Barefoot Poetry

DEBUT ALBUM
Released Sept. 6th, 2018

Barefoot Poetry

Barefoot Poetry

Barefoot Poetry is based on life with its ups and downs, mature and immature behaviors, lost love as well as the moments of pure love, luck and happiness.

Barefoot Poetry is all about a catching mix of pop, soul and rock with elements of real sounds and atmosphere.

Lead vocalist Michael Zinius Jørvang was on the lookout for a new co-composer and sparring partner in late 1992 after the Danish pop band KuDaSai had stopped all activities and split up after 6 years.

Michael, involved as the lead vocalist and co- composer of the KuDaSai album, (released in 1991 on Medley Records) was indeed very lucky to meet with Gino and Joe Vannelli, because they presented the chance for Michael to work with, and draw experience from artists like Mike Miller, Mark Craney, Phil Manzanera, and Gary Usher, who wrote songs with Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys.

Barefoot Poetry

Back then in 1992, Michael was living off the grid in the countryside in Denmark, where he had built a home studio and together with percussionist Denis Wahlgreen, they began the work on what later became Barefoot Poetry. Through a common friend, Michael met up with Nils Kaufmanas for the first time. Michael, Nils and Denis starts redirecting and recomposing Barefoot Poetry in December 1993 in a little flat in Copenhagen.

“...and luck struck me once again meeting up with Nils”, Michael says; “Nils, being a fantastic piano player, a composer and a bandleader known from the jazz-fusion band Countdown, has this tremendous capability to take a chord and dismantle it into pieces, but not only that, Nils plays the drums and has this “feel” for groove, melody and basslines”.

This was just the guy Michael needed, with his experimental attitude and musical understanding. Nils is a real groove master to help Michael tell his stories.

This album you hold in your hand right now is all about this. Michael telling his stories and Nils placing the right chops for them together with talented musicians and singers giving their best.

Michael Zinius

Michael
Zinius

Vocal

Denis Wahlgreen

Denis
Wahlgreen

Percussion

Nils Kaufmanas

Nils
Kaufmanas

Keyboard/Synth

Thomas Hesthaven Poulsen

Thomas Hesthaven
Poulsen

Guitar

The Album
BAREFOOT POETRY

BURNING IN THE MOMENT

(6:40)
Music & Lyrics: Michael Zinius

Vocals and additional b. vocals - Michael Zinius
Programs, Drums, Bass & Keyboards - Nils Kaufmanas
Arrangement - Nils Kaufmanas & Michael Zinius
Guitars - Thomas Hesthaven Poulsen
Guitars & guitar solo - Bernhard M. Hansen
Talk – Donia Papageorgiou
B. vocals - Lea Thorlaan & Maria Kyhne

BURNING IN THE MOMENT

BURNING IN THE MOMENT

“Anyway, I don’t know where to start
I think I should just say welcome to my world
I want to talk and I want you to listen
take me to the milky way on a holiday…be so beautiful”

Hope is still alive and feel woman
every breath breathing in the way
angel won’t you give me time
my mind is set on compromise

What we're short of
won’t get us far woman
are the omens only dooms charade?
if we keep on fighting love
we’re burning on all levels

Hope is still alive now think woman
airheads live to fake control
though we never want to fear
we’re navels sometimes hidden
yah we’re on a right charade
it all comes down to giving anyway
hope is on its way for us
if that is what we’re giving

We’re living high living low
would we ever move on feel we grow?
would a long wait glorify us a last?

Burning in the moment
burning in my soul

Some know hope is still a live current
some have rivers safe and sound
some they swim against the tide
rivers always find the ocean

Some people only look for trouble
what’s hidden in religious side
we would be beyond it all
if only we are giving

We’re living high living low

Burning in the moment
burning in my soul
burning in the moment
learning with the soul
hope is still alive
when all we ought to do
is all we really want
burning in the moment
journeying with the soul
I don’t want to be burning

“I wanted to tell you so many things
I don’t want to say bye to you
rain when it pours in the night
wetness my face…love affection love sickness
friendship charity possessiveness
I hope I hope I hope…I´m patient…Love the world”

