Label: Corbett vs. Dempsey

極上の内省ソロ!!ビョークとの共演等でも知られる、80年代よりニューヨークを拠点にハープ奏者として活動を続ける女性プレイヤーZeena Parkins。2020年6月から1年間継続した"ドメスティック・リチュアル"と題した自宅スタジオでの内省演奏を纏めた音源がCorbett vs. Dempseyより登場。エレクトリック・ハープを主にベルやパーカッションも導入した単独演奏が収録されており、独自のスタイルを更に深掘りした鬼気迫る振動及びモノオト・パフォーマンスを展開。全10テイク素晴らしい完成度。









Every day over the course of a year starting in June, 2020, in something she refers to as a "domestic ritual," Zeena Parkins recorded
solo electric harp performances in her home studio. The brilliant improvisor and composer had, like most of her peers, been sidelined by
the pandemic; unable to tour, she spent the end of each day at the harp, playing until sunlight waned, inventing and discovering new
soundscapes, keeping her musical self together while the world seemed poised to crumble. Parkins' audience consisted of her boyfriend,
filmmaker Jeff Preis (who filmed and recorded all the music) and their dog. Invited to participate in the Black Cross Solo Sessions, she
returned to this deep well of recordings and selected ten tracks, augmenting the harp with pedals and resonant and resonating objects
including bells and other percussion. To Dusk is a uniquely vibrating set of auditory investigations, a buzzing, ringing, hammering,
plunging suite of instant compositions snatched from the maw of a malicious moment in the world's collective history. Liner notes by
Zeena Parkins. Cover artwork and design by Christopher Wool