Azure Ray seemed perched on a precipice while singing "The Drinks We Drank Last Night" on the Troubadour stage. In the song, the band conjures up the sound of that up-all-night moment when you're not ...
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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 ...
“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 ...
When Moby had the duo Azure Ray come to his New York home studio to sing on his recent “18” album, all was fine except for one thing. “They are the nicest people in the world,” he says of Orenda Fink ...
, a Birmingham singer-songwriter who had her first child in May. Thanks to Miles Taylor Dwyer (age 2 1/2 months), she and her boyfriend, Ryan Dwyer, aren’t getting lots of sleep. But it’s a happy ...
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 ...
It’s been 20 years since Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink introduced the world to their project Azure Ray. In the time since, their near-whispered vocal stylings and dreamy ambient sounds have crept into ...
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.