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Ami Saraiya
12+ albums
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AMI SARAIYA: www.amisaraiya.com I can never decide if Ami Saraiya’s songs are sad or not. If so, it’s a living sadness, vibrant, flushed with heart-stuff and anger and hopefulness. Produced and arranged primarily by Mark Messing of Maestro Matic Productions/Mucca Pazza as well as Ethan Stoller, Matt Martin, and Ehsan Goreishi, Archaeologist is a collection of half heard stories, ghost myths, and magical realism. The songs hang on a delicate thread wove through scratch-jazz, Americana, trip-hop, eastern Indian modalities, and chamber pop. When Ami Saraiya whispers over Messing’s gorgeous string arrangments it is a haunting loveliness. When she chokes and howls over a frantic Gray backbeat it is perfect fury. Saraiya is a native to the Chicago music scene. Formerly lead the vocalist/writer of Radiant Darling and also swamp funk band Pelvic Delta, she has toured regionally and performed throughout the city playing the Metro, Fitzgerald’s, the Empty Bottle, Hideout, Martyrs’, the Subterranean, the Beat Kitchen, and more. The current line up includes Marc Piane on bass, Ben Gray on percussion with Ami on accordion and guitar. Ami Saraiya’s full length album Archaeologist releases September 5th, 2009 and features the lush artwork of Nathan Poetzscher and guest appearances by Greg Hirte and Jim Becker on violin, Sam johnson on trumpet, Ehsan Goreishi on Accordion, Robert Pleshar on tuba, Mike Racky on Pedal Steel, Ryan Boyles and Jason Thomas on guitar. It is a remarka
