#Blue caravan vienna teng full

#Blue caravan vienna teng full

Since going back to grad school and being inspired by an album full of songs about things like climate change and fluctuating urban populations, she's straight-up admitted to being 'dorky' when explaining her song inspirations in concert.Asian and Nerdy: Alludes to model minority stereotypes in Grandmother Song ('All the good boys, baby, they're in grad school.') Teng herself attended Stanford as an undergrad and worked for Cisco as a software engineer before seriously pursuing music.Anachronic Order: Recessional is backwards.Amazing Freaking Grace: The penultimate line of Recessional is 'oh words like rain, how sweet the sound,' sung almost exactly to the familiar tune.Album Title Drop: 'Recessional' provides the title to Dreaming Through the Noise:.Alternate Universe: No Gringo, where-in Americans are trying to get across the border into Mexico because America's economy collapsed.All Drummers Are Animals: When introducing Antebellum on the live album, Vienna mentions Alex drooling over the arrangement, which Alex notes is a very clichéd thing for a drummer to do.After the End: Enough to Go By, according to Word of God.2010 - The Moment Always Vanishing (live album).

She has taken to touring in the past few years, often accompanied by professional percussionist Alex Wong, who co-produced Inland Territory with her. A classically trained pianist, she left a job at Cisco Systems to write and record music full-time. Vienna Teng (born Cynthia Yih Shih, October 3, 1978) is a San Francisco Bay Area singer/songwriter who works in a style she likes to call chamber-folk.