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lorna dune
“An experimental keyboardist who is happy to go wherever her heart and ears tell her,
redefining genres along the way, Lorna Dune inhabits a world of her own, and it’s a glorious thing to behold.”
– Red Bull Music Academy
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About
- Praised by VICE Magazine as the "mistress of new music" and named as one of 2014's Artists to Watch by The Fader, Lorna Dune has been turning heads since her foray into the world of electronic minimal techno production. An experimental pianist, who has played with likes of Steve Reich and the Philip Glass Ensemble, has a new take on weightier beat-driven techno which is both fresh in its approach to the genre and also a unique arrival through her journey through sound. Almost synesthesia-like images of "trawling Petar Dundov's Adriatic waters with an arresting sheer Balearic decadence and holographic gleam" (Resident Advisor) appear in the amygdala upon first listen.
Her latest EP "Miamisphere" released by Brooklyn's mysterious experimental electronic imprint Lo Bit Landscapes in 2013 has received premieres by Pitchfork and Boiler Room and has been featured in Resident Advisor, Red Bull Music Academy, VICE Magazine, XLR8R, Ibiza Voice and more. She has also caught the attention of the New York Times for remixing a Pulitzer Prize winning work by composer Caroline Shaw and also has an upcoming remix by composer Max Richter to be released on Detusche Grammophon.
Lorna Dune’s highly anticipated full-length album “Transmutation” is set to be released in 2016.
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Shows
- May 12th Benaroya Hall (Seattle, WA)Lorna Dune premieres a new work "Love Song for Arca" by composer William Brittelle with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra as part of their Sonic Evolution: This is Indie series! More information & tickets
"Love Letter for Arca" (trailer) from New Amsterdam on Vimeo.
June 7th Trans-Pecos (Queens, NY)Lorna Dune live with Eleonore Oppenheim and Angelica Negron celebrating the release of Eleonore's album "Home" out on Innova Records./////RECENT SHOWS///////TOUR WITH EMILY WELLS
Feb 2nd Black Cat (Washington D.C.)Feb 3rd Great Scott (Boston, MA)Feb 4th Bowery Ballroom (NYC, NY)Feb 5th Boot & Saddle (Philadelphia, PA)Feb 8th The Earl (Atlanta, GA)Feb 10th Rudyard's (Houston, TX)Feb 11th Lola's Saloon (Fort Worth, TX)Feb 12th Stubb's BBQ (Austin, TX)Feb 15th Valley Bar (Phoenix, AZ)Feb 16th The Casbah (San Diego, CA)Feb 17th Lyric Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)Feb 18th Bottom of the Hill (San Francisco, CA)Feb 19th Doug Fir (Portland, OR)Feb 20th Doug Fir (Portland, OR)Feb 23rd The Triple Door (Seattle, WA):::
November 12th, 2015 (Baltimore, MD)WYE OAK and WILLIAM BRITTELLE:with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra:::October 28th, 2015 (Portland, OR)EMILY WELLS // LORNA DUNE:::October 19th, 2015 (Brooklyn, NY)EMILY WELLS & LORNA DUNE collaborationHYPNOCRAFT presents The Hum Series @Manhattan Inn:::October 14th, 2015 (St. Paul, MN)WYE OAK and WILLIAM BRITTELLE:Spiritual America with the Saint Paul Chamber OrchestraCo-presented with the Walker Art CenterSPIRITUAL AMERICA - WILLIAM BRITTELLE - WYE OAK - LIQUID MUSIC [TRAILER] from steve tayloron Vimeo.
