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''Won't you carry me down to him soon?''|'''Vienna Teng''', "Blue Caravan"}}
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Vienna Teng is a Bay Area singer/songwriter who works in a style she likes to call chamber-folk. A classically trained pianist, she left a job at Cisco Systems to write and record music full-time. She has taken to touring in the past few years, often accompanied by professional percussionist Alex Wong, who co-produced ''Inland Territory'' with her.
[[Vienna Teng]] is a Bay Area singer/songwriter who works in a style she likes to call chamber-folk. A classically trained pianist, she left a job at Cisco Systems to write and record music full-time. She has taken to touring in the past few years, often accompanied by professional percussionist Alex Wong, who co-produced ''Inland Territory'' with her.


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Discography:
* 2002 - ''Waking Hour''
* 2002 - ''Waking Hour''
* 2004 - ''Warm Strangers''
* 2004 - ''Warm Strangers''
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* 2009 - ''Inland Territory''
* 2009 - ''Inland Territory''
* 2010 - ''The Moment Always Vanishing'' (live album)
* 2010 - ''The Moment Always Vanishing'' (live album)

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She provides examples of:
* [[After the End]]: ''Enough to Go By'', through [[Word of God]].
* [[After the End]]: ''Enough to Go By'', through [[Word of God]].
* [[Alternate Universe]]: ''No Gringo'', {{spoiler|where-in [[Persecution Flip|Americans are trying to get across the border into Mexico]] because America's economy collapsed.}} [[Harsher in Hindsight|Oh, wait]].
* [[Alternate Universe]]: ''No Gringo'', {{spoiler|where-in [[Persecution Flip|Americans are trying to get across the border into Mexico]] because America's economy collapsed.}} [[Harsher in Hindsight|Oh, wait]].
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** The live album ''The Moment Always Vanishing'' gets its title from ''Antebellum'', which originally appeared in ''Inland Territory'':
** The live album ''The Moment Always Vanishing'' gets its title from ''Antebellum'', which originally appeared in ''Inland Territory'':
{{quote|''In the fall we circle through the leaves
{{quote|''In the fall we circle through the leaves
And talk about the little ones
''And talk about the little ones
And we smile, but never say too much
''And we smile, but never say too much
The moment always vanishing'' }}
''The moment always vanishing'' }}
* [[Amazing Freaking Grace]]: The penultimate line of "Recessional" is "oh words like rain, how sweet the sound," sung almost exactly to the familiar tune.
* [[Amazing Freaking Grace]]: The penultimate line of "Recessional" is "oh words like rain, how sweet the sound," sung almost exactly to the familiar tune.
* [[Anachronic Order]]: ''Recessional'' is backwards.
* [[Anachronic Order]]: ''Recessional'' is backwards.