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Ambient world music- rich sensorial worlds you long to inhabit. Mahri Autumn coaxes you into her lush psychedelic vision, gently prying apart the tendrils of your perception. Lush accordian drones, ambient piano, percussion, guitar, sounds & otherworldly harmonies soaked in spatial electronic ambience. Compared to Jane Siberry, Sandy Denny, Sarah Blasko, Meredith Monk and Laurie Anderson she is at once “timeless”, “new” and “can’t really be pinned”. A multi-instrumentalist composer, songwriter, performer, recording/sound/media artist, teacher and community cultural development worker, she has worked consistently, solo and in collaboration with diverse artists to create recorded, performance and installation work which challenges the boundaries between art forms, genres, cultures and performative traditions.
The second release – Bewixt – is an instrumental compilation of work created for theatre, dance, film and installation work 2000-2010. Evocative piano and sound pieces which have been used broadly for live performance, film and web based mediums. It is available as a download only album through Bandcamp. A limited edition hard copy series is in the making.
-ri-solv- The first album was released in March 2010. And received wonderful responses and coverage from just about everyone I managed to get it to : )
Poetic mantras sung with an ”astounding emotionally exposed voice”.* -ri-solv- was created as an experiment in “digital-era music making” – formed in the ether via email between NYC + the South Coast of Australia, without a single conversation. The result is something other than either.
Created largely on my own but with inspiration, sound additions, mixing and mastering from New York City based musician/producer Brian Siskind (FOGNODE) (Siskind has also worked with Michael Schrieve (Santana), Bela Fleck and Clare Burson as well as having a wonderful body of his own work) Formed in the ether between the cultural frontier (Wollongong, Australia) and one of the centres of global culture (NYC).
I am currently Artist in Residence at Thirning Villa in Sydney through the Ashfield Council. You can have a look at what I am up to here.
“compelling audio”…….”great stuff”…………”highly recommended”
Dan Herman – Radio Crystal Blue NYC
“The CD leaves me with a subtle, satisfied feeling and although dark and introspective (my fave type of songs like this), the songs offer many portals of enjoyment. Thank you for sharing this with me.”
“ Congratulations to you both Mahri and Brian for creating some very beautiful art. I look forward to hearing about your success in the near future.”
Jack Douglas (producer who worked with John Lennon and Patti Smith)
“ I love the C.D” …..“a rich and strange album” … “ poetic and otherworldly”
Michael Cathcart- ABC Radio National
“The sensual, otherworldly soundscapes found on Mahri Autumn’s Ri-Solv reveal plenty about digital-era music-making: while the bulk of the album was crafted by Autumn in her Wollongong home studio, embellishments were added by Brian Siskind, in New York, without actually meeting the gifted Ms Autumn. He also mixed the album. And if it’s indeed possible to sound familiar yet new at the same time, Autumn has achieved just that, as she channels such timeless voices as Linda Thompson and Sandy Denny, while simultaneously nodding in the direction of 21st century free spirits Ani DiFranco and Sarah Blasko, amongst others.”
Jeff Apter, author of A Pure Drop: The Life of Jeff Buckley
“….a most soulful voice that is full of quiet passion and deep yearning……Setting these traditional percussive sounds in a very modern soundscape makes listening all the more pleasurable, as you will hear curious sounds that fit perfectly into the context of these ambient, enveloping tracks that, honestly, can’t really be pinned onto any genre. She creates ethereal soundscapes, with overlapping vocal melodies and layer upon layer of carefully-placed instrumental and electronic elements.
From twinkling piano and gorgeous accordion drones, to the delicately plucked acoustic guitar and unique percussive elements, and of course, that astounding emotionally exposed voice, Mahri Autum’s ri-solv is a beautiful cluster of deeply heartfelt songs that are wonderful in their subtle complexity.”
Sarah Morrison- US based music critic – Published on Miss Morrison’s Mix , The Justin Wayne Show, Insomnia Radio
“More Great Music That I Just Didn’t have Time to Play!”
Geoff Wood – ABC Radio National