FSC Promotions Thread

[A-lister]

FSC#106 - December 2017

SWEDEN

Jennie Abrahamson
To the Water

Sweden is ending this year with the mysterious electro-dream-pop midtempo track To the Water, performed by Indie-Pop singer-songwriter Jennie Abrahamson. The song is taken from the 40-year-old singer's fifth studio album Reverseries that got released in early 2017.

After starting out singing in various bands, Abrahamson went solo back in 2006 and together with colleagues and friends from the music community she started her own indie record label and is also running a recording studio in Stockholm, Sweden.

Hope you will all enjoy this atmospheric song just as much as I do, and also hope you all will have a great Christmas and Holiday season!

 

[Malagant]

FSC #107 January 2018 - Norway

FSC #107 Norway - January 2018 - Martine Kraft - Ravn ​

Representing Norway in FSC #107 January 2018, and returning to the FSC for Norway, is the multi-talented Norwegian Hardanger-fiddle player, singer and songwriter Martine Kraft. Here is some more information about her.

Martine Kraft (formerly known as Martine Lund Hoel, born in 1982), is an acclaimed Norwegian Folk-music artist, musician, Hardangerfiddle (Norwegian ‘Hardingfele’) player and composer who has been on musical stages around the world with her own material for over a decade. She also delivers compositions to a huge number of ceremonial occasions.

Martine has been known to compose what many call ‘Nordic Folk-music with world-music references’. There have often been hints and pieces from several cultures and traditions in her musical expression. In her stage appearances, with her heritage close to her heart, beside her Folk-music inspired tunes she also has travelled through a multi-genre landscape of progressiv rock, intense Balkan rhythms, dusty American bluegrass and lyrical violin pieces.

Her concerts have often been performed together with her faithful guitarist and pianist Nils Jørgen Nygaard, in a duo, but when the occasion allows it, she has appeared with her entire band.


Martine Kraft: Discography

Hidden Shore (2008)
Distant Call ([with Nils Jørgen Nygaard] 2009)
Spirits from Norway (2011)
Crystals Are Falling (Digital Single 2011)
Fragile Mind (2013)
Huldreblod (May 2017)


She released her 1st album in 2008 under the name Martine Lund Hoel. It was called “Hidden Shore”. In 2009 she released an album together with Nils Jørgen Nygaard called “Distant Call”. Her next solo-album, “Spirits from Norway”, came in 2011. The album included the song “Mighty Moon”, released as a digital single in April 2011, where she sang a duet with the Norwegian artist Knut Anders Sørum. In October 2011 she released another digital single called “Crystals Are Falling”. This was a separate recording, a song and single which was not found on her album. “Crystals Are Falling” was subsequently the Norwegian entry in FSC April 2012.

In late 2013 she released her 3rd solo-album called “Fragile Mind”. The album was well received by the press and among her many fans in Norway and abroad. She focused on concerts and similar artistic work in the next few years, before a new single called “Solefall” was release in March 2016. An energetic uptempo-number, it showcased her great skill with the Hardanger-fiddle (or Hardingfele as it is called in Norwegian, the national instrument of Norway).

Several further single-releases from a forthcoming 2017-album followed in 2016: “Himmelfot” and “Mørketid”, and then in February 2017 the single “Ravn” was released. Another Folk-music song in Martine Kraft’s particular style with beautiful Nordic vocals and an expressive Hardanger-fiddle, filled with folklore and mysticism, it soon became a critical and fan-favourite. This is the song chosen by the Norwegian jury as the Norwegian entry here in FSC January 2018.

Her new popular and critically acclaimed album “Huldreblod”, with songs only in Norwegian, was finally released in May 2017 and besides the song “Ravn” and her other released singles it included 7 other Folk-music melodies in her distinct musical style. One of these, a new beautiful Folk-melody called “Når Dagen Hviler”, subsequently became the Norwegian entry in FSC July 2017.

Martine Kraft is one of Norway’s most respected and talented Folk musicians. She is often hired to play her Hardanger-fiddle together with other Norwegian artists, and is not afraid to experiment with her music. She sings as well on some of her songs and enjoys fully the music she creates. We will without doubt hear more from this talented Norwegian Folk-music artist and musician in the years to come.

The Norwegian entry for FSC #107 January 2018, “Ravn” (“Raven”) is another special, ‘magical’ piece of Norwegian Folk-music, filled with Nordic folklore and mysticism, written and performed (Hardanger-fiddle and vocals) by Martine Kraft. The Norwegian jury is happy to enter Martine Kraft again in the FSC for Norway.


Below are the Norwegian lyrics for the song and a translation into English. Hope you’ll enjoy the Norwegian entry for January!

Martine Kraft - Ravn

Synd i ord / Sin in words
Feid på jord / Strife on Earth
Mørkt i sjel / Dark in soul
Splid i sel / Discord in home

Nattens ravner våker / The ravens of the night keep watch
Livets rand fra åker / Of the boundaries of life from fields

Sind i ord / Wisdom in words
Ed på jord / Oath on Earth
Ro i sjel / Calm in soul
Fred i sel / Peace in home

Nattens ravner våker / The ravens of the night keep watch
Livets rand fra åker / Of the boundaries of life from fields

Stille nå, Skaper / Silence now, Maker
La vann slukke ild / Let water extinguish fire
La marken igjen / Let the cropland again
Føle stille vind / Feel the silent wind

La øyne få hvile / Let eyes rest
Når solen går ned / When the sun sets

La nattens ravner våke / Let the ravens of the night keep watch


<<>> Instrumental <<>>


Stille nå, Skaper / Silence now, Maker
La vann slukke ild / Let water extinguish fire
La marken igjen / Let the cropland again
Føle stille vind / Feel the silent wind

La øyne få hvile / Let eyes rest
Når solen går ned / When the sun sets

La nattens ravner våke / Let the ravens of the night keep watch

-M​

 

[JSSArcos]

This time Portugal brings something totally new, a song with only instrumental (it could well be from a soundtrack of a movie ) ! ...

