ZANE KUCHERA – ARTIST
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Film Music Montages 2024
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Music & performance: Zane Kuchera
9/23/24 Buy Songbook
Genre: Vocal, Instrumental, Pop, Jazz, Cabaret. “Film Music Montages 2024” is an album of contemporary music composed & performed by Zane Kuchera during 2024 in collaboration with storytellers and wordsmiths from around the world. Arranged for and recorded by jazz quartets and full orchestra, weaving their tales into film music montages.
Credits:
Music, arrangements, recordings, production, performance by Zane Kuchera
Lyricists:
1 David M. Murray (Snapping of the Twigs)
2 Paul Norman Tapp (Acoustic Man, Hello Friend, Life is Our Encore, Life is Good, Joker Jo)
3 Wayne Orr (Every Little Thing)
4 Ron Paul (I Have No One to Fear But My Years)
5 Zoë aan de Wiel (All Out of Time)
Musicians:
1 Zane Kuchera (composer, arranger, programmer, performer, engineer, publisher)
Home 2023 (Instrumentals)
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Music & performance: Zane Kuchera
10/2/23 Buy Songbook
Genre: Instrumental, Contemporary Pop, Jazz, Cabaret. 20 original instrumental songs that evoke memories and weave tales of life’s emotional journeys, accompanied by lush full orchestral and rhythmic pop band ensemble arrangements, as underscore for film, tv, and commercial projects. The studio recordings sound as if they could be Disney animated film soundtracks or onstage at a Broadway musical in the style of Stephen Sondheim and Stephen Schwartz’s classic works.
Credits:
Music, arrangements, recordings, production, performance by Zane Kuchera
Home 2023
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Music & performance: Zane Kuchera
9/21/23 Buy Songbook
Genre: Vocal, Contemporary Pop, Jazz, Cabaret. “Home 2023” contains 20 original songs that weave tales of life’s emotional journeys, accompanied by lush full orchestral and rhythmic pop band ensemble arrangements, and lyrics penned by 10 storytelling lyricists.
The studio recordings sound as if they could be Disney animated film soundtracks or onstage at a Broadway musical in the style of Stephen Sondheim and Stephen Schwartz’s classic works.
Credits:
Music, arrangements, recordings, production, performance by Zane Kuchera
- Barry Watson – Better Days
- Carrie Croteau – Find Your Voice, Taking Stock
- David M. Murray – Come Back Home
- Jeff Kelly – Ex Marks The Spot
- John Longmuir – All We Need, Let’s Get Back (Where We Belong)
- Katie Sage – It’s Okay
- Kevin Nevel – Nameless, Slow Nature
- Paul Norman Tapp – Everyday Magic, She’s Never Wrong
- Zane Kuchera – Social Lubrication
- Zoë aan de Wiel – Coffee And A Scone, Different Standards, Home, Keep Telling Myself, Little Pessimistic, Piece Of You, Would Be Fine
Empathy 2022 Instrumentals
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Music & performance: Zane Kuchera **
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Genre: Instrumental, Contemporary Pop, Folk, Cabaret, Singer/Songwriter. “Empathy 2022 Instrumentals” is an instrumental album of 12 contemporary music tracks that have been composed, arranged, and performed by Zane, and the music was inspired by authors from around the world.
Titles: lyrics by Ron Paul:(Forgot To Remember), Christopher Wisdom:(Going For The Gold), Katie Sage:(Everyday You), Suzanne Carroll:(Just You And Me), Aisha De Freitas:(Long Story Short), Barry Watson:(Take Me Back), Cosette Dubei:(No Pain No Gain), Liam O’Grady:(Faith Is Just Believing), Malte Schlake:(Dreams Of Mine), Mike Daniels:(Living Out My Dream), Sarah Harris:(Masterpiece, Fairy Tale), Zane Kuchera:(Faith Is Just Believing, Dreams Of Mine) 9/2/22 Album Notes Buy Songbook
** The music to Dreams of Mine was co-written with Malte Schlake
Empathy 2022
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Music & performance: Zane Kuchera, lyrics: Ron Paul, Christopher Wisdom, Katie Sage, Suzanne Carroll, Aisha De Freitas, Barry Watson, Cosette Dubei, Liam O’Grady, Malte Schlake, Mike Daniels, Sarah Harris, Zane Kuchera.
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Genre: Vocal, Contemporary Pop, Folk, Cabaret, Singer/Songwriter, “Empathy 2022” is an album of 12 contemporary music tracks that have been composed, arranged, and performed by Zane, and created from lyrics written by authors from around the world.
