Unfolding - Vinyle 180Gr

Description

Unfolding marks the most meditative and plaintive solo album from Jessica Moss, the Montreal-based violinist and composer. Moving away from her previous explorations with Silver Mt. Zion and Black Ox Orkestar, she delivers a quasi-ambient work, where post-classical, drone, minimalism, Klezmer, and electroacoustic textures intertwine. Her palette includes melodic violin, intermittent vocals, and percussion from Tony Buck (The Necks), creating deeply moving compositions, guided by a spirit of research and invocation, in an atmosphere of incantation and melancholic restraint. The album is rooted in the inextricable link between the personal and the political. For two years, Moss has been involved with Musicians For Palestine and released For UNRWA in 224, while also experiencing a romantic breakup linked to political disagreements. With producer Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, she shaped Unfolding over a year, in the context of the crisis in Palestine, as a portal to collective mourning and a means to probe inner storms while seeking to connect with others. Her solo practice, fragile and ceremonial, has been enriched by this intensity, blending devotion, listening, and presence in intimate concerts. Musically, the two long tracks on Side A, "Washing Machine" and "One, Now," weave drones, vocals, and field recordings to create enveloping and hypnotic soundscapes. Side B, in four parts titled "no one / no where / no one is free / until all are free," blends ambient noise, post-classical strings, and harmonic drones leading to the apotheosis of the final choral "until all are free," a secular anthem that synthesizes the album: a meditation on freedom, fragility, and collective resonance.