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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)
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    • 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
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    • 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
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    • 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!
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    • 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
  • New Release Coyote Moon

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Bandleader & foreign language singer w Ipanema Lounge 🎶Author, Art Historian w PhD | jazz cook, dog, art + nature lover #livejazz #IpanemaLoungeJazz

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And guess who I just saw at the "Femme Fatale" exh And guess who I just saw at the "Femme Fatale" exhibition in Hamburg? I was just talking about her work and how one photograph inspired a song in my latest podcast "Eating the Darkness. Francesca Woodman's Wallpaper & A Song by Frances Livings". Link to my post in bio. @hamburger.kunsthalle @francesca.woodman #femaleartist #femalesongwriter #songwriting #womenwrittenbywomen #femalephotographer #femmefatale #femaleartist
🌱 Today I'd like to share something very inspir 🌱 Today I'd like to share something very inspirational with you by Bert Hellinger: “The So-called ‘Black Sheep’ of the family are, in fact, seekers of liberation roads for the family tree. Those members of the tree who do not adapt to the rules or traditions of the family system, those who were constantly seeking to revolutionize beliefs, going in contrast to roads marked by family traditions, those criticized, tried and even rejected, those, by General, they are called to release the tree of repetitive stories that frustrate entire generations. The ‘Black Sheep’, those who do not adapt, those who scream rebel, repair, detoxify and create a new and blooming branch… countless unfulfilled desires, unfulfilled dreams, frustrated talents of our ancestors manifest themselves in their rebellion looking to take place. The family tree, by inertia, will want to continue to maintain the castrating and toxic course of its trunk, which makes its task difficult and conflicting… that no one makes you doubt, take care of your ‘rarity’ as the most precious flower of Your Tree. You are the dream of all your ancestors” Anton Hellinger (1925–2019), known as Bert Hellinger, was a German psychotherapist associated with a therapeutic method best known as Family Constellations and Systemic Constellations. The painting is by the contemporary American artist Marlyn Daggett, "Be The Black Sheep, Not The Scapegoat" (Oil on Canvas, w 72 x h 96 inches). #selfreflection #hopeful #changeisgood #femaleartists #creatives #perseverance #progress #change #artoftheday #art #artist #artwork #blacksheep #blacksheep #blacksheepofthefamily
😁 Did you know: when you buy music during a Ban 😁 Did you know: when you buy music during a Bandcamp Friday, 93 percent of that money goes to the artist or label on average (with the rest going to payment processing fees). The link to my Bandcamp page is in my bio! ☝️ That’s compared to an average of 82 percent the rest of the time. Bandcamp started the promotion in 2020 in response to the pandemic’s impact on tours and concerts. 🎤 So: this Friday, download some of my music and I'll receive almost all of the revenue! Thank you! 🥰 Painting by: Mark Pulliam Jazz Stack Loop #bandcampday #bandcampfriday #bandcampfridays #downloadmusic
🎧 Happy Monday! I hope you had a nice weekend! 🎧 Happy Monday! I hope you had a nice weekend! I had fun testing my recording equipment! 🎼 Don't ask me what took me so long... So still experimenting and practicing using the recording software Logic. 🎤 So far, I've only miked my voice but not the piano yet – I've used my second mic stand in the bedroom to hang a lamp... 🙈 I guess I need to get another one... #recordingartist #recordinggear #songwriting #music #songwriter #yahama #singer #musician #singersongwriter #independentartist #indieartist #indiemusic #coyotemoon #musicproduction #logicprox
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☂ This year has been challenging. Especially whe ☂ This year has been challenging. Especially when under stress it can be hard to let go of the chores and focus on the "right" things for oneself. For me it's practicing piano and writing songs, which was the very thing I did all weekend! YAY! 🎼 It felt so good to be expanding my repertoire again. Many thanks to my friend Heather who gave me this mug for some extra motivation... 🥰 #motivation #motivationmonday #motivationssprüche #beyourbestself #songwriting #indiemusician
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Difficult Times... 🌹 Like – maybe – some o Difficult Times... 🌹 Like – maybe – some of you too, I am going through difficult times. It seems like the whole world is at the moment... So these lines from a newsletter just caught my eye and I thought they would be worth sharing with you: ✨ "It can be challenging to maintain a positive attitude and a measure of faith when you are in the midst of difficult times. This is partly because we tend to think that if the universe loves us, we will experience that love in the form of positive circumstances. 🧸 However, we are like children, and the universe is our wise mother who knows what our souls need to thrive better than we do. Just as a young child does not benefit from getting everything she wants, we also benefit from times of constriction and difficulty that help us grow and learn. If we keep this in mind and continue to trust that we are loved even when things are hard, it helps us bear the difficult times with grace. 🌎 This period of time in history is full of difficulty for a lot of human beings, and you may feel less alone knowing you are not being singled out. There are extreme energy changes pulsing through the universe at every level, and we are all part of the growing process -- and the growing pains. It helps if we remember that life is one phase after another and that this difficult time will inevitably give way to something new and different. When we feel overwhelmed, we can comfort ourselves with the wise saying this too shall pass. 💡 At the same time, if you truly feel that nothing is going right for you, it’s never a bad idea to examine your life and see if there are some changes you can make to alleviate some of the difficulty. Gently and compassionately exploring the areas giving you the most trouble may reveal things you are holding on to and need to release: unprocessed emotions, unresolved transitions, or negative ways of looking at yourself or reality. As you take responsibility for the things you can change, you can more easily surrender to the things you can’t, remembering all the while that this phase will, without doubt, give way to another." – Daily OM #selfreflection #snow #hopeful #changeisgood #selfimprovementtips
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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)
    • New Release Coyote Moon
    • 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)
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