Rachel Grimes

Pianist, composer, and arranger Rachel Grimes has generated one body of function, both like a single artist so that as an associate of the group Rachel’s, that negotiates a surprisingly graceful alliance between modern classical and indie rock and roll. A indigenous of Louisville, Kentucky, Grimes started playing piano as a kid, and examined music on the School of Louisville, finding a B.A. in 1993. In 1991, her close friends Jason Noble (electric guitar and bass) and Christian Frederickson (viola), surviving in Baltimore, documented a cassette-only EP they known as Rachel’s Halo, plus they transferred along a duplicate to Grimes. Grimes enjoyed the music, and she teamed up with Noble and Frederickson to create the group Rachel’s (called not really for Grimes, but also for Noble’s vehicle). The group, whose account would broaden and contract using the needs of every project (occasionally including as much as 17 music artists, and at various other times just offering the primary trio), struck a cope with the effective unbiased label Quarterstick Information, releasing their initial record, Handwriting, in 1995. Grimes was commissioned to create music for the dance piece about the musician Egon Schiele, and her rating became the foundation for Rachel’s second record, 1996’s Music for Egon Schiele, as the ambitious and expansive THE OCEAN as well as the Bells, compiled by many associates of the group, including Grimes, made an appearance afterwards the same calendar year. Rachel’s would discharge three even more albums (including a cooperation with Matmos) prior to the band continued a casual hiatus after 2003’s Systems/Levels, and folded following the loss of life of Jason Noble in 2012. Since shifting from Rachel’s, Grimes provides maintained a active schedule, recording using the indie rock and roll serves Seluah, Watter, Christopher Tignor, the Structures, and Nathan Salsburg, aswell as performing using the chamber ensembles Portland Cello Task, Orchestra Kandinskij, Amsterdam Sinfonietta Trio, and Cicada. Grimes was an associate of the group King’s Daughters and Sons, who released If After that Not really When via Chemikal Underground in 2011. Grimes’ initial single record, Reserve of Leaves: For Single Piano, the to begin many meditations on character, premiered in the summertime of 2009, and since that time, she’s released many digital albums and EPs, aswell as composing and executing commissioned pieces all over the world. In 2015, Grimes released the record The Clearing, a routine of instrumental parts modified from her very own piano improvisations, and offering shows from Kyle Crabtree from the Shipping Information, Scott Morgan of Loscil, Jacob Duncan of Liberation Prophecy, and Helen Cash.