With closed eyes, “La Valse De Virginie” and “Bon Voyage Mon Cheri” transport you to a Parisian cafe — or to in a smokey club with sawdust on the floor.

Others, like the melancholy “Broken Hearted Leg,” feel as if they were the product of walks down city alleyways in rain-soaked streets.

The truth is something different.

Page, the talented singer songwriter who is well-known in the San Diego music scene, recorded the album — as well as “Sleeping Dogs” — in Poway in a nondescript office near the intersection of Poway and Garden roads, across from the 7-Eleven, where he remembers eating many meals.

Between 2005 and 2007, Page said he spent a lot of time in the makeshift studio, 13B, which was lent out to him by a friend, Rick Lein.

“I spent a huge chunk of my life in Poway,” Page said in a phone interview. “I was pretty much there all through the day, since I would sleep there rather than drive down to San Diego.

“I was kind of a lone wolf,” he added, though he noted that he would often call in friends to play with him and record, though he was limited by the small size of the office. Like he did in those days, Page uses tape machines instead of computers to record.

Page said he didn’t only record his own music there, but also that of his friends. Before he went on to his success, Page recorded an album by Jason Mraz in that space.

The space went on for three to four years then ran its course.

Page said the studio allowed him to make music his way, with a shoestring budget and self-releasing the album.

This Saturday, July 24, Page will be returning to Poway. He will be performing at 2 p.m. at the Poway Library as part of a new free concert series, which is being dubbed the San Diego County Library Acoustic Showcase.

The goal of the free series is to showcase local talent, such as folk singers, story tellers and other musicians. Participants include Joe Rathburn, Dave Beldock and Michael Tiernan (more information on the series can be obtained at http://sdcls.homestead.com).

Page said he’s looking forward to the concert and sharing his music with audiences that might not be familiar with his work, which combines modern themes and sensibilities with traditional styles. His biggest musical influence is the jazz crooner Al Bowlly, who died in 1941.

“I write about love lost and love found ... and I pull from the current feelings and events that circulate my friends and I try to bridge that between tradition and progress and fantasy.”

Page was born in England to a family of jazz musicians and he grew up following his relatives on tour.

During his concert at the library, Page said he will be playing music from his past recordings (he’s recorded 20, including several live albums) as well as previewing tracks from his upcoming record, “Once and For All,” which was produced by Mraz. There is no set release date, but Page said it should be available this fall.

For that one, he and his entire jazz band — a quartet and an accordion player — were in the same room. It makes for a truer sound, said Page, the capturing of a moment.

“There isn’t any trickery because those moments really happened,” he said. “I think we might have lost that along the way (with the use of technology) in recording.”

For more information about Page, visit his website at www.gregorypage.com.