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Florentin Ginot, contrabass, voice
Helen Bledsoe, electronics
Recorded in quarantine in Amsterdam, March 2021. Strange Joy explores the theme of isolation, the ambient sounds of a city just before curfew, and the extended range of the contrabass.
The protagonist is sitting alone in a small room, reading Beckett's “Unnamable”. Sounds of people enjoying themselves waft through an open window. As darkness falls and the curfew comes into force, the boundaries between reality and imagination begin to blur. The outside world vanishes and it becomes difficult to separate the events of the book from those of the real world. The text and the inner voice of the reader begin to meld into song. When the song ends, the distant dream of the city and its tolling bells remain.

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