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Come By The Sea

by Nikolett Pankovits

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Pankovits has initiated a new project that is planned to eventually grow into an album.
“In the Colors project I want to showcase the beauty of diversity in my life. Connecting the content to this idea, the lyrics will be poems by international poets—covering different continents. I would like to put out singles that we will connect visually and release a record with these songs once all the singles are out. Each song and poem will connect to a color theme.”

This track exists outside of genre boundaries, stripped to the essentials of music—lush harmonies, bountiful melodies, lithe rhythms—that of course relate to jazz but transcend it. Starting with Jon Cowherd's solo piano that feels like a gentle caress, it blossoms when Pankovits sings, joined by sensually resonant double bass by Carlos Henderson.
She has written lyrics (first and last verses) that frame an emotionally charged reading, in the middle, of an excerpt from the 1865 verse drama Chastelard by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909). They are tinged with the poet’s trademark eroticism—not that there’s anything radio will have to censor; it’s a paean to longing crowned with realization, then recalled in a warm haze of memory.
Pankovits’ verses give it more permanency and a lot more optimism as she moves at the end from the sea to the sky in a hopeful ascent. Her music, always highly personal, reaches a new level of intimacy on “Come By the Sea.”

Nikolett Pankovits – voice
Jon Cowherd – piano
Carlos Henderson – upright bass

Music and lyrics by Nikolett Pankovits
Poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne

RECORDED BY
Duff Harris at Eastside Sound Studio, New York City

MIXED AND MASTERED BY
Dave Darlington at Bass Hit Recording, New York City

PRODUCER
Nikolett Pankovits

CO-PRODUCER
Juancho Herrera

DESIGNER
Dragana/Aleksandar

PHOTO BY
Kathy Boos

lyrics

LYRICS:
Come by the sea, I’ll wait for you
I close my eyes and when you’re near me,
The dream becomes reality.

Between the sunset and the sea
My love laid hands and lips on me;
Of sweet came sour, of day came night,
Of long desire came brief delight:
Ah love, and what thing came of thee
Between the sea-downs and the sea?

Between the sea-mark and the sea
Joy grew to grief, grief grew to me;
Love turned to tears, and tears to fire,
And dead delight to new desire;
Love's talk, love's touch there seemed to be
Between the sea-sand and the sea.

Between the sundown and the sea
Love watched one hour of love with me;
Then down the all-golden water-ways
His feet flew after yesterday's;
I saw them come and saw them flee
Between the sea-foam and the sea.

Between the sea-strand and the sea
Love fell on sleep, sleep fell on me;
The first star saw twain turn to one
Between the moonrise and the sun;
The next, that saw not love, saw me
Between the sea-banks and the sea.

Come by the sea, I’ll fly with you
Just weightlessly through clouds to blue sky,
The dream dissolves but stays with me.

Lyrics by Nikolett Pankovits (1st and last verse)
Poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne from Chastelard
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Tenger és alkonyég között (fordította: Babits Mihály)
(dal a Chastelard című drámából)
 
Tenger és alkonyég között
a szerelem hozzámszökött.
Örömre bú jött, napra éj,
a hosszu vágyra kurta kéj,
s óh szerelem, reád mi jött
tenger és tengerpart között!
 
Tenger és kikötő között
az édesből keserű lett,
a vágyból könny, a könnyből láng,
holt kéjből új vágy, új fulánk:
s a szerelem így font-kötött
a tenger és homok között.
 
Tenger és naphunyat között
egy órát köztünk font-kötött,
de már suhant is, fürge láb,
a tegnapok után tovább
az arany vízen; jött s szökött
tenger és tengerhab között.
 
S tenger fölött és part alatt
minden vágy meghalt, elszunnyadt.
Az első csillag látta, mig
kettőnk egy lett: a második
csak engem látott magamat
tenger fölött és part alatt…

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released November 30, 2021
℗2021 Nikolett Pankovits
©2021 Ninwood Music (ASCAP)

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Nikolett Pankovits New York, New York

New York based Hungarian vocalist Nikolett Pankovits moved to New York City in 2010 and has made a name for herself by combining the music of her homeland with Latin rhythms and jazz sensibility. Having played such venues as Carnegie Hall, the Blue Note, and Joe’s Pub with acclaimed conceptual shows, she has also released two well- received albums, Magia and River produced by Juancho Herrera. ... more

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