Jessica Moss

Jessica Moss – Phosphenes (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:06 minutes | 368 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Modern Classical
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A phosphene is “the phenomenon of seeing light without light entering the eye.” The title of the heart-rending and resolute new album by composer/violinist Jessica Moss could not be better chosen. Moss is by now a seasoned practitioner of immersive isolation music; across three previously acclaimed solo records of minimal and maximal post-classicism, her acoustic, amplified, and electronically-shifted violin is the raw material for deeply expressive, palpably haunted, wholly committed compositions. But Phosphenes inscribes fleeting halos of refracted ghostly light out of a prevailing darkness with especially plangent determination and intensity. This is the most overtly searching, mournful and inexorable music Moss has made to date. The pieces on Phosphenes exquisitely navigate consonance and dissonance, building patiently from single notes to multiple voicings, harmonic stacks and clusters. These compositions channel themselves like slow-moving water in a dark cave, finding small eddies and catching glints of luminescence from within.
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Jessica Moss – Entanglement (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:23 minutes | 412 MB | Genre: Classical
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Jessica Moss has been blossoming as a solo artist since the release of her acclaimed debut album Pools Of Light in spring 2017. The violinist, composer and singer best known for her fifteen-year tenure in political post-punk band Thee Silver Mt. Zion is newly ascendant as a soloist, captivating audiences with gritty, warmly expressive electronic- and drone-inflected post-classical Minimalism (and sometimes Maximalism), accented by a distinctive melodic sensibility that channels Klezmer, Balkan and Middle Eastern tropes. Moss has played 80 shows in the past year, including appearances at Big Ears, WSO New Music, Le Guess Who?, Zemlika and Supersonic, participation in multiple editions of Basilica Hudson’s 24-Hour Drone Fest, and a mix of headlining dates and opening slots for the likes of Zu, BIG|BRAVE (on whose most recent album she also plays), and labelmates Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
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Jessica Moss – Galaxy Heart (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:32 minutes | 802 MB | Genre: Classical
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The companion album to Phosphenes (Nov 2021) by the composer-violinist of Thee Silver Mt Zion, Set Fire To Flames, Black Ox Orkestar. Featuring guests Jim White (Xylouris White, Dirty Three) and Thierry Amar (Godspeed You! Black Emperor).
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