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Frances Livings

Songwriter | Multi-lingual Singer | Author | Poet

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    • Ma Solitude (2017)
    • Ipanema Lounge (2016)
    • The World I Am Livings In (2013)
    • Songs of Antônio Carlos Jobim (2012)
    • Glory Me (2011)
    • Candy’s Caravan (2011)
    • Urban Survival (2010)
    • When Love Falls Apart (2010)
    • During The Hours (2010)
    • Gold & Frankincense (2009)
    • Sticky Traxx (2009)
  • Song Lyrics
    • Banalities
    • Candy’s Caravan
    • Cold Coffee
    • Come Closer
    • Don’t Ask Me If I Miss You
    • Don’t Treat Me Cool
    • Eating the Darkness
    • Glory Me
    • I’ll Be Leaving Soon
    • It Will Never Be The Same
    • Lonely In The Night
    • Long Time Gone
    • Mr. Moon
    • Only Time Will Tell
    • Pebbles In My Hand
    • Please Close Your Eyes
    • Samba On The Moon
    • Urban Survival
    • You Can’t Rewind…
    • When Love Falls Apart
    • White Angel’s Café
  • Poems
    • A Breath She Took
    • Afternoon Delight
    • Breakfast
    • Cast In Bronze
    • During The Hours
    • Evaporated
    • Goldfish Bowl
    • Gold & Frankincense
    • Ink on Silk
    • Ode to Tinsel Town
    • Songs of the Soul
    • The Butterfly
    • The Maliciousness of Words
    • When It Rains
    • Worst Case Scenario
    • Your Perfect Body
  • Contact
  • Blog Posts
    • Livings In Los Angeles – Ma Solitude
    • Songs of the Soul ~ Musical Poetry and its Inspirations
    • From my Jazz Repertoire: Six Favourite French Chansons
    • Aganjú ~ Music and Spirituality
    • Brand New EPK Launched for Frances Livings’ Ipanema Lounge
    • Fishnet Stockings and Lonely Tissues Boxes. The Reeperbahn in Hamburg and Candy’s Caravan
    • Livings In Los Angeles. Public Parks and Gardens and their Impact on Mental Health and the Creative Mind
    • I Just Lost It
    • Funeral Blues…
    • Eating the Darkness. Francesca Woodman’s Wallpaper
    • During the Hours – A wonderful review by the Poet Hound
    • The Mystery of Unicorns
    • “When Love Falls Apart” and the Beauty of Melancholy
    • Morning Has Broken…
    • May You Shine…
    • Waters of March and the Circle of Life
    • True Colors
    • The Pomegranate ~ On Finding Poetry
    • Wonderful Review of “The World I Am Livings In”
    • Creative Influences ~ Poems I Read. ‘Desiderata’ by Max Ehrmann
    • Please Close Your Eyes
    • Livings in Los Angeles. Closet Stories – The Hollywood Uniform
    • National Poetry Month, April 2014
    • Creative Influences ~ Poetry. The Sun at Midnight
    • Creative Influences ~ Sneezles by A. A. Milne on Record-A-Poem
    • Frances Livings’ Ipanema Lounge ~ New Album Out Soon!
    • Still Lifes ~ The Art of Tranquillity
    • Songs of the Soul ~ In Memory of Zane Musa (1979 – 2015)
    • Press Release: New Album Frances Livings’ Ipanema Lounge
    • Staying in Touch…
    • Objects of Desire – Are You Smelling the Roses?
    • Livings in Los Angeles. Whole Foods and the Terror of Me. Now!
  • Voice-Over
  • Book Store
    • Ephemeral Cult Sites – The Staging of Space and Material at Nazi Mass Rallies (2020)
    • Nationalized Landscape and the Cult of the Dead. The Staging of “Blood and Soil” at the Bückeberg 1933 – 1937 (2020)
    • Erscheinungen des Sakralen (2011)
    • Ephemere Kulträume (Dissertation 2003)
    • “Licht” in Lexikon des Künstlerischen Materials (2002)
  • Blog Posts auf Deutsch
    • Waters of March und der Zyklus des Lebens