Titles: lyrics by Ron Paul:(Forgot To Remember), Christopher Wisdom:(Going For The Gold), Katie Sage:(Everyday You), Suzanne Carroll:(Just You And Me), Aisha De Freitas:(Long Story Short), Barry Watson:(Take Me Back), Cosette Dubei:(No Pain No Gain), Liam O’Grady:(Faith Is Just Believing), Malte Schlake:(Dreams Of Mine), Mike Daniels:(Living Out My Dream), Sarah Harris:(Masterpiece, Fairy Tale), Zane Kuchera:(Faith Is Just Believing, Dreams Of Mine) 9/2/22 Album Notes Buy Songbook
In Voice 2021
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Music & performance: Zane Kuchera, lyrics: Ron Paul, David M. Murray, Christopher Wisdom, Keith Gilman, Katie Sage, Tate-Madison Bell, Bogi Taylor, John Longmuir, and Suzanne Carroll.
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Genre: Pop, Adult Contemporary, Jazz, Easy Listening, vocal. “In Voice 2021” is a collection of 20 original songs with lyricists spanning the globe, including Spain, Hungary, Ireland, US, and the UK.
Titles: lyrics by Ron Paul: (Breaking News, Chasing Tomorrow, In Love’s Power To Hold, Lines By Default, Tearing Apart), lyrics by David M. Murray: (Christmas Was Here, Fourth And Vine, You Drive Me Crazy), lyrics by Christopher Wisdom: (Don’t Even Want To Try), lyrics by Keith Gilman: (Holdin’ On, Someday, Talking In The Rain, Where Do You Go?), lyrics by Katie Sage: (Inner True), lyrics by Suzanne Carroll: (The Only Home I Know), lyrics by Tate-Madison Bell: (Lavender Fields), lyrics by Bogi Taylor: (Let In The Breezy, Letters In A Book, Tiny Stars), lyrics by John Longmuir: (Somewhere) 12/21/21 Album Notes Buy Songbook
Involved 2020
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Music: Zane Kuchera
Genre: Instrumental, Jazz, Pop, Adult Contemporary
Instrumental versions of the 20 songs I created during the 2020 isolating world pandemic. I got involved with lyricists living all over the world, including the UK, Australia, Canada, Hungary, Ireland, India, New York City, Washington, Idaho, and California, and wrote more music than ever before.
Titles: A Good Life, Breaking News, Chasing Tomorrow, Dream Ago, Everything We Are, Holding Christmas in Your Heart, I Am Because You Are, Let In The Breezy, Lines by Default, Make It, Someday, Somewhere, Talking in the Rain, Tearing Apart, The Road, There’s a Way, Tiny Stars, To Be Your Son Again, Tradewinds, Where Do You Go 6/5/21
Holding Up the Sky
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Lyrics by Katie Sage
Music & Performances by Zane Kuchera
Genre: Vocal, Instrumental, Jazz, Pop
Music storytelling about life, love, hope, loss, and discovery. Created by the songwriting team that met in high school years ago, reunite with this, their debut album collaboration. Lyrics by Katie Sage, music and performances by Zane Kuchera. That’s Katie’s son, Elijah on the album cover.
Lyrics: Where No Thorns Grow, Nothing Compares, Holding up the Sky, In This Moment, Misty Misty Morning, Why, Keep My Love with You, It’s Not Our Same World 1/27/19
Stage Work 2
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Music & Performance by Zane Kuchera
Genre: Instrumental, Jazz, Pop, Film Music
Contemporary instrumental songs uniquely rhythmic and varied, which was intended for a new musical that was never produced. The album cover shows Zane playfully grabbing his daughter, Alexandria, on a beach in Provincetown during Family Week. Music and performances by Zane Kuchera. The songbook sheet music for piano is available in my store on this website.
Titles: I Could Have Imagined This, My Goodbye, Not Forever, What Else Can I Do, I Could Have Imagined, Better Play Bingo, Papa, Go on Move On, My Love to You, Dancing and Gin 1/28/18
Film Work
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Music & Performance by Zane Kuchera
Genre: Instrumental, Vocal, Jazz, Classical, Film Music
A wildly diverse collection of music for film cues, from full orchestral works intended as underscore for film cues ranging between comedy and horror, to gently sung songs in the forefront of a film cue without dialog; the montage. A rollercoaster of 29 tracks worth of music for film and TV.
Titles: Film Score Demo 1, Film Score Demo2 Songs, Intertwined, Fantasy Magic Cue, Adventure Cue, Moderate Intensity Action Cue, Frolicking on the Sand, Intimate Ballad Cue, Slow Drama Cue, Erase Away Cue, Horror Cue, Good Enough, Conquering the Sea, Comedy Cue, Sleep Away, Secret Dreams, Anxious, You Use Me, Talking in the Rain, Ecstasy Dance, Love Takes Time Cue, My Whole World Is Blue Cue, Romantic Evening Cue, The Way Things Never Were, Slow Jazz, Christmas Is Here, Horror House 4/23/16
Stage Work
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Music & Performance by Zane Kuchera
Genre: Instrumental, Easy Listening, Musicals, Broadway
My first full instrumental score for a complete musical. Sadly never produced for stage. Shortly after my semesters on the Berklee campus, I spent the next 2 years part-time writing these 20 songs to existing lyrics from book, varying dramatically in emotion and instrumentation; some R&B, Jazz, Pop, and classical. I am very proud of these harmonically rich compositions. A little possessed by Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz, and Burt Bacharach. The songbook sheet music for piano is available in my store on this website. The album cover is a photo of my 2 year old daughter, Alexandria, sitting on the bench of my Kawai baby grand piano, playing for daddy.
