DAVID COLLIER - "SMACHT"

Inspired by Irish traditional music, David Collier recorded this gorgeous composition for a string quartet back in 2015. Now seeing the light of day in 2021, which feels lightyears away from 2015, "Smacht" carries quite a bit of weight. At each pass new elements are added in as strings layer atop one another and new melodies are pulled out of the ether. It's a beautiful and meditative composition that holds a certain kind of restrained tension in it's sustained string passages.