    In typical Memphis Pencils fashion, this song - found on the Art Amiss 13 compilation - is equal parts whim and sincerity, and includes lyrics in a tongue not native to its singer, Martin Bemberg (this time it is Turkish). Memphis Pencils' new album, whose working title is "Soap Makin' Time" and whose purpose is to combine sophistication with accessibility (and personification), is looking forward to its February 2011 release.
lyrics
    This blinding furnace
    Gathering firmness
    Is tampering with words and
    Dampening this dervish.
    Half spheres from you
    Your caravan-bluebirds
    Are patterning up new quirk
    Flattering with few verbs.
    Distance may freeze frames, Aşkim,
    Oh, but it won't have me
    Because it won't be like home,
    So it can't have me
    On a prosaic loan.
    Aşkim, seni seviyorum.
    Smiling mandates
    Glisten like handshakes
    As you are choked yet yawning
    Whispering and fawning
    Your tongue so Turkish,
    Whispering firmness,
    "If love predates this longing,
    Which new age is dawning?"
credits
    released 20 October 2010
    Martin Bemberg (song)
    Joel Paul (produce)
    JD Paul (drum)
    Reed Faitak, Jim Sloan (various instruments and/or body parts, including ears and hands) 

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