Yaelokre - 'Hartebeest' 𓆱 (Lyrics & Illustration)

🐹 Produced and Mastered by @medyomaybe & @emaylou

🪕 Listen to "Hartebeest" on Spotify and other platforms! :~)

📜 Lyrics

I can hear the song of the hartebeest
As their hooves drum to a hunger
I can sing a fear or a malady
As I drown deep in the wonder
Where do we go
When the river's running slow
Where do we run
When the cats kill one by one

♪

Little rabbit
Little rabbit
Little rabbit

Hazel beneath our claws
While we wait for cerulean to cry
Unsettled ticks run through time
Enough for the hunt to go awry
Where do we go
When the river's running slow
Where do we run
When the acres turn green and the cats kill one by one

♪

Little rabbit
Run run run run run
Little rabbit
Run run run run run
Little rabbit
Run run run run run
Run run run run run
Little rabbit
Run run run run run
Little rabbit
Run run run run run
Little rabbit
Run run run run run
Run run run run run
Little rabbit
Run run run run run
Little rabbit
Run run run run run
Little rabbit
Run run run run run
Little rabbit
Run run run run run
Little rabbit
Run run run run run
Little rabbit
Run run run run run
Little rabbit
Run run run run run

[Yaelokre]

Meadowlark is a field where everything i foster is kept. From each narrative, song, and characters, it is not a place but rather a bridge. A story that tells stories within more. A fairytale! Hayfields serves as a prelude, the more songs are released, the more the stories progresses 🐦📖🌾

The current main faces are four older children in a musical ensemble called "The Lark". Their leader, Cole, wears a hare's mask, their stage partner Clémentine with a goat's, Perrine as the moose, and Kingsley representing nature, tree (Can be anything really!) 🐇🐐🫎🌳

The four perform plays in small wooden stages with songs that were once sung by the Harkers

"The Harkers" are a quartet of wandering singers whos purpose is to grant wonder and foretoken. Consisting of the Storyteller, Yarrow (the) Bell-ringer, the Enkindled, and the Croon 🌾🔔🎭🪶

Thank you for taking interest in my project :~) i look forward to singing you more songs and to share the rest of our adventures!

[dgitt]

Yaelokre feels like the forest given form. Not the beating of the jungle or the rush of the rainforest, but the forest critters given voice.

[victorrodrigues]

A collab between Yaelokre and AURORA could be epic

[avenreir]

This is the type of song that would have gone HARD during the times people were making MAPs, especially warrior cats MAPs.

[cosmicchicken]

2:13 Cerulean is my chosen name, hearing the way that Yaelokre pronounced it gave me new appreciation for the word. When they sing it, it feels so much more special :)

[that.one_kanya]

Yaelokre feels as if you're running through a magical forest and you're the main character of a fantasy movie about elves and nymphs. Truly amazing.

[mikkaribbe]

I love your art. It feel like I sit in a Theater, right in front of them, while they perform this beautiful song

[mz.projiekt]

As a non native english speaker, learning new words and pronounces with those songs feel more whimsical than it seems to be. Nice.

[artscheese]

I would die for a yaelokre and crane wives collab

[KRITZL]

Yaelorke feels like when grandmother tells you old story's of folk.
Its very comforting to me and its very beautiful ✨

[valerievention]

my cat of 16 years passed away yesterday, and I've been listening to a lot of folk music to lift my spirits. It's like I can imagine the two of us completing adventures in a fantasy world.

[victoriaasenjo]

Hartebeest are a species of African antelope, which would make the cats in the song lions. These children identify strongly with predators; I wonder why that is?

[_mediogre_]

This is a movie / show that needs to exist. I'm absolutely entranced.

[Eli_eats_mss]

RAHHH- I really just wanna eat ur art sm 😭 HOW DO U DRAW SO WELL-

[TheElectricHeroChargeBolt]

The word ‘hazel’ hit my brain just right idk why

[nixxie]

This type of music, this type of art... It gives me a sense of longing for something I've never known but felt like I've always needed. Like it would heal my soul to be there listening to this ragtag group playing in a tavern on a warm summer night, singing along with all the other patrons.

[ylobi]

The designs of character on this are so amazing i would watch a series of it in a heartbeat

[lilianaholla]

Yaelokre has outdone themselves once again because oh my god-

This is the perfect example of art matches the artist, whether that be music or their illustrations, it just all fits together so perfectly and it's a real treat for the eyes. I love this new illustration. All of the characters blend together well but they are also distinct enough to not just be one string of character that just looks the same with just a slight closet change.

Their music is so relaxing too, and also perfect writing inspo for fantasy and such.

In conclusion: Yaelokre is underrated and deserves more love for their amazing art in all it's forms

[Ecliptic-P]

woahh holy fuck i love how versatile your voice is. You're able to do multiple people in one song so successfully and it sounds so beautiful...

[Fallin]

1:49 is my favorite part! It’s just so good!