[PRE-ORDER] SONIC MEMOIR: Demos 1989-1998 4CD Boxset

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Release date: September 10, 2026 - 675 Records

Sonic Memoir is a 63-track box set of demos from 1989-1998 featuring two volumes of previously released material and unreleased tracks. 

This boxset includes: 

• 4 CDs
  
• 52 page booklet of personal autobiography and liner notes 

"Demos were a necessity in the 90’s. It was a kind-of holy-grail-quest for an artist to be signed to a major label if you had a hope of reaching a wider audience. Getting signed – it was like climbing Mount Everest. Arduous, a little demoralizing, rare. For the label to comprehend the vision of the artist, the artist had to make demos. This was a skilled and costly endeavor in the 80’s and 90’s – you had to scavenge tape or studio time at cost or essentially, learn to self-produce. And so, I did.  I scrimped and saved my dollars and bought second-hand gear. Mark and I set up my Vision software and a Tascam 8 track TSR-8 in the bedroom. I honed my process as a nascent producer, thanks in great part to the talented and giving individuals who walked the path with me, taught me, supported me. And incredibly, these early incarnations of my songs, shitty digital piano and all, still exist - even after my nomadic life and cross-continental moves.  They are my masters.  They don’t belong to the corrupt label to which I signed (the supposed holy-grail-turned fetid, pushing sharecropper-contracts.) These recordings are my intellectual property, and they represent my collaboration with key musical life-partners and the psychological sandbox in which I learned to adult and imagine."  - Paula Cole

Track Listing

Volume I

1. Watch The Woman's Hands
2. Alone
3. Last November
4. All On My Shoulders
5. To Sell?
6. Bethlehem
7. Unbroken
8. Chiaroscuro
9. Black Boots/The Book of Dorothy
10. Slow Dancing with Apathy
11. yes..
12. Hitler's Brothers
13. Suwannee Jo
14. hush, hush, hush
15. Me
16. To Be Jane
17. Rock of Gibraltar
18. Sunflower
19. Saint Quentin
20. Revolution (Is A State of Mind)
21. Song for an Oysterman
22. Girl
23. The Millionaire, The Devil, The Voodoo Doll
24. Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?
25. Tiger 
26. Road To Dead
27. America Is A Hooker
28. Dirty Words/Running
29. Harbinger
30. Postcards From East Oceanside
31. Virgin Snow
32. Laugh Away The Pain
33. I Don't Want To Wait
34. Nietzsche's Eyes
35. Mississippi

Volume II

1. Island
2. My Goat
3. White Lily
4. Secret
5. Garden of Eden
6. Rain In My Egypt
7. Dear Gertrude 
8. Saturn Girl 
9. Distant Corners of the Earth
10. Happy Home
11. Oh John
12. The Ladder
13. She Can't Feel Anything Anymore
14. Where Have All The Cowboys Gone? (rumba)
15. I Am So Ordinary
16. Johnny London
17. Gold
18. Deep South
19. Jolene
20. Blood Orange
21. God's Play
22. Throwing Stones
23. Carmen (Take #1)
24. LaTonya
25. Here I Am
26. Night
27. Feelin' Love
28. Ring Finger