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by Burning Velvet

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I Need Love 04:24
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I need to hear birds singing Also when I am old I need to see a swarm of bees Buzzing in the breeze I need love In a world at peace I need love In a world at peace Beautiful flower unfolding In the sunlight of your eye I see a swarm of bees Buzzing in the breeze I need love In a world at peace I need love In a world at peace I need to hear birds singing Also when I am old I need to see a swarm of bees Buzzing in the breeze I need love In a world at peace I need love In a world at peace
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Never Mind Me 04:40
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Never mind, never mind me I am only trying to make you see What you are handing down You don´t know How it feels To be a child You don´t know How it feels To worry all of the time Never mind, never mind me I am just trying to make you see What you are handing down Make you life worthwhile Create better times for your child Protect the water Spare the trees Keep the green of my grass The power in my streams Never mind, never mind me I am only trying to make you see What you are handing down We need water We need trees We need peace We need water We need trees We need peace We need water We need trees We need peace
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Standing In the Sun 04:52
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It is you standing in the sun All the crooked lines have been drawn It is you with your back up straight Tell me, who babe Is going to carry that weight Heading down a road laid by men Who didn´t think about where they went Better carve your own way through the mud Your own way through the mud It is you standing in the sun All the crooked lines have been drawn It is you with your back up straight Tell me, who babe Is going to carry that weight Carry that weight Carry that weight Carry that weight Carry that weight Building up before your time A world disorder that ain´t fine Wasting poison in the creek Throwing dirt in the street It is you standing in the sun All the crooked lines have been drawn It is you with your back up straight Tell me, who babe Is going to carry that weight Every man, born like a saint Think about where all the good times went Hand down the world best you can To your child now with an open hand It is you standing in the sun All the crooked lines have been drawn It is you with your back up straight Tell me, who babe Is going to carry that weight Carry that weight Carry that weight Carry that weight Carry that weight
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Time Is Going Its Own Way 05:43
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Time is going its own way Never waiting for something to happen Always changing In a cyclic way Moving in circles The space we are having between us Defining our time The straightening of a spring Almost like a straight line Circularity With no beginning and no end Intuition The summing of your visions Your life is like a mission To really learn a lot Your brain is like a slot-machine Keeping what it has got Until the next jackpot The pouring of your actions Is nothing but a fraction A pattern like a maze Your possessions are feeding no questions Your obsessions Nothing but friction You are blind-sighted You can´t even ride it Your life Is moving in circles Moving in circles Moving in circles Moving in circles No beginning No end
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Fragile 04:33
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Beauty can be seen Not explained Brittleness Can be explained And described Crazy really means Fragile Easy crack expressed Fragile Friability My bitter friend Easy fall apart Connect your heart Crazy really means Fragile Easy crack expressed Fragile See clearly now Your fellow man After all, we are just human We are just human Give this, your fellow man What he needs Love and acceptance From what he feeds Crazy really means Fragile Easy crack expressed Fragile
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Waiting For My Train 03:45
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Sitting down the railway station Waiting for my train to come Looking for my destination My device won´t find connection I am swiping with frustration Sitting down the railway station Waiting for my train to come Can´t even read a map Can´t answer the most fundamental questions Without searching for the wikinations Sitting down the railway station Waiting for my train to come Slowing down my brain Killing my sane Put a halt to my evolution Jamming my soul In locked up convolution Sitting down the railway station Waiting for my train to come Sitting down the railway station Waiting for my train to come
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Through The Fields 04:18
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Through The Fields Past a dead end road Smoke is the poison Slipping down my throat The eyes are burning But the face seems old The mind is working But his breath seems cold All the faces Seems to blur away You wave goodbye From your distant kay Through The Fields Past a dead end road Smoke is the poison Slipping down my throat The eyes are burning But the face seems old The mind is working But his breath seems cold So old, so old Turning wheels On a gravel road Blood running His mind was broken Bats in the belfry His mind is so sad This body yearning For the love they had So sad So sad Through The Fields Past a dead end road Smoke is the poison Slipping down my throat So cold, so cold
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War Child 03:33
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The world has left her To gather The last bread now For her brother She is all alone She feels the pain Of losing her loved ones Over again She is still standing In the footprints From all the soldiers Marching through her home Her father left her And her mother too And all of the cousins Fled out of there too She is all alone She feels the pain Of losing her loved ones Over again She says People Please do remember To be thankful Of what you got You are not alone You don´t feel my pain Of losing your loved ones Over again You are not alone You don´t feel my pain Of losing your loved ones Over again
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Zeros & Ones 04:15
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I am by the screen Cracking bit by bit Converting my thoughts I am by the screen Even as we speak My eyes are drifting Into zeros and ones Every day I am sitting down Most of the day Converting my thoughts I have been reading Thousands of pages Learning my trade Getting skilled and wiser Is this what it can amount to? Spilling my thoughts To zeros and ones The social media Setting the stakes of the game Making everyone The same But people We are the ones To make this go away People We are the ones Take your family and friends Out to see the sun Turn off, turn on And then we will be done With this reducing ourselves To zeros and ones Zeros and ones Zeros and ones Zeros and ones

