Jessica Moss – Unfolding [LP]

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Unfolding is Jessica Moss' most meditative and plaintive solo album, and perhaps the first in the Montral violinist/composer's decade-spanning discography that might properly be called ambient. The ex-Silver Mt Zion and Black Ox Orkestar member draws from post-classical, drone, minimalism, industrial/metal, power electronics, Klezmer and other folkways. This is not abstract ambient music; layers of violin melody, electroacoustic processing, intermittent voice, and percussion from The Necks drummer Tony Buck, bring forth deeply emotive genre-defying compositions guided by a spirit of searching and summoning that unfold in a prevailing atmosphere of incantation and mournful restraint.The inseparability of the personal and political has wrung ever tighter for Moss over the past two years. As a core member of the Montral chapter of Musicians For Palestine, she's co-organized and played several benefit shows, and released the solo album For UNRWA in spring