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On April 7, Zoë/Rounder Records will release Inland Territory, the new album by songwriter, singer and pianist Vienna Teng. Inland Territory is a tour de force musically and lyrically, a complex and deeply thoughtful work from an artist cut loose from limitations. Recorded over five months and in four cities, with instrumentation ranging from foot stomps to vintage keyboards to full string orchestra, it's without question her most ambitious work yet.

Now thirty, Vienna has released three critically acclaimed albums, landing her on three Billboard charts and in Amazon.coms top ten. She regularly sells out theaters across the U.S. and Europe, fans travel hundreds of miles to catch a single show, and her opening sets for the likes of India.Arie, Joan Baez and Madeleine Peyroux end in standing ovations. Mere months after quitting her job as a software engineer in 2002, she was being interviewed on NPR and performing on CBS Saturday Early Shows Second Cup Café and The Late Show with David Letterman, who declared that hed listened to her entire debut album and that there was not a dud on it. Her brand of sophisticated, piano-driven pop has been gathering accolades ever since: seductive and transcendent (Amazon.com), gorgeously conceivedaccomplished yet understated (Paste), singular among her peers (Variety).