Natalya Romashina: Recent Episodes
Natalya Romashina
Composing, writing and performing vocals and lyrics. Singing voice embraces as classical academic skills as a contemporary ethereal and experimental sounding.
Concerts took place in the following countries: Russia ↟ France ↟ Belgium ↟ Switzerland
Songwriter / vocalist of the neoclassical dark ambient project "Day Before Us" (France) and the symphonic power metal band "Stonehenge" (Russia).
Taken from the "Day Before Us" LP album "Adorned Path of Stillness" by Twilight Records & GH Records, Lmtd edition. TW1.153, Released in March 2018.
Lyrics Tempus Fugit
Smooth dance in mind The patterns and tangles lead. Ruby light inside Opens the force of aspiration.
Crossing the castles of Creation The world is becoming paler: Green crystals, pearl light... Barely visible blurred contours.
We're entering aureole... Everything is spinning in a whirlwind, By slow little steps We achieve Eternity.
Stairs! Rising up higher We're going down... Here it is! Shining! Now we turn into Disembodied points of consciousness.
Vertigo! We're wrapped up in warm wool. This is a cosmic heart! We're in the center... This is a cosmic heart! We're in the center...
This is a cosmic heart... We're in the center of Universe.
Crossing the castles of Creation The world is becoming paler: Green crystals, pearl light... Barely visible blurred contours.
This is a cosmic heart...
This is a cosmic heart...
We're in a center of Universe.
© Natalya Romashina
Taken from the Day Before Us LP album "Nihil Interit" by Rage In Eden, Ltd edition. CD copies are available @ daybeforeus1.bandcamp.com RAGE114, Released in December 2016.
Taken from the "Day Before Us" LP album "Nihil Interit" by Rage In Eden, Lmtd edition. CD copies are available @ daybeforeus1.bandcamp.com RAGE114, Released in December 2016.
Taken from the Day Before Us LP "Nihil Interit" by Rage In Eden, Ltd edition. Copies are available @ daybeforeus1.bandcamp.com/ RAGE114, Released in December 2016.
Lyrics: Per Aspera Ad Astra
Between two worlds There is a way To stars, through thorns With flows, with seething flows We run away To rise again tomorrows
Between two worlds Per aspera ad astra To stars, through thorns We run away To rise again tomorrows
Per aspera ad astra Per aspera ad astra Surgere cras Oriri cras Per aspera ad astra
Per aspera ad astra Per ardua ad astra Surgere cras Oriri cras Per aspera ad astra Через тернии к звёздам
©2016 by Natalya Romashina
Taken from the "Day Before Us" LP album "Nihil Interit" by Rage In Eden, Lmtd edition. Sold out ! RAGE114, Released in December 2016.
Lyrics (in Russian): Zatvornik
Вращающийся мир вокруг Является прощением. Проходя путь Света во Тьме, Не чувствуешь больше сопротивления.
Бредёшь по ржавой пустыни, Исследуя грани самоцветов, Не находя в них ответа, отступаешь назад, Облачаясь в призрачный облик.
Сколько масок нужно примерить, Скитаясь по мировой паутине? Сколько загадок выучить, Добираясь до Центра Вселенной?
Преодолевая каньоны, пространства, Всё поставить на карту... Твоё сердце и разум больше не могут Удерживать воспоминания…
Вода в зеркале... Тогда что в реальности? Покажи, где сейчас Волны в опасности. Пульс в линию. Кто-то кается. За тебя прячется и тебя касается. Эпилепсия скорости В водовороте пропасти Ведёт вроде бы, А на деле крошится. Осколки портятся. И цунами обрушилось. Постоянно вкладывать, Получать что сбудется. Мерещится, все мерещится. Вроде бы как станется, А на деле - пленница.
Вода в зеркале... Тогда что в реальности? Покажи, где сейчас Волны в опасности.
