The story of Stjernen

Today I would like to tell you a little story, the story about how one song was born and how music is something more that just music. This is a very simple story:

One day back in last September Oskar sent me the base of that song and asked me to write melody and lyrics to it. He had named it “Stjernen”. I did not translate the title for two reasons…one of them is because this would leave the music a possibility to talk to me. The second one might sound very silly(especially for people from the northern countries – even for me now as I have been living in Iceland) – but I thought that “stjernen” was just a self-invented word by Oskar. Time passed, I listened to the song about hundred times. Finally, my lyrics were ready…and it became a song about a girl who is looking at the stars and the moon, missing something or somebody that is as distant as the stars…

But one day when I was about to send the finished song to Oskar…I got curious and wanted to know if maybe the title still has a meaning. At the moment when I opened the dictionary and saw “stjernen – star” (in Norwegian) I felt so right. You know, music is the universal language…listen carefully and you will understand. Listen to the wind, birds and the sea, listen to your cat or whatever you like…but you cannot go wrong. Everything in the world has something to tell you, you just have to listen:)

“Stjernen”

Music by Oskar Schuster & Possimiste.
Lyrics by Possimiste (in Estonian):

Igal täiskuuööl
sammud seadis sinna,
kus viis tähevöö
üle maa ja ilma
Ehk on keegi hea
maha jäänud sinna
kuid ta juurde, teab
iial ei saa minna?

O-o-ou…
On kuu tal südames

Nõnda ootas seal,
kuid tal oli valus -
sest nii külm, nii külm
hakkas käes ja jalus
Kuni vaikne hääl
küsis: „Kuis sul läheb?“
Ulatas tal käe
ja ta silmadest said tähed

ja kuu
sai südameks

“Stjernen” (English translation)

Every night of full moon
Her steps led to a place
Where the chain of stars
Crossed the universe
Is there someone good
She has left behind
To whom – she knows -
she can never go

O-o-ou
She has the moon in her heart

So she was waiting there
And it hurt her
because cold had taken
Her hands and feet
Until a voice so quiet
Asking „How are you?“
took her hand:
her eyes became stars

…and the moon took the place of her heart

Thanks for listening:)

Your Possimiste

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Vidiit, springbirds!

The weather is so nice today in Reykjavik and I just wanted to spread happiness! I am sitting by the window. When you look out, you will see  a lot of ships, black, green, white, small and big…of all kinds and behind the ships there is blue water. Behind water there are mountains covered with snow….and as the sun is shining their tops are glowing like lamps. Of course, some tops are so high that you cannot see them because of the clouds..

I hope you all are doing super great and that your winter was awesome( and maybe a bit less dark than here). I have been in Iceland for almost 5 months and now I really feel I have one little but really important thing to say to you.. Just…no matter how crazy and “impossible” something you really  feel you want and have  to do may seem, never let the thought of failure and fear stop you – because there is always a reason why your heart desires to go somewhere and if it is real then nothing bad can happen with you. It is so easy to say “tomorrow” but what if tomorrow will never be( As the meteors have been falling from the sky lately)?

So this is the way I got here, to Iceland. I just bought a plane ticket,  took my bag and Prince with me and let the flight begin. I have never learned so much about life as within this time and I am happy and in love with this place. No, it is not perfect, not at all, this may be a very sad and happy place at the same time, but this is THE place and that is all I care about.

Say hello to Leo, he will get 3 months old in 10 days,

As some of you have asked if I am working on my debut  album, then you are guessing right(besides walking on the lava fields and Laugavegur, of course, which is pretty fun also). For sure it will come out  in at least 3  years and I will do my best, because I want it awesome…:)

And I once baked moon-pancakes;)

In November watched the northern lights…

And I have met some of my friends and fans…

So this is it, all I wanted to say today:)

I wish you a lot of spring- spirit, songs, laughter, happy faces, love, sunshine, peace and remember, fear is nothing else but False Evidence Appearing True:)

Until soon:)

P.

New news is good news

Jippikajee, dear friends:)

Happy Christmas time from the little room near the ocean. I just put the colourful Christmas lights on my window, ate gingerbread and now everything is filled with gingerbread candle smell…and cozy jazz music…and now when I am writing this blog, I feel how everything is so close to perfection, mosly because of teh fact that I have wanted to tell you something  for a pretty long time but it was to be  kept in secret until yesterday. Now I can do it and  it makes me happy.

I know that so many of you have been asking when something new is coming out. So now I can really say that  in January 2013 my first single 7″ EP is officially going to be released( in US and digitally worldwide). This is  a fairytale EP and picture storybook, so prepare your fantasy – butterflies and refind this little kid who is living deep inside of us all. I am so happy and thankful because this is something I have always wanted to do and now it is going to be true…I was working on it basically  for the whole summer and I really hope you will  like it:)

The official release date and more information are coming really soon, but for now  you can check out The Big Announcement to get a bit smarter .

