Balladeste

This exciting 3rd album from ever-evolving string duo explores pastures new with a fully improvised album celebrating the duo’s current meeting point, unique musical language and improvised conversations built up over 10 years of playing together. Released July 2023

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Balladeste's celebrated 2nd album - a reflective collection of co-written original repertoire taking inspiration from a set of Sai Indian devotional songs - Indo-baroque meets alt-folk minimalism. Released September 2021

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A collection of reworks taking tracks from Balladeste's celebrated album 'Beyond Breath', featuring a high profile line up of collaborators from the contemporary classical, ambient, jazz scene - Midori Hirano, Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, Anna Phoebe and The Vernon Spring.

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Balladeste's debut collection of collaboratively written repertoire and new folk arrangements - Songs without words with a contemporary alt-folk twist.

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A collaborative EP written with singer-songwriter Ana Silvera, ‘Difficult Loves’ is a song cycle by string duo Balladeste and singer-songwriter Ana Silvera that explores the many faces of love - from the revelation of romantic connection to the bonds of familial devotion; and from the ecstatic contemplation of the natural world into dark echoes of love’s more troubled shadows and loss.