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ADVANCED ALBUM DOWNLOAD - you'll get an advanced digital download of the album as soon as it is mastered.
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ALBUM PRE-ORDER - we'll send you the new album on CD as soon as it's pressed as well as a download and poster of our last EP, "Machine Under Its Own Spell."
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FAN CLUB - a limited-edition print of our paper-boat press photo (signed/numbered by photographer Heather Hryciw), and an *autographed* CD of the upcoming album.
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BEHIND THE SCENES - a digital download of the UNCUT PRE-MASTERED tracks (inclusive of all the Corpus chatter) as soon as the mixing is finished, plus the press photo and signed CD.
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IN THE CREDITS - a digital download of the uncut pre-mastered tracks (inclusive of all the Corpus chatter) as soon as the mixing is finished, plus the press photo, a signed CD and YOUR NAME IN THE LINER NOTES OF THE UPCOMING ALBUM!
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ORIGINAL ARTWORK - a signed/numbered collage-photograph by STEPHANIE, with all of the "fan club" rewards, and with your name in the liner notes of the upcoming album!
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ORIGINAL ARTWORK - an original 4"x6" watercolor painting by DAX, with all of the "fan club" rewards, and with your name in the liner notes of the upcoming album.
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ORIGINAL ARTWORK - one-of-a-kind handmade construction paper art by ANDREA, with all of the "fan club" rewards, and with your name in the liner notes of the upcoming album.
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ARTWORK COLLECTION - one-of-a-kind personalized works of art from TWO of the three artists mentioned above, with all of the "fan club" rewards, and with your name in the liner notes of the upcoming album.
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ARTWORK COLLECTION - ALL THREE of the above items of original artwork, with all of the "fan club" rewards, and your name in the liner notes of the upcoming album.
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CORPUS CALLOSUM WILL WRITE YOU A SONG - we will write you a song, record it, and send it to you, as well as one piece of original personalized art and everything else mentioned above.
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A Corpus Callosum show starts small: accordionist Dax Tran-Caffee approaches the stage alone. He squeezes a slow chantey from the yawning bellows of his accordion. He sings. One by one his band mates emerge from the crowd. Each member of Corpus Callosum carries a worn brown suitcase. The lilting solo ballad effloresces into full orchestration as the performers divest their suitcases of the instruments therein concealed.
Accordion is joined by bells, mandolin, ukulele, toy piano and scrap-metal percussion; Dax's voice is joined by four-part harmony. There are seven members of Corpus Callosum: Stephanie Bailey [flute, vocals, stilts, dance], Qarly Canant [ukulele, glass goblets, glockenspiel, autoharp, stilts, vocals], Stevie Hryciw [keys, bass, stylophone, percussion, sampler, vocals], Andrea Craver [mandolin, melodica, vocals], Jason Samaha [percussion, banjo], Dax Tran-Caffee [accordions, glass goblets, puppets, vocals] and Avery Burke [guitar, vocals]. By the end of their first song five of their number are on stage. Stephanie picks charily through the crowd on her tall stilts and hangs small blue lights from the ceiling. Avery has climbed a stool at the back of the room and glares from behind a megaphone, unnoticed.
The now soaring chantey ends abruptly. Jason hammers an ominous beat from a large steel spring. Avery screams into the megaphone. Corpus Callosum crashes into a Brecht/Weill cover with an original middle section—a dissonant take on Reich during which Avery twists violently on the floor.
Throughout the performance each member will take several parts, calling for several instruments, and sing harmonies. With Stevie's arrangements Corpus Callosum can effect the sound of a small orchestra. Dax, a puppeteer with an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, builds an eight foot long Spanish galleon from seemingly haphazard bits of cardboard. Stephanie, a dancer trained in Prague, twirls with a giant moth puppet. Qarly, a graduate of the Clown Conservatory in San Francisco, dons stilts. Andrea spins tender melodies on the strings of a mandolin older than bluegrass.
In 2005 Corpus Callosum released an EP, “Machine Under Its own Spell,” which reached #1 on KUOI, ID, and charted across the country. They have played with the Mountain Goats, Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, Jason Webley, Azure Ray and Yo La Tengo among others. They are the 2009 recipients of the unsolicted Collaborative Grant from the Belle Foundation for Cultural Development.
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