Burning in the moment
burning in my soul

“Can you hear the classical music it´s so beautiful
I love it so much…you know when you left
I was just thinking of I wanted to buy some walkie-talkies
so that we can talk to each other and didn’t have to pay anything
be so great…but then I found out that you couldn´t buy any
walkie-talkies of that kind…so far away from each other”
BURNING IN THE MOMENT

DEEP IN YOUR DOGMA

(5:26)
Music: Nils Kaufmanas & Michael Zinius
Lyrics: Michael Zinius

Vocals and additional b. vocals - Michael Zinius
Programs, Drums, Bass & Keyboards - Nils Kaufmanas
Arrangement - Nils Kaufmanas & Michael Zinius
Guitars - Thomas Hesthaven Poulsen
B. vocals - Lea Thorlaan & Maria Kyhne

DEEP IN YOUR DOGMA
DEEP IN YOUR DOGMA

It´s not always going to be like that
“…Oh it´s going to be like that…”
It´s not always going to be like that
it´s like a field and no shelter
no place to hide
catch me

Every love that comes in magic
pictures a dream and border

I´m a mean hound-beater in the woods
not every hour comes like daylight
down blue songs head down in the oven
you just giggle “…heaven can wait…”

Every word that left love lonely
meant more gave a way
are we dead too soon
to love our right for war?
now give yourself a song or rainbow
high on hello says it all

Black light babe
don’t want to know
bad light babe
don’t want to go
deep in your dogma rain
are you really number one?
Every turn I take dancing in the moonlight
twist me like a moving romance
it´s a hint down my section to take off

How about a war planned out

a little sandstorm grudge
still living in you baby?

I have to go or I say hello

Black light babe

I don’t want to know
bad light babe
don’t want to go
deep in your dogma rage
are you really number one

I know you deep in your dogma

Do you really want get on?
you go baby now we go back
get it working in a row
many problems will be great problems
we are maids we say hello

Black light babe
don’t want to know
Bad light babe
don’t want to go

Deep in your dogma rain
Are you really number one?
DEEP IN YOUR DOGMA

LIVING ON A LIE

(3:56)
Music: Nils Kaufmanas & Michael Zinius
Lyrics: Michael Zinius

Vocals and additional b. vocals - Michael Zinius
Programs, Drums, Bass & Keyboards - Nils Kaufmanas
Arrangement - Nils Kaufmanas & Michael Zinius
Percussion - Denis Wahlgreen
Guitars - Thomas Hesthaven Poulsen
B. vocals – Trine Gry & Adrian Wilder

LIVING ON A LIE

GOD IS A MORNING

(4:14)
Music & Lyrics: Michael Zinius

Vocals and additional b. vocals - Michael Zinius
Programs, Drums, Bass & Keyboards - Nils Kaufmanas
Arrangement - Nils Kaufmanas, Thomas Hesthaven Poulsen 
& Michael Zinius
Guitars - Thomas Hesthaven Poulsen
Percussion - Denis Wahlgreen
B. vocals - Trine Gry & Adrian Wilder

GOD IS A MORNING

THE NIGHT RHYTHM OF LOVE

(6:17)
Music: Nils Kaufmanas & Michael Zinius
Lyrics: Michael Zinius

Vocals and additional b. vocals - Michael Zinius
Programs, Drums, Bass & Keyboards - Nils Kaufmanas
Arrangement - Nils Kaufmanas & Michael Zinius
Guitars - Thomas Hesthaven Poulsen
Percussion - Denis Wahlgreen
B. vocals – Hannah Roos, Sophie B. Hjerl

THE NIGHT RHYTHM OF LOVE

SPIRITUAL MAN

(4:05)
Music: Michael Zinius & Denis Wahlgreen
Lyrics: Michael Zinius

Vocals and additional b. vocals - Michael Zinius
Programs, Drums, Bass & Keyboards - Nils Kaufmanas
Arrangement - Nils Kaufmanas & Michael Zinius
Guitars - Thomas Hesthaven Poulsen
Percussion - Denis Wahlgreen
B. vocals – Adrian Wilder