©2016 by Natalya Romashina
Aria "Amen, Alleluja" for a voice and piano. Music: G. F. Handel (1685 – 1759)
Voice: Natalya Romashina Piano: S. Kitaeva
Music & lyrics: A. P. Borodin (1833-1887), "Морская царевна" (Morskaya Tsarevna / The Sea Princess), 1868. Voice: Natalya Romashina Piano: S. Kitaeva
МОРСКАЯ ЦАРЕВНА
Приди ко мне ночной порой, О путник молодой. Здесь под водой И прохлада и покой.
Ты здесь отдохнешь, Ты сладко заснешь, Качаясь на зыбких водах, Где, неги полна, Лишь дремлет волна В пустынных берегах.
По зыби морской Сама за тобой Царевна морская плывет. Она манит, она поет, К себе тебя зовет.
Taken from the Day Before Us LP "Prélude à l'âme d'élégie" by OPN Records http://daybeforeus1.bandcamp.com/album/pr-lude-l-me-d-l-gie-opncd0031
Music: Philippe Blache Vocal & lyrics: Natalya Romashina
Unofficial video on YouTube by Daupike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkJU3zVtsCQ
Copy of the CD is available @ opnrecords.bandcamp.com/
Lyrics (English Translation): Voyna Serdtsa / War of the Heart
Wet stone... On the bended knee, He looks at watch and smokes nervously. Breathing stops, to remember faithfully, He is afraid of the moment of a void Trembling, he writes someone's name on the back side of the hand... And time is getting on, it takes away the pain and joy, Slips and changes everything around. It seemed to him that there was only tiredness Of the eternal damnations overwhelmed him...
Smoking cigarettes is his evening award Friends had left him, he didn't know any consolation, All that he wanted to hear from them was a complete nonsense, And even the best friend suddenly interrupted the long conversation...
Darkness... disappeared the colours of the day... He doesn't see them for a long time, He only holds to heart the hand with someone's name And he had forgot the words of the prayer before... That one whose name is now in his hand...
From now on, you are subordinate to the dictates of fear, You are besieged by visions of the war, And your mind is blinded by terror, You stay a prisoner of a thunderstorm...
From heartbeat, don't drive echo out, Someday it will heal the wounds It will give its gift to the Destiny's Criminals And will protect against the fatal tyrants!
And time is getting on ... carries away the pain and joy ... And time is getting on ... carries away the pain and joy ... And time... is getting on ... Pain ... and joy ...
©2015 by Natalya Romashina
Taken from the Day Before Us EP "Enlightening Secrecy" by TripleMoon Records: https://daybeforeus1.bandcamp.com/ TMR009, Released on May 2016.
Lyrics (English Translation): Enlightening Secrecy
Black waves in the eyes Will cover with a pall the numbers and dates. The seated man stubbornly with wet fingers Enumerates the "faces".
Surname, name are passing by, Not finding the answer. Knocking on closed doors again To say goodbye? Break down? Where are you?!
The lines of strangers, silent words No tenderness, no anger, no will! No sound, no color, no harmony! Where are you?!
Echoes, stars, planets... It's difficult to breathe! (There is) No light! New faces, lives, dawns... Where are you?!
Finding no answer, Wearily the rebellious heart, Seeking the solace in strangers... But moaning, crying: "Where are you?!"
And not looking back, You'll go your own way! Maybe you'll reach the heaven, Or maybe you'll go to hell - I don't argue.
Hope destroys the fear, Not making the dreams a reality, You turn the soul into dust, And life goes on in a falsehood.
Your look no longer the directs forward, You are not here as "before." All as all, and your success Compares with the rhythm of waltz...
Black waves in the eyes Will cover with a pall the numbers and dates. The seated man stubbornly with wet fingers Enumerates the "faces".
Surname, name are passing by, Not finding the answer. Knocking on closed doors again To say goodbye? Break down? Where are you?!
©2016 by Natalya Romashina