Title: Free-range Bard

Gender: Female

Age: 29

Sun Sign: Pisces

Chinese Sign: Metal Monkey

Location: Traveling

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Attention Citizens of Palimpsest!
Let the music be your guide.

Generally the party ends with Mardi Gras.  Our party, which is a simultaneous book and album release, starts now.

Palimpsest is the newest novel from Catherynne M. Valente, in stores 2/24/09. Quartered is its official companion album, and it will evolve and grow, a work in progress available via download only, as author and composer tour the United States together, across the season of Lent and throughout the summer of 2009. Check back for new songs each week.

What if there was a place beyond terror, beyond passion, where your obsessions come to life? Where your secrets walk the streets? Where the only law is desire? What would you do to get there? Past the edge of the world lies a city of the mind and of the flesh: Palimpsest

I suspect I will be writing, recording, and uploading more new songs about the book all summer. The newest is available as of June 1st, and you can download them all at the album link above!  The fact that this companion project is download-only gives me complete freedom to record and upload new material as I complete it. Considering that my medical adventures at the beginning of this year really set me back so far, compared to when I actually wanted to have the initial six songs completed, realizing that I had given myself all the time in the world was a great relief. I could fly on this happy thought: I don't have to stop writing about the book at all. If more songs come, they can join the rest as soon as I get them ready.

Here's to living in the future.

Please enjoy the new tracks (they're unmastered right now, but they won't be forever) and know that I appreciate hearing your thoughts. If you have any questions for me, those are wonderful, too. Most of this is entirely new territory for me, and I've never deliberately put myself into such a place before. Believe me when I say that your feedback is important There is even a track which features Cat herself–it won't be the last if I have my way.


Wild, I take each mile of road,
as much as I can get
You ask me if I'm lonely.
Well, I haven't felt it yet.
Wild, I'm singing up the moon
and down the winds of change.
Cross the world in this handbasket,
your girl is passing strange
Lady Vagabond hath risen and come into her own
Singing Hi, the open road is home!

I Send my melody line around
and back to chase its tail
gas tank's full, like a head of stories,
and the road will never pale
my heart will never fail     
a life that's full can never pale 
my voice will never fail.   
hear that lonely train whistle wail!

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