     And I have also a little Christmas present for you: The video is going to be out , even before  Christmas (Hint: this is the funniest of my videos so far;)

Sending my loveliest gingerbread-scented thoughts and Christmas angels towards you all.

<3,

Possimiste

Go

Dear diary, long time, no see, I am living near the sea.

It is amazing how fast time flows…It was summer when I last wrote. So much has happened and so much is still happening…

3 weeks ago I decided to take my few things, put them into the bag and jump on a plane. When I one moment looked down I started to see volcanoes, glaciers and lava fields…I had to snap myself so many times, because it did not feel like real at all.It was the first time when I travelled alone by plane, it was the first time for me to move, it was the first time not to sleep nearly for 70 hours in a row, it was the first time for me to feel freedom like this…Most people thought I was crazy to do something like this alone, young and with only a little of money and with no real down to earth plan, but something inside me told me I had to do this and  I know now that this voice was no wrong…..only miracles have been happening since then, life has led me to the most wonderful people and places…Things that in the beginning seemed to be disappointments led to happiness…I just want to say that if you follow your real dreams then  impossible becomes possible ,don`t let them be disturbed by too much thinking about “how-s”, hows find their way on their own too if you know where you want to go…

I have finally found a perfect place for writing my album:)

Yep, this is where you find me

And it is always so weird…when I write a song…the lyrics come just like from nowhere, they are just there and I am often confused, because I don`t know what they mean…and then soon, little by little I begin to understand, because life starts going like that, like songs predicted. So you can guess what the new single is about. And you don`t have to wait for long anymore, this is all I can say at the moment. In reality the news are even more interesting, but I keep the secret:)

I love you,

P.

One day I just randomly visited Gullfoss…it was icy-magnificent<3

t

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Good early morning!

I have been awake for the whole night, partly because the birds started singing behind by window and it was too beautiful to miss(By now they have stopped, I believe they went to sleep) and partly because the sandman probably forgot me tonight. And partly because it is so….not dark outside as the brightest night of the year is almost here.So, I am here, hello, writing so early in the morning…

I just wanted to answer some questions that many of you have asked me recently, and one of these questions is:“How are you doing?” And I have to say I am doing free. Not completely, because I believe that as long as we are on Earth, we are not meant to be totally free. Why?Because when we have decided to be alive, it means we love something so badly about it that it gives us the reason to exist.This way love is the strongest chain. But a beautiful one. It is getting a bit  philosophisticated now, but well-well, let it get:) Yesterday I visited my favourite small lonely island in the world and sat on top of the lighthouse for a pretty long time…/Oh, the sandman arrived, I am going to sleep now, good night…

Good morning again, I am back…And when you are sitting in the lighthouse, everything down there becomes so tiny and distant that at that very moment you feel that all other boundaries but the one I mentioned have disappeared.But it does not happen because you are physically far from the ground , near the skyline or for some other external reason, it happens because something inside you decides so. All I want to say is  that we are all pretty almighty. Outer world, people…they cannot really change us, they can only make us change ourselves, our own little worlds…what is actually happening every little moment. Hm, so maybe the objective world is just what happens when you put zillions of inner ones together? It is sometimes so good to think this way…you can make all troubles disappear at once..for some time  at least:)So yes, this is what I was thinking about in the lighthouse.

“What are you doing?” Now, I can do exactly what I want…I have been waiting for it for a long time and  it is finally here. I am making  music and in July new mjusic is coming, but You will hear more about it when the time is right.  I am more excited than ever, we are soon going to shoot the video with Unholy Flying Rabbit and wooden woodpeckers are on my mind!Hmm, what else? I can also say that possimiste.wordpress.com is not going to remain my homepage address forever, but nothing disappears ,though,..when my new home gets ready,  I will make a little housewarming party for you:)

And what is this?

This is a super-truper-huper beautiful picture (by Trey Ratcliff) of the land, which is very probably going to be my home since the end of autumn.Iceland. Why? I cannot put it into words why exactly…my mind probably still don`t know why,but my heart says I have to experience that place. And I decided to follow it. A crazy plan, especially because I don`t have any certain plan how I am going to make it. But what life has taught me is that the question how is not very important at all if you know what you really wish . But if someone feels that he/she has something to say about it to me, I would be more than happy.

It is easy to live comfortably, follow the path someone else  has created before and so hard to make your way through the underwood, but through the latter, we learn the most. And as I try to learn as much as I can within the time I have been given, I have decided to live this way. So, hey, W for wanderers!;)

Have a beautiful beginning of summer, eat strawberries,wander and wonder and jump into small lakes,

Until soon:)

One little crazy kid

Butterfly Lullaby

 

Hei,

When one is alone with her piano…some things can become understood at once. To be honest, I did not plan to share the song, but something inside me thought differently. Maybe it just had to be like that….

