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Waking Hour (album)
''Waking Hour'' is Vienna Teng's first album. Originally released independently in 2001, the album was re-released in 2002 with minor modifications after Teng signed with small label Virt Records Virt Records is an independent record label based in Seattle, USA. Virt artists are primarily singer/songwriters. Artists signed to Virt Records ;Current * Ellery * The Bittersweets * Shane Nicholson * Brenda Weiler * Beth Boucher * Rachel Gaud .... The album was released in the United Kingdom by Rounder Europe in 2006 under license from Virt Records. Track listing #"The Tower" — 3:51 #"Momentum" — 5:23 #"Gravity" — 3:40 #"Daughter" — 3:16 #"Between" — 3:35 #"Say Uncle" — 5:27 #"Drought" — 4:06 #"Enough to Go By" — 4:20 #"Unwritten Letter #1" — 3:37 #"Eric's Song" — 5:08 #"Soon Love Soon" — 4:38 #"Lullaby for a Stormy Night" — 3:53 #"Decade and One" — 4:59 (Note: This is the track listing for the re-released version on Virt Records. The original, independe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vienna Teng
Cynthia Yih Shih (born October 3, 1978, Saratoga, California), better known by her stage name Vienna Teng, is an American pianist and singer-songwriter who was based in Detroit, Michigan and now lives in Washington, DC. Teng has released five studio albums: '' Waking Hour'' (2002), ''Warm Strangers'' (2004), '' Dreaming Through the Noise'' (2006), ''Inland Territory'' (2009) and '' Aims'' (2013). She has also released one live album, ''The Moment Always Vanishing'' (2009), on which she is double-billed with her percussionist, Alex Wong. Teng's musical style incorporates folk, pop, classical piano, and ''a cappella''. Early life, education, and early career A native of Saratoga, California, she began playing classical piano at the age of five. Both her parents came from Taiwan. She was salutatorian at Saratoga High School. In 1996, while pursuing a degree in computer science at Stanford University, Teng joined the Stanford Harmonics, a student-run ''a cappella'' group. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Folk
Indie folk is a music genre that arose in the 1990s among musicians from indie rock scenes influenced by folk music. Indie folk hybridizes the acoustic guitar melodies of traditional folk music with contemporary instrumentation. The genre has its earliest origins in 1990s folk artists who displayed alternative rock influences in their music, such as Ani DiFranco and Dan Bern, and acoustic artists such as Elliott Smith and Will Oldham. In the following decade, labels such as Saddle Creek, Barsuk, Ramseur, and Sub Pop helped to provide support to indie folk, with artists such as Fleet Foxes breaking into the pop charts with albums such as ''Helplessness Blues''. In the United Kingdom, artists such as Ben Howard and Mumford & Sons emerged, with the latter band promoting the music style through their Gentlemen of the Road touring festivals. The success of acts like Mumford & Sons led some music journalists like Popjustice's Peter Robinson labelling this new British music scene a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. The terms ''popular music'' and ''pop music'' are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many disparate styles. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible. Although much of the music that appears on record charts is considered to be pop music, the genre is distinguished from chart music. Identifying factors usually include repeated choruses and hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much pop music also borrows elements from other styles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chamber Pop
Chamber pop (or Chamber rock; also called baroque pop and sometimes conflated with orchestral pop or symphonic pop) is a music genre that combines rock music with the intricate use of string section, strings, horn section, horns, piano, and vocal harmony, vocal harmonies, and other components drawn from the orchestral and lounge music, lounge pop of the 1960s, with an emphasis on melody and texture (music), texture. During chamber pop's initial emergence in the 1960s, producers such as Burt Bacharach, Lee Hazlewood, and the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson served as formative artists of the genre. Wilson's productions of the Beach Boys' albums ''Pet Sounds'' and ''Smile (The Beach Boys album), Smile'' are cited as particularly influential to the genre. From the early 1970s to early 1990s, most chamber pop acts saw little to no mainstream success. The genre's decline was attributed to costly touring and recording logistics and a reluctance among record labels to finance instruments like s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virt Records
Virt Records is an independent record label based in Seattle, USA. Virt artists are primarily singer/songwriters. Artists signed to Virt Records ;Current * Ellery * The Bittersweets * Shane Nicholson * Brenda Weiler * Beth Boucher * Rachel Gaudry ;Former *Vienna Teng See also * List of record labels File:Alvinoreyguitarboogie.jpg File:AmMusicBunk78.jpg File:Bingola1011b.jpg Lists of record labels cover record labels, brands or trademarks associated with marketing of music recordings and music videos. The lists are organized alphabetically, b ... External links Website {{Authority control American independent record labels Pop record labels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warm Strangers
''Warm Strangers'' is singer-songwriter Vienna Teng's second album. Track listing #Feather Moon – 4:06 #Harbor – 4:24 #Hope on Fire – 4:26 #Shine – 2:39 #Mission Street – 4:32 #My Medea – 4:09 #Shasta (Carrie's Song) – 3:29 #Homecoming (Walter's Song) – 5:48 #Anna Rose – 3:07 #Passage – 4:19 #The Atheist Christmas Carol – 4:26 # Green Island Serenade – 3:16 #Boy at the Piano (Bonus Live Track for international release) #Hope on Fire (Bonus Live Track for international release) Notes "Shasta" was inspired by the view of snow-covered volcano Mount Shasta from the Interstate 5 highway. "Passage" is the only song to date that Vienna has recorded with no instrumental accompaniment, only vocals. It is sung from the point of view of a girl who died in a car crash. The CD liner provides no lyrics for "Passage." " Green Island Serenade" is a separate, but hidden track found at the end of the album. It is a traditional song performed in Mandarin Chinese. Accord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 Debut Albums
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