Azure Ray

Although they became important figures in the Saddle Creek community of Omaha, NE, <a href="spotify:artist:4BE89iaWTT2W3bBSFjPOus" data-name="Orenda Fink">Orenda Fink</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:6iKiDPed4LAQEcPZpvf00m" data-name="Maria Taylor">Maria Taylor</a> made their initial mark in Athens, GA, where they formed <a href="spotify:artist:70UZ254VvtSUmrfqPOkUQZ" data-name="Azure Ray">Azure Ray</a> in 2001. The two musicians – both Alabama natives as well as childhood friends – relocated to Athens after school and combined elements of folk, pop, and light electronica into their 2001 debut self-titled album released on Warm Records. The next winter, Azure Ray issued the November EP on Saddle Creek. The sophomore effort Burn &amp;amp; Shiver followed in 2002 and exuded a more serene soundscape, as well as slick production work from <a href="spotify:artist:6j9elOE3U0Fklu0ATR9nQ0" data-name="Crooked Fingers">Crooked Fingers</a> frontman <a href="spotify:artist:27CXUHv5mekE9LNdC1KEqb" data-name="Eric Bachmann">Eric Bachmann</a>. Fink and Taylor also began lending their help to other albums, from <a href="spotify:artist:3OsRAKCvk37zwYcnzRf5XF" data-name="Moby">Moby</a>&#39;s 18 to <a href="spotify:artist:5o206eFLx38glA2bb4zqIU" data-name="Bright Eyes">Bright Eyes</a>&#39; Lifted or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground. Meanwhile, they also served as members of Andy Lemaster&#39;s project, <a href="spotify:artist:1PMSHM0ybQw0Rg5GToI8SL" data-name="Now It's Overhead">Now It's Overhead</a>.

A year later, Azure Ray continued their prolific pace by issuing Hold on Love. The album proved to be the duo&#39;s last release for seven years, though, and both musicians pursued solo careers in the interim... Taylor and Fink returned their focus to Azure Ray in 2009, launching a brief tour that year before returning in 2010 with their fourth album, Drawing Down the Moon. In September of 2012, the band&#39;s fifth, more electronic-leaning offering As Above So Below arrived. Out October 26, 2018 on Flower Moon Records, Waves is Azure Ray’s 8th studio release, and first new recordings in 6 years.&lt;br&gt;