Hannah Stater, a music student at the University of Michigan formerly known as on TikTok (she now uses her full name), has accumulated hundreds of thousands of followers and millions of likes on the platform. The harp’s delicate curves have also found a wider audience on social media. LEYA used several songs from that production for their 2020 album, “Flood Dream.” “Brooke is just such a positive, good energy person,” Ms. Markiewicz play haunting melodies as artfully choreographed erotic scenes unfold onscreen. This same harp also makes a surprising cameo in the 2018 PornHub film “I Love You,” directed by Brooke Candy, a stripper turned rapper who hired the band after seeing the video for their single “Sister.”Ĭloaked under veils of crimson tulle, Ms. “People would spill their beer on my harp,” she said. A harp from the manufacturer can weigh more than 80 pounds and costs, on average, over $30,000 $50,000 if it’s gilded. She stopped next to two towering pedal harps - one ivory and one walnut - made by the famed Lyon and Healy music company in Chicago. Donovan said of the band’s early touring appearances, giving a virtual tour of her apartment over Zoom. “When I started playing with LEYA we were playing these little noise shows in basements,” Ms.
Mary Lattimore, another contemporary harpist, also collaborates with musicians from other genres, including prominent indie rockers like Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and the Violators’ Steve Gunn and Kurt Vile. LEYA collaborates with their peers in the experimental music scene, recording tracks with Eartheater, a musician in Queens, and the Brooklyn black metal band Liturgy. The result creates an unearthly dissonance: the auditory equivalent of awakening in the fog of a bad dream only to discover you’re still trapped in the nightmare. Donovan achieves this effect through unorthodox tunings and amplifications. The duo brings a punk mentality to their experimental work, which has been described by Pitchfork as “eerie, beckoning and tinged with horror.” Ms.
Donovan performs with Adam Markiewicz, a violinist and vocalist, under the name LEYA. It can have so many different feels to it and still be beautiful.” Marilu Donovan, 33, a harpist in New York, is also over the instrument’s prudish rep.
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