Standing Horses - Music

Rio En Medio Spanish For River In Between Is A Pseudonym Of Folk Singer / Baritone Ukulelist Danielle Stech-Homsy Born In New Mexico USA . She Debuted In 2004 With The Album A Bride's Guide To Waiting Music 2004 Self-Release . As Rio En Medio She Has Released The Bride Of Dynamite 2007 Frontier Feb 2009 Manimal Vinyl Peace Sequence 2012 And Rio En Medio Radio 2015 . Stech-Homsy's Recording / Live Performance Is Often In Collaboration With Justin Riddle Drums Percussion Christian Lee Guitar Banjo And Nicholas Toll Keyboards Percussion . After Moving To Brooklyn NY From Her High Desert New Mexico Birthplace Stech-Homsy Began To Record And Perform Her Own Compositions. Working Independently And In Secret She Created The Bride Of Dynamite Feb 2007 Gnomonsong A Collection Of Collage-Like Songs Incorporating Found Sounds / Electronic-Programming Lifting Texts From Disparate Sources - Evoking Traditional / Folk Song Structure Themes And Melodies. A Friend Passed A Hand-Made Copy Of The Record To Devendra Banhart Who Requested Releasing It On His Label. Following The Bride Of Dynamite's Release Stech-Homsy Has Since Performed On Stages Across The US Europe And The UK. As Well As Banhart She Has Worked With Many Well-Regarded Artists Including Grizzly Bear CocoRosie Brightblack Morning Light Vetiver Patrick Wolf Vashti Bunyan And Tim Fite. In April 2007 She Did Take-Away Show An Acoustic Video Session Shot By Vincent Moon. Rio En Medio's Music Can Be Described As Delicate And Fragmented Songs Featuring A Sparse/haunting Trio Of Baritone Ukulele Subtly Harmonized Vocals And Electronic/sampled Soundscapes - Evoking The Spun Poetry Of Ancient Folk Lullabies And A Hint Of Contemporary Culture's Darker Side. Stech-Homsy Cites Influences Including Traditional Styles Tropicalia And Folk Russian Spanish US And English Plus A Diversity Musicians E.G. Bob Dylan And Beth Gibbons . As Well As Riddle Lee And Toll - On Stage Rio En Medio Has Been Represented By A Range Of Other Musical And Visual Guests/collaborators Including Justin Hartery Video Cohdi Harrell Aerialist And The Sound/visual Artist Vlad Kromatika. read less