Marina V

Marina V's new album, "In V Minor"

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Award-winning singer/songwriter Marina V's 12th album "In V Minor" features 12 introspective songs about love and loss, healing and depression, hope and despair. Melancholic yet uplifting, "In V Minor" is stripped down, focusing on acoustic piano and guitar, soaring strings and intimate vocals.
The album includes several heavy-hitting guest musicians, including Dan Navarro on "We Belong" (Navarro co-wrote this Pat Benatar hit) and Jim "Kimo" West (GRAMMY-nominated Hawaiian slack key guitarist and guitarist for Weird Al) on "Cold Cold Winter". Sponsored entirely by Marina's fans, "In V Minor" has already been described as "Timeless, yet timely".

1. Cold Cold Winter (ft Jim "Kimo" West) C Major

2. We Belong (with Dan Navarro) E Major

3. 143* Bb Major

4. Rain My Love G Minor

5. Talk To You Sometimes* C Minor

6. Love Is Like Snow A Minor

7. LKD* D Minor

8. Back To Sunshine A Minor

9. Sick Sick Love C Minor

10. No Time To Say Goodbye C Minor

11. My Love Lullaby C Major

12. Лунная Колыбельная (Russian Moonlight Lullaby) C Minor

All songs written by Marina Verenikina & Nick Baker

except "We Belong" written by Eric Lowen & Dan Navarro

"Love is Like Snow" written by Marina V & Pamela Phillips-Oland

Executive producers: Marina V & Nick Baker

Produced, mixed and mastered by Alex Kharlamov a.k.a. Atsuri

* Produced & mixed by Steve Horner

Associate producers: Kirk Gaudi, John Schahfer, Dave Frey, Eric Pang

LINER NOTES:

I’m beyond lucky to have such brilliant friends, many of whom worked their musical magic on this album.

My gratitude goes out to:

- Alex Kharlamov for the extraordinary production, string arrangements, mixing, mastering and putting up with my many, many revisions;

- Steve Horner for the soaring cello melodies + mixing on “143” & “LKD”;

- Jim “Kimo” West for the intricate guitar playing on “Cold Cold Winter”;

- Dan Navarro for his soulful voice & guitars on our rendition of “We Belong”, a song he co-wrote with Eric Lowen (RIP, dear friend!) and for agreeing to do this duet with me in the first place;

- Konstantin Chubakov for editing “Back to Sunshine” & “No Time To Say Goodbye”;

- Ryan Franks for the guitar work on “Love Is Like Snow” and

- Pamela Phillips-Oland for writing “Love Is Like Snow” with me

Special thanks to Bill Adler for asking Nick & me to write “No Time To Say Goodbye” as the theme song for his poignant time-travel novella and to Denise Bradley for inviting us into her songwriting circle years ago because “LKD” and “My Love Lullaby” wouldn’t exist otherwise.

Thanks to our amazing “make Marina look good:)” team: photographer Jenna Ryin, hair stylist AJ Copeland, and designers Jim Aiken and Shannon Hurley for their album art work.

Thanks to Yamaha, TC Helicon, Alclair and Shure for our music gear.

Enormous thanks to every person who has supported my music, morally and financially, to our friends & family, to our 2 Songs a Month Club family and to every incredible patron of the arts who’s helped sponsor this album (listed below in alphabetical order) because without you none of this would be even possible. You are my record label. My village.

