Rarities Digital FLAC Album

Rarities Digital FLAC AlbumNatalie Merchant's Rarities, first released as part of the 2017 ten disc box set The Natalie Merchant Collection and here available digitally for the first time, is a collection of fifteen rare and previously unreleased tracks recorded between 1998 and 2017, which offers a unique view of Merchant's creative experimentation through home studio demos, album outtakes, live tracks, and collaborations with diverse artists like Billy Bragg, David Byrne, The

Jane Siberry

comprises 10 original songs plus a cover of Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" and features guest performances by John Paul Jones and Devendra Banhart

This double-disc song cycle about the rise and fall of the Philippines’ notorious Imelda Marcos was conceived by David Byrne

featuring the original New York cast

jazz tunes (Elmo Hope

and producer Tom Skinner (The Smile

and yet you can keep on opening these doors and diving down these little rabbit holes

Beatles melodies

Olivia Chaney

available as MP3s

" Produced by long-time Newman collaborators Mitchell Froom

and Angelo Petraglia to the sessions