FSC Promotions Thread

[Ausesken]

Leiva is the artistic name of José Miguel Conejo Torres, born in Madrid in 1980. He used to be one of the leaders of the rock band Pereza, but after its dissolution he started a solo career. La llamada (="The call") is his most recent single, which has been used as the main song of the Spanish musical comedy film also called La llamada (Holy Camp! in English). Recently it won the Goya (Spain's main national annual film awards) as the 'best original song'.

The videoclip is made of scenes of this film, the reason why you probably think you don't understand it much. In case someone here understands Spanish, I post the trailer below. Basically, it's about two teenagers that spend the summer in a Catholic camp and one of them starts to experience God's apparitions (musical apparitions, like he is inspiring her with music). It's a very particular God, as you can see 2

The chorus in English means "today I've felt the call with all the strenght, the lights off and the legs opened".

 

[Eulaliya]

THE PHILIPPINES' ENTRY FOR FSC #115 - SEPTEMBER 2018

UNIQUE
"Midnight Sky"

Unique Torralba Salonga (born April 26, 2000), popularly known as Unique Salonga or simply by the mononym Unique (stylized as UNIQUE) is a Filipino musician and singer-songwriter. He began his career as vocalist and original frontman of IV of Spades and later pursued a solo career.

Lyrics

Every time in my mind
I'm telling myself
Should I be?
Who will be?
The man who'll hold your hand

Whenever I close my eyes
I can see your lovely smile
And I open it again
And then I see the midnight sky

Wishing that I'll be
The man that'll touch and see
I'll give my love that can't explain
We will be running in the rain
And I will hold your hand
Hold my hand
Hmmmm
Hmmmm

Too much pain
Can heal a thousand scars
Feeling alone
So I'm talking to the stars

Whenever I close my eyes
I can see your lovely smile
And I open it again
And then I see the midnight sky

Wishing that I'll be
The man that'll touch and see
I'll give my love that can't explain
We will be running in the rain

And i will hold your hand
Hold my hand
Hold my hand
Hold my hand
I will hold your hand
​

 

[JSSArcos]

FSC PORTUGAL
​

ARY are a Portuguese Alt. Electro-Rock band from Lisbon formed by members Erika Martyns, Dénis Rhomays, Ziig Mendes and David Rodrigues.
The roots of the project began with Erika (vocals) and Dénis (producer/guitar). A new soundscape was planned, an energetic blend between catchy melodies, hard hitting drums, electronic elements and heavy guitars. Something was still missing. The liveliness of being in a room playing music with more people, the felling of being part of a group... For these and many other reasons, Ziig (bassist) joined the band. ARY started to make sense and grow as a solid project, but nevertheless, one critical element was still missing. Rhythm. David Rodrigues (drummer), joined the gang and became the missing piece the band was looking for.

 

[hawadharma]

FSC MALAYSIA
SEPTEMBER 2018

Artist: ARA JOHARI
Song: BUNGA

Lyrics (English Translation)
Every beautiful things, and sweet in the tongue
They will be lost, all of them
The dry leaves will fall to the ground
Kissing the earth, when season changes

Bridge:
In this borderless desert, I lost my soul
But I found this flower

Chorus:
The moment you own me
All your words and promises subsided
I did all I can, give all I have
Believing in you, is my stupidity

(repeat bridge)
(repeat chorus)
​

 

[A-lister]

FSC#115 - September 2018

SWEDEN

Paul Rey
What Good is Love

For this September edition of FSC, Sweden is sending the 26-year old R&B/Soul/Pop singer Pauli Jokela aka Paul Rey. Jokela, who originally comes from the university town of Lund in the most southern region of Skane in Sweden, debuted as a rapper under the abbreviation P.J. back in 2012 with his debut album Makin' Moves, however it wasn't until he changed musical direction and signed with Epic Records in the USA and with the release of the EP Good as Hell in 2015, that he started to gain some attention.

This month's entry to the FSC, the gospel and soul inspired midtempo power Pop ballad What Good is Love, is Jokela's third single release under the Paul Rey pseudonym and was released in 2017, following the single All Falls Down. Jokela released his follow-up EP Note to Self earlier this year and we have to wait until a debut Paul Rey album will see the day of light, but until then let's enjoy this superb song and talented young aspiring singer.

LYRICS:

[Verse 1]
We had ups, we had downs, we had joy and
Had both sides of the coin, don't apologize
Apologize
We can say every day it's perfect
But you know and I know it's a bunch of lies
A bunch of lies

[Chorus]
What good is love when it's broken?
What good is love when it's hopeless?
What good is love when it's over?
I don't know
What good is love when it's broken?
What good is love when it's hopeless?
What good is love when it's over?
I don't know

[Post-Chorus]
What good is love when it's over?
(What is?)
What good is love when it's over?
(What is?)
What good is love when it's over?
(What is?)
What good is love when it's over?
I don't know, oh, oh, oh

[Verse 2]
Can't deny that we've both could've tried more
Wouldn't change where we are, why apologize?
Apologize
We were bound to break up
Even though we made up after every single fight
Had our loving nights but