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Burning Velvet is the musical output and solo project for singer/songwriter and home recorder Nicolai Wøldike Schmith. His vocal is mostly deep and sensitive but it also holds the more fragile and bright register.

He resides in the small picturesque medieval town Svendborg, Denmark and plays very lo-fi Americana with great appreciation of the cinematic atmosphere, original lyrics and the raw unpolished sound of vintage gear. Nicolai loves his Epiphone guitar from 1944, an open back banjo, the old electric guitars from Sears in the 1950’s and the rump stump sound of the Höfner club bass, reel tape recorders, ribbon microphones, white noise and vinyl records.

Burning Velvet has been active since 2014 playing shows the first two years with a changing lineup of various skilled musicians. Nicolai has been experimenting with different setups and instrumentation thus always interpreting and changing his songs. Liveshows have been ranging from solo sets closer to Gillian Welch and her folk sound, to early Black Keys rumble and full-blown psych-rock full band performance with wailing saxophone and circuit bended synths.

In the beginning of 2016 he signed a contract with Celebration Records and has since released two singles and an ambitious double-LP debut album which was promoted with a large tour in DK, Germany and Switzerland. The album received nice reviews in Denmark and Germany eg. MINT and Rolling Stone Magazine. Apart from his debut single ‘Mr. Ghost’, previous releases were played only by Nicolai Wøldike Schmith and are truly solo efforts displaying his take on Americana, bluegrass and roots music with his unique lo-fi and vintage sounding vibe.

On September 21st we will release the sophomore album from Burning Velvet which sees Nicolai make another change in style and music. This time he has developed a dark and modern take on Americana – infusing the folky songstructures with treated piano, synths, fuzz guitars, mellotrons, Omni chord, pedal steel and angelic female vocals – and shows us how it can sound in 2018.

The musicians are all handpicked by Nicolai himself to fit the new sound and the new album is produced in close collaboration with: Moogie Johnson (guitar, bass and backing vocals), Camilla Muck (backing vocals, keys) and Tobias Lange (trommer, backing voc.). The trio has previously released records as Wynona (DK) and with Chorus Grant (DK). Tobias has also played drums for Cancer (DK).

RIYL: Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Daughn Gibson, Lambchop, Neil Young, JJ Cale, Woven Hand, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Timber Timbre, Tindersticks and Portishead.

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released September 21, 2018

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Burning Velvet Svendborg, Denmark

Burning Velvet is the musical output and solo project for singer/songwriter and home recordist Nicolai Wøldike Schmith.

He is based in Svendborg, Denmark and plays lo-fi americana with great appreciation of the raw and unpolished sound. It is a rather new project on the danish music scene and Burning Velvet is one of the finest exponents of pure americana, folk and country. ... more

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