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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    7'' vinyl version of 'Song No. 1 / Memphis' including free download.

    !!!NEW!!!! You will get a postcard with artwork made by me (each one is unique and watercolor) with each physical order! See the image below as an example, that was postcard no. 1 !

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lyrics

So I left the ways that were making me be
Someone who I really don’t want to be
But with no signs ahead how will I ever know where I am at?

It’s not that I haven’t wished for a house on easy street
I pick up every penny off the road ’cause luck is what I need

Illuminate vacancy, isn’t there some place I can be?
Illuminate vacancy, isn’t there some place I can be?

Well I’m going to Memphis
And I won’t regret this
’Cause after heartbreak and blues this is still what I’ll choose
A road far off the map
Less travelled but mine

You loose when you choose and I’m haunted by yet another road not taken
I see what I pass and I’m aching
’Cause once in a while along the way love has been good to me
But I heard them say you can’t put your arms around a memory

Well I’m going to Memphis
And I won’t regret this
’Cause after heartache and blues this is still what I’ll choose
A road far off the map
Less travelled but mine

So I’m going to Memphis
And I won’t regret this
’Cause after headache and blues this is still what I’ll choose
A road far off the map
Less travelled but mine

credits

from Song No. 1 / Memphis, released March 18, 2013
Produced by Alev Lenz & Samuli Kosminen
Mixed by Jas Shaw at The Premises, London
Mastered by Guy Davie at Electric Mastering, London

Recorded at:
The Premises Studios, London - engineered by Jason Howes
Ulappa, Suomenlinna - engineered by Samuli Kosminen
Alev’s small room, London - engineered by Alev Lenz

Vocals, piano, keyboard, glockenspiel - Alev Lenz
Drums & dingalee dangs, kalimba, glockenspiel - Samuli Kosminen
Bass - Harry Deacon

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Alev Lenz London, UK

Alev Lenz is a German-Turkish singer, songwriter, composer and producer. Lenz’s rich catalogue of compositions fuse distinctive musical worlds into something that is authentically hers - compelling songs for both record and screen. Her latest album '3' sees Alev distilling and extracting her voice, joined on 7 tracks by Grammy-award winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth. ... more

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