FSC#107 Portugal
Compositor- Brunoville
Song - Meaning of Life

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BrunuhVille is an independent composer from Portugal who creates a world of magic and fantasy between the fusion of Emotional,Orchestral,Celtic,Folk,Movie,Ethnic and World music.

Feel the music

 

[honzak11]

Entry for FSC #107: Perutě - Sofie


Perutě is a Czech pop-rock band from Prague, Czech Republic. They have been producing songs with catchy melodies since 2013. The band consists of a frontman Milan Peroutka, Zpěvák Milan Peroutk, guitar-player Šimon Martínek, pianist Daniel Rojek, bassguitar Michal Beneš and drums by Michal Jiráň. Their hits are regularly featured on TV Ocko television station and the band also holds a series of concerts where their fans can hear them live.

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The most famous songs by this band are:

Bez tebe je mě jenom půl (2016)

Postavim kolem nás zeď (2015)

Druhej břeh (newest)

Don't miss out on Milan Peroutka's participation at the Czech equivalent of "Your Face Sounds Familiar" show, where he immitated for example A.Bocelli & S. Brightman with "Time to say goodbye":

The Czech Republic will be competing in the January FSC with the song: Sofie

Enjoy!​

 

[hawadharma]

FSC JANUARY 2018
MALAYSIA

Artist: CASSIDY
Song: "Seperti Dia"

Aussie singer Cassidy to release her first Malay single

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KUALA LUMPUR-BASED Australian Cassidy Anderson is recording her first Malay single entitled, “Seperti Dia”. The 29-year-old singer will spend a full day to polish up her diction and another three days to understand the context of the song before going to the recording studio.

Anderson made waves in the Malaysian music scene when her cover version of Ombak Rindu recorded over a million views on her YouTube account, Cassidy La Crème. She also covered other popular Malay tunes, including Amy Search’s Tiada Lagi, Sudah Ku Tahu by Projector Band and Teman Pengganti by Black and Malique.

The Australian is signed to Raksasa Records and Warner Music Malaysia, and will finally release her first ever Malay single, which was composed by Hael Husaini, Mike Chan and Ezra Kong.

The ballad is about cultural differences between a pair of lovers. “It is like someone is still in love with their ex, but you can't compare because you're not from that culture, so it hit home for me, I can definitely sympathise with the lyrics because I've been through that heartbreak before,”she said.

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“For five years now, I've always wanted to move here and try my luck in the Malaysian industry. I know it sounds very strange to say but, for me, Malaysia feels like home.”
Cassidy learned about the Malay culture from her Singaporean Malay friends in 2012. Back then, she was working at Universal Studios Singapore as Marilyn Monroe.
She hopes her first Malay single “would be the first of many.”
She added: “I'm very excited and honoured to be here. I would like to create a long term career and move my life to Malaysia. I don't want to just do one or two songs because I can really see myself living here.”


Lyrics (English Translation):

Wounded, each day I felt it
Every day it reminds me
Until you forget, who am I to you
Torturing me under your consciousness

Try, try to memorise
Our first moments together

Chorus:
You want me to be like her
Because, your past love is with her
So, kill everything about her
Just forget, just forget it love..

Until you forget, who am I to you
Torturing me under your consciousness

Try, try to memorise
Our first moments together

(repeat chorus)

You want me to be like her
Because, you are still in love with her
So, kill everything about her
Just forget, just forget it love..

When will you understand,
That I will not change, I will not surrender
If this love is true,
Don't hope for me to be like her

(repeat chorus 2x)

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[A-lister]

FSC#107 - January 2018

SWEDEN

ionnalee
SAMARITAN

Sweden is starting off the new year with a comeback. Last time we saw singer-songwriter Jonna ionnalee Lee in the FSC was almost 3 years ago, back in FSC#72 - February 2015, as part of iamamiwhoami with the entry blue bue, which ended up at a respectable 7th place. This time around Jonna is trying on a solo career again after nearly 8 years together with producer Claes Björklund and the iamamiwhoami project.

SAMARITAN is the first single off ionnalee's upcoming album Everyone Afraid to Be Forgotten, due in February. The track, which originally premiered back in March 2017, is a well-produced, catchy and originally fresh-sounding Indie-Pop song with a touch of both Electro-Pop and Funk. I'd describe it as if Michael Jackson had a baby with Björk and let Kylie Minogue be the godmother of it.

Click on the link to view the full short movie / music video

LYRICS:

[Verse 1]
Mm, oh, the future is gonna be bright
A clear path and all the stars are out
Looking up at the dark blue sky
Walking steady not blinded by the light

[Chorus]
I don't believe in a God, let's leave religion out of all this
I don't remember promising my life and soul to bring you all bliss
If I am what you say, I expect to be hanging from a wooden cross
When all this is done, is done
I don't believe in a God, let's leave religion out of all this
I don't remember promising my life and soul to bring you all bliss
If I am what you say, I expect to be hanging from a wooden cross
When all this is done, is done

[Interlude]
No, no
No, no, no, no, no, no
No, no
No, no, no, no, no, no
(Home)
Hoo

[Verse 2]
Oh, oh the past will never be the same
Once I am done, good memories will be gone
They guard their secrets with their lives
I spit on your fo-forsaken tribe

[Chorus]
I don't believe in a God, let's leave religion out of all this
I don't remember promising my life and soul to bring you all bliss
If I am what you say, I expect to be hanging from a wooden cross
When all this is done, is done
I don't believe in a God, let's leave religion out of all this
I don't remember promising my life and soul to bring you all bliss
If I am what you say, I expect to be hanging from a wooden cross
When all this is done, is done

[Bridge]
Oh, thy beauty makes me go blind
When you are near, my senses don't function
I give you this empty life
Can I be your soldier with a knife?

