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She Vanishes is Vicki Richards 5th album under her name. The music is riveting, soothing, inspiring, healing, joyful, and is meant to inspire. In some places, the Tabla grooves are danceable and the music deeply moving.
Transitions, Nature, & Love are the inspirations, and the results are sparkling. There s a touch of American-flavored music on some tracks, and the velvet quality of Vicki s violin sound moves from ethereal to earthy.
The trio's ensemble sensibilities illustrate fine musicianship honed over many years. Each remarkable player who is a leader, composer, and improviser in his/her own right.
The trio has played together since 2005, and is comprised of Vicki Richards-acoustic & electric violin, Mitch Kopp-guitars and Jeff Deen-Tabla,Halo.
Mitch's guitar drives the perpetual motion of the harmonic underpinning on more than half of the tracks. His harmonic two-handed tapping technique is reminiscent of innovative artists like Michael Hedges and Vicki Genfan.
Jeff's Tabla is an integral percussion instrument reflecting his training with Pandit Sharda Sahia in the classical music of North India. Newly designed percussion instruments like the Hapi and Halo are also featured.
The trio WhTmF (We're HavingToo Much Fun) continues to explore the landscape of musical beauty and poignancy together, and embrace new technologies to achieve the best of both acoustic and electronic enrichments for their musical destinations.
Vicki's album features trios, duets, and solo tracks, interspersed throughout, that range from vibrant and energetic to that of a state of quiet with moving reveries.
Throughout She Vanishes, you'll hear musical elements of Americana: Trailhead -- listen for a touch of A. Copeland), ragas from India (The Embrace, The Kiss ), otherworldly sounds on the flying saucer-shaped Halo. World Premiere of a Violin & Halo Duo!
The solo violin track in Riding the Thermals features a live session of Vicki creating multiple live loops, where she dives into the bass register rhythmically and accompanies it with harmony lines above, and adds in a sprinkle of winged fancy in her bow arm.
Vicki's string arrangements on She Vanishes and Ocean Sun are remarkable in creating a gentle interweaving, reflecting her early history as an orchestral player.
She Vanishes is unique, energized, and mostly acoustic music. Some tracks have unique enhancements which alter preconceived notions about what a violin should sound like & reflects her years of music making in the mediums of Classical North Indian, Classical Music and Electric Violin.
With heralded musician and co-producer, Amitava Chatterjee, and engineer Peter Yianilos, they have made quite a few excellent records together over the past 20 years, as they were all part of a collaborative group of musicians in South Florida, including Robert Thomas Jr. (Weather Report/Zawinul Syndicate) back in the days of Criteria Studios.