Miss LaLaVox Sings

Miss LaLaVox Sings
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"Prowling"

(Here's a short mp3 tidbit for you - Click the album cover)
"Prowling" may not sound like a name for a Christmas song, but it is. It's sort of an answer to our Sea Of Tranquility track "Tiger Song" - but with sleigh bells and an ever-so-slightly creepy sounding Merry Christmas chorus.
The name The LaLaVox Box was something Achim and I came up with on the spur of the moment when we were asked to contribute a track to the Berlin underground music Christmas compilation, SANTA MONIKA, in 1999. I'd rather enjoy releasing something as The LaLaVox Box again sometime. Maybe one day...

(p.s. You'll find the text to "Prowling" below under "Lyrics")

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"Engellied"

Here's the full version of the song from Achim's and my 1995 album (LANDED) which most frequently appeared on compilations. We also got very emotional fan mail as a result of this little tri-lingual extravaganza. (click the album cover above for the mp3) You can find its lyrics (in English, French, and German) in the Sea Of Tranquility section.

I've also featured "Engellied", together with two all-vocal improvisations (with Bobo of Bobo in White Wooden Houses), in this YouTube video. Behind the camera: indoor footage - Achim Treu / outdoor footage - yours truly. In front of the camera: (in order of appearence) yours truly, Corinna + Louis, Lina, Simpkin, Grace (aka Ruthie), Jennifer, Franziska, and - once again - yours truly. Editing: yours truly...

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...Lost Tracks...

Tiger Song
(Sleep Tent Mix)

As Thick As Fingers
(Base Ment Mix)

Guns
(Mortal Clock Mix)

After Landed was mastered and sent off to meet its fate, Achim sat himself down with a head full a heavy beats and did a bunch of remixes from some of the songs off the album. (A couple of new tunes happened along the way as well.) Various major label people got wind of this and for a while there it looked as though this material might be released with much big-time bruhaha. But 1995/96 turned out to be more "complicated" than we'd hoped and 3 EP's worth of tasty tracks are now gathering dust within the quiet and protected confines of various drawers and shelves in our studio...
...Achim did his Dauerfisch and Kuenstler Treu thing, I did my illustrating-etc thing, and that was the end of it...
Maybe we should just release the stuff as a mail-order private-pressing for you sometime. If that sounds like a good idea to you, let us know.

In the meantime, if you like, you can check out the 3 short mp3 samples above...

Sea of Tranquility can be found at MySpace now as well - with a small selection of album tracks and Lost tracks:

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"Postcard From a Foreign Strand"

Featuring yours truly....
....I sang on the track and then appeared in the video. The video (a fairy-tale-goes-horror clip) was directed by Vicky Cohn and Rita Gloria-Curvo, and won a People's Choice Award at the Backup New Media Festival in Weimar in November 2002. Download our 6.2mb QuickTime version for a peek (click the image above). --- And if you would like to listen to different mixes of this track in RealAudio, then try out the following Eleganz links:

Kuenstler Treu - "Postcard From a Foreign Strand" (feat. Miss LaLaVox)
--- CD / 4 tracks - English page - German page ---

Kuenstler Treu - "Postcard From a Foreign Strand" (feat. Miss LaLaVox)
--- 12" / 5 tracks - English page - German page ---

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"Ride My Bike"

I co-wrote and sang this track.
The "Ride My Bike (Machine Gun Ibiza Mix)" appeared on the Bungalow POOL POSITION compilation in 1999.
You can download a sound clip of this remix version here.
(click the POOL POSITION album cover above)

You can download a complete version of the "Ride My Bike (Machine Gun Ibiza - Astrud Mix)" here.
(click the BEST OF BUNGALOW album cover above)

(p.s. I noticed recently that the "Machine Gun Ibiza Mix" link was incorrectly linked to the "Machine Gun Ibiza - Astrud Mix" mp3 - for months and months. I'm terribly sorry about this. Both are correctly linked now. ...I tend to like the "Machine Gun Ibiza Mix" in the non-Astrud version best, by the way.)

(p.p.s. You'll find the text to "Ride My Bike" below under "Lyrics")

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...The Space Songs...

A little project of ours called THE SPACE SONGS just released an album with SOPOT RECORDS on March 28th, 2008. This album is a musical reworking of a "Singing Science" record from 1959:

It was during the late 1950's, when a series of odd educational records for children was released by an obscure record label in New York City. Various themes - such as "Nature", "Energy & Motion", "Weather", etc. - were presented to the sounds of whacky folk and country tunes. Among these records was one we particularly enjoyed: "SPACE SONGS". This recording would certainly have been long forgotten, were it not for the fact that it apparently influenced an entire generation of future scientists. The idea of reworking the album suddenly seemed irresistible, and we gleefully began fashioning them into an assortment of pop tunes which we hope may once again inspire a generation of children (and maybe even their pop-fan moms and dads).

