Vienna Teng, a child of Silicon Valley who now makes her home in New York City, is a brilliant songwriter and performer who has been dazzling audiences for about 7 years now. Despite a fiercely loyal following, I think she is one of the the most underappreciated musical talents in the U.S. today. She has four exceptional albums to her credit and her shows are nothing less than spellbinding, whether performing alone on a piano or supported by the accomplished musicians who tour with her. She writes songs that are melodic and intelligent, often haunting and sometimes rhythmically complex. On stage she projects a confident but self-deprecating demeanor and often talks about the genesis of her songs before singing them. Her concert DVD Live at World Café Live (recorded in Philadelphia in January 2007) is one of my favorites.

This show was played to a packed house at Le Poisson Rouge club in Manhattan as part of a tour to support the recent release of Vienna’s Inland Territory CD. The matrix recording was made using the mixed outs from the soundboard and a pair of Milab DC-196 LD mics about 30 feet from the stage.

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• Vienna Teng – vocals, piano, looping pedal, clapping
• Ward Williams – cello, guitar, percussion
• Alex Wong – drums, glockenspiel, exotic instruments, vocals

1 intro
2. Whatever You Want
3. Blue Caravan
4. Gravity
5. band intros
6. Antebellum
7. In Another Life
8. Kansas
9. The Last Snowfall
10. No Gringo
11. Stray Italian Greyhound
12. White Light
13. St. Stephen’s Cross
14. acknowledgments
15. Grandmother Song
16. Harbor

Console mix by Tom Dubee
Many thanks to in-house engineers Garth and Nelson
Thanks especially to Vienna for permission to record the show

Recorded by Keith from NY

4-channel matrix recording:
sbd > Oade Concert R-44 @24/44.1 > PNY 16Gb SDHC
Milab DC-196 (cardioid DIN, 30′ from stage 10′ up DFC) > Darktrain Silver cables > Oade Concert R-44 @24/44.1 > PNY 16Gb SDHC
cardreader > Audition 3.0/Ozone 4 (reverb on sbd channels, mic/sbd synchronization, stereo mixdown, normalization, fades, MBIT+ dither) > CD Wave (tracking) > FLAC Level 8

Visit Vienna’s website and buy her CDs and DVD at
www.viennateng.com.

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