[Chorus]
What good is love when it's broken?
What good is love when it's hopeless?
What good is love when it's over?
I don't know

[Post-Chorus]
What good is love when it's over?
(What is? What is?)
What good is love when it's over?
(What is? What is?)
What good is love when it's over?
(What is? What is?)
What good is love when it's over?
I don't know, oh, oh, oh

[Bridge]
What good are words when you're silent?
What good is beats when you're violent?
What good is truth when you're lying?
I don't know

[Post-Chorus]
What good is love when it's over?
(What is? What is?)
What good is love when it's over?
(What is? What is?)
What good is love when it's over?
(What is? What is?)
What good is love when it's over?
I don't know
What good is love when it's over?
(What is? What is?)
What good is love when it's over?
(What is? What is?)
What good is love when it's over?
(What is? What is?)
What good is love when it's over?
I don't know

 

[Malagant]

FSC #116 October 2018 - Norway

FSC #116 Norway - October 2018 - Hanne Sørvaag - Eg spele Memory ​

Representing Norway in FSC October 2018, a new artist from Norway in FSC, is the multi-talented (and imho naturally beautiful) songwriter and pop-artist Hanne Sørvaag. Here is some more information about her.

Hanne Margrethe Fredriksen Sørvaag - artist name Hanne Sørvaag (born 1979 in Stavanger, Norway) - is a well known Norwegian singer & songwriter of many years. She released her first album, ‘You Know Me’ (Sony/Columbia), under the artist name Paris in 2002. The album gave her three radio-hits in Norway. Her second album, ‘Talk of the Town’ (Diamond Road Music), was released in 2006 under her own name. The first single from this album was "I Don't Feel a Thing". She wrote all the music herself for this album. In the following years she also wrote many songs for other artists. In 2011 she released a new album ‘Cover me’ with her own versions of songs she had written for other artists. In Norway this has been her most successful album to date, making the top 10 of the national chart. The album was followed by ‘All is Forgiven’ (a country-music album) in 2012, ‘Christmas Lights’ in 2013 and ‘Featuring’ in 2016.

Her career as a songwriter for other artists has possibly been even more successful and it is mainly for her songwriting skills that she is known internationally. Her perhaps most famous contribution is on the song ‘My Destiny’ which she co-wrote (with Harry Sommerdahl and Tim Baxter), performed and released by American Idolist Katharine McPhee, reaching second place on the American Billboard Singlelist in Week 28 in 2006. Together with the two Danish songwriters Remee and Thomas Troelsen she also wrote the song ‘Disappear’ which the group No Angels performed for Germany in the International Final of Eurovision Song Contest 2008. The Norwegian (‘My Heart Is Yours’) and Georgian (‘Shine’ sung by Sofia Nizharadze) entries in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest were both co-written by Hanne Sørvaag. She has also co-written other songs for the Eurovision Song Contest, and also Norwegian MGP.

She herself participated in the Melodi Grand Prix 2011 with two songs, "You’re Like a Melody", which was written and sung by her, and with "Guns & Boys", which was co-written by her and sung by Carina Dahl.

Having lived many years abroad Hanne Sørvaag moved back to Scandinavia, living a period in Stockholm, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark before settling in her native Norway. Having written mostly pop-music for much of her career she has ventured into the realms of country-music at times but has never released an album in the Norwegian language although that has been something she has long wanted to do. She has been active on several fronts in the past years, including several appearances on tv in various tv-shows.

She has been judge/mentor on Norwegian ‘Voice’ talent-show several times and in 2017 took part in a program called ‘Hver gang vi møtes’ on Norwegian TV2. Here several artists met up and performed each other’s songs. Hanne performed a beautiful version of Swedish-Norwegian Benny Borg’s song ‘God morgen, min kjære’ which subsequently topped the Norwegian Spotify- and iTunes charts. Delighted with the response to her singing in Norwegian, Hanne decided it was time to make that all-Norwegian album. She started work on new melodies, written/co-written by her, and the new album - preceeded in spring 2018 by the single ‘Har eg mista deg allerede?’- was finally released at the end of August 2018.

Called ‘Som om me hørte samen’, the CD-album was Hanne’s most personal in her career. It had 11 songs in Norwegian and the theme was ‘lost love’ / divorce of her parents in childhood and memories of heartache. Her many fans were delighted with the album, the reviews were good, and she has shown that she is a much respected and beloved artist among Norwegians. One of the new songs on the album, co-written by Hanne, was the beautful, emotional ballad of melancholy, ‘Eg spele Memory’. This is the song chosen by the Norwegian jury as the Norwegian entry here in FSC October 2018.

Hanne Sørvaag is busy promoting her new album this autumn and will also hold concerts around in Norway. She is a multi-talented Norwegian songwriter and pop-singer from whom we will without doubt hear more in the years to come.

The Norwegian entry for FSC #116 October 2018, called “Eg spele Memory”, co-written by Hanne Sørvaag herself, is a beautiful ballad filled with emotional melancholy, performed in the Norwegian language (in Hanne Sørvaag’s own Stavanger-dialect). The Norwegian jury is happy to enter Hanne Sørvaag in the FSC for Norway.


