VIA TANIA Vulnerable Disarming Beautiful... Via Tania and the Tomorrow Music Orchestra, coming out on 24th February, is the latest album by the Australian songstress, since the digital release of Fields in 2010 and it is every bit as captivating and unconventional as you’d expect. With Via Tania’s smooth, breathy croon against the melodies laid down by the Tomorrow Music Orchestra, the album is an enchanting amalgam of modern and classical that makes you feel like you’ve found yourself in a fairytale. Since the funding for the album was raised through a campaign via Indiegogo, we spoke to Via Tania about whether crowdfunding is the future for independent artists, inspiration, and about collaborating with an experimental music group. Words: Stella Eliadou
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ow did the collaboration with the Tomorrow Music Orchestra come about and how did the recording process differ in comparison with your previous albums? It was actually very simple. I talked to Charles Rumback, the drummer in Via Tania about how amazing the orchestra was - we played with them one night at the Hideout in Chicago. I said I’d always wanted to record with an orchestra, a life goal! And Charles asked Matthew [Golombisky] about it and the deal was done. Matthew was totally up for it and I had all these songs I was just about to record with the band and instead handed them over to the Orchestra. I guess on the whole it differs in