But yep, here it is for you too now with love:)

FREE DOWNLOAD : Butterfly Lullaby

Lyrics

                Butterfly Lullaby

One heart was made of million butterflies

That carried all  her  fears away that night

When storm was singing nightmare lullabies

And ferries lost their house of light,

And ferries lost their house of light

She just saw butterflies that night…

 

One heart was made of million butterflies

That carried all her dreams away that night

Into their house that no one else couldn find

 Although they tried, they tried, they tried

Just one saw butterflies that night…

 

Good night my world, let me go

With the only one I know

Your butterflies are like rainbows

You can`t hold them, just follow

In the morning have to go

One broken wing on my pillow

 

One heart was made of million butterflies

That carried all her tears away that night

But touched by little sparkles in her eyes

Got burned, turned million fireflies

Got burned by sparkles in her eyes

And became million fireflies

 

 

Good night my friend, I`ve made you grow

Fears don`t hold you, I wished you so

We, butterflies, are like rainbows

You can`t hold us, just follow

And through the dark night you have flown

Seen my house in the blue cocoon

But it was all one nigh ago,

it was all one night ago

Good night my world, let me go

With the only one I know

Whose  butterflies are like rainbows

I can`t hold them, just follow

Bye, bye, my friend let it go

I`ll be the only one you` ve known

We, butterflies, are like rainbows

You can`t hold us, just follow

Until  you see through falling snow

One broken wing on your pillow

Until  I see through falling snow

One broken wing on my pillow…

My First C☮ncerts

I woke up today and asked myself if everything that happened last week was real or not, because I have sometimes had dreams…like this…

As about 2 months ago I got a beautiful letter with snowflakes from Slovakia…in which I was invited to perform there. Though I had only 5 singles out then and others songs were in my head, but totally unfinished I decided to do it, because it is always so easy to say no…but how can we learn without challenges?So I started writing and writing and finished the last song at night in Frankfurt Airport a day before my first performance at Radio FM. Crazy:)

DAY 1. A small rehearsal in my living room 2 hours before the flight with Stina.Someday I would like to perform with a real piano…but this time it was too big and heavy to take it on a plane:) In Frankfurt airport people constantly thought I wanted to smoke “so-me-thing”, because I looked colourful…yes, even shopkeepers asked that, after I had just paid for my milk.☮ We spent a night in the airport, which seemed to be totally empty. But, nope, there was a lovely little mouse running around the airport. And so I got a new friend:)

DAY 2.  Four in the morning I finished my last song and took a short 2-hour sleep, because in 3 hours we had to be on a plane to Vienna. In Vienna there was spring…18 degrees.So we walked through Vienna, spent 4 hours in Starbucks, because we needed free WiFi in purpose not to get lost and space to glue my fairytale book. In the evening we met Kristina and Dodo who took us to Radio_FM in Bratislava. When I first saw the building I had a really strange feeling inside me, because it was gigantic, but when I met wonderful Juraj and other super nice the people there and saw Kris` and Dodo`s happy faces I started to feel happy too…It was a really lovely evening there and the live went also pretty well.You can listen to it here. Of course, I could have done it a lot a lot a lot a lot better, but as life and art and performing are all about moments then that moment it just had to go like this, but I learned a lot about myself and others and  music and trust and life that day and when I fell asleep I was in love and peace with the world and Slovakian people. And I still am.

Yes, Dodo was super supportive: he even wore a T-shirt with a message: "No, you can`t!"

DAY 3. We started driving to Poprad with superawesome Lixx, Kris and Dodo and stopped in a little green city, where we ate some special wafers we started to call in a funny way, fed swans and ducks and thought how to make music with them…in the evening we reached our destination in high Tatras, it was b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l and it was even more beautiful to drive there with 2 angels.

To the mountains!The landscape changed after every 5 minutes

 

DAY 4 part 1. We discovered that we had forgotten half of our clothes and so we had to buy some summerclothes.We found them fast and then  visited a really lovely bookshop where Kris` friend was working. Then Groteska people prepared us the best coffee in the whole world and we got addicted.After that, TO THE MOUNTAINS. In a pizza bar a lovely waitress said to me that she had listened to the radio and loved my music and I somehow managed inside not to start crying though I had almost failed. We went to see a little spring and drank its pure cold water before we went back to Groteska to do our soundcheck. During the soundcheck a nice visitor bought me and Stina drinks and it was the best mineral grape juice ever!

The best coffee on Earth!Fly to Poprad just to get it!

