Balcarres Street in Edinburgh is where we rented our first apartment and lived for 3 years, between 2004 and 2007. The "One Way Ticket" album was produced there and many profound changes in our life took place during that period.

Strangely, this song came in Berlin in February 2012 and was further developed in Budapest in June this year. We have only just finished the 1st version this week and so what you hear is our first attempt of the song in full, recorded in one pass into one microphone so it is essentially a 'live acoustic take'.

From the album "One Way Ticket" (2006).  Available from:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/one-way-ticket/id130174734?uo=4
http://www.amazon.com/One-Way-Ticket/dp/B000QQVGFG
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/williamd (Editor's Picks - Pop - Beatles-Pop on CD Baby)

This song was written around about the year 2000 and featured on the David William album "One Way Ticket" in 2006. It describes the way you can feel alone and unsettled inside when all on the outside suggests otherwise - ie. feeling melancholy on a summer's day.

Free download - http://soundcloud.com/davidwilliam/souljahm-suzanne

For a number of months when we first came to Europe we kept encountering the name Suzanne (or variations of it) in various places. The owner of the very first apartment we stayed in Barcelona was called Susana. Arriving in Paris after that, taking our luggage off the airport bus, we looked up and a bus drove by right in front of us with 'Suzanne' emblazoned on it.

Free download - http://soundcloud.com/davidwilliam/souljahm-mysterious

Written at the end of 2007 in Edinburgh and then put aside, this song resurfaced again in 2011 as part of the canon of songs SoulJahm have been working on throughout their travels in Europe.

It deals with how being a natural human being in this world seems to elude us and how we live in a system and structure that makes it almost impossible for us to be our natural self.

Free download - http://soundcloud.com/davidwilliam/souljahm-karl-marx-allee

A song born out of the boulevard in Berlin, not the man Karl Marx himself. We walked up and down Karl-Marx-Allee many times throughout the winter of 2010/11 in the snow and "freezing cold". At that time we had no laptop or instruments and when we weren't staring at four walls in our "bunker" we had to make the long trek for internet access.

Free download - http://soundcloud.com/davidwilliam/souljahm-come-go-live-acoustic
Free download (album version) - http://soundcloud.com/davidwilliam/come-and-go

Listen to the album version here - http://youtu.be/NYSOqNLOh6w

Originally written by David William as a 19yr old, this song appeared on his album "One Way Ticket" a number of years later in 2006, and has now worked itself into the growing SoulJahm canon.

Free download - http://soundcloud.com/davidwilliam/souljahm-europa-spezial

Recorded one morning in Budapest in the blazing heat, this song was originally written in December 2011, shortly after arriving in Berlin from Paris on the night train with a guitar & too much luggage for two people.

Free download - http://soundcloud.com/davidwilliam/souljahm-italian-saturday
Free download ('Sketches of Europa') - http://soundcloud.com/davidwilliam/souljahm-italian-saturday-1

Originally written on ukulele while staying on the island of Giudecca in the summer of 2011, we have been working on a more layered recording since then. There is a special train ticket in Italy called "Sabato Italiano" (Italian Saturday) and as we moved through Italy we noticed every time we were due to move onto a new place it happened to be a Saturday.