NYC-based singer/producer Elly Kace introduces her riveting recent composition.
This is a reinterpretation of the famous aria “Dido's Lament” from the Baroque era’s opera “Dido And Aeneas,” composed by Henry Purcell. The string work, which sounds incredibly wide and spiritual, was performed single-handedly by Japanese violinist Tomoko Akaboshi. Elly Kace’s vocal act is absorbing, floating, and sorrowful, but seems to quietly dissolve in an unearthly glow. The key part of the composition is the numerology-bound, descending ground bass (lament bass, basso ostinato), which always had
“an unexpressed desperation,” as Kace says. In this version, Isaac Levien on upright bass gives it even more intensity as if with a sonic magnifying glass.
