Zeena Parkins - To Dusk (Black Cross Solo Sessions 8)

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.