormchase.com/

"Image by Olli under a Creative Commons license."

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gruenewiese/10908762935/sizes/l/

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Monk by the Sea (ft. Zefora) - November [Red Bull Storm Chase OST]

This is my tribute to my favorite game.  I am a huge Sims fan and have been playing since the first game came out in 2000. In The Sims 3, when Sims get to guitar level 6, they play this song. I've always loved it and decided to write a song to it in Simlish. I used online Simlish dictionaries to piece together poetic lyrics I could sing. Simlish is a gibberish language and I wanted to use actual words from the game, not just make some up, so I'm grateful to everyone who's posted those online. You can read more about Simlish here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simlish

Original guitar recording (c) Maxis
Vocal melody and lyrics (c) 2014 Zefora

~~Simlish Lyrics~~
A lav was fogotteh
Ivo pleig nit ma sourn
Fretishe miza
Zeru, na, vous araganda
A toochse, a rushe
Sooflee ma brokna sourn
Ivo awasa fluing fa ju a kip
Menukonya, choba/es awoba longor?
Fretishe, fretishe, frestishe miza,
Ma sourn brokna

~~English Lyrics~~
A love since forgotten
Always plain in my heart
Everything is in the way
Then, now, you move away
A touch, a rush
Help my broken heart
Always I'm flying for just a kiss
Lover, is it wrong?
Everything, everything, everything is in the way
My heart is broken


A Love Since Forgotten (ft. Zefora)

Jon Brion - Bookstore - [Ft. Zefora | Hugh Doolan] - (Máistrí interpretation)

Based on the original works "Bookstore" from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind OST by Jon Brion © 2004 Hollywood Records, Inc.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_4wsGTkOC8

Piano arrangement/orchestral/ambient accompaniment written & recorded by Máistrí © Copyright 2014 Máistrí @maistri | Twitter - www.twitter.com/maistri

Vocals / vocal textures © Copyright 2014 Zefora @zefora

Guitar / guitar textures - © Copyright 2014 Hugh Doolan @hughdoolan

Interpretations

Jon Brion - Bookstore - [Ft. Zefora | Hugh Doolan] - (Máistrí interpretation)

Midnight improv for practice.  Drone courtesy of @experimentator

Zefora - The Witching Hour

Composed by Marc Aaron Jacobs
Vocals by Zefora

Lyrics:
Adeni kahteh
Iseri koveni
Edenash adeni

Askadeh er crado
Saka nedisheh vado
Isa keni-eh ehdi

(additional high part on chorus repeat:
Ahdikah veh
Keh dehsha va-ni
Isa keni-eh ehdi)

Sakesh vetah edah naro


Translation:
“Adeni kahteh”:  To quest for the nature of divinity; to strive for the divine; to find the center above.  Not a calm quest for enlightenment, but an intense need for it.

“Iseri koveni“: To strip the self; to rip away flesh; like peeling an onion to achieve that enlightenment.

“Edenash adeni”:  concludes the thought by turning the whole thing around - The light is in the shadows, the wheat is in the chaff, or, that the nature of divinity are the pieces stripped and thrown away in the previous step.  On a poetic level, it's saying that the perfected form, the divine state, was the need itself.  The beauty and the truth were there all along.

“Askadeh er crado”  excelsior plus suffering; a noble ordeal, the honor of having endured, plus the humility of the price you had to pay for it

“Saka nedisheh vado”  literally ‘spoken prescription vessel’

“Isa keni-eh edi”  literally ‘a mote of dust among ashes twinkles’; all vocal parts converge on this phrase to emphasize the profound importance of such a seemingly insignificant thing.  "Edi" itself means particle, but it's also an affectionate diminutive for beauty in simplicity, so the entire language of the phrase literally ends on the single imagery of that one shining particle.

Together, the last two lines allude to the noble ordeal ironically, setting it up as a huge event that ends with all focus on the smallest, most insignificant part of it.  In essence, to go through a huge, epic struggle or battle for enlightenment only to look down at the end and find it in a tiny twinkling speck of dust.  The chorus can be summarized as “This great thing in its smallness.”

(The additional refrain in the 2nd chorus contains less meaning.  It is mostly a sing-songy echo of the above translation as it was added much later in the writing process.  It merely supports the underlying meaning of the rest of the song.)

“Sakesh vetah edah naro”:  ‘Seek ye here what you already know.’  The last line alludes to the end of the verse--that beauty and truth were there all along.

