AAVA Luvva (live at Katubaari Axu)

from CATSELF at Katubaari Axu vol. 1 by CATSELF

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In September 2023, I played at AAVA art festival in Porkkala peninsula in southern Finland. It is a wonderful small festival where art works are exhibited along the hiking path, and there are also some live performances. The night before, while rehearsing, I tried to imagine what kind of art was going to be displayed there that year. I imagined a blue ceramic fish placed at the roots of a tree at the end of the peninsula, where I was going to perform, and in the crown of the tree, a red bird looking up at the sky, away from the fish. The fish and the bird are in love but cannot meet, and the bird cannot even see the fish, he can only hear her sweet voice as she sings to him. I see them on my forest hike and pray to the earth and the wind that they help them be together.

I performed the song on the next day at the festival and here is the video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaZNA8oY61U

lyrics

They brought the paints from far away,
They put the paints on a little ball made of clay.
They made me blue with golden eyes,
They made me look like a fish but out of water I thrive.

Oh, the sea is not for me, give me land instead.
Oh, the waves would murder me, give me a forest bed.

They made me too a little friend,
They painted him bright red, in a tree made him stand.
They made him look up in the sky,
He doesn't see me down here but hears me cry.

Our time will come to be when the wind gets wild.
May the wild wind shake you free from the tree, my love.

My spirit lifts when my body runs,
I found them in the woods, they hurt to be apart.
Two brightly hearted figurines,
They want to be together, and so I sing:

Oh, may the earth jump and dance, make the blue fish fly.
Oh, may the wind get wild and shake little birdie down.
Our time will come to be when the wind gets wild.
May the wild wind shake the tree, make it be, my love.
Our love will come to be when the wind gets wild.
May the wild wind shake the tree, make it be, my love.



Written in September 2023.

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from CATSELF at Katubaari Axu vol. 1, released April 5, 2024
Music and lyrics by Catself.

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