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The idea of gathering all the songs written by me within the album of my own came to me about one year ago. I would put so much of my soul in them that it was wrong, I thought, not to make an attempt to deliver them to the broad public. The reason was that everything that I write about is quite dear to everyone. My songs are about the main thing in the world, that is about love, and also about those feelings and emotions that are closely connected with it. Love is such a unique thing: it is always the same –and at the same time it can be very different. It may have so many shades of meanings that the subject can be really inexhaustible. I think this feeling will always motivate singers and composers as it has always inspired not only musicians, but also poets, sculptors and painters.
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I write such music which, I believe, is needed for any human soul. I wish my listeners to live through the best moments in their lives when listening to my songs, and their souls should be open to beauty; let them be ready to perceive all good things that deserve being given to them in abundance in return for their kindness.
Since those of my listeners who know only Russian may found it difficult to understand lyrics of my songs, I would like to tell shortly the contents of each of the 8 songs of mine that are recorded on the CD and to comment upon how and why they had been composed.
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Solitude – This song has come into being due to a young man who I seemed to like, but who seemed to pay no attention to me. I imagined that I would be solitary till the end of my life and that my prince would never knock at my door.
Pourquoi, lune, dis pourquoi? – Why, the Moon, Tell Me, Why? This song was written after my very good friend, a highly respected person, closely connected with the world of music, having listened to several songs of mine had told me that nobody would ever like those things and had recommended that I should continue writing some more serious music. The fear of the fact, that my songs would never be liked by anyone and that no one would ever need them, gave birth to the song which has the following words: “Can it be that all my songs will pass away with me? Can it be that no one needs them? Tell me, the moon!”
Mon ange de la musique – My Angel of Music. This was my first song , and it is especially dear to me. I have dedicated it to Bruno Pelletier, an outstanding singer and composer, the best performer of the part of Gringoire in the musical Notre Dame de Paris, the man who inspired me to write my first song and also to launch this kind of my artistic career in general.
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Disappearance – Everything disappears, everyone disappears. This is a common law, and nothing can be done. The world is arranged this way. Sad as it may seem, interpersonal relations also have their end. Sometimes it is painful to disappear from one’s life, to become a shadow from the past. In this song there are the following words: “You disappear from my life …/You disappear from my heart now and forever./ You disappear from my mind completely./ You disappear from my dream about fairytale love.” This song is a farewell to some lost love/
Tu joues de l’accordeon – You are playing the accordion. Having started my work on this album I have discovered that to compose a song is only doing one half of a job. You also need a good arrangement to be made; then you have the song recorded at some label; after that follows an arduous work of a sound producer, and only then you can say that your song has been bourn. I was lucky to meet a very good musician who made arrangements for my songs. He can play the accordion wonderfully; but the main and especially precious ting for me is that he understands and feels very subtly my music, my songs; and that is why his arrangements add to their merits - as if we, like, supplement each other. This song is a kind of a dialogue between my voice and his instrument. It is a talk about our music, full of words of gratitude and recognition.
Before you left me – This song is about love and death. There is something mystical in it. It is inspired by some sad circumstances of my live. It says that lovers may meet not only in this world. Sometimes they are destined for each other, but cannot meet here. Maybe, they will meet in another life.
Lisa Monde
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A Bit of History: Recording My First Album
