{"id":19159,"date":"2022-09-03T16:04:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T15:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=19159"},"modified":"2022-09-03T16:04:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T15:04:12","slug":"jessica-moss-announces-new-album-galaxy-heart-and-shares-first-single-uncanny-being-violin-study-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=19159","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Moss announces new album, Galaxy Heart<\/em>, and shares first single ‘Uncanny Being (Violin Study #2)’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brilliant and ingenious violinist, vocalist and composer Jessica Moss<\/a> has announced details of a new album, Galaxy Heart<\/em>, due out on Constellation<\/a> on October 7th. Composed whilst in deep isolation throughout 2020, Moss’s newest long-player is a companion piece to last year’s Phosphenes<\/em>. Where in Phosphenes<\/em> Moss deliberately crafted post-classical compositions, on Galaxy Heart<\/em> she expands her sonic palette, with the album featuring semi-improvised electric guitar and guest contributions from drummer Jim White (Dirty Three, Xylouris White) and double bassist Thierry Amar (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt Zion) on some tracks.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the album, she comments:<\/p>\n

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“This album represents me throwing out some old preconceptions of myself and my instrument, and stretching my relationship with solo expression further than I knew I could reach. And consequently, represents what feels like new doors opened, new paths forward.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The compelling<\/span> and emotive ‘Uncanny Being (Violin Study #2)’ is the first single to emerge and it features White on drums and Amar on contrabass. Of this collaboration, she says:<\/p>\n

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“Uncanny Being” is a result of distanced collaboration with two of my all-time favourite players of their instruments; Jim White and Thierry Amar. I sent them my anxious violin tracks which had their own questions, and they sent me parts back with answers I could never have expected, opening doors I could never have dreamed of. Countless hours of meticulous collage work after the fact to bring us together, until I can only hear where we met in the same uncanny space and time and I feel joyfully surrounded.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The track comes with a video made by Moss herself and Eve Parker Finley. Watch it now.<\/p>\n