To Dusk (Black Cross Solo Sessions 8), by Zeena Parkins

To Dusk (Black Cross Solo Sessions 8)

by Zeena Parkins

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Every day over the course of a year starting in June, 2020, in something she refers to as a "domestic ritual," Zeena Parkins recorded
solo electric harp performances in her home studio. The brilliant improvisor and composer had, like most of her peers, been sidelined by
the pandemic; unable to tour, she spent the end of each day at the harp, playing until sunlight waned, inventing and discovering new
soundscapes, keeping her musical self together while the world seemed poised to crumble. Parkins' audience consisted of her boyfriend,
filmmaker Jeff Preis (who filmed and recorded all the music) and their dog. Invited to participate in the Black Cross Solo Sessions, she
returned to this deep well of recordings and selected ten tracks, augmenting the harp with pedals and resonant and resonating objects
including bells and other percussion. To Dusk is a uniquely vibrating set of auditory investigations, a buzzing, ringing, hammering,
plunging suite of instant compositions snatched from the maw of a malicious moment in the world's collective history. Liner notes by
Zeena Parkins. Cover artwork and design by Christopher Wool

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released November 18, 2022

Zeena Parkins – electric harp, pedals, objects, and percussion
Recorded at home in Manhattan, June, 2020-June, 2021. Mixed by John Thayer in Greenpoint,
September, 2021. Mastererd by Alex Inglizian at ESS in Chicago, October, 2021.
Zeena Parkins copyright 2021, eyeofnight/ASCAP.
Cover design and artwork Christopher Wool. CD design by David Khan-Giordano.
Produced by Jeff Preiss. Executive Producers John Corbett and Christopher Wool.
Thanks to John Corbett, Jim Dempsey, Christopher Wool, and to Jeff Preiss.
1 Jane Collum Brakhage Wodening in a letter to Carolee Schneemann, 14 October, 1986

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