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Bug out, if you please; K Records songstress Mirah, along with Spectratone International-- who sometimes moonlight as Lori Goldston and Kyle Hanson of Black Cat Orchestra— will release Share This Place: Stories and Observations on August 7.

The album, which explores such tried-and-true lyrical themes as the lives of insects, was inspired by French entomologist Jean Henri Fabre. The record was produced by Steve Fisk (Nirvana, Low, Beat Happening) and frequent Mirah collaborator Phil Elvrum of Mount Eerie.

And Share This Place isn't just an album. It's a multi-media experience! The music is meant to accompany a series of twelve animated short films by Britta Johnson. The film Credo Cigalia is included on the Share This Place CD.

Mirah will also saddle up her pony right on a few dates, including a string of mid-May appearances at Seattle's International Children's Festival.

Share This Place: Stories and Observations:

01 Community
02 Gestation of the Sacred Beetle
03 Following the Sun
04 My Prize
05 Supper
06 Song of Psyche
07 Luminescence
08 Emergence of the Primary Larva
09 My Lord Who Hums
10 Ecdysis
11 Love Song of the Fly
12 Credo Cigalia

Mirah dates:

05-14-19 Seattle, WA - Nesholm Family Hall, Seattle Center %
05-18 Seattle, WA - Vera Project %!
05-26 George, WA – The Gorge Amphitheatre
06-08 Portland, OR - Aladdin Theater *
07-09 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church ^
07-10 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom ^
07-11 Cambridge, MA - Middle East Underground ^
07-12 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa ^
07-13 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace ^
07-14 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick ^
07-15 Columbus, OH - Wexner Center #
07-17 Chicago, IL - Logan Square Auditorium #
07-19 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom #
07-20 Pittsburgh, PA - Diesel #
07-21 Washington, DC - Black Cat #

% with Spectratone International
! with Kimya Dawson
* with the Lovers, Mecca Normal
^ with Benjy Ferree
# with Laura Veirs