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Goldston, Lori

Open Space

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"I recorded Open Space with in a single continuous take: my cello, an amp, and a distortion pedal. I was watching a film that was a static shot across a very large canyon, the light slowly shifting. I hope it offers the listener roo...

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UPC: 5904224874056

Label: Relative Pitch
Catalog ID: RPR1223
Squidco Product Code: 36475

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded at Studio Soli, in Seattle, Washington, by Mell Dettmer.

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"Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher from Seattle. Her voice as a cellist, amplified or acoustic, is full, textured, committed and original. A relentless inquirer, her work drifts freely across borders that separate genre, discipline, time and geography.

Current and former collaborators and/or bosses include Earth, Nirvana, Mirah, Jessika Kenney, Ilan Volkov, Eyvind Kang, Stuart Dempster, David Byrne, Terry Riley, Jherek Bischoff, Malcom Goldstein, Steve Von Till, Lonnie Holley, Cat Power, Ellen Fullman, Maya Dunietz, Mik Quantius, Embryo, O Paon, Tara Jane O'Neil, Natacha Atlas, Broken Water, Ed Pias, Christian Rizzo and Sophie Laly, Threnody Ensemble, Cynthia Hopkins, 33 Fainting Spells, Vanessa Renwick, Mark Mitchell, Lynn Shelton, and many more.

Her work has been commissioned by and/or performed at the Kennedy Center, Sydney Festival, Cineteca Nacional de México, Tectonics Festival, Frye Art Museum, Time Based Art Festival (TBA), WNYC, The New Foundation, Paris Fashion Week, Northwest Film Forum, On the Boards, Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle Jewish Film Festival, Bumbershoot, Crossing Border Festival, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, Joe's Pub, the Stone, University of Chicago, and venues large and small throughout North America, Mexico, Australia, and Europe."

-Lori Goldston Website (https://www.lorigoldston.com/bio)
7/15/2025

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Track Listing:

1. Morning Air 10:31

2. Like Slow Moths 05:07

3. Gradual Carve 05:28

4. Still Standing Round 05:21

5. The Way Down 05:10

6. Your Steady Gaze 09:34

7. Cloudless 12:45

8. Wave From Heaven 04:23

9. Rocky Lavender Cliffs 07:16

10. Open Space 09:01

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