Below are the lyrics in Norwegian (Stavanger-dialect) and with a translation into English. Hope you’ll enjoy the Norwegian entry for October!

Hanne Sørvaag - Eg spele Memory

Eg har bare et minne i huset her / I only have one memory in this house
Eg huske så godt at du sa / I remember so well when you said
Me har ingenting me kan gjera samen mer / There is nothing more we can do together
Så nå er eg nødt tel å dra / So now I have to leave

Eg sa dokker kan spela Memory / I said, you can play Memory (concentration card-game)
Og eg fekk et slags smil til svar / And I got a kind of smile in reply
Av og te så tenker eg på Memory / Now and again I think about Memory
Det spelet der alle blir var / The game where everyone is attentive

Men du dro ligavel, og kom aldri tebage / But you still left, and never returned
Du blei brikken som manglar, som eg ville ha der / You were the missing piece, I wanted here
Så gjekk det ikkje opp, ikkje i spelet / And we did not succeed in the game
Og ikkje med oss, for den dagen du sa det / Neither with us, because that day you told us

Og eg spele Memory ennå, litt for å huska / And I play Memory still, a bit in order to recall
Men mest for å glømma / But mostly in order to forget

Eg kan huske du stod nedi gata der / I can remember you standing down there in the street
Og det minnet det er ikkje svagt / And that memory it is not weak
Er det en som har prøvd å glømma det / As someone who has tried to forget it
Eller sløres tido lavt / Or is a veil drawn over time

Fyst hadde eg lyst til at klemma deg / At first I wanted to hug you
Og så ville du ta deg vekk / And then you pulled away
Alt det eg kjente forandre seg / All my feelings changed
For den dagen du gjekk / Because on that day you went away

For du dro ligavel, og kom aldri tebage / Since you still left, and never returned
Du blei brikken som manglar, som eg ville ha der / You were the missing piece I wanted here
Så gjekk det ikkje opp, ikkje i spelet / And we did not succeed in the game
Og ikkje med oss, for den dagen du sa det / Neither with us, because that day you told us

Og eg spele Memory ennå, litt for å huska / And I play Memory still, a bit in order to recall
Men mest for å glømma / But mostly in order to forget

Men mest for å glømma / But mostly in order to forget

-M​

 

[CypriotGirl]

Ivi Adamou - Pame ke mi rotas

 

[bURN]

CANADA AVRIL LAVIGNE- HEAD ABOVE WATER CANADA

FSC OCTOBER 2016

 

[Lietuvis]

FSC #116 Lithuania - October 2018


Baltos Varnos - Dalija

 

[hawadharma]

FSC
MALAYSIA
OCTOBER 2018

Artist / Song:
ALTIMET - "BUNGA"


Lyrics (Malay/English)
​

MALAY	ENGLISH TRANSLATION
[Verse 1]	[Verse 1]
Pening kepala, takde duit belanja	Having headache, got no money to spend
Kecewa kerana orang lain shopping selamba	Disappointed 'cause everybody else on shopping spree
Nak merasa, nak join sekali bersama	I want it too, want to join 'em all
Mereka-mereka yang viral trending semasa	All those guys who are currently viral and trending
Nak apa yang dia ada	I want what they have
Aku nak orang berkata:	I want people to say
"Ada gaya Subang Jaya, hari-hari hari raya ahh"	"You got Subang Jaya style, celebrate Raya everyday"
Tak sanggup tunggu lama	I cannot wait any longer
Takde duit, takde masa	No money, no time
Aku jumpa satu brader	I went to see a 'brother'
Tanya cam mana, dia berkata	Asked him how, and he says,
[Pre-Chorus]	[Pre-Chorus]
Hey, isi ini borang	Hey, fill in this form
Keluar wang berkoyan	Take out loads of money
Korang jangan goyang (bayar kemudian, ooh)	You don't have to worry (pay it later, ooh)
Mohon terus lulus	Apply and approved straight away
Tandatangan terus	Drop your signature
Siapa taknak berlambak fulus?	Who doesn't want easy money?
[Chorus]	[Chorus]
Bagai bulan jatuh ke riba	Like moon falling to the lap
Nak duit, nak duit, dapat sekali bunga	I want money, want money, take the flower (read: interest)
Jatuh bulan kan ada riba	When moon falls, there is a lap (read: cheating/usury)
Nah duit, nah duit, sertakan bunga	Here's the money, and also the flower (read: interest)
Jangan sampai kena sita	Don't let them auction you
Takde duit untuk bayar bunga	When you got no money to pay the interest
Sampai boleh naik gila	You can go crazy
Rumah takde taman, masih ada bunga !	A house without garden, still have flower !
[Verse 2]	[Verse 2]
Yeahhh man!	Yeahhh man!
Serba satu, semua serba baru	I bought each and every new item
Kalau tak, tak laku, mereka semua cerca aku	If not, they'll bad mouth me
Ramai kawan baru, that's my instantfam	Got many new friends, that’s my instant family
Semua laju, post pasal baju kat Instagram	Everything's fast, post about new outfit on Instagram
Beemer 3 liter, kopi mahal, kafe hipster	3 liter Beemer, expensive coffee, hipster café
Bukan penglipurlara, tapi tiada gebang bila cerita	I am not a storyteller, but I'm not bluffing
Putih mata, lupakan kisah lama	My eyes turn white, let's forgot old stories
Kalau nak lagi jumpa itu brader dia berkata	If you want more, go see that 'brother', he'll say,
Repeat [Pre-Chorus] and [Chorus]
[Bridge]	[Bridge]
Hehehehehehe	(laughing)
Bayaran tak cantik tolong bagi balik	Your payback slacks, please give it back
Tanya baik-baik sebelum ditarik	I'll ask properly before I seize everything
Bulan ni dah lambat, tolong bagi cepat	You're late this month, please give it fast
Engkau dah terjerat, terikat ketat (hah)	You're trapped now, tied and bound (hah)
Mana mahu lari, jangan kecik hati	Where you wanna run, don't take it to the heart
Janji tetap janji, perempuan atau laki	Promises are promises, whether you're a girl or a guy
Tunggak punya tunggak, pokok dan baki	You keep delaying, principal payment and the balances
Bunga tanam sekali, hutang sampai mati!	Since you plant the flower, you'll carry your debt to death!
Repeat [Chorus]

