Disquiet

To say that Lena Griffin plays the cello on “The Ghosts of Pretty Cello Girls” is to only tell half the track’s story. This is because half the track isn’t cello. Half of “The Ghosts of Pretty Cello Girls” is the heavy, reverberant, spacious echo through which the cello is treated. It’s a slow-moving, piece, and perhaps without the echo these spaces between the notes would be distracting, but instead the track takes on a feeling along the lines of a very simple John Fahey recording, the repetition an invitation to consider the slight variations in the phrasing.

Track originally posted at [soundcloud.com/moxiegriffin](https://soundcloud.com/moxiegriffin/the-ghosts-of-pretty-cello-girls).

“Dancing in the Rothko” so processes its evident piano source material, that it’s never quite clear we’re ever hearing the original audio, and yet we never get particularly far from that origin point. Notes are repeated by hand and by software, quick touches echoed until they resemble glass shards, chords leaving vapor trails into which repeated chords then merge. Standalone tones are left to linger like dust caught by a narrow ray of light. Absolutely stunning for four minutes that you wish would last an hour.

Track originally posted at [soundcloud.com/countersilence](https://soundcloud.com/countersilence/dancing-in-the-rothko). Counter Silence is Colin Ventura, based in Southend-on-Sea, Great Britain, more from whom at [twitter.com/countersilence](https://twitter.com/countersilence).