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Marc Aaron Jacobs (feat. Zefora) - The Fallen Will Rise [Twisted Jukebox]

"Finding the right vocal samples to complement your tracks is never easy, so we've done the hard work for you and put together this classic vocal library packed full of beautiful ethereal voices from gifted songwriter and film score vocalist Zefora.

Whether you are composing for the next Hollywood blockbuster or producing the a storming house, trance or drum and bass hit, the intimate and smoky tones of Zefora’s vocal samples will sit beautifully in your tracks and elevate your production to a whole new level.

Within the sample pack you will find over 500MB of unique chorus lines, harmonies, phrases and ad-libs, all expertly recorded and neatly packaged into 6 construction kits.  The acapella samples come in a variety of tempos and are ready to be arranged, chopped and manipulated however you see fit.

All loops and samples contained within the library are completely royalty free and come ready to download in 24 Bit Wav as standard."  -- Samplephonics.com

Full pack:  http://store.samplephonics.com/products/zefora-ethereal-voices
Free demo:  http://store.samplephonics.com/products/zefora-ethereal-voices-freebie

Drone by https://soundcloud.com/experimentator

Ethereal Voices [Royalty Free Vocal Sample Pack]

Music by http://soundcloud.com/deepernet and Zefora.  Words by Zefora.

Floating here
Suspended in this slow night repose
Slow and still
Ephemeral in this dreamlike pose

Fluid in blue
Illuminates this vast sea of light
Silent the streams
Buoyant in the flow of these dreams

DeeperNET Feat. Zefora - Fluid In Blue

This song has been requested quite often for remix...I'm even getting remixes I never knew were being done!  So here you go.  Please be sure to share your creations if you use these.  I love to hear what people do with them!  :D

Sirens - vocals only (for remix)

Zefora - Sirens vocal loops (FX)

Zefora - Sirens vocal loops (dry)

Text excerpts taken from "Coming of Age in Second Life" by Tom Boellstorff.  This is released as a non-commercial creative commons piece.  Please download and make awesomeness with it!  Post links to your tracks here on the original so we can listen!  :)  

The Age of Techne

Free stems for download and remix.  Enjoy!  Make pretty things!

Zefora - Touch The Sky (harmony132bpm, F# minor)

Zefora - Touch The Sky (melody 132bpm, F# minor) [free stem for remix!]

Words and music by Zefora
Released under a non-commercial creative commons license.  Please feel free to download and remix as you'd like.  You don't have to ask first.  Proper credit for these vocals in remixes must be listed somewhere in the credits.  Permission for sales of remixes must be requested.

And don't forget to share a link to your track when you're done!  I love to hear them!  :)

Zefora - Live the Night - Vocal Stems (130 bpm C# minor)

You only sing about heartache

I recorded the last stems for the album "White Notes on Minor 9ths" today.  Here they are.  I've been working on this album with Chris since July. While I'm happy to finally complete my parts, I got a little teary-eyed on the last take because this has become such an integral part of my life for the last few months.  It's kind of hard to say goodbye.  I'll post an announcement for the official release when I know more.


Chris Flew feat. Zefora - The Empty Words We Carved With Chalk (demo clip)

I've been a huge fan of Dan Fogelberg since I was a teenager but have never done a cover before.  I may eventually do something with this, but I just felt like singing it today, so here.  If you want to, have fun with it.  I dunno what tempo it is.  I just sang along with the album, so if you don't know the song, you can go listen.  Just be sure to give credit for your bootleg cover thing to Mr. Fogelberg.  Ok, and me for, like, singing it and stuff.

Zefora - Wysteria (Dan Fogelberg cover - acappella)

A pitched & sliced version of "Live the Night" that I used in my song "Don't Go".  Everything should line up to 130 bpm.  I did extra versions of the last melodic sections to eliminate the duplicate loops sampled earlier in case you wanted to use them separately.



Zefora - Don't Go (vocal stem) 130 bpm

I'm not a particularly religious person, but it seemed a fitting title.  This will probably be the last vocal I release for awhile because I'm sick.   :(   I made an effort to get one last song in before the cough took over. (truth be told, this was my warm up for the day)  Feel free to use this in your own work if you feel so moved.  

Sanctum

Created entirely by http://soundcloud.com/stizreth with vocals by me.
Cybernetics: 
the study of human control functions and of mechanical and electronic systems designed to replace them, involving the application of statistical mechanics to communication engineering.

"Image is not mine, it is from: http://www.sparth.com, and is not intended to be sold at any point in time."

