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Title	Published	Genre
All My Shields Were Down 2024 All My Shields Were Down is a love song to my sweet wife Diane. How I lost my heart a cold December in 1996 in Montréal. I wrote this song in October 2011 where I had just started learning how to play music. This new version uses the original recording of my voice, but all instruments have been upgraded here in 2024 and I also added some background voices as well (Synth V)	30 Nov 2024	Pop
This Is Karma ... Karma-Dama-Rama 2024 "If you're good, then life will be good". So true, isn't it? When Stan sent me this song back in 2012 it was an unfinished draft he was still working on. I was immediately thrilled. Fantastic lyrics, melody, and idea. Stan quickly finished the lyrics and gave me free hands to arrange and compose additional music. I remixed the song 2024, adding more vocals, and replaced a few instruments. I still think this is one of Stan's best written songs. I hope you all receive it well. Music and Lyrics: Stan Loh Additional music: Kenneth Lavrsen All instruments: Kenneth Lavrsen Lead vocal and vocal harmonies: Stan Loh Additional vocals: Diane Chayer and Kenneth Lavrsen, and a few Synth V voices at the end Photo: Stan Loh Original was published 22 Jul 2012 I hope you all sing along at the end when you hear this song.	17 Nov 2024	Folk
Autumn Day Dreaming Autumn Day. Grey outside. Warm inside. A cup of warm coffee and some cool music playing. This is piece with jazzy chords but without the swing.	10 Nov 2024	Jazz
Rhône Rhône is a song I have been working on since 2014. It started as a chord progression and a theme which is still in the final version. What took time was to arrange it and add additional themes so that the song got the variations and development that makes it worth listening to. Rhône is one of the main rivers in France and Diane and I love to visit the wine districts along the river and drive around in the French Alps	19 Oct 2024	Pop
Strange Love Strange Love was the working title of the song. And it stuck An easy listening latin like song with jazzy chords and and attempt to keep the song in D phrygian.	09 Sep 2024	Latin
And Then We Die (2024) Pop song with lyrics sung by me. The song is about my life philosophy: Live your life while you still have it and do not let anyone tell you that they know better than you, how to live your life. The title sounds dramatic but the song is actually upbeat and should bring a smile to the faces of most people. I wrote and recorded this song in 2012. Here is 2024 I just lost my father. He made it till 81 years old. I was not close to him and the major reason I have not been active in iBandstand is mainly that he died in Sweden, but all 3 children live in Denmark, and the red tape I am facing and the total lack of flexibility from Swedish institutions is draining me of time and energy. I mean.. I send an email to a bank in which he just had a credit card and the account is in the red so we owe the bank money. They refuse to answer with a final statement by email. They insist on sending it my snail mail to the my fathers address. And then they send me a paper letter to my Danish address saying that they send the statement to the Swedish address. Yes, then I can travel from Glostrup in Denmark to Tyringe in Sweden which takes two hours of driving each way and a bridge fee of 350 DKK just to pick up a letter. The estate also has an account in Denmark. No worries there. They send everything by email. And that is just one bank. It is utterly horrible the way the Swedish society handles things when a person dies, especially when the children do not live close to their dead relative. It is like they are trying to force you to spend 10000s on lawyer fees. All because everything happens with paper and no flexibility. I actually have no issue with the Swedish language. I understand Swedish pretty well. Nah, But back to the song. Here in 2024 I completely changed the arrangement, added more instruments, added vocal harmonies. Only my own vocal from 2012 remains.	06 Aug 2024	Pop
Picnic In The Meadow I do not know where this song came from. I just felt like making a waving romantic old fashioned tune. When I played it for my wife I asked "What shall I call it?" She said: "I see a picnic in a field". "Hmm", I said, "Let us call it Picnic In the Meadow, that sounds more romantic" I think the Meadow could be somewhere in France. Does that make sense?	02 Jun 2024	Inspirational
