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You & I

ALA.NI

NØF.33 — 2016

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Catch some Cherry Blossom by the river 

Blowing through the flowing of my heart 

If you see me somewhere down the river 

Come and stand beside me its alright 


Come to me 

Stay with me 

Say you’ll be a friend to me 

Love oh everlasting love 

Lives forever and a day 


Catch some Cherry Blossom by the river 

Blowing through the flowing of my heart 

You can catch me somewhere down the river 

Come and stand beside me its alright 


Fall for me 

Long for me 

Say you’ll be a friend to me 

Love oh an enchanted love 

Lives forever and a day 


Catch some Cherry Blossom by the river 

Blowing through the flowing of my heart 

Hope to see you somewhere down the river 

Come and stand beside me its alright 

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Just an ol’ fashioned kiss 

Makes me hot even in Winter 

How can I resist 

Oh how you tease me 

A simple kiss upon my cheek 

Makes my knees a little weaker 

Your lips are like Spring 

Morning dew on a red rose 


Kiss me quick 

Kiss me hard 

Make it slow 

Make it hard 

Cheek to cheek 

Palm to palm 

Just as long as you keep me close 


Caress me in the park 

Smooch me up in the back seat 

And those lingering hugs 

You got me in Paradise 

And I’m feeling love 

So much love 

Give me those lips 

And don’t ever stop 


Kiss me quick 

Kiss me hard 

Make it slow 

Make it hard 

Cheek to cheek 

Palm to palm 

Just as long as you keep me close 

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Bed prepared and candles glow 

Flowers blooming by the door 

Powdered scented skin for baby 

Come Come Come to me 


Ooo lets press some lips to ears 

Words for only you to hear 

Have no fear my precious baby 

Come come come to me 


Come come come to me 

Come come come to me 

Precious baby Im your need 

Come come come to me 


Ahhhhhhhh 

Trust in me my precious baby 

Come come come to me 


Ahhhhhhh 

Eversaking Im your need 

Come come come to me

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Suddenly Im woken by 

A vision of your blue eyes 

So lovely 

Suddenly you’re back with me 

Over hills and valleys deep 

You find me 


Oh the nights seem long 

And the days carry on 

In spite of how I long for you 

And the stars up above are invited to fall 

Into these arms of mine 


Suddenly I fear the worst 

Have we been doomed to die 

Suddenly have I been cursed 

To live alone this lie 


I am waiting all on my own 

Im waiting for you to come home 

Im waiting, waiting for you 


Still the nights seem long 

And the days carry on 

In spite of how I long for you 

And the stars up above are invited to fall 

Into these arms of mine 


Suddenly I hear your voice 

It sounds just like a lullaby 

Suddenly I see your smile 

For a while, for a while 

Could it be  

Can it be 

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You embrace me 

Hand in hand 

Innocently 

You have my heart 

And my word 

implicitly  

If only we could be  

 

One heart 

One love 

One soul 


I can sense  

You are torn 

Evidently  

You love me 

And another  

This I know 

Its strange how love found me 


But life has many changes 

So maybe one day we’ll make it to be 


One heart 

One love 

One soul 

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You brought roses and wine 

Then ran out of time 

Where you going to 

Said you'd be back at nine  

A comfort to my mind 

Am I a fool 


Do you really care  

My lover my friend 

Then stay with me till the bitter end 

Or is this out last goodbye  

No more roses and wine with you 


Doom da Dooms  


Have you made your bed 

Sweet lover dear friend 

Confusing me 

With your uncertain head 

Or is this our last goodbye 

No more roses and wine with you 


And where you gonna lead me 

I'm lost can you find me 

You promised you would save me 

So why am I sad and lonely 

Believe me this aint easy 

This tired game of teasing  

So please release me 

I'm begging you to stop 


You return just after nine 

With more roses and wine 

And some candy too 

Go give them to your wife 

Keep her satisfied

Cause she loves you 

And you love her 

And you love me 

And I love you 

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We agreed to end this love affair 

