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14 tracks | 70 minutes
Released Nov 2006
on Meryl Leppard
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- sample "DOWNLOAD" 07:23 In Manhattan BUY MP3 07:23 In Manhattan "GIFT MP3" 07:23 In Manhattan
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:24 Boat On The Hudson BUY MP3 03:24 Boat On The Hudson "GIFT MP3" 03:24 Boat On The Hudson
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 06:34 Chinatown BUY MP3 06:34 Chinatown "GIFT MP3" 06:34 Chinatown
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:17 Hells Kitchen BUY MP3 04:17 Hells Kitchen "GIFT MP3" 04:17 Hells Kitchen
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:19 Ellis Island BUY MP3 04:19 Ellis Island "GIFT MP3" 04:19 Ellis Island
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 06:18 Courage Mon Amie BUY MP3 06:18 Courage Mon Amie "GIFT MP3" 06:18 Courage Mon Amie
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:06 The Little Church That Stood BUY MP3 04:06 The Little Church That Stood "GIFT MP3" 04:06 The Little Church That Stood
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:34 Avenue P BUY MP3 04:34 Avenue P "GIFT MP3" 04:34 Avenue P
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:30 Somebody's Daughter BUY MP3 03:30 Somebody's Daughter "GIFT MP3" 03:30 Somebody's Daughter
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 05:39 Lady Of Liberty BUY MP3 05:39 Lady Of Liberty "GIFT MP3" 05:39 Lady Of Liberty
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:10 Skate With Me BUY MP3 04:10 Skate With Me "GIFT MP3" 04:10 Skate With Me
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 05:58 Love Fish BUY MP3 05:58 Love Fish "GIFT MP3" 05:58 Love Fish
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 06:16 The City Sleeps BUY MP3 06:16 The City Sleeps "GIFT MP3" 06:16 The City Sleeps
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:29 See You In Soho BUY MP3 04:29 See You In Soho "GIFT MP3" 04:29 See You In Soho
Adult contemporary theatrical pop, based in jazz
Bio / Background
New York Suite is a love letter to this magnificent city, a celebration of people and places that captured my imagination during my first visit in 2004.
Darling,
How are you? It’s freezing In Manhattan today. I'm curled up in an armchair next to the window, watching delicate flakes of snow gently layering on the fire escape. An eerie fog horn is blowing. I think it’s coming from an oddly marked Boat On The Hudson, beginning its slow crawl out to sea.
I walked to Chinatown this morning and had a steaming bowl of noodles for lunch. Its usual pace was curbed by the inclement weather. As winter grips the city, poems from childhood well up inside of me. “When icicles hang by the wall, and Jack Frost blows his nails." Do you know that one?
I can't help feeling for the street peddlers and the homeless at this time of year, particularly around Hells Kitchen. How do they manage in the snow?
You were asking about Ellis Island. I haven’t ventured near it yet. It holds a strange spell.
↓ more ↓Imagine how many millions of immigrants came through there with their hopes and dreams and hearts needing to be mended.
Remember Julian? I saw him again at 2nd Ave on Thursday. He was looking thin and dirty but lifted my spirits with his “Courage Mon Amie.” He was busking in the underground and appeared to be doing quite well.
I was on my way to The Little Church That Stood. I had been meaning to visit since I arrived. It’s a wonderful sanctuary, charming in its naivety, with pastel pink walls and sky blue ceiling. I was caught completely unaware by my reaction to the seats. There are intricate gouges on each pew, left by heavily booted firemen, stealing a few precious hours of rest during the World Trade Centre disaster. Tears began streaming down my face. I wondered what George Washington would have made of such viciousness.
My piano hunt took me to Avenue P on Friday. It’s a bit of a hike but I was rewarded by the best seafood soup I have ever tasted. The little cafe was practically crouching underneath the overhead railway. Trains were rattling by as nine Mexican labourers and myself were served by a buxom cook who didn’t speak a word of English, but ladled out fabulous, mouth watering dishes. Five dollars a bowl, plus rice on the side!
Somebody’s Daughter jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge last weekend. My friend Steve was there when they pulled her out of the water. She was still alive but died shortly afterwards. Only about nineteen. What a dreadful waste.
The Lady Of Liberty is just visible in the milky sky today. I’m listening to some weird, angular saxophone on the radio and watching a pale bit of light hover around her crown. It’s beautiful and strangely sad. She is such a powerful symbol, but has she fulfilled the promise so eloquently expressed in Emma Lazarus’ poem?
The Met has become a regular haunt. Rodin, of course, moves me more than any other. Poor man, he was pursued by demons and Love Fish. The Burghurs of Calais lean into the future, their haunted faces forever warning us of man’s treachery.
You’ll be pleased to know The City Sleeps – if briefly! The constant noise will probably drive you mad at first, but after a while the sirens will not wake you up. They become colourful background woven into each dream scape.
Anyway darling, enough rambling. I will show you all my favourite places when you get here. I’ll See You In Soho. We’ll go straight to Dean and Deluca to indulge our senses and fill up on caffeine.
always,
Meryl.
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