Rae Milford is a singer - instrumentalist - podcaster - producer from Amsterdam.
She produces her own music. Her layered soundtracks and songs have catchy rhythms, pleasant harmonies and inspired lyrics.
Rae grew up in San Francisco, took accordion and piano lessons, performed in musicals and as a soloist. On a trip through Europe, she ended up in Amsterdam.
Rae enjoys classical music (especially contemporary) minimal and electronic music, jazz and blues. Her music crosses and skims along these genres. In her compositional process, she starts from the text. Language and melody are intimately intertwined and her message is never completely unambiguous but intriguing.
She produces her own music. Her layered soundtracks and songs have catchy rhythms, pleasant harmonies and inspired lyrics.
Rae grew up in San Francisco, took accordion and piano lessons, performed in musicals and as a soloist. On a trip through Europe, she ended up in Amsterdam.
Rae enjoys classical music (especially contemporary) minimal and electronic music, jazz and blues. Her music crosses and skims along these genres. In her compositional process, she starts from the text. Language and melody are intimately intertwined and her message is never completely unambiguous but intriguing.
Last year, I was deeply moved by the exhibition Nature Under Pressure – The Call of the Ō’Ō, a moving exhibition at the museum Allard Pierson in Amsterdam. The Ō’Ō, a bird once native to Hawaii, is now extinct. On display was a taxidermied specimen and, even more moving, a recording of the call of the very last living individual, captured in 1987.
That solitary melody, mysterious and fragile, and was inspiration for my song.
Though the bird is gone, its spirit lives on through music. In O’o, vulnerability and resonance merge into something new, something alive.
Here is the video with visuals by Yve du Bois.
That solitary melody, mysterious and fragile, and was inspiration for my song.
Though the bird is gone, its spirit lives on through music. In O’o, vulnerability and resonance merge into something new, something alive.
Here is the video with visuals by Yve du Bois.
Listen to my newest song
Lonely. The Song of the Ō’Ō
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Listen to POWER
my ode to KAMALA HARRIS
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Listen to IEDEREEN IS ONZEKER
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