​

 

[A-lister]

FSC#116 - October 2018

SWEDEN

Sanna Nielsen
Innan du lämnar mig

For this edition, we are slowing down the tempo and switching back to the Swedish language again with the comeback of Sanna Nielsen to the FSC. This is the second time the Schlager-Pop singer, Melodifestivalen-veteran and former Eurovision Song Contest contestant, is entered to the contest (following a top. 10 position back in February 2017 with the entry Dansar bort med någon annan) <- click the title to read more about Sanna and her previous entry...

The entry for this edition titled; Innan du lämnar mig (Before You Leave Me), is a classic yet timeless piano-Pop-ballad, a beautiful Swedish schlager-Pop-power-Ballad, presenting a personal and bittersweet love story sung by one of Sweden's finest vocalists, simply a nice fitting and calming start to the autumn (Northern hemisphere) period, just relax and enjoy!

LYRICS:

[Verse 1]
Hur fint det än varit vet jag
Att jag kommer ångra att jag såg dig den dan
Det var tiotusentals
Men det kändes som att det bara var du och jag

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Din blick säger mer än dina ord
När du säger att du känner som jag gör
Vet inte vad jag längre ska tro
När du blir kall och allting vissnar och dör

[Chorus]
För jag ger allt jag har
Men det kommer aldrig räcka för dig
Fast du är allt jag har
Tänker jag gå innan du lämnar mig
Innan du lämnar mig

[Verse 2]
Du sa att vi alltid ska va
Som vi var den första tiden den sommaren
Och jag sa att allting måste väl ta slut
För ingenting kan vara så stark för alltid

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Din blick säger mer än dina ord
När du säger att du känner som jag gör
Vet inte vad jag längre ska tro
När du blir kall fryser mitt hjärta sönder

[Chorus]
För jag ger allt jag har
Men det kommer aldrig räcka för dig
Fast du är allt jag har
Tänker jag gå innan du lämnar mig
Innan du lämnar mig

[Post-Chorus]
Innan du lämnar mig
Innan du lämnar mig

[Outro]
För jag ger allt jag har
Men det kommer aldrig räcka för dig
Fast du är allt jag har
Tänker jag gå innan du lämnar mig
Innan du lämnar mig

LYRICS [ENGLISH TRANSLATION]:

[Verse 1]
Although how beautiful it was, I know
That I will regret that I met you that day
It was tens of thousands
But it felt like it was only you and me

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Your eyes say more than your words
When you say that you feel like I do
Don't know what I should believe any longer
When you get cold and everything wilts and dies

[Chorus]
Because I give everything I have
But it will never be enough for you
Though you are all I have
I intend to leave before you leave me
Before you leave me

[Verse 2]
You said we will always be
As we were the first time that summer
And I said everything has to come to an end
For nothing can be so strong forever

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Your eyes say more than your words
When you say you feel like I do
Don't know what I should believe any longer
When you get cold, my heart is freezing apart

[Chorus]
Because I give everything I have
But it will never be enough for you
Though you are all I have
I intend to leave before you leave me
Before you leave me

[Post-Chorus]
Before you leave me
Before you leave me

[Outro]
Because I give everything I have
But it will never be enough for you
Though you are all I have
I intend to leave before you leave me
Before you leave me

 

[JSSArcos]

​

Karetus-Carlos Silva and André Reis are the protagonists of Karetus. Passionate about electronic music, and all of its variances, they ambition to change this genre of music to what they call a "Full Flavor" effect, an idea that does not connect to styles or rhythms, but whose main objective is simply to produce and play the best music. Owners of an incredible show, always marking the audience with an unforgettable live experience. The custom sets and equipped with specialized software & FX is what characterizes them most. With millions of YouTube views and several hundred thousand followers on social networks, Karetus are a phenomenon of popularity and performance.