Sept 5th, 2015 (North Adams, MA)JD SAMSON at MASS MoCAA member of the legendary electro-feminist-punk project Le Tigre, the singer and producer JD Samson is an articulate champion of social causes and a party waiting to erupt. She’s here with a live band set and a DJ set for a summer-ending night of progressive love on the dance floor.:::August 26th, 2015 (Brooklyn, NY)Lorna Dune, Crystal Voyager, Ender & Valentine @ Palisades:::July 24th, 2015 (Berlin, Germany)JD SAMSON at Yo Sissy! FestivalSchwuz @ Rollbergstr 26:::May 10th, 2015 (Cincinnati, OH)VICTOIRE / GLASSER / NOVELLER:::May 9th, 2015 (St. Paul, MN)VICTOIRE / GLASSER / NOVELLER:::May 7th, 2015 (New York, NY)Missy Mazzoli's "Vespers for a New Dark Age"with Victoire / Glenn Kotche / Lorna DuneALBUM RELEASE PARTY at Le Poisson Rougewith Glasser & Noveller:::March 26th, 2015 (Birmingham, AL)Lorna Dune joins Wye Oak & Bill Brittelle for a concert with the Alabama Symphony OrchestraAlys Stephens Center | Jemison Concert Hall:::March 18th, 2015 (New York, NY)Ecstatic Music Festival- Terry Riley's 80th bdayLorna Dune tribute to Terry Riley:::February 26th 2015 (Brooklyn, NY)Gavin Russom, Lorna Dune, J. Slusher:::February 20th, 2015 (Brooklyn, NY)JD Samson at Brooklyn Night Bazaar
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Missy Mazzoli's "Vespers for a New Dark Age"
VICTOIRE / GLENN KOTCHE / LORNA DUNE
“…ravishing, unsettling…” New York Times“Mazzoli’s ensemble Victoire, cleverly orchestrated, provides settings both cinematic and intimate at once, while Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche adds evocative scrims of percussion and some thunderous pounding.” NPR’s First Listen
“…music that once sounded like the lonely movement of your own thoughts now calls out to you in a voice of its own.” Pitchfork
“Casts a powerful spell…Mazzoli has fashioned an engrossing classical-electronic-vocal epic that sounds like the product of a much larger ensemble than the chamber-sized one it actually is.” Textura
Composer Missy Mazzoli and her ensemble Victoire have teamed up with percussionist Glenn Kotche (of Wilco), synth producer Lorna Dune and virtuosic vocalists Mellissa Hughes, Martha Cluver and Virginia Warnken (of Roomful of Teeth) to record Mazzoli’s expansive new work, Vespers for a New Dark Age. Over two years in the making, Vespers for a New Dark Age is a brazen interpretation of the vespers prayer service that replaces the customary sacred verses with poems by Matthew Zapruder.
Vespers for a New Dark Age was commissioned by Carnegie Hall and premiered there by Victoire, Glenn Kotche and Lorna Dune in February 2014. The performance was praised by one critic as “excellent, powerful and thought-provoking… I held my breath through each sonic build-up and transition, hoping not to miss a note.” (Baeblemusic)
Vespers for a New Dark Age has appeared on a number of “Best of 2015” Lists:The album was named #37 on Q2 Music’s “Best 50 albums of the last 20 years”, one of the top 10 albums of 2015 by WNYC’s John Schaefer and Textura, a notable album of 2015 by Steve Smith of the Boston Globe.
Bandcamp lo bit landscapes records
Lorna Dune’s journey through sound - and arrival at the music on the"Miamisphere" EP - has been a rather unique one, and not one you’d expect to culminate in one of the most interstellar cosmic techno 12“s in recent memory.
Lorna Dune is the stage name of Lorna Krier, a virtuosic performer of “New Music” (think: classical music that is still being written), particularly in the Minimalist tradition, serving as a founder of several chamber style ensembles and a keyboardist/synthesist in numerous Brooklyn-based electronic music bands/collectives/groups of people making sound together.
Her work with composer Missy Mazzoli in the quintet Victoire on the record “Cathedral City” was named “One of the top 10 classical albums of 2010” by NPR and “one of 2010 most memorable albums” by The New Yorker magazine. She has worked extensively with composer & visual artist Tristan Perich, has performed Steve Reich‘s music for Steve Reich himself, has joined the Philip Glass Ensemble as a keyboardist in the past, as well as appearing on stage at the Whitney, MoMA, New Museum, Carnegie Hall, Millenium Park, and more throughout the US, Canada, and Europe.
While obviously rooted in the sound of techno (Lorna admits to a deep infatuation upon the discovery of the heavier side of the form—maybe particularly with the sounds of Stephan Bodzin and Andy Stott—in the years before this EP was written), Miamisphere manages to incorporate many of the structures and harmonic motivations that inform so much of the Minimalist tradition. On first listen, it sounds like a collection of amazing dancefloor anthems, but closer inspection reveals a depth of composition that is quite difficult to find in the interlocking worlds of techno, house, and other such forms. From the swooping synths and rapid arpeggiations of evolving chordal forms on the opener, “Plasmodium”, to the basically surefire hit of “Agnes Day” and the acid-influenced, lower-BPM, but perhaps even more complex tonal range of “Miamisphere”, the uplifting and emotional content of the music—not just sound—squeezes through.
Closing with a vintage “stoner house” remix by NYC‘s mysterious Terekke(L.I.E.S.) and issued on NIHITI‘s lo bit landscapes imprint, imbued with a sense of mystery that is equal parts “Dune” mythos and new Brooklyn scene, “Miamisphere” is not the kind of record you are likely to encounter often in your travels through electronic music.
LORNA DUNE- Miamisphere EP
Release date: October 3rd, 2013lo bit landscapes
Bandcamp Dazzleships Records
LORNA DUNE is the solo synthesizer project of Brooklyn-based experimental musician, Lorna Krier. Sidereal, her debut EP, was released on cassette and digital download in March 2012 through Dazzleships Records.
Lorna Dune has been described as a combination of minimalist synthpop and psychedelic dreamwave; a cosmic odyssey of analog synthesizers creating nebulas of ambient drones, poly-rhythmic clouds, soaring saccharine melodies, all supported by a perpetual motorik drive.