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Alphabetical Song List

Banalities

Candy’s Caravan

Come Closer

Don’t Ask Me If I Miss You

Don’t Treat Me Cool

Eating The Darkness

Glory Me

It Will Never Be The Same

I’ll Be Leaving Soon

Lonely in The Night

Mr. Moon

Only Time Will Tell

Pebbles In My Hand

Please Close Your Eyes

Samba On The Moon

Urban Survival

When Love Falls Apart

White Angel’s Café

You Can’t Rewind A River

 

 

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Foreign language jazz singer w Ipanema Lounge | author, art historian w Ph.D. | jazz cook, dog, art + nature lover #livejazz #IpanemaLoungeJazz

Frances Livings
🎶 This Friday I'm reposting my jazzoetry piece, 🎶 This Friday I'm reposting my jazzoetry piece, Goldfish Bowl", which features as a solo instrument the CELLO! 

🎧 Listen to it by clicking the link in my bio!

Goldfish Bowl

A dish of cloudy water
and he laughed at me
gazing into the mud of my blue
billowing sheets of claiming smiles
kissing my forehead, patting my frown
reaching for a strand of hair
reaching for my beautiful gown –

Of silver, gold and turquoise-blue
in preciousness I’m clad.
But one by one and two by two
my scales are itching...

The amazing image is by Brooke Shaden! You can follow her on Instagram too!
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✒️ A piece about nothing less than – WRITING ✒️ A piece about nothing less than – WRITING! 

Onto the page and into the paper
with fierce metal fangs
H’s and T’s, K’s, M’s and P’s
each iron tooth a dedicated shape
a hammering clamp, a set impression
an instrument of precision...

🎧 Listen to it by clicking on the link in my bio!

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☕ Good morning! It's Poetry Friday. I'm repostin ☕ Good morning! It's Poetry Friday. I'm reposting this little piece I wrote called Breakfast! Have a good morning and a good day...

Breakfast

Honey‘s for mothers
jam is for girls
with strawberry mouths
and lemon curd curls

Soldiers in yoke
line up for little boys...

☕️ To read the whole poem click on the link in my bio!

Photographer: unknown

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Did you know that in 2001 "Waters of March" was na Did you know that in 2001 "Waters of March" was named the all-time best Brazilian song!? 
It was almost 30 years after Tom Jobim had written it: Brazil’s leading daily newspaper, Folha de São Paulo conducted the poll including more than 200 Brazilian journalists, musicians, and other artists. Listen to my recording: just click of the link in my bio!

Read more about the history of this famous jazz tune on my website (also link in bio)

And don't forget to sign up for my mailing list on the website.

Paintings: 
- John Constable, Rainstorm over the Sea, circa 1824-1828
- Franz Marc, In the Rain, 1912

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🎧 Happy Tuesday and happy music listening! If y 🎧 Happy Tuesday and happy music listening! If you aren't already – do it now – and follow me on Spotify! The link is in my bio!
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🍣 After a long day learning all about creative 🍣 After a long day learning all about creative marketing strategies… my brain is fried and I’m starving! 🤯 It’s simply not the kind of thinking —so strategical— I’m good at. So, what better than Sushi? What’s your favourite kind? I definitely love it all except eel!
Constantin Brâncuși, The Sleeping Muse, 1910 Th Constantin Brâncuși, The Sleeping Muse, 1910

This gorgeous sculpture inspired a poem I wrote about fearing one's own power and beauty...

Cast in Bronze

Cast in bronze, so sturdy and strong
but you won’t forgive – a tiny tear
a single drop and you’ll blush and tarnish
pull on a coat of furry moss
In camouflage green, in olive and sage
you’ll close like an deep-sea treasure chest...

Read the rest of this piece – follow the link in my bio! 

