Featuring world-premiere  recordings, Grammy-nominated, long-time collaborative  duo soprano Laura Strickling and pianist Joy Schreier  return to add to the evolving legend of modern art song  in an album exploring rebellion in many forms: political,  emotional, erotic, maternal, and spiritual. From Afghan women’s landay poetry composed in defiance of  oppression, to mythic heroines reclaiming their own narratives, to Schubert's maiden reversing the power dynamic with Death,  to an unflinching portrayal of new  motherhood and a powerful meditation on love as  resistance. Pushing against conventional expectations  of what art song “should” be, this album offers a  kaleidoscopic array of harmonic and rhythmic languages  alongside compelling, deeply human texts; a program  that fascinates, challenges, informs, and delights –  inviting both devoted listeners of art song and those less  familiar with the genre into a richly expressive sonic  world celebrating contemporary song as a space for  courage, vulnerability, witness, and transformation.