With Unfolding, Montréal violinist and composer Jessica Moss pivots toward something quieter yet no less intense — a record that trades her usual orchestral gravitas for a slow-burning kind of transcendence.
Moss, formerly of Silver Mt. Zion and Black Ox Orkestar, has long inhabited the borderlands between lament and resistance. Here, she channels that duality into a meditation on persistence — music that mourns but refuses stillness. The modal violin lines, steeped in Jewish and Arabic tonalities, drift into abstraction until the boundaries between composition and improvisation dissolve entirely. Unfolding isn’t ambient in the passive sense; it’s ambient as confrontation — a record that demands patience, attention, and surrender.
Listen below.
