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Kenneth Lavrsen's Music - Songs incl picture
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| Memory Of Krakow Fusion of pop, opera, and classical orchestra music. I was in Krakow, Poland a few weeks ago on a short business visit. The beautiful city and the friendly people made a good impression on me and want me to go back. Here is my musical tribute. The melody itself came to me in a dream. I woke up a morning and had the melody in my head and I immediately grabbed my iPad and keyed it in as a simple piano track. I have no clue if I have heard part of the melody line somewhere else. |
02 Jul 2013 | Classical |  |
| Fly Higher Fly Higher has its name from the fact that I composed the first notes sitting with my iPad on an air plane. So the name stuck It is a pop song with a strong melody and a swinging jazzy rhythm. I have been playing with changing key several times during the rather long chord progression. Mainly acoustic instruments and voices. But also a few polished synth sounds. And it is the first song I post where I play on my new Roland A-88 midi keyboard. And I love it. |
26 Jun 2013 | Pop |  |
| Party Round The BBQ Summer! Yeah! Time for a party round the BBQ. With good friends, cold beer, and a big dirty steak the size of a toilet seat. |
18 Jun 2013 | Pop |  |
| Magician The Magician. The great illusionist. The close-up trick. The escape act. Thrilling us. Amazing us. Expressed in music. Starting with a brief soundscape to set the scene and quickly continues as a 95 bpm melodic mainly synth piece (An African marimba and electric guitar is also heard). And in D Dorian. Enjoy the magic |
11 Jun 2013 | Electronica |  |
| Procession Procession. I imagine some warm country where a small town is having a yearly celebration with a beautiful procession with drums and dancing people. And with lots of colours. It is a bit of mix of styles. Indian percussion mixed with heavy metallic drums. Synth sounds, and piano plays joyful melodies that perhaps sound more medieval European. And a slow pace which appears fast because the rhythm swings. Enjoy |
02 Jun 2013 | World |  |
| Not So Bad At All I wrote this song back in February inspired by my 25th year anniversary as an employee in the same company. And as always I intended to write lyrics. And as always I get stuck after 2 lines. I am just not a poet. I am a composer. The idea of the song was some words like Same place - 25 years "Same place of joy and with fears Lala la la la laaa ...... .... it was Not so bad at all" If one of you with more poetic genes want to write lyrics and/or sing it - I am always ready for a collab. Image is from my reception at work. Yeah. Having a drink again. |
14 May 2013 | Pop |  |
| The Little Blue Tit The blue títs are again breeding in our nesting box. I have a camera in the nesting box with infrared light so we can follow them day and night. The female has laid 10 eggs like it did last year. Last year 8 of them hatched and all 8 babies grew to fly and leave the nest which is exceptional. Normally the last ones hatched do not make it. It all depends on the amount of food the adults can find. It will be exciting to follow then again this year. As last year these cute tiny birds have inspired music. It is a slow piece with guitar, bag pipe, and flute. Enjoy. Image is not one of my own. Incredible photo taken by a Danish garden owner |
05 May 2013 | Folk |  |
| Looking Back On My Life This time a melodic easy listening song, for piano, string orchestra, harp, acoustic and electric guitars. The plan is later to make a vocal version. I still only have a few lines written starting with "When I'm looking back on my life, I have no regrets". I see an older man singing this looking back on his life, thinking about how good it has been even though there has been difficult times and things were not always easy. |
15 Apr 2013 | Pop |  |
| Comet On Collision Course With Earth So today I decided to send a comet on a collision course with earth. A comet that sneaked in behind the sun where noone can see it. And suddenly it was there heading straight for us. In 4 minutes and 34 seconds after you press play, it is all over. What are you going to do the last 4:34 minutes you have left? |
07 Apr 2013 | Pop |  |