DAY 4 part 2. 3 hours before the concert started we went back to our hotel room and talked/played some important things over, got dressed and messed and then Lixx and Kris helped us to Groteska, where Monogram(such a nice person and artist) was DJing and then it was our turn. The night before I had had a dream how my costume gets broken….and it really happened during the 1st song. I am a mess, but it was funny:)The concert went great, I fell even more in love with the people there and in the end they sung with me, which made me really happy. After the concert two nice ladies wanted to take a picture with us,  we had an interesting chat with Lixx (who soon started to play his awesome set and me and Stina floated away for a while)  Peter and Tom who gave me imaginary flowers at first, but 30 minutes later they became real tulips, and he did the best joke I had heard for a long long time and Stina had never laughed so much.And of course Dodo and Kris…everything they did was just…I cannot put it into words. It was the best day in my life so far!

When you believe you can fly, you can!

The audience was amazing!Big pure love!

DAY 5. Our last coffee ar Groteska and then to the mountains again!And then we drove 5 hours to Vienna and wow, it was the best roadtrip ever, we all went totally crazy.Lululululuulululu!Saying “Bye” was harder than ever…

Look, what Kris and Dodo did!How can I not miss them?!<3

I liked the bikes they had in Vienna;)

And then we spent a day in Vienna, which was beautiful too…though on Monday the city was half-dead/half-alive. I got my first bubble tea experience too. And so I sat on the grass, put some  pine-needles into my hair and watched how the branches of a tree started calling for peace. And so I decided that he was Peace☮ tree:)

☮Look at the fingers of that tree☮

 

Yep, friends, it was the best week in my life so far and I thank everyone for just being there with me, for the beautiful words and wishes. Armastus<3

Don`t forget ☮  and love and  lululululululululululululululululuuuuuu to You all!I hope to see You soon!

Your little creature, P.

 

Possimiste – Clockworkbird

❇My 2011❇

This is the last post of this year. It has been a wonderful time.I have been through so many beautiful moments. I also have to thank You  for them. And  I have  learnt a lot too… through difficulties … everything is changing so fast around and inside us and therefore, there are  hard decisions and endings. but these latter  are actually nothing but just new beginnings. I promise that 2012 will be even  more interesting and will bring more music than this year did.

But a little backsight into 2011…some of the happy moments:

So, in February “Filably” was released and so some time later it also became a part of  ” Writing In Books”  . In July Bad Panda Records released “Behind The Seas”  and also the video  came out…I will never forget the week when  it was being shot…I have never eaten as many cherries as I did then…A lot of things have happened to this piece of music…it is hard to bring anything out( e.g Some months ago FFM released Apples and Oranges  , a free compilation album, where You can also find  it and a lot of other great tracks). Some things are going to happen in the future too with it;)

Then one of the greatest new experiences was the project ART110 where the students of California State University were given a mission to build a virtual art gallery(on Second Life) for an artist and I was one of the artists of this season. So we had a couple of interviews with the uber lovely people and here are some pictures of the galleries they created here, and here, and here too, and here, and also here. ❤❤❤ them!

Then two  wonderful and totally different short movies also came out recently, one is   “The Fall” , directed by John Lerchen and the other one is “Rico” by Jeremy Snell. You can meet Rico here: 

Yes, I once talked to another Rico from the streets. Though his name was not Rico, he was just like him.He held my hand and told me his story, the story of his life and his son and talked about the experiences he had been through. That moment I was confused…I did not know if he was lucky or unlucky….or what I was…, but he had lived to get experiences…and those experiences we give others through words, stories, sights, melodies, movements are the biggest gifts we can make…And if You are sad that You cannot make  gifts to people You love, then stand quietly for 7 seconds, walk to a mirror…and look. You`ll have found the gift. You.

I also created Tumblr yesterday and so You can find some inspirations and thoughts and sketches and other creatures:)

Lots of love, care and understanding – then comes the music:)

Merry Christmas! – Häid Jõule! ( as we say here)

Sincerely Yours,

P.

Njuus

Hello, dear diary and friends and other jumping sleepy animals:)

I have not written anything here since July…and I think not writing is not the best idea, so I promise to start writing more often. As many of You have asked me how I am doing, then I am doing great and I hope You are too! Yesterday I saw the first snow falling…days are short – by 5 o`clock darkness has already covered the land and it is so good to drink a cup of tea and then another one and another one…and light candles. And then start doing music…this is my favourite part of the day. New music is coming soon…or not so soon, in December or at the beginning of January. I don`t want to promise anything certain. The only thing I can really say is that it is not only a song, something else is also coming with it. But it`s a crazy surprise, like  a gift for Christmas:)And even more surprises are coming at the beginning of 2012!

Oh, I had almost forgotten, in October a really sweet compilation album(free download) ” Apples” by Far From Moscow came out, and You can also  find “Behind The Seas” there. 

And here are some sneak-peak-pictures I promised:)