Album "In Your Hand"
An excellent abum. Perhaps this way I would shortly like to hit off the CD by a Norwegian singer, sahaja yogi and a guitar player Cecilie Nirmala Andersen. Why is this album so special? It has got some nice features: perfectly recorded, great and beautiful texts with contexts telling about the friendship of the author and Shri Mataji, a specific and inimitable voice of the singer and last but not least, the instruments.
She lives in a Norwegian town of Bergen. Because of her voice she is compared to Joni Mitchell or to Bjork. But I remebered Susanne Vega during the first listening. Cecile looks for inspiration both in the Indian classical music but also in Mozart, Simon and Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, Carole King and a lot of others. She recorded her first album with her music band called Ildfugl (Firebird) together with her husband Ketil Fersum and she called the album „I am Butterfly“. Cecile went to India in 2004 to study in Academy. Here a new chapter of her life began. She fully commited herself to the spiritual atmosphere and under the leading of her teacher she started to compose songs. When she returned back from India she started to cooperate with Haraldji Sorejde, who guids her at concerts and also records the violin … and this album was made…
She lives in a Norwegian town of Bergen. Because of her voice she is compared to Joni Mitchell or to Bjork. But I remebered Susanne Vega during the first listening. Cecile looks for inspiration both in the Indian classical music but also in Mozart, Simon and Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, Carole King and a lot of others. She recorded her first album with her music band called Ildfugl (Firebird) together with her husband Ketil Fersum and she called the album „I am Butterfly“. Cecile went to India in 2004 to study in Academy. Here a new chapter of her life began. She fully commited herself to the spiritual atmosphere and under the leading of her teacher she started to compose songs. When she returned back from India she started to cooperate with Haraldji Sorejde, who guids her at concerts and also records the violin … and this album was made…
What to say about the music? Maybe the only thing: it really impressed me. But not only impressed, I was taken by it and got into it. I switched it on through a big stereo several times but the closest to me was the evening listening through earphones. Suddenly I felt connected to Cecile. To her music, her own creativity… Through the texts I could feel the great love to Shri Mataji which covered both of us up and at that time we were incredibly and tangibly close to our Mother. If this album comes your way record to it as often as possible. Certainly it offers you an extraordinery experience – maybe it will be you who is to be taken close to Shri Mataji by listening to this music, just like me, and your heart will get full of the unrepeatable feeling – feeling of the contact to Her, Mother – you will find yourself in „Her hands“ …
VH: All yogis understand the cryptical meaning of your CD title, anyway I would like to ask you – why the title „In your hand“?
SC: This is a very special song, because the lyrics came through my Brazilian sister Ana Paula Crezende. One day in Vaitarna she woke up with the lyrics in her head. She wrote it down while she had in mind, that I could make a song of it.
So she gave the words to me. And I was inspired to put them together and to make the song. I cannot make any song if I do not feel connected to the words.
But this song I just had to do. I knew it came from Shri Mataji.
It means that we got everything in our hands. And it is about wanting to be with Mother, to be transformed. But it is not always easy. Life goes up and down, and we still seek to become the one who we really are inside.
I can recognize my self from the past in the lyrics. How I was seeking, and wanting to believe in something beautiful, something better.
So the lyrics are meant to reach out to the seekers.
VH: Can you recollect a little bit your musical beginnings?
So she gave the words to me. And I was inspired to put them together and to make the song. I cannot make any song if I do not feel connected to the words.
But this song I just had to do. I knew it came from Shri Mataji.
It means that we got everything in our hands. And it is about wanting to be with Mother, to be transformed. But it is not always easy. Life goes up and down, and we still seek to become the one who we really are inside.
I can recognize my self from the past in the lyrics. How I was seeking, and wanting to believe in something beautiful, something better.
So the lyrics are meant to reach out to the seekers.
VH: Can you recollect a little bit your musical beginnings?
SC: Music is my life. In my early childhood, I used to listen to music for many hours a day.
And when I was 8-9 years old, I could hear “symphonies” coming into my head.
I guess I knew that I was going to sing and to compose when I became an adult.
I started one band after another, playing my own music with different musicians.
But nothing really happened until I began in a theatre group. Then I was asked to compose the music to a play.
In 2000, my husband and I made our first Norwegian album. In Norwegian it was called “I am Butterfly”. The name of the group was “Ildfugl” (Firebird).
I then spent three years fighting for better treatments to people with mental illnesses. And I used the music and lyrics as a language to reach out to politicians.
Music has also been a very good therapist and friend for me through the years.
Whenever I felt sad, I could always compose.
In 2003 after composing music for some theatre plays, I made my own play, here I used my experiences from the past. And all the music I had made through the years, before I got my self-realization.
