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Joseph Trapanese and Dia Frampton make up Archis. Dia finished second on Season 1 of The Voice.

The wait’s almost over. The six-track EP will be available Monday.

In fact, you can listen to the entire EP now at indiecurrent.com. And you can pre-order it on iTunes for the bargain price of $4.99.

Just don’t search for Dia Frampton. Search for Archis, the name Dia adopted for her new musical venture with producer/composer Joseph Trapanese.

The sound is different, too. Refreshingly different as choir-like harmonies and Dia’s delicate vocals are woven around Trapanese’s instrumentals to give the songs a more grandiose treatment than anything you’ll find on the singer’s post-Voice pop album, “Red.”

Released in December 2011, that album had its share of highlights — “Billy the Kid” and “Bullseye,” for instance — but wasn’t a commercial success.

Hence, Dia, now 27, was dropped by Universal Republic Records and expected to have to release the Archis EP independently last summer.

Instead, ARCHIS wound up signing with Nettwerk Records, something Dia admitted came as something of a surprise.

“I was honestly quite shocked,” she wrote in a blog post last summer. “I never thought a label would be interested in Archis. We’re not a money-making band. We’re not a guaranteed radio band by any means either. I mean, all our songs meet the five-minute mark.”

Signing with a label meant a delay in the EP’s release.

But that seems to have worked out just fine. Archis has a pair of EP release shows set for Monday in Los Angeles.

Both are sold out.

More videos are on the way, too. Dia’s Facebook page includes clips from video shoots for “Let Me Love” and “Bittersweet” and she promises the latter will be released soon.

Meanwhile, if you haven’t seen it yet, here’s “Blood.”

Nettwerk describes the song as a “declaration of intent” for someone who’s spent a lifetime in the music business and “is finally feeling the personal fulfillment of doing what she wants.”