Walls, Boxes, & Jars

Infobox Album
Name = Walls, Boxes, & Jars
Type = studio
Longtype =
Artist = Raven Oak


Released = August 17 2001
Recorded = 1997-2001
Genre = Alternative
Length = 52:00
Label = Shaded Tree
Producer = Raven Oak
Reviews =
*Collected Sounds [http://www.collectedsounds.com/spotlight/ravenoak.html link]
*Score Music [http://www.scoremusicmagazine.com/fadingbook8-02.html link]
Last album = --none--
This album = Walls, Boxes, & Jars
Next album = Fight or Flight

Walls, Boxes, & Jars (2001), featuring the popular songs "Tidal Wave Goodbye" and "Ligeia", was the debut album of singer and pianist Raven Oak. Written while facing the constraints of college music classes, this album explores the depths of the categories, labels, and boxes society often forces upon survivors. This album helped pave the way for Raven Oak, a survivor of rape and abuse, to freely express herself, no longer a silent victim.

From gentle mourning, to fire filled anger, this album truly shows the complex range of emotions available through means of a piano. One track, "MZB", was written just after author Marion Zimmer Bradley (of The Mists of Avalon) died as a tribute to her works.

This album also donates to RAINN, the Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network.

Track listing

#"One"
#"Ostinato"
#"To J."
#"Ligeia"
#"Home"
#"MZB"
#"Love"
#"Regrets"
#"Tidal Wave Goodbye"