Titles: Overture, Hurry Quickly Hurry, Bright Lights are Tiny, I Want To Love That Man Up There, There Was a Girl, Evil Gets Closer, Jennifer, The Spell, Only Two, The Plot, A Little Lotion, Just the Way She Wants It Done, He Enchants Me, The Dedication, Good Work Is Hard To Find, Where Did She Go, I’m Just Evil, The Regret, Love Will Show Me the Way, Finale 11/5/10
Zane Kuchera Records Presents Singer/Songwriter Showcase Vol I
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Words & Music: Various Artists
Genre: Vocal, Pop
22 tracks of songs arranged and recorded in my Waltham recording studio by these brilliantly talented artists; Martha Rogers, Amy Syd, Jenee Halstead, Elena J, Rachel Katz, Zola, Jon Gilbert Leavitt and Wayne Fritsche. Yes, I’m in there too with a few songs. With none of these recordings released, and with that much pent-up talent, I released them as a promotional vehicle to get that music out to the public. However, music sharing and downloading had just become a thing, and independent CD stores didn’t know how to categorize and sell a CD with varied genre and songwriters.
Titles: A Dancer’s Grace, A Friendly Love, All I Can Think of Is You, An Armful of Flowers, Before I Go, Believe, Don’t Need To Be Right, Learning to Let Go, Lost, More Than There Are Stars, My Prayer, Not Too Much To Ask, Pinwheel of Time, Run, Sober, Social Lubrication, The Way Things Never Were, Too Beautiful, Tough Love, We Were OK, Yellow Balloon, Yours 1/1/08
Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” (A New Musical Soundtrack)
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Music: Zane Kuchera
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Genre: Vocal, Instrumental, Easy Listening, Musicals, Broadway
I was approached by a director needing original contemporary music using Shakespeare’s words and lyrics for an outdoor musical production of Shakespeare’s “As You Like It”, sort of like a “Shakespeare in the park” kind of thing, except it was set around a gazebo in Boston Metro-west. For their fifth anniversary show, the Gazebo Players of Medfield were putting on a little summertime Shakespeare in the park. This album contains all of the tracks used in the performances, including both sung (by me), instrumentals, and interludes. The songbook sheet music for piano and voice is available in my store on this website.
Titles: But Winter and Rough Weather, This Life Is Most Jolly, Sing Him Home, Wedding Is Great Juno’s Crown, Sweet Lovers Love the Spring 1/1/06 Buy Songbook
Patterns
https://album.link/T9WVnSf6pdqd9
Words & Music: Zane Kuchera
Genre: Vocal, 80’s Pop
This is my first album released to the general public. Released in 2002, it contains my original music and recorded performances spanning 1980-2000, and includes some of my first songs ever written. The lyrics contain themes of love, loss, commitment, betrayal, and forgiveness.
Titles: All My Life, Haven’t Got a Clue, In Your Eyes, Simon Says, Tell Me When, Cathedrals, Fantasy, Somewhere In This World, Isn’t Enough 1/1/05
SINGLES / EPs
Happy Still Feels Hollow (Lyrics)
“Happy Still Feels Hollow” (Pop/AC/Film/TV) – A song about the realization that the chase for the carefree happiness of youth is rather futile. Because, while we may grow up and find new and different forms of ‘happy’, the one born from childhood innocence is forever out of reach once lost. Words by Zoë aan de Wiel. Music & performance by Zane Kuchera 10/31/24 Buy Sheet Music
Put Another Face on the Moon (Lyrics)
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“Put Another Face on the Moon” (Pop/Jazz/Cabaret), recorded with a full orchestral arrangement. Words by David M. Murray, music & performance by Zane Kuchera. 9/20/24 Buy Sheet Music
Snapping of the Twigs (Lyrics)
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“Snapping of the Twigs” (Pop/Jazz/AC), recorded with a full orchestral arrangement. Words by David M. Murray, music & performance by Zane Kuchera. 7/29/24 Buy Sheet Music
Acoustic Man (Lyrics)
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“Acoustic Man” (Jazz/AC/Pop) is an album of 3 tracks; vocal, instrumental, and solo piano performances. Words by Paul Norman Tapp, music & performance by Zane Kuchera. 7/11/24 Buy Sheet Music
Hello Friend (Lyrics)
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“Hello Friend” (Pop/Jazz/Orchestral). Performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a professional library. Lyrics inspired 50 years ago during the viewing of a PBS series about Chopin and George Sands. This song is one friend speaking directly to the other about life, love, illusion, entrapment, reinvention and aspiration. Words by Paul Norman Tapp, music & performance by Zane Kuchera. 6/12/24 Buy Sheet Music
