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Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor are Azure Ray, and November is easily their most impressive work. On their Saddle Creek Records debut, the two acoustic guitar-playing singer/songwriters capture unsettling emotions with unbelievable melodies and words which are as deeply intense as critically acclaimed troubadours Leonard Cohen or Townes Van Zant. The girls have previously held spots in Japancakes, Bright Eyes, and Now It's Overhead (NIO singer Andy Lemaster produced the disc) but the Athens, GA, duo seems to have finally found the perfect outlet for their ideas. The disc includes six tracks carried out with extreme delicacy that is instantly effective without bothering to go over the top. All of the tracks are drenched in sinisterly floating noises to create a slightly somber mood, but the impressive guitar work and the pair's truly amazing vocals are what result in the record's true payoff. They touch on pain and despair, but they do it with such grace and beauty that it is difficult to discredit even a moment of their performance. Azure Ray has no problem baring their souls, and hearing their downtrodden plight is somehow uplifting or at the very least comforting in its restrained but pained outlook. November is a truly beautiful record of sorrow and heartbreak, but somehow it is still a joy to listen to time and time again. ~ Peter J. D'Angelo
2nd Rel;From Athens,Ga;They've Been Touring W/Bright Eyes
Azure Ray: Orenda Fink, Maria Taylor.
Additional personnel: Andy Lemasler (guitar, keyboards, percussion, background vocals); Kera Schaley (cello); Jaqueline Lyons (piano, keyboards); Fillup Shack (bass).
Uncut (12/02, p.136) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Spectral harmonies, unnerving intimacy and simple acoustics songs..."y
Mojo (Publisher) (3/03, p.112) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...AR's sweetly melancholic vocals offer a more mellifluous counterpart to Oberst's Bright Eyes..." November Review
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Purchase November CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Azure Ray CD (2001)
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Azure Ray is an Athens, GA, duo composed of Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor; their self-titled debut album is ...
| | Azure Ray Burn And Shiver CD (2002)
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True to form, Azure Ray delivers another 12 tracks of curiously beautiful but quite intense melancholy on 2002's Burn and Shiver. Not since Lisa Germano dropped Geek the Girl almost eight years before has music so stark and yet lovely made it beyond the dark confines of somebody's troubled mind and onto the brightly lit shelves of (only the best) record stores. Well, troubled might be too harsh a word, as Azure Ray never approach the outwardly depressive lyrical statements of Germano on Burn and Shiver, but Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor do have a certain fascination with darkness. Just as publicized, these two ...
| | Azure Ray Hold On Love CD (2003)
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Not to worry, though, as "The Drinks We Drank Last Night" and the title track return to achingly fragile business as usual. With their soft yet powerful-as-prayer voices caressing each other over ghostly ...
| | Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning CD (2005)
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In early 2005, young indie icon Conor Oberst (AKA Bright Eyes) unveiled two full-length albums--I'M WIDE AWAKE, IT'S MORNING and DIGITAL ASH IN A DIGITAL URN. Whereas the latter proved to be a departure into electronic music, the former sticks to Oberst's established ...
| | Maria Taylor 11:11 CD (2005)
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| | Alexi Murdoch Time Without Consequence CD (2006)
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After appearing on the soundtrack to the hit TV show The OC, Alexi Murdoch could have easily followed Death Cab for Cutie onto the major label merry-go-round and let a bevy of A&R folks shape him into Next Big Thinghood. Instead, the Scottish singer/songwriter's self-released debut full-length bears haunting similarities to the likes of Nick Drake's Pink Moon, hardly the way to mainstream stardom no matter how many car commercials it inspires. Nearly a third of the album will be familiar to those who already have Murdoch's 2004 EP Four Songs, three-quarters of which is reprised here, including "Orange Sky," the aforementioned small-screen favorite. ("It's Only Fear" is the sole track that didn't make the leap, insuring collector-geek status for the EP.) The remaining eight songs ...
| | Bob Log, III School Bus CD (1998)
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| | Red Stars Theory CD (2001)
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Suicide Squeeze Records did everyone a favor by re-releasing Red Stars Theory's 1995 ...
| | Lullabies From The Axis Of Evil CD (2004)
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This release features lullabies from countries identified as members of the "Axis Of Evil" by U.S. President George W. Bush.
The idea is excellent -- giving a human face to those countries labeled by George W. Bush as "the axis of evil" in his 2002 speech. Norwegian producer Erik Hillestad traveled to all those countries, recording female singers and traditional lullabies, then back home paired them with Western female artists over backing tracks created by musician Knut Reiersrud. Although Reirsrud has opted for an international ambience of subdued loops and beats that tend to stifle the individuality of the tracks, the vocal work is lovely and often quite gorgeous, as when Eddi Reader and North Korea's Sun Ju Lee come together on "Stars Are Rising" or Elena Fremerman and the National Cathedral Girls Choristers team up with Iran's Pari Zanganeh for "Gohlelale." ~ Chris Nickson
The idea is excellent -- giving a human face to those countries labeled by George W. Bush as "the axis of evil" in his 2002 speech. Norwegian producer Erik Hillestad traveled to all those countries, recording female singers and traditional lullabies, then back home paired them with Western female artists over backing tracks created by musician Knut Reiersrud. The problem, such as it is, lies in the execution. The vocal work is lovely, often quite gorgeous, as when Eddi Reader and North Korea's Sun Ju Lee come together on "Stars Are Rising" or Elena Fremerman and the National Cathedral Girls Choristers team up with Iran's Pari Zanganeh for "Gohlelale." But it's the music that lets the project down. There's no ethnicity to it. Instead, Reirsrud has opted ...
| | Blackouts History In Reverse CD (2004)
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In 2004, K Records' History in Reverse compiled the brief but captivating output of the Blackouts, a pioneering post-punk quartet that also played an interesting role in the development of Ministry and its environs. Led by the strident wail of vocalist/guitarist Erich Werner, early Blackouts singles like 1979's "Make No Mistake" matched the stark ...
| | Christelle Delaney Delaney CD (2005)
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| | Genai Heaven On Earth CD (2007) (Import)
November songs
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| | Whole Lotta Shakin': The Best Of Jerry Lee Lewis At Sun Records CD (2006)
November album
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Forget about overstating the importance of Jerry Lee Lewis -- it can't be done. There were only ten initial inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and he was one of them. Without his influence, it's impossible to say where the music would have headed, but we're all damn lucky it didn't go there. Sun Records was, of course, where it really all began. Scholars can debate the origins of rock endlessly, but the oft-retold story of what emerged from that small Memphis recording studio -- Elvis Presley, ...
| | J I Allison Before We Grow Too Old CD (2007) (Import) United Kingdom
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| | Angelo Branduardi Futuro Antico VI CD (2009) (Import)
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