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Mango Love is an acoustic album that only consists of our 2 guitars in dialogue, voice and the wonderful cello playing from delightful Adrianne Wininsky.
About Esther & Howard
Esther (Bertram) has a mother from Finland but grew up at the polar opposite sunny place in the world, Australia. Coming from a young hippy separated parents’ background, Esther found music early on as a stable world that supported her sensitivity and need for creative expression. She completed a diploma at a conservatorium before going on to do a bachelor of arts, majoring in Composition at university. She received the conservatoriums prize for composition both years she attended. It was then she built her 1st home studio and began producing. Almost directly from study in 2001 she moved to Germany and toured with her electronic chill duo Pixiefish and played at many big festivals. As the summer ended and the festivals died down, under a friend’s recommendation Esther began doing solo street concerts in Berlin, which surprisingly were very exciting and profitable. She soon joined the Germany based “Godfathers of Worldbeat” (Rolling stone) world music cult band Dissidenten as the singer for their live remix project and toured extensively Germany and Spain for the following 3 years. In this time she collaborated with the Drummer and percussionist Marlon Klein and he produced her 1st 2 solo albums “Urban Angel” 2004 and “Alchemy of the Heart” 2007 which were both released independently and distributed nationally throughout Germany.
“What masses of singers are looking for is delivered in an instant by Esther Bertram”
“Authentic style and uniqueness”
“Her radiating voice has powerful passion, etheric nuances and folk/pop sensibility”
“An Urban Angel watches over her sheep, knowing she is one of them amongst them….”
They went on to play many venues and festivals in Germany, Spain and Finland to support the releases. Simultaneously Esther won an EMI songwriting competition and collaborated with House music producer/DJ Tyree Cooper. Esther then moved to the U.K. and in early 2007 began producing her 1st solo electronic project (Yet to be named and released) and in June 07 met Howard. Their meeting sparked off much material written within weeks. It is these songs that have now become the creation ‘Mango Love’. “Mango Love” is a self-produced album made at home on the Carpet of Truth (Carpet of Truth Productions).
Lovely Adrianne Wininsky brings the divine addition of cello to form a simple yet compete album consisting only of 2 guitars in dialogue, vocals and cello, which elegantly anchors the force. The guitars were recoded together and without a click track resulting in a much looser and more organic album comparing to Esther’s 1st two releases.
Howard (Tonkin) was born and bred in the U.K. Howard has had a strong connection with music from childhood where he was trained from a very early age as a drummer. His sensitive teenage years led to his involvement in his first funk/soul band D’svibes; guitar playing had become a loyal friend in which he could always turn to when the outer world didn’t communicate to him in the same way the rhythms and melodies of his inner world did.
Howard then split from a music dominated life to complete an MBA and went on to manage various large cooperate companies. Some time after as a kind of pendulum swing to what seems to be an outwardly opposite world, Howard discovered his interest in psychotherapy and began his extensive deep training to become a transpersonal psychotherapist, later to realize both of these worlds are remarkably related and connected; music as a career resurfaced.
Through exploring the inner world in his training, Howard has connected with the Flamenco in him and the ancient rhythms, melodies and musical communication of this moving deeply emotional music, which is beginning to enter the duo’s music more each and every day.
Together they have already played in Venice, the UK, Sweden and various venues in Spain. They have upcoming festivals in Finland, Czech Republic, Italy and the Netherlands on the schedule for this year to support their new release.