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VICTOIRE is a new chamber-rock ensemble founded by composer/keyboardist Missy Mazzoli, featuring Olivia De Prato (violin), Eileen Mack (clarinet), Lorna Krier (keyboards) and Eleonore Oppenheim (double bass). This group, a stirring blend of winds, strings, keyboards and lo-fi electronics, performs Mazzoli’s distinct blend of dreamy post rock, quirky minimalism and rich romanticism, and was recently dubbed “an all-star, all-female quintet“ by Time Out New York.
Their debut album Cathedral City, released in 2010 on New Amsterdam Records, received high praise from classical and indie rock press alike. It was names one of 2010′s best classical albums by the New York Times, Time Out New York, the New Yorker and NPR. Pitchfork gave Cathedral City a 7.8, claiming that “Victoire condense moments of focused beauty and quiet conviction from the pandemic distractions of modern life.“ Since forming in 2008 they have shared the stage with Tortoise, Buke and Gass, Twi the Humble Feather, Redhooker and many others, performing at many top venues including New York’s Le Poisson Rouge, Chicago’s Millennium Park, Joe’s Pub, Roulette, the Whitney Museum, Galapagos, The Stone, and the Bang on a Can Marathon.
For more information, visit www.victoiremusic.com
Buy 12" Red Vinyl HERE Amazon iTunes eMusicLOVE LIKE DELOREANS' self-titled debut album bridges contrasting styles: Reich-like conceptualism meets heart-on-sleeve melodies while switched-on baroque pop crosses with Dinger-esque motorik drive. Unlike the heavily studio-created techno-pop of recent times, all of the keyboards on the record were performed by hand, bringing a human warmth to an often cold and calculated medium. Listeners gaze out the back window on a road trip through spacious electronic landscapes daydreaming of childhood casios under whispy analog synth clouds.
The group formed in fall of 2007 by Lorna Krier and Peter Pearson, who had moved to Brooklyn from Milwaukee to become involved in the New York experimental scene. There they met Derek Muro, a graduate from Manhattan School of Music and the magic began.
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BuyLorna Dune’s journey through sound - and arrival at the music on the "Miamisphere" EP - has been a rather unique one, and not one you’d expect to culminate in one of the most interstellar cosmic techno 12“s in recent memory. Lorna Dune is the stage name of Lorna Krier, a virtuosic performer of "New Music" (think: classical music that is still being written), particularly in the Minimalist tradition, serving as a founder of several chamber style ensembles and a keyboardist/synthesist in numerous Brooklyn-based electronic music bands/collectives/groups of people making sound together. Her work with composer Missy Mazzoli in the quintet Victoire on the record "Cathedral City" was named "One of the top 10 classical albums of 2010" by NPR and "one of 2010 most memorable albums" by The New Yorker magazine. She has worked extensively with composer & visual artist Tristan Perich, has performed Steve Reich‘s music for Steve Reich himself, has joined the Philip Glass Ensemble as a keyboardist in the past, as well as appearing on stage at the Whitney, MoMA, New Museum, Carnegie Hall, Millenium Park, and more throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. While obviously rooted in the sound of techno (Lorna admits to a deep infatuation upon the discovery of the heavier side of the form—maybe particularly with the sounds of Stephan Bodzin and Andy Stott—in the years before this EP was written), Miamisphere manages to incorporate many of the structures and harmonic motivations that inform so much of the Minimalist tradition. On first listen, it sounds like a collection of amazing dancefloor anthems, but closer inspection reveals a depth of composition that is quite difficult to find in the interlocking worlds of techno, house, and other such forms. From the swooping synths and rapid arpeggiations of evolving chordal forms on the opener, "Plasmodium", to the basically surefire hit of "Agnes Day" and the acid-influenced, lower-BPM, but perhaps even more complex tonal range of "Miamisphere", the uplifting and emotional content of the music—not just sound—squeezes through. Closing with a vintage "stoner house" remix by NYC‘s mysterious Terekke (L.I.E.S.) and issued on NIHITI‘s lo bit landscapes imprint, imbued with a sense of mystery that is equal parts "Dune" mythos and new Brooklyn scene, "Miamisphere" is not the kind of record you are likely to encounter often in your travels through electronic music. - 5 tracks
BuyLORNA DUNE is the solo synthesizer project of Brooklyn-based experimental musician, Lorna Krier. Sidereal, her debut EP, was released on cassette and digital download in March 2012 through Dazzleships Records. Lorna Dune has been described as a combination of minimalist synthpop and psychedelic dreamwave; a cosmic odyssey of analog synthesizers creating nebulas of ambient drones, poly-rhythmic clouds, soaring saccharine melodies, supported by a perpetual motorik drive.
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- LORNA DUNE: For booking inquiries, please email booking@lornadune.com.
VICTOIRE: For publicity and booking inquires please contact Missy Mazzoli [missy@missymazzoli.com]