[Chorus]
I don't believe in a God, let's leave religion out of all this
I don't remember promising my life and soul to bring you all bliss
If I am what you say, I expect to be hanging from a wooden cross
When all this is done, is done
I don't believe in a God, let's leave religion out of all this
I don't remember promising my life and soul to bring you all bliss
If I am what you say, I expect to be hanging from a wooden cross
When all this is done, is done

[Bridge]
Oh, thy beauty makes me go blind
When you are near, my senses don't function
I give you this empty life
Can I be your soldier with a knife?

[Outro]
No, no
No, no, no, no, no, no
No, no
No, no, no, no, no, no

 

[Eulaliya]

THE PHILIPPINES' ENTRY FOR FSC #108 - FEBRUARY 2018

IV of SPADES
"Where Have You Been, My Disco?"

Lyrics

Yo momma said that you should be home
Seven in the evening with a sober soul (soul)
Don't you worry brother
I am on my way

Just keep on truckin' tonight

Children of the future
let me tell you somethin'
Boogie is my life
that I've never shown yet
Why have you forsaken
all the things we know?

I wanna show it tonight

They don't need no disco
No disco
Where have you been, my disco?
My disco
Take me back to disco
To disco

Groove it up
Groove it up!

Darlin' it's coming back!
Lovin' you!
Revive the old!
Make it new!
Come on, it's going down!
Make it true!
Celebrate!
Celebrate!

Yo momma said
That you should be gone
Don't you dare to come back
with a pretty bad face
Take it easy brother
I am here to stay
Just keep on dancing
'til the girls are gone
(Girls are gone!)

Children of the future
let me tell you somethin'
Boogie is my life
since when I was young!
I've been livin' heaven
leavin all the pain

I wanna show it tonight

They don't need no disco
No disco
Where have you been, my disco?
My disco
Take me back to disco
To disco

Groove it up
Groove it up!

Darlin' it's coming back!
Lovin' you!
Revive the old!
Make it new!
Come on, it's going down!
Make it true!
Celebrate!
Celebrate!

Coming back!
Lovin' you!
Revive the old!
Make it new!
Come on, it's going down!
Make it true!
Celebrate!
Celebrate!

Where have you been, my disco?
Where have you been, my disco?
Where have you been, my disco?
Where have you been, my disco?

Darlin' it's coming back!
Lovin' you!
Revive the old!
Make it new!
Come on, it's going down!
Make it true!
Celebrate!
Celebrate!

Darlin' it's coming back!
Lovin' you!
Revive the old!
Make it new!
Come on, it's going down!
Make it true!
Celebrate!
Celebrate!

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[Malagant]

FSC #108 February 2018 - Norway

FSC #108 Norway - February 2018 - Kygo ft. OneRepublic - Stranger Things ​

Representing Norway in FSC February 2018, and returning to the FSC for Norway, is the famous Norwegian EDM-producer, DJ and artist Kygo, this time with OneRepublic as featuring artist. Here is some more information about them.

Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll (born on 11th September 1991), with the stage name Kygo, is a hugely popular and talented Norwegian Electronic Dance Music (EDM) -Producer, DJ and artist. He has accumulated over 200 million views of his music on Soundcloud and YouTube, very impressive numbers indeed.

In December 2014 he released his first single, the very popular and internationally successful EDM-single "Firestone" which featured vocals by Conrad (Conrad Sewell). This was the song chosen by the Norwegian jury as the Norwegian entry in FSC July 2015.

In February/March 2015 he released a second single, titled "Stole the Show" (ft. Parson James) which also gained great popularity. More singles followed later that year. Kygo continued work on his debut-album to be released in spring 2016. Preceeding the album in 2016 were the singles “Fragile” (ft. Labrinth), “I’m In Love” (ft. James Vincent McMorrow), and “Raging” (ft. Kodaline).

“Raging” was subsequently the song chosen by the Norwegian jury as the Norwegian entry in FSC September 2016.

In May 2016 Kygo finally released his CD-album called “Cloud Nine” which included all his new singles as well as a host of other songs. Kygo promoted his new album on the world stage in the summer of 2016 in several events and concerts.

In February 2017 he released a new single called “It Ain’t Me” with the famous singer Selena Gomez on vocals. It was a catchy piece of EDM / Tropical House in his familiar music style, and it became a huge hit worldwide reaching the top 5 in many countries. This subsequently became the Norwegian entry in FSC August 2017.

In November 2017 Kygo’s new album “Kids in Love” was finally released and it included 8 new songs in the EDM / Pop / Tropical House genre, including some variety, featuring different artists on vocals. One of these great songs was the EDM-melody “Stranger Things” featuring OneRepublic on vocals and this is the song chosen by the Norwegian jury as the Norwegian entry here in FSC February 2018.

Kygo continues with his club gigs, concerts and tour-promotions around the world, building on his success and popularity, and there is little doubt that we will hear more from this talented Norwegian EDM Producer, DJ and artist in the years to come.

