Amber Asylum

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Amber Asylum
Origin United States
Genre(s) Neoclassical, dark ambient, post-rock, gothic rock
Label(s) Profound Lore Records (Present)
Release Entertainment (1997–2000)
Website www.amberasylum.com

Amber Asylum is a highly-variable San Francisco-based music group that serves as a platform for composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Kris Force.[1] Other members and performers have included Steve Von Till (Neurosis), Annabel Lee (Blood Axis), Martha Burns, long-time collaborator Jackie Perez Gratz (Grayceon/Giant Squid/Asunder), Erica Stoltz (Lost Goat), Wendy Farina, Lorraine Rath (The Gault), Sarah Schaffer (Weakling), John Cobbet (Hammers of Misfortune/Ludicra), Eric Wood (Man Is The Bastard, Bastard Noise, Leila Abdul Rauf (Saros).[2][3]

Amber Asylum's music is generally within the neoclassical or Dark Ambient genres, and it tends towards the romantic, introspective, and brooding. Violin and cello are the dominant instruments.

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[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

  • Still Point (2007, Profound Lore Records)
  • Garden Of Love EP, (2006, Paradigms Recordings)
  • GardenOfLove/AutonomySuite/StillPoint 10" vinyl EP, (2005, Self Released)
  • The Supernatural Parlour Collection (2000, Release Entertainment)
  • Songs Of Sex And Death (1998, Release Entertainment)
  • The Natural Philosophy Of Love (1997, Release Entertainment)
  • Frozen In Amber (1996, Elfenblut/Misanthropy) (reissued 2003, Neurot Recordings)[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Release Entertainment biography
  2. ^ House of Tudor, Silke Tudor, SF Weekly, January 22, 2003. Accessed on line December 2, 2007.
  3. ^ Amber Asylum, biography, All Music Guide. Accessed on line December 2, 2007.
  4. ^ Discography from official web site

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