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Birdy - "Skinny Love"

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

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)

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]

New Mohai Experiment album - OUT 31 May 2015 - available on all digital stores

Erotic Jazz – Jazz Guitar Music, Romantic Dinner Party, Instrumental Songs, Background Guitar Chill Sounds, Smooth Jazz Ambient Music, Sexy Music, French Love

Sexy Jazz Music

written by Martin Olding

published by
Intervox Production Music Publishing GmbH
Jahnstraße 45, 80469 München, Deutschland

https://www.intervox.de/de/So_Cute_AID-2717?l=DE

Guitar To The Point

Keep Me In Your Heart

Keep Me In Your Heart (feat. Jinder)

Critical Redox | Main Theme

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)

My rendition of "Tomorrow & Tomorrow" from FFXIV.

"Tomorrow and Tomorrow" is one of the main themes and the ending theme of Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers, composed by Masayoshi Soken. The lyrics were written by Michael-Christopher Koji Fox and Natsuko Ishikawa, and the vocals provided by Amanda Achen-Keenan."

Tomorrow & Tomorrow

'Place Language' is an international non-profit compilation album project inspired by the themes found in Robert Macfarlane’s widely-acclaimed book ‘Landmarks’. In particular it focuses on the book’s extensive topographic glossaries, the “word-hoard” of depictive landscape terms gathered from 30 different languages, dialects and sub-dialects around Britain & Ireland and divided into sections by type of terrain (Flatlands, Uplands, Waterlands, Coastlands, Underlands, Northlands, Edgelands, Earthlands and Woodlands). Relying on these topograms, or “tiny place poems”, as creative prompts, Place Language seeks to both inspire a renewed interest in our surroundings and reinvigorate our appreciation for the audible textures & patterns that characterize a place in keeping with the book’s stated desire to “re-wild” our vocabulary.

The collection features the work of 28 different sound-artists, field recordists, and musicians from around the globe each of whom selected a Landmarks topogram and recorded an impression of it thus adding rich new aspects of dimensionality through the act of sonification. These selections cover all nine of the book’s glossaries along with place-words of  new coinage as prompted by the blank one which Macfarlane leaves at the end of the book for readers to fill in from their own experience. The end result is a truly global and collaborative survey of place, language, and sound.

Musical artists: Aaron Martin (USA), Anthéne (Canada), Benoît Pioulard (USA), Bethan Kellough (UK), Celer (Japan), Dalot (Greece), Federico Durand (Argentina), Hakobune (Japan), Hammock (USA), Hotel Neon (USA), Ian Hawgood (UK), Kate Carr (UK), Lawrence English (Australia), Lowercase Noises (USA), Marcus Fischer (USA), Melissa Pons (Sweden), Poemme (USA), Porya Hatami (Iran), Richard Skelton aka The Inward Circles (UK), Siavash Amini (Iran), Simon Scott (UK), Sound Awakener (Vietnam),  The Green Kingdom (USA), Tobias Hellkvist (Sweden), Warmth (Spain), Wil Bolton (UK), and Yann Novak (USA).

Release Date: 30.09.19
Record Label: Fluid Audio
Mastering: Ian Hawgood
Artwork: Gregory Euclide
Words: Robert Macfarlane
Design: Daniel Crossley

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Place Language

Taylor Deupree - Feorainn

Goldmund - Memory Itself

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Track 2 from the recent archive release 'Fragments'
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Fragments is a collection of reworked & remastered tracks & live recordings which were composed in 2015.
Each piece was originally created as part of a soundtrack for "Some Thoughts On Mercy” an essay written and read by Ross Gay, part of “Bringing Down the New Jim Crow” a radio documentary series by Chris Moore-Backman.
I have spent time reworking & remixing each section composed for the soundtrack as well as several alternative tracks that were created at the same time. The end result is a 10 track release which captures the atmosphere & inspiration in a new form.

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Warmth // Solstice (Fading Language Remix)

Spontaneous day projects are fun!  :)  I got a link to these stems in my inbox this morning and decided to try my hand at remixing.  I have a cold and can't sing at the moment, so I used some of my "live the night" stems for it instead, since it's in the same key.  Enjoy!   ♥Z
Original song:  https://soundcloud.com/gravitas-recordings/mr-bill-cheyah/
Remix and vocals by Zefora
Contest info here:  http://gravitasrecordings.com/cheyah/

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Mr. Bill - Cheyah (Zefora's digital rain remix)

Haingeraide

Pius in Tacet (Grandbrothers Remix)

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!  :)