Name: Pools Of Light
Brand: Jessica Moss

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CST124lp

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2017-05-05

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Secre­tly

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Sales:8.875

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666561012410

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Jessica Moss

Genre US

Post Rock

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Constellation

Montreal (Canada) violinist, composer, and singer Jessica Moss has performed and recorded with a wide spectrum of ensembles over the past two decades. Best known for her fifteen-year tenure in political group Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, she was also a founding member of avant-klezmer group Black Ox Orkestar, recorded and toured with the Vic Chesnutt band for the two albums released on Constellation, and worked extensively with Carla Bozulich’s Evangelista.
Jessica Moss has also performed and recorded as a guest with many of Montreal’s best-known artists, including Big|Brave on their acclaimed 2015 and 2017 releases on Southern Lord. She was featured in Jem Cohen’s Empires of Tin project, and joined members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Fugazi, White Magic, and Dirty Three to perform the live score to Cohen’s film We Have An Anchor in various locations at Europe and the USA.
Similar Artists: Sarah Davachi, Automatisme, Efrim Manuel Menuck,
Esmerine,
Jerusalem in My Heart,
Silver Mt. Zion,
Ian William Craig,
Black Ox Orkestar,
Set Fire To Flames,
ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT,
Oiseaux-Tempête,
Horse Lords,
Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Jessica Moss is known best as the violinist, co-composer, and backing vocalist with the acclaimed chamber-punk band Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra (SMZ) and the avant-klezmer group Black Ox Orkestar. As fans of these projects will know, Moss has developed a distinctive and impressive approach to violin that combines a natural technical fluidity, a recombinant command of folk, classical and modern idioms, and an adventurous exploration of signal-bending and analog effects that uniquely expand the spectrum of the violin as sound source. Her solo work is deeply rooted in live performance, where she builds up and breaks down stunning longform compositions in real time with an array of pedals - including octave/harmonizers and samplers/loopers. To hear all of this rallied on her debut full-length solo release is intensely rewarding: comprised of two side-length multi-movement compositions, Pools Of Light unfolds at a stately, inexorable pace, combining sound-art and signal-processed timbres, extended melodic and contrapuntal lines, and the periodic deployment of stark, minimalist vocals. Pools Of Light is elegiac durational music at the intersection of neo-classicism, soundtrack, electronic, art-punk and avant-folk - a decidedly organic, non-academic, profoundly searching and emotive work, guided by Moss's liner note mantra: "FEELING LOVE IN A MELTING WORLD".

Pools Of Light

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