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Welcome Spring!
Watch it in video version on my youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0QYGB0zJ7M
This is a music incantation to say farewell to Winter and welcome Spring.
Daffodils (Narcissus) are the heralds of Spring. In Victorian times these yellow flowers were symbols of friendship. In Wales it's thought that if you see the first one blooming you will have luck and wealth the rest of the year
This belongs to a series "called" Incantations and you can see the video for this one and all the other incantations through the seasons on my youtube channel

File includes mp3, flac, cover and info

This is a traditional lullaby from Iceland. Icelandic lullabies are famed for being somehow mysterious of frightening and this one has a well known ghost story as background.
WATCH VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfaI5ya0QN0
The legend says a woman became pregnant out of wedlock and as that was punishable with a severe penalty she set up to abandon the child in the forest to die of exposure in the dark woods.
She wrapped the creature in rags and left it to the elements. This practise was not that uncommon in the past as we can see recurrently in many fairy tales. Some years later while the mother was milking the ewes she sourly complained aloud of not having fine clothes to attend a popular ring dance (the "Vivivaki" festival") and then she heard the spectral voice of a child humming a song, precisely this one featured in the video. The ghostly voice sung:

Móðir mín í kví, kví
kvíddu ekki því, því;
ég skal ljá þér duluna mína
duluna mína að dansa í,
ég skal ljá þér duluna mína
duluna mína að dansa í

Mother of mine in the sheep pen
You don't need to worry, worry
You can wear this these rags of mine
so you can dance
and dance

Upon hearing this the woman quickly went insane as she remembered her crime and thought the child's ghost had returned to curse her.

I'm not native Icelandic speaker so I hope I have not mispronounced much.

The ghosts of these children would be called útburður, the name suggests they were often carried outside and were then left to die in the wild. They are a gangári type ghost meaning they can follow their victims but unlike the other ghosts they can actually cast a curse on a whole
family for generations to come. The song in the video above comes from one of the most well-known Icelandic ghost stories. 

This belongs to the series "Incantations". (check tag "incantations" to see the previous ones).  Incantations are a series of simpler songs, most of them with their melodies inspired in and by Nature. This is the most complex so far as it's the first one having lyrics in English.

There's a world in between

but to find the way in

First, you must learn to see

how light gather in beams

shadows stir and then shift

revealing what's unseen

And in my slumber dreams

come rushing in

the veil is tearing at the seams

and rising from the floor in endless spin

Leaves that never settle in the wind

And all those leaves keep on swirling around

suspended by a cobweb string

You know you'll never fall back to the ground

leaves will never settle in the wind

Then you see that sheer gleam

cast by all living things

that to your soul are bound

And your worries flow downstream

and the air is full of wings

that beat without a sound

And all those leaves keep on swirling around

their journey is about to begin

You know you'll never fall back to the ground

Leaves will never settle in the Wind

Credits:

• Music by Priscilla Hernandez
• Lead vocals, choir, piano, harp: Priscilla Hernandez
• Additional backing vocals: Mireia Blasco
• Violin: Armen Vartanyan
• Concert flute: Iulian Gogu
• Mixing and Mastering by Héctor Corcín

Buy now this song to download the files. You can set your price for the song, minimum 0.75 euros to support Priscilla Hernandez music and future releases. Thank you!

By downloading the song from here you get a 3 files in different formats:

• FLAC: original better quality version
• MP3 and AAC: versions for portable players like smartphones or small speakers and laptops.

You can also download the song in bandcamp

This is my new music video Līgo, a Latvian traditional folk song.It's a celebration of Summer, love and life!

Līgo (later Jāņi) is a solar Goddess, fertility and Health. Even if in the song translation it says "Goddes of Darkness and Mist" which was the first thing that drew me to this song as I myself had made a song called "In the Mist". She is derived from the Roman Rosmenta (The Great Provider) and Baltic Goddess Saule.
Līgo is one of the main festivities in Latvia and women pick flowers and birch branches and make flower garlands to wear in their heads and also bathe like nymphs in ponds and rivers. Men also wear wreaths made of Oak leaves. People celebrate around born fires and it's tradition to stay up all night until dawn. I hope to visit Latvia one day to see, enjoy and experience this tradition. It was my Latvian friend Linda Hasani who told me about it and encouraged me to do this song. Celebrations with marked pagan roots, and the little pleasures of the rural life by the countryside.
So Linda, thanks very much for introducing me to the music of your country

Also in the song another deity Māra is mentioned who is the highest-ranking goddess in Latvian mythology, Mother Earth and "provider of bread". . She is also a protector of women and children related with many ancient folk traditions relating to renewal and fertility.

Filming the video. A celebration of Nature and Summer

As usual I had the help of my partner @hedac to film, though this time the entire edit is mine and I'm quite proud of the learning process and encouraged to do more of these. Most of the video has been filmed late Spring and this Summer as my surrounding fields have gone from green to golden to celebrate both Summer Solstice and Lammas (Harvest). Locations included the abandoned village of Guendulain that is surrounded by fields and a lovely pond, but also other locations in Navarre and Aragon.
My garland was a birthday gift from my friend and fellow illustrator Lisselotte Eriksson.

We had several animal guests :)

Guest starlet Pikku aka "Cookie Monster" the Duck

There is a little pond in Guendulain (a deserted village in Navarre, Spain) right in Saint James Way we often visit. And there we usually find a fellow duck very fond of cookies. As we have met several times and it grew confident to approach to us (and/or our cookies) we named (him/her) Pikku (Duck in Finn) and filmed several scenes featuring it. This talented bird actor was well paid in treats ;-). The video include also some companions and even baby ducklings (aww factor).

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Other guest animals

There was a corn burnting bird on a blackberry bush for over a month... every day on our morning stroll it would greet us. It appears (and also its chick) at several spots of the video. I grew used to see it perched on the same branch always and I'm happy I've captured that memory in the video as well. I will miss you "Pichuichui" until next year where another corn burning bird goes to that branch... or is it you? like the year before? I fancy to think it's you, the one and only. Thanks for making an appearance in this project too.

Another special moment that appears in the video was a little deer that approached to me :). Oh it was totally a Disney Princess moment (sorry for my hyper of awwws here)

Another location included a field of wild Allium in the woods. This is one picture taking "Behind the Scenes"

Special thanks and dedicatory

Dedicated to my friend  Linda Hasani  who encouraged me to learn a song in her Latvian native language. Thanks very much for introducing me to the lovely traditional music of your country and for recording a spoken version for me to try my best. I a aware my pronunciation is not perfectbut it was done with utter respect. And I have the feeling it won't be the last Latvian traditional I will sing because you know I'm already in love with another.

Lammas: Celebration of the Harvest

It is a period that starts the first of August until the 1st of September in many European countries.
This holiday can be celebrated either as a way to [honor the god Lugh, or as a celebration of the first wheat harvest. t is

Līgo ( A Latvian traditional song)

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