OneRepublic is an American pop rock band formed in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 2002 by lead vocalist Ryan Tedder and guitarist Zach Filkins. It also consists of guitarist Drew Brown, bassist and cellist Brent Kutzle, and drummer Eddie Fisher. They got a record contract with Columbia Records and their debut album came in 2007, “Dreaming Out Loud”. It was followed by “Waking Up” in 2009, “Native” in 2013, and the popular “Oh My My” in 2016. They are planning a new album release in 2018. They have also released several singles through the years and their sound has periodically changed. In 2017 the band also collaborated with the Norwegian EDM Producer Kygo, featuring vocals on his new song “Stranger Things”.

The Norwegian entry for FSC #108 February 2018, “Stranger Things” is another melodic EDM-song by Norwegian EDM Producer, DJ and artist Kygo, this time featuring OneRepublic on vocals. The Norwegian jury is happy to enter Kygo again in the FSC for Norway.


Below are the English lyrics for the song. Hope you’ll enjoy the Norwegian entry for February!

Kygo ft. OneRepublic - Stranger Things

-Intro-

Stranger things..

We used to run around this ghost town
Always thinking out loud
Are we gonna get out
I remember

We dream of places that we could go
Castles with the strange glow
People that we don't know
I remember

We left a life
That's ordinary from the start
We looked for stranger things
'Cause that's just who we are

Found me the edge
Of something beautiful and loud
Like I'm picturing
Now

Castles glitter under Spanish skies
But I'm just looking out for you tonight
Snow white mountains in a foreign state
Tell me someday we'll get there

Someday
Someday

I see a Technicolor shadow
Underneath your window
Just in case you don't know
I can see it

You cast an unfamiliar day glow
Different than what I know
Shining like a halo
I can feel it

We turned our back
On ordinary from the start
We looked for stranger things
'Cause that's just who we are

Found me the edge
Of something beautiful and loud
Show me the sky
Falling down

Castles glitter under Spanish skies
But I'm just looking out for you tonight
Snow white mountains in an ancient place
Tell me someday we'll get there

Someday
Someday

Stranger things..

-Outro-

-M​

 

[JSSArcos]

FSC#108
Singer-Fernando Daniel
Song- Espera

Lyrics
"ESPERA"
("WAIT")


Eu já sei quem sou
E o que fiz
Foi para o bem de mim
Sou o que nao fui
E serei o amanhã a dois


Onde é que vais
Espera por mim
Eu vou ser melhor por ti
Sempre que sais
Eu sinto o fim
Eu nao quero ficar por aqui


Tu, dona de ti
Deixas me assim
Sem saber o que fazer
És, o que mais quero
Se fores eu espero
A vida sem ti nao tem sabor


Onde é que vais
Espera por mim
Eu vou ser melhor por ti
Sempre que sais
Eu sinto o fim
Eu nao quero ficar por aqui

Appreciate !
Good luck to everyone !!!! ​

 

[A-lister]

FSC#108 - February 2018

SWEDEN

Jon Henrik Fjällgren
Bovtse eatnamisnie

For the second time in FSC history, Sweden is sending an entry in Sami language. Last time we heard Sami in the FSC was back in the FSC#55 - September 2013 edition, when Sofia Jannok scored a top.3 position for Sweden with the entry Jávrrit juiget. This time the turn has come to Jon Henrik Fjällgren with the Sami ethno-Pop entry Bovtse eatnamisnie, which is a combination of modern beats and production with a Sami ethno sound and yoik.

Fjällgren is the Colombian-born orphan, originating from an indigenous-Colombian village, who as a baby got adopted in the late 1980's by a Swedish Sami couple from northern Sweden, later on becoming a reindeer farmer himself according to the Sami tradition before rising to fame after winning the 2014 edition of Sweden's Got Talent, where he first auditioned with Daniels Joik. Fjällgren became a household name in Sweden after ending up as the runner-up of the Final of Melodifestivalen 2015 with his entry Jag är fri (Manne leam frijje), and last year he tried his luck again, this time ending up third in the final with the entry En värld full av strider (Eatneme gusnie jeenh dåaroeh), which featured singer Aninia and was the first single from his third official studio album Aatjan goengere, where also this edition's Swedish entry Bovtse eatnamisnie is taken from.

unfortunately unable to embed the video, so please click the banner (link) below to listen to the song!


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[Malagant]

FSC #109 March 2018 - Norway

FSC #109 Norway - March 2018 - Susanne Sundfør ft. John Grant - Mountaineers ​

Representing Norway in FSC March 2018, and returning to the FSC for Norway, is the very talented Norwegian singer/songwriter Susanne Sundfør featuring the American artist John Grant on chanting co-vocals. Here is some more information about them.

Susanne Aartun Sundfør - artist name Susanne Sundfør - (born 19th March 1986) is a famous Norwegian singer-songwriter. She was born in Haugesund in south-western Norway and later moved to the capital Oslo. She was interested in singing from an early age and started taking singing lessons at the age of 12. She has said in an interview, however, that it was only in her early 20s that she decided that music was to be her career.

Her first release was the single ‘Walls’ in 2006, a popular chart hit. Her rather ‘unique’ singing voice was recognized right from the beginning in her early songs and she had her own particular musical style. Her debut-album came in 2007, self-titled ‘Susanne Sundfør’. In 2008 she was awarded the Norwegian Grammy (Spellemannsprisen) for best female performance. Her next album came in 2008, the Live-album ‘Take One’ which was followed by ‘The Brothel’ in 2010. This album received great critical acclaim in Norway - reviewers called it ‘moving’ and ‘beautiful’ - and it became a national bestseller.

