Lullaby Album - "Day is Done"

I want to record and produce a whole album of lullabies – a small number of actual CDs, but also the digital version, of course. It is going to contain 11 songs in german and english. Most of the recordings are done, thanks to an artist funding I received from the „Bayerische Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst“ as part of their scolarship-program „Junge Kunst und neue Wege" and the support of my amazing patreon community.
The songlist:
- Ade zur guten Nacht ('Goodbye and good night' - Trad)
- Cariad (Cover)
- Day is Done (Original)
- Dat du min Leevsten büst (Trad)
- Little Bird (Cover)
- Mütterchen Mond ('Mother moon', Original)
- Old man Ocean (Original)
- Schließ den Kreis ('Close the Circle', Cover)
- Wild Child Lullaby (Original)
- Windliedchen ('Sindsong', Original)
- Winterreigen ('Winterdance', Original)

The album is for people who love folky, acoustic and calming sleeping, evening- and nature themed songs to listen to before bedtime or on other occations. The CD is also fitting for children, but they are not the listeners I wrote the songs specifically for: There are many lullabies out there for tour dear little ones – I wanted to create an album that is more mature in music and artwork. I wrote a lot of songs myself, set some texts to music that already existed and also incorporated a handfull of coversongs and traditional folksongs.

Music wise, I stayed true to what I know: lyrical folk songs, acoustic singer-songwriter music on guitars, but also on piano, low-whistle, cello, nyckelharpa, harp etc. and – like on my former CD-projects - I’ve again put focus on beautiful vocal aharmony-arrangements.

Support this project if you like my music (or ballads by PurPur and Heiter bis Folkig) or love listening to soothing songs before or while going to sleep; or if you’d like to have more music to choose from when putting your kids to bed. This crowdfunding basically is a way to pre-order this album. In one part, this CD has been made possible due to an artist-scolarship and the support of my lovely patreon-family. The second part of the needed budget for finalizing the recordings and producing the album hopefully will be funded here, on startnext, with your support!

Additionally, I’m using this crowdfunding to cofund another sideproject I’ve had in mind for some time: a digital Lux-Unita-Song-EP (lovely larp-group

The money collected in this crowdfunding will be used to pay for the rest oft he recordings and some more of the guests I invited to join me on this album: Sibylle Frizz on cello, my sister Judith of PurPur on vocals, Martin Schroer aka d20sounds for one song on guitar & additional programming and Björn and Regina of the folkduo Fior on Nyckelharpas /DADGAD are already on board, but Sebastian Barwinek (Hoodie Crows) is also going to join me for two songs on his Irish Bouzouki, my bandmate Maria is going to play the harp for one song and Daniela Festi (Sagensang) will add some flutes. Oh, plus the actual production of the album as a CD, of course.

Should the crowdfunding be even more successful than expected and I have some extra money to spend, I’d love to shoot one or two music videos to add some extra eyecandy to my songs and help promote the album even further.