đź‘€ Lyrics written by Miksky
*In every age, new voices rise.
Some are imagined…
All are real the moment they’re heard.
I write to understand what happens
when we ride the future and define it by words.
The world defines limits – creativity can break them.
The future is here.
Miksky was there.*
Behind the name Miksky stands Danish writer and producer Mekel Haunsby. Around him gathers a small mythology of voices that all carry his surname: Zaya Haunsby, Canbaro, June Haunsby, Dane Haunsby, and a new chapter on the way with Luca Haunsby.
They are not “characters” in the usual pop sense. Each voice is a different way of thinking and feeling: one for late night intimacy, one for philosophical teaching, one for grown up love and everyday courage, one for raw drive and resilience. Together they form a single universe of songs where every track is its own little world.
At the heart of it all is the same obsession: turning ordinary life into something epic by looking very, very closely.
Zaya Haunsby
Lexicon for Lovers – Conversations of the Night
Under the voice Zaya Haunsby, Miksky opens the door to his most intimate and sensual work: the album “Lexicon for Lovers – Conversations of the Night”.
This record is built on one simple idea – lovers create their own language. Zaya sings from the space between two people who have turned their shared nights into a private dictionary of sounds, touches and small rituals.
In “Dream of Velura” and “Midnight Lullaby”, invented words and soft nonsense syllables wrap around the melody. They don’t have meanings in any dictionary, but they carry longing, comfort and desire. That is a core part of Miksky’s writing style – sound and rhythm do as much emotional work as literal meaning.
Songs like “We Forgot Our Names”, “Breathing You In” and “Unwrap Me” live in that moment where identity dissolves a little and only the connection matters. Names blur, but consent and closeness stay sharp and clear.
In “Room of Love”, “Spices of Love” and “The Bed of Love”, the setting is ordinary – a room, a kitchen, a bed – but the language turns those spaces into emotional landscapes. Everyday objects become symbols: blankets, plates, spices, even the way light falls on skin. Miksky’s writing repeatedly does this – he turns small details into gateways to something larger.
“Language of Love”, “Safeword to My Heart” and “Language of Touch” make the concept explicit. Here, touch, words and even the safeword are treated as grammar: a code that only works if both people understand and respect it. Desire is never just heat; it is trust, humour, vulnerability and safety woven together.
Zaya’s songs show one of the clearest features of Miksky’s style:
- emotionally direct, almost conversational lyrics
- concrete detail instead of vague clichés
- a mix of tenderness and explicitness without losing respect
- refrains that change meaning depending on where you are in the story
Every track feels like you’ve stepped into a single room at night, shut the door… and there is an entire universe waiting inside.
Canbaro
The Journey of the Apprentice
Where Zaya is the night and the bed, Canbaro is the road, the mentor and the long game of becoming yourself.
The album “Canbaro – The Journey of the Apprentice” is a 22 track song cycle that plays like a musical novel. An apprentice walks with an older master through lessons that are funny, unfair, comforting and brutal by turns. The atmosphere stretches from jazz and swing to folk and blues, but the focus is always the same: how to live with your eyes open.
- In “The Fool’s Way”, the master celebrates the one who starts walking before he can see the path. It is a song about motion over perfection – a core theme in Miksky’s writing.
- “Don’t Apologize So Fast” is built around a slap and a paradox. The master hits first and explains later: stop collapsing into guilt before you even know what you did wrong.
- In “Rules Above the Game”, a board game on the table becomes a metaphor for every system we live in. The rules matter, but they are not reality itself.
As the album moves through “The Secret of the Stone”, “Echo of the Mind”, “An Appetite for Life”, “Journey of Time”, “The Hand of Justice”, “Way of the Ego”, “The Fire”, “Under the Stars”, “Sunlight Swing”, “The Fruits of Love” and finally “The Final Card”, the teachings stretch from fear and ego to love, loneliness and the acceptance of death.
What keeps it human is the humour. The master can be cruel and ridiculous; the apprentice is stubborn and slow. Many songs end not in neat answers, but in raised eyebrows, unfinished questions and one more step up the mountain.
Here, Miksky’s writing style leans into:
- dialogue and storytelling
- philosophical ideas dressed up as simple, memorable lines
- recurring symbols (cards, wheels, stones, food, fire) that keep showing up in new ways
- a gentle refusal to give the listener a clean moral – you are invited to think for yourself
Canbaro makes it clear that this is not just pop songwriting. It is a personal mythology of learning.
June and Dane Haunsby
Everyday epics, love and resilience
If Zaya sings from the bed and Canbaro from the mountain path, June and Dane Haunsby sing from the kitchen, the bus seat, the gym and the long road of a shared life.
Under the voice Dane Haunsby, songs like “Rise Again” and “PowerUp” show one of Miksky’s strongest gifts: making everyday effort sound heroic without becoming pretentious.
