Arto Vaun has released his new single, “Stuck Inside a Map”, the title track and second single off of has album Stuck Inside a Map, set to release in July of this year.

Mixing English and Armenian lyrics, this single “pushes against rigid borders— whether physical or metaphorical—that are imposed on us or that we impose on ourselves.”

The album itself is the result of around 6 years of songwriting “grappling with loss, grief, and rebirth.” .

Arto Vaun is a multicultural songwriter/musician and poet from Boston, Massachusetts. With his first project, a duo called Mishima USA, he played shows with artists like Rufus Wainwright, Ben Kweller, Daniel Johnston, Wheat, Kimya Dawson, War on Drugs, Mark Eitzel, and Wheat.

Then life took him overseas for over 12 years, where he wrote a book of poems, finished a PhD in Creative Writing, and was an English lit professor. In 2013, he released The Cynthia Sessions. Now he’s back with Stuck Inside a Map.