Every Little Thing (Lyrics)
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“Every Little Thing” (Pop/Jazz/Rock). “Every little thing about her from her laugh to her touch, she’s the melody to my song”. Words: Wayne Orr, Music & performance: Zane Kuchera 5/5/24 Buy Sheet Music
Life Is Our Encore (Lyrics)
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“Life Is Our Encore” (Pop/AC/Cabaret/Jazz). Telling a tale of a chance meeting in the South of France; life’s secrets and illusions. “Where do we go when we dream, and we come to an open door, I don’t know for sure, but surely life is our encore”. Full orchestral accompaniment. Words: Paul Norman Tapp, music & performance: Zane Kuchera 4/25/24 Buy Sheet Music
Life Is Good (Lyrics)
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“Life Is Good” (Pop/AC/Jazz). When all is said and done, enduring hardships, reflecting back, looking forward, choosing to look at the bright side, together, we are stronger and better. “We still have neighbors in our neighborhood, when you need a hand, it’s understood, times are hard but life is good”. Words: Paul Norman Tapp, music & performance: Zane Kuchera 3/21/24 Buy Sheet Music
Joker Jo (Lyrics)
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“Joker Jo” (Pop/AC/Jazz). A happy song about cherishing my life partner and feeling that everything is going to be okay, no matter what, because I’m walking with the one that makes me smile and reminds me of home. Words: Paul Norman Tapp , music & performance: Zane Kuchera 3/12/24 Buy Sheet Music
I Have No One to Fear (But My Years) (Lyrics)
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“I Have No One To Fear (But My Years)” (Jazz/Cabaret/Pop) – Plaintive and reflective… Inspired by Stephen Sondheim’s “Send In The Clowns” and Emeli Sandé’s “Clown”… at the end of the day, face to face with no makeup and clothes, nothing to fear but my years. Words by Ron Paul (U.K.), Music & performance by Zane Kuchera 2/11/24 Buy Sheet Music
All Out of Time (Lyrics)
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“All Out of Time” (AC/Jazz/Cabaret) – The song is about a relationship that’s run its course. And you know there’s no saving it, it’s just a matter of waiting until that moment when it all comes crashing down. Yet even though the relationship is unsalvageable you’re reluctant to actually end it and step away from something familiar. Words: Zoë aan de Wiel (Amsterdam), Music & performance: Zane Kuchera 11/19/23 Buy Sheet Music
Find Your Voice (Lyrics)
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“Find Your Voice” (Jazz) – “Inside Of Your Heart There Lives Unseen Beauty And Fire, The Impossible Dream, You Have A Voice That’s Uniquely Yours, Free That Bird, Watch How It Soars”. Words by Carrie Croteau , music & performance by Zane Kuchera 9/15/23 Buy Sheet Music
Little Pessimistic (Lyrics)
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“Little Pessimistic” (Pop/Cabaret/Jazz) – “Yeah Maybe I’m A Little Pessimistic, Throwing Pennies Into Fountains Ain’t My Thing, I Wish Life Could Be So Simplistic, Tied Up With A Neat Little String ”. Words by Zoë aan de Wiel (Amsterdam) , music & performance by Zane Kuchera 8/22/23 Buy Sheet Music
Would Be Fine – EP (Lyrics)
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“Would Be Fine” (Pop/Folk/Jazz) – “It would be fine if you loved me, or if you just wanted me for me… you could be mine, it’d be lovely, but baby you just want a body, and it’s always mine”. Words by Zoë aan de Wiel (Amsterdam), music & performance by Zane Kuchera 7/8/23 Buy Sheet Music
Slow Nature – EP (Lyrics)
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“Slow Nature” (Pop/AC/Jazz) – “Slow Nature” is a romantic song about enduring love that’s precious, everlasting, and worth fighting for in a world where love’s lifecycle is often brief. Words by Kevin Nevel, music & performance by Zane Kuchera 7/1/23 Buy Sheet Music
Nameless – EP (Lyrics)
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“Nameless” (Pop/AC/Jazz) – “Nameless is just another word for having no joy trapped in a room of fear you are my reason for ending these tears freeing my mind from this noise”. Words by Kevin Nevel, music & performance by Zane Kuchera 6/17/23 Buy Sheet Music
Different Standards (Lyrics)
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“Different Standards” (Pop/Folk/Jazz) – If my friends behaved like this I’d call them out and remind them that their happiness is worth caring about – but we’re talking about me. Words by Zoë aan de Wiel (Amsterdam), music & performance by Zane Kuchera 6/4/23 Buy Sheet Music
