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The first release to document the solo cello work of musician and composer Lucy

Railton, the 40-minute composition Blue Veil recorded at Église du Saint-Esprit

in Paris invites listeners into the realm of precision-tuned states of resonance:

states made manifest through Railton's careful traversal of her cello's most subtle

acoustic characteristics as they harmonically interlock with mind's embodied

modalities of attention and imagination.

Blue Veil arises out of, is sustained in and finally dissolves back into Railton's

momentary presence with her intimate connection to the cello, a way of hearing

that allows for a deeper engagement with harmonic resonance, one that opens a

space for immediate encounters of mind and sound.

Railton's exploratory practice of harmonic perception emerges from a focus on

the physical qualities of intervallic and chordal sounds, their textural qualities,

degrees of friction, and inner pulsations. Composing in the moment guided by

resonances within the cello's body, her own, and their shared vibrational space,

Railton moves through Blue Veil by giving sounds what they ask for: sounds of

pure texture manifesting as a move through temporal transparency, sounds of

rough texture marking regions of dimensionally dense space.

Railton's creative and highly refined use of just intonation harmony deforms

sound's inner movements in ways that suggest a mode of listening that actively

supplies imagery of sounds implied or completely absent rather than merely

savouring those fully present. This active mode of "listening-with", playfully and

semi-metaphorically referred to by Railton as "sing-along music", allows listening

to reflexively participate in the music's movement as it gradually passes through

richly saturated domains of harmonic imagination. And just as the precisiontuned tones of Blue Veil lose their individuality when fusing multifaceted

uniformity, listening's structures of reference and recognition dissolve into

nameless waves of intensity, continuously unfolding themselves upon and

merging with the listener.

Blue Veil is the result of a deep exploration of the inner worlds of tuning, an

undertaking in turn informed by and emerging out of Railton's realisations of

the music of Catherine Lamb and Ellen Arkbro, her collaborative work with Kali

Malone and Stephen O'Malley as well as her interpretive practice in performing

the work of Maryanne Amacher, Morton Feldman and others.