SPIRITUAL MAN

THE MIGHTY TRAIN

(5:37)
Music & Lyrics: Michael Zinius

Vocal and additional b. vocals – Michael Zinius
Programs, Drums, Bass & Keyboards - Nils Kaufmanas
Arrangements – Nils Kaufmanas - Thomas Hesthaven Poulsen
& Michael Zinius
Guitars - Thomas Hesthaven Poulsen
Percussion - Denis Wahlgreen
B. vocals – Trine Gry, Hannah Roos, Jeanette Hennelund-Olsen
& Adrian Wilder

THE MIGHTY TRAIN

FUNKY DRIVER

(5:13)
Music: Nils Kaufmanas & Michael Zinius
Lyrics: Denis Wahlgreen & Michael Zinius

Vocals and additional b. vocals - Michael Zinius
Arrangement - Nils Kaufmanas & Michael Zinius
Programs, Drums, Bass & Keyboards - Nils Kaufmanas
Guitars - Thomas Hesthaven Poulsen
Percussion - Denis Wahlgreen
B. vocals & talk - Adrian Wilder

FUNKY DRIVER

FUNKY DRIVER

Funky driver what are you?
getting down with mister J dangerous
Funky driver listen up

So lost in my Cadillac world
like a heaven ago
I did not know mastodont love
but every time I have a little lost hope
in a crocodile world
mastodont love baby let me in

Just your love frequency babe
I don’t get it sink feel
my vast sincerity
I still store junk in me maybe
don’t go don’t go don’t go
the rhythm is disastrous
such has gone
just as gone

Time has come
just as gone
I still know what I am missing
time has come the time has come
funky driver
time has come
just as gone
I still know what I am missing
time has come
keep drivin´
baby I don’t know
Funky Driver
everything that you want me to
getting higher all around
go stop no control
don’t rely on anything baby's due
owe desire again and again

Once so calm I was sat down close
to the temple peep show
I felt my mind go whoa
at the golden inn
so every time I’m heading right back
to that crocodile world
stellular babe I see clutch me in

Just your love frequency babe
I don’t get it sink feel
your vast sincerity
all around go stop no
but I still store junk in me maybe
baby don’t go don’t go
the rhythm is disastrous
such has gone
no control

Time has come

Funky Driver
everything that you want me to

Funky driver what are you doing now?
drop the beat J clutch me in
again and again

Time has come just as gone
I still know what I am missing
time has come the time has come
funky driver
baby I don’t know

Funky Driver
everything that you want me to

Funky driver what are you?
FUNKY DRIVER

BABYBLUE

(5:00)
Music & Lyrics: Michael Zinius, Nils Kaufmanas & Denis Wahlgreen

Vocals and additional b. vocals - Michael Zinius
Music, Programs, Drums, Bass & Keyboards - Nils Kaufmanas
Arrangement - Nils Kaufmanas & Michael Zinius
Percussion - Denis Wahlgreen
Guitar solo – Bernhard Mikael Hansen
Guitars - Thomas Hesthaven Poulsen
Add. Keys – Michael Zinius
B. vocals - Hannah Roos

BABYBLUE

BABYBLUE

Come to me talk it free
for the time for the shit
for just everything we never
really didn't do BabyBlue

This is what you do to me
running me in ecstasy
telling me to go without
leaving me no good
and I still love you

This is how you want to act
run-on blue on love´s a fact
this time every boy you´ll meet
holds the key to you
and I still love you
one on one oh baby let me love
don´t let go

Come to me talk it free
for the time for the shit
for just everything we never
really didn't do
love ..live ..love BabyBlue
What is this you do to me
what is this I’ve grown to be
this time everything, I do
kills the beat in me
because I still love you

Little towns on fantasy
what are things we want to be
this time every boy you meet
turns the key in new
and I still love you
I still love

Talk it free for the crime
for the high time
baby it's the hard time
baby you dexterous
come to me talk it free
for the time for the it
for just everything we never
really didn't do
baby you dexterous

For the time for the shit
for just everything we never
really didn't do
baby you dexterous

Come to me talk it free
for the time for the shit
for just everything we never
really didn't do

baby you dangerous

BABYBLUE

THE TORRID ZONE

(4:50)
Music: Nils Kaufmanas & Michael Zinius
Lyrics: Michael Zinius

Vocals and additional b. vocals - Michael Zinius
Programs, Drums, Bass & Keyboards - Nils Kaufmanas
Arrangement - Nils Kaufmanas & Michael Zinius
Guitars - Thomas Hesthaven Poulsen
B. vocals – Sophie B. Hjerl