I Still Love you In April 2024 Dave (Sprout) posted a song "I still Love You". I loved the melody and it stayed in my head for weeks and I kept on going back to listen to it. Finally I asked Dave for permission to make a cover version which he accepted. Here is the result. Music and Lyrics: Sprout All instruments played by Kenneth Lavrsen Arrangement, mix, and additional lyrics by Kenneth Lavrsen Vocals are generated from midi and text and love using Synthesizer V Also available in full CD Quality	25 May 2024	Pop
Punk Moments It is time for a little style change. You may think "He forgot to take his pill" when you hear this. Years ago I wrote a song called Moments That Matter as a request from my wife for a work event. And later I made a version for my own work place. The lyrics were sort of corporate BS. So I also made a punk version just for fun. It was never published because I did not know how to make distorted guitar sound right. I have since learned. Power chords! That is the secret. I had a lot of fun making this including the horrible picture of me as an angry old punk. I hope you get the humor. And as Billy Joel sang - "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me". I'd better take my pill now	14 May 2024	Pop
Midnight Child Another great song by Stan Loh All instruments played by Kenneth Lavrsen, April 2024	14 Apr 2024	Pop
Circle Dance (Acoustic Orchestra) Genre this time is folk music with a Nordic sound and feel. A folky tune that would be great to grab each other in the hands and dance in a large circle. Like I experienced people doing in Barcelona when they dance the Sardana. I originally published this in 2013. In 2024 I created two new versions. This version is a new fully acoustic classical orchestra version The instruments you hear are in order of appearance - Upright bass and piano - Cymbals - Clarinet - Domra and mandolin - Female voice, celeste, bassoon - Flute, alto saxophone, acoustic guitar, violins, violas - Shakers, conga drums, timpany, hi-hats - Hand claps, cellos, double basses, oboe, female voices (singing pa pa papapa), tubas You should also check out the new synth/acoustic 2024 version Also available in full CD Quality	31 Mar 2024	Folk
Circle Dance 2024 Genre this time is folk music with a Nordic sound and feel. I use a mix of traditional instruments, synth, and voice. The rhythm is slow (75 bpm) and strong but without heavy drum beating. A folky tune that would be great to grab each other in the hands and dance in a large circle. Like I experienced people doing in Barcelona when they dance the Sardana. I originally published this in 2013. In 2024 I created two versions. This one is a completely new version with better instruments and better mixing and mastering. You should also check out the acoustic version You can also listen to the file in full CD quality	30 Mar 2024	Folk
Spring 2024 Back in 2015 on iCompositions JCLeonard and I did a collaboration. He posted a beautiful track for open collab. A classical style piece with a lovely simple progression and nice harmonies and decorations by a piano and bells. When I heard it, a melody started forming in my head and I knew I had to record it. The thing with open collabs is that it is always a patch work and choice of instruments and the chords, the harmonization, may not fit the melody perfectly. I always wanted to redo the harmonization and write a chord progression that fit the melody better and also to arrange the orchestra and remove elements that never really fit my melody. So here is Spring in a 2024 version, completely rewritten and rearranged. So here it is. A slow elegant piece that describes the wonderful spring that we are in the middle of. My favourite time of the year.	31 Jan 2024	Classical
Time (vocal version) I have earlier posted an instrumental version of this song and I always promissed myself that I would write lyrics for it. I take a long time to write lyrics. Especially this song took time because I had a clear idea what I wanted to say in the song and it was difficult to find the right words. But here it is. A piece with huge orchestration. One of those that took quite some time to make. Originally made in 2019. I remixed it and replaced some sound libraries in 2023. And in 2024 I added the lyrics and recorded it. The voice is Kevin from Synth V.	31 Jan 2024	Pop
