(Indie Rock) Sophia (Robin Proper-Sheppard ex-The God Machine) [CD, Web] - Дискография - 1996-2017 - (33 релиза, 18 CD, 18 веб-релизов) - FLAC (image+cue, tracks) - lossless

#777Лейбл: The Flower Shop Recordings / City Slang / Labels Germany
Страна-производитель диска: Германия / Голландия
Год издания диска: 2003
Номер по каталогу: 7243 547595 2 9 / 20229-2
Sophia - 2003 - Oh My Love
01. Oh My Love (Edit) (04:05)
Продолжительность: 00:04:05

#777Лейбл: The Flower Shop Recordings / City Slang / Labels Germany
Страна-производитель диска: Германия / Голландия
Год издания диска: 2004
Номер по каталогу: 7243 547837 2 2 / 20234-2
Sophia - Oh My Love
01. Oh My Love (Edit) (04:07)
02. Genius (04:28)
03. Someday (03:02)
04. I Hope I Don't Fall In Love With You (04:55)
Продолжительность: 00:16:33

#777Лейбл: Sophia Self-Released
Источник: Bandcamp
Год издания диска: 2011
Ссылка на релиз: https://sophia.bandcamp.com/track/at-home-with-sophia-amsterdam-holland-30-10-2010
1. Heartache
2. If Only
3. Swept Back
4. Ship In The Sand
5. Something
6. Where Are You Now
7. I Left You
8. Every Day
9. If A Change Is Gonna Come
10. The Desert Song No. 2
11. So Slow
12. Lost
13. Another Trauma
14. Bastards
15. Directionless
16. The River Song (you asked for it. not the greatest version, but hey, it's only the second time I've ever even tried playing it acoustically...)
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Please note: I have edited the majority of my storytelling/talking out of these performances. I'm sorry as I know this helped make these nights even more special for many of you but I have a number reasons for this, both personal and technical, and I hope you understand…
Before I explain I just want to say that although I've edited out most of the talking on the individual recordings someone made a great suggestion of gathering together a nice coherent collection of the song-meanings/stories from across the concerts and making that available for people to download if they so wish. I think that's a great idea and have already started putting together some of the more sincere/funny moments from the tour recordings.
But for now let me get back to these recordings and my reasons for editing the performances.
Firstly the technical: As many of the shows were well over 2 hours long and with my rambling chit-chat sometimes contributing as much as 30mins (if not more) to the overall running time, the inclusion of said rambling chit-chat was making the digital files too large to upload to the Bandcamp server.
(Technical: Before compression all the files were well over 1GB and while even via a special arrangement with Bandcamp they still only allow a maximum file size of 600MB)
Secondly some of my monologues were nearly 10 minutes long and while I know that in amongst those many vignettes of my day to day life there were a few moments verging on the profoundly sublime, sadly the truth is that (and it breaks my heart to admit this…) not all of it was even very interesting. Funny? Yes. But interesting? Hmmm. And as such this made it very difficult to edit out the meaningful from the mundane. And while all of you should be well aware by now that I have no problem exhibiting the mundanity of my life night after night - I mean that is life, right? Some meaningful but sadly, unless you're one of the lucky few, mostly mundane moments of day to day existence. Just getting by. Trying to draw the happiness we find closer to our heart while holding the hurt and the fear and the pain at bay… See? This is what I mean. I am on stage as I am in life… Ramble ramble ramble.
Anyway… I just found that meaningful story-telling aside, the stops and starts, the silly observations, Homer Simpson anecdotes or the minutes of waiting for triple-shots of tequila to wind their way through to the stage, these things, amongst others, didn't make for a very nice listening experience and just detracted from the whole purpose of the recordings which was for you too hear the songs recorded live.
Those were some of the most wonderful nights as a singer, as a songwriter, as an artist, as a person, I've ever experienced and I just hope you that can hold onto those memories like I will.
The songs are the songs. And that's what I've given you here. And each night I felt we shared a lot more than just the music. There was happiness and sadness and laughter and tears and, well… those… those moments? They were just for us. And now, recordings or no recordings, they are part of your life too and that makes me happy to know.
I've never been one for pictures. If something is worth remembering it will always have a place in my heart.
Thank you all again for coming down and helping to make these such special evenings.
I sincerely hope you enjoy the recordings…
Robin
credits
released 04 July 2011
Recorded and mixed by Jan Loewenhaupt. Edited by Robin Proper-Sheppard.
Sophia - 2011 - At Home With Sophia... Amsterdam, Holland 30-10-2010
01. Amsterdam, Holland 30-10-2010 (80:15)
Продолжительность: 01:20:15

#777Лейбл: Sophia Self-Released
Источник: Bandcamp
Год издания диска: 2011
Ссылка на релиз: https://sophia.bandcamp.com/track/at-home-with-sophia-arlon-belgium-3-5-2010
This was a wonderful concert in a beautiful church known as the Église Saint-Donat. The atmosphere was magic and the sound amazing. The priest sat at the side of the stage for the entire concert and I remember looking over to him as the church bells rang out during Is It Any Wonder and he just raised his hands to the sky and smiled. That was certainly one of those special moments...
