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Laila Salins

Laila Salins grew up just beyond the skyline of New York, immersed in the cultural heritage of the Latvian émigré community. She has enjoyed a richly diverse performing career, performing jazz, chamber music, world music, cabaret, and music/theater, starring in the premieres of a multitude of contemporary music pieces. She has performed in Switzerland, Germany, England, Sweden, Australia, Canada and the US, as well as performing extensively in Latvia. She is co-founder of the music ensembles Kolibri, Ecliptica, Cat’s Eye, Ballistic Cabaret and TālaMana. In the fall of 2012 Laila completed her new CD - Elevator Into the Sky - her arrangements of Anne Sexton’s poetry for a jazz chamber music ensemble

Elevator Into The Sky

By Laila Salins

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2013
Track listing: Starry Night; Earth; Music Swims Back to Me; Frenzy; Riding The Elevator Into The Sky; Jesus Walking; Anna Who Was Mad; Welcome, Morning; The Fury Of god’s Goodbye; The Fury of Sunrises; The Fury of Guitars and Sopranos; The Fury of Sundays.

Laila Salins: Elevator Into The Sky

by C. Michael Bailey
March 12, 2013

On Smash, pianist/composer Patricia Barber wrote songs quite reminiscent of the late American poet Anne Sexton's (1928-1974) poetry: abstract and almost, but not quite, inaccessible. On Elevator Into The Sky, Latvian-American singer/composer Laila Salins adapts poems by Sexton for her lyric book, backing them with a competent and far-reaching band. This project is as ambitious as ...