{"title":"Clarice Jensen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClarice Jensen is a talented cellist known for her captivating performances and innovative compositions. With a unique blend of classical training and contemporary influences, she has established herself as a prominent figure in the music industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer music is often described as mesmerizing and emotive, drawing listeners in with its rich textures and haunting melodies. Jensen's work has been compared to that of artists such as Ben Russell, Sarah Davachi, and Richard Carr.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCollaborating with renowned musicians like Grace Davidson, Louisa Fuller, and Kassel Jaeger, Jensen has created unforgettable musical experiences that transcend genres. Her contributions to projects with Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg and Lawrence English have further showcased her versatility as an artist.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-experience-of-repetition-as-death","title":"The Experience of Repetition as Death","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrooklyn-based cellist Clarice Jensen’s gorgeous sophomore album and first for FatCat’s pioneering 130701 imprint, \u003ci\u003eThe experience of repetition as death\u003c\/i\u003e, was recorded and mixed by Francesco Donadello at Vox-Ton studios in Berlin in late 2018 and mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri. Following up her hugely impressive 2018 debut, \u003ci\u003eFor This From That Will Be Filled\u003c\/i\u003e, which included collaborations with Jóhann Jóhannsson and Michael Harrison, all of the material on this new album was written and performed by Clarice alone and all of the sounds on it were created with a cello through a variety of effects and effects pedals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExpanding her sound again, \u003ci\u003eThe experience of repetition as death\u003c\/i\u003e is a warm, deep and cyclical album that explores notions of repetition in both its conceptual underpinning and musical structure. Unlike the easily readable step builds and grid-locked looping of so many artists using the looper as a compositional tool, Clarice’s loops slide across one another in organically morphing structures; align and intersect at different moments, yielding a kind of aleatoric yet minimal counterpoint, with joins overlaid in ways that appear seamless and sophisticated. Where her live performance relies heavily upon the use of loop pedals, in the studio she and Donadello recorded much of the material onto tape to create a series of physical loops. There’s something oceanic in the immensity of the resulting work - in the ebb and flow of her sound and the way it builds and dissipates through swelling and wave reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"130701","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50498681798987,"sku":"1089069","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/54dcbce6-e42a-4854-b270-51c50abee668_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727753451"},{"product_id":"esthesis","title":"Esthesis","description":"\u003cp\u003eNY-based cellist\/composer Clarice Jensen’s third LP,\u003ci\u003e Esthesis\u003c\/i\u003e is a deep and gorgeous new work conceptually structured around the emotional and harmonic spectrum and the phenomenon of chromesthesia – a condition whereby sound involuntarily evokes an experience of colour, shape and movement. Following up her critically-acclaimed 2020 LP \u003ci\u003eThe experience of repetition as death\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsthesis\u003c\/i\u003e sees Jensen expanding her oeuvre and introducing a wider instrumental range, including the piano of Timo Andres and the voices of Laura Lutzke, Francesca Federico and Emma Broughton. 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The new album showcases Jensen’s distinctive compositional approach, in which she improvises and layers her cello through shifting loops and a chain of electronic effects, exploring a series of rich, drone-based sound fields. Pulsing, visceral and full of colour, her work is deeply immersive, marked by a wonderful sense of restraint and an almost hallucinatory clarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaving made a solo move to the Berkshire Mountains in upstate New York in September 2020 after years living in Brooklyn, Jensen found herself confronting and enjoying a newfound solitude as the non- stop movement and collaboration of city life had come to a standstill. The first LP she made post-move, Esthesis, is largely devoid of cello, synth heavy, and examines emotions in a self-conscious way from an isolated point of view that is nearly one-dimensional.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJensen sets new parameters for this new album, placing the acoustic sound of the cello at the fore, and affecting the sound only through a few effects (octave displacement, delay, tremolo and looping). “It felt necessary to return to the rich acoustic sound of the cello that I've loved and produced for nearly my entire life, and to return to an expression of emotion that's multi-dimensional and sincere,” she notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a soloist, Jensen endeavours to establish a new tradition of solo cello performance that integrates electronics with the storied and beloved performance practice intrinsic to the instrument. She places great importance on finding and working with effects pedals that integrate well with the cello (and avoids overt use of plugins or playback).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe solo cello works of J.S. Bach as a central backdrop to this new album. Bach’s Solo Cello Suites display a rich range of voices created by one instrument. Having found ways to expand the sound and voice of the instrument through electronics, Jensen found it fitting to return to Bach's works as a way to touch back in with the tradition of the instrument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a composer, Jensen insists that the programmatic elements of her albums align and ring true. She writes that, “the quote from Rilke had been bouncing around my mind for many years; the visualisation of musical ideas being born and echoing inside a ‘great darkness,’ then emerging ‘in holiday clothing’ felt very beautiful and tangible, and this essay, which to me is a manifesto in celebration of solitude, depicts what so many artists and composers experience when they endeavour solitary work. 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