Lia Kohl’s excellent 2022 album, Too Small to Be a Plain, has been reissued by the Florabelle record label, the music itself having been recorded alone by Kohl in late 2020 through early 2021 — which is to say, deep pandemic time. It is a superb collection of pristine tiny moments, combining her cello and voice with electronic sounds and processing, as well as field recordings and, if the word plaintive can be attributed to technology, bits of plaintive radio. Warbling lullabies and gently pleading Morse code, muted strings and enveloping drones, fragmented snippets and otherworldly effects — all are layered and sequenced, jumbled up and laid bare, as if in a tidy sonic exhibit of cherished wonders.
https://florabelle.bandcamp.com/album/too-small-to-be-a-plain