• Pantomime

  Finn Coren  

  • Lyrics

    PANTOMIME

    Where are you
    when I talk to you...
    Where are you...

    Where are you
    when I think of you...
    where are you
    now...

    Oooh my Pantomime
    Sing me your heart

    Oooh my Pantomime
    Sing me your song

    Words and Music: Finn Coren (1985)
    Trumpet and celloarr. F.C
    copyright Finn Coren 1989 all rights reserved

    Performers:
    Finn Coren: vocal, acoustic guitar
    Rolf Wallin: trumpet
    Tine Johnsgaard: cello

    Recorded at Ny York Studio, Oslo 1987
    Engineered by Vibeke “Feedback” Blydt-Hansen
    Mixed at LydCompagniet, Oslo
    by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
    Produced by Finn Coren, Trond Brede Andersen
    and Ulf W.Ø. Holand

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• Shoot the Moon

  Finn Coren  

  • Lyrics

    SHOOT THE MOON

    It was our last walk
    through the city of the Moon
    I had blood on my tuxedo
    and a gun in my left hand

    We were not thicker than thieves
    so I told her to stop call my name
    it will never be the same
    never be the same

    I’m gonna shoot the Moon,
    shoot it down
    Love is all gone
    Like I was dead, like I was dead

    I’m gonna shoot it down,
    Shoot the Moon
    Love is all lost
    Like I was dead, like I was dead
    I am bleeding
    Waving bye bye bye
    Love is all gone, love is all lost

    What about the night
    we climbed the toon
    What about the night
    we kissed the Moon.

    I’m gonna shoot the Moon,
    shoot it down
    Love is all gone
    Like I was dead, like I was dead

    I’m gonna shoot it down,
    Shoot the Moon
    Love is all lost
    Like I was dead, like I was dead
    I am bleeding
    Waving bye bye bye
    Love is all gone, love is all lost

    Words and Music: Finn Coren (1986)
    copyright Finn Coren 1989 all rights reserved

    Performers:
    Finn Coren: vocals, organ, tape
    Gisle Aarlott: guitars
    Knut Brovold: drums
    Bjørn Malmåsen: bass

    Recorded at Ny York Studio, Oslo 1987
    Engineered by Vibeke “Feedback” Blydt-Hansen
    Mixed at LydCompagniet, Oslo
    by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
    Produced by Finn Coren, Trond Brede Andersen
    and Ulf W.Ø. Holand

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• My Life is my Art

  Finn Coren  

  • Lyrics

    MY LIFE IS MY ART

    And all the clowns came to
    my show...

    Dancing to the beat of my heart
    Waltzing up and down in the rain
    The echo of my very soul
    Like a song without an end

    Still growing in many ways
    like a child...

    I watch my image in the mirror
    My thoughts are different from last year
    I’m chasing the speed inside
    Always cruising for my real self

    Still growing in many ways
    like a child...

    -Hello,do you hear me...
    My Life is my Art
    I’m gonna show them everything
    My Life is my Art
    I’m gonna take pride
    in my madness
    Show them everything...

    Still growing in many ways
    like a child...

    Words and Music: Finn Coren (1984)
    Cello and oboearr. F.C
    copyright Finn Coren 1987 / 1989 all rights reserved

    Performers:
    Finn Coren: vocals, synth, programming
    Gisle Aarlott: guitar
    Knut Brovold: snaredrum
    Bjørn Malmåsen: synthbass
    Leif Magnus Rosenblad: oboe
    Runa Berg: cello

    Recorded at Ny York Studio, Oslo 1985
    Engineered by Bengt Eriksen and Haakon Manheim
    Mixed at Ny York Studio by Bengt Eriksen, F.C
    and Trond Brede Andersen
    Produced by Finn Coren

    ___________________________________________________

    ODE - (instrumental)

    Music: Finn Coren (1984)
    Celloarr. F.C
    copyright Finn Coren 1989 all rights reserved

    Performers:
    Finn Coren: organ
    Runa Berg: cello

    Recorded at Ny York Studio, Oslo 1985
    Engineered by Haakon Manheim
    Mixed at LydCompagniet, Oslo
    by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
    Produced by Finn Coren

