Azure Ray
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Azure Ray
Origin Athens, Georgia, United States
Genres Dream pop
Years active 2001–2004; 2008–present
Labels Saddle Creek
WARM Electronic Recordings
Members
Maria Taylor
Orenda Fink
Azure Ray is an American dream pop duo, consisting of musicians Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink. The pair met at the age of 15 at the Alabama School of Fine Arts. They fronted a band called Little Red Rocket, often compared to Veruca Salt, in their hometown of Birmingham, Alabama in the mid and late 1990s and released two albums with the band on Tim/Kerr records.
Azure Ray started in Athens, Georgia, but relocated to Omaha, Nebraska and joined the music scene there. Taylor and Fink are also in another Saddle Creek band called Now It’s Overhead, with Andy LeMaster. The two have collaborated with Moby and co-wrote the song, «Great Escape» on the album 18. They have also appeared on numerous Bright Eyes records. Fink also works with Japancakes.
Azure Ray disbanded in 2004, leaving Fink and Taylor to work on solo and other collaborative projects, including working in Now It’s Overhead and Maria Taylor’s solo recordings.
Fink and Taylor reformed the band for a one-off show in Los Angeles on November 30, 2008. The duo was accompanied by Andy LeMaster of Now It’s Overhead and Nick White of Tilly and the Wall.
In 2009, Taylor announced on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic that the band would reform on a semi-permanent basis in July 2009 for «5 or 6» shows before working on a new Azure Ray album. Their fourth album, Drawing Down the Moon, will be released in September 2010.Contents [hide]
1 Discography
1.1 Albums
1.2 Singles and EPs
1.3 Soundtracks
2 See also
3 External links
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Discography
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Albums
Azure Ray (WARM, 2001)
Burn and Shiver (WARM, 2002)
Hold on Love (Saddle Creek Records, 2003)
Drawing Down the Moon (Saddle Creek Records, 2010)
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Singles and EPs
Sleep EP (WARM, 2002)
November EP (Saddle Creek Records, 2002)
«The Drinks We Drank Last Night» (Saddle Creek Records, 2003)
«New Resolution» (Saddle Creek Records, 2004)
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Soundtracks
Winter Passing soundtrack - «Rise»
The Devil Wears Prada soundtrack - «Sleep»
Shortbus soundtrack - «If You Fall»
Six Feet Under soundtrack - «Rise»
The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince soundtrack - «Across the Ocean»
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, episode «Seeing Red» - «Displaced»
