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Hommage

by Cecilie Anna

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A hommage is a respectful imitation of someone else’s artistical work. It represents the circling of love which music constantly provides for us. The lyrics of Cecilie Anna’s “Hommage” portrays the loneliness she has experienced through years of writing songs for artists’ voices living far away. Cecilie Anna views their beautiful voices as meteors landing in her garden. She makes songs from the pieces in the hope that they can rise into the sky and become stars of their own. Perhaps one day the owners of the voices will see it from where they are.

If there’s a timeline, from start to finish, a standard cover would be the start, and a completely new song, the finish. Along this line, you’ll find many versions. With covers, Cecilie Anna has always been drawn to a different melodies and chords. With her version of Will Oldham’s “I See a Darkness”, she originally covered it with the original lyrics, but writing new lyrics brought the song to the finish line. In this way, “Hommage” belongs fully to Cecilie Anna., but the inner, wordless soul of the song is still the same, echoed in the phrases and breaths.

On Cecilie Anna’s request husband and artist Vidar Vedå recorded a line of random sounds, included jingle bells. She slowed down the sound heavily, isolating one ‘ding’, and placed it manually piece by piece into the arrangement. It took her almost three months, using only her perfect pitch as a holding point. Placed together with other sounds (as on “Bout the Crows”), the sound resembles strings’ pizzicato. Left standing alone, the poetry is suddenly audible: You can hear the wind inside the bell.

Cover photo by Cecilie Anna taken on her journey to the North of Norway many years ago. It was on the same trip she wrote "I'm Here", a favourite for many. Cecilie Anna remember saying to herself: Don't try making something complicated and special, just sing what’s there. The calm and silent mountains helped her let go of her insecurity.

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Hommage
You see me now
Now, that I am here
Dressed in your stardom
Beauty of the rocks
I fall through my language
Hørre du meg no?

I, who lean my days on mountains unseen
And walk before doors, my heart starts to recall
All the lonely evenings, all the stuff I felt
Unanswered letters
Falling through the night
Like stars for no one, stars for no one
Do you know how your voice sounds
Crashing through the garden?
Crashing in my garden

Will, I hope you will remember
This light from my room
Trembling in the night
Trembling tonight
I know you too would have listened
If the mountain sang to you
And the stone whispered still
And the land lifted you
Glowing rocks arising
Leaving to the sky

By the starlit mountain
My starlit mountain
I go out in the garden
To the rocks of your voices

Lighting up my heart

Thank you, Andy Inglis, for help in the process with the lyrics.
I owe you one, twenty five thousand.
Love CA

credits

released June 21, 2023
Music, words and soundscapes: Cecilie Anna
Recording, Mixing and Co-Producer: SirSound, Stord
Mastered by Alex Wharton in Abbey Road, London
Cecilie Anna Records 2023

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Cecilie Anna Hordaland, Norway

Cecilie Anna is a Norwegian Artist and Songwriter.

Her first release 'Going North' appeared in 2016 with her band Familieforetaket. A spirited debut it marked her out as a raw talent.

The following year saw the release of 'I'm Here' a starkly accomplished and astonishingly haunting album.

2021 brought her third album, New Bird, which took the form of a lo-fi exercise in elegant emotions. ... more

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