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Cats & Coffee Cups Expanded Edition
(Acoustic Versions) (2024)

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1. It's Okay

2. She's Always Where The Music Is

3. Un livre et un café

4. Maybe Coffee Can Inspire Me

5. Adventures

6. Guardian Angels


7. Die Blumen schauen traurig zum Fenster hinaus

8. Most Of All I Need You

9. This Dream Inside My Heart

10. The Stars You Need To Find


11. Café Of The Lost Dreams (And The New Horizons)


12. Coffee And Banana Bread

13. The Hour Before Dawn

14. Send Me A Shining Light

15. The Sky Is Full Of Hearts

16. La lenteur des choses

17. Peace And Quiet


18. The Cats Are Indoors

19. All I Have Is My Smile

20. A Voice Like Morning Dew (dedicated to Melanie Horsnell)

21. The Cats Are Purring

DELUXE CD

(Cats & Coffee Cups and Cats & Coffee Cups Bonus Songs)
 

This handcrafted, limited-edition double CD is the ultimate collection for fans of Cats & Coffee Cups. Featuring both the original Cats & Coffee Cups album and the Bonus Songs album, this release captures the full warmth and charm of these timeless tracks in one beautifully curated package and contains all the songs on the Expanded Edition (just in a different order).

Housed in an eco-friendly double cardboard box, this edition includes a unique fold-out booklet. While it doesn’t contain lyrics, the booklet offers a heartfelt thank-you message and behind-the-scenes insights into the making of the albums. It's a personal touch that celebrates the spirit of connection and creativity at the heart of this music.

With only 20 copies available, this is a truly special collector's item for anyone who cherishes the magic of handcrafted music.

 

Get it HERE.

CASSETTE TAPES
 

Cats & Coffee Cups: Expanded Edition is the ultimate version of this intimate project. This tape includes all the songs from the original Cats & Coffee Cups album, plus the songs from the Bonus Songs Edition—bringing everything together in one special release.

This cassette is a piece of me—handcrafted from start to finish. I recorded, assembled, and packaged these tapes myself, making each one a little slice of my creative journey. Packaged in a simple cardboard box, it’s as personal and down-to-earth as the music itself.

Only 10 copies available!

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​The original Cats & Coffee Cups album was released in June 2024 and contained acoustic recordings (guitar and voice) of songs I wrote in early 2022 for her subscription service here on Bandcamp, called Garden of Creation. But I also included three songs I wrote earlier, Café Of The Lost Dreams (written in 2015), Peace And Quiet (written in 2019) and All I Have Is My Smile (written in 2020). Two more songs that Annika wrote in 2023 found their way onto the album, The Stars You Need To Find and A Voice Like Morning Dew, which is dedicated to Melanie Horsnell ( melaniehorsnell.bandcamp.com ).

In May I wrote four more songs that I couldn't include on the original album as it was finished and about to be released. But as they fit the album's theme perfectly, I recorded them anyway and released the bonus songs album: annikajayne.bandcamp.com/album/cats-coffee-cups-bonus-songs-album, that even has four extra tracks on it. In addition, I wanted to release this expanded edition of the album. That way the album feels now complete.

The main purpose of all these songs was to spread comfort in difficult times - that was the aim of the songs I wrote in 2022 when I was desperate for comfort myself when it seemed there was too much going wrong in the world. I also thought that many people could relate to that feeling and could also use a dose of hope, comfort and faith.

The album title came to me rather spontaneously, as there are a lot of cats and coffee in these songs. There are other comforting things on this record that didn't make it into the title, like wine, books, flowers and records. But I thought if I had to choose, I'd go with cats and coffee. In Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree, one of my favourite books, the taste of coffee is described as peace. I hope that's what you'll find when you listen to this album.

Most of the songs on the album are in a minor key - but they are not necessarily unhappy or sad. Some of them have a wonderful, lively, jazzy feel and radiate happiness. And yet, in this happiness, there is a sense of melancholy and longing in most of the songs, something bittersweet. This feeling reflects the melancholy I had been feeling since 2020, when Covid started. And yet the melancholy and longing was coupled with the hope that things would eventually look brighter and return to normal, maybe even a better normal. And yet - just as Covid was coming to an end, a war broke out in the middle of Europe. And by early 2023, the climate crisis had reached a new peak. How do you find comfort in such troubled times? I try to remember that it is often darkest before the dawn. So while some of the songs are melancholic, I also hope that there is some comfort in the lyrics.

You may see one of these songs in a produced version on a future album, maybe as it is now, maybe reworked. Like flowers, they are constantly growing, and like travellers, they absorb all the impressions over time as they travel. I hope you enjoy them in their raw form as they are now.

I would like to thank Brady Jo for mixing and mastering the album and François Maillard for kindly helping me with all my French lyric questions. I'd also like to thank my Garden of Creation subscribers - this album wouldn't be possible without them. Last but not least, I would like to thank my loyal Bandcamp followers for their continued support. 

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