Jim Tetlow
My dear friend's achingly beautiful voice and music never fails to massage the ears and enchant the heart, but this is as good a place as any for the newcomer to begin; "I follow you, you follow me"
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about
On my sister's birthday couple years ago, I sat next to my piano and I asked what shall I sing to soothe her and anyone who is suffering in any way. The piano always answers and after couple of hours, I pressed record and lyrics happened at that point, without writing them. I am sharing that moment in time with you. Words came to me like a letter to anyone who is in pain out there. I hope you will find it calming. It is one of those songs hidden on my computer waiting for the day when it could become a medicine and this is a time. I trust my heart and I let this sound bird out.
p.s I was always scared to release this song, time of pandemic made me realise that if I wrote this song, it was written to be shared not hidden. Someone could say it does not fit with where my music is heading, I will argue saying: these are my fingers, my hand and my heart wrapped in the voice recorded, so it does not matter if it os 5 or 10 years ago. It is still me. It is a journey.
I know there is a lot of You out there who will find it healing. I am proud to share such intimate, vulnerable and personal song. It makes me realise that is ok to not be perfect, it is ok to not feel ok and it is ok to cry, as I cried when I was recording this. Not in slightest embarrassed to share this with you. I am a human and as a musician I work with feelings and emotions finding ways to express them to help or simply be.
I am sending you all lots of love and light
Ola x
lyrics
Have a little faith in yourself
Ocean is deep like your mind
We can get lost in the darkness
I promise to take you out from there
I am gathering positive energy
I follow you, you follow me
even we don't have to speak
I follow you, you follow me
even we don't have to speak
Have a little
Have a little faith
I am running to forest
to recharge your mind
I will find you if you are getting lost
I will follow you
I grab you from dark
dark it's alright
Just to let it go
I follow you
you follow me
I follow you
you follow me
I follow you
you follow me
I follow you
you follow me
credits
released May 15, 2020
Ola Szmidt - Vocals, piano and recording
Recorded in the lounge of my house in York on 22nd of April, 2017
Like so many others, this came like a bolt out of the blue and, even though it's well before payday, I had to have this astonishing album on vinyl to prove it exists. The feel of the tunes makes me feel like the Impressions do, Curtis Mayfield, the big spaces and instinctive horns and stuff drifting in and out. Great grooves and I can see lots of ghosts nodding along to this with big smiles on their faces. At last! Anthony Cottrell