To erase ever word that you said 

That set me free 

We agreed to part in harmony 

But I think I may live to regret being cooperative 


Though I can’t see no moon 

Darkness at noon 

And will the sun shine soon 

Darkness at noon 


I gave you my loving and I rose like the rising sun 

Now I feel nothing  

For without you there is no love 

Oh my heart shines bright for you 

Through Darkness at noon 


We agreed that its just no use in loving me 

We agreed to never meet again 

We agreed a life of misery, misery, misery 


I gave you my loving and I rose like the rising sun 

Now I feel nothing  

For without you there is no love 

Oh my heart shines bright for you 

Through Darkness at noon 

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If we never ever meet again

I’ll remember kissing you 

Will you remember kisses too

And if we never ever meet again

Then the memory of love will see us through


When you left my heart was drowned in tears

So much I cried

But the a little voice spoke to my heart 

And told me I would be just fine


For if we never ever meet again

I’ll remember kissing you 

Will you remember kisses too

And if we never ever meet again

Then I’ll remember

Will you remember

Oh I’ll remember loving you

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Someone left me all alone 

I am far away from home 

Scared to be wild and free 

I could be an Eskimo 

Sleeping cold out in the snow 

Even they find a nose to kiss 


Have no care ‘bout the clothes you wear 

If your feet are bare just keep on dancing 

I found my way to the river bay 

In the silence of the night 

It came to me 


That no matter how tough this life  

I’ll face it 

Every little thing is all right 

Yes all the will be, will be 

Cause the tide it flows 

Like life keeps changing 

Every little thing is all right with me 


Cause we all go to the river 

We all go down to the river 


Have no care ‘bout the way you swing  

Or the way you sway 

Just keep on dancing 

I found my way to the river bay 

In the silence of the night 

It came to me 


That no matter how tough this life  

I’ll face it 

Every little thing is all right 

Yes all the will be, will be 

Cause the tide it flows 

Like life keeps changing 

Every little thing is all right with me 


Cause we all go to the river 

We all go down to the river 

Cause we all go to the river 

We all go down to the river 

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When you're lost and feeling lonely 

Take a breath to ease out the day 

For every seeds got to fall  

To give life to the soil 

It's a circle that's never the same 


Dream of golden riches 

Don't quit when rocks graze your hands 

For seeds will grow 

Come sun rain or snow 

It's a circle that's never the same 


So just face it 

Take a stand 

Hold you future  

In your hands 

For in springtime  


You'll be laughing 

As you run through fields of gold 

To Graceland 


So lets start believing in dreaming 

Hear what the hearts got to say 

For it will guide you through the dark 

And relieve all your fears 

So close your eyes 

Hold on tight 

Cause you're in for a ride 

On the circle that's never the same 

Recorded by Jonathan Tams at Owl Studios, London 

& Stephen Sedgwick at Studio 13, London

Mixed by Stephen Sedgwick at Studio 13, London

Mastered by Huntsmen Music at The Premises, London


ALA.NI - Lead vocals, backing vocals, steel pan, percussion, hohner guitaret

Rob Updegraff - Guitar, bass guitar 

Joao Caetano - Percussion

Maria Christina Harper - harp 

James Welland - Piano

Graeme Flowers - Flugel Horn


Written And Produced By ALA.NI

(P) 2016 Ala.Ni (C) 2016 Nø Førmat!

Published By Downtown Music Publishing

Under License A+Lso, A Division Of Sony Music Entertainment


True artists are lonely people. And the most precious and rarest ones of all are even more lonely than the others. They shine like diamonds in the dark. Or, like stars in the sky, generously spread their light over an ungrateful world that takes their great humanity and talent for granted. These genuine artists deserve the best and the purest of treatment and surrounding. They don’t need overstated strings arrangements to glow, just as they dont need a full box of colours to paint. A single shade will do : blue. And a single flower : a rose, the prettiest. Natural elegance and sophistication are all they require.   


