Resonant space is its own instrument on Leslee Smucker’s new album, Breathing Landscape, and on “continuing underground,” the violinist crafts dissonant sonic meditations. Tension builds in waves, carved out by sonorous textures pulled from bowed strings, lithe and sharp as a fractured, melodic spectacle. Smucker harnesses the natural resonance from The Tank in western Colorado, a unique recording space built inside an old water tank, opening our perception to the timbral silhouettes within each stretched layer. “continuing underground” has an edge, finding beauty within friction and setting it free to float the distance.
Breathing Landscape will be released on January 26 by Beacon Sound. Stream below and pre-order HERE.
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