When You're a Star [UT007]

by Jessie Cox

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1.	Invocation: Nebula 20:27	buy track
2.	Invocation: Djin 07:03	buy track
3.	Invocation: Neutron Star 02:02	buy track
4.	When You're a Star 12:01	buy track
5.	After the End of the World 08:15	buy track

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This is Cox's debut solo release. Composed of music for cymbal and bow, as well as the occasional addition of voice and flute, it invites the listener into Cox’s unique musical world in a very intimate and rich fashion. Ranging from long explorations of the unique spatial and timbral possibilities of cymbals in “Invocation: Nebula,” to poetry-like speech spoken from behind a mask in “When You’re A Star,” the record explores the unique possibilities gained by Cox’s newly invented performance techniques and recording methodologies.

The whole work is recorded using a zoom-recorder strapped onto a mask worn by Cox, while balancing cymbals on his head and bowing them with a bass bow, altering the sound with his other hand. Such unique methods of recording and music production result in a never-before-heard spatialization of frequencies, senses of space, and engulfment in sound.

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released November 14, 2021

Jessie Cox — Cymbal on Jessie Cox’s head with Bows, Spoken words, and Irish Flute.

Recorded using a Zoom-Recorder-Mask, mixed and mastered by Jessie Cox.

Album artwork by Jessie Cox.
Cover art and tape design by Gleb Kanasevich

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Jessie Cox New York, New York

Swiss artist Jessie Cox makes music about the universe and our future in it. Through avant-garde classical, experimental jazz, and sound art, he has devised his own strand of musical science fiction, one that asks where we go next.

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