Azure Ray

Although they truly became important statistics within the Saddle Creek community of Omaha, NE, Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor produced their initial tag in Athens, GA, where they formed Azure Ray in 2001. Both music artists — both Alabama natives in addition to childhood close friends — relocated to Athens after college and combined components of folk, pop, and light electronica to their 2001 debut record. The next wintertime, Azure Ray released the November EP in the Saddle Creek label, sparking a successful association using the label and its own roster. The sophomore work Burn off and Shiver implemented in 2002 and exuded a far more serene soundscape, in addition to slick production function from Crooked Fingertips frontman Eric Bachmann. Fink and Taylor also started lending their help various other albums, from Moby’s 18 to Shiny Eye’ Lifted or the Tale Is certainly in the Earth, Keep Your Ear canal to the bottom. Meanwhile, in addition they served as associates of Today It’s Over head, another Saddle Creek music group. A year afterwards, Azure Ray continuing their prolific speed by issuing Hang on Like. The record became the duo’s last discharge for seven years, though, and both music artists pursued solo professions within the interim. Maria Taylor released three full-length albums and something collaborative EP (the second option documented with her Saddle Creek friend Andy LeMaster), while Orenda Fink released a set of single albums, one digital EP, one recording with her part project Artwork in Manila, and another using the short-lived pop duo O+S. Taylor and Fink came back their concentrate to Azure Ray in ’09 2009, launching a short tour that yr before returning this year 2010 making use of their fourth recording, Sketching Down the Moon. In Sept of 2012, the band’s 5th, more electronic-leaning providing As Above Therefore Below arrived.