Orenda Fink is known for her quiet, introspective songs and her unobtrusive approach to singing. Her music, both on her own solo albums and with Azure Ray (the band she fronts with longtime friend Maria Taylor), tends to be forlorn and unsettling, albeit imbued with an underlying belief in the ultimate goodness of existence. The songs on her new album, Blue Dream were inspired by the death of her dog, as well as general meditations on the limitations of existence on the material plane. On the LP, Fink goes deep into the primal questions of death and the meaning of life. The lyrics are dark, but the music is bright and buoyant, although still played at the laid-back tempos that are her forte. Fink will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new feature on her.
Fink: This is one of my favorite things to do. There is nothing like connecting with your friends over a nice meal and bottle of wine. It’s much more intimate than hanging out at a bar or a party and you get to share the sensory pleasures of eating and drinking. Over meals with friends, you can have inspiring ideas, work out problems, express your feelings of gratitude or just catch up on the not-so-trivial aspects of everyone’s lives that we yearn to share with others. Home cooked or at your favorite restaurant, the absolute best meals are the ones in which you completely lose track of time. The wine helps with that …
