Audiences around the world get a chance to experience an unusual musical pairing with the release of a CD with American singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Kristina Olsen and Australian cellist Peter Grayling. They have spent the last year touri [+]Audiences around the world get a chance to experience an unusual musical pairing with the release of a CD with American singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Kristina Olsen and Australian cellist Peter Grayling. They have spent the last year touring in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and the US to promote the release of their CD, 'Duet'.
Kristina Olsen is a powerfully engaging performer with a blues raw velvet voice, brilliant guitar skills (on acoustic and steel-body slide guitar) and a fine way of crafting a song, from hilarious tales of love-gone-wrong to seriously compelling songs of rare insight and compassion. She is well know for her songwriting and her songs have been recorded by Fairport Convention among others.
Cellist Peter Grayling takes an instrument rarely seen off the classical stage and weaves it through Olsen's songs, enriching the ballads with a gorgeous, mellow sound and driving along the bluesy numbers with punchy playing and recklessly passionate solos. Dr. Grayling was formerly the principal cellist with the Tasmania Symphony Orchestra and now currently does contract work for the Western Australian Symphony when he isn't on tour with Olsen.
The depth, diversity and excitement of Kristina and Peter's live performances are captured in fifteen studio tracks on their new CD 'Duet', which also offers two bonus live tracks recorded on their last Australian tour. These two multi-instrumentalists create inspired musical settings, recorded live in the studio with the emphasis on the real interplay of a musical partnership honed on stage. All the songs/pieces are in duet form. On 'Heart Hill', a song Olsen wrote about the actual heart-shaped English wood which a grieving fiancee planted on the hill where lover's plane had crashed, Olsen plays concertina and sings while Grayling plays mandocello and sings harmony. On the blues classic 'Brownsville' Olsen moans out the melody on slide guitar and voice, while Grayling adds a third harmony part on the cello. All the tracks are in song form except 'Pillow Talk', an instrumental waltz with Olsen on saxophone and Grayling on cello. Their work together has left a trail of excitement in the UK, the US and Australia, and New Zealand. Now audiences around the world will get chance to cat
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