Softly haunting harpsichord strums over distant rumbles. Slowly, compositional forms emerge, and there’s an almost mediaeval feel to the sounds, a sense of something ancient, yet at the same time utterly modern, with clicks and glitches amidst the rolling, earthy hums and chimes.
‘Evening Strains to be Time’s Vast’ is a quiet and low brooding piece that slowly builds in volume and tension to a grinding climax via a succession of whorling crescendos of noise.
Over the course of Side B, Jacaszek develops a beautifully realised fusion of old and new, classical music for the contemporary world. ‘What Wind-Walks Up Above!’ is soft and tranquil with warm rays of hope filtering through on the breeze, before ‘Only Not Within Seeing of the Sun’ flutters deftly over the hills, a sparse yet more overtly conventional orchestral piece with oboe, strings and harpsichord entwining harmoniously.
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‘Glimmer’ is by far best appreciated as a single piece that shifts through different moods and instrumental formations, a musical journey that really does transport the listener through a succession of different places, both internal and external.
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