Recordings
New album out now! Released August 9, 2024
Lucente Skye: Discovering Peace (2024)
Full-length Lucente Skye record
A collection of songs for solo piano, designed to assist in meditation practices. All tracks performed on a Yahama YUS5 piano with the felt engaged.
Naomi LaViolette (2012 Album)
Full-length debut record
In this sometimes jazzy, at times cinematic, acoustic but occasionally electronic collection of songs, Naomi introduces herself as a songwriter. Her eclectic influences weave themselves throughout heart-driven songs inspired by love, family, heartbreak, nature and spirituality. Naomi’s voice and her touch at a grand piano on every track provide unifying presence. The album includes full strings sections, Hammond B3 organ, acoustic and electric guitars, upright bass, and layered vocals. Album Booklet
You’ve Got Me (2013 EP)
EP - Extended Play
Following the release of her first record at Jimmy Mak’s jazz club in Portland, Oregon, Naomi continues to stretch her wings in jazz-inspired grooves with the You’ve Got Me EP. She includes the funky sounds of the Wurlitzer, Hammond B3 organ and Rhodes piano with classic grand piano, brass instruments and imaginative electric guitar tracks. Simply put, this EP is full of groove, and charmingly retro. A brown-eyed girl playing blue-eyed soul.
WRITTEN FOR YOU (2017 ALBUM)
Full-length record featuring Song Gifts
In Written for You, Naomi veers in a slightly different direction than her previous albums. Her vocals are as smooth and rich as ever, and sonically the album is as steeped in classical music and jazz as it is in folk and pop, but the wrinkle here is in the nature of the content, and that wrinkle is the gift. Instead of mining the depths of her life experiences, the content comes from songs she was commissioned to write for others, and songs she gave as gifts to loved ones. The album touches on subjects ranging from the power of love and dreams to the beauty of creation, but while there is a theme of seeking and finding the beauty in the present, some of the album’s strongest moments occur on tracks which contemplate mortality and the eternal. Whether it’s a song written as a celebration of life for a dearly departed relative, or an attempt to offer God genuinely unique praise, as on the album’s title track, the gift in it all is found in LaViolette’s ability to offer something moving, something profound to someone else. Album Booklet
Live at The Old Church with Members of the Oregon Symphony (2019 album)
Full-length live record featuring 2018 singles and selections from studio records
Following her work with the Oregon Symphony Lullaby Project in spring 2018, Naomi was inspired to create a live record in concert with her friends from the symphony. She includes her four new singles released in 2018 and selections from her 3 studio records in this recording, newly arranged for a classical chamber ensemble. The unique instrumentation adds an Old-World sound to modern songwriting.
STABAT MATER DOLOROSA (Rising Violet 2021 ALBUM)
Full-length piano-vocal record of the Stabat Mater Dolorosa chant
Naomi releases sacred music under the artist name Rising Violet. This album was created to accompany Stations of the Cross services.
Text by Jacapone da Todi, 1230-1306
Translated by Edward Caswall, 1814-1878
INFLUENCES: Sarah McLachlan, Sara Bareilles
GENRES INCLUDED: Folk, Classical, Ambient, Jazz.
Covers (Piano & Vocal) (2022 album)
Naomi created an album of cover songs just for her patrons! Join her Patreon community to get access to the entire album of cover songs immediately.
Singles
Naomi releases new songs as singles regularly. Follow her on Spotify to receive each one in your Release Radar playlist, and join her team at Patreon to support her in consistent writing, recording and releasing of new music.
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HOLIDAY SINGLES
Naomi releases a new holiday song every year. Follow her on Spotify to receive each one in your Release Radar playlist, and join her team at Patreon to support her in consistent writing, recording and releasing of new music.
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Lucente Skye singles
Naomi LaViolette creates piano instrumental music for reflection, meditation and relaxation under the artist name Lucente Skye. Songs are being released gradually on streaming and download platforms. Become a patron to receive songs as they are released.
Naomi’s Full DISCOGRAPHY
2023
Apricot Sunrise
Joanne Duffin
Producer, Arranger, Vocal, Piano
2022
Covers (Piano & Vocal)
Naomi LaViolette
Producer, Arranger, Vocal, Piano
2021
Stabat Mater Dolorosa
Rising Violet
Arranger, Vocal, Piano
2019
The Nature of Love, Vol. 2
Steven Craig Goodwin & Naomi LaViolette
Arranger, Piano
Live at The Old Church with Members of the Oregon Symphony
Naomi LaViolette
Composer, Arranger, Vocal, Piano
2018
Shadows on the Stars (1st place winner of The American Prize in Choral Performance, community choir division)
Oregon Repertory Singers
Composer, Piano
2017
Written For You
Naomi LaViolette
Composer, Arranger, Vocal, Piano, Glockenspiel
Invitation
Rowan & Company
Vocal
The Nature of Love (Spent 3 weeks on the Billboard New Age Chart in January 2018)
Steven Craig Goodwin & Naomi LaViolette
Vocal, Piano
2013
You’ve Got Me
Naomi LaViolette
Composer, Vocal, Hammond B3, Rhodes, Piano
2012
Naomi LaViolette
Naomi LaViolette
Composer, Arranger, Vocal, Piano
2007
A Paris Moon for the Last Waltz
Dana Carlile
Piano
2006
The Parlor Piano
Mary Louise Griffith
Piano
Rosemary Groove
Rising Violet
Piano, Vocal
Morning Light
Laura VanHorn
Vocal, Piano
2004
Melodies of the Vine
Wendy Goodwin & Naomi LaViolette
Piano
Night of Hope
Effesenden
Vocal, Piano