Come Out of Your Mine was recorded in Yale University’s Dwight Chapel, very late one night in the fall of 1997. Mia was living in New York City at that time. The songs reflect her growing body of experience and her obsession with alliteration, wordplay and puns. “Independence Day” chronicles an outing to Boston to attend a friend’s wedding. “Strawberries” and “Jackals” recount vivid dreams and their effect on reality. Hijikata was the founder of the modern Japanese dance form Butoh; Mia was greatly influenced by his ideas and would soon be on her way to Japan to study dance. “Your Room” and “Sunday Afternoon” are mementos of a great love, while “Age,”sung a cappella, is an old-fashioned pastoral poem with a naughty twist. The last song, “The River & the Ocean,” was written near Washington Square Park; it was a hot, sweaty summer. The 16-page booklet of highly-detailed pen-and-ink song illustrations is a surreal and fanciful work of great imagination.