THE TORRID ZONE

GIVE LOVE A ROOM

(4:57)
Music & Lyrics: Michael Zinius

Vocals and additional b. vocals - Michael Zinius
Arrangement - Nils Kaufmanas & Michael Zinius
Programs, Drums, Bass & Keyboards - Nils Kaufmanas
Guitars - Thomas Hesthaven Poulsen
Percussion - Denis Wahlgreen
B. vocals - Lea Thorlaan

GIVE LOVE A ROOM

GIVE LOVE A ROOM

Sail out in the daylight
don’t hang solo
keep your eyes on the track
could something here be speaking?
stubbornness not always right
check your lover now
you’ve got cards

What I think is what I am what you think is what you are
what I do is what I am what you do is what you are
what I get is what I am what I get is what you are
what I deal is what I am
what you deal is what I am

Now rock the wall play the ball
it's your love life
are you here with your motor running?
remember don’t put your hands in the honey
without working for it
your powerhead goes over mountains

What you think is what you are
what I think is what I am what you do is what you are
what I do is what I am what I get is what you are
what I get is what I am what you deal is what you feel
what I deal is what I am
I don’t care
the whole world is like singing in your hands
wake up right now
play those strings in hand me that lighter
don’t brainwash my mind hints of change

Mind what we see
how about love today
do you mind what we see?
how about love

Take a second have we noticed
hand over our heads there is one thing we know
we can't be alone no no
we put flowers in the fire
gamble love and go to bed with a trace
rock me slowly and open your heart
silver star jazz me up walk me all over
where in the world are we?
certainly not at that sugar bay
yes I read more than your letters
and my mind is like an anthill
that’s no thrill I don’t mind
the day we´re setting off to find that

Give love a room in your heart
give love a room in your head
play those strings in

What you think is what I think is
what you feel is what I deal ya
what I get is what what I deal ya-ya
what you deal what I deal c´mon
what you deal ah… what I delay?

Give love a room in your heart

Do you mind what we see
how about love today?
today

GIVE LOVE A ROOM

INSIDE YOUR TEMPLES

(4:56)
Music & Lyrics: Michael Zinius & Nils Kaufmanas & Denis Wahlgreen

Vocals and additional b. vocals - Michael Zinius
Programs, Drums, Bass & Keyboards - Nils Kaufmanas
Arrangement - Nils Kaufmanas & Michael Zinius
Guitars & guitar solo - Thomas Hesthaven Poulsen
Guitars – Bernhard Mikael Hansen

INSIDE YOUR TEMPLES

INSIDE YOUR TEMPLES

Because baby you’ve got the malice
you’ve got the malice baby

You can never be alone wherever you go
I seem to be out conscious
but I’m out on a limb
any place I could possibly hide
would lick my wounds baby?

Inside your temples
you´ve got the malice baby

Anything is talking to your night and day
everything you talk about gives you away
one place I could possibly shine
would ease the pain away?

Inside Your Temples
you’ve got the malice you’ve got it
you’ve got the malice baby
Malice in your heart
malice in your head
could we come together like lovers should
malice in your shoe
malice in your words
could we come together like lovers should

Could you really baby hide on the tide
let her run thru malice don’t waste your time
anything you could possibly shine
would keep me from sleeping

Inside our temple
you’ve got the malice you’ve got it
you’ve got the malice baby

Malice in your shoes
malice in your words
could we come together like lovers should
malice in your heart
malice in your hair

That what I do know is that what I do now
that what I do know is that what I do now

You get to know money get to know anger
you get to know codec get to know money
you got to know anger get to know codex
you got to know money get to know

You’ve got the malice
you’ve got the malice baby
you’ve got the malice
INSIDE YOUR TEMPLES

RUN TO THE MOON

(3:21)

Music: Nils Kaufmanas & Michael Zinius
Lyrics: Michael Zinius & Shakti Gawain

Vocals and additional b. vocals - Michael Zinius
Programs, Drums, Bass & Keyboards - Nils Kaufmanas
Arrangement - Nils Kaufmanas & Michael Zinius
Percussion - Denis Wahlgreen
Guitars - Thomas Hesthaven Poulsen
Guitars - Bernhard Mikael Hansen
B. vocals – Hannah Roos, Jeanette Hennelund-Olsen
Talk – Shakti Gawain

