In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness - Clarice Jensen (Vinyl)

“… what steps forth, in holiday clothing, out of the great darkness."– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet.

Clarice Jensen is the artistic director of ACME, the American Contemporary Music Ensemble. A graduate of The
Juilliard School, she studied with Joel Krosnick, Harvey Shapiro and has taken master classes with many composers
such as Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter and Roger Reynolds. Recording artists she has collaborated with include Jóhann
Jóhannsson, Stars of the Lid, Owen Pallett, Max Richter.

This new album showcases Jensen’s distinctive
compositional approach, in which she improvises and layers her cello through shifting loops and a chain of electronic
effects, exploring a series of rich, drone-based sound fields. Pulsing, visceral and full of color, her work is deeply immersive, marked by a wonderful sense of restraint and an almost hallucinatory clarity.