Spellbinding Cello
Collection by Spellbinding Music
Baroque, traditional, electronica and modern classical music
Yann-Fañch Kemener & Aldo Ripoche: Ar veleien
Breton singer Yann-Fañch Kemener and baroque cellist Aldo Ripoche revisit the traditional Breton song repertoire.
Vyvienne Long: Let go
Vyvienne Long is a Dublin born classically trained cellist, pianist and singer songwriter who started her career playing in various chamber music ensembles around Europe before being recruited by Irish singer songwriter Damien Rice to tour with his band. Somewhere along that great tour, I discovered fun and exhilaration in singing and playing the cello at the same time, and the audiences seemed to get a kick out of it too which only encouraged me. Vyvienne Long After "Birdtalk", a first EP…
Clarice Jensen: For This From That Will Be Filled
Based on slow melodic repetition, manipulated cello textures and tape loops, "For This From That Will Be Filled" is New-York-based cellist Clarice Jensen's long-awaited solo début and was released on 6 April 2018 last on Miasmah Recordings.
Danny Norbury: Light in August
Based in Manchester (UK), Danny Norbury is a modern classical composer and cellist. Originally released in 2009 on the UK based label Lacies Records, Danny Norbury’s Light in August has just been re-issued on 14th April 2014 last on the Tokyo-based record label Flau. The re-release includes all 10 tracks from the original album as well a bonus track, six tracks from his 2007 "Dusk" EP and "Fragment 2" from Bluebeard (2012). Danny Norbury composes his music for the cello, but Light in August…
Deaf Center: White lake
Introduced as “a haunting homage to the world of David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti”, Pale Ravine (2005) is Norwegian duo Deaf Center’s first full-length EP on the Type Records label. Inspired by “old silent 8mm film reels, the historical architecture around them and the call of the alluring Norwegian landscape”, Erik K. Skodvin and Otto A. Totland blend collages of assorted noises, field recordings, found objects samples and electronics with floating cello and minimalist piano to generate a…
Zoë Keating: Escape artist
“One-woman avant-garde orchestra” Zoë Keating is a classically trained cellist and electronic artist born in Ontario and now based in California. Exploiting all the melodic, rhythmic and even percussive potential of the cello, the musician also integrates live samples of her own sound with a laptop and a loop station to generate the beautiful textured layers of a cello orchestra. Originally a member of (cello) rock band Rasputina, Zoë Keating released her first solo EP One Cello x 16 in…
Zoë Keating: Leap
As a former information architect, as a successful entrepreneur pioneering a new DIY approach to music business and as an advocate for decent artist compensation in the digital age, Canadian cellist and electronic artist Zoë Keating is often invited to talk or to perform at various tech conferences or web events around the world. Over the past few years, she has featured at Wired events, MacWorld conferences, TED talks or Virgin Disruptors debates. On 25th January 2014 last, she took part in…
Julia Kent: Character
Released on the Leaf Label in March 2013 last, "Character" is Canadian-born and New-York-based cellist Julia Kent’s third solo LP.