Alan Claypool, Alan Roche, Albert VergelDeDios, Aleksandr Melikov, Alissa & Ashwin Redditt Guzman, Antra Vetra (in memory of Milla), Barry Clayton, Bill Curry, Bob Keefer, Brenda Lee Lau (A Bunch of Productions), Brian Bostwick, Bruce Alpert, Bruce Wallace, Cathy Brown, Charles D'Andrea, Chip Stark, Dan Engholm, Dave Frey, David Stein, Dean Cheng, Derek & Nicole Herr, Dima Leonov, Don & Joelle Adkins, Dustin Prince, Emily & Mike Hanley, Eric Pang, Erik Eason, Erik Pang, Frank "Doc" Bettag, Frank Hartwig, Glicerio Jr Macanas, Götz Scheuermann, Jill Anderson, Jim Bertrand, John Schahfer, Joseph Hecht, Karen & Brad Allen, Karen & Mike Higgins, Katie Potter, Kirk Gaudi, Kirsten & Vinni Uzzardo, Larry and Kathy Wendt, Larry Kline, Luis Bermudez, Mandy, Marci Chiarandini, Mark Ellis, Mark Stolworthy, Melissa Bender, Michael Palmer, Mike Osorio, Nick Smith, Philip David Morgan, Raymond Steiner, Rich & Sue Hanson, Richard Hawkins, Rollin Lofdahl, Rory Manley, Scot Kleinman, Shannon Poe, Shawn Barry, Sonya Elena, Stephen Carson, Steve & Melissa Fowler, Steve Byrnes, Thijs Kaper, Todd Mitchell, Tom Wolan, William Flower, Yves Franquien.

And, of course, I’d like to thank Nick, my everything, for…. everything! Because, truly, there would be no Marina V without Nick.

Thanks to every one of you for your patience with the album’s delay. I was naïve to think I could finish it during the end of pregnancy or in the early months of Violetta’s arrival. And speaking of, I need to thank our little Baby V for teaching me more about love and patience than I ever realized was possible. But more on that on the next album, because these songs were all created before my world changed and I became a mom. Meanwhile, see you all in Marinawood for our online concerts on www.twitch.tv/MarinaVmusic :)

LYRICS
(all songs written by Marina V & Nick Baker unless noted otherwise)

COLD COLD WINTER

Life is changing, the world is passing by
They're all moving, but I am left behind
That's how it's been lately

And I don't know why

It's been a cold cold cold cold winter
And the grey is here to stay
It's been a cold cold cold cold winter
And the ice won't melt away
Oh it seems I've lost my way

Faded colors, faded by my mind
It's getting harder to find what’s left inside

Been so dark lately

I need a little light

It's been a cold cold cold cold winter
And the grey is here to stay
It's been a cold cold cold cold winter
And the ice won't melt away
Oh it seems I've lost my way

Oh that's how it's been lately

And I just don't know why

It's been a cold cold cold cold winter
And the grey is here to stay
It's been a cold cold cold cold winter
And the ice won't melt away
Oh it seems I've lost my way

Oh it seems I've lost my way

WE BELONG (Pat Benatar), duet with Dan Navarro
Songwriters: Daniel Anthony Navarro / David Eric Lowen

Many times I tried to tell you
Many times I cried alone
Always I'm surprised how well you cut my feelings to the bone

Don't want to leave you really
I've invested too much time to give you up that easy
To the doubts that complicate your mind

We belong to the light, we belong to the thunder
We belong to the sound of the words we've both fallen under
Whatever we deny or embrace for worse or for better
We belong, we belong, we belong together

Maybe it's a sign of weakness when I don't know what to say
Maybe I just wouldn't know what to do with my strength anyway
Have we become a habit? Do we distort the facts?
Now there's no looking forward
But there's no turning back
When you say

Close your eyes and try to sleep now
Close your eyes and try to dream
Clear your mind and do your best to try and wash the palette clean
We can't begin to know it, how much we really care
I hear your voice inside me, I see your face everywhere
Still you say

143

Sometimes you feel like you're losing yourself
And there's nobody else, nobody else in this world who might understand
What you're going through
And you feel like you're through and you see only obstacles
It's an obstacles world
It gets out of hand and

That's when you came along
Made me feel I belong
Turned my dreams on

143, that's what you said to me
But I didn't know that day
What you meant
143, took me a while to see
That I become my best with you
And you feel the same with me, 143
143

