This Alabama-born folk/pop singer boasts some pretty impressive credentials: married to Todd Fink of the Faint; signed to Saddle Creek Records; a member of Azure Ray and Art In Manila. Orenda Fink could choose to rest on her laurels. Thankfully, she's chosen not to, and her sophomore solo album, Ask The Night, was just released earlier [...]
After Azure Ray split, Orenda Fink has been as busy as a female Bob Pollard with her solo album Invisible Ones , her lush pop band Art In Manila, the art/music project O+S and now her sophomore solo album, Ask The Night . While O+S was more of an art project turned band and an experiment with technology, art and music; Ask The Night is more personal and stripped down, an experiment in emotion and traditional folk music, recorded on a basic 8-track. "Why Is The Night Sad" begins with gentle, sullen strumming and [...]
STREAM: Orenda Fink - Live on KCRW DOWNLOAD: Orenda Fink - "High Ground" (w/ Isaac Brock) Orenda Fink has had a busy year thus far between Azure Ray's reunion and the release of the debut CD from her electronica/dub project O+S earlier this year. Orenda hasn't slowed down and has a solo CD, Ask the Night , coming out October 6th on Saddle Creek. Ask the Night is close in style to Azure Ray's music but the songs on this [...]
Orenda Fink - High Ground (mp3) * Former Azure Ray, Art in Manila and O+S singer Orenda Fink 's folk duet with Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock. From Fink's new album Ask the Night , to be released October 6th. Buy @ Amazon *mp3 hosted by & posted w/ permission of Toolshed Media Orenda Fink MySpace ************************ Old Canes - Little Bird Courage (mp3) * Old Canes is an uptempo folk [...]
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firstly, wow stereogum has embeddable videos? pretty damn impressive. secondly that up there is the video, which i cant recommend watching enough, for "we do what we want to" off o+s's recently released ep of the same name. the ep features the title track, of course, this video and the video for "permanent scar" as well as two remixed versions of the latter. by the way in case you werent familiar with em, o+s is a project by orenda fink (azure ray, art in manila) and scalpelist (aka cedric lemoyne of remy zero). the video was directed by [...]
DOWNLOAD: TRAA - Don't Haunt This Place (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Orenda Fink - Bloodline (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Orenda Fink - No Evolution (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Old Canes - Taxi On Vermont (MP3) DOWNLOAD: UUVVWWZ - Shark Suit (MP3) Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson @ Union Hall 10/1 ( more by Kyle Dean Reinford ) Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson 's [...]
We've got a stockpile of gigantic mixtapes this month so here's a quick rundown of just a few that caught our eyes and ears. Any regular readers of this page know how much we love what's coming out of the Cape Town scene, and seems our boys Monkey and Stagga 's are getting some love back too as they find their way into this massive Dubstep mix from Liver . [...]
Bike Portland has the scoop on an upcoming event from Mr. Big Suit himself, David Byrne . Not long after he melted our hearts at the Schnitzer, Byrne rolls into Portland to promote his new book, Bicycle Diaries . Teaming with Powell's, the September 30th event is entitled "Where We're Going and Where We've Been - Bicycles, Cities and Transportation in Portland" and will take place at an intersection that I am utterly afraid to ride my bike down, Hawthorne and 37th (at the Bagdad Theater, to be exact). Copy and paste [...]
Since their break in 2004 to pursue solo and other projects, Azure Ray is finally back with new music and tour dates . Saddle Creek's Azure Ray is comprised of Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor . During the off time, Fink worked on Art in Manila , O+S and solo projects. Taylor released three solo records. The new tour has recently started in Portland. After the tour wraps up [...]
Orenda Fink (Azure Ray) "Ask The Night" out Oct 6 Orenda Fink (Azure Ray, Art In Manila, O+S) will release her sophomore solo album " Ask The Night " on October 6th via Saddle Creek. " Ask The Night " was primarily recorded live to 8-track by Stephen Bartolomei (Mal Madrigal) in Orenda's former Omaha, NE, basement, as well as by Andy LeMaster (Now It's Overhead; production on Bright Eyes, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Azure Ray) in his Athens, GA, living room. [...]
What the heck? While the band played a rare one-off show last year, it was announced this morning that Southern slowcore duo Azure Ray will end their break-up/hiatus and embark on their first tour in five years-which kicks off in Portland on July 10th at Mississippi Studios. Since their split, Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor have kept very busy with various solo projects (Taylor performs under her name, while Fink has been in Art in Manila, O+S, plus she released a solo recording in '05), so the odds of witnessing a reunited Azure Ray seemed [...]
MASQUES (1973-78) Western Brass Quintet (Donald Bullock and Stephen Jones, trumpets; Neill Sanders, horn; Russell Brown, trombone; Robert Whaley, tuba); Phyllis Rappeport, piano NOCTURNES: 1-3 , 4-6 (1977) Abraham and Arlene Stokman, pianos FLUXUS II (1978) Abraham Stokman, piano RAMON ZUPKO (b. 1932, Pittsburgh) is the director of the Studio for Electronic Music and the New Music Ensemble at Western Michigan University, where he also teaches composition, music theory, and acoustics. He began his musical studies at an early age, eventually receiving composition degrees from Juilliard. He [...]
We all know TV shows can have quite an impact on viewers in terms of discovering new music as it's immediately associated with their favorite characters and occasionally a touching scene or two. This is my first post in an ongoing series to highlight a few songs that have appeared on previous episodes of my favorite (or mainstream) TV shows. Here are a few of my favorites lately: TV Show: Chuck on NBC , Episode: Chuck vs. The ring - 04/27/2009 Song: Gramercy Arms - Looking At the Sun [...]
'I would walk through the tall grass Let the milkweeds pull at me and sometimes I would bleed'...
O+S - Permanent Scar [ mp3 via Stereogum] O+S is a new project by Orenda Fink (Azure Ray, Art In Manila) and Scalpelist (aka Cedric LeMoyne of Remy Zero). Orenda and Scalpelist, long-time friends from their shared hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, have created a record that combines the haunting, ethereal music of a David Lynch soundtrack with the cinematic art-pop of 10cc. Make sure to check the Stereogum posts about them, to grab one more indie drem pop tune.
...on my eardrums with their newest single out, "Permanent Scar", off their newly released self-titled album. "O+S is the working name for the mind-meld between Orenda Fink (Azure Ray, Art In Manila) and Scalpelist (aka Cedric LeMoyne of Remy Zero)." Stereogum Permanent Scar MP3's: o+s-permanent scar myspace
O+S is the working name for the mind-meld between Orenda Fink (Azure Ray, Art In Manila) and Scalpelist (aka Cedric LeMoyne of Remy Zero). We were immediately taken (and went on at length) about their self-titled debut's coasting, bittersweet dream-pop anthem " We Do What We Want To ," but it's always been "Permanent Scar" that the outfit had in mind for a lead single. The album's press materials focus on the duo's composition process (Orenda's field recordings from an artist residency given instrumental support and shaped into backing tracks by Scalpelist) while namechecking the spirit of David Lynch, so [...]
O+S is the working name for the mind-meld between Orenda Fink (Azure Ray, Art In Manila) and Scalpelist (aka Cedric LeMoyne of Remy Zero). We were immediately taken (and went on at length) about their self-titled debut's coasting, bittersweet dream-pop anthem " We Do What We Want To ," but it's always been "Permanent Scar" that the outfit had in mind for a lead single. The album's press materials focus on the duo's composition process (Orenda's field recordings from an artist residency given instrumental support and shaped into backing tracks by Scalpelist) while namechecking the spirit of David Lynch, so [...]
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