Let’s Get Back – EP (Lyrics)
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“Let’s Get Back (Where We Belong)” (Pop/Folk/Jazz) – “So, let’s get back, back to the way it was before, let’s get back, back to the days when love meant more, yes, let’s get back, let’s get back where we belong, back where we belong”, Words by John Longmuir, music & performance by Zane Kuchera 5/27/23 Buy Sheet Music
Taking Stock (Lyrics)
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“Taking Stock” (Pop/Folk/Jazz) – “Every joy and every win, every hurt and every sin, everything you took and gave from the cradle to the grave, you will review”, Words by Carrie Croteau, music & performance by Zane Kuchera 4/22/23 Buy Sheet Music
Better Days (Lyrics)
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“Better Days” (Pop/Folk/Jazz) – “Watch for changes that come over, a smile that lasts forever, everyday moving forward will be better than before, there will be better days”, Words by Barry Watson (U.K.), music & performance by Zane Kuchera 4/8/23 Buy Sheet Music
All We Need (Lyrics)
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“All We Need” – (AC/Jazz/Pop) – All the good things we need are right there in front of our eyes – family and friends. Words: John Longmuir, music & performance: Zane Kuchera 3/11/23 Buy Sheet Music
Social Lubrication (Lyrics)
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“Social Lubrication” – (AC/Jazz/Cabaret) – Contemporary Jazz in the style of Burt Bacharach, Herb Alpert, Henry Mancini. Story about being alone in a bar or nightclub, feeling social anxiety and needing alcohol as a social lubrication to talk to strangers, but being aware of their masks, falsehoods, and manipulation, anything to connect with someone at any level. Words, music & performance: Zane Kuchera 3/3/23 Buy Sheet Music
It’s Okay (Lyrics)
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“It’s Okay” – (AC/Jazz/Pop) – “It’s okay to love me now, no one need care, me and your lonely heart no body seemed ever there, it’s okay to show me how”. Words: Katie Sage, music & performance: Zane Kuchera 3/3/23 Buy Sheet Music
Come Back Home (Lyrics)
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“Come Back Home” – (AC/Jazz/Cabaret) – “The door is open, the porch lights on, has been ever since you been gone, every mended fence stands strong, waiting for you, back where you belong, I’ll welcome you into my embrace, wipe the tears from your face, you never again need feel alone, so if you please, just stay back home.” Words: David M. Murray, music & performance: Zane Kuchera 1/27/23 Buy Sheet Music
Everyday Magic (Lyrics)
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“Everyday Magic” (Pop/AC/Jazz) – “She buys paperbacks at the grocery store, loses her phone and her car keys, don’t know why that makes me love her more but she drives me crazy every time she smiles at me, oh my God how she smiles at me.” Words: Paul Norman Tapp, music & performance: Zane Kuchera 1/20/23 Buy Sheet Music
Coffee And A Scone (Lyrics)
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“Coffee And A Scone” (AC/Jazz/Cabaret) – “Coffee and a Scone” is about a relationship that didn’t end in the best way, so there’s a last meeting to talk everything out. And in your head you keep reminding yourself it’s just a coffee and a scone, one last talk that’s not gonna fix anything between you two, but deep down you find it difficult to let the other person go. Words: Zoë aan de Wiel (Amsterdam), Music & performance: Zane Kuchera 12/9/22 Buy Sheet Music
Home (Lyrics)
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“Home” (Pop/AC/Jazz) “Home” is about 2 broken people trying to be whole together and it just not working out, trying different ways to feel complete together and each one ending in disaster. Words: Zoë aan de Wiel (Amsterdam), music & performance: Zane Kuchera 11/25/22 Buy Sheet Music
Keep Telling Myself (Lyrics)
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“Keep Telling Myself” (Pop/AC/Jazz) “I keep telling myself, won’t fall for your charms, I deserve better than this, before I suspected, I am back in your arms, losing myself in your kiss”. Words: Zoë aan de Wiel (Amsterdam), music & performance: Zane Kuchera 11/11/22 Buy Sheet Music
Ex Marks The Spot (Lyrics)
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“Ex Marks The Spot” (Pop/AC/Folk swing) “Now I’m on my own splitting checks into two, I thought you were a treasure ’till you did me like you do, Ex marks the spot where my money goes, she don’t cut me no slack, she just wants that cash flow, oh”. Words: Jeff Kelly, music & performance: Zane Kuchera 10/2/22 Buy Sheet Music
