Hello guys,

We've been away for some years.
Long story short: We moved to a new place, but because of the renovation we had to go to a holiday park for 7 months.

We've been working on a Leonard Cohen program (completely finished by now). It contains 20 songs and several videos. The music of most songs was done with BIAB but.... we are not "officially" allowed to post them because these are covers. We had a good thing going until corona.
And, Rob is very busy making add-ons for Dragon® (well-known speech recognition program) which takes most of his time.

But we decided to come back to the forum because we got some new work to share smile. Some new BIAB songs and projects. Both songs that Rob and I created, as well as some projects I did for my (Anne-Marie's) vocal group.

This month we'll start with our usual "Musical Christmas Card" as we call it. We send it to relatives and friends, therefore it is in Dutch.
For your listening pleasure we translated the lyrics to English (they might still seem a bit weird, but when you watch the video you'll understand)

Season's Greetings

BIAB specs:

Style is _PRAIRPN.STY

2863:Harp, Rhythm CelticHornpipe Sw16 070
887:Piano, Acoustic, Solo-Accompaniment FolkPopPrairie Ev 100
2267:Synth, BellPad, Rhythm 80sPopPads Ev 085


Steek eerst alle lichtjes aan First turn on all the lights
maak het dak sneeuwvrij clear the roof of snow
Kind’ren rijden op een slee, Children ride on a sleigh
die horen er echt bij they really belong here
Laat de sneeuw maar vallen, Let the snow fall
dat kleurt de straten wit it turns the streets white
samen met die straatlantaarns along with those street lamps
is dat een mooi gezicht it looks very nice

Zet wat muzikanten Put some musicians
op de hoek van deze straat on the corner of this street
een paard met koets en veel publiek a horse with carriage and a lot of audience
We kijken door een raam We look through a window
Dat ziet er gezellig uit That looks cosy
We blijven niet te lang We won't stay too long
want er is iets aan de gang because something is going on

Een grote kerstboom staat al daar A big Christmas tree is already there
middenop het plein in the middle of the square
Daar moeten dan lichtjes in There should be some lights
wel een paar dozijn quite a few dozen
Hij’s groter weer dan vorig jaar It's bigger again than last year
en als de lichtjes branden and when the lights are on
en mensen komen bij elkaar and people come together
dan is onze kerstkaart klaar our Christmas card is ready

We'll be back in 2022!

Rob and Anne-Marie

We are Rob Meulman and Anne-Marie Bovenkamp from The Netherlands.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1gsdNLE7_Gy8qavoOplQow/videos
http://rnam.net/