This bronze sculpture was created by Constantin Brâncuși in 1910. It was originally carved from marble. Refining the sculpture, Brâncuși cast several of the sculptures in bronze, which are now in museums around the world. I saw it for the first time in Paris.
🌹 Happy Saturday! What a great picture of the E 🌹 Happy Saturday! What a great picture of the Eiffel Tower – a shoutout to the photographer Rafael Kellermann-Streit! It goes really well with the atmosphere of one of my most popular playlists, "La Vie en Rose. French Jazz & Chansons" – for the link go to bio in my profile!
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👁 This was the very first jazzoetry piece I wro 👁 This was the very first jazzoetry piece I wrote. It's a very sensual piece recorded in a minimalistic way with voice and classical guitar. And this was actually the first cover design I created before I released the EP! 
Link in bio!

Gold & Frankincense

Bedded on roses
swaddled in silk
Covered in honey
and bathed in milk

I. Sipping hot tea brewed of
liquidized spices,
...
Read the whole piece in my blog here: https://franceslivings.com/poetry/gold-frankincense/
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More Blog Posts

  • Participation in an Audio Guide and Interview for a Podcast
  • The World I Am Livings In
  • My Spanish Repertoire
  • A Breath She Took ~ A new Jazzoetry Release
  • The Best Bossa Nova Songs: O Barquinho ~ My Little Boat
  • Genghis Cohen ~ L.A.’s Legendary Singer-Songwriter Venue
  • Livings In Los Angeles – Ma Solitude
  • New EPK for Frances Livings’ Ipanema Lounge

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  • Frances Livings: Weltenwandlerin zwischen Musik, Poesie, Kunst und Natur - MassivKreativ on Livings In Los Angeles. Public Parks and Gardens and their Impact on Mental Health and the Creative Mind
  • Frances Livings on Aganjú ~ Music and Spirituality
  • Moon Bourjolly on Funeral Blues ~ Songs and Poems about Death
  • Songs of the Soul ~ In Memory of Zane Musa (1979 - 2015) - Frances Livings on Songs of the Soul
  • Reeks on Aganjú ~ Music and Spirituality

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    • Come Closer
    • Don’t Ask Me If I Miss You
    • Don’t Treat Me Cool
    • Eating the Darkness
    • Glory Me
    • It Will Never Be The Same
    • I’ll Be Leaving Soon
    • Lonely In The Night
    • Mr. Moon
    • Only Time Will Tell
    • Pebbles In My Hand
    • Please Close Your…
    • Samba On The Moon
    • Urban Survival
    • When Love Falls Apart
    • White Angel’s Café
    • Banalities
    • Candy’s Caravan
    • Waters of March
  • Poems
    • A Breath She Took
    • Afternoon Delight
    • Breakfast
    • Cast In Bronze
    • During The Hours
    • Evaporated
    • Gold & Frankincense
    • Goldfish Bowl
    • Ink on Silk
    • Ode to Tinsel Town
    • Songs of the Soul
    • The Butterfly
    • The Maliciousness of Words
    • When It Rains
    • Worst Case Scenario
    • Your Perfect Body
  • Music Store
    • La Solitude (2017)
    • Ma Solitude (2017)
    • Ipanema Lounge (2016)
    • The World I Am Livings In (2013)
    • Songs of Antônio Carlos Jobim (2012)
    • Candy’s Caravan (2011)
    • Glory Me (2011)
    • When Love Falls Apart (2010)
    • During The Hours (2010)
    • Urban Survival (2010)
    • Sticky Traxx (2009)
    • Gold & Frankincense (2009)
  • Book Store
    • Ephemeral Cult Sites – The Staging of Space and Material at Nazi Mass Rallies (2020)
    • Nationalized Landscape and the Cult of the Dead. The Staging of “Blood and Soil” at the Bückeberg 1933 – 1937 (2020)
    • Erscheinungen des Sakralen (2011)
    • Lexikon des künstlerischen Materials (2002)
    • Ephemere Kulträume (Dissertation 2003)
  • Shows