Lotte Kestner is the solo project of Seattle-based musician Anna-Lynne Williams, who spent the last decade singing in the band Trespassers William. Her solo music has elements of her shoegaze past and influences, but lies somewhere closer to folk, relying on multi-layers of vocals to fill in the spaces, rather than electric instruments. Anna-Lynne has collaborated with the Chemical Brothers, Delerium, AFI, Anomie Belle, Damien Jurado, Sadistik, etc. and also sings in the duo Ormonde.

Her music has ben featured in the television series The Young Pope, The Last Ship, and Catfish, and the films Maybe Someday, I Cannot Go On As I Am, and Epilogue. 

She has also released two books of poetry.

mailing list: http://eepurl.com/UTyGb

merchandise: https://lottekestner.bandcamp.com/merch

queries: lottekestner@gmail.com

"It’s like the Little Match Girl instead sold all of her matches and bought a guitar." 
- {Sic} Magazine

"In the vein of My Bloody Valentine, Jolie Holland, and perhaps even Codeine, those remarkable shoe-gazers that were part of Sub Pop's early catalog. Williams' music is moody, inward, and her lyrics are wonderfully unpredictable."

- Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"Even though it doesn't matter what she's singing--the mood translates well through melody and instrumentation--it's lucky for the listener that the lyrics are included in the CD booklet. The sheer poetry of the songs is remarkable."

- Seattle Sound

BURÓNKA is a project born of fascination with the vocal traditions of the Kurpie ethnic group from Poland’s Puszcza Zielona (Green Wilderness) region.
Here, the contemporary language of musical expression is interwoven with a deeply tradition-based approach to conducting a vocal narrative.
Original interpretations have been given to songs taken from archival recordings, as well as the repertoire of Bronisława Świder from the village of Bandysie, who is Olga Stopińska's primary teacher and guide.
During Polish Public Radio’s New Tradition Festival in 2017, the group was awarded 2nd Prize “for suggestively conveying the character of Kurpie songs”, as well as the “Thunder of Applause” Audience Award.
The group consists of:
Olga Stopińska - vocals, inspiration
Mateusz Wachowiak – Polish three-row accordeon, arrangements
Mateusz Sieradzan – percussion instruments
In the Kurpie idiom a “burońka” is a linen or wool cloth, sometimes used for carrying infants, but also as a bed cover.

Mateusz Bieryt
Modest Ruciński
Taki duet
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Twórczość własna płynąca z potrzeby powiedzenia tego co miedzy słowami. Tylko i aż tyle. Niech muzyczka gra.

The Harpa Dei Choir is a vocal ensemble made up of four siblings, both in blood and in spirit: Nikolai, Lucia, Marie-Elisée and Mirjana Gerstner. As their spiritual foundation they have the long formation they have received in a religious community of Catholics.
Harpa Dei tries to collect the most beautiful songs from different traditions to glorify God and to transmit to people the beauty of the Lord that shines so eminently in sacred music.

Harpa Dei acompaña musicalmente las meditaciones que a diario ofrece el Hno. Elías, su director espiritual. Éstas se basan normalmente en las lecturas bíblicas de cada día; o bien tratan algún otro tema de espiritualidad.
Para más información:
http://es.elijamission.net/
http://harpadei.com/quienes-somos/

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