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Songs for Voice and Mellotron

by Janel Leppin

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1.
Locked Boxes 02:45
a package fell from Mars inspiring starry lust in locked boxes we walked to the lake filled with toxic poison and we drank and what was the cause of these opening closets and what do we say about these burning hours and what do we feel about these boring years and what do we do with these yearning ears a constellation whispers your ashy portrait ashy portrait and we felt no shame
2.
In a Dream 06:41
Is this world in a dream An exercise in the extreme The rich sirens scream As totems rise from the sea And ivy crawls where ice used to be And life is a long lost melody Was that world just a dream An exercise in what could be Exceeding goals by degree And children think "What will be when I'm twenty?" What will we do with all their dreams What will we do When this worlds through Our carelessness Would be there end What would we do When this world's through Our carelessness Would be their end.
3.
Union Arts 08:11
4.
Paris 02:57
Paris we love you bearing flowers and fruit but lets not forget about beirut syrians line the seine that's filled with blood and forced to beg on the streets for bread again but ah we love our kind these deaths are all wrong from baghdad to sinai can things change can we stop the fight Our drone war's unfolding spilling blood on all soil refugees search for a place to call home would our world change if these deaths weren't nothing new east west middle in our earth cut in two but ah we love our kind these deaths are all wrong from paris to palestine can this world change can we stop the fight stop the fight
5.
Wedding Song 02:11
there's a road outside that we traveled a thousand times we wander and we think so many ways to push to the brink theres a road outside lost our hope a thousand times but you take my hand from sea to sea you walk away with me we'll walk this road a thousand more times we'll walk until old and blind and the pearls that you dove for are still on my neck the shackles are all broken and the wedding nights set and we'll find our way through the fog and hard times we'll write and we'll write because life is our song and we are free

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Digital album includes select tracks buy the CD for the full album

Originally titled Music of the One Armed Woman, Janel wrote this material when she damaged the ulnar nerve in her right elbow and was unable to play the cello for solo her shows at Pyramid Atlantic and Union Arts in Washington D.C. in 2015.

You can see my Wilderness Bureau videos at www.wedderburnrecords.com

Thank you to Ambrose Bye and Anne Waldman at Fast Speaking Music for believing in me!

Thank you to my rad husband Anthony Pirog, Mike Reina for being an awesome producer, Markus Resch for making my dreams of becoming a traveling mellotronist come true, Addy Smith for her consistent help over many years, Stephen Buono for his patience and friendship, JK Dimond for her amazingly creative lamp art, Steve and Joyce Feigenbaum for their critical guidance, Ally Schweitzer at WAMU who was the first editor interested in my work. Thank you also to Alyssa Bell, Mark Cisneros, Anthony Pirog and Betsy Wright for helping light the lamps during my Wilderness Bureau live video session, I love you guys!

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released April 22, 2016

All Music and Lyrics Written by Janel Leppin
JANELLACELLA ASCAP

Produced by Mike Reina
Engineered by Mike Reina
Recorded at The Brink Analog and Digital Studio in Centerville, VA

Janel Leppin - Vocals, Mellotron 4000D, Prophet 5 Synthesizer, Electronics

Photography by Alyssa Bell
Lamp Sculptures by JK Dimond
Lighting by Raul Zahir De Leon and Maggie Famiglietti
Inside Art courtesy of Shizen Design

Wedderburn Records, Fast Speaking Music

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Janel Leppin Washington, D.C.

Janel Leppin is a cellist, miulti-instrumentalist and weaver.

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