1. Heartache
2. Where Are You Now
3. Ship In The Sand
4. Something
5. If Only
6. Another Friend
7. Every Day
8. If A Change Is Gonna Come
9. I Left You
10. Within Without
11. Lost
12. So Slow
13. Directionless
14. Is It Any Wonder (Church Bells)
15. Another Trauma
16. The Death Of A Salesman
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Please note: I have edited the majority of my storytelling/talking out of these performances. I'm sorry as I know this helped make these nights even more special for many of you but I have a number reasons for this, both personal and technical, and I hope you understand…
Before I explain I just want to say that although I've edited out most of the talking on the individual recordings someone made a great suggestion of gathering together a nice coherent collection of the song-meanings/stories from across the concerts and making that available for people to download if they so wish. I think that's a great idea and have already started putting together some of the more sincere/funny moments from the tour recordings.
But for now let me get back to these recordings and my reasons for editing the performances.
Firstly the technical: As many of the shows were well over 2 hours long and with my rambling chit-chat sometimes contributing as much as 30mins (if not more) to the overall running time, the inclusion of said rambling chit-chat was making the digital files too large to upload to the Bandcamp server.
(Technical: Before compression all the files were well over 1GB and while even via a special arrangement with Bandcamp they still only allow a maximum file size of 600MB)
Secondly some of my monologues were nearly 10 minutes long and while I know that in amongst those many vignettes of my day to day life there were a few moments verging on the profoundly sublime, sadly the truth is that (and it breaks my heart to admit this…) not all of it was even very interesting. Funny? Yes. But interesting? Hmmm. And as such this made it very difficult to edit out the meaningful from the mundane. And while all of you should be well aware by now that I have no problem exhibiting the mundanity of my life night after night - I mean that is life, right? Some meaningful but sadly, unless you're one of the lucky few, mostly mundane moments of day to day existence. Just getting by. Trying to draw the happiness we find closer to our heart while holding the hurt and the fear and the pain at bay… See? This is what I mean. I am on stage as I am in life… Ramble ramble ramble.
Anyway… I just found that meaningful story-telling aside, the stops and starts, the silly observations, Homer Simpson anecdotes or the minutes of waiting for triple-shots of tequila to wind their way through to the stage, these things, amongst others, didn't make for a very nice listening experience and just detracted from the whole purpose of the recordings which was for you too hear the songs recorded live.
Those were some of the most wonderful nights as a singer, as a songwriter, as an artist, as a person, I've ever experienced and I just hope you that can hold onto those memories like I will.
The songs are the songs. And that's what I've given you here. And each night I felt we shared a lot more than just the music. There was happiness and sadness and laughter and tears and, well… those… those moments? They were just for us. And now, recordings or no recordings, they are part of your life too and that makes me happy to know.
I've never been one for pictures. If something is worth remembering it will always have a place in my heart.
Thank you all again for coming down and helping to make these such special evenings.
I sincerely hope you enjoy the recordings…
Robin
Released 04 July 2011
Recorded/Mixed by Jan Loewenhaupt. Edited by Robin Proper-Sheppard
Sophia - 2011 - At Home With Sophia... Arlon, Belgium 3-5-2010
01. Arlon, Belgium 3-5-2010 (76:25)
Продолжительность: 01:16:25

#777Лейбл: Sophia Self-Released
Источник: Bandcamp
Год издания диска: 2011
Ссылка на релиз: https://sophia.bandcamp.com/track/at-home-with-sophia-barcelona-spain-27-11-2010
This was one of two shows I played in Spain (Barcelona/Madrid) as part the wonderful Primavera Sound Club Festival. The Barcelona show was in this beautiful old theater called the Casino L'Aliaça Del Poblenou. I was supporting Lou Barlow. He was amazing. His songs were incredible and he told funny stories about his family life which I really liked.
1. Heartache
2. If Only
3. Swept Back
4. Ship In The Sand
5. I Left You
6. Every Day
7. If A Change Is Gonna Come
8. So Slow
9. Lost
10. Directionless
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Please note: I have edited the majority of my storytelling/talking out of these performances. I'm sorry as I know this helped make these nights even more special for many of you but I have a number reasons for this, both personal and technical, and I hope you understand…
Before I explain I just want to say that although I've edited out most of the talking on the individual recordings someone made a great suggestion of gathering together a nice coherent collection of the song-meanings/stories from across the concerts and making that available for people to download if they so wish. I think that's a great idea and have already started putting together some of the more sincere/funny moments from the tour recordings.
But for now let me get back to these recordings and my reasons for editing the performances.
Firstly the technical: As many of the shows were well over 2 hours long and with my rambling chit-chat sometimes contributing as much as 30mins (if not more) to the overall running time, the inclusion of said rambling chit-chat was making the digital files too large to upload to the Bandcamp server.
(Technical: Before compression all the files were well over 1GB and while even via a special arrangement with Bandcamp they still only allow a maximum file size of 600MB)
Secondly some of my monologues were nearly 10 minutes long and while I know that in amongst those many vignettes of my day to day life there were a few moments verging on the profoundly sublime, sadly the truth is that (and it breaks my heart to admit this…) not all of it was even very interesting. Funny? Yes. But interesting? Hmmm. And as such this made it very difficult to edit out the meaningful from the mundane. And while all of you should be well aware by now that I have no problem exhibiting the mundanity of my life night after night - I mean that is life, right? Some meaningful but sadly, unless you're one of the lucky few, mostly mundane moments of day to day existence. Just getting by. Trying to draw the happiness we find closer to our heart while holding the hurt and the fear and the pain at bay… See? This is what I mean. I am on stage as I am in life… Ramble ramble ramble.
