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November 2009 
New Album Downloads Out Now: Quartered - Songs of Palimsest
Posted on Feb 25th, 2009
by 
Sooj
Sooj
Attention Citizens of Palimpsest!
Let the music be your guide.
Hope your Mardi Gras was splendid!
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 beyond, from February 25 to April 30 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
Catherynne, Dmitri, Kevin and I will be touring together in support of Palimpsest and Quartered through the end of April. I suspect I will be writing more new songs about the book during that time. 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.
This isn't the final album art, either, but I've been getting good responses from it. :D
I will be performing all of these songs at the launch in NYC tonight. If you are on the fence about attending, I hope that will sway you to our side. Newly posted early this morning is "Train Suite I, Ambient Mix." One more new piece will appear sometime today. Its name is "The List Falls Away." Check the album page for it and keep checking for new songs each week.
Let the music be your guide.
Hope your Mardi Gras was splendid!
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 beyond, from February 25 to April 30 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
Catherynne, Dmitri, Kevin and I will be touring together in support of Palimpsest and Quartered through the end of April. I suspect I will be writing more new songs about the book during that time. 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.
This isn't the final album art, either, but I've been getting good responses from it. :D
I will be performing all of these songs at the launch in NYC tonight. If you are on the fence about attending, I hope that will sway you to our side. Newly posted early this morning is "Train Suite I, Ambient Mix." One more new piece will appear sometime today. Its name is "The List Falls Away." Check the album page for it and keep checking for new songs each week.
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