Bárbara Sofia Holanda Bandeira (Azeitão, 23 of June of 2001) is a Portuguese singer of only 17 years.

Yuzi is a little known Portuguese rapper.


Portugal brings a music quite different from other editions, with more electronic styles ,this music mainly speaks of the union of the people in the festivals :twisted: (This song is based on an anthem of a music festival in Portugal)

 

[Bakinka]

FSC#116 - October 2018


AZERBAIJAN ​

Dihaj ft. Uran - We Shall See Them Sometimes

May be this song is a mess. I didn't like its melody. But I like this song because of its great social message.

“A society’s mental state is determined by its attitude to people with mental health problems”

This person is Emil Huseynov. He is 18 years old. When he was a kid he had a head trauma and right after that he started his treatment in Republican Psychiatric Hospital №1.
He spent 4 years in hospital . Last year he was allowed to leave the secession . Now he works and lives on farm 24/7 , plays in local pantomime troupe in same hospital.

He performs rap and is dreaming to become famous rapper. He has to go for mental check twice a week . As he has mental enquiry he has problems with getting an appropriate job.

This collaboration is part of social work held by charity organization Medeni Niyyet whos aim is to integrate art therapy as high-grade mental treatment in hospitals and bringing in humanity into common life of ordinary citizens.

 

[Malagant]

FSC #117 November 2018 - Norway

FSC #117 Norway - November 2018 - Sirenia - Into The Night ​

Representing Norway in FSC November 2018, and returning to the FSC for Norway after 1 year, is the famous Norwegian Symphonic Metal-band Sirenia. Here is some more information about them.

Sirenia, named after the Sirens of Greek mythology, was founded in 2001 by the Norwegian musician Morten Veland (who also has a one-man Metal-band called Mortemia), after he left the Norwegian Gothic Metal band Tristania due to musical disagreements and personal differences.


The band has had several changes in members over the years, but the current members of Sirenia are:

Morten Veland (band founder; songwriter, guitar, male growl vocals, synth-programming)
Jan Erik Soltvedt (guitar)
Nils Courbaron (guitar)
Emmanuelle Zoldan (female vocals)


Their 1st album was “At Sixes and Sevens” in 2002. Sirenia’s 2nd album “An Elixir For Existence” came in 2004 plus one EP “Sirenian Shores” also in 2004. For these albums Sirenia recruited the Norwegian singer Henriette Bordvik. Sirenia sounded on their first albums like a mixture of hard Goth Metal/Rock with Symphonic and also Black/Death metal elements.

Their album “Nine Destinies and a Downfall” was released in February 2007. This album had a ‘softer’ Symphonic Rock/Metal sound and Sirenia introduced a new female singer, Danish Monika Pedersen, after Henriette Bordvik left. In 2009 they released an album called “The 13th Floor”. With this album Sirenia once again changed female vocalist, Spanish Ailyn taking over.

In 2011 Sirenia released a new album “The Enigma of Life”. It included “All My Dreams”, the Norwegian entry in FSC March 2011, and “Fading Star”, the Norwegian entry in FSC August 2011. In May 2013 a powerful and epic Symphonic Metal song called “Seven Widows Weep” was released as a new single. It became the Norwegian entry in FSC August 2013. The new album “Perils of the Deep Blue” was released in June 2013. It included also the melodic Metal-song “My Destiny Coming To Pass” which became the Norwegian entry in FSC February 2014.

The 2015-album “The Seventh Life Path” was released in May 2015. It included the Symphonic ‘Gothic’ Metal song “Serpent” which was the Norwegian entry in FSC June 2015. In August 2016 Ailyn left Sirenia and they chose Emmanuelle Zoldan, an opera-trained and -educated singer who they had worked with for long (in the Sirenia choir), as her replacement.

Sirenia worked on a new album in 2016 and a first single ,“The 12th Hour”, was released in October 2016. It was followed in early November 2016 by the title-track “Dim Days of Dolor”. This became the Norwegian entry in FSC October 2017. The album “Dim Days of Dolor” was released in November 2016 and also included the powerful epic song “Goddess of the Sea” which was the Norwegian entry in FSC December 2016.

In 2018 Sirenia worked on music for a new album and the first single, called ‘Love Like Cyanide’, was released in September 2018. The new album itself, named ‘Arcane Astral Aeons’, was finally released on 26th October 2018 to critical- and fan-acclaim. One of the great songs on this brand new album is the melodic Symphonic Metal-track ‘Into The Night’, the second single from the album released earlier in October. This is the song chosen by the Norwegian jury as the Norwegian entry here in FSC November 2018.

Sirenia are going on tour the next months to promote their new album. As the only Norwegian quality Symphonic/Gothic Metal band still active, Metal-fans in Norway and abroad hope this band will continue to mesmerize with their epic Symphonic music for many years to come.