Sometimes I feel like I'm wasting my time
Like I'm beating my head, beating my head on the wall
Like I'm going nowhere
It's wearing me out, tearing me down
Breaking my spirit, breaking, breaking my soul
Like I'm nothing at all

That's when you came along
Made me feel I belong
Made me feel I came home

143, that's what you said to me
But I didn't know that day
What you meant
143, took me a while to see
That I become my best with you
And you feel the same with me, 143
143

Oh I know I'm far from perfect far from perfect
But you are the one for me

143, that's what you say to me
And maybe now I know
What you mean
143, took me a while to see
That I become my best with you
And you feel the same with me, 143

143

RAIN MY LOVE

Fires burning, winds are high

I got too much on my mind tonight, mind tonight

I don't know if I can

If I can face it all again

But I am not a victim, not tonight, not tonight

Not tonight

What if I am a thundercloud

And I rise above

And when the world's on fire

I will rain my love

I live on fantasy and fear

In between has left me here tonight, here tonight

I don't know, it's a maze

And if forgiveness goes both ways

Maybe it's time I set me free tonight, free tonight,

Worth a try

What if I am a thundercloud

And I rise above

And when the world's on fire

I will rain my love

Chained in a prison of my own

I gotta leave, I've got to go

If I never try, I'll never know

Fires burning, winds are high

And I'm dreaming out loud

What if I'm a thundercloud

And I rise above

And when the world's on fire

I will rain my love

TALK TO YOU SOMETIMES

I still need to sit beside and talk to you

sometimes it seems you never left

I know I feel you here with me

Turn around and catch a glimpse

Then cold as steel the chills sweep in and bury me

What’s real to me, I’ll never know but know just what I feel

I need to think of you and you will come to me...

You’re here somehow watching every move I make

I feel your love stretching out to put my mind at ease

If you’re here, please don’t keep me guessing

I question me, and the cycle is neverending..

Put my mind

Put my mind at ease

LOVE IS LIKE SNOW

Love is like snow
You can't catch it in your hand
I've come to know
Nothing happens like we plan
And I'm melting, melting, melting into you
Love is like snow
True is true

Here, here I am

Here, here you are

Take, take this chance

The music is playing

Let’s dance

We have a spark

Will it bloom into a flame?

Out of the dark

Will it put the sun to shame?

Cause I’m melting, melting, melting into you

Love is like fire

True is true

Here, here I am

Here, here you are

Take, take this chance

The music is playing

Let’s dance

Be here

Be here with me now

Here, here I am

Here, here you are

Take, take this chance

The music is playing

Let’s dance

The music is playing

Let’s dance

The music is playing

Let’s dance

LKD

It's the only way I know

It's a lonely way I chose

When I save the world once again

No one ever knows

It's the gamble that I crave

Chaos keeps me sane

It's what I find in my mind

At the dawn of every day

It's a way of life

It's eye for an eye

It's LIVE. KILL. DIE.

It's the devil’s path I seek

It will never let me be

Will I ever see the other side

Staring back at me?

It's a way of life

It's eye for an eye

It's LIVE. KILL. DIE.

Make no mistake

I wouldn’t want it any other way

Any other way

It's a way of life

It's eye for an eye

It's LIVE. KILL…

It's my way of life

It's eye for an eye

It's LIVE. KILL. DIE.

