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The Faroese author Jens Pauli Heinesen wrote the beautiful poem „Sóleyan” (The Buttercup) in the 60‘s. One year after Jens Pauli's death in 2011, his daughter Elin Brimheim Heinesen put his poem to music. After a successful crowd funding campaign in 2020, the Italian composer Enzo de Rosa orchestrated the music for symphony orchestra. The music was recorded in Smecky Studios in Prague with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Adam Clemens, supervised by executive producer Laura Lungu. All vocals were recorded in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. Composer Elin Brimheim Heinesen sings the main vocal and the 60-man choir Tórshavnar Manskór sings the backing vocals. Elin Brimheim Heinesen translated her father's poem „Sóleyan“ into English. Finnur Hansen sound engineered the choir recordings and mixed the choir and the orchestra, while Bárður Háberg from Baroli Music sound engineered and mixed the main vocal. The mixed track was mastered by Camilo de Silva F. from Colombia. Release date was set to November 12th 2021– the late lyricist Jens Pauli Heinesen's 89th birthday. The song was released on all platforms in two versions – one in Faroese and one in English. An official music video for the song was released December 3rd 2021. Elin Brimheim Heinesen explains the background for the poem: - My father, Jens Pauli Heinesen, wrote the poem in the 1960's when the Cold War was at its peak. I think everyone at that time had a sense of something ominous that could hit them anytime out of nowhere. But, still, people just had to live life, as if the threat did not exist. After all, the days, the nights, the seasons just keep coming and going, and the buttercup blossoms incessantly. In the great context, man is so infinitely small compared to much greater powers at play, which can shatter the whole world in the blink of an eye. This theme is just as relevant today. Download Sóleyan in Faroese and English: ............... THE POEM “SÓLEYAN“ (The title Sóleyan is an older form of the word ‘sóljan’, which means ‘the buttercup’). Lyrics in Faroese: Jens Pauli Heinesen (1961) Kvøldar á sundi, nátt er í nánd Sólin at havgeiri dregur Nátarnir flúgva at sovandi strond Minnini hava so kalda hond ið kínir tær, tá ið tú svevur Streymar á sundi, streymar í mær broddur av drepandi iva sum melur í klingur, bønar um svar Men dunið út úr gjáunum lær at okkum, ið elska, ið liva Tey spæla bert við okkum, lívsins kor tær sælu, lygnandi løtur nú lombini leika í grønari skor og heimar smildrast við eittans orð og sóleyan lýsir um fløtur Sóleyan lýsir um fløtur ............. Lyrics rewritten in English by Elin Brimheim Heinesen (2020): Dusk on the sound, day lingers no more The sun falls behind the horizon The fulmars fly full to the slumbering shore The memories stroke you, cold and sore at night from where dreams are arising Streams on the sound, fast flowing in me a pinching of gruelling misgivings swirls round and round, begging, yearning for heed But rumble from gorges revels in glee at us and our loving and living They play around with us, all palettes of life these blissful and marvellous moments while lambs are at play on grassy hillsides and worlds are smashed by a single might while buttercups light up the meadows Buttercups light up the meadows .............. CREDITS MUSIC CREATION: Album Artist: ELIN BRIMHEIM HEINESEN© Composer: ELIN BRIMHEIM HEINESEN© (2012) Lyrics in Faroese: JENS PAULI HEINESEN© (1961) Lyrics rewritten in English: ELIN BRIMHEIM HEINESEN© (2020) Orchestration for Symphony Orchestra and Choir: ENZO DE ROSA© (2020) Mixing of Orchestra and Choir: FINNUR HANSEN (2021) Mixing of Lead Vocal: BÁRÐUR HÁBERG (2021) Mastering: CAMILO DE SILVA F MASTERING (2021) Artwork: ELIN BRIMHEIM HEINESEN MUSIC RECORDINGS: Orchestra: CITY OF PRAGUE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conductor: ADAM CLEMENS Sound Engineer: JAN HOLZNER ProTools Assistant: MICHAEL HRADISKY Recording Executive Producer & Musical Supervisor: LAURA LUNGU Recorded in: SMECKY MUSIC STUDIO, Prague, Czech Republic (2020) Backing Vocals: TÓRSHAVNAR MANSKÓR (60-man choir) Conductor: BJARNI RESTORFF Sound Engineer: FINNUR HANSEN Recorded in: HÁTÚN, Tórshavnar Musikkskúli, Faroe Islands (2021) Lead Vocal: ELIN BRIMHEIM HEINESEN Sound Engineer: BÁRÐUR HÁBERG (Baroli Music) Recorded in: HOME STUDIO (2020) MUSIC VIDEO: Art director: ELIN BRIMHEIM HEINESEN© 2021 Video Operators: Symphony Orchestra: JIRI SKUPIEN & DAVID SKUPIEN Men‘s Choir: GUNNAR RESTORFF Lead vocalist Elin Brimheim Heinesen: SÍMUN WAAG, SíWa Production Pianist Enzo de Rosa: KUSHAGR AGARWAL Faroese landscapes: KEVIN KRAUTGARTNER, Kevin Krautgartner Fotografie Buttercup fields : HELENA HEINESEN REBENSDORFF & ELIN BRIMHEIM HEINESEN Video Editing: EYÐUN MÜLLER THOMSEN & ELIN BRIMHEIM HEINESEN (2021) Image Processing and Color Grading: EYÐUN MÜLLER THOMSEN Make-up: MATILDA SIVERTSEN A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL THE 156 CROWDFUNDING BACKERS!