Where To Find Me Where to Find Me Music and Lyrics by Stan Loh Stan was inspired by an original poem by Catherine Prutton Musical instruments played, arranged, and mixed by Kenneth Lavrsen The image is from Google Earth and shows where to find Stan and me . Note the long physical distance but short artistic distance.	22 Jan 2024	Pop
Night At The Lake This piece tells the story of walking around a lake in the forest in the middle of the night. We hear the animals. Then the early morning begins and finally the sunrise in its glory. The night piece is a string instrument and flute. Then as the twilight begins the main theme is played on piano and as at the sunrise we hear the full orchestra. I hope you enjoy the trip	04 Dec 2023	Classical
Sophisticated Hoods A new song written by Stan Loh. Stan sings, plays guitar, and also provided a drum track. I added two additional guitars, acoustic double bass, a synth based on vocal sample, and some percussion. And I mixed the result.	30 Nov 2023	Pop
The Joys Of Life Stan writes: A reflective song about love life. Kenneth Lavrsen developed, arranged, and did all the instruments in this wonderful backing.	20 Nov 2023	Pop
Hymn of Peace 2023 This is a new version of a song I posted in 2012. A simple song with simple melody, simple chords, and a simple message. I always wanted to repost this song one day with actual lyrics. The occation is that we need peace right now more than ever. Voices are a mix of AI voices and my own voice.	13 Nov 2023	Classical
The Perfect Couple The Perfect Couple. That is Diane and I naturally. This song started by making some fun chord progression with several key changes. And then I bought Synthesizer V - a fantastic vocal synth software. And as I played with it making rubbish lyrics, the whole thing ended up with this result. Some background. When I do not make music, I automate things in our house. The geek! And the suitcase story goes back 10 years where Diane had been travelling and she woke in the middle of a nightmare where she dreamt that she had lost her suitcase. At the same time I played with music in Garageband on my iPad and the very first primitive song I did was called "Where is my suitcase?" which I never published. I hope you have as much fun listening to this as I had making it. The singers are Synth V voices Solaria and Kevin	09 Nov 2023	Pop
Idea It started as a musical idea. And it ended with a lot more ideas And the title became Idea	21 Oct 2023	Pop
The Night It has been a year since I released a song. This has been worked on for a long time and what started as a Banjo country inspired song ended up as an upbeat synth instrumental The image is made at a random image AI site where I asked it to make a cover picture for a song called The Night	22 Jun 2023	Pop
Everyday Hero Everyday Hero was composed with a dear friend and colleague in mind. A special one that put his own health at risk to help me when I needed help. A friend that waited for me in a hospital waiting room till 4 AM in the morning. Thank you, my everyday hero. You know who you are	29 Mar 2022	Classical
Charming Charming is the working name of this song. It ended up as a complete mess of genres and there is no story behind it. So charming it is. It starts jazzy and ends up as a 4 to the floor banger.	28 Mar 2022	Pop
Tapas Tapas Tapas This track is inspired by Spanish music. It starts with an Andalusian cadence but then develops all over the place. When Diane and I were in Sevilla (Andalusia, Spain) in 2003 we heard the restaurant waiters calling for the tourists passing by shouting "Tapas, Tapas, Tapas". And yes we love tapas and we had a lot of tapas.	11 Feb 2022	Latin
The Little Things This is an instrument slow tempo pop song. The title is the work title I started with. The little thing in life that matters.	24 Jan 2022	Pop
Julehygge Julehygge. Danish for Christmas cosiness. A song written in December 2021 inspired by home life decorating for Christmas, drinking Christmas beers, eating Christmas cookies.	31 Dec 2021	Pop
Lake Como A jazz waltz inspired by a really nice vacation at Lake Como, Italy, 2021	31 Dec 2021	Jazz
Lydia Goes Crazy This piece of music started as with playing around with Lydian mode but then the song developed and went back to major and minor and some double harmonic and.. it just went crazy - but I like the result	11 May 2019	Pop
Off Site Meeting Off Site Meeting was a song I wrote after coming home from .... an off site meeting. A simple synth piece - upbeat.	11 May 2019	Electronica

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