Faun Fables - The Transit Rider

Arriving right on time for its 20th anniversary, Faun Fables’ musical theater work The Transit Rider returns in a lovely 2xLP vinyl edition that dimensionally burnishes the bristling perfor- mances and elevated chamber/cabaret folk sounds of the original CD-only release. At once a work of theatre, allegory and auto- biography, The Transit Rider amplifies Faun Fables’ distinctive electroacoustic wash of Anglo-European folk sounds, shimmering allusively from traditional to Kurt Weill to folk-rock and back again. The route that led to The Transit Rider goes back even further than 2006; it was first embarked upon in the early ‘90s, when Dawn McCarthy moved to NYC and was introduced to the transient and constant glories of its sub- way system, a massive world unto itself. As she rode the trains, the subterranean, sing- ing landscape suggested a journey in song: a rider aboard a ubiquitous transit system, a network of rails, roads, corridors and trails extending in all directions, meeting itself again on the far side of the world. Upon this endless circuitous path, she encounters characters that may or may not help her search to find a clearing amid this mass of machinery and humanity in which to stop and have a picnic.

1. Birth
2. Transit Theme
3. House Carpenter
4. In Speed
5. Taki Pejaz
6. Roadkill
7. Earth's Kiss
8. Fire & Castration
9. The Questioning
10. I No Longer Wish To
11. The Corwith Brothers
12. Dream On A Train
13. I'd Like To Be

UPC 781484031413