''Warm Strangers'' is singer-songwriter

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 s ...

'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 Mount Shasta ( Shasta: ''Waka-nunee-Tuki-wuki''; Karuk: ''Úytaahkoo'') is a potentially active volcano at the southern end of the Cascade Range in Siskiyou County, California. At an elevation of , it is the second-highest peak in the Cascades ...

from the

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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 In the field of recorded music, a hidden track (sometimes called a ghost track, secret track or unlisted track) is a song or a piece of audio that has been placed on a CD, audio cassette, LP record, or other recorded medium, in such a way as t ...

found at the end of the album. It is a traditional song performed in

Mandarin Chinese Mandarin (; ) is a group of Chinese (Sinitic) dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of the phonology of Standard Chinese, the official language of ...

. According to the album insert a portion of the proceeds from this album will go to

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and the

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References

2004 albums Vienna Teng albums {{2000s-pop-album-stub