Anyway… I just found that meaningful story-telling aside, the stops and starts, the silly observations, Homer Simpson anecdotes or the minutes of waiting for triple-shots of tequila to wind their way through to the stage, these things, amongst others, didn't make for a very nice listening experience and just detracted from the whole purpose of the recordings which was for you too hear the songs recorded live.
Those were some of the most wonderful nights as a singer, as a songwriter, as an artist, as a person, I've ever experienced and I just hope you that can hold onto those memories like I will.
The songs are the songs. And that's what I've given you here. And each night I felt we shared a lot more than just the music. There was happiness and sadness and laughter and tears and, well… those… those moments? They were just for us. And now, recordings or no recordings, they are part of your life too and that makes me happy to know.
I've never been one for pictures. If something is worth remembering it will always have a place in my heart.
Thank you all again for coming down and helping to make these such special evenings.
I sincerely hope you enjoy the recordings…
Robin
credits
released 04 July 2011
Recorded and mixed by Jan Loewenhaupt. Edited by RPS.
Sophia - 2011 - At Home With Sophia... Barcelona, Spain 27-11-2010
01. Barcelona, Spain 27-11-2010 (49:08)
Продолжительность: 00:49:08

#777Лейбл: Sophia Self-Released
Источник: Bandcamp
Год издания диска: 2011
Ссылка на релиз: https://sophia.bandcamp.com/track/at-home-with-sophia-basel-m-nchenstein-6-6-2010
This was the last night of the tour. A small and sweaty room by the railroad tracks on the out-skirts of Basel. But what a fun night it was. Almost too much fun. Lots of laughter... A great way to end the end tour.
1. Heartache
2. Swept Back
3. If Only
4. Ship In The Sand
5. Something
6. I'd Rather
7. Are You Happy Now
8. I Left You
9. Every Day
10. If A Change Is Gonna Come
11. So Slow
12. Death Of A Salesman
13. Another Friend
14. Lost
15. Directionless
(Due to the nature of the venue and it proximity to train and electrical lines there is some background noise to this recording. We've tried to eliminate as much as possible but it's still ever-so-slightly noticeable.)
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Please note: I have edited the majority of my storytelling/talking out of these performances. I'm sorry as I know this helped make these nights even more special for many of you but I have a number reasons for this, both personal and technical, and I hope you understand…
Before I explain I just want to say that although I've edited out most of the talking on the individual recordings someone made a great suggestion of gathering together a nice coherent collection of the song-meanings/stories from across the concerts and making that available for people to download if they so wish. I think that's a great idea and have already started putting together some of the more sincere/funny moments from the tour recordings.
But for now let me get back to these recordings and my reasons for editing the performances.
Firstly the technical: As many of the shows were well over 2 hours long and with my rambling chit-chat sometimes contributing as much as 30mins (if not more) to the overall running time, the inclusion of said rambling chit-chat was making the digital files too large to upload to the Bandcamp server.
(Technical: Before compression all the files were well over 1GB and while even via a special arrangement with Bandcamp they still only allow a maximum file size of 600MB)
Secondly some of my monologues were nearly 10 minutes long and while I know that in amongst those many vignettes of my day to day life there were a few moments verging on the profoundly sublime, sadly the truth is that (and it breaks my heart to admit this…) not all of it was even very interesting. Funny? Yes. But interesting? Hmmm. And as such this made it very difficult to edit out the meaningful from the mundane. And while all of you should be well aware by now that I have no problem exhibiting the mundanity of my life night after night - I mean that is life, right? Some meaningful but sadly, unless you're one of the lucky few, mostly mundane moments of day to day existence. Just getting by. Trying to draw the happiness we find closer to our heart while holding the hurt and the fear and the pain at bay… See? This is what I mean. I am on stage as I am in life… Ramble ramble ramble.
Anyway… I just found that meaningful story-telling aside, the stops and starts, the silly observations, Homer Simpson anecdotes or the minutes of waiting for triple-shots of tequila to wind their way through to the stage, these things, amongst others, didn't make for a very nice listening experience and just detracted from the whole purpose of the recordings which was for you too hear the songs recorded live.
Those were some of the most wonderful nights as a singer, as a songwriter, as an artist, as a person, I've ever experienced and I just hope you that can hold onto those memories like I will.
The songs are the songs. And that's what I've given you here. And each night I felt we shared a lot more than just the music. There was happiness and sadness and laughter and tears and, well… those… those moments? They were just for us. And now, recordings or no recordings, they are part of your life too and that makes me happy to know.
I've never been one for pictures. If something is worth remembering it will always have a place in my heart.
Thank you all again for coming down and helping to make these such special evenings.
I sincerely hope you enjoy the recordings…
Robin
Released 04 July 2011
Recorded and Mixed by Jan Loewenhaupt. Edited by Robin Proper-Sheppard.
