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Kyyneleet ja veri

By Minnamari on October 4, 2024 1:56 pm

This song is inspired by the saying "No man is an island". Somehow my mind kept going it over (in Finnish) and continuing it with "Every woman is an ocean", and those are basically the lyrics of this song:

Mikään mies ei ole saari (no man is an island)
Mutta jokainen nainen on meri (but every woman is an ocean)
Suolaveden koostumuksena (the saltwater consists of)
Kyyneleet ja veri (tears and blood)

I don't know if I agree with the words or not, but they kept playing over and over in my mind until I made it into a song. As a side note, I don't usually prescribe what men/women/nonbinary people are and they can be a lot of things, but sometimes I notice a need to just express a very direct proclamation and also make space for that darker side of being a woman, that may has its particularities (?)

Technically, there are some details in the song that don't sit quite right for my ear but I think I need to give it some time. So, I'll release it here in this form, again, practicing to just let things be a bit imperfect and release it anyway if that's the form it takes right now. Maybe there can still be something interesting in it for someone else.

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October 7, 2024 12:20 pm

Q-Rosh

This track has a lot of fantastic moments. I could enjoy this version and the arrangement. As more often I listened, the track gets  absolutely right the way it is. Doubling your voice was a brilliant idea. Well done Minnamari.

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October 9, 2024 11:15 am

Minnamari

Q-Rosh wrote:

This track has a lot of fantastic moments. I could enjoy this version and the arrangement. As more often I listened, the track gets  absolutely right the way it is. Doubling your voice was a brilliant idea. Well done Minnamari.

Thanks! smile

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October 10, 2024 8:02 am

Bleeoop

I like the atmosphere in this track, it reminds me a bit of the cure, I love the synth elements, very well done

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October 10, 2024 5:48 pm

jwh

1st just wanted to say how much i enjoyed listening to this deep song. feels to me like finding a forest beneath the ocean.

i love the lyrics very much, and also appreciate reading your notes.
as someone who also shies away from universal statements and also recognizes the complexity of being human, i can relate to what you said.
(i also sometimes have lyrics come out that i don't know if i agree with or understand smile ).

what you were saying reminded me a bit of a short video from Alok Vaid-Menon that i saw recently. they often talk about moving beyond the gender binary, and i won't try to rephrase the quote but if you are interested this is a link to the IG video i was thinking of.

i really love this idea:
"the purpose of being alive is to be beautiful
and what beauty is, is being yourself."

ok take care, and thank you for sharing the music and ideas.

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