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Greetings Traveler, I’d like to introduce to you a new musical outfit. Fanny Ray and the Sinners’ Symphonic is a nine-piece orchestra consisting of flute, clarinet, violin, viola, violoncello, guitar, bass, drums, and vocals. Their music blends the aesthetics of commercial songwriting with the principles of classical composition, resulting in a vitality of form that is fresh and invigorating. Sung by the outlaw Fanny Ray, this work tells the tragic story of her life. I truly hope you find the music pleasing to the ear and nourishing to the heart.
Umbrella Philharmonic, founded in 2024, is a privately-funded manufacturer of chamber orchestras, whose goal is to realize musical enterprises that seem impossible to the reasonable mind. Fanny Ray and the Sinners’ Symphonic is the flagship orchestra of the Umbrella Phil catalog, and the first to be commissioned for an album of recorded music. This project takes much inspiration from the Oratorio, an old dramatic form popularized in the baroque and classical eras. Throughout you will listen to the inimitable outlaw, Fanny Ray, sing of her tragic story, accompanied by the fugitive western wailings of the Sinners’ Symphonic. We hope you enjoy.
-Umbrella Phil
In the industry of crime and violence, there are those who are more naturally gifted than others. There are even those who are so gifted that their talent demands to be classified under a category of its own. And above those geniuses, there are those few who seem to have been handcrafted by God for the sole purpose of expressing their talent.
Fanny Ray belongs to that latter group of criminal. For years she has committed crimes of the highest degree with the utmost ease. She has been pursued by the shrewdest officers and the most ruthless crusaders, always evading or dispatching them.
But tonight, she has decided to end her tenure. All she wants is to put on one last show. To give herself a fair trial, to tell her story, sing some of her favorite songs, and then… to turn herself in.
The Sinners are reputable outlaws in their own right, chosen for their expert musicianship and theatrical flair.