Piece of You (Lyrics)
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“Piece Of You” (Pop/AC/Folk) “And there’s nothing I can do so darling please forgive me, I’ll take any piece of you that you’re willing to give me”. Words: Zoë aan de Wiel (Amsterdam), music & performance: Zane Kuchera 9/26/22 Buy Sheet Music
She’s Never Wrong (Lyrics)
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“She’s Never Wrong” (Pop/AC/Folk) “She’s so righteous, she’s so strong, sometimes she might be mistaken, but she’s never wrong”. Words: Paul Norman Tapp, music & performance: Zane Kuchera 9/18/22 Buy Sheet Music
Living Out My Dream (Lyrics)
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“Living Out My Dream” (Pop/AC/Cabaret) “You said I’d never make it… didn’t have the strength to fly, but there’s power in my wings that nobody’s ever seen”. Words: Mike Daniels, music & performance: Zane Kuchera 9/1/22 Buy Sheet Music
Forgot To Remember (Lyrics)
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“Forgot To Remember” (Folk/Pop/AC) “I guess I have license, my age is a gift. I forgot to remember, but I remembered to kiss”. Words: Ron Paul (U.K.), music & performance: Zane Kuchera 8/13/22 Buy Sheet Music
Take Me Back (Lyrics)
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“Take Me Back” (pop/folk/country) – “There’s gonna be a lot more giving, a lot more living, take me back, to the old house, where I belong”. Words: Barry Watson (U.K.), music & performance: Zane Kuchera 8/5/22 Buy Sheet Music
Everyday You (Lyrics)
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“Everyday You” – You are my respite, my friend. Words: Katie Sage, music & performance: Zane Kuchera 7/28/22 Buy Sheet Music
Faith Is Just Believing (Lyrics)
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“Faith Is Just Believing” – Loving the abuser, rationalizing with a bully. (Alternative Indie Pop) Words: Liam O’Grady (Australia) & Zane Kuchera, music & performance: Zane Kuchera 7/22/22 Buy Sheet Music
No Pain No Gain (Lyrics)
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“No Pain No Gain” – “I wanted to give you the world, but you only wished for the moon”. (Pop) Words by Cosette Dubei (Romania), music & performance by Zane Kuchera 6/14/22 Buy Sheet Music
Dreams Of Mine (Lyrics)
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“Dreams Of Mine” – “Seems there’s a time for everything, there’s a place for everyone, there’s a reason for these dreams… if you only keep believing”. Words & music by Malte Schlake (Germany) & Zane Kuchera. Performance by Zane Kuchera 5/28/22 Buy Sheet Music
Long Story Short (Lyrics)
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“Long Story Short” (Pop) – Longing for that happy ending, real or imagined. Lyrics by Aisha De Freitas (Canada), music & performance by Zane Kuchera 5/20/22 Buy Sheet Music
Just You And Me (Lyrics)
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Pop. A joyful song about discovering new love, pushing past doubts and fears, being more than just friends, two hearts stronger together. Words by Suzanne Carroll (Ireland), music & performance by Zane Kuchera 5/7/22 Buy Sheet Music
Masterpiece (Lyrics)
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(Pop/AC) – “We weren’t a masterpiece. We were a catastrophe”. Lyrics by Sarah Harris of Synchronicity House Media, music and performance by Zane Kuchera 4/21/22 Buy Sheet Music
Fairy Tale (Lyrics)
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A Disney princess kind of song with words like “Jumping into fairy tales, looking for one that will last, finding it’s harder each time with a heart that’s made of glass”, and other profound and empathic lyrics by Sarah Harris of Synchronicity House Media, music & performance by Zane Kuchera 3/26/22 Buy Sheet Music
Going For The Gold (Lyrics)
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Pop/Adult Contemporary/Cabaret. An Olympic athlete’s sacrifices and emotional struggles portrayed as an upward climb towards distant goals while also feeling hungry for a fullness forced to deny. Words: Christopher Wisdom, music & performance: Zane Kuchera 3/11/22 Buy Sheet Music
You Drive Me Crazy (Lyrics)
https://album.link/hj0mnfmrwhjdd
Pop/Adult Contemporary. “They say what attracts are opposites well I guess we’re the proof of that. You make me smile all the while and chase away my blues. And I’ve become accustom to your quirks and peccadillos”. Words: David M. Murray, music & performance: Zane Kuchera 11/15/21 Buy Sheet Music
Don’t Even Want To Try (Lyrics)
https://album.link/d2jwxfxxghnpq