BACK TO SUNSHINE

It's raining here
Seems like it's been years
Since I unleashed my
Inner Superhero

I know you mean well
But I just can't tell
If you want what's best for me
Or what's best for you

If I keep wandering in the dark
Will I ever find my, find my spark

I need to get back

I need to get back

Oh I need to get back, back to sunshine

I need to get back, back

Back to good

I'm finding peace
Seems like centuries
Since I've had the strength I need
Or sunshine guaranteed

I know I have shown
Something of my own
And if my star is shining
I should let it guide me

I'll find my way out, I'll find my spark
With some simple magic I’ll light up the dark

I need to get back

Oh I need to get back, back to sunshine

I need to get back, back

Back to good

I need to let me dream
Make me beautiful
Be my light tonight

I need to get back

Oh I need to get back, back to sunshine

I need to get back, back

Back to good

SICK SICK LOVE

Right on the border of good and evil
I feel the thunder of my heart beating
Cause when I'm with you
There is no limit

Faster and faster, there's no mistaking
It's a disaster of my own making
But when I'm with you
That's what I'm craving

It's a sick sick love

Sick sick love

It’s a sick sick love

Strangely exciting devious feelings
Anticipation gets to my breathing
And when I'm with you
It feels like I'm healing

It's a sick sick love

Sick sick love

It’s a sick sick love

It's a gift, it's a bliss
Why would I ever leave
It's a gift

Right on the border of good and evil
I feel the thunder of my heart beating…

It's a sick sick love

Sick sick love

It’s a sick sick love

NO TIME TO SAY GOODBYE

(theme song for Bill Adler’s novella “No Time To Say Goodbye”)

Only yesterday
It all made sense to me
It all made sense to me
Should we accept our fate,
Bow to the enemy?
Is time my enemy?

Capricious winds
Blow us through time
And life's regrets surround my mind
A fading glimpse
That's all I have left of us

There's no time to lose
There's no time to cry
There are no answers to how or why
We are here somehow
There's only here and now
There's no time to cry
No time to say goodbye

It was a life ago
It seems like yesterday
Was it just yesterday

Capricious winds
Blow us through time
And life's regrets surround my mind
A fading glimpse
That's all I have left of us

There's no time to lose
There's no time to cry
There are no answers to how or why
We are here somehow
There's only here and now
There's no time to cry
No time to say goodbye

And when my future is my past

I will know

MY LOVE LULLABY

Sun gone down

The stars are out

Turn down the lights

Flip the page

The fairytales will come to life

Get all tucked in bed

Your journey lies ahead

I hope you fly anywhere you like, my love

I hope you’ll be anything you like, my love

Whatever you wish

Whatever you dream

Whatever you choose

My love is waiting for you

You can run

Around the world

Or to the moon

Go back in time

To solve a crime

You’ll be home soon

Mysteries await

In all that you create

I hope you fly anywhere you like, my love

I hope you’ll be anything you like, my love

Whatever you wish

Whatever you dream

Whatever you choose

My love is waiting for you

It’s almost time to sleep

See you in your dreams

I hope you fly anywhere you like, my love

I hope you’ll be anything you like, my love

Whatever you wish

Whatever you dream

Whatever you choose

My love is waiting for you

RUSSIAN MOONLIGHT LULLABY

Не волнуйся ни о чём

Засыпай, и всё пройдёт
Будет всё, как хочешь ты
Сбудутся твои мечты

Свечка, свечка, догорай
Уже поздно, баю бай
Лунный свет посветит нам
Сладкий сон всем малышам

Свечка, свечка, догорай
Уже поздно, баю бай
Лунный свет посветит нам
Сладкий сон всем малышам

Не волнуйся ни о чём

Завтра утром всё пройдёт
Будет всё, как хочешь ты
Засыпай и не грусти

Засыпай и не грусти

TRANSLATION FROM RUSSIAN TO ENGLISH (NON-POETIC J ):

Don't worry about anything
Go to sleep, everything is going to be alright
All of your dreams will come true

Little candle, you can go to sleep now too
The moonlight will shine for us
and bring the sweetest dreams to every baby

Don't worry about anything
Tomorrow morning everything is going to be alright
Everything will be as you wish
Let your worries fade away, don’t be sad and go to sleep

Marina V

Born To The Stars ft. Árstíðir

I Am Iron

You Make Me Beautiful

Babushka / Бабушка (live in the studio)

Thursday Song

Blue For You

My Star