Sophia - 2011 - At Home With Sophia... Basel (Münchenstein), Switzerland 6-6-2010
01. Basel (Münchenstein), Switzerland 6-6-2010 (67:12)
Продолжительность: 01:07:12

#777Лейбл: Sophia Self-Released
Источник: Bandcamp
Год издания диска: 2011
Ссылка на релиз: https://sophia.bandcamp.com/track/at-home-with-sophia-hamburg-germany-18-5-2010
1. Heartache
2. Ship In The Sand
3. Something
4. Where Are You Now
5. I Left You
6. Swept Back
7. Every Day
8. If A Change Is Gonna Come
9. Is It Any Wonder
10. Are You Happy Now
11. I'd Rather
12. Signs (Stop mid-song because "Some things are best left in past. Mustn't dwell…")
13. Holiday Are Nice
14. Within Without
15. Lost
16. Bastards
17. Directionless
18. Oh My Love
19. So Slow
20. What Have I Done
21. There Are No Goodbyes
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Please note: I have edited the majority of my storytelling/talking out of these performances. I'm sorry as I know this helped make these nights even more special for many of you but I have a number reasons for this, both personal and technical, and I hope you understand…
Before I explain I just want to say that although I've edited out most of the talking on the individual recordings someone made a great suggestion of gathering together a nice coherent collection of the song-meanings/stories from across the concerts and making that available for people to download if they so wish. I think that's a great idea and have already started putting together some of the more sincere/funny moments from the tour recordings.
But for now let me get back to these recordings and my reasons for editing the performances.
Firstly the technical: As many of the shows were well over 2 hours long and with my rambling chit-chat sometimes contributing as much as 30mins (if not more) to the overall running time, the inclusion of said rambling chit-chat was making the digital files too large to upload to the Bandcamp server.
(Technical: Before compression all the files were well over 1GB and while even via a special arrangement with Bandcamp they still only allow a maximum file size of 600MB)
Secondly some of my monologues were nearly 10 minutes long and while I know that in amongst those many vignettes of my day to day life there were a few moments verging on the profoundly sublime, sadly the truth is that (and it breaks my heart to admit this…) not all of it was even very interesting. Funny? Yes. But interesting? Hmmm. And as such this made it very difficult to edit out the meaningful from the mundane. And while all of you should be well aware by now that I have no problem exhibiting the mundanity of my life night after night - I mean that is life, right? Some meaningful but sadly, unless you're one of the lucky few, mostly mundane moments of day to day existence. Just getting by. Trying to draw the happiness we find closer to our heart while holding the hurt and the fear and the pain at bay… See? This is what I mean. I am on stage as I am in life… Ramble ramble ramble.
Anyway… I just found that meaningful story-telling aside, the stops and starts, the silly observations, Homer Simpson anecdotes or the minutes of waiting for triple-shots of tequila to wind their way through to the stage, these things, amongst others, didn't make for a very nice listening experience and just detracted from the whole purpose of the recordings which was for you too hear the songs recorded live.
Those were some of the most wonderful nights as a singer, as a songwriter, as an artist, as a person, I've ever experienced and I just hope you that can hold onto those memories like I will.
The songs are the songs. And that's what I've given you here. And each night I felt we shared a lot more than just the music. There was happiness and sadness and laughter and tears and, well… those… those moments? They were just for us. And now, recordings or no recordings, they are part of your life too and that makes me happy to know.
I've never been one for pictures. If something is worth remembering it will always have a place in my heart.
Thank you all again for coming down and helping to make these such special evenings.
I sincerely hope you enjoy the recordings…
Robin
Released 04 July 2011
Sophia - 2011 - At Home With Sophia... Hamburg, Germany 18-5-2010
01. Hamburg, Germany 18-5-2010 (102:55)
Продолжительность: 01:42:55

#777Лейбл: Sophia Self-Released
Источник: Bandcamp
Год издания диска: 2011
Ссылка на релиз: https://sophia.bandcamp.com/track/at-home-with-sophia-heidelberg-germany-13-12-2010
1. Is It Any Wonder
2. Heartache
3. Swept Back
4. Ship In The Sand
5. Birds
6. Something
7. Where Are You Now
8. I Left You
9. Oh My Love
10. If A Change Is Gonna Come
11. The Desert Song No. 2
12. I Can't Believe The Things I Can't Believe
13. So Slow
14. Lost
15. Another Trauma
16. Directionless
17. There Are No Goodbyes
---------------------------
Please note: I have edited the majority of my storytelling/talking out of these performances. I'm sorry as I know this helped make these nights even more special for many of you but I have a number reasons for this, both personal and technical, and I hope you understand…
Before I explain I just want to say that although I've edited out most of the talking on the individual recordings someone made a great suggestion of gathering together a nice coherent collection of the song-meanings/stories from across the concerts and making that available for people to download if they so wish. I think that's a great idea and have already started putting together some of the more sincere/funny moments from the tour recordings.
But for now let me get back to these recordings and my reasons for editing the performances.
Firstly the technical: As many of the shows were well over 2 hours long and with my rambling chit-chat sometimes contributing as much as 30mins (if not more) to the overall running time, the inclusion of said rambling chit-chat was making the digital files too large to upload to the Bandcamp server.
