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“Hey, look how low I’ve sunk/Don’t ask me to rise,” so pled Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink of Azure Ray twenty years ago on the song “Rise,” one of the many whispery weepers found on their superb, ...
Azure Ray is changing. Featuring the vocal and instrumental talents of Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor, the duo began in Birmingham, Ala., traveled to Athens, Ga., and found a home in Omaha, Neb. For a ...
Those of us lucky enough to write about music aren't always blessed with the right words to do so. Part of what draws us--or at least me--to music is its ability to transcend the spoken and written ...
In 2001, Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor quietly released a brilliant indie-folk album that would go on to influence some of the biggest names in music history. Since 2001, Fink and Taylor have stayed ...
It can take years, if not decades, for the saddest songs to reveal themselves as such. The symphonies of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Type O Negative’s thundering doom, the cracked and withering voice ...
Sharply contrasting those of neighboring nightclubs, the Friday night sounds in Velvet Jones were of a soothing and melodic nature. The acoustic band Azure Ray took the stage and introduced themselves ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. Before forming the dream pop duo Azure Ray in 2001, musicians Maria ...
Azure Ray has passed through several life cycles as a band. In the early 2000s, indie-folk duo Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink were twentysomething rookies who relocated from Athens, Georgia -- deep ...
When they were setting out to write their new six-song recording, As Above So Below, Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor of Azure Ray were intent to depart from their original sound; that lushly haunted, ...
Azure Ray, the duo of Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink, formed in Athens, Georgia in 2001. Soon afterward, they relocated to Omaha and joined in with the whole Saddle Creek scene when it was at its apex.
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