Carola Baer performs hypnotic introspective original art voice and keyboard synth music: deep, raw, atmospheric, minimalistic, shockingly emotional, sombre, ethereal, mysterious mood, lo-fi, with shades of light dark and grey. Humanitarian issues as well as reflections about today’s world are the essence behind Carola Baer’s lyrics and music, and with carefully chosen words and themes, she is able to weave suggestive emotion to take any listener on a thoughtful reflective inspiring and intensive musical journey. She experiments with free-form improvisation, ethnic and ancient melodies, wordless vocalisations, as well as traditional lyrics and spoken sounds.
Dance Baby was a very old song from Story of Valerie Days. I decided to try a different production of it 30 years later, and this is what came out. Here is an audio of current recording and the video below starts at the grove instrumental section on o0ut. The photo was from the year I originally wrote it.
Dance For Change, highlighting the middle section improvisational part.
I wrote Easy Feels while performing in Ruby Dawn Band. I decided to rewrite the middle section and while experimenting with ideas, this whole middle section just came out, improvised as is, a bit of editing to shorten it and try to weave it into the song Easy Feels. I just love this part and couldn’t bring myself to leave it out, so it makes for a longer song , but what a middle section this is. I doubt I would ever perform this again, so magically emotional it was. So here is Easy Feels in all its glory. All parts written, recorded, played, sung and produced by Carola, no help. However, if one day some help was offered to reproduce this beauty professionally , I’d be up for that.
BELOW ARE WORKS FROM A FEW YEARS AGO WHEN I WAS STILL USING ANALOGUE METHOD. THESE WERE RECORDED USING A TASCAM 8 TRACK
Save The Day Written and recorded 2020 during lockdown.
Picture curtesy of Christian Robold
This Garden written 1991 , re recorded several times, this is my latest recording , all live takes as unable to cut and paste during lock down . Picture from photographer exquisite Annie-Sophie Guillet
Dust and Fire:
Peace Be With You written March 20, 2020 Current Keys song
Dissolve current new song
The following material are songs written on the guitar rather than keys
Broken Intentions current solo keys and guitar
