Vermillion Lies - Separated By Birth (2006)

Vermillion Lies was born in 2004 when Zoe Boekbinder traveled north from the wild jungles of Central America to teach her sister Kim guitar. After putting themselves on stage with an amplified typewriter and many other musical oddities, the sisters were off and running into the brick wall of the musician's life. Vermillion Lies have earned a reputation for a great live performance and beautiful arrangements. They craft their songs with guitars, pianos, typewriters, toy pianos, washboards, pots and pans, broken pipes, old steamer trunks, lobsters, and more… and more…. and more….

Vermillion Lies has shared the stage with: The Ditty Bops on their current Bicycle Bikini tour, Camper Van Beethoven, Jason Webley and Carla Kihlstedt.

'There is a special kind of thrill that comes from finding someone who takes unadulterated joy in the texture of sounds – someone who understands how to use texture in the creation of beauty, laughter, sorrow, or reckless abandon. Vermillion Lies layers all such understanding over the well-crafted bones of songs about heartbreak, destruction, and unorthodox cooking. And circuses. And pets. (all the pressing issues of our tenuous times, after all.) The tracks vary from those that make you leap out of your chair to dance around the room to those that force you back into the chair to listen intently to the speakers… one of my very very favourite new bands to emerge from the Bay Area in quite some time.' -Greg Scharpen, KALX radio, Berkeley

'Separated by Birth - One album in two acts has sixteen tracks ranging from retro jazz, to lyrical folk melodies, to raucous circus ballads with toy piano and accordion.

The album features Carla Kihlstedt (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Tin Hat Trio,) Gino Robair (Splatter Trio, Tom Waits,) and Myles Boisen. Boisen, who recorded the album, is known for his work with Tom Waits, The Tigerlillies and The Club Foot Orchestra.//cdbaby.com

Tracklist:

01 - Overture (0:56)
02 - Circus Apocalypse (2:55)
03 - Circus Fish (2:36)
04 - Monkey (3:19)
05 - Shark Serenade (2:01)
06 - Bad Man (2:57)
07 - Tfird (1:39)
08 - Drift (2:31)
09 - I Should Fly (3:02)
10 - Shady (3:40)
11 - No Good (2:35)
12 - Louder (3:34)
13 - This Town (2:47)
14 - Come Down (2:35)
15 - White Picket (1:48)
16 - Pet Me, Feed Me (2:21)
17 - Middleground (4:43)