‘Into The Quiet’ new album by Deborah Martin & Jill Haley at Peaceful Internet Radio Station

6 June 2023 Uncategorized

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Into The Quiet is the second collaboration between electronic ambient visionary Deborah Martin and renowned Oboist Jill Haley. Into The Quiet follows 2021’s The Silence Of Grace, which received numerous accolades—including making Zone Music Reporter’s Top 20 albums of the year. Once again, Martin and Haley blend electronic textures and classical instrumentation into works of rapturous calm. Whereas The Silence Of Grace was inspired by the beauty of the natural world, Into The Quiet draws from internal landscapes, inspired by the idea that one must go “into the quiet” to find what is hidden in themselves.

These eight compositions demonstrate the depth and intricacies that stillness can contain. Opener “Sleeping Giants” surges with choral warmth. On the title track, flute and horn wend around a warbling synth loop. “Hall of Whispers” is simultaneously melancholy and pastoral; harp and oboe play a shimmering duet while low textures ebb and flow around like wind whistling through ruins of ancient stone.

Into The Quiet reunites two masters of their craft and the result is spellbinding. These eight pieces show the serenity of space, allowing each note and melody to naturally unwind, and inviting the listener to do the same.

Jill Haley is an oboist, English horn player, pianist, and composer who travels throughout the United States visiting National Parks, often as an Artist-in-Residence, and composes music inspired by the Park while living there. She is an accomplished symphonic orchestra player, teacher, and church musician. Jill continues to appear as a guest artist on recordings created at Will Ackerman’s Imaginary Roads Studio; her many recordings on English horn and Oboe were recorded by Corin Nelsen and Tom Eaton. Jill’s releases include Glacier Landscapes, National Park Soundscapes, Mesa Verde Soundscapes, Zion and Bryce Canyon Soundscapes, The Waters of Glacier, and The Winds of Badlands.

Deborah Martin continues pursuing her passion of exploring the depths of thematic composition through the creative layering of structured compositions and live recordings of instruments, blending them into a world of ambient electronic expression. Her music sensibilities enable her to combine scenic melodies, rich symphonic sounds and rhythmic structures to recreate the delicate balance of life in its many surroundings. Deborah’s releases include Under the Moon, Deep Roots Hidden Water, Ancient Power, Convergence, Tibet, Anno Domini, Between Worlds, Etched Into Memory (EP), Eye of the Wizard, Hemispherica Portalis (Portal of 1000 Years), and Chaos in Premonition.

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