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• Big Disease

  Finn Coren  

  • Lyrics

    BIG DISEASE

    Flashbacks of feelings
    Blanking your wavelengths
    Injections of music
    The TV-eye got you

    Voices on the Wire
    Hope for an answer
    Well, no one is nowhere
    You’re not the one you think you are

    Slice of them big mouths
    Feeding you lies
    Cleaning your own thoughts
    You’re on the dole with Sam Spaid

    You’re on Thought-Control
    And you’re not on your own
    Though they leave you all alone
    Tied up in your home

    Oh, sexual healing
    Erections of fake
    Life in the massmedia
    The lack of feelings

    Ah, pain is coming
    Ah, pain comes creeping
    And your brain is aching
    The needle hits the flesh, yeah

    Behind you...Brother

    Words: Trond Brede Andersen and Finn Coren (1986)
    Music: Finn Coren (1984)
    copyright Finn Coren 1989 all rights reserved

    Performers:
    Finn Coren: vocals, synths, piano, tapes
    Gisle Aarlott: guitars
    Knut Brovold: drums, percussion
    Bjørn Malmåsen: bass
    Rolf Wallin: trumpet
    Trond Brede Andersen: tapes

    Recorded at Ny York Studio, Oslo 1987
    Engineered by Vibeke “Feedback” Blydt-Hansen
    Mixed at LydCompagniet, Oslo
    by Ulf W.Ø. Holand, Finn Coren,
    Trond Brede Andersen and Tore Gustavsen
    Produced by Finn Coren, Trond Brede Andersen
    and Ulf W.Ø. Holand

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• Catch that Girl

  Finn Coren  

  • Lyrics

    CATCH THAT GIRL

    Catch that girl yeah
    Catch that girl Yeah
    Catch that girl
    -she got a thousand hearts
    Catch that girl
    -she got so many friends
    Catch that girl
    -she’s never lonely no
    -she always laugh and dance

    All the white lies
    She cannot hide
    All the white lies
    In her eyes

    Catch that girl
    Catch that girl
    -tonight

    Never look in her eyes, never
    See straight through you
    Never look in her eyes, never

    Catch that girl yeah
    Catch that girl
    -tonight
    Catch that girl

    Words and Music: Finn Coren (1986)
    copyright Finn Coren 1988 / 1989 all rights reserved

    Performers:
    Finn Coren: vocals, synths, tapes
    Gisle Aarlott: guitars
    Knut Brovold: drums, bells
    Bjørn Malmåsen: bass
    Rolf Wallin: trumpet

    Recorded at Ny York Studio, Oslo 1987
    Engineered by Vibeke “Feedback” Blydt-Hansen
    Mixed at LydCompagniet, Oslo
    by Ulf W.Ø. Holand, Finn Coren,
    Trond Brede Andersen and Tore Gustavsen
    Produced by Finn Coren, Trond Brede Andersen
    and Ulf W.Ø. Holand

    _______________________________________________________

    THERE'S A GIRL (Prologue)

    There's a girl
    on my mind ...
    And it swims for myself
    ´cause I don't know what I ...

    I just want to say ...
    thanks for this
    and thanks for that

    There's a girl on my mind ...

    Words and Music: Finn Coren (1984)
    copyright Finn Coren 1989 all rights reserved

    Performers:
    Finn Coren: vocal, acoustic guitar

    Recorded at Ny York Studio, Oslo 1987
    Engineered by Vibeke “Feedback” Blydt-Hansen
    Mixed at LydCompagniet, Oslo
    by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
    Produced by Finn Coren

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• Cheers to the wild Boys

  Finn Coren  

  • Lyrics

    CHEERS TO THE WILD BOYS

    In a smokefilled room
    by the tabledance
    I found myself without a chance

    At the other side of town
    Where the lights are dim
    I found her there
    I found her there

    Do the knifetrick from Chinatown
    Shake yourself over the edge
    Twist and shout, mess about
    Bang the skies, bang the skies..Tonight

    she said..
    Cheers to the Wild Boys
    Cheers to the Wild Boys
    Cheers to the Wild Boys
    who sway,sway

    And when the speed was keen enough
    In the middle of the song
    She said, take me up
    Take me up again

    I wanna feel, I wanna live
    In the Chinese Haze Let go,
    let go..go,go,go,go

    When I fall over...
    When I fall over...
    You give me cover...
    You give me cover...

