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Frances Livings

Songwriter | Multi-lingual Singer | Author | Poet

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    • Ma Solitude (2017)
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    • 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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    • Don’t Treat Me Cool
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    • It Will Never Be The Same
    • Lonely In The Night
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    • Only Time Will Tell
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    • Samba On The Moon
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    • A Breath She Took
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    • Cast In Bronze
    • During The Hours
    • Evaporated
    • Goldfish Bowl
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    • Ink on Silk
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    • The Maliciousness of Words
    • When It Rains
    • Worst Case Scenario
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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)
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    • Waters of March und der Zyklus des Lebens
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❖ Jazz in French, Spanish, English w Ipanema Lounge
❖ Author, poet & songwriter
❖ Voice-over actor
❖ Listen to 🌙 Coyote Moon here ▼
🌿 Avoir un cœur d’artichaut 🌿 Meaning: t 🌿 Avoir un cœur d’artichaut 🌿 Meaning: to fall easily in love Literal translation: to have an artichoke heart There are so many magical fruits (I had written about pomegranates a while ago) so imagine my delight when I came across this French proverb! Artichokes, you probably know, are a vegetable where layers of leaves protect the edible part – its ‘heart’. 💚 Originally, the French expression was slightly longer, "cœur d’artichaut, une feuille pour tout le monde", which translates to “artichoke heart, one leaf for everyone”, the meaning being “lots of leaves, lots of loves”. ❤ Makes me also think of the beautiful jazz song "I fall in love too easily" by Chet Baker. #vegetables #magicalmoments #songwriting #artichokes #artichaut #lovesongs #foodinsta #foodart
🌿 I have to be really honest: Being a "messy pe 🌿 I have to be really honest: Being a "messy perfectionist" and an HSP is a great recipe for under-estimating and over-doubting oneself. A psychological double-whammy, which is why I often struggle with finishing things. I've never had a creative block in whatever genre I've worked in, it's more like an overwhelming sense of being sensually and creatively over-flooded with ideas and possibilities. So I'm working on it and have to start patting myself on the back when I have the courage to decide; be slightly bored and “just” do the nitty gritty and – FINISH things! One song I recently completed (and am actually very happy with 😳) is "Prussian Blue", which is why I thought I'd share this colour chart with you – having just posted about the colour yellow. Prussian blue is the third colour from the top. From top to bottom: Ultramarine Blue (PB29), Cobalt Blue (PB28), Prussian Blue (PB27), Viridian (PG18), Cadmium Yellow (PY35), Yellow Ochre (PY43), Burnt Umber (PBr7) : : : #pigments #art #artist #artwork #painting #kunst #malerei #peinture #fineart #yellow #blue #colours #colors #ultramarineblue #cobaltblue #HSP #perfectionists #Prussianblue #Viridian #Cadmiumyellow #Yellowochre #Burntumber #colourpalette #songwriting #songs #femalesongwriter #indiemusic #indiemusician #lyrics #lyricist
🌿 On this date exactly, only 136 years ago, on 🌿 On this date exactly, only 136 years ago, on September 28, 1888, Vincent van Gogh sent his brother Theo a description and a sketch of one of his latest compositions saying: “…a 30 square canvas representing the house and its setting under a sulphur sun under a pure cobalt sky. The theme is a hard one! But that is exactly why I want to conquer it. Because it is fantastic, these yellow houses in the sun and also the incomparable freshness of the blue. All the ground is yellow too. I will soon send you a better drawing of it than this sketch out of my head…” 🎨 It is apparent and well-known that he was quite obsessed with the colour yellow in Arles, where he had rented four rooms in a house on Place Lamartine (southern France). You can see it in the painting: the building with the green front door, next to it a window to the sitting room and upstairs, famously the two bedrooms, one of which he invited Paul Gauguin to stay in. This is the very bedroom for which he painted his sunflowers, to adorn the walls and to greet his guest. Van Gogh was exited. Thus, the friendship culminated in tragedy… This painting is now on a very rare loan at the very recently opened exhibition, Poets and Lovers, at the National Gallery in London from 14 September 2024 until 19 January 2025. 💛 But the reason I am telling you this is because I am working on a piece – a song, a spoken word piece maybe – about the colour yellow, which has not only got some wonderful paintings to be inspired by but even has an interesting history a as a pigment. The Yellow House (The Street) Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Arles, September 1888 Oil on canvas, 72 cm x 91.5 cm Copyright: The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam #pigments #art #classicalmodern #paintings #artist #VanGogh #exhibition #artwork #painting #architecture #kunst #fineart #yellow #yellowhouse #colours #colors
First impressions back in West Hollywood— all th First impressions back in West Hollywood— all the while trying to beat the heat.
If in Hamburg… don’t miss this exhibition of t If in Hamburg… don’t miss this exhibition of the Berliner painter Werner Scholz one of the so-called forgotten artists of the 1930s, en par with George Grosz and Otto Dix. It will be closing on Sunday June 9, 2024. Contact me for an exclusive tour of these unusual paintings from 1927-37 - before Scholz was defamed by the Nazis and left Germany in 1939. . . #germanart #neuesachlichkeit #artexhibition #artexhibitions2024 #artingermany #germanartist
Shame, that's it's just been left to rot – a gre Shame, that's it's just been left to rot – a greenhouse from the 1950s, built on the foundation of an even older one from the 1840s, that housed a collection of orchids and other tropical plants (which were exclusive and expensive rarities in the early 19th century). It's not only one of my favourite parks in Hamburg but it of course inspired me to take some pictures because it also made me think of one of my most popular French recordings, "Jardin d'hiver"!
T'was a cold February day. I'm sitting at my desk T'was a cold February day. I'm sitting at my desk and watching the sun (only faintly discernable on the right) trying to push through the glum and gloomy fog. The next thing I know, I'm at an art exhibition looking at that very same motif. Only – the sun has actually managed to push its way through the haze in thick paint with circling brushstrokes – like a symbol used in Japanese calligraphy and Zen meditation. It represents the state of mind at the moment of creation and symbolizes absolute enlightenment, strength, elegance, the universe, and the void. #WernerScholz #art #landscapes #northerngermany #gloomy #painting #20thcenturyart #winter
The pod. The Gisela. The ultimate cloud spectacle. The pod. The Gisela. The ultimate cloud spectacle.
👏 That smug feeling you have after a rainy day 👏 That smug feeling you have after a rainy day full of bookkeeping, tidying, and cleaning...
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    • Eating the Darkness
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    • 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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