| Fly With Me By Stan Loh Weeks ago I heard Kenneth Lavrsen post this song - Solen er så rød, Mor (SolenErSaaRoedMor) - I liked it and on my plane ride back from Southeast Asia, was writing English lyrics for it. After writing these lyrics, I was fooling around and this tune came up. So, what the heck, it became my own composition! And of course my buddy Kenneth did the music, and production! He fixed all my pitchyness as well! Thanks my friend! Well, I turned a Children's song into a Farewell song. |
30 Mar 2013 | Pop |  |
| The Riders Of Iceland This song was composed for my sister Djinnie who owns and rides an Icelandic horse. She needed music for a riding competition called "Tølt in Harmony" which is a brand new style where the objective is to display harmonic riding style in the special gait Tølt which is unique to Icelandic horses. I was measuring the pace of her horse so the music would fit. So the music had to run at 102 bpm. It had to be not too dominating. So I wrote a long chord progression and some melody lines and recorded this song. How did it go? It didn't. The horse had its own will and refused to stay in the transporter. It was splitting it apart. So she never started. But the music is there for next time. There is an extra twist to this music. When Thierry (thsantac) and Iqbal (ihussain) started on the Triangular Sandwich, we needed something to start from. So I sent Thierry and Iqbal the chord progression played in a different style and slower tempo. And then first Iqbal and then Thierry composed based on that. I had already done this horse song so I reused one of the melodies in Triangular Sandwich. I hope you will enjoy the music The picture is my sister Djinnie and her horse. |
30 Mar 2013 | Pop |  |
| Triangular Sandwich A Triangular Sandwich - from Britain, with Foie Gras from France, and Danish Bacon. For the first time, a collaboration between Thierry (thsantac), Iqbal (ihussain), and myself Kenneth. The initiative came from Thierry and Iqbal and I were thrilled with the idea. The idea was that it should be music inspired by Mike Oldfield. We built the track on a chord progression I was already working on for another purpose. And then Iqbal built the first section of the song. Thierry followed up with the second section. And I added a 3rd section and built a 4th section with a little bit of all 3 of us. So here is our triangular sandwich from Thierry, Iqbal and myself. Enjoy. |
25 Mar 2013 | Pop |  |
| Warm Hearts Kwela An upbeat song, inspired by a fantastic vacation in South Africa a few years ago. Kwela is a music style that started in the townships in South Africa in the 50s. It is originally based around simple guitar and penny whistles and normally follows a I, IV, I(6/4), V - chord progression. Since then the style has been developed by groups like Mango Groove. I have given the style my own variation here. Heavy on drums and penny whistles naturally. But lots of other instruments. Two scarbee bases (fat and slap), ukulele, Rhodes, piano, a little synth pad, acoustic guitar, melodica, pluck piano (sounds like an African home made string instrument), mandolin, kora, African marimba, bolon, African percussion, and an African food market. 22 tracks. Crank that volume up and make some space on the floor to dance. Here we go! Warm Hearts Kwela, sent from the cold north. |
12 Mar 2013 | World |  |
| Candlelight Supper Smooth instrumental music, perfect for one of my wife's candlelight suppers. Both my wife and I love the British TV Comedy "Keeping Up Appearances". My wife is not a snob at all, but she has other similarities with Mrs. Hyacinth Bucket. Like when we invite friends for dinner and she will cook for 2 days to impress them. Or when we go to the opera and I will let her choose which clothes I am wearing. Last Friday was my 25th anniversary at Motorola Solutions, and we were going to a reception at which I was to wear shirt, jacket, and a tie. Problem was that thanks to several candlelight suppers I could not close the top button on any of my shirts, so I rushed down to the mall and came home with two new shirts. And as I came in I said: "Hyacinth, I bought two so you could feel you made the decision of which shirt I should wear". She had already chosen my pants, tie, and jacket. Now naturally my wife Diane has a counter attack. She says I fit perfectly the character Onslow. And she could have a small point there |
05 Mar 2013 | Pop |  |