(Technical: Before compression all the files were well over 1GB and while even via a special arrangement with Bandcamp they still only allow a maximum file size of 600MB)
Secondly some of my monologues were nearly 10 minutes long and while I know that in amongst those many vignettes of my day to day life there were a few moments verging on the profoundly sublime, sadly the truth is that (and it breaks my heart to admit this…) not all of it was even very interesting. Funny? Yes. But interesting? Hmmm. And as such this made it very difficult to edit out the meaningful from the mundane. And while all of you should be well aware by now that I have no problem exhibiting the mundanity of my life night after night - I mean that is life, right? Some meaningful but sadly, unless you're one of the lucky few, mostly mundane moments of day to day existence. Just getting by. Trying to draw the happiness we find closer to our heart while holding the hurt and the fear and the pain at bay… See? This is what I mean. I am on stage as I am in life… Ramble ramble ramble.
Anyway… I just found that meaningful story-telling aside, the stops and starts, the silly observations, Homer Simpson anecdotes or the minutes of waiting for triple-shots of tequila to wind their way through to the stage, these things, amongst others, didn't make for a very nice listening experience and just detracted from the whole purpose of the recordings which was for you too hear the songs recorded live.
Those were some of the most wonderful nights as a singer, as a songwriter, as an artist, as a person, I've ever experienced and I just hope you that can hold onto those memories like I will.
The songs are the songs. And that's what I've given you here. And each night I felt we shared a lot more than just the music. There was happiness and sadness and laughter and tears and, well… those… those moments? They were just for us. And now, recordings or no recordings, they are part of your life too and that makes me happy to know.
I've never been one for pictures. If something is worth remembering it will always have a place in my heart.
Thank you all again for coming down and helping to make these such special evenings.
I sincerely hope you enjoy the recordings…
Robin
Released 04 July 2011
Recorded and Mixed by Jan Loewenhaupt. Edited by Robin Proper-Sheppard.
Sophia - 2011 - At Home With Sophia... Heidelberg, Germany 13-12-2010
01. Heidelberg, Germany 13-12-2010 (81:25)
Продолжительность: 01:21:25

#777Лейбл: Sophia Self-Released
Источник: Bandcamp
Год издания диска: 2011
Ссылка на релиз: https://sophia.bandcamp.com/track/at-home-with-sophia-k-ln-germany-13-5-2010
1. Heartache
2. If Only
3. Ship In The Sand
4. Something
5. Where Are You Now
6. I Left You
7. Every Day
8. If A Change Is Gonna Come
9. Is It Any Wonder
10. So Slow
11. Another Friend
12. Within Without
13. Razorblades
14. Lost
15. Bastards
16. Directionless
17. What Have I Done (Anne Ternheim Song)
18. A Last Dance (To Sad Eyes)
19. There Are No Goodbyes
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Please note: I have edited the majority of my storytelling/talking out of these performances. I'm sorry as I know this helped make these nights even more special for many of you but I have a number reasons for this, both personal and technical, and I hope you understand…
Before I explain I just want to say that although I've edited out most of the talking on the individual recordings someone made a great suggestion of gathering together a nice coherent collection of the song-meanings/stories from across the concerts and making that available for people to download if they so wish. I think that's a great idea and have already started putting together some of the more sincere/funny moments from the tour recordings.
But for now let me get back to these recordings and my reasons for editing the performances.
Firstly the technical: As many of the shows were well over 2 hours long and with my rambling chit-chat sometimes contributing as much as 30mins (if not more) to the overall running time, the inclusion of said rambling chit-chat was making the digital files too large to upload to the Bandcamp server.
(Technical: Before compression all the files were well over 1GB and while even via a special arrangement with Bandcamp they still only allow a maximum file size of 600MB)
Secondly some of my monologues were nearly 10 minutes long and while I know that in amongst those many vignettes of my day to day life there were a few moments verging on the profoundly sublime, sadly the truth is that (and it breaks my heart to admit this…) not all of it was even very interesting. Funny? Yes. But interesting? Hmmm. And as such this made it very difficult to edit out the meaningful from the mundane. And while all of you should be well aware by now that I have no problem exhibiting the mundanity of my life night after night - I mean that is life, right? Some meaningful but sadly, unless you're one of the lucky few, mostly mundane moments of day to day existence. Just getting by. Trying to draw the happiness we find closer to our heart while holding the hurt and the fear and the pain at bay… See? This is what I mean. I am on stage as I am in life… Ramble ramble ramble.
Anyway… I just found that meaningful story-telling aside, the stops and starts, the silly observations, Homer Simpson anecdotes or the minutes of waiting for triple-shots of tequila to wind their way through to the stage, these things, amongst others, didn't make for a very nice listening experience and just detracted from the whole purpose of the recordings which was for you too hear the songs recorded live.
Those were some of the most wonderful nights as a singer, as a songwriter, as an artist, as a person, I've ever experienced and I just hope you that can hold onto those memories like I will.
The songs are the songs. And that's what I've given you here. And each night I felt we shared a lot more than just the music. There was happiness and sadness and laughter and tears and, well… those… those moments? They were just for us. And now, recordings or no recordings, they are part of your life too and that makes me happy to know.
I've never been one for pictures. If something is worth remembering it will always have a place in my heart.
Thank you all again for coming down and helping to make these such special evenings.
