Clarice Jensen – In Holiday Clothing, Out of the Great Darkness

Description

Clarice Jensen fourth solo album, In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness, 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. Jensen sets new parameters for this new album, placing the acoustic sound of the cello at the fore, and affecting the sound only through a few effects (octave displacement, delay, tremolo and looping). The solo cello works of J.S. Bach are a central backdrop to this new album, as they display a rich range of voices created by one instrument. Having found ways to expand the sound and voice of the instrument through electronics, Jensen found it fitting to return to Bach’s works as a way to touch back in with the tradition of the instrument.