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Outside The Box
Abby Lappen
Abby displays her passion for performance art with her quirky and innovative style, creating a collection of songs in a cross genre mix, from haunting folk and satirical blues to jazzy ballads and syncopated melodies, a powerful new voice.
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Barnyard Blues | 4:36 | Play |
| 2 |
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Canyons | 3:23 | Play |
| 3 |
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Mass Infatuation | 5:02 | Play |
| 4 |
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Martin's Lilacs | 4:51 | Play |
| 5 |
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This Song | 2:51 | Play |
| 6 |
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Sand | 5:48 | Play |
| 7 |
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Peter | 3:21 | Play |
| 8 |
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Techno-Perfect | 3:00 | Play |
| 9 |
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Blue Iris | 3:24 | Play |
| 10 |
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Doggone Love | 2:29 | Play |
| 11 |
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Hat Trick | 4:36 | Play |
| 12 |
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Ballad of Pedro | 5:19 | Play |
| 13 |
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Piece of Green | 4:41 | Play |
| 14 |
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Little Boxes | 3:30 | Play |
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Description
Having found expression through her quirky and ebullient choreography, Abby transformed her career into a musical counterpart. Like her dances, her song art moves effortlessly-from haunting folk and rhythmical ballads to satirical blues and jazzy, offbeat melodies.
Joining her on her album are Michael Carr on mandolin and lead guitar, Jay Gerald on lead guitar and drums, Jonathan Talbot and Tanya Huang on violin, Carly McKenney on Harmonica and Seth Travins on bass.
The cover song is an adaptation of "Little Boxes" by Malvina Reynolds. The changes occur in both the lyrics and style of the recording. Abby does a gospel/blues arrangement played on her bass marimba; also featured in the cover art.
"Barnyard Blues" was written after playing all night at a song swap up on the hill at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. There is no greater appreciation of dawn than after a night of music. It gives great perspective on how polar the world really is.
Falcon Ridge was also the inspiration for "Mass Infatuation". The song came through the din on the mid-way on a beautiful afternoon.
Abby must have played "This Song" 100 times over on September 11th. It gave her some peace. She wrote "Canyons" one year later. They both have a meditative quality for her as she practices. The lyrics "glass parade" refer to the World Trade Towers. Her old friend Doug Brodoff wrote a song for a dance piece she choreographed back in Yellow Springs not too long after the towers were built. He had a line in there "Can't see the sunset from 14th St., but you can see it just fine from the towers. World of trade, it's a glass parade..." The reference is subtle but present.
"Peter" refers to a boy from Abby's hometown, New Haven. An embarrassing moment of interaction combined with a strong dislike of the song "Dankeshane" crowding the airwaves back then and most likely the culprit of the incident, resonated. She took two shady memories and created one of her favorite songs.
"Sand" and "Blue Iris" are both songs Abby partially wrote as a child. The melodies were present so that it was quite organic to complete them as an adult. "Words come easily now; I have so much more to say".