The instruments that I play (guitar and piano) I learned to play by my self. All the composing has just been given to me like a gift.
For me it is like picking up something from past lives.
VH: The CD has a wonderful sound of acoustic instruments, is very rhythmical and melodic at the same time. Your husband Ketil and violinist Harald accompanies you. The violin sound gives a very soft hint to your music. How did you meet each other and how did the idea of this arrangement come to you?
And when I was 8-9 years old, I could hear “symphonies” coming into my head.
I guess I knew that I was going to sing and to compose when I became an adult.
I started one band after another, playing my own music with different musicians.
But nothing really happened until I began in a theatre group. Then I was asked to compose the music to a play.
In 2000, my husband and I made our first Norwegian album. In Norwegian it was called “I am Butterfly”. The name of the group was “Ildfugl” (Firebird).
I then spent three years fighting for better treatments to people with mental illnesses. And I used the music and lyrics as a language to reach out to politicians.
Music has also been a very good therapist and friend for me through the years.
Whenever I felt sad, I could always compose.
In 2003 after composing music for some theatre plays, I made my own play, here I used my experiences from the past. And all the music I had made through the years, before I got my self-realization.
The instruments that I play (guitar and piano) I learned to play by my self. All the composing has just been given to me like a gift.
For me it is like picking up something from past lives.
VH: The CD has a wonderful sound of acoustic instruments, is very rhythmical and melodic at the same time. Your husband Ketil and violinist Harald accompanies you. The violin sound gives a very soft hint to your music. How did you meet each other and how did the idea of this arrangement come to you?
SC: Whenever, I compose a song. I have to be alone in a very quiet room. It is like a room inside with God. And a tremendously love just takes over everything inside of me.
And when the lyrics are there and the melody is ready, then there is space for my husband too. This is a funny part of the process. We can sit there playing together and my ears are filled with instruments. And since I do not have many hands, I have to sing the melodies to my him. Then he starts playing. I of cause give him some freedom to arrange the songs too. And sometimes I record my ideas on the keyboard.
We met Harald, the violinist at the SY collective in Bergen.
We played bhajans and devotional songs together, and it just came natural that he played on some of the songs with his Norwegian violin. It is a very mighty instrument, sort of like a fiddlers answer to the Indian sitar. He also used to live with us during the recording process. So we would meditate together and maintain the collective spirit.
IN YOUR HAND
Everything seems so strange to me her
I never know where I go
Where I need to be
What I need to see on my way
I have done so many things in life
But nothing compares to you
All I seek is truth
All I feel with you, on my way
I just know that I want to be with you
In your heart and feelings too
I just know that I want to be
In your hand
In your hand
Everything seems like a challenge to me
I never know where the river flows
Where I need to be
What I need to see on my way
I just know that I won to be with you
In your heart and feelings too
I just know that I want to be
In your hand
In your hand
Everything seems so strange to me here
Everything seems like a challenge to me
I never now where the river flows
I never know where it goes
I just know that I want to be with you
In your heart and feelings too
I just know that I want to be
In your hands
In your hands
I have done so many strange things in my life,
But I still don’t know who I am
Who I am
Who I am
And when the lyrics are there and the melody is ready, then there is space for my husband too. This is a funny part of the process. We can sit there playing together and my ears are filled with instruments. And since I do not have many hands, I have to sing the melodies to my him. Then he starts playing. I of cause give him some freedom to arrange the songs too. And sometimes I record my ideas on the keyboard.
We met Harald, the violinist at the SY collective in Bergen.
We played bhajans and devotional songs together, and it just came natural that he played on some of the songs with his Norwegian violin. It is a very mighty instrument, sort of like a fiddlers answer to the Indian sitar. He also used to live with us during the recording process. So we would meditate together and maintain the collective spirit.
IN YOUR HAND
Everything seems so strange to me her
I never know where I go
Where I need to be
What I need to see on my way
I have done so many things in life
But nothing compares to you
All I seek is truth
All I feel with you, on my way
I just know that I want to be with you
In your heart and feelings too
I just know that I want to be
In your hand
In your hand
Everything seems like a challenge to me
I never know where the river flows
Where I need to be
What I need to see on my way
I just know that I won to be with you
In your heart and feelings too
I just know that I want to be
In your hand
In your hand
Everything seems so strange to me here
Everything seems like a challenge to me
I never now where the river flows
I never know where it goes
I just know that I want to be with you
In your heart and feelings too
I just know that I want to be
In your hands
In your hands
I have done so many strange things in my life,
But I still don’t know who I am
Who I am
Who I am
to be continue in Part.2
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