RUN TO THE MOON

RUN TO THE MOON

One of these days it’s burning flesh
you got to save game and come on home
you got to hold back from everything he wants to do
because you know that old gun called karma´s out
you got to home run and start tuning in you got to
so many things that’s really waiting for you baby

One of these days a bird in the air got to
tell you to come on home you got to
think twice on what you think you got to do
in one of these days out of burning air
got to tell you to come on home you got to
think twice on what you face you got to do
Run to the moon and back again
you’ll sing what I mean
run to the moon come back alive
you’ll see we will see

Hold your body
hold your body now baby
hold your body baby now
really close to mine

The reason for that is
because everything in the universe wants to be loved
it’s such a simple principle and we don’t get it
everything in the universe wants to be loved
this whole creation is here
the God the Divine within us created it
and it all wants to be loved and appreciated
and included in Life

Hold your body
hold your body now baby
hold your body baby now
really close to mine

Hold your body now baby
RUN TO THE MOON

CORRIDORS OF A SICK MAN´S MIND

(5:16)
Music: Michael Zinius
Lyrics: Michael Zinius & Henrik Berth & Denis Wahlgreen

Vocals and additional b. vocals - Michael Zinius
Arrangement - Michael Zinius
Programs, Drums, Bass & Keyboards - Nils Kaufmanas
Percussion - Denis Wahlgreen

CORRIDORS OF A SICK MAN´S MIND

CORRIDORS OF A SICK MAN´S MIND

Lizzie held her boy
don't we have to overcome madness
evil never wins
don´t we ever give up joy
here we are in the middle of sadness
trying to get a hold of ourselves
trying to feel our hearts in the matter
living for compassion to break the chains
from corridors of a sick man's mind

Maybe we live in an opposite world
evil disguise a mirror dance
maybe we hide ourselves in shelves
looking for that voice it says more

Home flying
didn't I live didn´t I give
didn't I pray didn't I do

Lizzy was a woman of faith
never did a thing on the sly
one you would always find
find to be ahead of all evil
here I am calling my friend
ask his help with this woman in hell
trying to plain heart of the matter
looking for compassion to break that chain
from corridors of a sick man's mind
We live in a stranded world
cuz everybody is looking away
never mind a person in sorrow
don´t want that trouble
compassion give us all

Time to move on maybe
didn't I live didn´t I give
didn't I pray didn't I do

Lizzie and her boy goodbye
a young boy´s family dream
we never leave him
visions set to fly
not really being able to catch the situation
everybody's telling them so many lies
trapped in corners so many why´s
complicated talks in the middle out of nowhere
endless useless walks
in the long corridors of a sick man's mind

Maybe it's all noticed somewhere
in a place where we feel without the delay
touching the connection to direct fashion
feeling the freedom of total compassion

Home flying
time to move on
oh flying

Didn't I live
didn´t I give
didn't I pray
didn't I do

Time to move on
move
move on
CORRIDORS OF A SICK MAN´S MIND

DEEP INSIDE YOUR HEART

(5:19)
Music: Michael Zinius
Lyrics: Denis Wahlgreen

Vocals and additional b. vocals - Michael Zinius
Programs, Drums, Bass & Keyboards - Nils Kaufmanas
Arrangement - Michael Zinius & Nils Kaufmanas
Percussion – Denis Wahlgreen
Guitars - Thomas Hesthaven Poulsen
B. vocals – Trine Gry, Suzan Orry, Adrian Wilder

DEEP INSIDE YOUR HEART

SO MANY WAYS

(8:16)
Music: Michael Zinius
Lyrics: Michael Zinius & Shakti Gawain

Vocals and additional b. vocals - Michael Zinius
Programs, Drums, Bass & Keyboards - Nils Kaufmanas
Arrangement - Michael Zinius & Nils Kaufmanas
Guitars - Thomas Hesthaven Poulsen
Percussion - Denis Wahlgreen
B. vocals – Hannah Roos, Suzan Orry, Jeanette Hennelund-Olsen
B. vocals & talk – Adrian Wilder
Pygmy voices – Michael Zinius