In “Rise Again”, a man wakes up in yesterday’s mess, stares at cold coffee and a mirror he doesn’t want to face. The lyrics break his comeback into small, honest steps – make the bed, tell the truth, pick up weight till it burns. The chorus “Build, fall, rise again” isn’t motivational poster fluff; it is a cycle, and the song refuses to pretend it ends once and for all.
“PowerUp” zooms out to cover a whole day: buses, deadlines, exams, inboxes and small private victories. The call “3, 2, 1 – PowerUp” functions like a reset button for the nervous system. It is not macho; it is almost tender. It says: you can start again in this moment.
Under June Haunsby, love’s long story takes center stage.
“Riding Chaos” stretches a relationship across years: from the spark by a jukebox to life with children, judgmental parents and the daily storm of being known. The couple never “solve” chaos; they learn to ride it together.
In “Love Me Now” (Dane) the storm narrows to a single ultimatum in the rain, then slowly opens into something deeper – the choice to repair, to talk, to stay and rebuild trust over time.
“Turn the Pages” is a vow song. Two people stand face to face and agree to write their shared story page by page. Again, the language is simple, image driven, never grandiose for its own sake.
“Let It Unfold” brings June and Dane together on the microphone. Here, love becomes a gateway into bigger ideas: empathy as a bridge, nature as a teacher, time as both thief and gift, acceptance as transformation, soul as a long quest. The chorus “Let love unfold, let it be free – oh, this is me, this is you” ties those ideas back to two people in a room, choosing each other.
Songs like “Mermaids are real” and “Worn-Out Chair” sit at the edge of this world.
- In “Mermaids are real”, moonlit water, coral and siren songs turn out to be a metaphor for the screen in your hand. You don’t drown in the ocean; you blur inside the scroll.
- In “Worn-Out Chair”, a battered armchair speaks with a rough, soulful, almost Latin groove, remembering everyone who ever collapsed into it. It is erotic, sad and strangely loyal.
Together, these songs show another side of Miksky’s writing style:
- ordinary objects and routines turned into powerful symbols
- long term relationships treated with honesty instead of fantasy
- a deep respect for small acts of courage – making the call, apologizing, listening, staying
A new voice approaching
Luca Haunsby
Alongside Zaya, Canbaro, June and Dane, another Haunsby voice is tuning up in the background: Luca Haunsby.
A new album is in the works under this name. It will open yet another door into the same universe – another way of looking at love, time and change, shaped by the same hand but heard through a new voice. Details stay under wraps for now, but Luca is part of the same family of myths: another facet of the writer behind it all.
Background – image, film and futures
Long before these voices began to sing, Mekel Haunsby was telling stories in other mediums. Under his civil name Mikkel Urup, he directed and wrote short films such as Testamentet (1998), Ekko (1999) and Between Four Walls (2003), all of which appear in film databases like IMDb.
His official profiles there point to parallel careers as a photographer, movie maker and painter, reflecting a long standing interest in image, light and human expression.
For more than three decades he has worked as a portrait and art photographer, building trust with people in front of the lens and capturing the exact moment something real shows in their eyes. That same instinct is carried into his lyrics – the timing of a confession, the tiny twitch in a relationship where everything could go either way.
He has also worked as a developer and founder (for example with the memory and training app RecallFit), and as an investor with a strong interest in future technologies. That forward looking mindset is visible in lines like “The future is here – Miksky was there” and in songs that treat screens, signals and systems as part of the emotional landscape rather than a separate world.
Today, all of those experiences converge in the Haunsby song universe: the eye of a photographer, the sense of timing of a director, the systems thinking of a developer and the curiosity of someone who never stopped looking towards what comes next.
Song index – the Haunsby universe at a glance
Zaya Haunsby – Lexicon for Lovers – Conversations of the Night
- Dream of Velura
- Midnight Lullaby
- We Forgot Our Names
- Heat of Desire
- Room of Love
- Spices of Love
- The Bed of Love
- Breathing You In
- Unwrap Me
- Language of Love
- Safeword to My Heart
- Language of Touch
Canbaro – The Journey of the Apprentice
- The Fool’s Way
- Don’t Apologize So Fast
- Rules Above the Game
- The Secret of the Stone
- Echo of the Mind
- An Appetite for Life
- What’s Love?
- Journey of Time
- Focus
- The Lonely Walk
- Turn of the Wheel
- The Hand of Justice
- Walking the Sky
- The End
- Balance
- Way of the Ego
- The Fire
- Under the Stars
- In the Moonlight
- Sunlight Swing
- The Fruits of Love
- The Final Card
June and Dane Haunsby – selected songs
- Rise Again – Dane Haunsby
- PowerUp – Dane Haunsby
- Love Me Now – Dane Haunsby
- Riding Chaos – June Haunsby
- Turn the Pages – June Haunsby
- Let It Unfold – Dane & June Haunsby
Other songs in the universe
- Mermaids are real
- Worn-Out Chair
Taken together, these songs make one thing clear:
Every voice in this universe is different.
The writer behind them is the same.
The world defines limits.
These voices keep breaking them.
The future is here.
Miksky was there. đź‘€