The Norwegian entry for FSC #117 November 2018, called “Into The Night”, is another great epic melodic Symphonic Metal-song by Norwegian band Sirenia. The Norwegian jury is happy to enter Sirenia again in the FSC for Norway.


Below are the lyrics in English. Hope you’ll enjoy the Norwegian entry for November!

Sirenia - Into The Night

Into the eye of the storm
Deception is grey
The plastic in form
Into the depths of the sea
I cannot breathe
I melt into sleep

As the end go deeper with a boat on the sea

(Into the night) The waves grow higher
(Into the night) Where force conspire
Here, where old devil is here
(Into the night) So cold and dire
(Into the night) The moon rise higher
Here, at the end of my fears

Into the lingering dark
No light in my heart
No grin or a spark
Into the realms of the moon
I'll fly ‘till there's proof
A dying maroon

The undertaker invites me too soon

(Into the night) The waves grow higher
(Into the night) Where force conspire
Here, where old devil is here
(Into the night) So cold and dire
(Into the night) The moon rise higher
Here, at the end of my fears

(Into the dark) Les vagues se déchaînent
(Into the dark) L'ennemi conspire
(Into the dark)

(Into the night) The waves grow higher
(Into the night) Where force conspire
Here, where old devil is here
(Into the night) So cold and dire
(Into the night) The moon rise higher
Here, at the end of my fears

(Into the night) The waves grow higher
(Into the night) Where force conspire
Here, where old devil is here
(Into the night) So cold and dire
(Into the night) The moon rise higher
Here, at the end of my fears

-M​

 

[B3stbeats]

FSC #117 November 2018 - Spain

FSC #117 Spain - November 2018 - Ska-P - Jaque Al Rey ​

The FSC #117 spanish representant is the Ska-P Band. Is a ska punk band formed in Vallecas (Madrid), Spain, in 1994 by a group of friends from Madrid, Navarre and Euskadi.

The band can be categorized, politically, as an anti-establishment musical group, sometimes even considered Anarchist, actually they are Anarkocomunists. It is one of the most popular ska bands in Spain, Europe, and Latin America.

Musically, despite their fun image, Ska-P has well-rehearsed and tight arrangements, and as of 2002, includes among its members a small but striking brass section which gives the band a powerful sound.

At the end of 2004, they announced work on a new album. After voting 4 against 2, in February 2005, the sudden and unexpected announcement was made that the band would take a break to allow the members to work on side projects, though some considered the band to have dissolved. The band's worldwide farewell tour of 2005 ended in Buenos Aires, Argentina in October of that year. Their farewell concert on September 24, 2005, filled the 10,000-seat La Cubierta.

On 12 October 2007 the band confirmed they were getting back together and on 5 September 2008 released the single "Crimen sollicitationis". This was followed in October 2008 by a new album, Lágrimas y Gozos (Tears and Joys), which was released on 7 October 2008. The release of the album would be followed by a brief tour.

Ska-P returned to La Cubierta Stadium on 27 December 2008 to perform their only concert in Spain of that tour. Today the band still tours in the USA, Mexico, and Europe. In 2010 and 2011 Ska-P held their first tour in Japan.

Letra/Lyrics/Paroles

No vengo de los cuentos ni la ciencia ficción
Soy jefe del estado sin ganar elección
Que me cuentas peón, mi vida es el copón
Me apellido Borbón

No me cuentes tus penas que voy a bostezar
No sé lo que es un pico ni lo que es madrugar
Que me cuentas peón, mi vida es el copón
Me apellido Borbón

Me apellido Borbón (Que me cuentas peón)
Me apellido Borbón (Mi vida es el copón)
Que me cuentas peón, mi vida es el copón
Me apellido Borbón

Mañana Arabia
Luego a Pekín
Soy emisario de mi país
La gran empresa
Me adorará
Por mis servicios
Todos a bailar

¡Jaque al rey!
La tercera está en camino ya
¡Jaque al rey!
Para ti, para mi, para el rey
¡Jaque al rey!
La tercera se puede palpar
¡Jaque al rey!
Para ti, para mi, fuera el rey

Me importa una mierda si te van a desahuciar
Yo duermo en la zarzuela o el palacio real
Que me cuentas peón, mi vida es el copón
Me apellido Borbón

Me apellido Borbón (Que me cuentas peón)
Me apellido Borbón (Mi vida es el copón)
Que me cuentas peón, mi vida es el copón
Me apellido Borbón

¡Ole, ole!

