Violet

Description

Violet is a solo album by the American singer and songwriter Karen Peris of The Innocence Mission, independently released in December 2012. The album was recorded in late 2012 with Don Peris engineering. All songs written by Karen Peris.

While we have been working on a new (the innocence mission) record, we’ve also enjoyed making recordings of a group of songs that seemed to belong together on a separate album. They were all written on piano. Some have words and are sung, with piano and with beautiful guitar parts from Don. And others are piano only, or piano and pump organ, and some other instruments. My instruments are all fairly old and NOISY, so Don gets a special award for most patient and excellent engineer. He worked so meticulously to record my old spinet and little field (pump) organ. The accordion was the funny last straw, it’s started to sound like a giant bowl of rice crispies, so it is having a small rest. I’m thrilled that our children have added wonderful violin and viola parts to two of the songs. So I’ve had tremendous help with this record, which is called Violet, and it really has been a joy to make. – Karen Peris

> Apple Music (https://music.apple.com/us/album/violet/585098277)

CD tracklist:

01. Song For A New Day – 2:42
02. Pascal’s Evening Song – 1:47
03. Wales Because the Sun Would Shine – 1:23
04. Violet – 2:25
05. Julie and the Universe – 2:14
06. Procession – 2:30
07. Sweet William – 3:20
08. The Blue Rooftops – 1:43
09. Rowing Across – 1:07
10. Landscape with Birds – 1:29

Note: Available at Bandcamp: https://theinnocencemission.bandcamp.com/album/violet