• The Ecchoing Green

  Finn Coren  

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    THE ECCHOING GREEN

    The Sun does arise
    And make happy the skies.
    The merry bells ring
    To welcome the Spring.
    The sky-lark and thrush,
    The birds of the bush,
    Sing louder around,
    To the bells’ chearful sound,
    While our sports shall be seen
    On the Ecchoing Green.

    Old John with white hair
    Does laugh away care,
    Sitting under the oak,
    Among the old folk.
    They laugh at our play,
    And soon they all say:
    "Such, such were the joys
    When we all, girls and boys,
    In our youth-time were seen
    On the Ecchoing Green."

    Till the little ones, weary,
    No more can be merry;
    The sun does descend,
    And our sports have an end.
    Round the laps of their mothers
    Many sisters and brothers,
    Like birds in their nest,
    Are ready for rest;
    And sport no more seen
    On the darkening Green.

    Words: William Blake
    from "Songs of Innocence" (1789)

    Music: Finn Coren (1983)
    copyright Finn Coren / Bard Records 1997 all rights reserved

    Performers:
    Finn Coren: vocals
    Kyrre Sætran: bass, guitars
    Anders Engen: drums
    Jon-Willy Rydningen: el.piano

    Recorded at Lydlab Studio and
    Bard Studio, Oslo 1995-96
    Engineered by Frode-André Kristiansen
    Mixed at Lydlab Studio, Oslo by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
    Produced by Finn Coren

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• The Wild Flower’s Song

  Finn Coren  

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    THE WILD FLOWER'S SONG

    As I wander’d the forest
    The green leaves among,
    I heard a wild flower
    Singing a song.

    I slept in the Earth
    In the silent night;
    I murmur’d my fears
    And I felt delight.

    “In the morning I went
    As rosy as morn
    To seek for new Joy
    But I met with scorn.”

    Words: William Blake
    from Blakes notebook (ca 1793)

    Music: Finn Coren (1992)
    copyright Finn Coren / Bard Records 1997 all rights reserved

    Performers:
    Finn Coren: vocals, acoustic guitar
    Nils-Arne Øvergård: guitars
    Kyrre Sætran: bass
    Lars Pedersen: drums, percussion, timpani
    Berit Lohne: B-vocals, Fender Rhodes el.piano

    Recorded at Park Studio, Lydlab Studio
    and Waterfall Studio, Oslo 1993-94
    Engineered by Eystein Hopland,
    Ulf W.Ø. Holand and Bjørn-Are Rognlid
    Mixed at Lydlab Studio, Oslo by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
    Produced by Finn Coren, Nils-Arne Øvergård,
    Ulf W.Ø. Holand, Eystein Hopland

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• A Poison Tree

  Finn Coren  

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    A POISON TREE

    I was angry with my friend,
    I told my wrath, my wrath did end;
    I was angry with my foe,
    I told it not, my wrath did grow.

    And I water’d it in fears,
    Night & morning with my tears;
    And I sunned it with smiles,
    And with soft deceitful wiles.

    And it grew both day and night,
    Till it bore an appel bright;
    And my foe beheld it shine,
    And he knew that it was mine.

    And into my garden stole
    When the night had veil’d the pole:
    In the morning glad I see
    My foe outstretch’d beneath the tree.

    Words: William Blake
    from “Songs of Experience” (1794)

    Music: Finn Coren (1991)
    copyright Finn Coren / Bard Records 1997 all rights reserved

    Performers:
    Finn Coren: vocals
    Nils-Arne Øvergård: guitar-effects
    Bugge Wesseltoft: Wurlitzer el.piano
    Kyrre Sætran: bass
    Lars Pedersen: drums, percussion
    Tov Ramstad: cello
    Eystein Hopland: effects

    Recorded at Park Studio
    and Waterfall Studio, Oslo 1993-94
    Engineered by Eystein Hopland
    and Bjørn-Are Rognlid.
    Mixed at Lydlab Studio, Oslo by Eystein Hopland
    Produced by Finn Coren, Nils-Arne Øvergård
    and Eystein Hopland

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Produced by Finn Coren, Nils-Arne Øvergård, Eystein Hopland and Ulf W.Ø. Holand
Sleeve: Subtopia/Stein J. Øvre
Painting: William Blake
Art-direction: Stein J. Øvre

Second single from Finn Coren The Blake Project Spring