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Olivia Moore
Olivia is a manchester based violinist who has studied in India with her guru Kala Ramnath, and is a long-established bandleader, fusing her love for Indian music and jazz in groups such as the Owl Ensemble and Unfurl.
She performs nationally and internationally with her own projects and with artists such as Elaha Soroor (Afghanistan) and Alabaster DePlume.
Much in demand for her intoxicating, microtonally-inflected playing style, Olivia is currently a member of Milapfest's Indo Jazz Club band with superstar pianist Zoe Rahman. She has also just started an exciting new duo project with Adam Fairhall on Accordian.
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Olivia Moore and Adam Fairhall: Triangles
by John Sharpe
Violinist Olivia Moore and accordionist Adam Fairhall unveil a strikingly agile dialogue on their debut Triangles. This stylistically porous album refracts folk lineage, jazz instinct and chamber interplay into something quietly subversive. Moore arrives via folk and Indian classical study, while Fairhall--more often heard at the piano--draws from an eclectic hinterland of solo performance, early jazz, improv and less easily classified idioms. However, the eleven tracks, which span originals, covers and traditional sources, ground their unlikely turns in melody and ...
Continue ReadingNourished by Indian and Jazz traditions, but with an elegance that comes from her classical training, Olivia Moore's violin has an eastern tang that is genuinely entrancing", Manchester Evening News.
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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson
