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Frances Livings

Multi-lingual Singer | Songwriter | Poet

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    • Ma Solitude (2017)
    • Ipanema Lounge (2016)
    • The World I Am Livings In (2013)
    • Songs of Antônio Carlos Jobim (2012)
    • Glory Me (2011)
    • Candy’s Caravan (2011)
    • Urban Survival (2010)
    • When Love Falls Apart (2010)
    • During The Hours (2010)
    • Gold & Frankincense (2009)
    • Sticky Traxx (2009)
  • Song Lyrics
    • Banalities
    • Candy’s Caravan
    • Cold Coffee
    • Come Closer
    • Don’t Treat Me Cool
    • Glory Me
    • I’ll Be Leaving Soon
    • Long Time Gone
    • Mr. Moon
    • Samba On The Moon
    • Urban Survival
    • When Love Falls Apart
    • White Angel’s Café
    • You Can’t Rewind…
  • Poems
    • A Breath She Took
    • Afternoon Delight
    • Breakfast
    • Cast In Bronze
    • During The Hours
    • Evaporated
    • Goldfish Bowl
    • Gold & Frankincense
    • Ink on Silk
    • Ode to Tinsel Town
    • Songs of the Soul
    • The Butterfly
    • The Maliciousness of Words
    • When It Rains
    • Worst Case Scenario
    • Your Perfect Body
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  • Book Store
    • Ephemeral Cult Sites – The Staging of Space and Material at Nazi Mass Rallies (2020)
    • Nationalized Landscape and the Cult of the Dead. The Staging of “Blood and Soil” at the Bückeberg 1933 – 1937 (2020)
    • Erscheinungen des Sakralen (2011)
    • Ephemere Kulträume (Dissertation 2003)
    • “Licht” in Lexikon des Künstlerischen Materials (2002)
  • Contact
  • Blog Posts
    • Ma Solitude
    • Songs of the Soul ~ Musical Poetry and its Inspirations
    • Frances Livings’ Ipanema Lounge Repertoire. French Chansons
    • Aganjú ~ Music and Spirituality
    • Brand New EPK Launched for Frances Livings’ Ipanema Lounge
    • Fishnet Stockings and Lonely Tissues Boxes. The Reeperbahn in Hamburg and Candy’s Caravan
    • Livings In Los Angeles. Public Parks and Gardens and their Impact on Mental Health and the Creative Mind
    • I Just Lost It
    • Funeral Blues…
    • Eating the Darkness. Francesca Woodman’s Wallpaper
    • During the Hours – A wonderful review by the Poet Hound
    • The Mystery of Unicorns
    • “When Love Falls Apart” and the Beauty of Melancholy
    • Morning Has Broken…
    • May You Shine…
    • Waters of March and the Circle of Life
    • True Colors
    • The Pomegranate – On Finding Poetry
    • Wonderful Review of “The World I Am Livings In”
    • Creative Influences ~ Poems I Read. ‘Desiderata’ by Max Ehrmann
    • Please Close Your Eyes
    • Livings in Los Angeles. Closet Stories – The Hollywood Uniform
    • National Poetry Month, April 2014
    • Creative Influences ~ Poetry. Sun at Midnight
    • Creative Influences ~ Sneezles by A. A. Milne on Record-A-Poem
    • Frances Livings’ Ipanema Lounge ~ New Album Out Soon!
    • Still Lifes – The Art of Tranquillity
    • Songs of the Soul ~ In Memory of Zane Musa (1979 – 2015)
    • Staying in Touch…
    • Press Release: New Album Frances Livings’ Ipanema Lounge
    • Are You Smelling the Roses?
    • Livings in Los Angeles. Whole Foods and the Terror of Me. Now!

Category: Philosophy

Ma Solitude


French Songs, Music, Philosophy, Poetry, Record releases, Songwriting

Painting above: Alphonse Osbert, Solitude du Christ, 1897 I only recently decided to make a recording of the French chanson Ma Solitude, a song I have known and loved for most of my adult life. But singing it live with my trio for a couple of months now, has deepened my perception of and connection […]

December 24, 2017

Creative Influences ~ Poems I Read. ‘Desiderata’ by Max Ehrmann


Creative influences, Philosophy, Poetry, Reading, Writing

  Desiderata by Max Ehrmann (1927) Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their […]

June 5, 2013

The Pomegranate – On Finding Poetry


Art, Creative influences, Creative Writing, Essays, Female Artists, Philosophy, Poetry, Short Stories, Songwriting, Writing

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. ~ John F. Kennedy In the quiet of a virgin morning, it feels […]

April 14, 2013

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