WHOOOHOOOO - so pleased to finally be done with all the commenting as promised! In time for '3' 3rd birthday TODAY! These aren't all entries as some are understandably been taken down after the competition but thanks for all who left it up here and now we have a vaaaaast world of the songs of '3'! 

There is a REWORK EP out today on SA Records , including the winning track from RECOMPOSE 

https://orcd.co/343alevlenz

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Alev

RECOMPOSE '3' (almost) ALL entries

Orchestral Arrangement of Alev Lenz - "it's Been a While" from the album '3'

Its Been A While

A cover of the Alev Lenz song Laura for the Spitfire recompose competition

Laura (Alev Lenz Cover)

Arrangement by Nikolas Geerken
Original music by Alev Lenz

"Aimee Mann" arr. by Nikolas Geerken

(Volume Up. Beginning is subtle.) This song is for the ReCompose contest by SA Recordings. The original version of “It’s Been a While” by Alev Lenz is a short, but bittersweet song. It’s very vulnerable and fragile, yet not broken. It’s just her voice. Honest and organic.
For my version of the song I didn’t want to use a bunch of synthetic sounding sounds. I wanted it to sound more breathy and real. My approach was to be minimal and not over-produced. The song opens with just the sound of the sustain pedal being pushed and the echo of that inside the piano (an old upright) fading to nothing before the melody begins. The horn section is to add that breath factor. There is a subtle, synthy sound echoing in the background just to add another texture. A few almost off notes dip down to represent the clashing of a distressed relationship, like the lyrics in the song: “It’s been a while since we have not fought.”  The piano quickly recovers to continue the main melody and move the song forward. There is also an upright bass to fill the bottom end. The first part ends with the release of the sustain pedal.
I wanted to add something orchestral at the end that started out very sparse, but built into a more complete and full moment. Some strings followed by a distant singer, a Harmochord (in the Accordion family of instruments), a glockenspiel, and some cymbals bring it to a close.
The song has a deconstructed feel with a light of hope. Kind of a reflection of the times we’re living in.

It's Been A While - Keith Jurow

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Enjoy the journey!

Alev Lenz It's Been a While (Nova Rahman)

Re-imagining of Alev Lenz' track from her album '3' for the SA Recording / Spitfire "Recompose" competition
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Alev Lenz is a is a German-Turkish singer, songwriter, composer and producer. Lenz's rich catalog of compositions fuse distinctive musical worlds into something that is authentically hers - compelling songs for both record and screen.

While working on material for her latest record '3', Alev composed her breakthrough track 'Fall Into Me' for Charlie Brooker's Netflix series 'Black Mirror'. Her s single 'May the Angels' from '3' featured on season two of critically-acclaimed Netflix series 'Dark'. 'Splendid Soldiers', Fall Into Me's album version, has also been featured on the third season of 'The Rain' (Netflix) while 'Pieces' of the same record has even been prominently featured twice on SKY's brand-new series 'Funeral For A Dog'.

'3' was released 2019 on the label arm of music tech company Spitfire Audio, SA Recordings, alongside a 20 patch Alev Lenz - '3' best selling and five star reviewed sample library, the first in the acclaimed music tech company whole new series of artist-led sample libraries.

Since 'Fall Into Me', her voice and writing have been in steady demand. Alev recently finished work on her debut feature film score, a commissioned piece for Grammy-award winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus and contributing vocals to Oscar nominated composer Volker Bertelmann's scores for the US-drama 'Downhill' and Netflix-blockbusters like 'The Old Guard', 'Stowaway' and 'Against The Ice'. Alev is frequently working in close collaboration with other artists, most famously with Martin Phipps who called her in to write the original song for "Black Mirror" and renowned sitarist and 7-time Grammy-Nominee Anoushka Shankar, with whom Alev co-wrote the title track for the Grammy-nominated album 'Land of Gold' as well as co-writing and co-producing Shankar's latest album 'Love Letters' - which culminated in three sold out shows with Shankar at London's Southbank Centre in December 2019 and a Grammy-nomination for the 63rd GRAMMY Awards in 2020. In 2021, on occasion of the gala concert at Krakow Film Music Festival, her composition for the Netflix-series Black Mirror was performed.

Awards & Nominations:

2020 Love Letters Grammy Nomination (role: producer, songwriter, vocalist, musician, engineer)
2017 Land Of Gold Grammy Nomination (role: songwriter, vocalist)

It's Been A While - Keith Jurow

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