ALA.NI is one such performer. Once you see her on stage, you can only fall instantly in love. She doesn’t use the weapons others singers do to conquer her audience. Neither power nor force, although she’s brave enough to stand, alone, courageously exposing herself in all her difference and uniqueness. Nor even seduction, even if her figure and her fascinating long arms, stretched out, add a most delicate charm to her vivid love songs. At times, she closes her eyes. She can, as the sincereness in her voice says it all. The kind of voice that appears only once in a blue moon. Silky, warm, melancholic, modulated, powerful. The voice of a perfectly trained soprano, beautifully altered by the smoky touch of a jazz diva. Yes, the kind of voice that imposes silence and maybe shines a light on each member of the audience’s most secret thoughts and feelings, drawing discreet tears from their eyes. But above all, a voice that projects a thrill, most often one of absolute joy.  


In another life, this Londoner, born from Grenadian parents, was a child performer. From the age of five, she learned how to dance, sing and act at the Sylvia Young Theatre School, just like Amy Winehouse did. Both her parents, her father, a professional bass player in reggae-calypso bands, and her mother, a couture seamstress, were naturally supportive of her dancing and singing skills after witnessing her love at first sight for music, when she performed « Over the rainbow » in a church during ballet lessons at the age of three. By the age of seven, she could be away from home for months on end, working on commercials, musicals, pop videos or Jim Henson broadcasts. Discipline became part of her life, at the same time as learning to express her deepest emotions, including… cruelty.  


« A child performer’s psychology is very peculiar, as one has seen with Michael Jackson or Britney Spears. Because not only are you programmed to show off, you’re also taught how to deal to rejection that comes with auctions and castings. Children can be very cruel to each other. And some of them who worked a lot when they’re small and cute lose work when puberty kicks in. It’s almost as savage as a battle. I was lucky, as an only child who remained a silent observer, I was accepted by different groups. » 


Like after any fight, you need to recover. Emerging from such an unusual childhood, ALA.NI had no choice than to live her life, this time for real. By singing backing vocals for Damon Albarn (Blur) or Mary J. Blige. By studying film editing, working for a while in brand marketing and presenting her first collection at The 2011 London Fashion Week. By falling, several times, in and out of love. Most of all, by taking her time. To question her art and let her inspiration grow. 


For her, revelation came, like in classic tragedy, in three acts. First, she met a friendly ghost in the guise of Leslie Hutchinson, nicknamed « Hutch », her great uncle, who happened to be one of the most famous cabaret stars during the 1920’s and 30’s, as well as Cole Porter’s lover. ALA.NI was present, in 2012, on the day British officials put up a commemorative plaque outside his former London home. « When I realized what he’d achieved back in the 30’s - he was the only black man more or less accepted in high society -, I felt determined to learn more about his story in order to build from it. »  


Next, about two months later, she composed her first song, Cherry Blossom, in Grenada, where her grandparents live. The rest of the songs from her album, wrote and produced by herself, whilst hiding away in an artist studio in Shepherd’s Bush or at the Boronali Hotel in Paris, came naturally in it’s stride. Finally, she figured out that simplicity, as opposed to overdoing everything like she was trained to do in her childhood, was the only way to be true to herself. Truth appears, just like a photograph dipped into a developer bath, when you rid yourself from all the tricksand gimmicks you’ve learned. Then, only the heart and the soul remain. That’s why ALA.NI’s stunning songs touch us deeper than most others. Timeless, concise, arranged and orchestrated with infinite delicacy, they reinvent feelings of love, heartbreak, a first kiss or sorrow, like we were encountering them for the first time. With the grace of musical haïkus, a touch of innocence and naivety, they are the perfect setting for her mesmerizing vocal performances. Like in the best of Broadway musicals, they possess the magical power to sublimate reality. The rest, as they say, will soon be history.  





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