| King Of Anything "King of Anything" is a song written and recorded by American singer Sara Bareilles in 2010. .......Not long after I was introduced to it, I knew it was a song I really wanted to do a version of. .....Thank you, Kenneth for coming up with such a "terrific" music backtrack for me to do so. Doing the harmonies on this were challenging, fun, and an overall learning experience. Hope you all enjoy what Kenneth and I came up with. |
03 Mar 2013 | Pop |  |
| Every Day Is A Miracle Once again, love has been the endless source of inspiration for music. And this time a vocal piece where I sing myself. |
26 Feb 2013 | Pop |  |
| Circle Dance 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. This is the original version published in 2013. You should also check out the new synth/acoustic 2024 version and the new acoustic version |
12 Feb 2013 | Folk |  |
| The Rat Chase Melodic high tempo techno. Electronica with chord progression and melody lines. That is how I like it. Now why "The Rat Chase"? This Sunday morning my wife dragged me out of bed saying "There is something you have to see, hurry". And what I saw was this big rat sitting on our bird feeder just outside our living room window. And it stayed there for 10 minutes until I decided to chase it away. I managed to take a picture of it through the window. So the song of the day became The Rat Chase. I imagine a cat chasing the rat in the gardens. |
05 Feb 2013 | Electronica |  |
| Solen er så rød, Mor Solen er så rød, Mor (The Sun Is So Red, Mom) For once not a composition of my own. This is a lullaby written by the Danish composer, Carl Nielsen. It was written in 1924 from a poem written by Danish poet Harald Bergstedt. Carl Nielsen is well known world wide for his symphonies and other classical works. This is an instrumental version first, because I think the melody is incredibly beautiful and powerful even without the words. I may post a vocal version if encouraged. The song is still being recorded by artists today. Often changed to a modern version in 4/4. But the original is in slow 6/8, written for voice and piano, and that is how I have chosen to play it. The poem is about a little boy just gone to bed and he sings to his Mom. It is about the feelings and thoughts that are awaken in a little boy as he thinks about the sunset, the night, the dead sun, the fox in the dark forrest, the cat outside, the stars. He wonders if the stars have boys living on them, boys just like him, looking down on him. Finally he rests as the stars and his mother sing to him. It is a very moving song, and because it has some hidden layer that adults can put more into, it is actually also occasionally sung at funerals. You can see the stars reflecting themselves in my eyes when I hear this song. |
31 Jan 2013 | Childrens |  |
| Agent Lady Rose Agent Lady Rose. A theme from a 70s TV series about a beautiful classic female agent saving the world from the bad guys. A TV series that never existed. It is all something I made up. And naturally such a TV series needs theme music. This is my idea of how the music would sound like. Inspiration comes from music by composers like John Barry. It is a waltz - 6 beats to the bar. It has a rather long chord progression with several modulations between keys signatures on the way. It has been fun to make. Enjoy It was a coincidence that i found a picture of Hedy Lamarr. She was a really beautiful woman. And when I read about her she turns our to be a mathematician and inventor also. She invented some of the basic frequency hopping techniques that are used today in e.g. wireless networks. What a surprise. I did not know that when I picked a random photo from the net. Perfect character for my Agent. Sad she is dead now. Maybe my wife could play the part ??! |
22 Jan 2013 | Pop |  |
| Happy Hour In The Beach Bar I felt like writing a happy tune. Dream myself down to the sun. Mmm, a cold drink sitting on the beach in a bar. And it is happy hour. Why don't you join our table? |
12 Jan 2013 | Pop |  |
| Sunshine A Cold Winter Morning Melodic classical and rock ballad with a little twist of electronica . . just a little. A musical painting of the beautiful view of nature a frozen winter morning when the sun rises. Painted with warm cellos, whispering violins, a boys and a mens choir, a little synth, and some power electric guitars. Playing with mixing genres as I love to do it. And with this I wish you all a happy new year |
02 Jan 2013 | Classical |  |
