Waking Hour (album)

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Waking Hour
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Studio album by Vienna Teng
Released November 5, 2002
Genre Indie folk, pop, chamber pop
Label Virt
Vienna Teng chronology
Waking Hour
(2002)
Warm Strangers
(2004) Warm Strangers 2004
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Waking Hour is Vienna Teng's first album. Originally released independently in 2001, the album was re-released in 2002 with minor modifications after Teng signed with small label Virt Records.

Vienna Teng Taiwanese-American pianist and singer-songwriter based in Detroit

Cynthia Yih Shih, better known by her stage name Vienna Teng, is an American pianist and singer-songwriter based in Detroit, Michigan. Teng has released five studio albums: Waking Hour (2002), Warm Strangers (2004), Dreaming Through the Noise (2006), Inland Territory (2009) and Aims (2013). She has also released one live album, The Moment Always Vanishing (2009), on which she is double-billed with her percussionist, Alex Wong.

Virt Records is an independent record label based in Seattle, USA.

The album was released in the United Kingdom by Rounder Europe in 2006 under license from Virt Records.

Track listing

  1. "The Tower" — 3:51
  2. "Momentum" — 5:23
  3. "Gravity" — 3:40
  4. "Daughter" — 3:16
  5. "Between" — 3:35
  6. "Say Uncle" — 5:27
  7. "Drought" — 4:06
  8. "Enough to Go By" — 4:20
  9. "Unwritten Letter #1" — 3:37
  10. "Eric's Song" — 5:08
  11. "Soon Love Soon" — 4:38
  12. "Lullaby for a Stormy Night" — 3:53
  13. "Decade and One" — 4:59

(Note: This is the track listing for the re-released version on Virt Records. The original, independent release had a slightly different track order and less polished versions of a few songs.)

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