I have been asked to post some more of my music on this thread, so I'm going to do that.
I will also let you in on the meaning behind the songs, I will edit the post above and fill in the story how I came to write those particular songs.
The song "Holy" is a worship song through and through. This version is a little bit shorter, calmer and slower than the original version of the song I recorded. I used some popular verses of the Bible in it and a very old hymn from the 2nd century called "Phos Hilaron":
That record is a little bit overdriving, I know, the bass is too loud, but anyways - "make a joyful noise!"
:
https://soundcloud.com/katharina-hart/holy
I've also recorded a more chilled version of this song:
You may decide for yourself, which one you like best.
https://soundcloud.com/katharina-hart/holy-remix
As you may have noticed, I cannot play the drums, so I'm using drum samples and play them on my synthesizer. That's why it sounds so artificial. I can play the cajon, but I don't have a microphone for that one.
"Lifeline" speaks for itself. It's one of the songs that shows my love for metaphorical language.
Two of the darker songs I've written. Their slightly melancholic. The first one "In Shadows" I wrote after watching a show on television called "Aktenzeichen XY...ungelöst", British and American equvalents would be "Crimewatch" and "America's Most Wanted". They search for criminals there on that show and the cases are all real. So, there was this one case that freaked me out and got me down so much I couldn't sleep the whole night. It was about child abuse, but a really harsh case, in which a baby was abused probably by its own father (they searched the guy only knowing his hands you could saw on a video, and he wore a ring, probably a wedding ring...). That disturbed me, because I thought there are no ways by which they could find him, probably only with the help of hacker groups like Anonymous, but there's no way one would recognize the hands of a person. And I had to think of that child and all the other children nobody knows of and who have to suffer such pain. And I wrote those song, because everytime I play it, I'm reminded of that and I pray, because I don't know what else to do.
The other song "Blinded" was inspired by a dream I had, a very disturbing dream in which I saw terrible things happen to people around me, but felt completely helpless. It's linked to the story behind "In Shadows" I think. I don't know what every image in that song means for itself. I already tried a lot of dream interpreting while writing the song, but some things are left open. Argh, complicated.
I don't want to leave it at that - dark mood and everything. So, here's an uplifting song. All about my relationship to God:
https://soundcloud.com/katharina-har...-original-song