Pop/Adult Contemporary. “Remembering what love was like for you and I in days gone by”. Words: Christopher Wisdom, music & performance: Zane Kuchera 10/29/21 Buy Sheet Music
Christmas Was Here (Lyrics)
https://album.link/rwrdfmgzxkrff
Holiday/Christmas/Pop/Adult Contemporary. “Won’t it be the merriest of times when there’s peace in our hearts and carols that rhyme?”. Original pop contemporary Christmas holiday song accompanied by a full orchestra. Words: David M. Murray, music & performance: Zane Kuchera 10/17/21 Buy Sheet Music
The Only Home I Know (Lyrics)
https://album.link/7rr93nxbbg5kc
Pop/Adult Contemporary. “Losing the home you have grown up in and then having the once in a lifetime opportunity to buy the house back in later years with your love and starting a new life in that home”. Words: Suzanne Carroll (Ireland), music & performance: Zane Kuchera 10/9/21 Buy Sheet Music
Fourth and Vine (Lyrics)
https://album.link/9n0tf8kptgpsm
Pop/Cabaret/Adult Contemporary. “A tear ran down my face, I was frozen in my tracks, seeing you on the corner like that, without the guts to act”. Words: David M. Murray, music & performance: Zane Kuchera 10/8/21 Buy Sheet Music
In Love’s Power To Hold (Lyrics)
https://album.link/w3j3bnppj2pj8
Pop/R&B. “Gripped to entwine, moments defined in loves power to hold, captured in chains, never disdained in loves power to hold”. Words: Ron Paul (U.K.), music & performance: Zane Kuchera 10/4/21 Buy Sheet Music
Inner True (Lyrics)
https://album.link/dsrs4hpgnpbxt
Easy Listening/Adult Contemporary. “Finding the meaning in one’s own life despite the buzz of the outside world”. Words: Katie Sage, music & performance: Zane Kuchera 8/18/21 Buy Sheet Music
Holding’ On (Lyrics)
https://album.link/z6nkfd6z0rxjg
Pop/R&B. “The crossroads where newfound independence meets reality”. Words: Keith Gilman, music & performance: Zane Kuchera 8/9/21 Buy Sheet Music
Lavender Fields (A Skeptic’s Love Song) (Lyrics)
https://album.link/w4nrvbvwksfbm
Pop/Adult Contemporary. Words: Tate-Madison Bell (Spain), music & performance: Zane Kuchera 8/3/21 Buy Sheet Music
Letters In A Book (Lyrics)
https://album.link/trcx7v3qzx8xx
Pop/Adult Contemporary. “We are collectively greater than the sum of our parts”. Words: Bogi Taylor (Hungary), music & performance: Zane Kuchera 7/18/21 Buy Sheet Music
Let In The Breezy (Lyrics)
https://album.link/tjnz5hswng8p4
Pop/Adult Contemporary. “Your life begins when you step out of your comfort zone”. Words: Bogi Taylor (Hungary), music & performance: Zane Kuchera 5/14/21 Buy Sheet Music
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Somewhere (Lyrics)
https://album.link/0GZRbXTjrwPQK
Pop/Adult Contemporary. Filled with good feelings and a jazzy rhythm, and lyrics like “Before me are the reasons, a window to my future, forever in my heart”. Words: John Longmuir, music & performance: Zane Kuchera 4/2/21 Buy Sheet Music
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/1560284830
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/69pZV1i4jFiP26HGM6VAo1
Chasing Tomorrow (Lyrics)
https://album.link/gSZ4qfm8pHZMf
Pop/Adult Contemporary. Is everyday the same or are we looking for that unique moment where we can reflect upon it as being special? Will tomorrow be that day? Words: Ron Paul (U.K.), music & performance: Zane Kuchera 4/2/21 Buy Sheet Music
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/1560066703
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4SfJgcmYOxAuMFnKVBNoID
Tearing Apart (Lyrics)
https://song.link/NVQQkD9nCgfJ0
Tearing Apart (Instrumental)
https://song.link/kdb5dTWJf5wHn
Pop/Folk/Country/Cabaret. With lyrics like “Don’t Play Me The Way That You Do”… dynamic songwriting team from the US and UK perform a story about lovers tearing apart with the hopes of new starts. Gentle piano and strings accompaniment. Words: Ron Paul (U.K.), music & performance: Zane Kuchera 2/19/21 Buy Sheet Music
Someday (Lyrics)
https://song.link/gbmqGV6sN56Jh
Someday (Instrumental)
https://song.link/SVw532JcpKmS6
Pop/R&B. A lover who has a Jekyll/Hyde personality… but it’s complicated. Words: Keith Gilman, music & performance: Zane Kuchera 2/12/21 Buy Sheet Music
Where Do You Go? (Lyrics)
https://song.link/9qDQrQ5qQXTwk
Where Do You Go? (Instrumental)
https://song.link/bR4mMcrGH9h9T
Uptempo Pop/R&B. Has she been cheating on me behind my back? Distance is not always a matter of feet and inches. Words: Keith Gilman, music & performance: Zane Kuchera 1/22/21 Buy Sheet Music
Breaking News (Lyrics)
https://song.link/zfvmbgsmfxb36
Breaking News (Instrumental)
https://song.link/kb2xPGhtrwsth
Breaking News (Acoustic)
https://song.link/wtvxfnwhsq9hg
