Before mechanical recordings, music was only heard when in the company of a living musician.

The mystic ritual, ceremony, the marriage of sound, word and light ~ These are the elements of a living musical presence.

The immediate experience of instantaneous music in the performance environment vastly differs from a groomed, enhanced recording with overdubs, heard from speakers or ear-pieces.

To capture an event, in front of an audience, in real time is to listen to a "high-wire act for the ears" ~ This is the tradition that Laurianne Fiorentino's musical CDs hail from. The pure expression and emotion witnessed by those in the concert hall or mission church, then recorded and released, embodies the essence of her first 5 recordings.

Each CD featuring songs and improvisations, and each CD featuring impromptu instrumental collaborations can be experienced as meditation music.

A Santa Fe, NM based musician and educator, Laurianne Fiorentino repeatedly redefines how to write a song as often as she breaks the mold of how to present performances which enthrall and captivate an audience ~ to conjur and travel in the tradition of mystical shamanism.

Each composition can be heard as an aural mandala, a mantra, which carries the vibration of creation inside sound. A consciousness that dreams to be known and understood as acoustic music.






Next?





Pop Meets Profound


A studio project with a full band (acoustic bass, drums, guitar, trombone, and vocals - featuring Dave Borton, Wes brown, Joe Boyle, Lincoln Hubley, Celia Faran and more) is in the works to be released in 2011.


And click HERE to hear a sample of the Rosa Invictus invented vocal project featuring Michael Kott on cello, Laurianne on bamboo flute, vox & piano....currently being worked on for a 2012 release!
Click on the song "Dream Tower"

2011 REVIEW OF LIVE PERFORMANCE AT REAL FOOD NATION

"BTW, I went to Real Food Nation about a month ago and ate in their new posh Dinner Club and really liked it. Last Thursday, we went again, expecting to eat at the Dinner Club. Before going in, we decided to check out the original Real Food Nation restaurant next door, having only been there once when it first opened.

 

As soon as we walked in, we realized how much the place had changed. It was really nice! We heard this fabulous music emanating from an excellent sound system. After looking around, we were about to leave when I chose to look around the corner where there were more tables and people eating.

 

It was then that I located the source of the music; it was live, and it was coming from Laurianne Fiorentino and David Borton, whose picture just appeared on the cover of SF One Heart December issue. There's a big write-up inside too about these two minstrels.

 

“Wow” - that's what we heard each other say as my friend and I canceled our reservations at the Supper Club then quickly located a comfortable seat as close to the music as possible. We stayed and ate there, swaying to Laurianne and David (she: singing, guitar and infrequent harmonica; he: trombone) until they would play no more.

 

 After one tune that really sounded like Jobim (One Note Samba, Girl From Ipanema, Dindi, Desifinado, Wave, etc.) I asked her to play another Jobim, and she said "What do you mean Jobim? I wrote that." I was shocked because I know Jobim, and nobody ever came close -

until now.

 

These two really have it together; she with her original music and words, he with his very subtle and eloquent horn counterpoint. Laurianne is a gifted musician and poet and David is her able musical companion. Also, there seemed to be more instruments heard than seen, like in a movie when the music swells and you hear instruments that aren't there."  MT

2010 VIDEO DEMO WITH ODETTA