I sincerely hope you enjoy the recordings…
Robin
credits
released 04 July 2011
Recorded and mixed by Jan Loewenhaupt. Edited by RPS.
Sophia - 2011 - At Home With Sophia... Köln, Germany 13-5-2010
01. Köln, Germany 13-5-2010 (85:13)
Продолжительность: 01:25:13

#777Лейбл: Sophia Self-Released
Источник: Bandcamp
Год издания диска: 2011
Ссылка на релиз: https://sophia.bandcamp.com/track/at-home-with-sophia-konstanz-germany-7-5-2010
1. Heartache
2. If Only
3. So Slow
4. Ship In The Sand
5. Something
6. Where Are You Now?
7. I Left You
8. Every Day
9. If A Change Is Gonna Come
10. Last Night I Had Dream
11. The Death Of A Salesman
12. Is It Any Wonder
13. Swept Back
14. A Last Dance (To Sad Eyes)
15. Lost
16. What Have I Done
17. Directionless
18. Another Trauma
19. There Are No Goodbyes
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Please note: I have edited the majority of my storytelling/talking out of these performances. I'm sorry as I know this helped make these nights even more special for many of you but I have a number reasons for this, both personal and technical, and I hope you understand…
Before I explain I just want to say that although I've edited out most of the talking on the individual recordings someone made a great suggestion of gathering together a nice coherent collection of the song-meanings/stories from across the concerts and making that available for people to download if they so wish. I think that's a great idea and have already started putting together some of the more sincere/funny moments from the tour recordings.
But for now let me get back to these recordings and my reasons for editing the performances.
Firstly the technical: As many of the shows were well over 2 hours long and with my rambling chit-chat sometimes contributing as much as 30mins (if not more) to the overall running time, the inclusion of said rambling chit-chat was making the digital files too large to upload to the Bandcamp server.
(Technical: Before compression all the files were well over 1GB and while even via a special arrangement with Bandcamp they still only allow a maximum file size of 600MB)
Secondly some of my monologues were nearly 10 minutes long and while I know that in amongst those many vignettes of my day to day life there were a few moments verging on the profoundly sublime, sadly the truth is that (and it breaks my heart to admit this…) not all of it was even very interesting. Funny? Yes. But interesting? Hmmm. And as such this made it very difficult to edit out the meaningful from the mundane. And while all of you should be well aware by now that I have no problem exhibiting the mundanity of my life night after night - I mean that is life, right? Some meaningful but sadly, unless you're one of the lucky few, mostly mundane moments of day to day existence. Just getting by. Trying to draw the happiness we find closer to our heart while holding the hurt and the fear and the pain at bay… See? This is what I mean. I am on stage as I am in life… Ramble ramble ramble.
Anyway… I just found that meaningful story-telling aside, the stops and starts, the silly observations, Homer Simpson anecdotes or the minutes of waiting for triple-shots of tequila to wind their way through to the stage, these things, amongst others, didn't make for a very nice listening experience and just detracted from the whole purpose of the recordings which was for you too hear the songs recorded live.
Those were some of the most wonderful nights as a singer, as a songwriter, as an artist, as a person, I've ever experienced and I just hope you that can hold onto those memories like I will.
The songs are the songs. And that's what I've given you here. And each night I felt we shared a lot more than just the music. There was happiness and sadness and laughter and tears and, well… those… those moments? They were just for us. And now, recordings or no recordings, they are part of your life too and that makes me happy to know.
I've never been one for pictures. If something is worth remembering it will always have a place in my heart.
Thank you all again for coming down and helping to make these such special evenings.
I sincerely hope you enjoy the recordings…
Robin
Sophia - 2011 - At Home With Sophia... Konstanz, Germany 7-5-2010
01. Konstanz, Germany 7-5-2010 (88:03)
Продолжительность: 01:28:03

#777Лейбл: Sophia Self-Released
Источник: Bandcamp
Год издания диска: 2011
Ссылка на релиз: https://sophia.bandcamp.com/track/at-home-with-sophia-mechelen-belgium-4-5-2010
1. Heartache
2. I'd Rather
3. If Only
4. Where Are You Now?
5. Ship In The Sand
6. Something
7. I Left You
8. If A Change Is Gonna Come
9. Every Day
10. A Last Dance (To Sad Eyes)
11. Another Friend
12. The Death Of A Salesman
13. Last Night I Had Dream
14. Is It Any Wonder
15. Within Without
16. Are You Happy Now
17. Bastards
18. Lost
19. Another Trauma
20. What Have I Done
21. Directionless
22. So Slow (and a goodbye to Johan)
23. There Are No Goodbyes
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Please note: I have edited the majority of my storytelling/talking out of these performances. I'm sorry as I know this helped make these nights even more special for many of you but I have a number reasons for this, both personal and technical, and I hope you understand…
Before I explain I just want to say that although I've edited out most of the talking on the individual recordings someone made a great suggestion of gathering together a nice coherent collection of the song-meanings/stories from across the concerts and making that available for people to download if they so wish. I think that's a great idea and have already started putting together some of the more sincere/funny moments from the tour recordings.
But for now let me get back to these recordings and my reasons for editing the performances.
Firstly the technical: As many of the shows were well over 2 hours long and with my rambling chit-chat sometimes contributing as much as 30mins (if not more) to the overall running time, the inclusion of said rambling chit-chat was making the digital files too large to upload to the Bandcamp server.