Her particular sound had developed into something even ‘grander’ but at the same time with her somewhat experimental edge. In 2012 she released the album ‘The Silicone Veil’ which followed in the footsteps of her previous album. In December of that year she also collaborated on Röyksopp’s single ‘Running To The Sea’ which subsequently became the Norwegian entry in FSC March 2013.


Susanne Sundfør: Albums

Susanne Sundfør (2007)
Take One (Live, 2008)
The Brothel (2010)
The Silicone Veil (2012)
Ten Love Songs (2015)
Music For People In Trouble (August 2017)


Susanne Sundfør: Singles (selection)

Walls (2006)
The Brothel (2010)
The Silicone Veil (2012)
Running To The Sea (with Röyksopp, 2012)
Fade Away (2014)
Delirious (2015)
Accelerate (2015)
Never Ever (with Röyksopp, 2016)
Undercover (2017)
Mountaineers (July 2017)


Susanne Sundfør also collaborated with main vocals on the 2013 sci-fi movie soundtrack ‘Oblivion’ and the title song from that movie.

In 2014/2015 she departed momentarily from her traditional ArtPop ‘sound’ and went for a more mainstream Synth-Pop style, but with her own ‘touch’, which was evident in her subsequent single release ‘Fade Away’, the first single from her forthcoming album. In January 2015 she released a second single from the new album ‘Ten Love Songs’ (official album-release in February 2015), another popular Retro-style Synth-Pop song called ‘Delirious’ which was also somewhat ‘Cinematic’ in nature and which received great critical acclaim and excellent fan-reviews. ‘Delirious’ was the song chosen by the Norwegian jury in FSC April 2015. A third single from the album, ‘Kamikaze’, was released in May 2015 and it was followed later that year by a fourth single called ‘Accelerate’, a ‘Dark Cinematic’ Retro Synth-Pop song, which was the song chosen by the Norwegian jury in FSC October 2015.

In 2016 she worked on songs for a new 2017-album and the first single from this album-project, ‘Undercover’, was released, to critical and fan acclaim, in June 2017. It marked a departure from her Synth-Pop sound from the previous album and a return to the slower, more atmospheric and experimental ArtPop sound of her early albums.

A second single from the new August 2017 album ‘Music For People In Trouble’ (inspired by her travels and journeys across continents and cultures) was released in July 2017, the song ‘Mountaineers’ which featured John Grant on chanting co-vocals. A fascinating, ambitious piece of music, it mixes World Music with Susanne’s soaring angelic vocals in a kind of grand ambient ArtPop-meeting between Darkness and Light. Already a critical- and fan-favourite, this is the song chosen by the Norwegian jury as the Norwegian entry here in FSC March 2018.

Susanne will now go on tour also internationally to promote her new album. One of Norway’s most prominent and talented female musicians, she is someone from whom we will without doubt hear much more in the coming years.

John Grant (born 1968) is an acclaimed American singer-songwriter. Formerly associated with the Denver-based alternative Rock band The Czars in the 1990s and early 2000s, he launched a career as a solo artist in 2010 with the album “Queen of Denmark”. It was followed by “Pale Green Ghosts” in 2013, and “Grey tickles, Black pressure” in 2015 which included several well-known guest singers. In July 2017 Grant appeared at the Royal Albert Hall in London, alongside Jarvis Cocker, Richard Hawley and Susanne Sundfør, where they performed new versions of the songs of Scott Walker. John Grant also collaborated with chanting co-vocals on Susanne Sundfør’s 2017-single “Mountaineers”. He has in recent years been living in Reykjavik, Iceland.

The Norwegian entry for FSC #109 March 2018, “Mountaineers” is a ‘special’, unique and ambitious piece of World Music-inspired Ambient ArtPop by Susanne Sundfør featuring John Grant on chanting co-vocals. The song consists of two connecting halves, where we are taken on a sacred/majestic journey from ‘Darkness into the Light’. The Norwegian jury is happy to enter Susanne Sundfør again in the FSC for Norway.


Below are the English lyrics for the song. Hope you’ll enjoy the Norwegian entry for March!

Susanne Sundfør ft. John Grant - Mountaineers


[Intro: John Grant]

Jumbo jet
Spiraling down
Like vultures of the stars

Soaring
Above barren land
Of boiling tar

The liquid rainbow spins
An ocean of scars
Among the buzzing of a million cars


[Interlude: Susanne Sundfør & John Grant]

And looking up at the heaven
Of fireflies
I cannot help but marvel
At the beauty before my eyes

Neck deep in black waters
Swimming in the soil
Of your wasted oil
What it is, what it means


[Outro: Susanne Sundfør]

What it is, what it means
Now I know
Will never be what you'd need
No

What we are, what we want
It will never change
We won't abide your laws
Anymore

What it is, what it means
Now I know
Will never be what you'd need
No

What we are, what we want
It will never change
We will break through your walls
Unstoppable

Wild wolves ( x 4 )

-M​

 

[A-lister]

FSC#109 - March 2018

SWEDEN

Sophia Somajo
A Million Songs

For this March edition, which marks my 60th entry to the FSC, Sweden is sending the electro-Pop ballad A Million Songs, performed by singer-songwriter-producer Sophia Somajo.

Somajo debuted back in 2007 with the single Stockholm Calling, which was followed up by her debut studio album The Laptop Diaries the following year. In 2011 she parted from her label and founded her own record label on which she has since released a second studio album titled T.T.I.D.S.D.I.E.U.I.C (2012) aswell as the EP Freudian Slip in 2017, which apart from this month's entry A Million Songs, also includes her 2015 single Klein Blue and the 2016 release Sapphire.

