Balladeste

This exciting 3rd album from the unique and ever-evolving string duo Balladeste, sees longstanding collaborators - Preetha Narayanan (violin) & Tara Franks (cello) enter pastures new with a fully improvised album that celebrates their current meeting point, their musical language and improvised conversations built up through over 10 years of playing together. Released July 2023

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Balladeste's celebrated 2nd album - a reflective collection of all original co-written taking inspiration from a set of Indian devotional songs. Released September 2021

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An exciting collection of reworks taking tracks from Balladeste's celebrated recent album 'Beyond Breath', featuring an inspiring line up of re-work collaborators from the contemporary classical, ambient, jazz scene - Midori Hirano, Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, Anna Phoebe and The Vernon Spring.

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

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