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"This new album greets song form with the usual fearlessly original force that Molitor throws at her work. It flits joyfully from eardrum bashing electronica to delicate piano, gravelly cello or sweet accordion guided by her mesmeric vocals" - The Wire New solo CD by composer and sound artist Claudia Molitor stretches the boundaries of song with field recordings, experimental electronics and poetry. Molitor creates every sound on the album – vocals, cello, accordion, distorted electronics, piano, field recordings Each of the 14 tracks has a distinct sound world Influences range from techno and jazz to Ivor Cutler and Nico Field recordings include sounds of the Thames recorded during walks with her daughter Composer uses her smartphone or minimalist equipment to capture field recordings Tracks include texts by Graham Mackenzie (writer and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival director) and poet Brian Patten Both German and English texts Claudia Molitor is a composer, artist and performer whose work draws on traditions of music and sound art, and also extends to video, performance and fine art practices. Exploring the relationships between listening and seeing as well as embracing collaboration as compositional practice is central to her work. Claudia's work is regularly commissioned, performed and broadcast throughout Europe, working with festivals such as Wien Modern, hcmf//, Spor, BBC Proms and Sonica and organisations such as Tate Britain, NMC Recordings and the Science Museum. Recent work includes Sonorama with Electra Productions, Turner Contemporary and the British Library, Vast White Stillness for Spitalfields Festival and Brighton Festival and The Singing Bridge, installed at Somerset House during Totally Thames 2016. Currently Touring: Listen To My World A new installation to be exhibited from October 2021 - May 2023 at Transit (Leuven/Belgium), Spor (Aarhus/Denmark), hcmf// (Huddersfield/UK), Wilde Western (Kortrijk/Belgium), Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens/Greece), Time of Music (Viitasaari/Finland) http://www.claudiamolitor.org/