¡Jaque al rey!
La tercera está en camino ya
¡Jaque al rey!
Para ti, para mi, para el rey
¡Jaque al rey!
La tercera se puede palpar
¡Jaque al rey!
Para ti, para mi, fuera el rey
Fuera el rey

Gracias al dictador
Gracias al dictador
Gracias al dictador, por la gracia de Dios
Soy una institución

Gracias al dictador (Gracias al dictador)
Gracias al dictador (Gracias al dictador)
Gracias al dictador, por la gracia de Dios
Y a su constitución

¡Jaque al rey!
Ni reyes ni amos
¡Jaque al rey!
Ni esclavos ni lacayos
¡Jaque al rey!
Ni reyes ni amos
¡Jaque al rey!
Ni esclavos ni lacayos
¡Jaque al rey!
Ni reyes ni amos
¡Jaque al rey!
Ni esclavos ni lacayos
¡Jaque al rey!
Ni reyes ni amos
¡Jaque al rey!
Para ti, para mi, fuera el rey

 

[JSSArcos]

Marisa dos Reis Nunes (born 16 December 1973), is a popular Portuguese fado singer.Mariza was born in Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique, to a Portuguese father and a mother of partial African heritage.When she was three years old, her family moved to Metropolitan Portugal, and she was raised in Lisbon's historic quarters of Mouraria and Alfama. While very young she began singing in a wide variety of musical styles, including gospel, soul and jazz. Her father strongly encouraged her to adopt fado; he felt that participating in the traditional music would grant her greater acceptance in the Portuguese community. Mariza has sold over 1,000,000 records worldwide.Marisa performed alongside Ana Moura as the opening act of the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 held in Lisbon, Portugal, singing Barco Negro.

Lyrics (translated in English)​

I Wish​

What else has to happen in the world
To turn your heart over to me
What amount of tears should I let fall
What flower has to bloom
To win over your love

For this love, my God,
I'll do anything
I'll recite the most beautiful poems in the universe
To see if I can convince you
That my soul was born for you

It'll take a miracle
For my heart to be happy
I swear I won't give up
Rain or shine
Because I can't go on without you

I wish
I could hug you in the autumn, summer, and spring
Perhaps live beyond in a fantasy
Inherit good fortune and win over your heart

Will it take a storm
For you to realize that my love is real
I'll search for you on the city's billboards, from the lighthouse beacons
In mere mortals like us
My love is pure, as grand and enduring as a baobob
For you I go where I never would've gone
For you I am what I never would've been

I need a miracle
For my heart to be happy
I swear I won't give up
Rain or shine
Because I can't live without you

I wish
I could hug you in the autumn, summer, and spring
Perhaps live beyond in a fantasy
Inherit good fortune and win over your heart​

Feel the Fado​

 

[Datura]

FSC #117 November 2018 | AUSTRIA

munimuni & Seelenwald | Missing Link

The electronic live duo Munimuni & Seelenwald based in Berlin and Vienna creates a unique and heartfelt fusion through a tension between emotional vulnerability and mechanical roughness. Both with a live-band background, John Dawa and Stefan Seelenwald first met in 2015, when Stefan started remixing John's Band “DAWA”. Since May 2016, the two passionate musicians are working together on a regular basis, combining dark deformed electronic vintage-synthesizer's sounds with acoustic instruments and captivating vocals.

Lyrics:
spiraling in the universe in reverse
many lights seem not disturbed
shining to be heard
you´re near
you´re not here

lost connection there is a missing link
in between any and everything

doubtful waves breaking at the shore
still you´re not so sure
water desperately looking for the sea
just like you and me

lost connection there is a missing link
in between any and everything

 

[A-lister]

FSC#117 - November 2018

SWEDEN

Menke
Moln

So many of us are now entering darker and colder periods as November and the deep autumn period is upon us here in the very north of the globe. As I often choose entries to fit the mood of the season, then what better way than to slow down the tempo from the previous month even further? So for this edition, Sweden is sending the beautiful, calming and poetically moody dreamy ballad Moln (Clouds), performed by 26-year old newcomer Sara Menke.

Moln is Menke's debut single, released almost a year ago back in November 2017, taken from the singer's debut album Till havet (To the Sea), that got released in May 2018. Both the single and the album are musical interpretations of poems written by the late Swedish poet and novelist Karin Boye. While not aiming for the commercial market, the releases by Menke so far have received both domestic and international acclaim and although being sung fully in the Swedish language, Moln has already been used in an international advertisement campaign by the Spanish clothing manufacturing company Massimo Dutti and the song has also reached some 1.5 million streams on music streaming services.

LYRICS:

[Verse 1]
Se de mäktiga moln vilkas fjärran höga toppar
stolta, skimrande resa sig, vita som vit snö!
lugna glida de fram för att slutligen lugnt dö
sakta lösande sig i en skur av svala droppar

[Verse 2]
Majestätiska moln - genom livet, genom döden
gå de leende fram i en strålande sols sken
utan skymmande oro i eter så klart ren,
gå med storstilat, stilla förakt för sina öden

[Verse 3]
Vore mig det förunnat att högtidsstolt som dessa
kunna lyfta mig upp, dit ej världarnas jäkt når
och hur vredgat omkring mig än stormarnas brus går
bära solskimrets gyllene krans omkring min hjässa

LYRICS [ENGLISH TRANSLATION]:

[Verse 1]
See the mighty clouds whose far high peaks
proud, shimmering they rise, white like white snow!
calm they slide forward to finally calmly die
slowly dissolve in a shed of cool drops

[Verse 2]
Majestic clouds - through life, through death
they are smilingly moving forward in a shining sun's ray
without twilit worries in ether so clearly clean,
leave with grand, calm contempt for their fate

