AZURE RAY - PART 2

AZURE RAY on ALLMUSIC.

From the LP HOLD ON LOVE, 2003 >>>
[MP3] "If You Fall"
[MP3] "Nothing Like a Song"
[MP3] "Sea of Doubts"

BONUS TRACKS >>>

[MP3] MARIA TAYLOR/"My Own Fault"

[MP3] ORENDA FINK/"Bloodline"

AZURE RAY - PART 1

Omaha-by-way-of-Athens-by-way-of-Alabama's AZURE RAY have been out of business for four years now, but their music lives on -- slow, dark, and pretty.

So, back in time we go, to let MARIA TAYLOR and ORENDA FINK beguile us, albeit bittersweetly....

From the LP BURN AND SHIVER, 2002
[MP3] "Rest Your Eyes"
[MP3] "The New Year"

From the EP NOVEMBER, 2002 >>>
[MP3] "November"
[MP3] "No Signs of Pain"

From their self-titled LP, 2001 >>>
[MP3] "Displaced"
[MP3] "For No One"

ART IN MANILA

ORENDA FINK -- once one-half of the Saddle Creek folk-pop outfit AZURE RAY -- has hooked up with a new group of cohorts to form ART IN MANILA.

SADDLE CREEK will release the band's debut LP, SET THE WOODS ON FIRE, on August 28.

[MP3] "Our Addictions"

[MP3] "The Game"

BONUS TRACKS >>>

[MP3] ORENDA FINK/"Bloodline"

[MP3] AZURE RAY/"If You Fall"

JULY

And so begins the second half of 2007....

(And, just for the record, those are FIREWORKS over the city of Detroit in the picture above, not crime-related EXPLOSIONS. Things can get bad in the Motor City, sure. But not, generally, you know... "Baghdad-bad.")

[MP3] THE DECEMBERISTS/"July, July!"

[MP3] THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS/"July Jones"

[MP3] AZURE RAY/"4th of July"

[MP3] HAYDEN/"Middle of July"