Amber Asylum
Amber Asylum is a highly variable San Francisco-based music group that serves as a platform for composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Kris Force. The current lineup of Amber Asylum includes, in addition to Force, Fern Lee Alberts, Sarah Rosalena Brady, and Becky Hawk. Other members and performers have included Steve Von Till, Annabel Lee, Martha Burns, long-time collaborator Jackie Perez Gratz, Erica Stoltz, Wendy Farina, Lorraine Rath, Sarah Schaffer, John Cobbet, Eric Wood, Leila Abdul-Rauf, Chiyo Nukaga, Andrew Veskoukis and Sigrid Sheie.
Amber Asylum's music is generally within the neoclassical or dark ambient genres, and tends towards the romantic, introspective, and brooding. Violin and cello are the dominant instruments.
Discography
Albums
Frozen in Amber The Natural Philosophy of Love Songs of Sex and Death The Supernatural Parlour Collection GardenOfLoveAutonomySuiteStillPoint 10" vinyl EP, Garden of Love EP, Still Point Bitter River Sin Eater Anthology 1995-2015 Breaker of Rings/Blood Witch split with Völur- ''Ruby Red''