Faerie Music: Adam Hurst

Adam Hurst has released six CDs of cello, guitar and mandolin music beginning in 2005. His music incorporates sounds from the Middle East, India and Eastern Europe. He built one of the cellos he plays, which he calls a "Gypsy cello." It has five strings and a smaller body than a standard cello.

"Local cellist Adam Hurst is a tough one to pin down. At times, his songs are ethereal and dramatic, perfectly suited for a movie soundtrack or the backdrop to a rainy day. Other times, he incorporates drones that are reminiscent of the late '70s New York avant-garde scene. Mix those two with some world influences (gypsy and Middle Eastern, primarily), plus some serious chops, and there's no telling what Hurst can do with a cello. His latest offering, "Ruin", finds him throwing some piano into the mix, which gives the songs a ridiculously somber and melancholy tone. But then again, with songs like "Death Waltz," "Alone," and "Face in the Rain," would you expect anything different?" — The Portland Mercury

Hurst has performed in the United States, Europe, Cuba and Japan in venues ranging from street corners to concert halls. His music has been used in art films, feature films and documentaries. He wrote the complete score for the ballet Broken Sparrow and played onstage at its premiere by the Northwest Professional Dance Project in Portland. He provided the music for Anima, a 1997 film by Craig Richardson about an elderly German couple living quietly in upstate New York when their lives are disrupted by a New York City reporter who probes to find their secret past.

Adam Hurst publicity photo from adamhurststudio.com

2010

Track listing:

1. Summoning
2. Fragments
3. Elegy
4. Sacrament
5. Sparrow
6. Absence
7. Wake
8. Radiance
9. Procession
10. Embers
11. Flor de Noche
12. Lament
13. Cold Wind
14. View from Within
15. The Visitor

from CD Baby

2009

Track listing:

1. Ritual
2. Wellspring
3. Seduction
4. Threshold
5. Vessel
6. Longing
7. Chant
8. Return
9. Unseen
10. Midnight Waltz

from CD Baby

2008

Track listing:

1. Possession
2. Seven Sisters
3. Waiting
4. Encounter
5. Distance
6. Wanderer
7. Motionless
8. Unspoken
9. Chamber
10. Circular
11. Clearing
12. Night Walk
13. Following
14. Air

from CD Baby

2008

Track listing:

1. Death Waltz
2. Ascent
3. Alone
4. Face in the Rain
5. Ruin
6. Flight
7. Highlands
8. Dead Wood
9. Rising
10. Afterlife
11. Exit

from CD Baby

2007

Track listing:

1. morning
2. beloved
3. invocation
4. entrance
5. in-between
6. a moment
7. forgotten
8. the beyond
9. dwelling
10. seclusion
11. luminescence
12. abandonment
13. remaining

from CD Baby

2006

Track listing:

1. Presence
2. The Invisible
3. Memory



from CD Baby

2005

Track listing:

1. Reflection
2. Metamorphosis
3. Dusk
4. Dream


from CD Baby