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Karl​-​Marx​-​Allee

by SoulJahm

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"Karl-Marx-Allee" is one of the first SoulJahm songs to come into being. Shortly after acquiring our instruments in Vienna, February 2011, we headed to Budapest the following month. Two brand new songs came very quickly and effortlessly within the space of a few days - "Suzanne" and "Karl-Marx-Allee".

The song documents our first winter in Berlin staying in various apartments in Friedrichshain where Karl-Marx-Allee is the main boulevard running through the area and which we'd have to make many long walks through the snow and "freezing cold".

Later in the year when we reached Milan, we began creating this 'Sketches of Europa' version and recorded the piano tracks building the rest of the song around them. In Nice a month later ukulele, maracas and handclaps were recorded in a tiny, sweatbox of an apartment! The complete opposite of the environment the song speaks of. The drum track was put together in an apartment we stayed in for 3 days in Paris while we were going through one of our chaotic periods and our cases were beginning to fall apart.

Melodica was recorded in Budapest during the summer of 2012 and finally the vocals were put down in Bologna just after Christmas 2012 before the song was mixed in Ventimiglia.

lyrics

When you walk alone but you're not alone
When you say the word but you seldom talk

Karl-Marx-Allee brings you to me

When you open doors in the freezing cold
Such a long way home still we take the road

Karl-Marx-Allee brings you to me
Karl-Marx-Allee feel so happy

They're shooting rockets to the sky
From my bunker I ask why
To awaken into your own life when you're playing dead

See the tower up ahead and I feel like I'm ready
So I look to the window and I'm sure I am sure

Karl-Marx-Allee brings you to me
Karl-Marx-Allee feel so happy
Karl-Marx-Allee feel so happy
Karl-Marx-Allee always with me

When you walk alone
Alone
Alone
When you walk alone....

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released February 17, 2013
David William
Kate Threadgould

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SoulJahm is an indie psychedelic pop rock vehicle uniting melody and truth. Male and Female harmonies warmly blend with strong acoustic instrumentation, while lyrically revealing the freedom that is always present to the listener.

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