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      Corpus Callosum on April 23, 2010

      Thanks Skye.

      Candice :Corpus Callosum thinks of the album more as a big collaborative art piece than anything else. Our last EP didn't have the album name or band name printed on the front cover, but it did have all that information on the back cover. You make a good point about the band's product being the main point of the album, though. We will definitely think about that.
      We are trying to come up with some form of ingenious packaging for the album. If we don't, however, and the album comes in a normal CD jewel-case then the band name and album name would be visible on the spine. That seems like a good solution to me. If the packaging is something unique then we wont know how to display the album name and band name.

      Any thoughts?

      -Avery

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      Candice on April 18, 2010

      Dear Avery,

      The album cover art sounds very intriguing. However, unless I am misunderstanding, you do want the name of the band and the title of the album on the cover. While these images certainly sound very striking, they are not the artist product that is being offered. This is an artistic expression more than just a commercial product, but you do want to sell some of them.

      Best of luck with the project.

      Love and light,
      Candice and Sean Lisle

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      Skye Mangrum on April 9, 2010

      Hi, can't wait to hear the album... you guys rock! :p
      -Skye

      PS. Please check out my art project w/ barefoot ladies ;)
      http://www.BarefootLadiesArtBook.com

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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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