Jami Sieber

"Jami Sieber plays music on electric and acoustic cello with a passion that translates into soul-baring poetry."
--Conscious Choice Magazine
Every so often a musician emerges who manages to speak to the spirit by way of their instrument. Electric cellist and vocalist Jami Sieber reaches inside the soul with compositions that are contemporary, timeless, lush, and powerfully evocative. Her style of performance has been recognized internationally. An innovative musician, Jami’s music moves beyond the surface, seeking and re-seeking her truth by creating musical bridges and connections, committed to doing what moves her and inspiring listeners with her honesty, musical prowess, and humanity. Her life-long commitment to the environment, social justice, and the healing arts is at the heart of her music, reflecting a deep dedication to the arts as a medium of exploration and awareness of the interconnectedness of all beings.
Jami is a performer that makes transformation appear simple, taking a traditionally classical instrument and morphing it into the source of a multi-dimensional range of expressive works. In the 28 years since she began performing professionally, Jami has always done something unique – employing electronics and looping techniques to create sounds never before associated with the cello. Her music transforms from the deepest stillness to moving melodies and rhythms that light the soul on fire. Jami’s musical path moved from classical to folk, to rock/pop where within her popular band “Rumors of the Big Wave”, she garnered the coveted Northwest Area Music Association (NAMA) Award for Best Rock Instrumentalist. From there she launched her solo career, performing original compositions around the world and diving into dynamic collaborations with an extraordinary spectrum of artists including jazz vocalist Rhiannon (Bobby McFerrin), bansuri flute player Steve Gorn (Born into Brothels Band), singer-songwriters Jennifer Berezan, Ferron, poet Kim Rosen and painter Colleen Kelley. This sometimes ethereal, sometimes hard-edged, musician has earned rave reviews throughout Europe, Asia, and North America, having been an invited guest artist in China, Russia, the Balkans, Italy, France, and Thailand.
In addition to live performance, Jami has written musical scores for film, theater and dance, possessing an innate ability to use her instrument like a painter, adorning her musical canvas with washes of vivid tones and reflective moods. Jami, at her core, is in a constant state of invention and re-invention – which manifests in her music, engaging all of the senses and the depths of the imagination and creating experiences that invite listeners to new realms of perception.
Investigate Jami’s recordings and you will be captured by her creativity and imagination as a writer, lyricist and instrumentalist. Each recording is a sonic journey exploring the breadth and magic of the acoustic and electric cellos, with compositions that will open the heart, defy the mind, and, at times, inspire body and spirit to dance. Jami’s independently produced recordings include: Unspoken: The Music of Only Breath (2008), Only Breath (2007), Hidden Sky (2004), Second Sight (1998), and Lush Mechanique (1994). Victory Music says, "...these musical paintings hang, framed in her own passion and dreams. If you've ever taken a journey of the soul, be it to another place or your own backyard, this music will play back every scene."
JAMI'S NEWEST RECORDING
Unspoken: the music of only breath (Available June 2008)
The instrumental soundtrack of the recent collaborative release, 'Only Breath', which features Sieber’s celloscapes in dialogue with mystical poetry, 'Unspoken' is infused with the ineffable essence of the verses, allowing the listener to bask in the waves of music as they move from joy to grief to intoxication to stillness. This instrumental recording is a river of music that carries the listener through the many landscapes of the heart.
JOIN JAMI IN THAILAND JAN. 2010
An extraordinary opportunity to be with elephants and their mahouts (caretakers) in a small group setting. We will explore the experience through writing, sharing, reflection, and music – a journey to connect with our own deepest nature that at one time was in sync with the earth and its animals.
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PLEASE VISIT THE NEW JAMI SIEBER and KIM ROSEN MYSPACE SITE and LISTEN to selected tracks from their
NEW CD "ONLY BREATH"
www.myspace.com/jamisieberandkimrosen