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| Lydia Ainsworth Releases Three Live Orchestral Sessions from 2020's Sparkles & Debris Pop innovator, singer, composer, producer Lydia Ainsworth today shares three live videos performing alongside members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. The songs performed include 'Cake', 'Forever', and 'Halo of Fire' from Ainsworth's critically acclaimed album 'Sparkles & Debris' (May 2021 / Zombie Cat Records). Ainsworth arranged the songs for a chamber ensemble as a final send off to the album she had been unable to tour due to COVID restrictions. "I began arranging and composing the scores for these songs in isolation, yearning for the human connection of a live performance between myself and the audience, as well as with instrumentalists on stage. I hope my listeners will enjoy these three videos as a taste of what may come to fruition later this year." The videos were directed by Lydia's sister Abby Ainsworth at Noble St. Studios in Toronto, Canada. "There's no one quite like Lydia Ainsworth—a fact she proves on her latest album Sparkles & Debris….Ainsworth cradles our heart in a puff of angelic warmth and comfort in her dreamland lyrics and all-encompassing, superlunary tone." Flood Magazine "...magnetic and exhilarating ... [Ainsworth] has seemingly taken all that she has learnt throughout her lauded career and with it fashioned something truly special…Sparkles & Debris is songwriting and production at their finest." Northern Transmissions "Ainsworth has always projected a mad scientist slash sorceress aura, consistently serving up meticulously arranged, ethereal concoctions. But with its layers of electronic programming and live instrumentation, Sparkles & Debris is especially immersive, solidifying Ainsworth's status as dance- pop's reigning 'queen of darkness, ' to borrow a phrase from one of her new album's most transfixing cuts." Pop Dust The Live Orchestral Session videos follows debut single "Parade" (listen/watch HERE), praised in Stereogum as a "blissfully dreamy pop reverie, " "Cake" with its video directed by Takeshi Suga and shot in Tokyo before the start of the pandemic (listen/watch HERE). And 'Cosmic Dust' laser animated video by Eli Welbourne (listen/watch HERE) Lydia Ainsworth is an internationally acclaimed singer, composer and producer whose 2015 debut album Right from Real was nominated for a Juno Award for best electronic album and shortlisted for the Polaris Prize. In 2017 her second LP, Darling of the Afterglow, brought with it headlining tours of North America, Europe and Japan as well as support tours with Perfume Genius. In 2019 she released Phantom Forest, and that same year, "Earth Song, " her collaboration with Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, appeared in the last episode of Season 3 of Stranger Things. Her original scores for film and commercials have screened at festivals such as Sundance, Cannes and Hot Docs. write your comments about the article :: © 2022 Jazz News :: home page |