SO MANY WAYS

SO MANY WAYS

I was often thinking about that communication thing
the telephone you know…just about how it works…
you know it rings and then you are in communication
with someone and what are you really trying to say
to that person at the other end of the line man…
what are you really trying to say…I mean are you
trying to say…ya we are part of the universe…so what
does that mean right…and we all want it…we are
kind of looking for love ain’t it and all…that’s what
we all say to each other…ya how was your day man…
define love now and all…

“Society is falling apart…people have to buckle
down...do their jobs…”

There are so many choices I´ve got to get through
I see so many places left to right
I have no freedom around my heartbeat
left some cue bits in time to deal with it all
I´ve got so many ways to hang on this lifeline
I have so many moments yet to come
I´ve got so many ways to hurt you
but no way baby at all to hide from myself
there are so many roars inside this rest house
I’ve got nowhere to fall or run from myself

Who´s wrong in my head who´s wrong
swallows fly over the pain
freedom call me on the ladder

So many ways to run with my heartbeat
so many reasons to hang on to my life
I´ve got to hang on
I´ve got so many ways to miss you
yours got so many ways your beautiful soul
I´ve got flowers to offer to my fury
one step ahead in time to wait on myself

Squirrel you run with a secret
freedom truly call me on the ladder
swallows fly great up over the pain
freedom call me on the ladder

So many ways to run with my heartbeat
I´ve got to run with it baby
so many reasons to hang on to my life
so many reasons to hang
so many words to choose from in my head
so many places to run to with my life
I´ve got to run with my life

Squirrel you run with the secret
freedom call me on the matter
swallow the greatness of words
to climb the ladder

So many ways to run with my who's wrong
So many places to run with my who's wrong
freedom truly call me on
So many ways to run with my heartbeat
so many reasons to hang on to my life
call me on the ladder
So many ways to run with my heartbeat

Who´s wrong
call me on

You can sink off into realms of your own secret mind
ain´t it with all this space and time…

We are kind of looking for love ain’t it and all
That’s what we all say to each other…ya how
was your day man…define love now and all
but everything in the universe wants to be
loved…it´s such a simple principle and we don’t get
it……everything in the universe wants to be
loved…this whole creation is here the God the
Divine within us created it and it all wants to be
loved and appreciated and included in Life…cuz

that's what’s it’s all about ain’t it?
SO MANY WAYS

CREDITS

Barefoot Poetry would like to thank family and friends and every soul who has been involved in the making of this album:

Shakti Gawain and Senior Publicist Kim Corbin at New World Library for permission to include Shakti’s words and wisdom.
Technical and creative assistance
Mastering Engineer Holger Lagerfeldt for his spot-on mastering and endless patience regarding our many questions. Mike Smith for trying to make the world of MIDI and Cubase more understandable. Thomas Keppler for his help transferring Cubase Files to Logic Pro X.

Photo & photoworks
Carsten Weide from Mixframe for his help of photo selections and retouching of old pictures. Kasper Brandt for the band photo taken in an old Submarine Harbor in Copenhagen. Torben Skjødt Jensen, “grab them by the cover”, for frame grabbing from an old family movie 1969. Christina Carlsen from Eks-Skolens Grafisk Design & Tryk, for her development of the cover material. Lars Bjørnstad for his time and devotion in the photo session of “Dog and his magic friend”.
Nils would personally like to thank family and friends for love and support.

Denis would personally like to thank family and friends for love and support.

Michael would personally like to thank Shakti Gawain & Neale Donald Walsch. Donia Papageorgiou for permission to use an old cassette recording of her talk, on “Burning in The Moment”. Koko Garcia for her inspiration on “Spiritual Man”. Marianne “Mari” Christensen for pointing out what words were difficult to hear in the lead vocal. Linda Hernandez, Ulrick Staudal & Chloe Miller for proofreading Barefoot lyrics. Bop Perry from Penthouse Radio in New York. Charotte Cheri & Peter Cilius “the Birdman” for their inspirational attitude. Ingrid “Marika” Rahbæk for being so supportive and such an unselfish human being.

Love, Light and Creation.

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