INCOMING | Rose Polenzani — The Rabbit

[Parhelion; August 22, 2011]

Rose Polenzani returns next month with her first solo album since 2005′s impressive August [review], a six-year gap punctuated by releases with Session Americana and Sharon Lewis, plus numerous tours, including a stint as one of The Fates in the Greater Boston staging of Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown folk opera. The self-produced The Rabbit features thirteen original songs recorded live in the studio with fifteen other musicians, including the familiar faces of Amy Correia, Laura Cortese and Rose Cousins, and was mixed by Gary Maurer of Hem. The artwork below comes from illustrator Peter Lalish. Pre-order directly from Rose herself here.

Watch a video below of album opener ‘Seven Swans’ played live at Club Passim in October 2009, with Jennifer Kimball and Anne Heaton on backing vocals.

Tracklist:
01 Seven Swans
02 The Blue Seed
03 Living In A Country
04 Pretty Black Ship
05 Old Woman
06 The Skin & The Body Are Blind
07 The Hardship
08 The Veil
09 The Lawn & The Sky
10 Calculation (Ten Babies Walking)
11 This Bitter Heart
12 Dead Rabbit
13 Alligator River

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