(General New Age) Jami Sieber - Hidden Sky - 2004, FLAC (tracks), lossless

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"Ranging from solo electric cello through various trios, quartets, and larger ensembles, the performances hinge on slowly unfolding romantic melodies voiced with the dense, dark timbre of Sieber's masterfully wielded instrument.." —Strings

"If there is music in the next realm, some of it must sound like this."—LadySlipper Music

Every so often a musician emerges who manages to speak to the spirit by way of their instrument. Electric cellist and vocalist Jami Sieber reaches inside the soul with compositions that are contemporary, timeless, lush, and powerfully evocative. Her style of performance has been recognized internationally. She is a celebrated pioneer of her instrument and received the Northwest Area Music Association (NAMA) Award for Best Rock Instrumentalist, no easy feat for a cellist.

Jami's playing style grew out of her childhood classical training and has expanded over the years to embrace jazz, folk, rock, improvisational and avant garde music. She has guest artist in a variety of musical settings that have taken her to China, Russia, Croatia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Italy, France and most recently to Thailand where while working on a film score she had the most enriching experience of improvising with the Elephant Orchestra outside of Lampang. She has toured internationally with Rhiannon (jazz vocalist), Jennifer Berezan (singer/songwriter), Ferron (singer/songwriter), Kim Rosen (poet).

Sieber's music is an atmospheric invitation to another world, a quality which lends itself to film (Climb Against The Odds, public television airing 1999, Jews and Buddhism, Chayes Productions 1998, Bond, Alice Ray director 1991); theater (T.S. Crossing, Allegro Series 1989,); and dance (Facing East Dance Collective, Berkeley, Ca 1998-99, Llory Wilson's Tallulah Dance Co.,Seattle, Jacobs Pillow 1994, Jeff Bickford, Seattle 1990).

Jami has released three independently produced recordings; "Hidden Sky" (2004), "Second Sight " (1998) and "lush mechanique" (1995). Each of these recordings is a sonic journey exploring the breadth and magic of the acoustic and electric cellos, with compositions that are engaging and full of lush imagery. Victory Music says, "...these musical paintings hang, framed in her own passion and dreams. If you've ever taken a journey of the soul, be it to another place or your own backyard, this music will play back every scene."


JAMI SIEBER

Performance Highlights

2004- Release of "Hidden Sky"- a recording inspired by Siebers' time with elephants in Thailand. Features the Thai Elephant Orchestra, Nancy Wilson (Heart), Rick Lazar (Loreena McKennet), Benjy Wertheimer (Deva Primal, Krishna Das) and others.

2002-2001- West coast touring with the improvisational performance group, Rhiannon and Bowl Full of Sound.

Winter 2002- Spent 2 months studying and working with the elephants, their mahouts (caretakers), and the culture and music of Thailand.

May 2002- Invited to Seoul, Korea to perform in a series of concerts with Jennifer Berezan and Korean author, Huyng Kyung Chung. The tour was sponsored by The Feminist Artist Network of Seoul.

Sept. 2000- Performed a series of improvisational concerts with Rhiannon (jazz vocalist), and Ruth Zapora (movement theatre) in Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosova

Summer 2000- Performed as a guest in a commissioned debut performance in Chatillon sur Loire, France, with French composer Anthony Hequet.

1994-2002- Extensive U.S. and Canadian tours with artists: singer/songwriter Ferron, jazz vocalist/improvisational artist Rhiannon, and singer/songwriter Jennifer Berezan

1999- Commissioned to write the music score for the documentary entitled "Jews and Buddhism"; a film which won one of the Best Documentary Awards of 1999 (Academy Awards)

1999- Collaborated with choreographer Sue Li-Jue and Facing East Dance and Music.

1998- Release of independently produced recording "Second Sight".

1998- "Tell It By Heart" - a piece commissioned and composed for the award winning film "Climb Against the Odds", released nationwide on PBS and in film festivals around the country.

1998- Featured performer at the New Directions Cello Festival in Storrs, Ct.

1996- invited to perform as a guest at a commissioned work debut performance at The Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy

1994- Release of debut solo recording "Lush Mechanique".

1990-1994- Jami's band Rumors of the Big Wave has two songs featured in ABC's primetime special on AIDS awareness -"IN A NEW LIGHT". Commissioned composer and collaborator with choreographers Llory Wilson and Tallulah Dance Company and Jeff Bickford Dance Company. Tours of the U.S., former Soviet Union and China, with Rumors of the Big Wave.