Zoë Keating - Into The Trees FLAC download

As an independent artist and DIY musician, Zoë Keating makes some of the most captivating and rich contemporary music, all within the confines of a very modest setup. Her results on "Into The Trees" are evidence enough. On "Hello Night", Keating once again explores the outer limits of what it means to create a contemporary sound exclusively with an acoustic cello. The introductory phrases are slight, apparently sampled-and-pitched-up phrases, dipped in reverb and looped in a way that evokes the wind-chilled electronics of distant Finnish ambient music. As Keating plays and adds parts, especially bowed phrases, she takes care to play them with a measured dose of dissonance. These out of phase phrases, fatten the sound naturally, the way a chorus effect might. Upon a closer listen however, these passages have their own micro-structure via the roughness and beating that is mirrored overall, in the spectrally sifted character of the composition itself.On the final original track, "Flying & Flocking", Keating again resorts to the highly effective alchemical blend of playing plucked micro phrases, running them through a delay line while bowing & looping highly cinematic figures. This living, breathing structure of intricately funked syncopations and textural cello-scapes builds into a blistering feast of solo cello virtuosity on an exquisitely layered sonic fabric!