More information about the original SPACE SONGS album can be found at Wikipedia, and at this very nice "Singing Science" page...

And you can listen to several of our interpretations of these songs (using Hy Zaret's original lyrics) at our THE SPACE SONGS MySpace profile. :) Links for ordering or downloading this album (at Amazon or iTunes) are also included there. ;)

The Space Songs members are: Chloé Leloup, yours truly, and Achim Treu.

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...Small Songs...

An online buddy and I hosted little all-vocal song contest for folks at the 4um once upon a time. There were competing tracks and bonus tracks, and I offered 3 bonus tracks to the preceedings; one duetting with Kuenstler Treu, and two duetting with Bobo (of Bobo in White Wooden Houses). Here they are:

LaLaVox (with Kuenstler Treu) "Giving These" - 1.9MB

LaLaVox (with Bobo In White Wooden Houses) - "The Dark Earth and the Brightening Sky" - 1.1MB

LaLaVox (with Bobo In White Wooden Houses) - "I Hold You" - 1.2MB

These - I'd say, demo-quality tracks - were all rather spontaneously recorded on a 12-track hard-disk recorder. ;)

As you're already likely to have noticed, I also featured the two Bobo collaborations in a YouTube video together with the Sea of Tranquility track "Engellied". If you'd prefer watching this video at its own YouTube page (rather then in the imbedded version above), please click here.

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...LaLaLand...

...My once-upon-a-time jazz trio. Yes, I've already dedicated a separate page to LaLaLand here in the music section, but I thought it might be convenient to add these 4 rehearsal-room demos (and 1 live performance) with Jan Stolterfoht (electric guitar) and Helge Marx (double bass) here as well... ;)

"Love Cats" (Smith) 2.9 MB

"Twisted" (Ross+Grey) 2.9 MB

"The Boy From ..." (Sondheim) 2.6 MB

"Whatever Lola Wants" (Ross/Adler) 2.8 MB

"I Like You" (Sol Hopi) 2.2 MB

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...Songs Sung @ YouTube...

I've discovered YouTube to be an opportunity for a form of live performance and transcontinental collaboration (as can best be seen in our Kate Bush and Joni Mitchell cover versions there). I've collected all of my vocal videos into various YouTube playlists...

Playlist:-LLV:SongsSung-(1.Originals+Oddities)

Playlist:-LLV:SongsSung-(2.KateBushCovers)

Playlist:-LLV:SongsSung-(3.JoniMitchellCovers)

Playlist:-LLV:SongsSung-(4.MixedCovers)

Just call me The Singing Illustrator.

;)

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...Lyrics...

"Prowling"
(music-A.True/words-L.Carleton)

Windowless stars
And fingerless friends
We're prowling outside
While you sit there within

In comfortable chairs
Watching comfortable tubes
We go crawling and leaping
Climbing and crashing

With our teeth brightly gnashing
And our patterned tails a-lashing

Our patterned tails a-lashing

Windowless stars
Fingerless friends
We're prowling outside
While you all sit there within

In comfortable chairs
Watching comfortable tubes
We go crawling and leaping
Our big white teeth
Will soon be neatly

Severing

Severing

Have a Holly Jolly Christmas
Have a Holly Jolly Christmas
Have a Holly Jolly Christmas

And our big golden eyes are flashing...

....We are here to say that something -
The Seasons' Greetings
That ought to be said

Time to unsheathe our claws
It's time to hunt you down
Wipe off all your faces
And sell you in town

You -
With your comfortable chairs
With your comfortable tubes
Look what the snow has brought you
Mom's vigilantes
With Seasons' Greetings for you

Have a Holly Jolly Christmas
Have a Holly Jolly Christmas
Have a Holly Jolly Christmas

"Ride My Bike"
(music-A.Treu/A.Abshagen - words-L.Carleton)

When your face deflates
Like an old inner-tube
When your whitewater race
Trips on an interlude

When your Lear Jet has crashed
When your speedboat has sunk in the mire
When your Ferrari is smashed
When your leather interiors are choked with desire

Ride my Bike (etc...)

When you're all smacked up
By a big ole' Mac truck
When the 2 a.m. train
Has driven rails through your brain

When your Lear Jet has crashed
When your speedboat has sunk in the mire
When your Ferrari is smashed
When your leather interiors are choked with desire

Ride my Bike (etc...)

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