In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness

CLARICE JENSEN

Released 17 October 2025

FatCat Records

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A calm, immersive listening experience that feels both contemporary and timeless and reveals its depth to the patient .

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New York based cellist and composer, ​Clarice Jensen occupies a distinctive space in contemporary music, aligned with a post-Glassian generation of composers who value process, atmosphere, and emotional resonance over formal complexity. Trained as a cellist but fluent in electronic and experimental practices, she works in the lineage of artists who use repetition to establish presence, rather than to propel, an approach that is closer to ambient music than to concert-hall minimalism. In this way, her music blurs the boundary between formal composition and sound environment, combining acoustic instruments with subtle electronic embellishment. There are few dramatic gestures, as Jensen favors accumulation and gradual change to create textures, so that listeners are invited into a state of focus that is intimate, reflective and unforced - though at times, ponderous

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In Holiday Clothing, Out of the Great Darkness moves at its own unhurried pace, built from layered cello lines and gentle electronic resonance. The album creates a sense of suspended time, where small shifts in harmony and texture carry the emotional weight of its narrative. Jensen’s playing is tactile and expressive: you hear bow on string, the bloom of notes and the way sound lingers in the air. Repetition is used soothingly as the soundscape gradual opens to higher registers, brighter tones, ethereal vocals and the creation of sonic space. There’s nothing remotely dramatic here, but there is warmth, clarity, and careful attentiveness. This is understated music that suits solitary listening: headphones, dusk, stillness

 

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