Except for her career as a solo artist, Somajo has also been working under various pseudonyms as a songwriter, producer and composer for various other acts such as Britney Spears, Robyn, Backstreet Boys and Christina Aguilera amongst others.

LYRICS:

[Verse 1]
Come on, take you apart
Pump some blood in your heart
Let me love who you are
Be the moon to your star

[Pre-Chorus]
I'm the ghost of your past
I am not your first but your last
You're the pearl, I'm the glass
And I've been wanting to ask

[Chorus]
'Cause a million songs get written about it
It's an ancient old cliché
Oh, when are you going to love me?
La la la la
La la la la
La la la la
When are you going to...
La la la la
When are you going to love me?

[Verse 2]
Come on, sing you a song
'Bout how it felt all along (Baby)
Let me tell you the truth
I've been waiting for you

[Pre-Chorus]
You're the ghost of my past
You're not my first, but my last, I tell you
You're the gold, I'm the brass
And now I'm going to ask

[Chorus]
'Cause a million songs get written about it
It's an ancient old cliché
Oh, when are you going to love me?
La la la la (Love me)
La la la la (Love me)
La la la la (Love me)
When are you going to...
La la la la
When are you going to love me?

[Bridge]
Baby, you are the pearl
And I am the glass
You are the gold
And I am the brass
You're the skies
And I am the grass
I've been waiting

[Chorus]
'Cause a million songs get written about it
It's an ancient old cliché
Oh, when are you going to love me?
La la la la (Love me)
La la la la (Love me)
La la la la (Love me)
When are you going to...
La la la la
When are you going to love me?

 

[bURN]

FSC MARCH 2018
Daniel Cesar ft H.E.R - Best Part
[Intro: H.E.R.]
Oh, ey

[Verse 1: H.E.R.]
You don't know babe
When you hold me
And kiss me slowly
It's the sweetest thing
And it don't change
If I had it my way
You would know that you are

[Pre-Chorus 1: H.E.R.]
You're the coffee that I need in the morning
You're my sunshine in the rain when it's pouring
Won't you give yourself to me
Give it all, oh

[Chorus: H.E.R. & Daniel Caesar]
I just wanna see
I just wanna see how beautiful you are
You know that I see it
I know you're a star
Where you go I'll follow
No matter how far
If life is a movie
Oh you're the best part, oh
Then You're the best part, ooh
You're the best part

[Verse 2: Daniel Caesar]
It's this sunrise
And those brown eyes, yes
You're the one that I desire
When we wake up
And then we make love
It makes me feel so nice

[Pre-Chorus 2: Daniel Caesar]
You're my water when I'm stuck in the desert
You're the Tylenol I take when my head hurts
You're the sunshine on my life

[Chorus: Daniel Caesar & H.E.R.]
I just wanna see how beautiful you are
You know that I see it
I know you're a star
Where you go I'll follow
No matter how far
If life is a movie
Then you're the best part, oh
You're the best part, ooh
You're the best part

[Outro: Daniel Caesar & H.E.R.]
If you love me won't you say something
If you love me won't you
Won't you
If you love me won't you say something
If you love me won't you
Love me, won't you
If you love me won't you say something
If you love me won't you
If you love me won't you say something
If you love me won't you
Love me, won't you
If you love me won't you say something
If you love me won't you
If you love me won't you say something
If you love me won't you
Love me, won't you

 

[JSSArcos]

FSC#109 Portugal
Artist-Alexander Search
Song-A Day of Sun

Lyrics
[FONT=&quot][And in a strange way undefined[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Lose in the one and living Whole[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The limit that I call my mind,[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The bounded thing I call my soul.][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]I love the things that children love[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Yet with a comprehension deep[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]That lifts my pining soul above[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Those in which life as yet doth sleep.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]All things that simple are and bright,[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Unnoticed unto keen‑worn wit,[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]With a child's natural delight[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]That makes me proudly weep at it.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]I love the sun with personal glee,[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The air as if I could embrace[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Its wideness with my soul and be[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]A drunkard by expense of gaze.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]I love the heavens with a joy[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]That makes me wonder at my soul,[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]It is a pleasure nought can cloy,[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]A thrilling I cannot control.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]So stretched out here let me lie[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Before the sun that soaks me up,[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]And let me gloriously die[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Drinking too deep of living's cup;[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Be swallowed of the sun and spread[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Over the infinite expanse,[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Dissolved, like a drop of dew dead[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Lost in a super‑normal trance;[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot][And in a strange way undefined[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Lose in the one and living Whole[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The limit that I call my mind,[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The bounded thing I call my soul.] (x2)[/FONT]

​

 

[hawadharma]

FSC MALAYSIA
MARCH 2018

Artist - Song Title:
SITI NORDIANA & JACLYN VICTOR
"NISAN CINTA" (Tomb of Love)

This powerful ballad duet song is a collaboration between two Malaysian finest songstress, Siti Nordiana & Jaclyn Victor.
It is the first time they collaborated and the result is amazing. Jaclyn Victor's powerful high voice complements Siti Nordiana's mellow soft vocals in a song penned by Hael Husaini for the drama "Dendam Aurora". The contrasting characteristics of their vocal represent the battle between submissiveness and revenge of the character Aurora.

Lyrics (English Translation):


(Mystery of love..)

I heard a thunder, storm might come
Come reach my hand, and endure this together
The earth is shaking, when I'm with him
Closed my eyes till I'm awake, and all will subside.
This I swear to you..