(Technical: Before compression all the files were well over 1GB and while even via a special arrangement with Bandcamp they still only allow a maximum file size of 600MB)
Secondly some of my monologues were nearly 10 minutes long and while I know that in amongst those many vignettes of my day to day life there were a few moments verging on the profoundly sublime, sadly the truth is that (and it breaks my heart to admit this…) not all of it was even very interesting. Funny? Yes. But interesting? Hmmm. And as such this made it very difficult to edit out the meaningful from the mundane. And while all of you should be well aware by now that I have no problem exhibiting the mundanity of my life night after night - I mean that is life, right? Some meaningful but sadly, unless you're one of the lucky few, mostly mundane moments of day to day existence. Just getting by. Trying to draw the happiness we find closer to our heart while holding the hurt and the fear and the pain at bay… See? This is what I mean. I am on stage as I am in life… Ramble ramble ramble.
Anyway… I just found that meaningful story-telling aside, the stops and starts, the silly observations, Homer Simpson anecdotes or the minutes of waiting for triple-shots of tequila to wind their way through to the stage, these things, amongst others, didn't make for a very nice listening experience and just detracted from the whole purpose of the recordings which was for you too hear the songs recorded live.
Those were some of the most wonderful nights as a singer, as a songwriter, as an artist, as a person, I've ever experienced and I just hope you that can hold onto those memories like I will.
The songs are the songs. And that's what I've given you here. And each night I felt we shared a lot more than just the music. There was happiness and sadness and laughter and tears and, well… those… those moments? They were just for us. And now, recordings or no recordings, they are part of your life too and that makes me happy to know.
I've never been one for pictures. If something is worth remembering it will always have a place in my heart.
Thank you all again for coming down and helping to make these such special evenings.
I sincerely hope you enjoy the recordings…
Robin
released 04 July 2011
Recorded and mixed by Jan Loewenhaupt. Edited by Robin Proper-Sheppard.
Sophia - 2011 - At Home With Sophia... Mechelen, Belgium 4-5-2010
01. Mechelen, Belgium 4-5-2010 (101:32)
Продолжительность: 01:41:32

#777Лейбл: Sophia Self-Released
Источник: Bandcamp
Год издания диска: 2011
Ссылка на релиз: https://sophia.bandcamp.com/album/at-home-with-sophia-pre-tour-recordings-free-downloads
These are a series of recordings I'm making available for free download while rehearsing for my upcoming "At home with Sophia..." solo-acoustic tour.
1. Another Trauma (Acoustic) 04:24
2. Death Of A Salesman (Acoustic) 03:10
3. If Only (Acoustic) 04:28
4. Ship In The Sand (Acoustic) 03:58
About
All the songs are recorded in my living room on one microphone.
Sometimes you can hear cars driving by, children playing or birds singing in the background. I like that.
I think the recordings are really quite good but please understand the sound does vary depending on the time of day, the weather and the general moodiness of the performer while recording.
I hope you enjoy them and more to come.
And please feel free to make any song requests by sending an email to: athomewithsophia (a) theflowershoprecordings (dot) com
See you soon.
Released 12 April 2010
Sophia - 2011 - At Home With Sophia... Pre-Tour Recordings
01. Another Trauma (Acoustic) (04:24)
02. Death Of A Salesman (Acoustic) (03:10)
03. If Only (Acoustic) (04:28)
04. Ship In The Sand (Acoustic) (03:58)
Продолжительность: 00:16:00

#777Лейбл: Sophia Self-Released
Источник: Bandcamp
Год издания диска: 2011
Ссылка на релиз: https://sophia.bandcamp.com/track/at-home-with-sophia-roma-italy-28-4-2010
1. Hertache
2. If Only
3. Where Are You Now
4. Are You Happy Now
5. Every Day
6. Holidays Are Nice
7. Something
8. I Left You
9. Another Friend
10. If A Change Is Gonna Come
11. Oh My Love
12. Ship In The Sand
13. Lost
14. Directionless
15. Last Night I Had A Dream
16. So Slow
---------------------------------
Please note: I have edited the majority of my storytelling/talking out of these performances. I'm sorry as I know this helped make these nights even more special for many of you but I have a number reasons for this, both personal and technical, and I hope you understand…
Before I explain I just want to say that although I've edited out most of the talking on the individual recordings someone made a great suggestion of gathering together a nice coherent collection of the song-meanings/stories from across the concerts and making that available for people to download if they so wish. I think that's a great idea and have already started putting together some of the more sincere/funny moments from the tour recordings.
But for now let me get back to these recordings and my reasons for editing the performances.
Firstly the technical: As many of the shows were well over 2 hours long and with my rambling chit-chat sometimes contributing as much as 30mins (if not more) to the overall running time, the inclusion of said rambling chit-chat was making the digital files too large to upload to the Bandcamp server.
