Like To All We Stretch the Open Arm, Mirah's collaboration with the Black Cat Orchestra, Share This Place begins with an interesting concept that becomes something richer than might be expected. This time, Mirah works with Spectratone International, an ensemble formed by former Black Cat Orchestra founder and cellist Lori Goldston and accordionist Kyle Hanson, on a song cycle about the lives of insects. Share This Place is also part of a larger work that incorporates short films by stop-motion animator Britta Johnson, and the entire project was inspired by the writing of 19th century entomologist and poet J. Henri Fabre, as well as Karel Capek's The Insect Play. Paired with Johnson's films and in their own right, Mirah and Spectratone International's songs are intricate and beautifully made, giving a larger scale to the big events in these tiny lives -- birth, death, mating, eating, sacrifice, survival -- while keeping the details that make them fascinating. Musically, Share This Place is exotic yet friendly, nodding to the gypsy tendencies in Mirah's music since You Think It's Like This But Really It's Like This.

Track Listing
1 Community
2 Gestation of the Sacred Beetle
3 Following the Sun
4 My Prize
5 Supper
6 Song of Psyche
7 Luminescence
8 Emergence of the Primary Larva
9 My Lord Who Hums
10 Ecdysis
11 Love Song of the Fly
12 Credo Cigalia