Chorus:
My footprints will not disappear by loving you
Even a thousand stars cannot be carved
Our love now buried together
And created the tomb of love

The heart keeps telling me
Just to let you go with her
Closed my eyes till I'm awake, and all will subside.
This I swear to you..

(repeat chorus)

Fate has been sealed
The promise that we will be together
Make it forever be our love

(repeat chorus)
​

 

[Malagant]

FSC #110 April 2018 - Norway

FSC #110 Norway - April 2018 - Gåte - Stolt Solvår​

Representing Norway in FSC April 2018 is the accomplished Norwegian Folk-rock band Gåte, the most famous band we have in this genre and part of Norwegian Folk-music tradition, now returned after a 7 year long break from the music-business. Here is some more information about them.

Gåte (the word means ‘riddle’ in English) is a well known Norwegian Folk-rock band from Trøndelag (region around Trondheim), Norway. The band came into being in 1999/2000 formed by Sveinung Sundli (violin, keyboards) together with his little sister Gunnhild Sundli (vocals), Gjermund Landrø (bass, backing vocals), Martin Langlie (drums) and Magnus R Børmark (guitar, keyboards). They played what came to be termed Progressive Folk-rock with some elements from metal and electronica and, above all, Norwegian Folk-music.

The band released their first EP ("Gåte") in 2000, and rapidly gained some popularity nationally and abroad. A second EP, also self-titled, was released in 2002. Their first album, "Jygri", released the same year proved to be their commercial breakthrough both in Norway and abroad, particularly in Scandinavia and Germany. They also gained a lot of media attention, particularly the wonderful distinctive voice of Gunnhild Sundli caught the interest of music journalists, who immediately started to speculate on her departure in order to establish a solo career. After the release of another EP, "Statt Opp (Maggeduliadei)" in 2003 and their second album, "Iselilja" in 2004, the band did indeed announce that they were taking a break, saying that Gunnhild wanted to devote time to other pursuits.

During this first part of their successful career they toured extensively and played almost every popular music festival in Norway, as well as the major international festival Roskilde festival in Denmark. The band reunited for one concert some years later in 2009 (now with a new drummer, Kenneth Kapstad having replaced Martin Langlie some years before), but then decided to follow this up with a mini-tour of Norway consisting of five concerts in 2010. The band now took another long break and many (both fans and critics) thought/feared the band had disbanded for good.

In 2016, however, Sveinung Sundli, the ‘nexus’ behind the band, began thinking of a comeback and finally persuaded his sister Gunnhild (and Magnus R Børmark) to return, together with several new band members (Jon Even Schärer on drums and Mats Paulsen on bass). They slowly began writing new melodies for Gåte (the first new songs for 12 years) and the first of these was released in October 2017 as a single from a forthcoming EP, the song “Stolt Solvår”. A great Norwegian Folk-rock melody in their signature style, this is the song chosen by the Norwegian jury as the Norwegian entry here in FSC April 2018.

Later in October 2017 Gåte released a second single from their forthcoming EP, “Rideboll og Gullborg”, and then in November 2017 the EP itself called “Attersyn” was released, to great critical acclaim and jubilation from their many fans in Norway and abroad. It consisted of their two new singles as well as two other songs. A new full album from Gåte is expected later this spring 2018 though it is uncertain at present whether it will include (some/all of) these songs also. What is certain, however, is that we will hear more from this accomplished Norwegian Folk-rock band in the future.

The Norwegian entry for FSC #110 April 2018, called “Stolt Solvår”, is a new melodic Norwegian Folk-rock song, performed in New Norwegian (Nynorsk, our 2nd older and dialect-style language which goes parallell with ‘main’ Norwegian (bokmål)), with a solid basis in Norwegian Folk-music tradition. The Norwegian jury is happy to enter Gåte in the FSC for Norway.

Below are the New Norwegian (Nynorsk) lyrics for the song and a translation into English. Hope you’ll enjoy the Norwegian entry for April!

Gåte - Stolt Solvår

Stolt Solvår døydde i tvinga kår / Proud Solvår died in hard circumstances
Det ingen i elskhugen gløymde / Which no beloved ever forgot
Ho burte blei i sin fagre vår / She should have been in the spring of her life
Så vondt om henne dei drøymde / Painful dreams they had of her demise

Aia- Aia- dei syndi kan ei vendas / Oh no, oh no - those sins can not be reversed
Aia- Aia- dei syndi kan ei vendas / Oh no, oh no - those sins can not be reversed

I grava falma dei rosekinn / In the grave those blooming cheeks paled
Som valden gav slik ein lagnad / Which the violence had given such a fate
Men enn ho stråla i saknesinn / But she still shone in minds remembered
Så verdig i all sin fagnad / So dignified in its resplendance

Aia- Aia- dei syndi kan ei vendas / Oh no, oh no - those sins can not be reversed
Aia- Aia- dei syndi kan ei vendas / Oh no, oh no - those sins can not be reversed

Rykte det gjekk om den daude / A rumour passed around about the dead one
Mordaren stakk og blei i det aude / The murderer ran away and was never found
Folket syrgde slikt kunne hende / The people grieved that such could come to pass
At fagre Solvår slik skulle ende / That beautiful Solvår should come to such an end

Aia- Aia- dei syndi kan ei vendas / Oh no, oh no - those sins can not be reversed
Aia- Aia- dei syndi kan ei.. / Oh no, oh no - those sins can not be..