[Verse 3]
I would be honored to be feastly-proud like these
be able to lift me up, where the worlds' bustle don't reach
and regardless of how outraged the noise of the storms goes around me
wear the golden wreath of the sunshine around my head

 

[hawadharma]

▌│█║▌║▌║ ᖴᔕᑕ ᑎOᐯEᗰᗷEᖇ 2018 ║▌║▌║█│▌
▌│█║▌║▌║ 𝑀𝒜𝐿𝒜𝒴𝒮𝐼𝒜 ║▌║▌║█│▌

𝚂𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛: 𝙷𝙰𝙴𝙻 𝙷𝚄𝚂𝙰𝙸𝙽𝙸 𝚏𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝙳𝙰𝚈𝙰𝙽𝙶 𝙽𝚄𝚁𝙵𝙰𝙸𝚉𝙰𝙷
𝚂𝚘𝚗𝚐: "𝙷𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚖" (Forbidden)

░▒▓█ ʟʏʀɪᴄs (ᴇɴɢʟɪsʜ ᴛʀᴀɴsʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ) █▓▒░

It was always my fault, choosing a wrong love, and let my feelings die
And this time, it's true, when I choose you to love me
Make this love a secret
Let it kept silent till the end of time

Chorus:
Oh, let this feeling thrive just for me
And only you know
Oh, let this feeling be known just to you
I'll be there when you need me

I will forbid this heart, from anyone else
Only both of us

​

 

[Malagant]

FSC #118 December 2018 - Norway

FSC #118 Norway - December 2018 - Mørland - Leo ​

Representing Norway in FSC December 2018, and returning to the FSC for Norway after 2.4 years, is the well known Norwegian singer-songwriter and pop-artist Mørland. Here is some more information about him.

Kjetil Mørland (born 3rd October 1980) - artist name Mørland - is a Norwegian songwriter and Pop-artist from Grimstad on the Southern coast of Norway. Music was a passion for him from an early age. When he was older he moved to England where he lived for many years.

While in England he fronted the band Absent Elk from its 2008 inception, releasing the album “Caught in the Headlights” in 2009. The band supported bands such as The Script, The Hoosiers and Girls Aloud on UK tours before going on to tour the UK themselves in summer 2009. Several singles from the album were released including “Sun & Water”, “Change My World” and “Emily”.

In autumn 2014 Mørland moved back to Norway and established himself in the capital Oslo with a plan for a solo career under the artist name Mørland. A self-titled EP with a single had been released, but it was with his participation in the Norwegian MGP in 2015 that he became truly known to the Norwegian public. He took part in a duo with the singer Debrah Scarlett with a dramatic ballad called “A Monster Like Me”, a song which had its admirers from the start, and it ended up winning MGP and representing Norway in the ESC in Vienna in May 2015. There, in the ESC-final, it ended a very respectable 8th.

Later in 2015 Mørland released a solo-single called “No Firewall” which was to be included on his debut solo-album to be released in 2016. In February 2016 another single was released, the melodic and emotional Pop-ballad “Skin”, which quickly became a fan-favourite and popular on the Internet. This song was the Norwegian entry in FSC August 2016.

His album “Make a Sail” was released in May 2016, preceeded by the title-track single, and it included all his newer songs.
In 2017 Mørland focused on family-life and on his son who was born in 2016. He loves being a father and has stated that becoming a dad has changed his life and priorities. He made a song for his son which was his most personal yet and initially he had no plans to release it, but he he changed his mind and decided he wanted to share it with all his fans. It is a beautiful Pop-ballad called “Leo” which was released in March 2018. This is the song chosen by the Norwegian jury as the Norwegian entry here in FSC December 2018.

Some have called Kjetil Mørland a ‘Master of Melancholy’ and his music is certainly very emotion-based and with much (sombre) feeling, something Norwegians have always been fond of. In interviews he has often said that he wants to try and ‘make something beautiful out of pain’. Though family-life takes up much of his time these days there is little doubt that we will hear more from this very talented Norwegian songwriter and Pop-artist in the years to come.

The Norwegian entry for FSC #118 December 2018, composed by Kjetil Mørland himself, called “Leo”, is another beautiful, melodic Pop-ballad Mørland-style. The Norwegian jury is happy to enter Mørland again in the FSC for Norway.


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

Mørland - Leo

No feeling is better than this
No weekend high or first kiss
No drug can move my body
Quite like this

And every time I see myself in you
My world is magnified
And every day as you learn something new
My life is justified

Leo ( x 2 )

I turn away for a minute
And I miss you
Leo

I might as well just admit it
You’re the best thing about me now

No desire could pull me away
No love in the world
Could make me leave you today

No eyes can hold a moment
Quite like this

And every time I see myself in you
My world is magnified
And every day as you learn something new
My life is justified

Leo ( x 3 )

I turn away for a minute
And I miss you
Leo

I might as well just admit it
You’re the best thing about me now

Oh I had no clue
How much love I had for you
It’s so much better this way
Better this way ( x 3 )

Oh I had no clue
How much love I had for you
It’s so much better this way

-M​