(Technical: Before compression all the files were well over 1GB and while even via a special arrangement with Bandcamp they still only allow a maximum file size of 600MB)
Secondly some of my monologues were nearly 10 minutes long and while I know that in amongst those many vignettes of my day to day life there were a few moments verging on the profoundly sublime, sadly the truth is that (and it breaks my heart to admit this…) not all of it was even very interesting. Funny? Yes. But interesting? Hmmm. And as such this made it very difficult to edit out the meaningful from the mundane. And while all of you should be well aware by now that I have no problem exhibiting the mundanity of my life night after night - I mean that is life, right? Some meaningful but sadly, unless you're one of the lucky few, mostly mundane moments of day to day existence. Just getting by. Trying to draw the happiness we find closer to our heart while holding the hurt and the fear and the pain at bay… See? This is what I mean. I am on stage as I am in life… Ramble ramble ramble.
Anyway… I just found that meaningful story-telling aside, the stops and starts, the silly observations, Homer Simpson anecdotes or the minutes of waiting for triple-shots of tequila to wind their way through to the stage, these things, amongst others, didn't make for a very nice listening experience and just detracted from the whole purpose of the recordings which was for you too hear the songs recorded live.
Those were some of the most wonderful nights as a singer, as a songwriter, as an artist, as a person, I've ever experienced and I just hope you that can hold onto those memories like I will.
The songs are the songs. And that's what I've given you here. And each night I felt we shared a lot more than just the music. There was happiness and sadness and laughter and tears and, well… those… those moments? They were just for us. And now, recordings or no recordings, they are part of your life too and that makes me happy to know.
I've never been one for pictures. If something is worth remembering it will always have a place in my heart.
Thank you all again for coming down and helping to make these such special evenings.
I sincerely hope you enjoy the recordings…
Robin
Released 04 July 2011
Recorded and Mixed by Jan Loewenhaupt. Edited by Robin Proper-Sheppard.
Sophia - 2011 - At Home With Sophia... Roma, Italy 28-4-2010
01. Roma, Italy 28-4-2010 (71:30)
Продолжительность: 01:11:30

#777Лейбл: Sophia Self-Released
Источник: Bandcamp
Год издания диска: 2011
Ссылка на релиз: https://sophia.bandcamp.com/track/at-home-with-sophia-saarbruecken-germany-29-5-2010
1. Heartache
2. If Only
3. Swept Back
4. Ship In That Sand
5. Something
6. Where Are You Now
7. I Left You
8. Every Day
9. If A Change Is Gonna Come
10. The Sea
11. Within Without
12. So Slow
13. Another Friend
14. Lost
15. Bastards
16. Directionless
17. There Are No Goodbyes
18. Leaving
-------------------------------
Please note: I have edited the majority of my storytelling/talking out of these performances. I'm sorry as I know this helped make these nights even more special for many of you but I have a number reasons for this, both personal and technical, and I hope you understand…
Before I explain I just want to say that although I've edited out most of the talking on the individual recordings someone made a great suggestion of gathering together a nice coherent collection of the song-meanings/stories from across the concerts and making that available for people to download if they so wish. I think that's a great idea and have already started putting together some of the more sincere/funny moments from the tour recordings.
But for now let me get back to these recordings and my reasons for editing the performances.
Firstly the technical: As many of the shows were well over 2 hours long and with my rambling chit-chat sometimes contributing as much as 30mins (if not more) to the overall running time, the inclusion of said rambling chit-chat was making the digital files too large to upload to the Bandcamp server.
(Technical: Before compression all the files were well over 1GB and while even via a special arrangement with Bandcamp they still only allow a maximum file size of 600MB)
Secondly some of my monologues were nearly 10 minutes long and while I know that in amongst those many vignettes of my day to day life there were a few moments verging on the profoundly sublime, sadly the truth is that (and it breaks my heart to admit this…) not all of it was even very interesting. Funny? Yes. But interesting? Hmmm. And as such this made it very difficult to edit out the meaningful from the mundane. And while all of you should be well aware by now that I have no problem exhibiting the mundanity of my life night after night - I mean that is life, right? Some meaningful but sadly, unless you're one of the lucky few, mostly mundane moments of day to day existence. Just getting by. Trying to draw the happiness we find closer to our heart while holding the hurt and the fear and the pain at bay… See? This is what I mean. I am on stage as I am in life… Ramble ramble ramble.
Anyway… I just found that meaningful story-telling aside, the stops and starts, the silly observations, Homer Simpson anecdotes or the minutes of waiting for triple-shots of tequila to wind their way through to the stage, these things, amongst others, didn't make for a very nice listening experience and just detracted from the whole purpose of the recordings which was for you too hear the songs recorded live.
Those were some of the most wonderful nights as a singer, as a songwriter, as an artist, as a person, I've ever experienced and I just hope you that can hold onto those memories like I will.
The songs are the songs. And that's what I've given you here. And each night I felt we shared a lot more than just the music. There was happiness and sadness and laughter and tears and, well… those… those moments? They were just for us. And now, recordings or no recordings, they are part of your life too and that makes me happy to know.
I've never been one for pictures. If something is worth remembering it will always have a place in my heart.
Thank you all again for coming down and helping to make these such special evenings.
I sincerely hope you enjoy the recordings…
Robin
Released 04 July 2011
Recorded and mixed by Jan Loewenhaupt. Edited by Robin Proper-Sheppard.
Sophia - 2011 - At Home With Sophia... Saarbrücken, Germany 29-5-2010
01. Saarbrücken, Germany 29-5-2010 (81:48)
Продолжительность: 01:21:48