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Stand Together is out now! Thanks to everyone who contributed to this song! ❤️❤️❤️
Stand Together is a song I started in Cuba and finished in Germany. It is about ending the torture, internment and subjugation of refugees and migrants and about creating a culture that recognizes our common humanity over national borders. The album will be released early summer 2022.
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Stand Together is an album recorded in Ojalá by Olimpia Calderon Arias and in EGREM by Merlin Lorenzo. Ojalá is the studio of my songwriting idol, Silvio Rodriguez, and EGREM is Cuba's national music production company. Both are in La Habana, Cuba. I also recorded songs in this collection, including Stand Together, with Kala Farnham at Signature Sounds by Mark Thayer in Connecticut, where I recorded Rise Up. This collection of songs is an album about love, standing together across borders and ideological differences, and transforming suffering into joy.
Stand Together includes Spanish songs, Fantasma (Ghost), I co-wrote in Cuba (I am the daughter of a Colombian mother) with Dariel Milan and Jeniffer Dalía Morales Rodriguez and Alcanzando La Rosa (Reaching for the Rose), a song I co-wrote with Gareth Dunlop in Belfast and translated with Cuban drummer, El Pulpo and friend, Josue Taboada. It also includes a love song co-written at Folk Alliance International with Lilli Lewis called Montreal and a song called Swimming with Dolphins co-written with Alan Roy Scott, recorded with Cuban piano great Alejandro Falcon.
The first single, My Choice supports Whole Woman's Health, fighting for reproductive justice in the USA. The second single from the album, Stand Together, is a song I started in Cuba and finished in Germany. It is about ending the torture, internment and subjugation of refugees and creating a culture that recognizes our common humanity over national borders. The album will be released late summer 2022.
released July 1, 2022
Written by Erika Kulnys
Lyrics and music copyright © 2019
Produced by Jordan Metro
Vox/piano by Erika Kulnys
Harmonies by Kala Farnham
Strings by Efrat Ariel Shapira and Catherine Bent
Recorded by Mark Thayer at Signature Sounds, CT
Mixed by Mark Thayer
Art by John McLean