Mia’s first album, The Ewe and the Eye, was recorded at the “Spaceshed” in Sierra Madre, California in fall 1996 and released the next spring on Xmas Records, an indie label from Los Angeles, run by the band Further which would later evolve into Beachwood Sparks. It was recorded in one sitting, solo-acoustically, onto quarter inch tape and is an intimate and poetic self-portrait of a young woman’s coming of age. These songs were written in New Haven, Connecticut where the LA native was experiencing the dramatic changing of the seasons for the first time; they meditate on love, time, nature, romance and loss. Long out of print, The Ewe and the Eye was reissued on City Zen Records in 2006 and includes the original 16-page booklet of Mia’s pen and ink illustrations as well as new recordings of three songs, “Planting,” “Johnny Appleseed,” and “Courting.”