| The Woman I Love - Home from War By Pharmakeus Original by Kenneth Lavrsen. Lyrics by Pharmakeus. With Kenneth's very kind permission, I added vox and some lead guitar. Postproduction by Pharmakeus. This beautiful song is dedicated to Kenneth's wife smiley It probably really deserves a better voice than mine. I am sure that Kenneth would be okay if anybody wantyed to redo the vox. please pm me if you would like that and I will send you the scratch file -- I just hope I have not ruined it. Thank you for listening. p.s. Felicia, get home safe. We miss you. |
31 Dec 2012 | Pop |  |
| Dance Of The Elves Elf-Dance-Techno-Folk could be a proposed genre for this piece. It has a folky ethnical rhythm. First slow, and then it speeds up. Nearly all instruments are synthetic. In the beginning most are Chromaphone modelled instruments and later some Omnisphere arpeggiated instruments are added. Yes, my two Christmas gifts to myself. Drums are played by letting the Elves on the picture dance on my Roland sample pad, as you can all see on the picture. |
27 Dec 2012 | Dance |  |
| H.R. Looks After Us H.R. Looks After Us. Right?? This is a song I wrote for the company Christmas Party 2012 (Motorola Solutions Denmark). It was actually called Motocare - and was suggested by my dear colleagues in H.R. "Motocare looks after us" became "H.R looks after us" in this version on iCompositions to make it fit most companies. Let me say that the lyrics ended up a bit more ironic than H.R. anticipated. Unfortunately, in most large companies - H.R. does not really care much about the individual. Their work is just pure administration and bureaucracy. And I bet the lyrics fit many of the companies you guys work in. Do not miss the other song from the party that I posted some days earlier. TheHardwareTeamEmptyTablesEmptyHeads The live performance with the Motocare Boy Band is on Youtube. Sound is a bit .... but you get to see me live http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yXCmUjnTqM |
21 Dec 2012 | Pop |  |
| The Hardware Team (Empty Tables, Empty Heads) I performed this song on 14 Dec 2012 at a Christmas Party in my workplace (Motorola Solutions, Denmark), with the Motocare Boy Band. There is a funny story behind it. A few months ago we were moving around in our building and it was a bit messy some places with moving boxes etc. So the facility department and some Engineering Services staff (all women) made a competition with a prize to the team with the prettiest office area. I lead a hardware engineering team that develops huge human size base stations. We knew that no matter what we did we could never win. And naturally the winners were some people that only have a desk, a computer, and a phone. And on top of it, my team won a prize for the ugliest office area. The prize was a plastic bucket with soap and sponges and other cleaning stuff. We took our sweet revenge performing this song at the company party smiley I want to say thanks to Stan Loh, for helping me getting the right bite in the lyrics as a ghost writer improving my words in first two verses. I will be uploading one more song that we also performed a little later. |
16 Dec 2012 | Rock |  |
| Precious Words Precious Words is a beautiful love song written by Stan Loh. We are proud to introduce the singer John Tyler. John has his own Youtube channel where he presents country and good old rock 'n' roll songs, and has been singing for almost two years. Precious Words. Music and Lyrics: Stan Loh Additional music and arrangement: Kenneth Lavrsen Vocal: John Tyler All Instruments and mix: Kenneth Lavrsen We may later also post a version with Stan as vocalist and I even consider an instrumental version because I love the melody line that Stan has written. |
07 Dec 2012 | Country |  |
| Jungle Dance Time to move that body and those feet. |
30 Nov 2012 | Pop |  |
| Longing For The Spring It is dark. It is rain. It it yuck! Then it is good to think about spring. And make a song about spring. |
26 Nov 2012 | Pop |  |
| Tribute To Diane Rose A Tribute to Diane Rose, The Amazing Quilter Stan Loh wrote this song inspired by a TV program about Diane Rose. A totally blind quilter who is a great inspiration to us all and motivates people to get the best our of their lives. You can read about her on http://www.theamazingquilter.com/ Don't miss the youtube video on that page. It moved me when I saw it. Tribute To Diane Rose Music and lyrics by Stan Loh Arranged by Kenneth Lavrsen Vocal, acoustic lead, steel guitar: Stan Loh Keyboard playing guitars, bass, drums, and synth strings - and mix: Kenneth Lavrsen |
10 Nov 2012 | Country |  |
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