The Line Of Time And The Plane Of Now

My Life's All Right

Licking An Orchid

Licking An Orchid (feat. James K)

Safe In The Hands of Love

Faith In Nothing Except In Salvation

Quantum Suicide

តើថ្ងៃណាទៅវិលវិញ?. នឹកអើយសែននឹក

ចាំនៅតែចាំ

Hand On Me

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🎙️ Smoke in the Moonlight

[Verse 1 – Female]
There’s a hush in the room, just the clock and me,
Your voice in the vinyl, soft as memory.
Every sip burns slow, but it’s all I can do,
To keep from calling out to you.

[Male]
The band plays low, like it understands,
That love slips away through trembling hands.
I close my eyes and the years unwind,
Your laughter drifts across my mind.

[Verse 2 – Female]
The night leans close with a lover’s grin,
I breathe you out, I draw you in.
The smoke curls round like a sweet perfume,
Your shadow’s dancing across the gloom.

[Male/Female]
I wear your name like a secret tune,
Whispered soft beneath the moon.
Each note I sing just pulls me near,
To the place where you still appear.

[Chorus – Duet]
Smoke in the moonlight, hearts on fire,
Love’s old echo in a broken wire.
We keep on singing what we can’t explain,
Two lonely souls in the same old pain.

[Male/Female]
Smoke in the moonlight, hush the sound,
Of all we lost and never found.
The night forgives, the morning hides,
The truth we keep on both our sides.

[Instrumental break – soft trumpet / sax solo]
(no lyrics – space for about 40 seconds of music)

[Verse 3 – Male & Female call-and-response]
Female: The night’s still young, but I feel it fade.
Male: The truth’s still sweet, but the price we paid.
Female: I still taste your name in the smoke I breathe.
Male:  I still hear your heart every time I leave.

Female:  These old walls hum the song we knew.
Both:  I hum it back, just thinking of you.
Both: And every chord the pianist plays
Feels like love that lost its way.

[Final Chorus – Duet, slower and softer]
Smoke in the moonlight, fade with me,
Hold this moment, let it be.
The crowd drifts home, but I’ll stay right here,
With your ghost in my glass, and your voice in my ear.

[Female]
Smoke in the moonlight, don’t let go,
Let the last note fall real slow.
The night still sighs, the bar lights gleam,
And love slips off into the dream.

[Outro – softly spoken / sung ad-lib]
Mmm… the smoke, the moonlight…
Just you and me… one more time.
(music fades)

🎙️ Smoke in the Moonlight

Bundle of Joy

Multi-Family Garage Sale (Bargain-Bin Mix)

How Can I? / All Your Love

How Can I?

Wede Harer Guzo

Anchin Kfu Ayinkash

New York Grief is a nocturnal new wave incantation for the sleepless metropolis by Montréal singer, filmmaker, painter, and poet, Princess Demeny. In the early 80’s Princess started creating music for her poetry and in 1986, she partnered with Jean Mineau, her then boyfriend, who did the arrangements on what was to be her first EP, Distant Voices. Not long after the start of their collaboration, Jean was diagnosed with terminal cancer and was immediately hospitalized. Against the doctor's wishes, Jean left to record demos of five songs including New York Grief. He sadly passed shortly after returning to hospice and the recordings were never released.

“New York Grief was inspired by several trips to New York City in the mid eighties. I was in love with the city's nightlife. At times, I would stay awake and watch the city that never sleeps as its night creatures came out to play, and I would watch as they would vanish, replaced by the suited nine-to-fives, waking up and starting the machine of the metropolis madness again and again. It felt to me as though, in New York, there was more darkness by day than at night. I felt the city's intense rhythms and the chaotic pulse of the urban grind. It made me question if, sometimes, I was awake or still sleeping. I would have vivid dreams; horrific nightmares of burning buildings and people running and even though it was exhilarating, it also scared me.”

In 1989, Princess recorded a new version of New York Grief with arrangements by the Montréal new wave group Vini Vidi Vici. She also produced and directed a music video for it, which evokes both Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon and Slava Tsukerman's Liquid Sky, but set in ultra-cool nouvelle vague Montréal in the late 80s. Both the demo and 1989 version are featured on this 7” release with a bonus digital track of her cover of Listen, The Snow Is Falling by Yoko Ono. This single is a glimpse of the alluring universe of Princess Demeny, with more revelations on the horizon. 

Limited 250 pressing. No repress.

Tracklist:

A1 New York Grief (4:00)
B1 New York Grief ’86 (3:16)
*Digital Bonus: Listen, The Snow Is Falling

Purchase the vinyl here: https://www.seance-centre.com/shop/princess-demeny-new-york-grief

Purchase the digital here: https://princessdemeny.bandcamp.com/album/new-york-grief

New York Grief (24SC)

B1. Princess Demeny - New York Grief '86 (24SC)

How Can I?

Mark A. Mitchell