Stizreth feat Zefora - Cybernetic

mastered by Jon at smallfishrecordings

This is technically a remix of "Fluid in Blue" using some of the background stems.  Thanks to DeeperNET for the Amen Break sample.  

Elysian Dreams

Lilu's Song

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Written, performed, and recorded by Zefora
Artwork based on original photo by Erik Witsoe
https://unsplash.com/photos/XFkWLJQj22A

Refuge

My remix of "Flaming June" from BT's Electronic Opus.  This is my tribute to my all-time favorite BT song.  I started this as soon as the Kickstarter backer gifts went out but set it aside for a very long time.  There were parts of the mix I wasn't sure how to fix and I originally wanted to add vocals to it, but never got around to recording them.  I finally dusted it off this evening and put the final touches on the mix to get it all to sound right.  I hope you enjoy.  :)

BT - Flaming June (Zefora's Ambient Remix)

This track is meant to tell a story.  My mom's been ill for the last 3 weeks, dying from congestive heart failure and kidney & liver failure.  At 80, her body was finally just shutting down.  I wasn't able to go see her before she died.  In the beginning, when she was still able to talk, I would call my dad on the phone and he'd put me on speaker so I could talk to her and say goodbye and offer some comforting words.  The spoken-word samples in this track reminded me of those calls, so I used these stems to tell a story about saying goodbye.  She always loved my music, so it seemed like a fitting tribute.  It starts off quiet, builds to a climax, and then, in the end, at the last minute, everything flashes by in a brief moment and then it's just...over.  I finished the mix last night at 2am.  My brother called this morning to say she passed away at 3.  I cried through most of the production of this track.  It really helped me through the grieving process while we were waiting for the inevitable and gave me something to focus on.  It helped me out a lot and I'm forever grateful to Owsey for the chance to use these amazing stems.  Thank you for listening.  ♥

Lyrics:
Take your time 
It's all right 
Everything will work out fine
I'm seeing colours lately 
The life around me, vividly 
I'm seeing others drive in circles
It's me
I'm just calling to say
Don't go

Owsey - Thousands Of Summer Twilights (Zefora's Afterlife Remix)

Video:  https://youtu.be/BY76NJc1xHM?si=646cBrk5yO1BPjAm

Winter

Well, someone had an interesting night...
No idea who this was.  They drunk-dialed my phone.

Guy 1: ...ya fuckin' come see that goddamned shit. Better be fuckin' ready.
Guy 2: I'm tryin' t' figure out if someone can get us home
Guy 1: You better fuckin' be there...if I need a fuckin' witness
Guy 2: Yeah!
Guy 1: Yeah! Are you gonna be there?
Guy 2: Yeah! Fuck yeah I will!
Guy 1: If I hafta call witnesses 'n' fuckin'...
Guy 2: I didn't [unintelligible]
Guy 1: ...dude what is this..*felony* oh [unintelligble]
Guy 2: Felony??
Guy 1: Yeah, of [unintelligible] on someone?
Guy 2: That's a felony??
Guy 1: I didn't... Dude. I. Did. Not... I did not fuckin' hit on someone.
Guy 2: Nah. Nobody said that.
Guy 1: All the police was there. I did NOT hit on anyone! Are you gonna fuckin' be there to say I...
Guy 2: Yeah.

Weird Voicemail

Just a sketch I made tonight.  I wrote this on the piano, then edited it in midi.  I'll be making more with it but I wanted to share.  Update:  I got a new piano vst and edited the velocities.

Aura's Rain demo [UPDATED]

Vocal written for https://soundcloud.com/user2408687/sakic-feat-zefora-desire
I liked this song so much, I decided to offer it up for remix.  Please share a link with me if you use it.  :)  Stem free for remix under a **non-commercial** creative commons license. 

Zefora - Desire (mono vocal - Em, 70bpm)

Singer/songwriter and professional filmscore vocalist.  I do vocal work for film, TV, radio, video games, and albums.  For complete bio and list of work, visit http://www.zeforamusic.com/bio/

Note to remixers:
My free vocal stems are all in a set in my Spotlight section.  These stems are all licensed as **non-commercial** Creative Commons, so please feel free to download and remix to your heart’s content so long as you're not charging for it.  You don’t need permission to download, remix, and share for free.  You DO need to ask for a commercial waiver if you want to sell your remix, even if you're just selling it for donations (ie: 'name your own price' on bandcamp, etc.)  In either case, just be sure to credit me and send me a link so I can listen and repost.  I love to hear them!  :)

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