why have I not posted a link to this before ?! this is the debut ep from my new band The Mieka Canon – listen, download (free) & memorize:

From The Mouth Of Paris

here’s another audio recording of a live show – this time, of me & the band at Rockwood last thursday. and wow, the band & I had such a good time – it was an amazing show. check out tracks 1, 2, & 7 in particular because those are the songs going on the new ep we’re working on.

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Mieka Pauley & Band Live at Rockwood Music Hall on April 23, 2009
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I’ve been obsessed with daytrotter for a while, and I finally got to stop by their studios in the quad cities while on tour last fall. the session got posted today – I am so happy with how the piece turned out – daytrotter puts the art back into the music scene. I recorded, acoustic & live-to-two-track, #1 a new-ish song “We’re All Gonna Die”; #2 a cover of my friend noam weinstein‘s “When I Get My”; #3 the first track from my last album (elijah drop your gun) “All The Same Mistakes”; and #4 the a capella “Marked Man”.

here’s an excerpt from their write-up:

Beauty In The Business Of Toughness

Words by Sean Moeller // Illustration by Johnnie Cluney // Sound engineering by Mike Gentry

…She brings words to her tongue that don’t feel to be of difficult conception, as if they are the particles that have just been swishing around her canals and veins for all of her eternity, which is the only eternity that matters much. They are the pieces of her that she’s never going to get rid of and it comes out as music that will make you feel minty and it will make you feel misty and just the right temperature – where the sun’s blazing down on you on an otherwise chilly day. She takes fate on a day-to-day basis and that could be the smartest thing anyone can do. You carve your own way or whittle your own coffin.