Pop/Folk/Country/Cabaret. A husband just learned, after a drunken stupor, that he’s becoming a father. Gentle guitar/string section. Words: Ron Paul (U.K.), music & performance : Zane Kuchera 1/15/21 Buy Sheet Music
Tiny Stars (Lyrics)
https://song.link/nRqKk2cPQdpzS
Buy Sheet Music
Tiny Stars (Instrumental)
https://song.link/FcDkVtrVpqb3R
Pop. A Disney-like song about reaching for the stars, your miracles and fantasies. Words: Bogi Taylor (Hungary), music & performance: Zane Kuchera 1/1/21 Buy Sheet Music
Talking In The Rain (Lyrics)
https://song.link/V5dPtGbKXQCdt
Talking In The Rain (Instrumental)
https://song.link/mvjpT7R9tqjQM
Pop/Adult Contemporary. Lovers public quarrel but still a safe space. Words: Keith Gilman, music & performance: Zane Kuchera 12/25/20 Buy Sheet Music
Lines By Default (Lyrics)
https://song.link/RFqZwDGjK4dPR
Backing vocal arrangement & performance by Elaine Mata Jones (Elaine Mata Jones on Apple Music) (Elaine Mata Jones on Spotify)
Lines By Default (Instrumental)
https://song.link/Xbv98vnF0fb5W
Pop/Adult Contemporary. Words inspired by Banksy painting the girl with the balloons that was shredded at an auction. The beauty and greed of art. Words: Ron Paul (U.K.), music & performance: Zane Kuchera 12/18/20 Buy Sheet Music
Don’t Need To Be Right (Instrumental)
https://song.link/RMCWVdPHF4rrx 12/4/20
Hold Christmas In Your Heart (Instrumental) (Lyrics)
https://song.link/pnRBjSxmKpbKh
Pop/Adult Contemporary. Having the courage to leave an emotionally abusive relationship. Words and music: Elena Joyner & Zane Kuchera 12/2/20
Dream Ago (Lyrics)
https://song.link/dnpphd9npbcsj
Dream Ago (Instrumental)
https://song.link/69wpgc40s5q9c
Music: Zane Kuchera, words: Katie Sage
Genre: Pop 11/7/20
Everything We Are (Lyrics)
https://song.link/shwwncrmnmcqr
Everything We Are (Instrumental)
https://song.link/zrxjbzfvcwwmr
Music: Zane Kuchera, words: Katie Sage
Genre: Pop 11/7/20
There’s A Way (Lyrics)
https://song.link/wktfvvqzwgdbw
There’s A Way (Instrumental)
https://song.link/jvzxvxkmjstc5
Music: Zane Kuchera, words: Katie Sage
Genre: Pop 11/7/20
Tradewinds (Lyrics)
https://album.link/qb93sn4p3vmvk
Tradewinds (Instrumental)
https://song.link/gzf7qfMpC4ndF
Music: Zane Kuchera, words: Katie Sage
Genre: Pop 11/7/20
I Did It Again (feat. Elena J) (Lyrics)
https://song.link/mbzpv8ksjf5rf
10/30/20 Words & music: Zane Kuchera & Elena Joyner
Genre: Pop/R&B 10/30/20
Scary Night Train
https://song.link/JNft8XsrVPxFC
Music: Zane Kuchera
Genre: Classical: Film Music
Scary Night Train: This instrumental single would have been used in the opening scene for a musical, setting the stage for a train slowly entering a small town on a dark and stormy night, giving foreshadowing to the drama that awaits. Scary. 10/29/10
Horror House
https://song.link/7qPqPkkjJ6k6s
Music: Zane Kuchera
Genre: Classical: Film Music
Horror House: Perfect for Halloween, I wrote this instrumental song as an assignment in my MIDI class at Berklee College of Music in 2004, and it contains creaking doors, footsteps in the dark, gun shots, werewolves, orchestra hits and organ stabs. Fun. 10/29/10
Reviews
- “I love the music melody and chord parts on One to care, followed by the voices inside verse …. and later the remembering verse ….” – Z. Shuman (Songwriter/Performer)
- “Beautiful words/sentiment, lovely melody and performance!” – H. Auerbach, PhD.
- “… Soothing.” – M. Kirk
- “Very Chick Corea!” – K. Cameron S.
- “Very pretty and a haunting melody…” – Rick K.
- “This is really cool, Zane. My ears instantly perked up at the second chord. You have such a wonderful way of serving up something harmonically unexpected that makes me want to hear more. And there were several times where I think the phrase crossed the barline with some kind of hemiola or stretched out beat. That has the same effect of drawing me in. I LOVED your harmony at the end. It has just enough dissonance to evoke a sense of another place and time. “ – M. Rogers (Music Educator/Songwriter)
- “Love both lyrics and music. Really like this and I believe you found the soul of the song with music” – Judy Appel, Mystic Fish Blog (Mysticfish.info)
- “Well done! Nice catchy hook on chorus – bravo!” – Zola, Tulip Productions (zola.us/Singer/Songwriter)
- “Zane, these songs are both so rich and full. I just listened once so far and I’m moved again by what a difference in your music when you have a good lyricist. The phrasing makes sense. The chord progressions and the places of resonance or tension have meaning within the message of the text so the music and the lyrics work together. It’s really cool to hear you get to use your abundant talents with someone who can match your level of experience and skill. Keep going!” – M. Rogers (Music Educator/Songwriter)