(Pop, Songwriter, Piano) Vienna Teng - Aims - 2013, MP3, 320 kbps

Singer-songwriter Vienna Teng is set to release her first studio album in four years on Sept. 24, celebrating her new home in Detroit (after completing a degree in sustainability at The University of Michigan) with cover art that’s based on a map of the city.
“I’m struck by how many stories are embedded in those colors,” said Teng in a recent statement. “It’s easy to see Detroit’s familiar tragedy: swaths of orange sounding the alarm of collapse, dysfunction, injustice, abandonment. There are also glimmers of resurgence and stubborn survival: vibrant purple in the city center, plus other proud neighborhoods dotting the city’s 139 square miles. And there are the pregnant questions, stories yet unwritten: what’s possible in a city that looks like this? What do we dare to imagine for its future?”