Painted On Water, the duo of star Turkish performers, whose current self-titled album project by the vocalist Sertab Erener and composer/guitarist Demir Demirkan, recently performed at the Hiro Ballroom in New York City. A highlight of their show, “Love” features a powerfully haunting and mesmerizing vocal by Erener with a rare background vocal by Demirkan.

The spiritual presence of her sound is intoxicating, and the 50 plus people who watched Moya Brennan perform at The Winery in late March witnessed sonic beauty at its finest. Standing between two harps her music radiated throughout the venue, causing waiters and other venue employees to stop dead in their tracks. Moya’s beautiful voice [...]

As a duo, Chester French worked for three years on Love the Future, making money on the side by engineering recording sessions for Boston area instrumentalists, rappers, and other bands. Finally, in May of 2007, D.A. and Max completed their recording and their degrees, in African American Studies and Social Anthropology, respectively.