Ambient Chamber Music in Space: Deborah Martin & Jilly's Rendering Time
Weekend listeners hear the first Echoes CD of the Month of 2026. It’s two artists you hear a lot separately and have heard two previous times together, Deborah Martin and Jill Haley. Deborah is a former opera and country singer turned electronic artist. Jill is a classical oboist and pianist who explores realms of new acoustic music. Together, they’ve created an ambient chamber music immersion called Rendering Time.
We have followed the careers of Deborah Martin and Jill Haley for a long time. We didn’t know Deborah when she was a country singer, but discovered her in the early days of the Spotted Peccary label. She was mixing mysticism and Taos drums in atmospheric music winding her way through electronic moods. Jill Haley, we have known for a long time, first with the acoustic fusion group, One Alternative, through her many contributions to productions by Will Ackerman and in a solo career centered around her National Park series of albums which is now up to 11 volumes. Their new album together, Rendering Time, forms a trilogy with their previous two releases, Into the Quiet and The Silence of Grace. It sits right up there with some of the masters of ambient chamber music and it is the January CD of the Month.
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