Sketch for Winter VII - Abyss: For Cello

by Louise Bock

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Jason Adams Gorgeous, haunting, and touching. Favorite track: Oolite.

Gremlin Monroe This is probably how it sounds to be the Groke Favorite track: Prithee.

Andrew Schamess So, I had no idea a cello could do that.

Brilliant solo cello records are few and far between. This is rich, expressive, immersive and brings the instrument to new places. Definitely download it and play it from good speakers, loud.

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1.	Horologic 06:52	buy track
2.	Jute 04:36	buy track
3.	Actinic Ray 05:19	buy track
4.	Oolite 06:52	buy track
5.	Prithee 06:35	buy track

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**The seventh installment in Geographic North’s long-running Sketch for Winter series, which highlights compositions intentionally crafted for the colder season.**

Louise Bock is the nom de guerre of Taralie Peterson, a venerable veteran of the American avant-garde. Whether solo or together with Ka Baird as Spires that in the Sunset Rise, Peterson has spent nearly two decades exploring the outermost limits of ecstatic, free jazz-influenced improvisation. The sonic range of Peterson’s opulent oeuvre is matched only by the variety of instruments she employed, including but not limited to voice, saxophone, clarinet, guitar, banjo, lap harps, mbira, spike fiddle, and so on. Now, under the sobriquet Louise Bock and focusing solely on the cello, Peterson returns with Abyss: For Cello, a profound work of considered minimalism composed during and intended for the dead of winter.

Deciding to focus entirely on the cello, Peterson rid herself of any other self-imposed rules, analysis, and judgment that ultimately unlocked unforeseen revelations. Opener “Horologic” offers a sustained seethe of heaving, serrated textures. “Jute” offers a dynamic run of striated tones that slowly dissolve into a pool of peaceful resolve. “Actinic Ray” brings a kaleidoscopic blur that offsets heaving lurches of chordal sound with almost acrobatic flecks of melody. “Oolite,” featuring Kendra Amalie on guitar, is an engrossingly unsettling piece of auditory hysteria, balancing a fascinating and fine line between allure and aversion. Closing track “Prithee” prolongs a potent interplay of deep, dense resonance and exquisitely elegant static.

Through these ruminations, Peterson’s cello exposes immense beauty, sorrow, and joy that is altogether deeply hypnotic and discreetly haunting.

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released January 24, 2020

Written/recorded/produced/mixed by Taralie Peterson Winter of 2018-19
Kendra Amalie added guitar on “Oolite”

mixing, recording, cello and saxophone work by Taralie Peterson
.....guitar part on oolite by Kendra Amalie

thanks to friends, family, and fans who support my work.

copyright and publishing: Louise Bock (SESAC)

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Louise Bock Madison, Wisconsin

aka Taralie Peterson other known solo work as Tar Pet and in the long running music group Spires that in the Sunset Rise. Taralie works with mainly sax, clarinet, cello, voice, and denatured lap harp. Her work combines the rarely explored territories of conceptual atonal/repetitive ideas with personal invection. Mystical, ecstatic, spiritual, dark, otherworldly explorations. ... more

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