    She said, she said
    Cheers to the Wild Boys
    Cheers to the Wild Boys
    Cheers to the Wild Boys
    who dance, dance..

    Words and Music: Finn Coren (1984)
    copyright Finn Coren 1987 / 1989 all rights reserved

    Performers:
    Finn Coren: vocals, synths, piano
    Gisle Aarlott: guitars
    Knut Brovold: drums
    Bjørn Malmåsen: bass
    Runa Berg: cello
    “Jursprængt”, L’Andre, Gisle, Trond: B-vocals

    Recorded at Ny York Studio, Oslo 1985
    Engineered by Haakon Manheim
    Mixed at LydCompagniet, Oslo
    by Ulf W.Ø. Holand, Finn Coren,
    Trond Brede Andersen and Tore Gustavsen
    Produced by Finn Coren, Trond Brede Andersen
    and Ulf W.Ø. Holand

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• See You

  Finn Coren  

  • Lyrics

    SEE YOU

    Can I...
    Can I...
    Hold you

    Can I... Take it off...
    Can I...
    See you

    Words and Music: Finn Coren (1986)
    copyright Finn Coren 1989 all rights reserved

    Performers:
    Finn Coren: vocal, acoustic guitar
    Kikkan Fossum: Emulator
    Tine Johnsgaard: cello

    Recorded at Ny York Studio, Oslo 1987
    Engineered by Vibeke “Feedback” Blydt-Hansen
    Mixed at LydCompagniet, Oslo
    by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
    Produced by Finn Coren, Trond Brede Andersen
    and Ulf W.Ø. Holand
    ____________________________________________

    WHERE THE SPARROW FLIES

    I want to go
    where the sparrow flies
    where she takes her bath ...
    and see for myself ...

    Words: Finn Coren (1986)

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• Darling Downs

  Finn Coren  

  • Lyrics

    DARLING DOWNS

    I took all the horses
    I rode fast, fast
    I fell off the horses
    Bloody white horses

    I took the elevators
    I took them downtown
    I took the elevators
    All the way down

    Don’t, don’t leave me here
    This is not a deathbed
    I’m just asleep
    Don’t, don’t leave me here
    No...

    My nerves are shot
    I’m down below
    I saw bloodspots
    In the virgin snow

    I need a drink
    to take me home
    I was happy, happy
    at the Darling Downs

    Don’t, don’t leave me here
    I’m not dead
    I’m just asleep
    Don’t, don’t leave me here
    No...No...

    I live from day to day
    I throw flowers in the sink...

    Words and Music: Finn Coren (1986)
    copyright Finn Coren 1989 all rights reserved

    Performers:
    Finn Coren: vocals, guitars, piano
    Gisle Aarlott: guitars
    Knut Brovold: drums
    Bjørn Malmåsen: bass
    Rolf Wallin: trumpet
    Trond Brede Andersen: tapes

    Recorded at Ny York Studio, Oslo 1987
    Engineered by Vibeke “Feedback” Blydt-Hansen
    Mixed at LydCompagniet, Oslo
    by Ulf W.Ø. Holand, Finn Coren,
    Trond Brede Andersen and Tore Gustavsen
    Produced by Finn Coren, Trond Brede Andersen
    and Ulf W.Ø. Holand

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• Land of little Rain (Song for Hopi)

  Finn Coren  

  • Lyrics

    LAND OF LITTLE RAIN (Song for Hopi)

    ‘Been running around
    ‘Been kissing the ground
    I’ve been digging
    for water

    ‘Been in the desert
    for 25 years
    A burning soul
    so full of fear

    Oh, give me water

    Weep little child
    Weep away your strain
    Weep little child
    But, don’t you never give in

    Oh, give me water

    Out in this desertland
    where flowers don’t grow
    I hear the ambulance
    playing my song

    Here on this spawning ground
    I lost my way
    I hear the steeplebells
    In the Land of Little Rain

    Words and Music: Finn Coren (1986)
    copyright Finn Coren 1989 all rights reserved

