Dreaming Through the Noise (CD - 2006)

Personnel: Vienna Teng (vocals, piano, Wurlitzer organ); Dean Parks (guitar, E-bow, mandolin); Debra Fong, Carla Kihlstedt (violin); Dina Maccabee (viola, background vocals); Marika Hughes (cello); Frank Marocco (accordion); Lee Thornburg (trumpet, flugelhorn); Till Brönner (trumpet); Jay Bellerose (drums, percussion); Kyler England (background vocals).

Audio Mixer: Helix Hadar.

Recording information: Different Fur Studios, San Francisco, CA; Market Street Studios, Santa Monica, CA; Paramount Studios, Hollywood, CA.

Photographer: Andrew Paynter.

On her third album, Californian singer-songwriter Vienna Teng performs a set of hushed, classically influenced pop-folk that starts with the delicate "Blue Caravan" and progresses through the jazzy, avant-garde "I Don't Feel So Well, " the muted Latin feel of "Transcontinental 1:30 A.M.," and "Pontchartrain," an aching elegy for the inundated city of New Orleans. Teng's low-key vocal approach is subtly conspiratorial, making you feel you're overhearing whispered confidences. minimize