Clarice Jensen + Sunfish Starfish

Tickets £12 / £10 concessions.Doors open 7.30pm, starts 8pm.This gig is for a seated audience.

Clarice Jensen is a composer and cellist based in New York who graduated with a BM and MM from the Juilliard School. As a solo artist, Clarice has developed a distinctive compositional approach, improvising and layering her cello through shifting loops and a chain of electronic effects to open out and explore a series of rich, drone-based sound fields. Pulsing, visceral and full of colour, her work is deeply immersive, marked by a wonderful sense of restraint and an almost hallucinatory clarity. Meditative yet with a sculptural sharpness and rigour that sets it apart from the swathe of New Age / DIY droners, she has forged a very elegant and precise vision.

Her music has been described by Self-Titled as “heavily processed, incredibly powerful neo-classical pieces that seem to come straight from another astral plane”; by Boomkat as “languorously void-touching ideas, scaling and sustaining a sublime tension”; whilst Bandcamp remarked upon “a kaleidoscope of pulsing movement rich in acoustic beating and charged with other psychoacoustic effects, constantly shifting in density and viscous timbre.”

VAN MAGAZINE - posted review, 10th Nov - https://t.ly/pEz4 
“Jensen moves both fluidly and completely from one atmosphere into the next… It’s an ambitious project, but one that Jensen pulls off with depth and dimension… ‘Sadness’ is Purcell filtered through a Laurie Andersonian gaze… The limitless breadth of her sounds reflects the different twists and turns each of the seven emotions can take. The theme of isolation laid over these emotions enhances the experience, as if our sole task is to be alone—no distractions—with each emotion.” ARCANA - posted review, 24th Nov - https://t.ly/Ym4O “Deeply intimate… a compelling cycle of emotions to which we can all relate, beautifully played and recorded.” NTS - played Clarice’s mixtape on Channel 2, 24th Nov - https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/clarice-jensen-24th-november-2022  
AMBIENT BLOG - posted review, 27th Nov - https://t.ly/h7pi“the album is remarkably coherent: the tracks fit together naturally like the colors of a rainbow.”
SUNFISH STARFISH
Inspired by nature and forged between the walls of a school library, Sunfish Starfish craft very loud soundscapes for supernatural environments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU84Fb_ZDY8
https://anticipatingnowhere.bandcamp.com/album/brimful-of-escher
https://www.instagram.com/sunfish_starfish/

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