    Performers:
    Finn Coren: vocals, synth, tapes, chains
    Gisle Aarlott: guitars
    Knut Brovold: drums
    Bjørn Malmåsen: bass
    Trond Brede Andersen: tapes
    The Hopis: B-vocals

    Recorded at Ny York Studio, Oslo 1987
    Engineered by Vibeke “Feedback” Blydt-Hansen
    Mixed at LydCompagniet, Oslo
    by Ulf W.Ø. Holand, Finn Coren,
    Trond Brede Andersen and Tore Gustavsen
    Produced by Finn Coren, Trond Brede Andersen
    and Ulf W.Ø. Holand

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• Song

  Finn Coren  

  • Lyrics

    SONG

    Because of the silence
    between us
    Because of your hands
    sweet caress
    And your eyes
    speechless fear

    That’s why I care for you
    That’s why I care for you

    ‘Cause you let me feel
    that If I
    held a bird
    warm, shivering
    in my hands

    That’s why I care for you
    That’s why I care for you

    What they share
    is only feeling
    of remoteness and desertion,
    of having marched
    for miles and miles,
    of having lost their bearings,
    of a restless urge
    - to find water. ( W.H. Auden)

    Words: Erling Christie
    from "Drøm om havet / The dream of th Sea" (1954)
    (Translated and adapted by F.C. with permission)

    Music: Finn Coren (1984)
    copyright Finn Coren 1989 all rights reserved

    Performers:
    Finn Coren: vocals, synth
    Knut Brovold: percussion
    Bjørn Malmåsen: bass
    Kikkan Fossum: piano, Emulator

    Recorded at Ny York Studio, Oslo 1987
    Engineered by Vibeke “Feedback” Blydt-Hansen
    Mixed at LydCompagniet, Oslo
    by Ulf W.Ø. Holand, Finn Coren,
    Trond Brede Andersen and Tore Gustavsen
    Produced by Finn Coren, Trond Brede Andersen
    and Ulf W.Ø. Holand

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Produced by Finn Coren, Trond Brede Andersen and Ulf W.Ø. Holand
Sleeve: Jan Otto Wiig H.
Photos: Emily Andersen, Nils Johannsen, Trond Brede Andersen
Art-Direction: Jan Otto Wiig H. and Finn Coren

Pictures and lyrics used with permission all rights reserved

fra presseskrivet 1989:

Finn Coren «The echoing green»

Finn Coren dukket opp på platemarkedet som troll av eske. På kort tid har han vunnet kritikernes gunst. De har løftet hans produksjoner høyt og spår Finn Coren en strålende karierre. I 1987 slapp han singelen «My life is my art» og den la også grunnlaget for hans karierre. Finn Coren lagde sammen med Trond Brede Andersen en video til den låten og den traff. Videoen ble bla vist på Nrk og vakte oppsikt på Kortfilmfestivalen i Trondheim. Coren fulgte opp med singlen og videoen «Darling Downs» som også fikk rosende omtaler. Coren har nå svart med albumet «The echoing green». Musikalsk spenner det vidt. Fra myke , sarte ballader til rå, intens rock.

Hovedmusikere på platen er Finn Coren: vokal, akustisk gitar, keyboard Gisle Aarlott: gitarer Bjørn Malmåsen: bass og Knut Brovold: trommer. Gjestemusikere er Rolf Wallin (Holy Toy): trompet Kikkan Fossum (The Cut): tangenter, Emulator Runa Berg: cello og Leif Magnus Rosenblad: obo
Lyden er tatt opp i Ny York Studio på Grünerløkka, Oslo av Vibeke «Feedback» Blydt-Hansen, assistert av Haakon Manheim og Bengt Eriksen

sitater fra anmeldelser 1989:

Puls: The echoing green er spekket med låter som hadde livet opp enhver hjemlig utgivelse. «Sangen Darling Downs er klaustrofobisk klorende og fylt med en tyngde som savnes i nesten all norsk rock». «En LP som vil befinne seg helt i toppen når årets status skal gjøres opp.»

Nye Takter: En glimrende album-debut. Coren synger med en stemme som ikke kan ignoreres, den krever oppmerksomhet.

Beat: The echoing green har melodier, gitarer, tunge basslyder, fet og mørklåten produksjon i overflod, men det som virkelig veier tungt her er stemmebruken.