Langt av leid / Suffering far and wide
Høgt ivi heid / High above the head
Glødde så blodige skyer / Blood-filled clouds glowed
Vissa er vill / All certainty is lost
Natta så still / The night is so quiet
Det er som allting lyder / It is as if everything makes a sound

Aia- Aia- dei syndi kan ei vendas / Oh no, oh no - those sins can not be reversed
Aia- Aia- dei syndi kan ei vendas / Oh no, oh no - those sins can not be reversed

Aia- Aia- dei syndi kan ei vendas / Oh no, oh no - those sins can not be reversed
Aia- Aia- dei syndi kan ei vendas / Oh no, oh no - those sins can not be reversed

-M​

 

[A-lister]

FSC#110 - April 2018

SWEDEN

Stockholm Noir
Hopeless Dreams

Spring is coming (if you're at the Northern hemisphere that is), and for the 110th edition of the FSC, Sweden is sending the mysterious and mesmerizing electro-Pop track Hopeless Dreams, performed by the equally mysterious DJ/Producers' project which goes under the act name of Stockholm Noir. Now little is known publicly about this act, other than it consists of at least a couple of Swedish producers and DJ's. As for the vocalist of the track, it has been kept a secret as well, with music bloggers and others speculating it could be anyone from Eurovision winner Loreen to worldwide superstar Beyoncé. The mystery still lingers on, but despite all of that, this is a track that got me hooked for the first time I heard it and it was amongst my most streamed songs of 2017. Now let's see what you have to say about it, does it have the same effect on you as it had on me?

LYRICS:

[Verse 1]
Blood in the water
Dive in deep
Eyes in the mirror
You could take the best of me (Oh)

Your love is the worst trip I'll ever need
The moment we make love
I go inside my shell and bleed (Oh)

[Bridge]
Take me to the south of France
I'll feel poor again
Fogging up the hourglass
With no air
Pop a bottle of champagne
I'll dress up for you
I'll look pretty

[Chorus]
All these hopeless, hopeless dreams
Hopeless, hopeless,
Hopeless dreams
You can take the rest of me
My heart beats
Hopeless, hopeless dreams
Hopeless, hopeless,
Hopeless dreams
You can take the rest of me

[Verse 2]
I paint on a smile
Come laugh with me
Just us three now
Molly, you and Harley Quinn

Oh Dress me in diamonds
Like I'm your queen
Fill up the empty
That's lurking deep inside of me

[Bridge]
Take me to the south of France
I'll feel poor again
Fogging up the hourglass
With no air
Pop a bottle of champagne
I'll dress up for you
I'll look pretty

[Chorus]
All these hopeless, hopeless dreams
Hopeless, hopeless,
Hopeless dreams
You can take the rest of me
My heart beats
Hopeless, hopeless dreams
Hopeless, hopeless,
Hopeless dreams
You can take the rest of me (Hey)

[Outro]
(Oh... Mmm)
Hopeless, hopeless dreams
Hopeless, hopeless dreams

 

[AdilHassani]

FRANCE

Amixem and YouTunes - La chanson putaclic (The clickbait song)

Amixem and Youtunes (Now JOYCA) are french Youtubers who sang together the clickbait song on clickbaits miniatures on YouTube :

The song :

And in bonus, here's the making-of of the song :

 

[Eulaliya]

THE PHILIPPINES' ENTRY FOR FSC #110 - APRIL 2018

MOIRA DELA TORRE
"Tagpuan"

Lyrics

Di, di ko inakalang
Darating din sa akin
Nung ako'y nanalangin kay Bathala
Naubusan ng bakit

Bakit umalis nang walang sabi?
Bakit 'di siya lumaban kahit konti?
Bakit 'di maitama ang tadhana?

At nakita kita sa tagpuan ni Bathala
May kinang sa mata na di maintindihan
Tumingin kung saan sinubukan kong lumisan
At tumigil ang mundo
Nung ako'y ituro mo
Siya ang panalangin ko

At hindi di mapaliwanag
Ang nangyari sa akin
Saksi ang lahat ng tala
Sa iyong panalangin

Pano nasagot lahat ng bakit?
Di makapaniwala sa nangyari
Pano mo naitama ang tadhana?

Nung nakita kita sa tagpuan ni Bathala
May kinang sa mata na di maintindihan
Tumingin kung saan sinubukan kong lumisan
At tumigil ang mundo
Nung ako'y ituro mo
At hindi ka lumayo
Nung ako yung sumusuko
At nagbago ang mundo
Nung ako'y pinaglaban mo
At tumigil ang mundo
Nung ako'y pinili mo
Siya ang panalangin ko

---
English translation by me

I never thought that it came to me
when I pray to the Lord
all my doubts fade away

Why did it leave without telling me?
Why didn't it fight without even a move?
Why didn't it change the destiny?

[Chorus]
And I saw you in the midst of the Lord
With an unexplained sparkle in the eye
Glancing everywhere I tried to flee
And the world stood still
When I pointed at you
It was my prayer

And it was unclear
what happened to me
Your prayer became a witness to the stars

How would all the whys be answered?
Can't believe what happened
Why didn't you change the destiny?

[Chorus]*


​

 

[Bakinka]

AZERBAIJAN' ENTRY FOR FSC #110 - APRIL 2018

ELNUR HUSEYNOV feat. Fidan
" Say Hallelujah "

Elnur Hüseynov (born 3 March 1987) is an Azerbaijani singer.
He was Azerbaijan's representative to perform "Day After Day" at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 alongside Samir Javadzadeh as duo Elnur and Samir.

In 2015, he won the fourth season of The Voice of Turkey and represented Azerbaijan in the 60th Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Hour of the Wolf".